Month: January 2018

THE FORGOTTEN SPIRIT OF PRAYER

THE SPIRIT-OF-PRAYER FORGOTTEN 150 YRS AGO
Prayer is the greatest asset of any church. Until it is allowed, with the return of assembled free-prayer opportunities in our buildings, this is unlikely to occur. I am not talking about stilted, limited list sentence prayer cells allotted minimum time at the end of a needless 4th sermon/Bible Study for the week.

I am not talking about Rubin Torrey’s model of controlling the pews widely adopted by Protestant Bible-believing clergy which ousted the old full congregational prayer meeting dedicated to intercession for the lost.

Though pastors claim to be focused on agenda, timetable, and security risks, the truth is that these are mere excuses to prevent intercession by the saints. The pastor must be elevated to the status of guru and holy man of prayer, hence the arrival of the super-pastor and his personality cult of admirers (especially one gender) whose ears are regularly tickled as the pastor ingratiates himself to make his loyalists dependent upon his flattery.

The replacement of prayer by its substitute: unctuous utterances of the super-hero are to stop outspoken individualism among the pews and to reign in freedom of speech.

The cost over the last 150 years has been to quench any possibility of awakening the lost or illuminating the awakened. (Luke 24) Easy free religion has thrived in this climate in which conversion is now synonymous with affirmation, acknowledgment of lisping lips.

In the meantime we ‘beat the air’ with sound and fury accomplishing little more than the farmer watering barren ground, as hardened as the pathway in the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13). This is great opportunity for the enemy to sow his seed during the night. That same false gospel thrives on false hope which abounds galore among the goats filling the pews of the average church.

The volume of our preaching is often so loud that even God cannot hear it, let alone the goats and sheep of the flock.

THE FORGOTTEN SPIRIT OF PRAYER

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CHRISTIANS ( 2)

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CHRISTIANS (Part 2)
The paucity of Western Bible believing assemblies is their ignorance of the needed spirit of prayer.
1. Lost in the 19th C to automatic easy religionists of New England Theology.
2. Lost to American automatic easy conversion: i.e. come and get it, it’s free, and one does not need to seek it before hand with all the heart.
a. Its costless, cross-less and unconditional eternal life.
b. All you have to do is believe the printed verses shown and salvation can be had without any awareness of it.
3. WHY LOST? Commonly believed by clergy: freewill religion of the mind ideology is all that matters. Affirmation, lip profession, and some blessed water: presto! Acknowledgement is enough.
a. If men have the ability to access eternal life by their own will and mental knowledge of the printed ink there is no need for awakening grace. So why renew the abandoned church prayer meetings of the brethren to pray for same.
b. If repentance is merely a change of mind men do not need to be granted the gift of repentance, so why pray for awakening through grace.
c. If universal measure of grace and faith enables anyone, anywhere, anyhow to access God through his own faith then preaching is alone the need. Just print and speak the KNOWLEDGE of the printed ink it is enough.
d. If the preacher’s assurance through counsel is all that is required then mass conversions can happen without the awakening grace.

The weekly intercessory input of the brethren lost.
Without the free opportunity to publicly assemble and intercede for the lost the spirit of prayer is both quenched and resisted. No amount of preaching and/or evangelism can compensate. While it is unchallengeable that (1 Cor.1:21) God has chosen the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe,” that truth cannot stand alone without its nexus, the spirit of prayer described by Paul.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why doth he yet hope for?
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

1 Corinthians.1.24-25
Preaching without the Spirit of Prayer is mere ideology.
1. It can inspire the orator and the admiring loyalists but it cannot inspire hope that saves and regenerates the hearer.
2. Preaching without its nexus is like a cloud without water; a smoking flax smoke, but no fire;

Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groaning which cannot be uttered. And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

(Romans 8:26-27)

INDOCTRINATION IS PROXY 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, and there is no similarity whatsoever between them and their counterparts the American evangelists of the late 19th, 20th, and 21st Century. 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 for 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 have not the indwelling Spirit, but only God’s presence temporarily with them while the Father patiently draws them to the Saviour; to conviction; and to repentance. Only then will they receive the gift of faith (not to be confused with their own fickle freewill faith).

DECLINE OF NORTH ATLANTIC CHRISTIANS ( 2)

PRAYER OF CONFESSION BY WESTERN SAINTS

CONFESSION & ADMISSION BY CAUCASIAN SAINTS
Dear Heavenly Father, As we read thy word in Romans 11 and Genesis 9:27 we look at the apostate state of Japheth’s children in Christendom of the West, and we, like you O Lord, are grieved. Surely the time draws nigh when the descendants of Japheth will be broken off and the children of Shem will be grafted back into their olive tree.

Thy promise through Noah of enlargement to the Caucasian children of Japheth of Europe was combined with the nexus of us dwelling in the tents of Shem.

