You and I are not viewed overly fondly by a significant chunk of the RC's.
And, frankly, you and I have quite divergent perspectives on Calvinism.
However, I believe that we both care sincerely for the lost, the posers, the pretenders, the deceived, the clueless, the RELIGIOUS, the idolaters . . . of every stripe, flavor and label.
I believe that we can both agree with the Scripture that God would not prefer that any were lost . . . though we might have quite different perspectives on the 'therefore what's.'
Would I be wrong that you care similarly?
In any case, this post RE The Pope's calling for a more comprehensive world government leaves no room for rationalizations. This is a critical issue. One is either FOR the looming world government and its leader satan
One is wholeheartedly, emphatically and thoroughly
The looming global government of Biblical END TIMES PROPHECY.
There is NO room for middle ground. The earlier Vatican encyclicals straddling the bob-wire fence are hollow, nonsense.
POLITICAL, BUREAUCRATIC, RELIGIOUS, FANCY WORD-DANCING over and around the issues is SEDUCTIVE, demonized nonsense regardless of who engages in it. And there will be an abundance of such word-dancing from many flavors of RELIGIOUS centers power between now and Armageddon.
Folks who are soooooooooooooo addictively reverentially adoring of structures, leaders, philosophies, personages, rituals, customs, organizations . . . ANY-thing, EVERY-thing LESS THAN GOD ALMIGHTY . . . such that they cannot/WILL NOT receive the truth of these words are on very dangerous ground. They MUST decide at the earliest opportunity to put GOD ALMIGHT--THE LORD JESUS--FIRST, FOREMOST IN THEIR LIFE.
Some will rationalize that they are merely "DEFENDING THE TRUTH" etc. etc. etc. yada, yada, yada. GOD KNOWS THE TRUTH OF THAT. The piercing discerining fire of Holy Spirit will be striking and slicing through the rationalized demonic chaff of many such thoughts anew for some who are reading these words. Some will have a new degree of freedom of choice upon reading these words. THEY MUST NOT shuffle that freedom aside and instead cling tighter to the dry husks of demonized RELIGION.
They MUST break free and CLING INSTEAD MORE TIGHTLY THAN EVER TO JESUS AND JESUS ALONE.
Some folks will be inclined to rationalize that ALL their rituals, structures, adorations of personages, individuals, offices, organizations, customs etc. IS putting Christ first. The RELIGIOUS leaders 2000 years ago pontificated similarly. Christ would have none of it then. His Spirit will have none of it now. His Spirit knows THE TRUTH about all hearts regardless of the mental rationalizations to the contrary.
This is true of folks in EVERY denominational, organizational, "Christian" group.
We are at the door of the slippery slope rushing headlong at an ever faster clip to Armageddon. Any other view is blind, deaf, dumb, clueless. Sorry. It has nothing to do with my personal perspective. The Scripture and obvious global evidence no longer leave any room for any other perspective to be called truth on that issue.
I don't recall ever writing such a fierce post. It shocks and sobers me to watch the words come out of my fingers. I have a slight human tendency to want to say "But Lord . . . " Yet HE WILL HAVE NONE OF IT. The PRESS of . . . an incredibly strong hand at my back is unmistakable. The words from these flawed humble fingers will be truth and life from The Lord when Holy Spirit confirms them as such and the individual receives them as such.
I certainly encourage folks to weigh these words and TAKE THEM TO THE LORD FOR HIS CONFIRMATION OR NOT.
However, IF AND WHEN THE LORD confirms them to an individual's heart and mind--THEN, they have no choice but to follow through AS THE LORD WOULD HAVE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL ACCORDINGLY.
I encourage folks to
I don't know how to describe what I feel and what is pouring through my spirit as I write this post. I don't ever recall feeling quite the same way ever before.
I'm taken quite by surprise by it as I do it. I did not expect this as I began this post.
I just know emphatically that these issues are ETERNAL issues. ETERNAL destinies will be decided based on these issues.
