We all know the scripture:

"Godliness with contentment is great gain."

Unfortunately, the scripture is hardly applicable to today's church, as most are neither godly nor content. But woe unto the man who finds a way to bring contentment to his heart without getting free of their flesh and finding the victory that comes from faith alone, for in truth, contentment without godliness is dangerous territory.

And what about you dear brother? Have you found heart contentment? Does peace flow like a river in your soul? Has the battle ended as to who will reign in your heart, you or your savior? If not, there is an answer. But if you have found contentment short of the promised land of liberty and victory over the old man, and you are still walking in self? Than you are in danger indeed.

I debated with a brother earlier on another post as to whether my feeling that we were Laocedia was accurate. He felt God's covering of love made the church acceptable to Him. But the word of God warns us:

"Woe unto them that covereth but not with the covering of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin."

The question is....if godliness with contentment is to be commended....then is it possible to have godliness without contentment?

[CI]

Originally Posted by Heneni

The question is....if godliness with contentment is to be commended....then is it possible to have godliness without contentment?

Good question, Heneni. The answer is: No!

All:

Self-contentment is intrinsic of the love of God that is of the Spirit/Glory/Life; who is it that is godly yet does not love? Is the love of God not a spiritual work, and of the Spirit? Yes, it is! Therefore, in and of the Spirit, love remains the covering for the multitude of sins.

The love of God is a 12 component work of the Spirit/Glory/Life that is based in the knowledge of God and Christ for the purpose of bearing good fruit. The third of that 12 component work is called contentment. It is not love if any component is missing, it is not love if good fruit is not borne.

Christians who are called to ministry, minister the faith, grace, anointing, and love of God. No Christian is called to minister endless accusations against the Body of Christ... for we know who has the ministry of accusations, but Christ is our Advocate against all accusations.

It is every member's role to exhort even as we see the Day approaching, and for some to preach the gospel that is the power of God unto salvation. And, when there is need for any man to be warned, it must be by a teacher teaching men to be perfect (complete) by the wisdom of God. Else, warning is reserved for the unruly who have no love of God.

1Th 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all [men].

But, the Church has a measure of the love of Christ, if be it that Jesus Christ - the Love of God - is the Head who upholds and fitly joins all things in the Church. Is it not of the Spirit that we should comfort the feebleminded, is it not of the might of God that we should support the weak, is it not of grace and truth that we should be patient toward all?

Who told or gave any Christian the authority to always accuse and berate the Church? Is it anyone's Church or the Lord's Church?

Does the gospel not save? It does! Is the gospel that of accusations? Far from it! Generally speaking, do the gospels of faith, grace, Christ or God preached through the various epistles accuse the Church incessantly? Not in the Bible I read!

Faith, grace, anointing and life of God are sufficient for His Body; those things powerfully deal with sin in them who are weak and yet saved within the Church. For Jesus Christ is Lord over the righteous and the unrighteous; if any of His falls, He will pick such one up.

When Paul had a thorn in his flesh and prayed thrice for deliverance, did the Lord Jesus Christ rain accusations on him, or did He not tell him that His grace is sufficient to deal with the thorn?

Let us never underestimate the power of faith, grace or anointing of God to deal with sins. Accusations will never blot out any sin, they will never save a man or the Church. If accusations could save a man, Jesus Christ and scriptures would have told us so. But, grace through faith does save a man or the Church.

So, every member of the Church has a role to minister faith, grace, anointing within the Church, and forget about assuming the role of needlessly accusing and warning the Church.

Some prophets of old were given that role to warn and accuse Israel of sins, but prophets who execute the gift of Christ unto the Church according to their measures of faith do as follows:

1Cr 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men [to] edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

Preach the gospel of power to every man within or outside the Church. That way, every unsaved man is put on the path to salvation, also pricking his heart unto repentance and receipt of the grace of God.

But, no accusation has or will ever save a man, let alone grant him the rest of God.

Hi CI. Great post thanks.


God bless
Heneni

Originally Posted by CI

Christians who are called to ministry, minister the faith, grace, anointing, and love of God. No Christian is called to minister endless accusations against the Body of Christ... for we know who has the ministry of accusations, but Christ is our Advocate against all accusations.


Does the gospel not save? It does! Is the gospel that of accusations? Far from it! Generally speaking, do the gospels of faith, grace, Christ or God preached through the various epistles accuse the Church incessantly? Not in the Bible I read!

