The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

I have been steaming mad for quite some time. I have been standing on a shoe shine box yelling at the top of my lungs that we need to wake up. And people still don’t get it. Its not the world that needs to wake up. It’s the body of Christ.  Because honestly when people see me even most the time it is not even a close resemblance of Jesus that they see.  And I have some nerve to complain about the ills of society.

When I hear Christians complain about the economy and profess defeat in their lives it gets me so angry…most the time the guy yelling the loudest is doing the best…and he is just mad that when the economy took a dive he had to move from an 8 bedroom mini mansion to a cozy six bedroom house.  We still ain’t left our own yard to see the fact that there are people really hurting.  Oh I hear ya.  I know you took a hit when the bubble busted…but let me ask you guys this. Where do you put your money today…because there are few industries out there that are economy proof infact they bank on the harder it gets the better they do.  Pornography is one. Not one mortgage collapse stopped people from looking at this. And lets be honest guys we’ve all done it.  But this is a classic example of mixing good seed and bad seed in the same soil and we expect God to turn this into a great harvest.  God is not obligated to take your lust offering or my lust offering and turn it into a great anything. The words pressed down shaken and running over do apply. you will reap what you sew. But why is that we as a Church still look.  A yr ago I spoke to a Pastor in the state of Washington. Incidentally I was there getting prayer for my own personal addictions.  He told me that 75 % of the men in his Church struggle with or have struggled with Porn. 75% and that’s the men who are bold enough to seek healing and will admit it. … and his Church is not a church in the hood only ministering to those people….its us people.  Regular people. So the Body of Christ is funding Pornography with the money God gives us and we expect Him to multiply it because we tithe. Tithing is great keep doing it. But your wasting the ten percent if your spending your other 90% in Satins’ Church.

Sampson was a great Prophet he won many battles. He was very strong.  Unbeatable…But he lusted for the very thing he sought to kill.  Men of God we cannot keep patronizing the whore of this world and then say from the stage of a Church that we are against it too.  Where we spend our money and our time when nobody is looking. The guy we default to every time we get a chance. That is exactly who we are.  The mentality and lack of discipline and poor private Character cost Sampson his physical vision. But I will tell you this it cost him much more then his physical sight it cost him his spiritual vision too. The direction He knew God called him to go. The good things he was destined to have. He ended up dead in a rubble.  Sure he took a ton of  evil out in the process but don’t tell me that was Gods divine plan for his life because it Got there through sin and he paid the price.

I met another Pastor of Church here in Phoenix. He told me he loves the Church he grew up in…but that for ten yrs he had girlfriend and he lived with her in sin she was married to a husband who used to abuse her. People danced around the topic with them because he believes he gave six figures a yr to that church. He had a reserved parking spot in the front of the Church and was a leader on the church volunteer staff.  And for 10 yrs nobody called him out yet everyone in the Church new he was living in an adulterous situation. He never knew why, eventually he left. and began attending another Church and eventually he repented and got married to his wife..incidently a different woman then he went to the Moody institute and became a Pastor. God got the victory in this mans life but he is still wounded by the fact that his home church would not confront his sin. When we are bold and confront sin head on in our own lives first then around us were not self righteous were being God righteous. Yet as Christians we live in fear around sin and tip toe through it because we don’t want to lose people from the body of Christ…if telling a man he can’t have sex and live with another mans wife is going to lose him then he was never in the body to begin with. and their not our people to keep or lose they are Gods.

I have people in my life and I love them for this who will not tolerate slackness. They love me but they aren’t going to sit idle by and watch me live with one foot in and one foot out. I praise God for the time I have spent with men like Joe Canales  who doesn’t tolerate luke warm behavior in his life or in the people around him but loves people in it all..

What is the solution? There is an anointing the word of God says and that anointing breaks the yoke…and I think instead of praying for larger congregations and bigger platforms we need to seek God for that anointing so we can break the yoke of sin in our lives and in our Church.  Were not judging people when we confront them in a biblical way and talk to them about their behavior were actually loving them and the people around them.  I praise God for the people in my life who do this with me DR. Snapp  loves me enough to say he sees the place I am trying to get to in life but that I can’t get there by being a habitual relapser.  But loves me through my tough times. The anointing is I believe a Godly love for one another.

Before God will use us the body of Christ to correct a lost and dying world he is going to correct us.  Divorce porn drugs wether pharmaceutical or street greed in our business life excess waist in all areas. these are just some of the things that are riddled in our Churches. When are we going to wake up see the governor can pass laws we can help her write the law she passes if were living the very sin we are fighting we are doing are cause the worst injustice. All sin done in the dark will find its way to the light. …let me hit my face and let God wrecken with me today cause I am about to go to work. I work for a Godless company let me display my faith by how I get my sales today…I don’t have to lie He is my supply. Let me be uncommon with my actions by respecting the people I am around and living uncommon …not by being a crazed right wing fanatic that gets laughed at because of my loud mouth about moral issues…let me God a man who is stricken with every temptation just like every man is rely on your love and strength grace today and be man who sets that example for my kids and my family…let me be stronger today.

Because the vision the love and forgiveness you gave me once is too precious to squander.