We acknowledge O Lord the enlargement of European nations since the dawn of the Reformation that began to end the Roman stranglehold of darkness. You have been merciful in keeping your promise enlarging advances in education, science, industry, medicine, wealth and capital gain beyond imagination. But we (Japheth) have forgotten both Israel (Shem) and faith by grace and its prior need of awakening shared by the Reformation and created our own witty inventions of religious substitutes of sacrament, affirmation, and philosophical optimism, spurning our plight under original sin’s blight.

We have become a wilful, violent people whose eyes are haughty with lofty eyelids and stiff necks. We have clung to the Tree of Knowledge instead of the Tree of Life and are blind to our wicked ways, while we hypocritically assert superiority over both Shem and Ham. Our only puritanical streak remaining is our puritanical hypocrisy. Our confrontational judgmental ways provokes the very violence we want to avoid. Surely the “days of Noah,and their violent imaginations are with us once again, even the vile wickedness of Sodom, and Gomorrah which you once destroyed.

Now O Lord we confess that we have for the most part turned our back on the tent of Shem in arrogance and political folly. Furthermore, we have scorned the faith of the Reformers and invented our own freewill faith rejecting the necessity of the spirit of prayer and prevenient grace that awakens the lost to hear the good news. Though Israel has known your ‘breach of promise’ and we Gentiles were grafted in to the Vine, the time draws nigh when you will break off our branches and restore Israel to yourself.

PRAYER OF CONFESSION BY WESTERN SAINTS

Warped United Nations Censure of USA.

Warped UN Vote= 60% of the 128 U.N group censuring the USA was from the anti Semite league of three.

(40%) of the whole U.N is now comprised of these alliances
60% of the 128 voting against the USA came from Muslim, Communist, (+ex Soviet states), and EU blocs.

*The Muslim 57 nation Organization of Islamic Co-operation led by Saudi Arabia and Iran usually vote together against Jews and the State of Israel.
*The three anti Semitic alliances (40% of the whole U.N.) were 60% of the censure voters.

128 CENSURING NATIONS ANALYSED.
Bloc voting skewed national representation via (1)the Muslim, (2) the Communist (including ex Soviet states); and (3) the EU nations. This vote was orchestrated antipathy.

These three powerful alliances dominate the floor of the U.N. now defeating free independent and impartial expression of sovereign nation states in the 192 member league. Each of the three blocs have historically shown anti-Semitic bias over the last few decades as the politically correct pressure progressively increases.

The EU now seems to have capitulated to it. This vote of censure was not just against America’s recognition of Jerusalem, but also against Israel itself.

HOW THE THREE ALLIANCES VOTED AGAINST THE USA
1. 18 EU nations of the 28
2. 49 Islamic nations of the 57 in the Org. of. Islamic Co-op.
3. 10 Communist and pro Communist nations.

These 77 nations made up 60% of the 128 censuring nations and 40% of the whole 192 U.N General Assembly

Thus in the U.N the three dominant interest groups have progressively befriended the late Yasser Arafat’s PLO Palestinian cause and alienated the Jewish Palestinian cause (now Israeli cause since 1948) thereby slewing the votes of the General Assembly for over two decades. Combined with the long standing Communist obstructive vetoes in the U.N Permanent Security Council the U.N has become dysfunctional and merely the tool of anti Semitic bias.

The E.U finally yielded to the two other dominant blocs in voting against its own interests censuring the USA’s recognition of the status quo in Israel. This may not the beginning of the end, but maybe the end of its beginning demise. The U.N is already a mere political paper tiger.

UK’s decision, in particular, to censure the USA & Israel showed how one Muslim mayor of London City and his dominantly Islamic electorate could turn the Westminster UK government in the Commons against two of its long standing allies: Israel and the USA. It made Israel a staunch ally: i.e. in Palestinian Jews before ’48 independence (1917-1944). The same growing influence of Islam upon the UK (2%+ of the populace) has within the last two years forced Holocaust denial upon all of their state school children by removing the Holocaust from schools’ curricula.