Daniel, you ask a good question. Can the gospel not save? Of course it can! Why then do you think I share the message of faith alone as our only hope? Do you think I tear down the church? I love God's church and pray we are ready on that day. But right now? We are not even close. Do you think when all is said and done that most Christians are walking in the victory that Christ has promised? Triumphing over every temptation? Defeating sin and addictions in their lives? Walking above the world, not saturated by it? Living as an epistle that all can read who have no Bible, so that they know there is a holy God just by the way we live it out?

Do I not wish I did not have to wake up hardened hearts with strong words? God knows my heart, not matter who else judges me or my motives. I, above all, hate that we are in this place of Laodecian lukewarmness as a body and that repentance needs to be preached until hearts can believe His gospel again. Shall I just shut my mouth and join in in our charade of joy under our bushel baskets?

This is not a time for playing religion anymore. God's accusations, not mine, fuel my attempts at ressusitating His bride, who, after all is said and done, simply does not know how to be holy, for most are steeped in self effort, thinking all the while they must be pleasing God by their outer obedience when hearts inside are far from Him. If I seem to tear down, it is not to put down nor destroy. Anyone who has paid attention to my words at all should know I preach a Jesus who can set "free indeed" and the sole purpose of the masage I shar eis to build up.

Many ministers preach today to be popular and to not offend. Granted, my message is not one that wins friends and influences people. Shall I run from the challenge of waking up those who, inside, long for real victory over their flesh but who simply are lost as to how to get there? I will not, for His sheep will hear and find the peace that has eluded them their whole lives.

I will continue to speak of the saving power of Christ. He can save to the uttermost them that come to the Father by Him. We have limited Him by our unbelief. We have substituted man's thoughts for the promises of God and ripped the heart out of the very gospel we say we believe in. It is that simple, and dishonor Him by sharing with the world that what we have at present is it, the best he can do to change our lives, to set us free, to fill us with the character and nature of God Himself.

What? Are not the promises of God to work? Really work? Shall we not really, in practical experience, find a path to becoming like Him thru God's salvation, with sin and worldliness lying dead at our feet?

I will say loudly and I will say often, God can and will do for us exactly as He has promised. But the walk of victory does not come easily, not cheaply. Faith sprouts only on good earth, not hardpan clay. Unbelief does not lose its grip on hearts unless it is shaken off, not gently laid aside. The flesh will not go quietly into the night. It must be reckoned dead by a violent taking of God's promises as ours. Satan withstands us, and he will let us live in peace if we just shut up and live nice little Christian lives, saving no one, and setting no one free from his grip.

So I minister as I am instructed to, tearing down to build up, not for the joy of tearing. My motive is love and my goal is for all to see with their own eyes a God who longs to transform them into children of light, with no darkness at all.

Gods word to us in Revelations 3 fits, Daniel, whether we like it or not. We are content outside of being godly and free. We are by and large lukewarm to him and we so need to buy from Him, gold tried in the fire...faith in God Himself to deliver and mighty to save.

Our hearing is dull and our unbelief grips us in a death grip. God is speaking today, and it is not "my" message or "my" revelation. It is His, and he is warning us before it is too late.

God says "The night is far spent, the day is at hand, and we are still not saved."

Many will not like my posts and they mistakenly see them as accusing. Do you not see, the accusation is from God, not me. I simply warn in love and share the way out of our mess. There is a walk that remains for God's children, a walk so different from what all of us have experienced. It is the walk of being a new creation in Christ.

Please do not tell me we are experiencing it now, and that this walk the multitudes are experiencing, a walk of defeat and compromise, a walk having a form of godliness but denying the power of it, is the best God can do for us or is what Christ intended for the church as He lay dying on the cross. God's word says otherwise.

God loves us far too much as to not warn us of the danger we face if we remain in the sad state we as His body have become. And so I speak still, pointing all men to our God who can save to the uttermost them that come Him by Christ Jesus.

The devil is the accuser of the brethren. We are god workmanship and yet, bruce you say that god has told you to tell the church that his workmanship is in a sorry state. I find that truly hard to believe. There is no hope at all for us if we dont believe that god is able to make us what he wants us to be. And therein lies the problem for many well meaning christians. The constant feeling that they are suppose to be different, that they are suppose to be like jesus.

