Line In The Sand Church

I Doubt Your Sincerity In Wanting To Become Delivered.........

We are desperate to see God move, pending that His movement only requires movement of our external circumstances; however, if at any time it requires us to wrestle, it is followed with– “I rebuke you Devil in the name of Jesus”.

Thus.

We go on, and celebrate the small prayers of, “God please give me a front row parking spot.”

Has it ever dawned on you, that God is “willing to answer our front row parking space prayer”; however, have you noticed that you have been praying for years to become delivered from p**n, depression, suicidal thoughts? (Either God isn’t listening, or is He just more concerned about you getting a good parking space–– more so, then your deliverance....?)

Or, Maybe, something is wrong with our order and doctrine of things.....?

We sale the altar call, the baptismal, the “Moment” ....... Like student loans to a college student. And, our students are imprisoned with a false sense of Jesus. They celebrate, elevate, and idol worship the “Moment”. We sale the Road to Damascus; however, forsake the context of the story. We fail to mention the blindness of Paul, the prison, the Thorn... ect.....

We have trained our Church culture to elevate the “Moment” above doctrine, theology, scholasticism. My sheep know my voice; however, if you do not have God’s Word (The Bible) then do you really know His voice?

The “Moment” is the act of looking inward, accepting responsibility, and receiving His imputed Righteousness. Christianity isn’t just a singular moment of looking inward; rather, it is a lifetime of doing so. Sometimes, it requires that we wrestle like Jacob did with the Lord. And, like Jacob, who suffered with a broken hip afterwards–––never walked the same again...

Maybe.... Just maybe...., It isn’t you truly being stuck because you lack the “Know How”. Maybe, you recognize the cost of what it would take to become delivered, to become set free, and to find victory; however, your just not willing to pay the cost...?

So,
You strut with tremendous swag, neglecting His Rod and Staff on your way to future bo***ge.

Salvation (The Moment) came about from your willingness to look inward and accept responsibility.......
So, my question to you is, are you willing to do that again...........?

Knowing Yourself Is Foolish.....

How many self-help books, tv programs, and motivational seminars advocate you getting to know yourself?.......

How many times do we see someone who has learned a very valuable lesson throughout their life, and are sharing it with those less fortunate, who have not the luxury of discovering that lesson for themselves?

All this time spent learning through experience what kind of person you are...........

All this time spent determining your goals, attractions in a possible mate, and self-discoveries throughout your life...........

However, what if this is the problem.........?
The cosmological argument establishes the case, that all things that begin to exist have a cause......

So, if God is the efficient cause of my existence and I am the effect;(I am the effect of His willingness to create me) then, wouldn’t it follow to familiarize ourselves with the Cause? And, not waste time learning of the Effect? If a Cause be known, it's effects is also known. Wherefore all that is in anything whatsoever can be known if God be known as well.

If a contingent being exists, then a necessary being must exist as its cause.
A contingent being exists.
Therefore, a necessary being must exist as its cause.