All Discussions Tagged 'holiness' - Black Preaching Network2024-03-28T22:51:15Zhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=holiness&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWHAT A PRIVILEGE & HONORtag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2011-11-15:916966:Topic:27511082011-11-15T13:57:28.523ZApostle Dr. Melody Barclayhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/DrMelodyBarclay
<p>What a privilege and honor it is for us to have been chosen by God to be saved, be endowed with His love, grace and Holy Spirit, to live a holy and godly life. Oh how lovely, wonderful and sweet it is, despite the offenses, life challenges, trials or tests we may have to deal with. When we are living saved and holy, we are living up to the God-standards. We can only live, walk and have a lifestyle of holiness and righteousness by the grace, love, God's word and the working of His Holy Spirit…</p>
<p>What a privilege and honor it is for us to have been chosen by God to be saved, be endowed with His love, grace and Holy Spirit, to live a holy and godly life. Oh how lovely, wonderful and sweet it is, despite the offenses, life challenges, trials or tests we may have to deal with. When we are living saved and holy, we are living up to the God-standards. We can only live, walk and have a lifestyle of holiness and righteousness by the grace, love, God's word and the working of His Holy Spirit in us. So what a privilege and honor it is to be able to live like God act like God and talk like God, being that we were made from dust, created and born in sin and iniquity, and our own righteousness is as filthy rags. Oh what a privilege and honor it is for us to be saved. I am so grateful today that God chose me, and had me in mind when He gave His Son Jesus Christ to die and rise for the remission of all my sins, and for me to have eternal life and reign with them forever. Hallujah, glory to God, His Son Jesus, the Holy Spiri, and their working together to help me reflect them. Thank You very much Lord, thank You over and over again! Your Beloved and I know it!</p> THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS NO ROOM MATEStag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2011-11-15:916966:Topic:27511812011-11-15T13:44:16.415ZApostle Dr. Melody Barclayhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/DrMelodyBarclay
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<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><span class="messageBody"><span class="font-size-5">THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS NO ROOM MATES!!!!</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-5"> </span></span></div>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><span class="font-size-5">The word of God tells us that the Holy Spirit will not dwell in an unclean temple. So if illicit sex, sexual sins of any kind including adultery, fornication. pornography, drugs,…</span></div>
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<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><span class="messageBody"><span class="font-size-5">THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS NO ROOM MATES!!!!</span><br/> <span class="font-size-5"> </span></span></div>
<div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed"><span class="font-size-5">The word of God tells us that the Holy Spirit will not dwell in an unclean temple. So if illicit sex, sexual sins of any kind including adultery, fornication. pornography, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, uncleane spirits and any other spirits or influences that have you in bondage has residence in your life, the Holy Spirit isn't there as you say and think He is, be...cause He doesn't live with room mates. Holiness is the standard that God has set for His people and He doesn't lower it for any body for any reason. He has given us the Holy Spirit, His word and His grace for us to have victory over all the lusts of the flesh, all sin, the devil, temptations and any thing that will cause us to walk and live in sin and disobedience. The Holy Spirit has no room mates!!!</span></div>
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<p> </p> We will do,... and we will understandtag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2010-05-18:916966:Topic:13260092010-05-18T15:38:58.787ZShekinahLifehttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/YaaKovandHadassahT
<br></br><br></br><a href="../../" id="application_name_header_link" name="application_name_header_link"><img alt="Shekinah~Life" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71484942?profile=RESIZE_480x480" style="width: 255px; height: 65px;"></img></a> <br></br><br></br>This week we celebrate the holiday of <a href="http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=61307B8D222BC09E740AC7122BD3E7E0&ui=E8F8BF041A45A5C7C47FB2D3BAC37145" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shavuot</a>,(<span style="font-style: italic;">link to Chabad</span>) the giving of the…
