Month: December 2016

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES (4/7)

WHY FREE ORAL PRAYER MEETINGS DISAPPEARED
Jesus predicted the ‘falling away’, or the apostasy of our day at the ‘beginning of sorrows’ in the last days. The time has truly arrived and prayerlessness is part of it.
Nevertheless, most evangelism today has a rationale the very opposite of the saints from the 14th C through the early 19th C. The changes came with New England Theology’s evangelism of ‘easy religion’.
Today:-
(1) The surviving spirit of prayer in assemblies, is now on the verge of extinction
(2) The USA is largely to blame and the 2,000 new breakaway church denominations of the 19th C.
Among them was a new breed of rough and ready evangelists with the gift of the gab who were sensational stage performers who grabbed the quick admiration of the masses by their quick, easy, unconditional packages to heaven and the afterlife.
(a) D L Moody, Billy Sunday, Reuben Torrey and a host of ‘also rans’ who offered magical new ways to pray, a new notion of faith, and a fast track to glory. Handshake, stepping down the aisle, or merely moving one’s lips by muted acquiescence or affirmation after agreeing to the Gospel salesman in the pulpit. Their contemporary William James the Father of American Psychology was delighted that they had absorbed many of his new notions and definitions of faith (even though he was an agnostic who progressively destroyed radical real conversion).
(b) Conversion by spur of the moment decision, walking an aisle, handshake or affirmation replaced New Testament radical conversion of the Puritans and the Reformation
(3) A new breed of pseudo Christians has arisen which
[a] says there is no need to sorrowfully and prayerfully seek the gift of repentance
[b] says there is no need to seek the Lord first with all of the heart, soul and mind
[c] says there is no need to read the Scriptures beforehand while seeking Him
[d] says there is no need of radical old fashioned biblical repentance,
[e] says there is no need to wait for the coming of faith, it is already universally pre-existent
[f] says there is no need to seek the grace of faith, as grace comes through man’s own faith
[g] says there is no need for the prior spirit of prayer to arrest sinners and awaken them,
[h] says there is no need for church prayer meetings to verbally intercede aloud for the lost
[i] says there is no need any longer for God’s Spirit to give His inner witness or assurance
[j] Automation had arrived, with automatic birth with automatic faith and repentance,
[k] Acknowledging a few Bible verses or doctrines was now the new birth (regeneration)
[l] Parroting a ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ was now the new birth (being born again)
[m]. Acknowledging a few Bible verses and parroting a prayer was now the new birth
[n]. Mouthing a one word agreement to a plan of salvation was now the new birth
[o]. Do it yourself religion had arrived and was in vogue
{i} Everyone already has the ability to immediately access God by mental knowledge gained from the evangelist
{ii} There is no need to read the Scripture first, or to be like the Ethiopian eunuch; the twelve Galilean disciples; the Jewish audience at Pentecost; or the Gentile audience with Cornelius who all read or heard the Scriptures read well before new birth
{iii} There is no need to seek the Lord with all one’s mind, heart, strength and might automation had arrived, you can do it yourself, without minimum effort. Just come as you are for unconditional packaged gift of eternal life. Just do what the preacher says and presto you can have it! You can easily miss hell’s pain and gain heavenly joys when you die.
Come and GET IT! It is FREE!

SPECIAL NOTE FOR THE READER:
This article expresses the false attributes of easy-religion, easy-evangelism, easy-soul-winning, and quick-easy false conversions of the Western Church, particularly from the USA and its missionary extensions throughout the globe for well over a hundred years. Sadly it has captivated evangelical and fundamental Christendom, including the moral majority. Prophecy of Jesus and the prophets has been fulfilled.
Maranatha! Even so, ‘Come, Lord Jesus!’

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES (4/7)

Decline of North Atlantic Caucasian Christians. (Part 3)

Decline of North Atlantic Caucasian Christians. (Part 3)
In the history of awakenings and revivals the spirit of prayer has been the key factor. Evangelism was successful when it was present on either side of the Atlantic or in the third world during the Modern Missionary Movement or the Golden Age of Evangelism. It cannot be simulated or produced by any method of man. The Great Intercessor in heaven alone is able to send it upon gathered saints in prayer.

Yet even when Wesley, Whitefield, Edwards, or Finney preached during the Great Awakenings, not one of them ever tried to convince a respondent to the Gospel that he or she was now a child of God. They always waited for God’s Spirit to give the assurance through His inner witness that He now indwelled the believer. They went to no ends to be patient and never tried to pre-empt the Spirit’s work.

They were loath to ever convince the new seeker with logic, Bible verses, or pressure that he was already regenerated. They let the seekers agonize in conviction without haste. They knew, as I did in New Guinea nearly 60 years ago, that when God moves in evangelism the Spirit’s work cannot be rushed or duplicated.
By all means quote the glorious promises to press upon the smitten sinners the hope, but the final work of regenerating conversion is alone the peculiar work of the Holy Ghost. To interrupt that work by impatience is to hinder the work of God with false hope.

Today, since the novel quick methods of the preacher as the sole persuader now makes a newborn Christian. These preachers of our day try to do it all themselves, using the Scriptures to make the respondent acknowledge then acquiesce to the overtures of God.

