In times past, we read about or heard about schools, churches and Christian organizations, that were once sound, defecting from Scriptural Truth. However, it was really people within that were actually to blame. It may have started because leaders either had defected themselves and/or allowed Spiritually unqualified people to be taken into the work. It may have developed slowly and subtly or been deliberately planned and executed. It has left us with a sorry situation of Laodicean proportions in our world today. Cults and religions abound. Churches and other ministries are fading shadows of their once God-blessed past or in too many cases are but skeletons. False teaching is increasing and spreading. Cheap substitutes have replaced the mighty wind of the Holy Spirit. "Ichabod" could be the description of many of today's dead works. Why am I sharing this with you? Because we (you and I) have a responsibility to wage a two pronged resistance to this insidious plunge into darkness. First, we must have a belief in and dedication to seeking genuine revival. The time is ripe for a Heavenly visitation. Second, we need to purify and guard our own relationship with our Lord and Savior. (If any reading this are not born again, the most important thing you will ever do is to receive Him). This is a time to know what we believe and why, to be Scripturally sound and well grounded and be able to "....earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (From Jude 3). Selah! Let's learn from the past and take steps, in His strength, to move back to to the basics of the Word of God. Ron
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils...." "....If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained" (I Timothy 4:1;6).
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