These
words come through my burning heart
by the Holy Spirit and my hand and others through time
His priest: Preston (David) McNeill
by the Holy Spirit and my hand and others through time
His priest: Preston (David) McNeill
The
Fruit of Neglect
The Church affirms its faith in the Holy Spirit every time it repeats its Truth, but does the Church really believe it's belief? What about living in truth everyday!
Today's pulpits are contending that the name Jesus is used for nothing more than a figure of speech for spiritual atmosphere and regard it as one of the misfortunes of the Christian religion that personality has been claimed for the Spirit. The life of the Church witnesses to the same attitude of the Spirit are ignored as of no account. Atmosphere is valued above His presence. Religious assemblies of a certain order give a large place to silent pauses which produce emotional excitement.
When our forefathers glowed with fires kindled in the soul, the first beginning assembly gave loud vent in noise. The modern way is to be still and voiceless. Spirituality and silence are as wedded as were revivalism and rowdiness. Both types are emotional, but revivalists did believe their work was of the Spirit; the Quietism ( Definition of quietism: a system of religious mysticism teaching that perfection and spiritual peace are attained by annihilation. This is the the idea that a human soul is not immortal unless it is given eternal life of the will and passive absorption in contemplation of God. Dividing thing with a passive withdrawn attitude or policy toward the world or worldly affairs cultivate psychological influence). They speak of the Spirit with a different content from that of the Truth. The blunders and disasters of the Church are largely, if not entirely, accounted for by the neglect of the Spirit’s Ministry and Mission. The jumble fixed and mixed in a confused mass; put and throned together without true order of speculation about the Bible takes no account of the Holy Spirit. It regards inspiration as negligible, and insists upon manly interpreting revealed truth by no standards except those of history and literature which were inspired by darkness to keep all the world in a full blanket of lies. Miracles are condemned without trial. Prophecy is dismissed without inquiry. Revelation is ignored without reason. All truth is thrust into traditional ruts. Our Lord spoke of the Spirit as the Spirit of Truth, and promised that He would guide us, His people, into all truth. He spoke by the Prophet, His Priest. There were many writers, but He is the Author, and Finisher. The Bible can neither be accounted for nor interpreted but by His guidance, The VOICE.
He
holds the key.
He
is the Key.
Revealed Truth can be known only through the Revelator. Ignoring this, scholars and historians, grammarians and antiquanans, critics and agnostics, are blind in the midst of light. The same result is seen in the belief about our Lord Jesus Christ, the Experience of Grace, and the Doctrine of the Christ. No man can say Jesus is Lord save by the Holy Spirit, but men are seeking to interpret the Christ in terms of reason by the unlearned, history, and philosophy. The Christian religion was birthed out from those who began in a New Birth in the power of the Spirit. It was developed under His guidance, and sustained by His presence; but ignoring the Spirit, becomes a matter of education and evolution. The True Church is the Body of Christ begotten, undefied, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, but masses has forgotten it's purpose, therefore sidestepping its true functions, and orders within the gospel becoming stale. The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Spirit The problems of the Church as in truth, so it is in service. The Church is helpless without the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. The Church never talked so much about itself and its problems which were kept behind closed boardrooms. The Church has been led too often by their traditions. By speaking their minds they rule over the Spirit of God and His will and His word clearly revealed.
The mind is the throne room of Satan. Mindlessness is always a bad sign and the true mark of the beast . The lust for talk about work increases as the power for work declines. Conferences multiply when work fails. The problems of the Church are never solved by talking about them. The problems arise out of failures. There is no need to discuss the problem of reaching the masses or the one, so long as the masses are being reached. There is no problem of empty churches. There is no class-meeting question, so long as the class meeting throbs with life and ministers to the manifold needs of the heart and life. The power to attract is in attractiveness, and it is useless to advertise the banquet if there is nothing to eat. We are acting as though the only remedy for decline is methods, programs, organizations, and compromises. The Church is failing to meet modern needs, grip the modern mind, and saves modern life.
