How sad that here in our day too, the whole system of religion which calls itself the church has rejected the Counsel of God. Its ministers, bishops, overseers and popes dare to give spiritual counsel from their own carnal minds, from the doctrines, traditions, psychology and all the rest taught them in their schools and seminaries, but this results only in death. Two thousand years ago the apostle John looked down through the telescope of divine revelation and beheld at the end of this age a church neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm, ready to be spewed from the Lord’s mouth – removed from being his Voice in the earth. He saw how rich they were in gold and silver, in the increase of goods and property, in fame and prestige, in governmental recognition and collaboration, in traditions and rituals, in pomp and piousness, and he heard them boast, “We have need of NOTHING!” But they knew not that they were “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked” (Rev. 3:16-18). They knew only the counsel of the natural mind, only the wisdom of the carnal mind, neither seeing nor comprehending their wretched estate. Hear now the Counsel and Wisdom of God to them: “I COUNSEL THEE to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the SHAME OF THY NAKEDNESS DO NOT APPEAR; and anoint thy eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest SEE.” This Counsel is “offered counsel” and what the church of this hour does with it determines and reveals their true state!(J.P.EBY)
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 21:08:02 +0000
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