1. *Afghanistan (Islam dominant-USSR occupation)
2. *Albania (Islam dominant)
3. *Algeria (Islam dominant)
4. **Armenia (USSR until ’91)
5. #Austria (EU)
6. *Azerbaijan (Islam dominant) (USSR until ’91)
7. *Bahrain (Islam dominant)
8. *Bangladesh (Islam dominant)
9. **Belarus (USSR until ’91)
10. #Belgium (EU)
11. *Brunei (Islam dominant)
12. **Bulgaria (Communist Rulers)
13. *Burkina (Islam dominant)
14. *Chad (Islam dominant)
15. **China (Communist State)
16. *Comoros (Islam dominates)
17. **Cuba (Communist State)
18. #Cyprus (Divided Island- *Muslim North/ #EU South)
19. #Denmark (EU)
20. *Djibouti (Islam dominates)
21. *Egypt (Islam dominant)
22. *Eritrea (Islam dominant)
23. #Estonia EU (USSR until ’91)
24. #Finland EU (USSR sphere until ’91)
25. #France (EU)
26. *Gambia (Islam dominant.)
27. #Germany (EU)
28. #Greece (EU)
29. *Guinea (Islam dominant)
30. #Iceland (EU)
31. *Indonesia (Islam dominates)
32. *Iran (Islamic state)
33. *Iraq (Islamic state)
34. #Ireland (EU)
35. #Italy (EU)
36. *Ivory Coast (Islam dominant)
37. *Jordan (Islam dominant)
38. *Kazakhstan (Islam dominant, **USSR until ’91)
39. *Kuwait (Islam dominant)
40. *Kyrgyzstan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
41. *Lebanon (Islam dominant)
42. *Libya (Islam dominant)
43. ♯Lithuania EU (USSR until ’91)
44. #Luxembourg (EU)
45. *Malaysia (Islam dominant)
46. *Maldives (Islam dominates)
47. *Mali (Islam dominant)
48. #Malta (EU)
49. *Mauritania (Islam dominant)
50. *Morocco (Islam dominant)
51. #Netherlands (EU)
52. *Niger (Islam dominant)
53. *Nigeria (Islam dominant)
54. **North Korea (Communist state)
55. *Oman (Islam dominant)
56. *Pakistan (Islam dominant)
57. #Portugal (EU)
58. *Qatar (Islam dominant)
59. **Russia (USSR until ’91)
60. *Saudi Arabia (Capitol 57 nation Org. Islamic. Conf’.)
61. *Senegal (Islam dominant)
62. #Slovakia (EU)
63. #Slovenia (EU)
64. *Somalia (Islam dominant)
65. #Spain (EU)
66. *Sudan (Islam dominant)
67. Suriname (Strong Islamic voice)
68. #Sweden (EU)
69. *Syria (Islam dominant)
70. *Tajikistan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
71. *Tanzania (Islam dominant)
72. *Tunisia (Islam dominant)
73. *Turkey (Islam dominant)
74. *United Arab Emirates (Islam dominant)
75. *Uzbekistan (Islam dominant-USSR until ’91)
76. **Vietnam (Communist state)
77. *Yemen (Islam dominant)

NB UK {(Muslim majority London City)}

COMMENT.
It is fair to say that the power of the Islamic block has changed once democratic UN into a tool of Muslims and Communists to chide and chafe the Western free world and be a constant irritant to the Jewish free state of Israel.
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9 VOTED AGAINST U.N. CENSURE OF USA RECOGNIZING JERUSALEM
Guatemala
Honduras
Israel
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Togo
US
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35 ABSTAINED FROM CENSURE OF USA
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Bahamas
Benin
Bhutan
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cameroon
Canada
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Dominican Republic
Equatorial Guinea
Fiji
Haiti
Hungary
Jamaica
Latvia
Lesotho
Kiribati
Malawi
Mexico
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Rwanda
Solomon Islands
South Sudan
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
Vanuatu

16 nations stayed away & boycotted the vote
9 nations abstained from voting
39 nations voted against UN motion
(33%) of the UN would not vote against the USA

Warped United Nations Censure of USA.

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES: Did Jesus Baptize?

Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Baptism
Matthew 28
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
7 And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into GALILEE; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.
8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
9 And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him.
10 Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into GALILEE , and there shall they see me.
11 Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.
12 And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,
13 Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
14 And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.
15 So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.
16 Then the eleven disciples went away into GALILEE , into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.
17 And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.  
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FOOTNOTES
Matthew 28:7; 10; 16. Jerusalem was the location of his passion, resurrection, forty days’ appearances; apostolic commission and ascension from the Mount of Olives nearby . Cp. Footnote to verse 20.
Matthew 28:10
Matthew 28:16
Matthew 28:19. The apostles did not practise a threefold invocation, seemingly unaware of its decree. Harmonizing the Gospels and Acts there was only one Great Commission given to the apostles. Zechariah 14 predicted Christ’s return to Mt. Olivet where Luke also locates both ascension and second coming. Luke 24; Acts 1. St. John too, focused on Jerusalem, notwithstanding his Epilogue, chapter 21.

SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES: Did Jesus Baptize?

MYTH OF GRACE BY ONE’S OWN FAITH

MYTH OF GRACE GAINED BY MAN’S OWN FAITH
Can anyone come to Christ at any time by their own faith unconditionally? Is biblical faith by grace or is His grace by our own faith? Does the reader merely choose one verse he wants to believe and pragmatically override the rest of context, or have you honestly searched the scriptures about this matter? Does God first awaken then teach, then convict, and finally grant the gifts of faith and repentance? Search the Scriptures. Goats and tares outnumber the few remaining sheep who have tolerated the great falling away and apostate preachers who motivate the goats by tickling their ears.

1. No man can come I, except the Father which has sent me draw him:. John 6:44
Is one’s own childlike faith sufficient regardless of knowledge?

2. Every man therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me. John 6:45
Is freewill exercise of choice sufficient a response for Christ?

3. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. (John 6:65.)
Is Jesus unusually high standard sound offensive?

4. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. (John 6:66.)
Are there prerequisite actions needed before God accepts belief as valid?

MYTH OF GRACE BY ONE’S OWN FAITH