Let me put it this way. Lets say you have a brother, and that brother is far superior in virtue than you are, and your father keeps on pointing it out to you that you are not like your brother, what will you do? Feel unwanted and unwelcome, unloved and inadequate. That is the problem with the doctrine of conforming into the image of Jesus, people have turned it into a rod for punishment. It is only as we spend time with our father that we become like him and like his Son Jesus, simply because we are creatures of habit, we learn as we observe and experience. It is not advisable to compare ourselves with each other or with Jesus for that matter. He is special in his way, and so are we. We conform into the image of Jesus, not by any effort of our own, but by living in the light of our father, who loves us, just as we are, and changes us by his guidance and acceptance of the imperfect and makes us perfect simply because he loves us perfectly. We are the children of god, in our sorry state and all. That is what makes the love of god powerful. His acceptance of us, with all our faults and hick-ups and by his constant working and attention and grace and love in our live, we change into his likeness, because we actually LIKE him.

Heneni

Originally Posted by Heneni

The devil is the accuser of the brethren. We are god workmanship and yet, bruce you say that god has told you to tell the church that his workmanship is in a sorry state. I find that truly hard to believe. There is no hope at all for us if we dont believe that god is able to make us what he wants us to be. And therein lies the problem for many well meaning christians. The constant feeling that they are suppose to be different, that they are suppose to be like jesus.

Let me put it this way. Lets say you have a brother, and that brother is far superior in virtue than you are, and your father keeps on pointing it out to you that you are not like your brother, what will you do? Feel unwanted and unwelcome, unloved and inadequate. That is the problem with the doctrine of conforming into the image of Jesus, people have turned it into a rod for punishment. It is only as we spend time with our father that we become like him and like his Son Jesus, simply because we are creatures of habit, we learn as we observe and experience. It is not advisable to compare ourselves with each other or with Jesus for that matter. He is special in his way, and so are we. We conform into the image of Jesus, not by any effort of our own, but by living in the light of our father, who loves us, just as we are, and changes us by his guidance and acceptance of the imperfect and makes us perfect simply because he loves us perfectly. We are the children of god, in our sorry state and all. That is what makes the love of god powerful. His acceptance of us, with all our faults and hick-ups and by his constant working and attention and grace and love in our live, we change into his likeness, because we actually LIKE him.

Heneni

You are right henini, the devil is the accuser of the brethren. His goal in his accusations is to destroy. God's purpose is always to heal, to restore, to bring closer, and that, dear henini is why I write.

So our slumber and contentment with ourselves spiritually as the days tick off one by one towards final judgement is but a hiccup? Sadly, I disagree. Read the letter to the church at laodecia in Revelations 3 and realize that it is God who has said what I am sharing, and it is written to the church. Are His accusations the work of the devil? The only reason He shares is to wake men and women up to the dangers we have put ourselves in with our unbelief and love of this world. For a hiccup, God threatens to spew His church out of His mouth? There is a seriousness here that few have comprehended, for our slumber is so great. It is high time we started taking God's warnings with seriousness. Let me give you something to think about.

The church as a whole is not burdened for the lost. We simply are too occupied in doctrinal debates, church activities, our worldly lives, hidden sins, and pursuing a Christianity that sets no one free and yet...we are comfortable with that!

Listen, millions, no billions on this earth are going into judgement day unprepared to meet the God of the universe, and we have the answer, the only answer. We also have as our "raison d'etre", our reason to be, a mandate by God to take the truth that can set them free from the devil's grasp of fleshliness and sin and COMPEL them to come in by it. This is a job for burdened souls, souls that cry out to God at night to do whatever is necessary to bring about an end gathering.

Can we finally not be honest with ourselves? The truth is that we simply do not care that they will be carted off into eternity with weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and as they pass us by on the way to the tormentor, they will cry out at us...

"Why did you not tell us? Why did you not shake us and wake us up? Why did you not display more of this God to us so that we would have been awoken from our sinfulness and brought crying to His feet for forgiveness?"

But Henini, as a whole, we are not burdened, we simply are too busy with our lives, our dreams, our enjoyments, testifying loudly for all to see, it seems, except ourselves, that we, our old natures, are still alive within us, when we ought to be dead, with Jesus living in us instead. Sin still has dominion over multitudes of saints, and the same multitudes, unbelievably, are those actually arguing FOR continued sin, because we are "only human". It is simply not the gospel. It is unbelief, pure and simple.

Yet, how few there are who tremble at the prospect of facing God while still in their flesh, having simply not believed God's promise of a new creature, where sin and the flesh are dead and we live now for God?

