Samuel Smith awcf.org
Samuel Smith
AMERICA'S DREAM HAS TURNED INTO A NIGHTMARE, and she has woke up crying! Please clergy, don't give the nation a glass of warm milk and rock it back to sleep with soft words and mistaken compassion. Too long churches have drifted from the way of the Lord and enjoyed the "pleasures of sin for a season". America, once "a city set upon a hill", a beacon, a home of true revival, has become a sin-palace. Glib religious speech-masters in the pulpits have allowed back-slidden America to funnel every vice known to mankind throughout the world; same-sex marriage, greed, corruption, pornography, infanticide, drugs, and sexual debauchery. And we wonder why America and the world is now reaping the worldwind?
From deep in my memory the words come roaring forth from real men of God from my past, saying; "Where are the Elijah's of God?" Read
II Chronicles 21:14, the prophet Elijah, burdened and grieved because the people of God had gone "a whoring" after the way of sinful nations, he said; "Behold, with a great 'plague' will the Lord smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods". God is consistent, He always deals with back-slidden nations the same. This present plague is striking all age groups, men, women, young and old, as never before in our history. Our economy is standing still, people confined to their homes, unable to work, thus our "goods" have been stricken as well.
Does anyone really think that Satan has pulled a slick one, and that this thing just snuck up and surprised the world, and now God is just going to comfort us, and "tuck us in" so we can go back to "playing church"? God is acting, not reacting! Nothing happens without His will and purpose! Lord help us, if we do not see the Hand of God in this! I am only surprised that it has taken this long to occur.
Too many Apostolics are reading from the "Book of Actors" instead of the "Book of Acts". We act like preachers, we act like worshippers, and we act like pray-ers. God said, "but your hearts are far from me." What happens if the "lighthouse" goes dark in the storm? This is no time for ministry to be docile in a "thumb-sucking" Laodicean church-age; it is time to challenge the laity, and let the true Church emerge!
Repentance is not a dirty word! It is unpopular, but, it is essential.
II Chronicles 7:14, God tells His people to turn from their wicked ways. Even though He calls them 'His people', He tells them to turn from their wicked ways. If 'His people' are not walking in the ways of the world then what is their wickedness? "Luke-warmness" (He will vomit them out of His mouth) "at ease in Zion," (indifference in the church) "discord and division," God calls it an abomination! (See
Proverbs 6:16-19) Church repent! Preachers, while people's hearts are tender now and while they are listening, preach repentance!
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins" (
Isaiah 58:1).
Sinners are paying attention now, their interest is peaked. Preachers, preach! The Kingdom of God is at hand, these are the "beginning of sorrows" that Jesus warned of. This is a dress rehearsal for the "Great Tribulation" that Jesus foretold.
If people are so troubled that they can't get toilet paper now, how will it be when they can't buy or sell without the mark? Preachers, preach! Make it plain. Tell the people that they must be "born again"! Tell them how to be born again, and that starts with "Repentance"! See
Acts 2:38. Preach! That is what preachers are called to do. Preach! We were not called to be "religious salesmen, and/or theological lecturers", we are called to preach.
"But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand" (
Ezekiel 33:6).
There is a high price to pay for preachers who fail to warn the people when the plague comes!
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