Issue all the edicts you want, but coming from a false church, they aren't worth the paper they are written on.
“Issue all the edicts you want, but coming from a false church, they aren’t worth the paper they are written on”
Since God is no respector of persons, my edict is just as good as his and carries about as much weight as his. I also used a very high grade copy paper to hand write it on. My edict does not need footnotes, endnotes, glossary, pictures, diagrams or commentators to explain the obvious. “Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not upon your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths”. It says nothing about perpetual sacrifices or holy orders. Just “By grace are you saved through faith and not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any one should boast.” It’s so simple, but then again, I guess you can’t make any money on it or build an impressive edifice around anything that easy to understand.
Issue all the edicts you want, but coming from a false church, they aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
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I have experienced otherwise.
An A of G Pastor of a church 1 block from a 10,000 member Northern Arizona Univ . . . callously refused to send a post card, make a phone call, visit a couple of college men who had dropped out of his church—met with him—and seriously invited him to contact them for some chats in the future. One became an atheist and the other an agnostic after . . . in their view . . . giving God and the church a repeated fair shot.
Certainly they have their responsibility for their own behaviors. But 6 months or so later with no contact from that Pastor, one blew his brains out.
I prayed . . . earnestly that God would change the Pastor and his wife; or move them on; or take them home to Heaven—whatever God’s wisdom chose. In less than a year—after expecting to be there another decade or two—as I understood it—they moved and then both died.
There was also an old bitty who had worked at the Grand Canyon for over a decade and who’s husband worked for the Park Service there. She was caustic, poisonous to most who’s life she touched, including my 89 year old boss—the historic figure Emory Kolb—there.
Again, I earnestly prayed that God would change her, move her on or take her out of this life—whatever He saw fit to do. In less than a year, as I recall, they were transferred against their will, as I understood it.
Those are not the only examples of such in my life.
But they are also nothing compared to what is coming.
I have stated on other threads that
Holy Spirit’s ANOINTING does NOT tend to stay with any given congregation—much less any given denomination.
People are like the children of Israel in the wilderness—Moses is gone too long and the idols come out of the woodwork. If nothing else, they make an idol of the group; their idiosyncratic theological or sociological or behavioral distinctives and rituals.
Holy Spirit will have none of that and if they persist, He will lift His anointing.
He is very good at testing both people and groups as to what their top priorities are.
It seems clear to me that !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! and doctrines of men are more important to the RC hierarchy than God is. No way was whatever anointing MAY have rested on the Bishop of Rome initially . . . would persist with such for competition.
And, when THE ANOINTING LIFTS . . . SO DOES THE BULK OF THE AUTHORITY. The shell may remain—but it’s a hollow, worthless shell with no real power.
As Scripture says, warning about the end times . . . they will have a FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENY THE POWER THEREOF.
Indeed, sadly.
Thankfully, not all RC’s are in that boat. But the Pope sounds like he is. And he shall answer for it and for every spiritual child he has led astray accordingly.
You will live to see the day when children younger than 7 shall, speaking under the anointing of Holy Spirit SHALL stop whole military battalions—and via God’s angelic forces—send them to destruction.
You shall see children call down fire out of Heaven which shall consume whole neighborhoods or larger.
You shall see children speak a word and every individual within earshot will be healed and delivered of all that plagues them.
Harry Potter will look like blind children playing pickup sticks with mittens on, by comparison with what God Almighty will be doing through HIS EVEN YOUNG kids.
The enemy’s counterfeit will have virtually no showing to a very embarrassing showing up against God’s team.
Oh, there will be counterfeit supernatural demonstrations—even a counterfeit resurrection. Scripture is clear about that. But it will fall in it’s own pit. God shall raise up a Standard. God WILL PREVAIL though satan has convinced the globalist puppet masters that satan wins at Armageddon.
In any case, HOLY SPIRIT’S ANOINTING is a key issue for our era—for any era, true—but particularly for this era. Either Holy Spirit’s anointing is tangibly demonstrably and spiritually disceringly THERE, or it is not.
And, as Scripture says, THE ANOINTING BREAKS THE YOKE of oppression etc.
The rest is human noise and chaff. The RC edifice has lots of expensive chaff, fossilized chaff . . . as do lots of other Christian organizations . . . including, sadly, the larger Pentecostal ones.
It seems to me, that God has to periodically break individuals, groups/congregations and organizations to get them to constantly refocus on GOD ALONE.
Some of it just the layers of the onion training program that seems slated for all of us. Some of it seems to relate to our chronic waywardness as humans.
A truly humble, broken, servant-hearted, loving, anointed leader in constant intimacy with God can model and lead otherwise. I think John Wimber was as close as I’ve seen of that in my lifetime. There is a Pastor Coleman—a thin elderly black lady in Phoenix who fills a Pastoral role in that way—and God definitely speaks and moves through her—I’ve experienced it now 4 times myself.
But, as she asserts—most are not willilng to pay the price in fasting and prayer to walk persistently in God’s anointing and in ACTIVE intimacy with God 24/7.
It’s been a long time since I was even close to willing to pay that price. Sadly. Getting closer again to it, though. By His grace.
I’m not real fond of edicts. I don’t even think God is. But they have their fitting place and time.
One of the RC’s hereon who walks in Holy Spirit significantly—as I understand it—believes that the RC edifice is scheduled for some dramatic wake-up calls by God. We shall see. certainly the whole of Christendom needs it.
This is an era when spiritual leaders and governmental leaders are falling all over themselves trying to conform themselves to the spirit and goals of our time—globalism led by satan. There are consequences for that—serious consequences. They will appear increasingly dramatically in their fitting times.
May God have mercy on us all.
May those with discernment and anointing discern what I have predicted in this post—and post their sensing on whatever degree of validity they feel in their spirit that such predictions have, before God and man.
Blessings,
Do you not understand his wry sense of humor?