Churches says come as you are. This is a good statement in itself. But why are the people leaving as they are? Grace is free and Jesus will accept you as you are. He will allow you to come to Him as you are. But He loves you too much to leave you as He found you. If you came to Him as a drug user, alcoholic, pot head, fornicator, adultery, and/or liar, etc, Do you think He will leave you as He found you?
Do we think Grace is there so He can leave us in such a horrible state? Are we going to say He will still forgive us when we continue to go back to where we came from?
Many churches have no power. People come for help and they leave in the same condition. Why in the world would GRACE give us the ability to freely SIN such as smoke, drink, fornicate, lie, cheat, cuss, not tithe properly, profane His Holy Day , listen to secular music like Lady gaga, Michael Jackson, open Sport's Illustrated swimsuit, or read the garbage in tabloids, etc, etc, etc?
Are many deceived Christians really saying that they can do just as the worldly people do but they get to go to heaven because they "believe"? The worldly people do everything I just mentioned. Many Christians do everything I just mentioned. The only difference. One group says, they have the freedom to do it because of Grace. One group, the unbelievers, do it because they do not see anything wrong with what they are doing.
The current Western Church is LUKEWARM and sleeping.
James 5:1-5 (AMP)1 COME NOW, you rich [people], weep aloud and lament over the miseries (the woes) that are surely coming upon you.2 Your abundant wealth has rotted and is ruined, and your [many] garments have become moth-eaten.3 Your gold and silver are completely rusted through, and their rust will be testimony against you and it will devour your flesh as if it were fire. You have heaped together treasure for the last days.4[But] look! [Here are] the wages that you have withheld by fraud from the laborers who have reaped your fields, crying out [for vengeance]; and the cries of the harvesters have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5[HERE] ON EARTH YOU HAVE ABANDONED YOURSELVES TO SOFT (PRODIGAL) LIVING AND TO [THE PLEASURES OF] SELF INDULGENCE AND SELF GRATIFICATION. YOU HAVE FATTENED YOUR HEARTS IN A DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
Do we think James is talking to the heathens? No, He is talking to the believers.
1 Peter 1:14-17 (AMP)14[Live] as children of obedience [to God]; do not conform yourselves to the evil desires [that governed you] in your former ignorance [when you did not know the requirements of the Gospel].15But as the One Who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.
16For it is written, You shall be holy, for I am holy.(A)
17And if you call upon Him as [your] Father Who judges each one impartially according to what he does, [then] you should conduct yourselves with true reverence throughout the time of your temporary residence [on the earth, whether long or short].
Fire of God!
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