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Straight Talk
"Let’s keep it real", Cassandra would say. What was she talking about. She had a legitimate reason to wonder about what was going on in the center of God’s Church set up by His Son Jesus Christ that died for the church. When she would speak it’s as though tears would well up in her eyes. She wanted everybody to be saved, especially those of the household of faith.
The Spirit of God comes upon us, in us and dwells with us as long as we keep him intact. It’s time the Church be moved from it’s downward spiral that has been caused by man sinning in the Church. We God’s people have changed God’s glory. We have taken his splendor, honor, praise, fame and belittled his presence in the church and man. God is to be worshiped and adored. John 4:24, God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth. We are to yield ourselves to God. When we pray in a sanctified state, pure in heart and holy, God will hear our prayers and answer them. Our prayer is to be offered with a pleasant odor just as we would burn incense to make our homes smell good. We are to keep an altar of prayer before the Lord. But how can we when we want bow down at the altar we are supposed to have built to go before the Lord? God says pray and we say later God, I am busy right now. We go to our altar of prayer as an indication of praise and approved service. Just any body have no business in the elevated place anointed to God.
We have to be careful of who and what we allow to stand up in God’s elevated place at the altar in the church. There was once a preacher that had a ministry with three known homosexual men sitting in his pulpit. They preached, taught and spew out nasty spirits in the church. They were more girly than any woman, yet they were men that had the approval of the Pastor to represent Christ and the Church and had not been delivered. They was welcomed as a Minister in the Church. They laughed together, ate together, worshiped together, and sang together. What kind of judgment was that? Why was not those demons cast out? Another time a homosexual man came to the church to visit and praised the Lord, spoke in tongues over the church and the people swore they had had the best service yet. If they were Spirit led, why did they allow him to dance that nasty spirit all over the church? When I came to church the next Sunday and saw who they were talking about, I told them this man is a homosexual, and had a practiced worship from when his grandmother was living. Matter of fact after he saw me he never came back again.
It’s time we had some straight talk. It’s Christ that brings Spiritual Salvation. Man’s flesh dies and turn back into dirt, but their spirit lives on, either its thrown into hell or is out roaming around waiting on Jesus to come again. There are too many foreign saints trying to go to heaven through the back gate. Well here is straight talk, God allow you to come to the gate and either you are allowed in or you will be cast into hell. It’s your choice. We think we are alright when we are not. We think we are hearing from God but it’s our own self righteous God that we are hearing from. We can tell those that profess Christ but have left him because they are marked by an air of piety or morality that makes them think that they are holier than thou. Well there lies that spirit of pride.
We have one Chief and one guide that will lead us from earth to glory. Although three that works, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost they are all one with different works. One don’t say or do no more than they all want. They guide us and lead us and direct our paths. With them we have peace; a state of tranquility free from disturbances, freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions. The three in one guarantee us harmony in personal relationships that shares a state of mutual concord.
God the Father of all creation really cannot logically be defined. It is obvious that strictly speaking God cannot be classified with other like objects, He is in a class all by himself. The Word reveals God to us giving us a description adequate to our present powers of conception and to our present need. Wherever we go in the Word, God is there. Whatsoever we read or hear is kept in our memory by the power of God through His Spirit, the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost cooperated with God in the Creation of the world as did the Word, and He brought order out of the chaos in the world. The Holy Ghost speaks the Word. The Word took on flesh one day and came to abode with man to redeem us of all our shortcomings.
Shortcomings are our deficiencies or defects which means we lack in some area of our lives making us inadequate and not up to a normal standard; lacking in some necessary quality or element. It also means we have an impairment in a functional capacity. The shortage is in the area of sustenance necessary to our life in the Word. This is straight talk, there is too much lack of the Word in the pulpits around the world today. So many people in the pulpits around the world lack in the area of study time, prayer and fasting. My brother, my sister we have declined in character and structure of the Word. When it comes to God we are functioning below level. We have so much in the world but we have sanked to the bottom of the ocean to bring up games in the church. We close the church services down to once on Sunday and combined all the other services into one night. The Bible Study is cut short, the Prayer could be an hour but we cut it to a half hour and the Sermon to one hour. Why would God want to show up when we limit Him due reverence? We have appeased the flesh of man, now we have even lost most of our members to the world. When they would have been in Church on Tuesday for Bible Study they go to the Casino or entertain people they should not. We have allowed our Prayer Service to start off with gossip and what’s going on in my life rather than come with a mind to pray. We have closed down intercessory prayer period or put it to a half hour before the Bible Study which only lasts an hour. Our midweek week services is a quick thank you mam bam message with no sustenance to keep a rat from getting in trouble. If we don’t feed the rat he have sense enough to go somewhere else. We are given a way to come into God's Sanctuary in Ecclesiastes 5:1, keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. We are too rash with our mouths to discuss our week and what we wore where, or what they brought at the shopping center. All of this is carnality at work and its evil. God wants us to come in with thanksgiving, offering Him praise, and we are warned to let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven and thou upon the earth; therefore let thy words be few. Straight talk, we talk too much foolishness in God's Holy Sanctuary, thereby honoring the flesh.