Do we think Paul was lying when he said:

"I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God."

Shall I tremble at your accusations and simply shut up as I see this catastrophe approaching? Shall I sit back down on my pew and stop "offending" people as I hold up the mirror of God's words and truth to their lives to reveal something to them that they already know?

Do we not understand that judgement will begin with us, not the world? For God's sake, I am burdened for His church. The heaviness is there deep in my soul, even as I joy in my God for setting me free. Do you think I preach a salvation that sets men free as God intended thru religious "theory"? We do not need any more theories. We need someone to say this is the truth and it works! I have been a Christian 37 years, and was still captive to sin for 36 of them, and worse than most, and in all that time, no one, not one preacher, shared a way of deliverance from the flesh, an old nature that refuses to submit to the full reign of Christ in our lives.

But God had mercy on my sin-soaked soul and revealed to me my core unbelief that was keeping His hand from moving. In my desperation, I simply chose to believe, to reckon myself dead indeed unto sin and alive unto Him, and praise God, He set me free, exactly as He has promised everyone here reading this.

Do Christians hunger after freedom? Are they tired of displeasing their Lord with actions, thoughts, lives that bring Him no glory but rather shame? There is a way out, and it is finally coming to the end of ourselves and admitting that all our righteousness is filthy rags in His sight, that we cannot obey with a pure heart, that we WILL not obey and have Him to fully reign over us, and then cry out for the faith to be delivered from ourselves.

The promises of God are sure and true and God will not disappoint or turn away even the worst of the worst if they are willing to simply put their FULL trust in Him. The question remains though....will we?

Let us stop hiding under forgiveness as a cloak for our continued sin and self-rule. Call it what you will, it is hidden rebellion. Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, but it will simply not cover that sin. God asks to reign in our lives. He asks us to become servants in His kingdom, not masters in our own., for we are no longer our own, we have been bought with a price.

A hiccup? Rebellion to the will of God a hiccup? God says to those who persist in their reigning over their own lives to allow sin to stay on even a little bit that He will spew them out of His mouth. Does He threaten this becasue He hates us? No! He loves us! Why will we not respond to that love and give Him all? It is insanity at its worst. It is deception by the enemy, and right now, contrary to what you think, it is satan that preaches to us "smooth things", attmepting to lull us back into our false sense of security.

It is a dangerous game many Christians play. They are willing to gamble their eternal souls that God will wink at their self-rule while He sends others to hell for the very same act of rebellion.

Forgiveness is wonderful, but it is not the end of our walk, the only act of faith we are asked to believe. It is simply the door to a walk of faith in His promises, ending with a life of holiness, yet how many have nothing to show of eternal value after even decades of claiming His name.

We had best read the parable of the talents in Luke 19 again....and again... until God opens eyes up to the danger of simply giving God back to Him a forgiven but basically unchanged life. The end of that parable in Luke should make us shudder and melt inside. Hear the word of God:

"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."

So I warn, I weep, I pray and yes, I offend if need be, to prevent the souls walking by crying out in accusations as to why we did not warn them, being those who thought themselves Christians their whole lives, but proving in the end to simply be tares.

May God break the grip of dark deception and unbelief on the hearts of men and set them "free indeed".

Dear Bruce. I cut myself some slack only because God has done the same for me. If he didnt cut me any slack id be on my way to hell, but because of HIS grace towards me, im not afraid of any such things. I am perfectly loved and therefore perfect. Its hard to wrap your head around it, but I believe what he says about me and my fellow christian brothers whatever state they are in as well. I have absolute confidence in Gods acceptance of me, and His willingness to stick with me for the long haul. My failures and successess mean little. I have tried to do it my way, it doesnt work. His way works, because I believe it does.

For man to say that their work is perfect they have to wait till the end product. But every stage of Gods dealings, every baby step, with me, shows his completely perfect work in me every step of the way. Even if I seem to be a lost case to others, I realise that im perfectly where he wants me. Why? Because i trust him with me. He is the one that works on me. And though i have a long way to go to be acceptable to mankind, im have no way to go to be acceptable to Him. If he did not accept me, how would he take me and mould me? If I had to approach god with the 'fear' of knowing he is not willing to work things out or forgive me, or work on me some more, id be a lost case. If i was worried that there would come a day, when He is fed up with me, no longer willing to be patient or to forgive me, what hope would there be for me?