The saints are the ordained rulers of the earth,
but
they do not rule; indeed, they have dropped the scepter and
repudiated the responsibility. The helplessness of the Church is
pathetic and tragic. There might be no such Person as the Holy Spirit
so says believers without the Holy Spirit. The Church knows quite well
both the reason and the remedy for failure. The human resources of
the Church were never so great. The opportunities of the Church were
never so glorious. The need for the work of the Church was never so
urgent. The crisis is momentous; and the Church staggers helplessly
amid it all. When the ancient Church reproached God, He found them
sleeping at the post of duty,. God charged His people with being
staggering drunk. The Church knows perfectly well what is the matter.
Yet they have made many explanation for there changed conditions.
When were conditions ever anything else? The Church has lost the note
of authority, the secret of wisdom, and the gift of power, through
persistent and willful neglect of the Holy Spirit of God. Confusion
and impotence are inevitable when the wisdom and resources of the
world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit of God
proofs abound. The New Testament furnishes examples of Churches filled
with the Spirit and Churches without the Spirit. The differences are
obvious. The Church of which Apollos was minister had not so much as
heard that the Spirit was given. The Church in our day has no such
excuse. He has been shut out
from the province in which He is indispensable. Religion has been
reconstructed with-out Him. There is no denial of the supernatural,
but it is insisted that the supernatural must conform to natural law.
It is admitted that truth is inspired, but its inspiration must
develop along the lines of natural selection and growth. Religion
cannot be allowed to have come upon any other lines than those of
literature, philosophy, and ethics.
The Christian religion has simply the honor of being less faulty than the rest. Jesus Christ must be accounted for in the same way. He is simply the crown and consummation of a progressive humanity. The emphasis is upon the Man, and in that emphasis there is reason to rejoice but the strange thing is that in the intense interest in Jesus the certainties about Him that come through the Spirit have been lost. Doctrine Without Experience the Church still has a theology of the Holy Spirit, but it has no living consciousness of His presence and power. Theology without experience is like faith without works: it is dead. The signs of death abound. Prayer-meetings have died out because men did not believe in the Holy Spirit The liberty of prophesying has gone because men believe in investigation and not in inspiration. There is a dearth of conversions because faith about the New Birth as a creative act of the Holy Spirit has lost its grip on intellect and heart. The experience of the Second Gift of Grace is no longer preached and testified, because Christian experience, though it may have to begin in the Spirit, must be perfected in the wisdom of the flesh and the culture of the schools. Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. The rebound from materialism is seen in such movements as Christian Science, Spiritualism, and Theosophy. And all not named the Church Jesus Christ It is the truth in these things that gives them their power, and it is useless to denounce them. They are the reaction of the spirit against the bondage of the flesh and of the mind. The cravings they represent must be met by the experience of Pentecost. Modernism and Mysticism are also the products of a religion that is not baptized of the Holy Spirit Sacerdotalism is another.
The Holy Truth is simple, walk only in one name, The name of the Holy Son of God as commanded. Be baptized in the name of Jesus as we know him, yet his true name is Yahushua, the Holy name of our Messiah is Yahushua.
Through out all of America, North and South, just about everyone will tell you the true name of their baptism. They say they are christian .This is the false doctrine and a not of value of faith.
We all must correct our statements to become Holy unto His Name.
(Wikipedia Sacerdotalism is the belief that propitiatory sacrifices for sin require the intervention of a priest or reverend. That is, it is the belief that a special, segregated order of men called reverend , are the ones who can commune directly with God or the gods, so therefor they must remain in charge over the masses) The English words for reverend include respectful, reverent, reverential, assentaneous, deferential, humble and obeisant. Therefor They allow others and there self will to plaster this label on themselves to there everlasting shame. The title “Reverend” has been adopted in many English-speaking denominations as a courtesy designation for clergymen. Higher orders are designated as “Very Reverend,” “Right Reverend,” or “Most Reverend.
These things flourish on impoverished soil and dunghills. They are the works of the flesh, and the product of spiritual death. The remedy for them is not in reproach and bitterness, but in floods and rivers, winds and sun of love planted in divine truth. The answer is in the demonstration of a supernatural faith of Our precious Fathers call to the public warefare called preaching by the Holy Spirit, and the only way to the supernatural life is in the abiding presence of the Spirit of God. through GRACE! "OBEY HIS VOICE TO REMAIN IN HIS FAVOR".
Divine Lordship is not a threat; rather it’s the place of greatest safety.
Divine Lordship is not a threat; rather it’s the
place of greatest safety.