This is straight talk. Because we do not keep the flock busy, the Christians are fed more of the world than God and we are losing them back to the world. The people’s minds are in Lodebar. An idle mind is the Devil's workshop. We too must meditate on the Word daily to keep our minds stayed on Jesus. The mind is the intellect and Spirit of man. We are joined to God through Jesus Christ and the Word and the Word will keep our minds stayed on Him. To be joined to God through his Word means we will have a mind of Christ. We have to be fully persuaded in our minds that it is God we love. We gird up our minds through the Word coming alive in us. If we want God like we say we must make a change, not being double minded. We must take on the mind of Christ. Then and only then can we have a right mind, a double minded man is unstable in all their ways. The pulpit is also a place where we preach Christ. A Christian saved and sanctified but defrock anyone that will preach Jesus and him crucified will deprive the people of God the proper nourishment from God at that time. We cause people to withdraw from the church and get off on the wrong track. We talk about each other and are just as guilty as Judas was when he entertained the wrong group of folks.
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost all cooperated in the Creation and they still work together today in harmony. They will not show up where confusion and all manner of malice is. We have redemption today because of God’s love and faithfulness to us. Jesus took on a fleshly body by way of the work of the Holy Ghost to implant the Word in the womb of Mary. Jesus came to bring restoration to man that they would choose to love God once again. We do have a choice of where we will spend eternity. Jesus removed the debt we owed; He restored us to God the Father. We can now live in the state or period of laying aside partly or wholly sin. Because we do not know we have sinned sometime we only lay it aside partly. But when we know we are in sin we will wholly lay it aside. We slacken or relax from penalty because Jesus canceled the indictment or penalty due us for the sin we commit. We have relief from, to submit or refer for consideration judgment or decision. In straight talk we have remission of sin because of what Jesus did on the Cross at Calvary.
Jesus brought us salvation. We have been delivered from the power and effects of sin. We have been preserved from the destruction of sin. Back to holiness is where man need to go. Holiness is that quality or state of being holy, sanctification exalted or worthy, complete devotion as one perfect in goodness and righteousness, divine, completely devoted as one perfect in goodness and divine righteousness. Jesus gives us guidance through the Word and left us the Holy Ghost to help us keep in mind his Word. Philippians 2:5, let this mind be in me that was in Christ Jesus.
This is Straight Talk. Its time to clean up the Church, starting at the pulpit. There is another spirit roaming in the hearts of man that is not ordained of God. God’s Spirit dwells where He is wanted. Open up and give Him the reigns of your life today. In older times the Spirit called the Wind of the Spirit only came upon men but now we can have God’s Spirit in us to help us endure this journey. We are only here during this transition period.
God according to His Word pronounced to man that he is a Spirit and we must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the light. We have faith that God is and He created man in his image, in the image of us created we them. The play on words is created and made. God created man male and female, spirit beings in the earth on the sixth day. On the seventh day He rest. Afterward he looked at his creation and said our spirit is in the earth but there is no one to keep the earth. He then made man a body of flesh from the dirt of the earth, then Hesaw that man was lonely and took the woman out of man. Woman is no longer in man, but she is to be beside her husband and in obeisance to him. They had the whole world but touched the one thing God had told them not to when he gave them instructions while they was yet in a spiritual pure state. When a man will stand before God, his spirit goes, not his body. There is no flesh in heaven. Keep your mind, body, spirit, and soul clean; sanctified before the Lord. Amen.
And that’s straight talk!
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