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hillsbororiver:
Thank you Iris!

His Peace to you Sister,

Joe

sonofone:
Joe I may very well indeed be misguided in my feelings or beliefs. I just really fail to see it any other way. Jesus was angry as he turned over tables in the synagogue, He said with compassion that the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few. I feel a sense to do something. Right now it's to pray but I suspect that a call to action of some sort is on the horizon.

DuluthGA:
Hi Sonofone,

There HAS to be a Babylon to COME OUT of; there simply can be no other way.

This verse Christ spoke sheds more light on the contrasts of this age:

Mat 24: 6   "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet."

Christ said there will HAVE to be wars going on... and somebody's gotta be out there fighting them... but some HAVE BEEN GIVEN the revelation to COME OUT of this way of thinking, more onto the path of the narrow gate, getting ready to leave the flesh and the ways of this world and GLADLY become SPIRIT BEINGS!  YAY!


May His peace be with you,
Janice

Deborah-Leigh:
Hello Sonofone

I believe I can relate to what you are feeling. 

You say of Jesus : He said with compassion that the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few.

The reality is that we get appointed by Christ first. We take our lead from Christ. 

Eph 4:11 And HE gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers 12 For the perfecting of the SAINTS... ( Not the deaf and the blind heretics and blasphemers. :D)

There was a brilliant graduate from Harvard University. He left the University with distinction. He stepped into the Corporate world and picked the most affluent and successful top 100 Company to go and work for. He visited the Firm and saw how much was wrong and the next day he returned and began to yell and scream as he turned over some tables.

He was arrested. Later it was found out that the young man had not even applied for the job or received any interview for any position in the Firm. He was escorted to the mad house where he spent the rest of his days.

Everything he had learnt amounted to solitary confinement. We get into solitary confinement with Christ when He says so and I believe that is perhaps what you are burning to receive.

We know there are heretical teaches out there and their motives are rotten. It is not them we have to fight but our own beast within.

Gal 5: 24 Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good - crucified.  Since this is the kind of life we have....the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we don not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications IN EVERY DETAIL OF OUR LIVES.  That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original. The Message Translation. I have purposefully omitted the word "chosen" that appears in the blank space in the translation from The Message simply because for me, it is not reflective of God being Sovereign as we all know 8) ;D

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

indianabob:

--- Quote from: sonofone on September 19, 2007, 11:27:25 AM ---Joe I may very well indeed be misguided in my feelings or beliefs. I just really fail to see it any other way. Jesus was angry as he turned over tables in the synagogue, He said with compassion that the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few. I feel a sense to do something. Right now it's to pray but I suspect that a call to action of some sort is on the horizon.

--- End quote ---

Steven,

Your feelings are understandable and likely based on a right desire to serve God with energy, but folks have tried to humanly solve the churches problems for centuries and have always let their human understanding guide their actions and probably done more harm than good. 

Jesus is the only one with the maturity and understanding and REAL power to accomplish the will of God.  We who  are really babes in training, need to focus on developing a right relationship with the Christ and in learning sacrificial love for even the worst of us, so that when Jesus returns to claim his throne and to build a better world, that we will be ready.

Even then it will take a miracle to complete our change to true children of God, so we should I believe work to learn patience and practice long-suffering love toward those who ignorantly resist God's loving correction.  That is enough to accomplish in this phase of God's work.

indianabob

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