Music Link: https://youtu.be/5OsiOje_DN0
Lyrics
We come to worship, in spirit and in truth
You gave it all for us, we won't hold back from you
As we gather now, joining as one
Let our lives confess, the glory of the Son
As we lift you up, we'll see your kingdom come
As our love rises, let your fire fall
As our love rises, let your fire fall
We want nothing else, than to know you more
So take us deeper, than we've been before
Let your fire fall, let your fire fall, let your fire fall
Let your fire fall, let your fire fall, let your fire fall
As our love rises, let your fire fall
As our love rises, let your fire fall
Writer(s): LUCY GRIMBLE, RICH DI CASTIGLIONE
Earlier today, I wrote the following:
Added note: 1-31-25
You see, what I have been trying to say for months is that when you come out of a Bible School, you don’t want to know fifteen ways in which to get your congregation to sing or “Worship,” because it is ‘trending,’ and brings people into the church who would like to be Taylor Swift, or one of our “Pop Stars,” in the Christian music genre.
Neither do you want to know, “How to finance your ministry by proven methods of manipulating your congregations to tithe or give offerings.”
You see, to be a real disciple as one who is recognized as a person who walks with Jesus, is to come out of Bible School, knowing the scriptures intimately. That way when you are teaching on “Mephibosheth” you can incorporate ten other godly characters or references from the Bible and then to ultimately show or display the Lord’s goodness and kindness.
This way you will win the people unto God, and to dispel the lies in which Satan has spent their entire lives telling them concerning God.
Does that remind anyone of anybody?
Well, perhaps, it is because there are so few of these people in the church, most are preoccupied with their own agendas.
Just another thought!
After I wrote it I thought, “OMG these young people are going to believe that I am some “Frustrated Crochety Old Man Prophet,” well nothing can be further from a lie than this.”
I am guilty as charged!
You know, I have been in this Charismatic/Pentecostal, Spirit Filled Church for decades and I am just tired of all of the “Fluff,” over the years.
You see, we are in the “Last Days,” and I believe that it is time for the church to recognize this.
This is a scripture concerning the days in which we are living in:
Matthew 24:37-39 New Living Translation
37 “When the Son of Man returns, it will be like it was in Noah’s day. 38 In those days before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat. 39 People didn’t realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That is the way it will be when the Son of Man comes.
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Jesus says that the last days will be like the days of Noah in Matthew 24:37.
Explanation
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Could you have ever imagined that over a hundred actors and individuals around Hollywood would have their million dollar homes consumed by fires within a two-week period?
God isn’t the author of these things Satan is, but God will allow such things to happen in order to wake up the world.
Why do you think that Professional Athletes, Actors, Musicians, Singers, and Pop Stars of the moment are able to earn billions of dollars?
You see, I am not talking millions, as in days past, but Satan has opened all of his Tresure Chests, to pour out billions and billions of dollars to those individuals that they would be “Satan’s Lites on the Hill.”
And I am not criticizing every well-paid individual who makes that kind of money, but what you will find in many cases are that many are not interested in those ideals for a nation which promote Biblical values.
You see, the devil wishes for them to be consumed with themselves, so that you may imitate them. I mean, after all, they got to be doing something right to have so much money that it would take ten lifetimes to spend it, right?
This is why if you are a ‘conservative,’ in Hollywood, you better not be outspoken.
In the last couple of days we have had two unusual Air crashes, tonight one involved a little Shriner’s hospital patient who perished with her mother in a plane wreck.
Nonetheless, all over America you are seeing things that are shocking, and I believe that God is allowing these things to awaken the world for Jesus coming again.
Nevertheless, what has been most shocking to me is the behavior of the “Church.” Not the behavior of those who reside in the world.
For years, as I would try to plead for the Church to get its act together, I would say, “God is not mad at the world, they are doing what they are supposed to be doing. They are ‘sinning.’ “
And then I would say, “God is mad at the church because they are doing exactly what the world is doing, yet at the same time condemning it, as if they are above those wicked and evil "sinners."
Don’t you think that a bit strange?
Well, God does, and He doesn’t like it.
And so, today after I wrote that paragraph on “What a Bible School graduate ought to look and act as,” I thought perhaps, I should better explain my feelings concerning the statement.
You see, when I criticize “Worship,” and “Praise,” in the church, I am not against it.
Personally, I believe that we will never win the world without the “gifts of the Holy Spirit” and in order to obtain them and to allow them to work best there has to be an “atmosphere,” of “Praise and Worship,” which gives the “Glory,” to Jesus through the working of the Holy Spirit among us.
No, what I am against and have seen over the last few decades is that the church tends to use these “gifts,” for their own benefit, and they were never given to the church for that purpose.
This precious “gifting,” given to mankind was so that our souls could refresh and renew ourselves through this phenomenon.
You see, inside every soul there is a need to “worship.”
And because of this whether individuals will admit it or not, they all “worship” something.
Nevertheless, the whole “Man,” understands that he must worship his Savior who is also his creator. In a sense, you are being brought back to a state of “sinlessness,” as was Adam and Eve, before they sinned.