These evangelists are forced to do this themselves because the spirit of prayer is absent in their congregations, having abandoned the necessity of its presence in enabling intercessors to pray together for the lost. The old power house of the early church and that of true evangelism throughout church history has been forsaken.
The Plea of Our Great High Priest and Intercessor by the Prophet Joel.

“Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord…therefore also now, says the Lord, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning…And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God…who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar…And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.”

    ( Joel 1:14; Joel 2: 12-17; Joel 2:28, 32.)

The spirit of prayer produces the unspeakable boldness and travail which shakes the place where they are gathered, and is the very catalyst that precipitates an outpoured awakening of the lost. Not until we open our churches again to free prayer and the free gathering of saints is there any hope of the return by the spirit of prayer. In the meantime we go through the motions, bypass the inner witness of the Spirit that comes through the new birth or radical, real conversion.

Decline of North Atlantic Caucasian Christians. (Part 3)


http://bonitabiblemission.worthyofpraise.org/the-decline-of-w…istianity-part-3/

DECLINE OF WHITE EU-UK-US CHRISTIANITY. (Part 2)

PRAYERLESSNESS OF OUR CHURCHES.
(New genre evangelism is an artificial substitute, without the spirit of prayer.)
INDOCTRINATION REPLACING REGENERATION
1. With all bibliolatry of the 19th C, one or two verses are pragmatically selected to use them as an arbiter to interpret the rest of the Bible. For example Romans 10:9 has become a magical fetish for quick, easy, unconditional salvation. It is twisted away from context and the overall total teachings of Paul in the rest of his epistle.
2. The method of bibliolatry is excessive reverence for a select phrase, verse, or passage to interpret all other related Scripture and pragmatically dispose of any counter balance. This rationale created over 2,000 new Christian denominations in the 19th C. Literalist and fundamental bibliolatry gave unprecedented rise to divisions within Christendom. Those divisions were based upon purist separatism and the worst form of sectarianism that continues to polarize and fracture the community of the saints.
3. The tragic irony was the further splits from the newly formed denomination leading in the end to many saints opting out of church attendance altogether as the disease of judgmental censoriousness consumed them.
4. Modern evangelists are wrongly compared to Finney, Edwards, Wesley and Whitefield, there is no similarity whatsoever between them and American evangelists of the late 19th, 20th, and 21st Century counterparts. The striking differences are:-
a. They do not have the spirit of prayer,
b. They instead manufacture a spirit of excitement
c. Excitement relies on certain musical tempo and lilt to stir the feelings;
d. Excitement grows on musical instruments for atmosphere
e. Excitement is dependent on vocal entertainment (called spiritual?);
f. Excitement relies on tension reducing humour to release emotions
g. Excitement thrives with a stage produced persuasive psychology
h. Excitement comes from skilfully manipulating mood and emotion
i. Excitement is to titillate expectancy with a note of urgency
j. The tools of excitement vary according to the needs of a congregation,
i. Traditional, contemporary, or modern audience
ii. Minors, teens, youth, adulthood, elderly;
k. All psychological methods to excite are poor substitutes to the spirit of prayer, which alone brings genuine awakening of the soul when the Gospel is preached; which alone is conducive to Holy Ghost illumination and regeneration of disciples. I.e. those who yet have not the indwelling Spirit, but only God’s presence temporarily with them while the Father patiently draws them to the Saviour and to conviction and repentance when they will receive the gift of faith (not to be confused with their own fickle freewill faith).

http://bonitabiblemission.worthyofpraise.org/?p=155

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CAUCASIAN CHRISTIANS (Part 1)

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CAUCASIAN CHRISTIANS (Part 1)
The West has much to learn from the strengths of Eastern quietude and reflectivity of mind? The Western man is presently distracted by high technology and excuses his frenetic preoccupation with internet media as multi-tasking and divergent thinking? Alas, even the saints are being temporarily blinded, until the Spirit brings them to their senses.

While arrogantly proud of its intellectualism the West forgets that as descendants of Japheth that settled in the isles, coasts and hinterlands of the North Atlantic, their intellectual advancement only came as God’s gift in fulfilment of Noah’s promise to Shem and his posterity down through the ages .

While they dwelt in the tent of Shem they were enlarged. When they became anti-Semitic the rationalism of intelligentsia took a downward path to lawlessness, civil wars and revolution. Revolution creates a war-mongering nation that was once law-abiding. This has happened, and is happening now on both sides of the Atlantic. It explains the present chaos between East and West. Once, those nations of Europe (both western and eastern) were advancing exponentially because they were god-fearing, promoted the Scriptures, and were friends of God’s scattered people: the Jews.

Now godforsaken in materialism and debauchery of mind, Western Christian nations in Europe, the United Kingdom have, like the USA on the other side of the Atlantic, become lawless. “If it were possible even the very elect would be deceived” and succumb. (Read: 2nd Thessalonians 2.) The days of Noah and Sodom are revisiting the planet to captivate nations abandoned by God.
NEXT POST: Part 2.

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CAUCASIAN CHRISTIANS (Part 1)


http://bonitabiblemission.worthyofpraise.org/decline-of-white…christianspart-1/