{"id":116,"date":"2013-07-21T02:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2013-07-21T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T02:31:49","slug":"how-a-generation-of-professing-christians-lost-their-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truthkeepers.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"How a Generation of Professing Christians Lost Their Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 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to be a way to reach them at this point in the closing chapters of the temporal realm.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>True Christians that warn of the end times are to them as a man building a great ship far from the ocean with no means to get it in the water.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Every professing Christian ought to know what is occurring, but many of them are also deceived.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, they are willfully deceived.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m not certain that these ones can be reached either.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, there are a number of professing Christians that have not yet been drawn into the full vortex of apostasy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have some aversion to the form of it even if they do not understand completely what it is all about or where they are in proximity to its deadly grip.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is those Christians that I will attempt to inform with this article.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Hopefully, some of them will repent and return to full submission to God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">First, let me state that everyone has been repeatedly and fully warned.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some secular individuals laughed and still laugh at the warnings.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They deny the existence of a righteous God, the idea of eternal hell, and their need for a Savior.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, every professing Christian ought to have heeded the warnings and prepared themselves accordingly.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Many of them did not do so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Instead, they verbally \u201cstoned\u201d the watchmen who attempted to warn them and went on with their involvement in the cares of this life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe some of them will repent and return to being passionate and committed to God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their ears will then be opened and their eyes will then see.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The only way I know to wake them to the truth is to explain to them how they missed the opportunity to avoid this final deception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For several decades there was in evangelical churches an incredible plague of infighting, splits, and the epidemic of excommunicating pastors. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>The carnage resulted in churches that completely dissolved, and the reputations of other ones were so ruined that they never recovered.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There were many broken and defeated pastors.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of these pastors left the ministry and some abandoned Christianity altogether.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Other ones surrendered to become hirelings in order to make an income for their families.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Not very long ago we saw the near cessation of the ungodly activity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Although the phenomena still occurs, it is more rare and isolated to a church here and there.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The reason it ended was not because people became better Christians, but because they finally achieved their objective.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They wanted pastors that did not challenge their sin, their complacency, and unfaithfulness to God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Many reasons were given for the reason why professing Christians (who ought to have been demonstrating the love of Christ) resorted to such despicable behavior.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The primary reason is simple.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Satan inspired certain individuals to join congregations.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They appeared to be of leadership quality and people automatically absorbed them into the body.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In most cases they didn\u2019t even have to promote themselves to secure a position of power and control.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In other situations they wormed their way right to the top of the leadership chain.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their purpose was single and consistent in each church.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They came in to the body for the purpose of circumventing God\u2019s plan to prepare the people for the coming great deception, delusion, and apostasy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their method was to cause contention, confusion, and to divide and conquer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In nearly every case the church that entered conflict had a pastor that was attempting to bring them to full surrender.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>His messages were anointed and penetrated the skin of carnality that was forming over the hearts of God\u2019s people.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They were in relative peace and enjoying the prosperity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Thus, they were in no mood to begin a prayer life, to think about the approaching end times and its harshness, or to abandon some of their hobbies and enjoyable activities in order to become stronger spiritually.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The satanic mole among them played on these apprehensions.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He or she fanned the smoldering embers of their discontent into a fiery rebellion against the pastor.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The solution was the same in each situation; throw him out and get a kinder and gentler one.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The pastor was excommunicated and another one was brought in.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In most cases the next pastor preached exactly as the last one.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, after a short honeymoon, he too was excommunicated and another one was brought in.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Some churches went through a dozen or more pastors before they found a hireling that had a form of godliness but no power to convict them with his sermons.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The churches that managed to acquire a hireling before losing most of their memberships then settled in to a peaceful but stagnant atmosphere.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They made peace with their blend of carnal with spiritual, the world and the church.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their hireling blurred the lines so well that no one felt bad about it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Most of the hireling\u2019s messages focused on consoling weak and defeated professing Christians who drag into every Sunday service with the stench of sin clinging to their spirits.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>He never told them that the truth about actually living a victorious Christian life.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>To go down that road would have led him to preach the very messages for which they had excommunicated all the previous pastors.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That is the state of a large section of the professing Christian church today.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is all about a perpetual state of defeat.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even the music is about their failure and subsequent depression.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>But few individuals attempt to bring them up and out.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, the message that would help them was long ago rejected.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Worse than rejected, the true message from God is considered heresy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It has been replaced with psychobabble that now masquerades and is completely accepted as true Christianity.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The false gospel of psychobabble is rife with new age doctrine, doctrines from the cult, occult and pagan religions, and is completely powerless to insulate one from the wiles or fiery darts of Satan.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The most famous hirelings that attract large crowds are as secular motivational speakers rather than preachers of God\u2019s Word.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They speak heresy through constantly shining teeth to thousands in their congregations, telling them that they are all okay, that everything is fine, that they are all blessed and in right relationship with God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is mass therapy (or mass hypnotism) of a throng that is completely divested of spiritual reality and subsequently the means to defend against the most powerful period of deception that has ever come on the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I could feel sympathy for them, but they are self-deceived.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They brought on themselves this state of weakness and deception.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In spite of all that God tried to do to help them, they rejected His ministers.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their ears itched for fables, for smooth things, for deceit, and they reached out for ministers that offered these carnal and deadly delicacies.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In short, they rejected the very people and messages that would have made them strong, resilient, and cognitive of the great and final deception during the period of preparation.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>What is even more fantastic is that even now they do not realize what they have done.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If they read what I have written, they would most likely quit reading before they grasped their error, or would discount it as complete rubbish.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They have no love for truth and no taste for anything resembling truth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Their love for truth waned long ago when truth clashed with the causes of their weakening spiritual condition.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Instead, they wanted their toys, their hobbies, their fetishes, their entertainment, and now their video games, obsessive internet, and other activities.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, they want anything that pleases the flesh and nothing that feeds the spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So these professing Christians are waded far into the wasteland between two worlds, light and darkness.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The only way they can survive is to humble themselves, seek God\u2019s face, repent and return.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>There are still men of God that will preach and teach the truth.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>If these wayward ones would repent, God will lead them to the place where their souls can be watered and fed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If they do not repent, they will slide further into the deception and eventually free-fall into dark apostasy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Many of them have already done so.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>God\u2019s Word is clear that individuals who enter apostasy during the last days will not recover in time to be considered citizens of heaven.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is clear that the world has entered the vortex of the final and great deception and consequent delusion.\u00a0 Concurrently, a great and final apostasy is occurring in Christianity.\u00a0 Members of the world system cannot recognize what is occurring because the god of this world has blinded their minds.\u00a0 There does not appear to be 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