Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again. (John 3:7) There is no such thing as a Born-Again Pentecostal. There is no such thing as a Born-Again Baptist. There is no such thing as a Born-Again Jew. There is no such thing as a Born-Again Catholic. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mothers womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto you, You must be born again. (John 3:3-7) ========== You were to be born again into newness of life - a new creation - different than anything that was - you were not supposed to simply put a suffix before your theology. No man puts a piece of new cloth onto an old garment, for that which is put on to fill it up takes from the garment, and the tear is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins: else the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved. (Matthew 9:16-17) ========== Revelation 18:4,“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” At this time [Revelation 18:4] God calls to the people of God who are still in the Babylonish system, who still have Babylon in their hearts. I have known people who have come out of churches who said that the church is Babylon. Yet because they have Babylon inside of them so much, they form other churches wherever they go. Babylon, therefore, must be understood by the believer. Babylon is a system of mixture of God and the devil which God hates. When people say that they are worshipping God, and yet they are not worshipping God, they are automatically worshipping (Jesus said) they “know not what.” He said to the woman at the well (in John 4:22), “Ye worship ye know not what.” He did not even say “WHO,” He said “WHAT.“ It means that there are people who are worshipping “WHAT,” and they do not even know “WHAT” they are worshipping. People go and pray and are not conscientious about the prayer. They say the prayer like repeating a recitation. They say the prayer because it is prayer time, and they want to get away to do their business, so they pray to God and say, “O God, bless us and do this and that.” They have no pleasure in going to be with the Lord for a meeting of prayer. There is not that pleasure, that anxious feeling of delight to go and meet the Saviour, and to be with Him for awhile in prayer. It is kind of a servitude and duty; “Let us pray.” Prayer is repeated and sounds good, but it is not going further than the ceiling because it is not reaching God. “And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, COME OUT OF HER.” God is saying to “come out of” this religiosity. In the Babylonish church an offering is taken by passing a plate around with the wrong intention. Taking an offering is not Babylonish if the intention is from God. There is something else within the soul that makes Babylon Babylon and not just a building. A building cannot make you Babylon. A physical mark on your forehead cannot send you to hell. If someone marks you, or sticks a chip into your blood stream, it cannot send you to hell, it cannot make you a child of the devil. We must escape from these religious ways of thinking. Religious thinking is “Thou shall not do this and thou shall not do that, and you will be righteous.” You can only be righteous before God when the inside of you BECOMES LIKE GOD – in your mind, emotions, will, and desires. When your actions show godliness, then it is TRUE GODLINESS. If you show godliness with your action and it is not coming from within, then it is Babylonish. God says not to mix the truth and the lie, not to mix two garments, the wool and the linen. Do not mix the gospel. “For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” God is pouring out wrath upon humanity even as wine is poured from a bottle. “The kings of the earth have committed fornication” and are going to receive judgment. There is going to be war and destruction. He says, “Come out of her, MY PEOPLE.” Those who are born again, those who accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour, must make Jesus LORD. You must make Jesus KING, and He will make you king. He will be “King of kings.” Jesus Christ must be the pivotal point of all our worship and all our Christian endeavor. “Come out of her, My people.” If you do not “come out of her” (and if you do not allow her to come out of you), you will receive of HER plagues and partake of HER punishments. What time is it? Do you know? He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and overcast. ...., you can discern the appearance of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times? (Matthew 16:2-3c) https://youtube/watch?v=wKPUi0BlTYs
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 03:17:38 +0000
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