Yes. Do you?
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Yep....do you understand that the Church is NOT to mingle with the world or the church? Notice big C versus little c.
Do you understand that there will be a counterfeit religion so close to the real that people will be sucked in by it,despite its various names....one wrong pitted against another wrong? (which is happening right here in this forum.)
Do you know the true meaning of Church is "called OUT ones?"
Not a building or a denomination?
Better yet...if I pointed out an acre field for you and said....Danny there is a pot of silver buried in that field, its yours. Would you look for it? Leaving no stone uncovered, no patch of ground not dug up? Or would you sit in a chair a couple or 3 hrs. out of the week and wait for some guy standing behind a podium to tell you where he thinks it is.
My bet is YOU would do the searching.....how much more precious is God's TRUTH than that pot of silver. How much more valueable a soul than that silver.
Yet we sit in the pews and are fed by men, when God told us, the Holy Spirit would be our teacher and our comforter.
We are once again people controled by Pharisee's with their own man made Satan's Kingdom agenda's.....and the old serpent roams to and fro like a Lion looking for whom to devour. Looking like an angel of light....we are bugs to a light that destroys.
The Church is to be IN the world but not OF the world. We are to be a light to the world. We are to be salt. We are not to love the things of this world, but we are to love the world as God so loved the world.
I understand there will be a counterfiet religion. But I'm not sure how close to the real it will be. The things that would have convinced the elect, were it possible to convince the elect of the false religion, were miracles. There are already many counterfiet religions, but they will collapse into one.
The Holy Spirit uses ministers to feed us among other methods. There's nothing wrong with sitting in a pew and being fed by a man led by the Holy Spirit and having the Holy Spirit confirm to you the truth of what the man is saying.
The problem is when people sit in a pew being fed by a man and the Holy Spirit is not a part of it. And the people think that by being in the pew they have done something good and that if they do enough good they will be saved. That's not trusting in Jesus, that's earning your way to heaven and that only works if you are perfect.