April 21st, 2021

WHAT HAVE WE DONE AS A NATION THAT WE HAVE ALLOWED THE ADVERSARY TO CONCLUDE THAT WE HAVE TURNED OUR BACKS ON OUR SAVIOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST? WITH OUR ACTIONS HAVE WE CONE THESE THINGS. HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT WITH CONTRARY ACTION HAVING DENIED THE POWER THEREOF. HAVING ACKNOWLEDGED GOD WITH OUR MOUTHS BUT WITH ACTIONS WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ELIMINATE HIS HOLY SPIRIT AND THIS IS TAKEN PLACE MOSTLY WITHIN THE CHURCHES WHERE THE MANIFEST PRESENCE OF GOD SHOULD BE REIGNING WITHOUT HINDERANCE. HOW HAVE WE PUT THE ADVERSARY UP AND HAVE TRAMPLED THE GOSPEL UNDER FOOT? THEY HAVE HEAPED UP THEIR OWN TEACHERS AND THEIR OWN REFORMERS THAT WILL APPEASE TO THEIR LUSTS OF THE FLESH. THERE SURELY IS A NEED FOR A SAVIOR. THERE IS A NEED FOR A HEALER AND A DELIVERER BUT THE PEOPLE OF GOD HAVE SETTLED FOR FALSEHOOD AND THEY LOVE IT TO BE SO. WHY HAVE THE LORD POUR OUT HIS HOLY SPIRIT FROM ON HIGH ONLY TO ATTEMPT TO ELIMINATE HIM AND REJECT HIM, ATTEMPTING TO MOCK HIM AND GIVING AN IMITATION OF THAT VERY SPIRIT WHICH HE HAS BEEN WILLING TO POUR FREELY? THEN YOU CRY OUT IN HIS NAME THAT HE HASN’T DONE WHAT HE SAID HE WOULD DO. THEY HAVE CREATED THEIR OWN LAWS. THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO BUILD THEIR OWN KINGDOMS. THEY HAVE ATTEMPTED TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS. THEY HAVE PERVERTED THE GOSPEL. WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? SHALL WE SAY THAT WE ARE INDEED WAITING ON THE DAY OF THE LORD? SHALL IT NOT BE A DAY OF DARKNESS UNTO THEM? HAVE NOT THE LORD THY GOD SENT UNTO YOU GODLY COUNSELORS WITH HIS SPIRIT TO LEAD YOU ABOUT IN TRUTH? HOW HAVE YOU SAID BUT NO, WE GO THIS WAY INSTEAD? HAVENT YOU DONE ALL BUT ELIMINATED THE FAITH? HOW HAVE THEY CONSENTED TO GO THE WAY OF THE ONES WHO ARE WITHOUT A GUIDE AND WITHOUT A FATHER? HOW HAVE THEY IDOLIZED THEIR OWNSELVES, MAKING THEMSELVES GODS? CAN THE END RESULT BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN DESTRUCTION? THERE IS NO REPENTANCE. THEY’S RATHER SUBJECT THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO WALK WITH THEM IN THEIR INIQUITY AND CALL IT RIGHTEOUSNESS? THEY HAVE BEAT UPON THEIR CHESTS THINKING THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED WHAT THEY HAVE SET FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH. THE CHARACTER OF MAN IS WHAT THEY OPERATE IN. DOIN GTHEIR OWN WILL AND PURPOSE AND ON THEIR OWN AUTHORITY. THEY DO A WORK, A WORK OF THE FLESH, NOT OF THE SPIRIT OF THE MOST HIGH. WHY CRY TO THE MOST HIGH WHEN THERE’S NO WILL TO SURRENDER COMPLETELY? WHY PRAY PRAYERS TO NO AVAIL? WHY CRY TO THE MOST HIGH WHEN THE ACTIONS AND VAIN IMAGINATIONS THEY HAVE EXALTED THEMSELVES ABOVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD? THEY HAVE TRAMPLED THE HOLY PLACES, THEY HAVE DEFILED THEMSELVES. THEY SHALL HAVE THEIR REWARD. TO THE CHILDREN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THERE IS NO WORRY. THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. THE LORD JESUS CHIRST IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISES. HE WHO HAS BEGUN A GOOD WORK WILL PERFORM IT UNTIL THE DAY OF CHRIST JESUS. STAY IN THE HEDGE OF PROTECTION. PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. DO NOT GO ASTRAY. KNOW THAT THE LORD IS WITH YOU. HE IS THERE IN THE MIDST. ALLOW HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO DO HIS WILL AND HIS PURPOSE.

ISAIAH 42:20-25
SEEING MANY THINGS, BUT THOU OBSERVEST NOT; OPENING THE EARS, BUT HE HEARETH NOT.
THE LORD IS WELL PLEASED FOR HIS RIGHTENESS’ SAKE; HE WILL MAGNIFY THE LAW, AND MAKE IT HONOURABLE.
BUT THIS IS A PEOPLE ROBBED AND SPOILED; THEY ARE ALL OF THEM SNARED IN HOLES, AND THEY ARE HID IN PRISON HOUSES: THEY ARE FOR A PREY, AND NONE DELIVERETH; FOR A SPOIL, AND NONE SAITH, RESTORE.
WHO AMONG YOU WILL GIVE EAR TO THIS? WHO WILL HEARKEN AND HEAR FOR THE TIME TO COME?
WHO GAVE JACOB FOR A SPOIL, AND ISRAEL TO THE ROBBERS? DID NOT THE LORD, HE AGAINST WHOM WE HAVE SINNED? FOR THEY WOULD NOTWALK IN HIS WAYS, NEITHER WERE THEY OBEDIENT UNTO HIS LAW.
THEREFORE, HE HATH POURED UPON HIM THE FURY OF HIS ANGER, AND THE STRENGTH OF BATTLE: AND IT HATH SET HIM ON FIRE ROUND ABOUT, YET HE KNEW NOT; AND IT BURNED HIM, YET HE LAID IT NOT TO HEART.