The church itself needs prayer.

[Michael]

The church itself needs prayer.
For she is naked and has returned to her ways of fornication. The God
whom she once knew she has deserted and left. I ask for understanding as
I write this. I do not want to appear as self righteous or to appear as
pounding my heart. It has appeared to me in recent days that only
numbers and money has become her God and she will spread her legs as a
prostitute to gain acceptance in the world. As I try to explain this I
need prayerful consideration. I am a sinner saved by grace. I became a
sinner as a result of my birth, its because I done anything wrong, it is
what I am. Because I am a sinner, I sin. Make no mistake about it, I sin
because I am a sinner. I did not become a sinner because of sin.If I
lie, it does mot make me a sinner, simply put I am a sinner who lies.
And if I do not lie, Then I am a sinner who does not lie. This can be
applied to all areas of my life. In Christ I am a sinner who is
forgiven.

Now comes the question of obedience. Before Christ because I am a
sinner, I am also a child of disobedience and as such a person I indulge
in sins of disobedience. That is the fruit of my flesh. I do not know
God nor have I the desire to serve the laws of God. But the Laws of God
remind me I have sinned. These Laws are written into all facets of
society, both Christian and non Christian. Now if I am a child of God,
even though I am still a sinner. I am no longer a child of disobedience.
I now strive to bring the desires of this flesh into a willing obedience
to God. I may struggle with this flesh on a daily basis, but knowing I
am Gods, I know I must also be holy and succumb to the temptations of
the flesh. I actually come to hate the sin of the flesh for it no longer
glorifies my creator. Soon I realize no good thing dwells in this flesh
of mine. Woe is me.

If I Realize that sin dwells in me do I now accept and condone the sin
of the world. Is Gay Ministers okay, Is gay marriage okay, Should
prostitution be okay, or drunkenness, drug taking, lying, fraud,
thievery, even murder. For these are really only sins of morality.
Should I not be tolerant and accept these sins Because we are all sinful
people and after all people should have the same rights. People of color
where once persecuted for the color of there skin and these people only
want to follow the desires of their hearts and have all the rights that
is given to the common man. Should I not as a Christian be accepting and
understanding knowing that as Christ received me He would also receive
these poor and abused people. What thoughts and accusations arise within
me. What turmoil besets me.For in the Church they are such people. They
would say Gay Marriage is okay, they would say Gay ministers are okay,
They lead us to believe that to say otherwise is unchristian and they
erect their Statues and say its okay with God, or He only looks upon the
heart.

This is not the God I Believe in. The God I believe in never changes. In
the days of Noah, He destroyed the world because of their sin. He
destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and made mention their sin of
Homosexuality. In Levititicus He gives stern warnings and judgments
about such behavior. Read Romans to see if God has changed, Corinthians
and revelation. Homosexuality is one of many sins, such as adultery,
fornication, lying and others. Because one sin occurs, we are not given
permission by God to condone or accept another sin. We are encouraged to
confess our sin to God, accept the forgiveness of Jesus and to stop
sinning.

[Michael]

I was afraid for awhile. I left a church when I was young because they
had false beliefs contrary to the Bible, I left friends because they had
no charity. I left God because I had no hope. I left friends because the
assembly they had built a statue to Jesus. I am struggling with a
ministry because the Pastor is teaching erroneously, and after this
weekend I am breaking fellowship, because a person who is a member of a
church in high standing condones and accepts homosexual marriage. Who am
I to judge, do I not have all the earmarks of a cult. The I stop and
look, I only want people to follow Jesus. I don't ask for money, nor do
I ask people to trust what I say. Read the Bible and hear what the Holy
Spirit has to say. Be willing to sacrifice all for Jesus. Put it on the
line.

I have become as a dried up potsherd, and in me their is very little
hope. My eyes have taken from my God and cast upon the men around me. I
don't know what to do anymore. I just want to withdraw and let the world
do it does. In my corner I want to be safe with God and not venture out
anymore. I am cast down and my spirit does not want to look even into
the heavens, And God is still the same, He does not change. As the Sun
comes up in the Morning and the moon settles in the night, The word of
God is unchangeable and we can put our trust in that word. Forgive me.

2Pe 2:1 But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just
as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They'll smuggle in
destructive divisions, pitting you against each other--biting the hand
of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They've put
themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they
recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can't tell right from wrong.
They give the way of truth a bad name. They're only out for themselves.
They'll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They
won't, of course, get by with it. They'll come to a bad end, for God has
never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on. God didn't let
the rebel angels off the hook, but jailed them in hell till Judgment
Day. Neither did he let the ancient ungodly world off. He wiped it out
with a flood, rescuing only eight people--Noah, the sole voice of
righteousness, was one of them. God decreed destruction for the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah. A mound of ashes was all that was left--grim
warning to anyone bent on an ungodly life. But that good man Lot, driven
nearly out of his mind by the sexual filth and perversity, was rescued.
Surrounded by moral rot day after day after day, that righteous man was
in constant torment. So God knows how to rescue the godly from evil
trials. And he knows how to hold the feet of the wicked to the fire
until Judgment Day. God is especially incensed against these "teachers"
who live by lust, addicted to a filthy existence. They despise
interference from true authority, preferring to indulge in self-rule.
Insolent egotists, they don't hesitate to speak evil against the most
splendid of creatures. Even angels, their superiors in every way,
wouldn't think of throwing their weight around like that, trying to
slander others before God. These people are nothing but brute beasts,
born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing
down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be
brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them.
They're so despicable and addicted to pleasure that they indulge in wild
parties, carousing in broad daylight. They're obsessed with adultery,
compulsive in sin, seducing every vulnerable soul they come upon. Their
specialty is greed, and they're experts at it. Dead souls! They've left
the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son
of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But
Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human
voice and prevented the prophet's craziness. There's nothing to these
people--they're dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a
black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still
they're dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a
deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They
promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of
corruption, for if they're addicted to corruption--and they are--they're
enslaved. If they've escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our
Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old
life again, they're worse than if they had never left. Better not to
have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then
turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove
the point of the proverbs, "A dog goes back to its own vomit," and, "A
scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud."








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