This is what proper “Worship and Praise,” will do for a man or woman.
Unfortunately, in today’s society individuals even some in the church will look to “Pop Stars,” or “Movie Actors,” and they will substitute the “worship of their creator,” for the “worship of man.”
And I have especially noticed this in the church, as it has become so “trending” and “cool,” to worship “men idols,” in place of the Lord Creator.
But you see, none of them, no matter what they can do or perform can replace that inner “NEED,” for you to worship the one true God which is Jesus.
This is why the scriptures testify:
John 14:6 New Living Translation
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
And so, as I have watched the church over the past few decades, I have seen numerous potential “Shepherds,” come out of Bible Schools and or Seminaries who have all been conditioned to believe that “God’s will,” for their lives was to build huge brick and mortar buildings.
Or perhaps, it was to ‘teach,’ relentlessly the Bible commands to give, such as the legalistic Tithe, or that latest “sacrament,” instituted into the church.
“The fillings of the Sacred White Buckets.”
Lastly, of course, it has been to emulate the “Pop Stars,” or “Recording Artists” who make millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars through our “sacred singing,” and playing them “Geetars,” and “Key Boards.”
All so we can love Jesus more!
Well, then it got so popular that newly “born again,” believers just quit thinking about going to Bible Schools to learn the scriptures.
Yea, those are the things that you read when you open a Bible.
What?
“Oh yea, a Bible is the book that those “old crochety frustrated men” carry around who call themselves “Prophets,” when not in the hearing of all those other really crochety old farts who have called themselves Christians for decades.”
Seriously, why would they want to go to a Bible School, when these modern day churches offer them everything to be a Christian “Pop Star, Song Writer, Producer, Musician or a Professional?
Someone who never has to do anything they don’t like such as those jobs where you aren’t banging on an instrument or being promised untold wealth by a God who only has one agenda and that is to make his children wealthy beyond measure.
Nevertheless, I am trying to make a point, and we are not going to ‘Save,’ those who are lost in these last days until we get serious in the church.
What I am saying is that we don’t need to emulate the world, they are lost.
What we need to do is to “save them,” despite their billions of dollars in wealth and other assets.
We must be able to convince them that "the Power," to understand the true "WORD of GOD," is so much greater than anything in which they have ever imagined.
Can you understand what I am saying?
I hope so, because many are in your own families and for some, unless you learn the "Word of God," you are going to lose them through Eternity!
2nd Music Link: https://youtu.be/zundjUFazfg
3rd Music Link: https://youtu.be/AxB9VH3cCN4
Postscript:
You know, I wrote the paper above and then did a few things. Lastly, I made up some fish and chips. While eating I got a sense that the Lord was talking to me. I have shared many times on how after I write a paper, the Holy Spirit will bring to my remembrance things which I have written.
So, as I am eating, the Lord was reminding me of the passage where I quoted about Noah. How Jesus prophesied that in the last days, they would be as the “days of Noah.”
“Oh, I wish there was someone who could teach a little about Noah, right now.”
I only have so much time during the day, but nonetheless, as I was sitting here eating, I got to thinking about what the last days of Noah would look like.
So, can you imagine, here is this young good looking mature guy with just enough gray to make him look “distinguished.”
You know, probably filled his scalp. Maybe not exactly “Grey,” but perhaps a little more “off grey.”
And while his sons are busy building the “ Arc,” which was a fancy name for a boat, Noah was probably out visiting King’s Palaces and stuff, so that the entire countryside and world would hear the warning.
I mean, if he were here today, I can imagine him “walking right down the Congress,” as it was in session?
Hey Maam, is that a Rum Flask sticking out of your purse?
Maybe he would “pop up,” at State Funerals or Coronations?
Perhaps, a Queen is being laid to rest, or is a King being Coronated?
Well, there would Noah be seen, as we tuned in to our favorite Fox Channel or something.
Can you imagine that?
Perhaps, a dictator was about to declare war or something, and there is old Noah, popping up in his Palace or War room, looking him in the eye, and telling him, “I wouldn’t be doing that if I was you.”
Who knows, God might send him to Israel in the midst of negotiations, and there is Noah taking a seat smack dab in the middle of the 30-seat table?
Nevertheless, I believe that God would be using the man Noah in this exact way. You see, God is so merciful and so full of compassion that He would want to warn all.
You know, what I mean, according to the Bible it says that those days will be just like the days of Noah.
Well, unfortunately, what it probably means is that as this crazy imaginative man is going to and fro around the world trying his hardest to warn the people……well, most likely they would respond just as they did in the days of Noah when that guy was also trying to warn the people.
“Hey, have you guys seen that ‘nut case job,’ talking about it raining all over the Earth?
Rain? Well according to him that is when water is gonna be poured out from the sky and rise from the Earth, so that even the highest mountain will be covered with water just as the oceans cover the seas.”
“Man, you have got to be kidding me….
No, but he says, next time it will be fire?
Music Link: https://youtu.be/8pIJK2VlpIU
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