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He isn’t going to entrust last-days authority to churches who are more interested in cleaning the outside of the cup while never letting the fire of His Spirit address religious harshness, lawlessness, lust, and the greed of the inside of the cup.
Be on the lookout for one of the greatest end time delusions and deceptions of our time: the denial and attempts at erasing the judgments of God from the New Covenant. Beware of false apostles, prophets, and teachers who will convince the saints that the judgments of God are cruel and unjust. The real Bride of Christ will arise and agree and rejoice in His Judgments! Beware of those who will falsely declare that Jesus Christ has already returned again. It is a lie from the pit of hell.
Clearly, the invitation to consecration has a solid foundation in the Word of God. In fact, it is a command.
God is going to pour out His Spirit without measure to a Consecrated Bride who chooses to live outside the spiritual mixtures of this world.
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth.
And being around Jesus had ruined them for anything less than the continued experience of being near Him.
Jesus understood his absence would initiate an inner groaning, a love pang for Him that would fuel every sacrifice and empower ever service for the rest of their earthly lives.
They were so radically impacted and changed by their encounter with Jesus, they willingly died for Him!
The Consecrated Bride is going to fast because She is so lovesick for her Bridegroom King, she cannot eat.
“If you do not crucify your flesh privately, your flesh will crucify you publicly.”
Without a lifestyle of fasting, we cannot cultivate the kind of hunger and extravagant desire for Jesus that he is so worthy of.
The most dangerous enemies of the Consecrated Bride are not necessarily the evils of this life but the good gifts God has given us.
One of the foundational principles of the Kkingdom of God is built upon the revelation that the deeper we go in Jesus, the less we can take with us.
J. I. Packer, in his book God Has Spoken, says this about God’s purposes for revealing Himself to us: “[God’s purpose]… is to make friends with us. It was to this end that He created us rational beings, bearing His image, able to think, hear, speak, and love. He wanted there to be genuine personal affection and friendship, two-sided between Himself and us.”
As we go deeper in God and journey into the depths of who He is, He no longer just comes after our sin stuff. He actually requires the good stuff!
Bill Johnson puts it this way: “Many Christians repent enough to get to heaven, but few people repent enough to experience heaven on earth.”
If we ever find ourselves in a place of abiding in Him without obeying His commands, we have fallen into hyper grace theology that will eventually lead into wickedness and sin.
Without a sense of sin, repentance cannot come, and without repentance, revival in the fullest sense can never happen.”
If someone is continually and habitually engaging in sexual immorality and calling themselves a Christian, they are deceived (Rom. 6).
It doesn’t matter if someone attends a supernatural school of ministry, speaks in tongues and prophesies, their daddy’s a preacher, or their under some false grace teaching. If we are not saving ourselves for marriage, we are selling ourselves to the devil! How can we be so zealous in this generation to lay hands on the sick and prophesy when we can’t even keep our hands and mouth off our boyfriend/girlfriend?
Without holiness, the Church has nothing to say to the world.
Christians complaining of an absence of joy and strength in their lives, of failure of will and lack of happiness, have not embraced the call to holiness.
All of life is designed to perfect us.
Divine holiness became human holiness that we might see it, desire it, and ultimately partake of it.
Jesus is the plumb line.
“Holiness is not the way to Christ,” says Charles Spurgeon, “Christ is the way to holiness.
Holiness is not something we bring to God or do for Him. Holiness is what there is of God in us.
Little do we realize that revival begins with us, the people of God.
God reveals Himself to man in such awful holiness and irresistible power that human personalities are overshadowed and human programs are abandoned.
In revival, people weep over sin and are consumed with the desire to consecrate their lives to the Lord.
But there is no such thing as a revival without tears of conviction and sorrow.”
Before the glory and the joy, there is conviction and a call to holiness that begins with the people of God.
It is time to cease excusing our sins by calling them shortcomings or by blaming them on the actions and injustices of other people. It’s time to cease justifying our carnal thinking and materialistic ways by pointing at everyone else and finding comfort in comparisons.
When men and women are made aware of the fresh Presence of Jesus in their midst, they become aware of the sin hiding within them.
How do we break up the fallow ground? Perhaps Joel says it best: “Rend your heart, not your garments. Return to the Lord!”
Jesus Christ is a stumbling block not only to Ralph Waldo Emerson but to you and I at times because He takes the disease that we most hate, helplessness, and instead of curing it, makes it the entrance to the Kingdom of heaven.
Confessing our absolute helplessness without Him to the Lord attracts His fire!
“The bed-rock of Jesus Christ’s Kingdom is poverty, not possession; not decisions for Jesus Christ, but a sense of absolute futility. “I cannot go on without You!” “Then,” says Jesus, “Blessed are you.”
The litmus test of whether we are in tune with our own spiritual bankruptcy is discovered in whether or not we have a prayer life.