<br/><br/><a id="application_name_header_link" href="../../" name="application_name_header_link"><img style="width: 255px; height: 65px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71484942?profile=RESIZE_480x480" alt="Shekinah~Life"/></a><br/><br/>This week we celebrate the holiday of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://link.Chabad.org/go.asp?li=61307B8D222BC09E740AC7122BD3E7E0&ui=E8F8BF041A45A5C7C47FB2D3BAC37145">Shavuot</a>,(<span style="font-style: italic;">link to Chabad</span>) the giving of the <span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274149211_8">Torah</span> to the Jewish people, and the stranger among them.The oldest religion on the planet Judaism teaches that receiving the Torah is likened to a marriage under the Chupa, with the Jewish people representing the bride at the foot of Has Sinai, and our Master-Creator the groom speaking out the instructions to one and all.<br/><br/><p style="text-align: left;"><img src="http://www.chabad.org/media/images/44/MXRh441427.jpg" alt=""/></p>
<br/> When we were given the Torah, we responded with Na’aseh V’nishma which is translated to mean, “We will do, and we will understand” with the basic meaning that first we will do and then we will understand. <br/>Gaining wisdom,... knowledge and understanding is an ever ending journey through the wilderness of life.<br/>The point is that the ball is in our court..Replacement theology states otherwise...<br/>We either obtain the Torah until it is one within and then go out to do Tikkun Olam or we just remain in a stupor.
Yet our mission is to bring the Light into the darkness and when one walks in the light of Torah When the Love of the Master permeates your very being then you will have entered the Kodosh ha'kodoshim.(Holie of Holies)<br/><br/>The Rebbe Stated our purpose was to Draw G-d's essence back down into this material world" ~~Perhaps you agree?<br/><p style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;"><img style="width: 149px; height: 278px;" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/71484968?profile=original" alt=""/></p>
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<p style="text-align: left; margin-left: 40px;">Isn't this the whole meaning of life in this world: To choose between bondage to the material world and believing that your life comes from <br/> those many forces,----Or to choose true life and to believe that all <br/>
your needs and all your concerns come only from the one Source of all <br/>
life.<br/>
the Rebbe'</p>
<br/> To those who have counted the Omer and followed the path of self nullification // Basically soul correction over the last forty nine days can feel an intimate part of this annual time of observance<br/>A time when we remember a time <br/><br/><font color="#FF7F7F">"Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh." ="All YIsrael is
responsible for one another." (Talmud Shavuot 39a)<br/>
Proverbs 29:7, <i>"The righteous consider the cause of the poor:~ but the wicked regard not to know of it."</i></font><br/><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274149211_9"><br/>Tuesday evening</span> we begin the holiday of Shavuot. <br/><br/><br/><br/>May we all be blessed to be open to receive and to connect to the power of the Torah in our lives, and to <br/>
continue to act and do the proper things, and to know that through our actions will come the deepest of understanding.<br/>
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Have a wonderful Shavuot from the ShekinahLife team....Shalom Aleichem<br/><br/>One Day' from Mattisyahu:<br/><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmBChQjZPs&a=vwH54b-vdlU&playnext_from=ML">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmBChQjZPs&a=vwH54b-vdlU&playnext_from=ML</a><br/><br/>When you get a moment,... Stop on by our page.<br/><br/> Some of you have been away for a while,.. Shalom upon your home.../"J&T"<br/><b>SHALOM ALEICHEM</b><br/>
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<img style="width: 157px; height: 214px;" src="http://shekinahlifecenter.com/images/James_Terry.jpg"/>Some Recommended Sites of Interest for the Student(s) among us:<br/><br/><a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/default.aspx?language=english">http://www.breslev.co.il/default.aspx?language=english</a><br/><br/><a href="http://lazerbrody.typepad.com">http://lazerbrody.typepad.com</a><br/><a href="http://www.sichosinenglish.org">http://www.sichosinenglish.org</a><br/><a href="http://www.britam.org">http://www.britam.org</a><br/><a href="http://www.puretorah.com/70-difficult-questions.php">http://www.puretorah.com/70-difficult-questions.php</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.ShekinahLife.com">www.ShekinahLife.com</a><br/>
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<br/><div style="text-align: center;"><font size="2">Always keep in mind~~~</font><br/><font size="2">"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless, minority;keen to set<br/> brush fires in people's minds"</font><br/><font size="2"> -<span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1273941210_3"><span style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1274159804_5">Samuel Adams</span></span></font><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>~~~~~~~<br/></div> Be Holy For I Am Holytag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2010-04-13:916966:Topic:12908392010-04-13T21:14:03.326ZPastor Michelle Raglandhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/MichelleRagland