So even though to others I might not seem perfect, gods workmanship can not be anything but perfect, so i am content that whatever he is doing in me at the moment, is being done perfectly. And for that reason i am not waiting for the day that i am holy, I can say with all confidence that the day I consecrated myself to Him fully, he took me, as a gift, placed me on the altar of his love, and made me set apart for him. Since I am set apart for Him, I am holy. It is not the gift on the altar that makes the gift holy, its the altar that makes the gift holy. If in the OT the jews would run to the priest and say, i would like to take my offering back from off the altar because i fear it is not good enough, the priest would have thought such a thing very odd. In the same way, when i gave myself to the lord as a gift, the fact that i am now in his hands, has set me apart for him to work on me, and anybody that has set themselves apart for god, is holy simply because they have been set apart. When we entrust our lives to him, he honours it, by considering our lives as a gift to him, and when we are in his hands, we are holy, because we are set apart for Him to work on us. And there is nobody more comptetent than God to do as He pleases with us. God is able to do with our lives what he so desires, completely competent to make us what He wants every step of the way. We need only trust ourselves to him. He is the one doing the work. And I trust Him, when He says that what He started He is able to finish. I do not try to rush god along, or look at myself in horor thinking im nothing like jesus. All these things mean nothing. What matters is that the will is turned over to God. The emotions count for nothing. Some days i feel like I am making splendid progress, other days I dont feel like it, but feelings are deceptive. Feelings have no say in the matters of spiritual progress, only the set apart will. I might not feel like washing the dishes at times, but i do it anyway. Same thing with our walk with god, we cannot trust our feelings to tell us what he is doing in us, or how much progress he has made in us.

I cannot stress the fact enough, that we must altogether give up this nagging feeling we have to measure ourselves with other people. If god had to measure me, he would say, what He has been doing in Heneni is perfect thus far. Can anything that God does not be perfect? And who am I to question his progress or his pace? So therefore Im not sure who you are sent to warn about their sorry state, but to me that is a kind of insult to God. Surely God cannot and will not give up on what has been given to Him to work on? Surely God is not unhappy with the progress he is making or the work that he is doing!

Perhaps what you feel is the frustration of Gods seeming inability to hurry things up a bit. Perhaps you thought being holy was some sort of life where people look at you and go WOW. Perhaps grace seems to be a bit flippy floppy for you. There is little in my estimation that is more powerful than the grace of god, which is simply this: Gods invitation and constant assurance of a way towards Him, and/or back to him. If that line of approach or communication was at risk, there would be nothing to hope for.

How easy it is to become legalistic. Thinking that there is some work that we can or should do to change into the image of Jesus. What is there that we can possibly do to make ourselves like Jesus? No works can do it. The thing is that GOD is the one doing the work, we are the ones being worked on. To be worked on we need to trust him with ourselves. We need to believe that what we have given Him, which is ourselves, is in good hands, and in good time, we shall be more like Him. Faith is not some sort of mysterious guru power either. It is simply this: BELIEVE that god is able and willing to do what He said He would do with us. Our part is to trust and believe, the rest is His work.

I imagine God sending a prophet to his people saying this: Trust and believe. Dont worry, dont be anxious about anything. I am able to do as I said I would, trust in my ability. Dont fret about the spiritual progress you are making inside, dont fret about anything for that matter. Look at me with your spiritual eyes. Can you not see or trust or believe that I am able? Surely I have done everything that I could to give you what you need at any moment in time. TRUST ME! I am doing a perfect work in you. I love you, always.

If this kind of communication from God does not give people hope, the the only thing i can think of is that they have not consecrated and given their lives to the lord yet, and therefore are not chirstians, yet, and therefore are not the church, yet. So...is your message for the church, or for the legalistic christians? Or for the hypocrites? It certainly cannot be for the children of god.

Originally Posted by Heneni

If this kind of communication from God does not give people hope, the the only thing i can think of is that they have not consecrated and given their lives to the lord yet, and therefore are not chirstians, yet, and therefore are not the church, yet. So...is your message for the church, or for the legalistic christians? Or for the hypocrites? It certainly cannot be for the children of god.

Dear Henini, we are all told that the initial acceptance of the Lord as our Lord is but the first step in the process of "making our calling and election sure". When a man or woman comes to God initially in full faith, sincerity and yieldedness, we know that satan does not stop and give up and say, "Oh, well, no point in wasting more time on that soul, they are God's and there is nothing I can do about it."

