Reply #4: The church needs to be militant again.... [View All]

It is far passed time for the church (the born-again, baptized, sanctified, Holy Ghost-filled, fervent servant of God) to be militant again! She was at one time in history, praise God ... people knew that the church meant business for God. The lost knew that, to face a Christian was to face DEATH ... death to sin, death to self, death to sickness and disease, death to doubt and unbelief ... and they trembled before her... and got saved in the process. We were militant for Jesus, the anointed of God! We were a powerful army marching across this land and there are thousands, yea, millions who are glad we were.

BUT, we have let down our defenses in the face of the folly of satan who began to scream "intolerance" and "let live" and "anyway is okay as long it all leads to being kind one to another", etc ad nauseum! God forbid! We are not even PROTESTants anymore...just non-Catholics! We PROTEST nothing anymore in our churches and in our lives as Christians ...

We say "Oh, I have a VISION..." Why, not even ol' Gideon got in any trouble for having his vision! It is ACTION that stirs hell and its demon forces and

gets them whipped! GO...DO.. those are the marching orders of the church!

I am a FAITH preacher, you better believe that! BUT, while power is good,

miracles are real and precious, healing is ours today as yesterday for He changes not, the gifts are real and wonderful and powerful...all these we MAY have as Christians (they are God's to give us and He does!)...but what we MUST have is a MESSAGE! (That message is the good news..the GOSPEL of life, death, burial and resurrection of our Lord as preached in 1 Corinthians 15).

Not popular preaching in the 90's? SO? "We want to keep harmony in the church, home and in business, etc...and that stuff is not my business!" Well, what IS your business, church? People are dying and splitting hell wide open every day because we are not militant (fervent) anymore as we once were! We WILL answer before the just God one day, church...CHRISTIAN!!!!

To KNOW they are lost and yet neglect to share because we are afraid they will think we are not "tolerant" is damning to us ... and, most of all, to them! It is a shame to us as a people...God's people! We scream that we are a Christian nation when we get slandered... but we have stopped being MILITANT and FERVENT... and do not think the world does not know it!

Know this: The Bible still says without repentance..." How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?" Escape what? The wrath of God against sin.

Well, Brother, we are not militant because we are not at war!

NOT at WAR? My God, how plain can God make it for us... how PLAIN can satan make it for us? We are constantly in spiritual warfare... we have been TOLD to get up every single day and put on the FULL armor of God that we might be able to resist satan and his silly imps...fiery darts come our way daily (just get on these subs and see what silly little darts are thrown! In fact, watch for the darts which come from BOTH sides of the army at this post!) It shows how
FAR we are removed from the miltancy we once had as THE church of God!

Paul got busy and we should, too! Paul was a city-wide shaker, glory to God! When he preached, he ransacked Asia Minor! He messed up markets! He stirred synagogues! He flamboozled the Pharisees! Hallelujah! After his revival in Macedonia, they were NEVER the same! Anywhere the Gospel is preached with fervency and militant Christians take up the banner of the cross, it SHAKES hell and it shakes people!

The church today has become like the sons of Sceva in Acts 19... trying to cast out demons in someone else's name (cults abound, new ages, wiccy wacky, mormonism, LDSism, maryism, buddhism, anything-but-truthism, etc) ... and the world is saying "Jesus I know, and Paul I know...but WHO are YOU!?"

Who are you, church? Are you known in hell today? It's time to establish our name (in Jesus!) again church... stand up! STAND UP!!!! I want satan to wake up every morning screaming "Oh noooooooooooooooo.... the Christians are up again!" And

I want that for the church of the living God!