I have often been accused of complaining about the church; yet even so, I have always known and held fast in my heart that what sounds like complaint, on my part, to many, was and is, as it were, only the truth of my testimony. Truth is, when the experience is positive, the testimony is so. Likewise, when the experience is negative, "The whole truth and nothing but the truth" demands the same in testimony. I refuse to testi-lie to appease my accusers or to ward off the adversary. The truth set me free from the adversary. As I have spoken into your hearing before, whether you received it or not (that's your choice), the complaining that you have heard and mislabeled negativity is not spoken of me, but rather, by GOD himself, through me:
Micah 6: 1 “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, O you mountains, the Lord’s complaint, And you strong foundations of the earth; For the Lord has a complaint against His people, And He will contend with Israel.
Whenever I say, "As the church goes, so goes the nation," I'm not just trying to speak clever coloquial, it is actually written: 1 Peter 4: 17 "For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Gospel? The country's leaders refuse to listen to the church because the church refuses to listen (heed) the Word of God. Therefore robbery and wrongdoing prevails, for a season. BUT GOD always has the last word.
Assuming that I thought it was all about me, when I never promoted such, you chose to contend with me, rather than to hear me. To whom am I speaking? Once again, to whom God instructed, The Church. I pray ye will now hear GOD.
Micah 6: 1 “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, And let the hills hear your voice. 2 Hear, O you mountains, the Lord’s complaint, And you strong foundations of the earth; For the Lord has a complaint against His people, And He will contend with Israel.
Whenever I say, "As the church goes, so goes the nation," I'm not just trying to speak clever coloquial, it is actually written: 1 Peter 4: 17 "For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God’s household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Gospel? The country's leaders refuse to listen to the church because the church refuses to listen (heed) the Word of God. Therefore robbery and wrongdoing prevails, for a season. BUT GOD always has the last word.
Assuming that I thought it was all about me, when I never promoted such, you chose to contend with me, rather than to hear me. To whom am I speaking? Once again, to whom God instructed, The Church. I pray ye will now hear GOD.
It's not my complaint, it's GOD's
"Those who have ears to hear; ley them hear what the LORD is saying to the church."
Word of GOD. Thanks be unto GOD.
~"Those who have ears to hear; ley them hear what the LORD is saying to the church."
Word of GOD. Thanks be unto GOD.