I could list a myriad of scriptures to support that position, but will not, as I know you know your Bible.

The path to God begins with the cross, but does not end there. There is a path we all must walk called "the good fight of faith" because God is not content with simply forgiving us...he desires we be fruitful to bring Him glory. Thus, God is likewise looking for those who are not content with just forgiveness, but who want HIM and who desire above all else to bring honor to Him by what he does to fill us with Himself.

Our eyes, with few glorious exceptions, are blinded to this because unbelief grips our hearts, the world grips our hearts and yes, we have all slept, like the virgins in the parable. All were virgins. All did not get in to the marriage supper.

When my words go out for all to hear, the church as a whole is hearing these proclamations as to what I believe is God' will for us, that we do indeed "reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to Him", that we can arrive at the point where Christ's image is burned into our heart and spiritual fruits, once rare at best, flourish almnost effortlessly as in the garden of Eden in our souls, where we trust Him with our lives and have NO confidance in the flesh, for it is deceitful and does not want to lose its control over us.

To some who hear, they get angry, feeling that they are attacked, that I am needlyly "rocking their boat" and that God has declared them forgiven, and who am I to talk to them in a tone of "things are not right"? Others, miraculously, hear the same words, but their hearts are pricked and they weep inside for they know the words are truth. They know their walks have left much to be desired. They are well aware that sin is still found lodged in their hearts and it kills them to admit it, but admit it they do. They know their prayer closets are for the most part empty until they need something from God. They are not defensive of their walk. They hear God's exhortation to "buy of Him gold tried in the fire" and to "purchase white raiment that the shame of their nakedness shall not appear." They are thus convicted by God, repent and receive the grace to believe the amazing things God promises them about themselves that heretofor they were convinced were impossible due to their unbelief.

You ask who my audience is? It is to all, for I cannot see in individual hearts, but I can see what is plain to my eyes, and to the eyes of the world and to the eyes of honest hearts among us, that we as His body are, with few glorious exceptions, shaming Him in the lives that we lead. We do not seek Him in prayer, we are not burdened for souls, we are content with a religion as opposed to a relationship, we have erected a form of godliness yet in our daily walks, deny the power of it to set us free as our God has promised. We find sin "aggravating" but not abhorrent. We long for Heaven but how often it is not because He will be there, but because we get to live forever.

With that statement, I can imagine many want to cry out in protest. But we LOVE the Lord, they will cry. But God sees, and God knows.

"They draw near Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. "

But if it is not hte truth, then why do they not seek Him now, drawing near Him as he requests in full assuance of faith, trusting in Him to fulfill every promise?

I preach to all. Some accept, while others reject and tear their clothes in anger. There are many, thank God, who I have met on here, who I know have hearts for Him. It is evident in the way they speak, the way they act, their fruits. To those, I simply share the good news of sanctification by faith. To weary ones desring to be fruitful, it is like rain on parched ground.

There are others, equally called, who up till now, have not responded to the call of God to "come up higher". To those, the fallow ground must be broken up, for faith cannot sprout on hardpan soil.To these, my message seems judgemental and harsh, but in the end, they will praise and thank God with all the rest for the goodness that truly sets free indeed.

Lastly , there are those among us whom the enemy has seeded in our midst, to do all in their power to dissuade Christians from believing in a God who can "sanctify us wholly, body, soul and spirit, and preserve us in a state of blamelessness UNTIL the coming of the Lord". They love the law and self efort and are proud of their religious accomplishments and do not want to give up control of their lives to God.

These are those who will cry out "Lord, Lord, but in return will hear back "I never knew you".I can but be faithful in sharing the way to holiness and freedom and attempt to ***** their consciences to re-examine there walk to see if perhaps they have not been believing all that God has for them, and that satan may indeed have come in and deceived them with lies disquised as truth.

God's word will do its work, for or against. My job, my calling is simply to be faithful in telling Christians that there is a path of glory that will lift us up from mediocre, luekwarm experiences, and make us glow with the presence of God.

How people react is their business, between them and God. Whosoever will, will. Whosoever won't, won't. As long as each has thoroughly examined their heart before God in honesty and openness and concluded that they are walking in all the light God has given them with nothing held back, then I have done my job.

I am content and my contentment comes from being in the loving bosom of a great Spirit, I call God. He is my Source of all things. He makes things simple for us. His bosom is infinite but also, intimate--Bruce--climb in, lay back and enjoy the ride!