| WILL JESUS FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH WHEN HE RETURNS? [message #1114] |
Fri, 04 January 2008 17:03  |
 grandom
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WILL JESUS FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH WHEN HE RETURNS?
Luke 18:8
“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
Satan has attacked the church to the extent that faith is hard to find. He has the denominations where little faith can be found and now the mega churches that teach easy living no mention of sin just believe in yourself. You deserve to be happy. So he has cheapened the atonement to the point that people believe they are saved without any sacrifice (obedience) and holiness which is needed.
Next comes his attack on the other portion of the atonement divine healing. He says that God uses Drs. and heals through them. God doesn’t use man for salvation only to spread the word but the saving is entirely the providence of God with no use of man. Why do we think that the healing would be any different? But satan has established his temples in hospitals, clinics etc so that his gods and goddesses can practice their occultist arts, dismemberment, abortions the goddesses (nurses) pharmacia and receive worship from their patients. They even adopt the names of the various denominations, Lutheran, Methodist etc. Any one with an ounce of discernment knows that demons inhabit those places and yet we have Christians who turn their back on God for healing and then give God the credit for something He has no part of. The really sad thing is that Christians don’t want to hear that God will heal them and that we should trust Him and only Him.
Acts 28:27
"For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."
2 Timothy4:3
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;”
The one thing that displeased the Lord with His people Israel was when they established false gods and worshipped them instead of their heavenly Father who had demonstrated time after time that He is and was faithful to supply all their needs. He promised them healing and all the benefits if they would obey and believe in Him. And yet they turned to other gods thus inflicting the wrath of God on them. Are we any different? We turn to the arm of the flesh, a direct violation of God’s Word.
Jeremiah 17:5
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
Oh if we could only grasp the terrible price our Lord Jesus Christ paid for our sin. How it must hurt Him all over again when His children won’t believe His tried and true promises. We’ve been granted the privilege of being grafted in because of His displeasure of His people Israel and we act the same as they did. Does history of the old teach us nothing? Lord Jesus Christ forgive our unbelief!
[Updated on: Fri, 04 January 2008 17:04]
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| Re: WILL JESUS FIND FAITH ON THE EARTH WHEN HE RETURNS? [message #1126 is a reply to message #1114] |
Thu, 10 January 2008 16:55  |
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william
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Hi Grandom,
You said:
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But satan has established his temples in hospitals, clinics etc so that his gods and goddesses can practice their occultist arts, dismemberment, abortions the goddesses (nurses) pharmacia and receive worship from their patients. They even adopt the names of the various denominations, Lutheran, Methodist etc. Any one with an ounce of discernment knows that demons inhabit those places and yet we have Christians who turn their back on God for healing and then give God the credit for something He has no part of.
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First let me say that I'm a firm believer in divine healing and that we as Christians should be on the forefront in spreading all of the good news of the gospel, including the knowledge that healing is in the atonement.
But (I'm not a billy goat!) over the years, as I've attempted to examine the FA phenomena, I see a clear thread that dates back to brother Freeman's message in Old Testament Theology where he essentially equates doctors, hospitals, and drugs, to the occult.
I, along with others, took this, in an absolute way, to mean that to seek healing from any other source than God was to immediately place yourself under Satan's control. Occult oppression, something we took very seriously, was the obvious result of the alternative.
I still have a hard time thinking about the issue with any other mindset.
With this in mind was it any wonder that you had a whole class of people who wanted nothing to do with the occult but, at the same time had no faith for divine healing?
This of course would account for many of the problems we had at Faith Assembly.
On the one hand faith for healing wasn't present in many individuals but on the other hand, all alternatives for sickness and disease, or accidental injury, were taken away from those who sincerely loved God but weren't ready to walk on water. Death may have been the result of many of these situations.
Thoughts or comments?
William
[Updated on: Mon, 14 January 2008 15:02]
I want to believe!
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