<p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Heavy','sans-serif'; COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 22pt; text-shadow: auto">FOR I AM HOLY</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“For I…</font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Franklin Gothic Heavy','sans-serif'; COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 22pt; text-shadow: auto">FOR I AM HOLY</span></b></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>“For I AM the Lord your God you shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I AM Holy.” Leviticus 11:44</font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">God our creator is a Holy God and He is calling those that belong to Him to be like Him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We are but a mere clay shell in the hands of our creator, carrying His precious Spirit on the inside of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> He is a pre-existent being, “that was and is and is to come,” before the world was formed He was, and everything in it came out of Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> God created this world and everything in it to glorify Him, to show the true essence of who He is in every aspect of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> We were all created to show His holiness, wisdom, unconditional love, unity of family and righteousness in the way we live and relate to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> They (the trinity) created you in their image and their likeness, to be a physical representation of God on this earth, not just in physical form but in your living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font face="Calibri">Lev. 20:7 God is calling us to be holy</font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font color="#000000">“Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> There is a standard God has called us to and if we are to be representatives of him before our Church, family and community and be the Light of the world we must walk in holiness, love, self control, respect and goodness.</font></span></i></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font face="Calibri">Romans 11:16-17 Being Grafted in/ Jesus the First Fruits</font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">“For if the first fruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17) And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> God is calling us as being a portion of the first fruits which is Jesus who was Holy and we being the branches we are grafted in solely by our faith in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Those who do not believe of the root which is Abraham are then cut-off or broken off and so the remnant of them that remain solely by faith must live (according to the call of God) holy.</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="COLOR: #33cc33; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font face="Calibri">Romans 12:1-2 Living Sacrifices</font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service. 2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” We need to walk with a transformation taking place every day by our minds being renewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Every day we live, everything we do, with everything we are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> All of our members (legs, arms, eyes, mouths, ears, and heart), talents and gifts God has created us to please Him with our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> We were not put here to be made happy but to make sure that His will is done on this earth that He would be glorified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Our reward for living a life consecrated and holy is seeing Gods face and hearing well done thy good and faithful servant”, so while we are here in this foreign land let us represent Him well and love all mankind by living, serving and restoring the love for God and holiness into the hearts of others with all He has given us!</font></font></span></i></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; text-shadow: auto"><font color="#000000"><font face="Calibri">Minister Michelle Ragland</font></font></span></i></p>
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We are told "..... ye shall be holy:for I the LORD your GOD am holy."Leviticus19:2 [kjv]
We are told "..... ye shall be holy:for I the LORD your GOD am holy."Leviticus19:2 [kjv] Revivaltag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2009-10-14:916966:Topic:10478502009-10-14T01:16:37.669ZLillian Lancasterhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/LillianLancaster
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: The Only Thing That Will Save Us<br />
-by J. Lee Grady.<br />
<br />
We can learn an important lesson from the East African Revival,<br />
which transformed a region 80 years ago.<br />
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The people of Uganda call it Balokole. In the Luganda language it<br />
means "the saved ones," but the word became synonymous with<br />
the East African Revival—one of the most significant Christian<br />
movements in modern history.<br />
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This revival had humble beginnings in September 1929, just<br />
before America's Great Depression.…