Organizations, structures, rituals, personages, adorations of anything else, rationalizations, idolatries, smug 'in-group' confidences; human habits; customs; unforgiveness, pride, judgmental, self-righteousness, righteousness in anything else but the Blood of Jesus; forms of Godliness while denying the Power thereof; "social custom-affinity-'Christianity;'" works of the flesh; confidence in the flesh; . . . have only death as fruit.
PRETENDING and rationalizing otherwise will not enliven the corpse.
Clinging to dry husk demonized RELIGION will not enliven the corpse.
Taking offense at the fierceness of this post will not bring life.
NOTHING else is sufficient.
NOTHING else is remotely sufficient!
NOTHING else has a whiff of sufficiency.
NOTHING else has a sub-atomic particle's worth of sufficiency.
Via Steve Foss: Psalm 132:7-9:
Virtually every "Christian" organization and congregation has evolved customs that have become construed as and labeled as, believed to be, to equal, to result in "RIGHTEOUSNESS" when they are, in fact, a human, if not, demonized stench.
GOD SEEKS TO MEET with each individual . . . all the time, throughout all our days and moments. All the more so at places called His houses of worship.
Yet, most congregations focus on everything but RELATIONSHIP immediacy, intimacy, dialogue, the PRESENCE of The Lord IN DIALGOUE with each individual and with each group. Tickling itching ear "Christianity" does NOT cut it.
[See Mat 12:3; Mat 24:1-2--a prophetic warning of The Lord]
RELIGION has taken the place of RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
RELIGION has taken the place of living out God's priorities with one another . . . the 2nd Commandment and the Golden Rule.
Folks follow through on rituals and congratulate themselves foolishly that they are 'spiritually' safe and quite OK--top flight even--when they've not really even entered the Doorway of RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD nor even healthy, authentic relationship with one another.
God will not be marked. His priorities are clear in Scripture. NO rationalizations, nor rituals otherwise will absolve anyone of any degree of ignoring God's priorities. And every congregation has it's seductive rituals in all denominational organizations. Some rituals in and of themselves are fairly benign--until folks IMPUTE to them, Salvific redemptiveness. White-washed tomb RELIGION will never cut it--no matter how quaint, cute, rosy, warm and fuzzy the rituals involved.
Satan is not playing a shallow, inconsequential game regarding globalism.
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BTW, The following link to a Sid Roth interview with Grace William and the MIRACULOUS music GOD HAS BEEN RELEASING THROUGH HER as well as her miraculous healing . . . her atheist mother's conversion etc. It includes the touching and impactful "DON'T EVER LET ME GO." It's well worth a listen.
Grace William's own website is:
The Sid Roth interview is at:
http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?abbr=tv_&page=NewsArticle&id=7505
Grace William’s own website is:
[Per Quix, html coding did not convey the site, so here it is.]
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AMEN, Brother Quix.
AMEN to all you have said.
In the end times, one may have to forsake all prior traditions and teachings to follow Christ.
From and Ex-RC catholic - search for the truth because it is being revealed as we speak. Open your mind to it.
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!
May God bless you Quix for the courageous and unwavering love you are trying to give to those you are talking to in that post. If it is His will that just one has ears to hear it, PRAISE BE TO GOD.
As a Roman Catholic I have always understood the Pope to be infallible in matters of faith and morals as contained in Divine Revelation. All other matters are his desires and ways to achieve them. God handed Moses the Ten Commandments on Mt Sinai as guidelines for human activities. There are more ways than one to skin a cat, and this is his feeling on how we an achieve these recommendations. My personal feelin is that we were given our Savior in the person of Jesus Christ to more or less fine tune the Ten Commandments. There is no question that as moral human beings we would like an end to wars, human suffering and totalitarian governments. As humans, we all live in nation states with nationalistic feelings which I am very comfortable. I believe we live in the Greatest Nation that God has allowed on this planet. The question is how can we bestow the freedoms that we have enjoyed in the UNited States to others. A one world government would not be the answer as there are too many differences between the nation states. The Holy Father threw out the idea of a global government as a way to achieve which I feel is impossible. Again the Holy Father is very concerned about mankind with all of its frailaties but his feelings on how to achieve this are one mans idea and not infallible. He is an idealist has expressed his opinion which we are free to accept or not accept. His famous paragraph reflects the views of an idealist. JM