Repent!

Why do Christians
ignore Christ?

Jesus said, "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." In His great Sermon on the Mount, He laid out His basic commandments for His followers among which are:

• Not only murder, but even being angry with your brother is sin and calling him a fool is enough to put you in danger of hell.
• Swear no oaths.
• Divorce is forbidden except for sexual immorality.
• Do not resist evil. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, offer him the other also. If someone wishes to sue you and take you coat, give him you shirt also. If soneone forces you to go a mile, go two. Overcome evil with good.
• Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you, bless those who curse you.
• lend expecting nothing in return.
• Do not lay up treasures on earth.
• You cannot serve God and riches.

Jesus preached this to His disciples at the beginning of His ministry. The Sermon on the Mount is Christianity 101. So why are these Commandments seldom preached in churches and some never preached in most churches? Is it because American Christianity does not follow Christ because she loves the world and the things of the world?

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven."

The Time of Testing
is come

Apostasy is in full swing as denomination after denomination rejects the Word of God to follow another gospel, another Jesus. The governments of the western world spurn the emphatic warning of God and instead embrace and promote the culture of Sodom. The time of testing (thlipsis - tribulation) of the whole world is at hand, to see who is on the Lord's side.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(1 John 2:15 )

Lowering the Standard

- Catherine Booth

Therefore, the arch-enemy said, `What must I do? I shall be defeated after all. I shall lose my supremacy as the god of this world. What shall I do?' No use to bring in a gigantic system of error, which everybody will see to be error. Oh, dear no! That has never been Satan's way; but his plan has been to get hold of a good man here and there, who shall creep in, as the Apostle said, unawares, and preach another doctrine, and who shall deceive, if it were possible, the very elect. And he did it. He accomplished his design. He gradually lowered the standard of Christian life and character, and though, in every revival, God has raised it again to a certain extent, we have never got back thoroughly to the simplicity, purity, and devotion set before us in these Acts of the Apostles and in the Epistles. And just in the degree that it has approximated thereto, in every age, Satan has got somebody to oppose and to show that this was too high a standard for human nature, altogether beyond us, and that, therefore, Christians must sit down and just be content to be "Oh wretched man that I am" people to the end of their days. He has got the Church into a condition that makes one, sometimes, positively ashamed to hear professing Christians talk, and ashamed also, that the world should hear them talk. I do not wonder at thoughtful, intelligent men being driven from such Christianity as this. It would have driven me off, if I had not known the power of godliness. I believe this kind of Christianity has made more infidels than all the infidel books ever written.

Yes, Satan knew that he must get Christians down from the high pinnacle of whole-hearted consecration to God. He knew that he had no chance till he tempted them down from that blessed vantage ground, and so he began to spread those false doctrines, to counteract which John wrote his epistles, for, before he died, he saw what was coming, and sounded down the ages--"Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil." The Lord revive that doctrine! Help us afresh to put up the standard!

Oh! the great evil is, that dishonest-hearted people, because they feel it condemns them, lower the standard to their miserable experience. I said, when I was young, and I repeat it in my maturer years, that if it sent me to hell I would never pull it down. Oh! that God's people felt like that. There is the glorious standard put before us. The power is proffered, the conditions laid down, and we CAN all attain it if we will; but if we will not--for the sake of the children, and for generations yet unborn, do not let us drag it down, and try to make it meet our little, paltry, circumscribed experience. LET US KEEP IT UP. This is the way to get the world to look at it. Show the world a real, living, self-sacrificing, hard-working, toiling, triumphing religion, and the world will be influenced by it; but anything short of that they will turn round and spit upon.

Excerpted from
Aggressive Christianity - Catherine Booth

We have fallen so far that even "Oh wretched man that I am" Christianity has died!
-Stephen Anderson

Of First Importance

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost. (Luke 19:10)

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures
(1 Corinthians 15:3,4)

It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.
(1 Timothy 1:15)

We may say we are bible believing Spirit filled Christians but if we are not about the business of our Lord to seek and save the lost are we not deceiving ourselves?

Brothers and Sisters in Our Lord Jesus Christ,

The hour of testing will shortly come and even now is upon the whole world. Now is the time to sanctify Christ as truly Lord of our lives. Put your house in order. Sever those ties that bind you to this world. Set your face like flint to follow Jesus even unto death. "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded."

This is a time to be sober-minded, and discern the signs of the times.

Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober. For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.( 1 Thessalonians 5:1-10)

The time has come for us in the West to learn the meaning of "take up your cross and follow Me." Do you think God will pull His Church, the witnesses of Jesus and heralds of the Gospel out of the world while multitudes eternally perish? Do you imagine that the God who spared not His own Son, for the sake of sinners like you and me, will withdraw those commissioned to proclaim repentance, pardon, salvation and the return of the King? If so, you have not yet understood the love of God.

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. (Philippians 1:29)

America and the whole world is accelerating into the abyss of hell. Apostasy is upon us. Many of those calling themselves Christians and leaders deny the Lord with their words and deeds and openly embrace and encourage even the foulest of sins. Men and women living in open homosexual relationships are ordained as bishops, pastors, and priests. Leaders in the Church commit adultery and remain leaders. The charismatic church calls itself spirit filled, but has not the discernment to see the evil in its pulpits, and chooses as apostles and prophets those who speak a smooth word of blessing on those who despise holiness. The Roman Catholic clergy claim the power to forgive sin yet they cannot even deliver themselves from the power of sin. The denominations are just plain dead. The light is almost gone out. The darkness has advanced so far that evil is now called good and good is evil. Others believe they can build the kingdom of God by carnal means and madison avenue techniques. Money and technology replace the Spirit of God. Most churches show far more interest in maintaining or improving their own comfort on Sunday mornings than fulfilling the Great Commission or loving the brethren.

"Arise, O LORD, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before Thee.

Put them in fear, O LORD;
Let the nations know that they are but men."