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: The Only Thing That Will Save Us<br />
-by J. Lee Grady.<br />
<br />
We can learn an important lesson from the East African Revival,<br />
which transformed a region 80 years ago.<br />
<br />
The people of Uganda call it Balokole. In the Luganda language it<br />
means "the saved ones," but the word became synonymous with<br />
the East African Revival—one of the most significant Christian<br />
movements in modern history.<br />
<br />
This revival had humble beginnings in September 1929, just<br />
before America's Great Depression. Historians trace it to a<br />
prayer meeting on Namirembe Hill in Kampala, Uganda, where<br />
a missionary to Rwanda, Joe Church, prayed and read the Bible<br />
for two days with his friend Simeoni Nsibambi. They felt God had<br />
showed them that the African church was powerless because of<br />
a lack of personal holiness.<br />
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It is impossible to explain exactly what happened after this prayer<br />
meeting or how the resulting spiritual fervor spread. When God<br />
comes, unusual things happen. Within weeks after the Rev.<br />
Church returned to Gahini, Rwanda, Christians gathered to pray<br />
and confess their sins openly. A heavy spirit of conviction fell on<br />
the people. Whenever they repented for their sins and failures<br />
they would weep uncontrollably, ask others to forgive them and<br />
pledge to make restitution.<br />
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The weeping spread to farmlands and open fields. Unbelievers<br />
who visited these gatherings were converted after they witnessed<br />
the sincerity of the Christians. Repentance went deep. Husbands<br />
publicly apologized for adultery and farmers repented for stealing<br />
cows from each other. Eventually, as the revival spread from<br />
Rwanda to Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi, even the<br />
centuries-old tradition of polygamy (which was still common<br />
among professing Christians) was unraveled in some areas.<br />
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Balokole changed African Christianity forever. In a 1986 article for<br />
Christian History, Michael Harper writes of the revival: "It's effects<br />
have been more lasting than almost any other revival in history, so<br />
that today there is hardly a single Protestant leader in East Africa<br />
who has not been touched by it in some way."<br />
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I spent the past two weeks ministering in Uganda and Kenya, and<br />
everywhere I went I met people who still talk about the East African<br />
Revival—80 years after it began. It breathed resurrection power into<br />
dead, traditional churches and triggered aggressive church-planting<br />
movements that affected a variety of denominations.<br />
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Whether sermons were delivered from pulpits or under trees, six<br />
important themes were emphasized in those days: 1) the blood<br />
of Jesus; 2) the name of Jesus; 3) the cross of Jesus; 4) the<br />
Word of God; 5) the testimony of the saints; and 6) the anointing<br />
of the Holy Spirit.<br />
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Leaders also stressed the message of 1 John 6-7: "If we say<br />
that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness,<br />
we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the light as<br />
He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another,<br />
and the blood of Jesus His son cleanses us from all sin (NASB)."<br />
As was true in other spiritual awakenings in history (such as the<br />
Asbury Revival in Kentucky in 1970), people stood in front of<br />
each other and admitted their sins, no matter how embarrassing.<br />
The honesty cut deep into human pride and dealt a fatal blow<br />
against entrenched sin and religious hypocrisy.<br />
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After hearing more details about the East African Revival while I<br />
was in Uganda last week, I was convinced that this type of<br />
movement is the only thing that will pull the United States out of<br />
its current despair.<br />
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We must have a spiritual awakening, or we die. Political<br />
engineering, economic policies, government bailouts and stimulus<br />
packages will not save us. No politician, Democrat or Republican,<br />
will reverse our course toward destruction.<br />
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Our only hope is that a backslidden American church—a church<br />
that is as smug, blind and lukewarm as the Laodiceans-—will<br />
"be zealous and repent" (see Rev. 3:19).<br />
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What encourages me is that God, not man, initiated all the<br />
spiritual awakenings of the past—including the First Great<br />
Awakening, which gave our country its historic Christian identity.<br />
Yes, we play our feeble part by praying, and we must storm<br />
heaven. Yes, awakenings come in response to our weak attempts<br />
to repent, and we must passionately seek a fresh baptism of<br />
holiness.<br />
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But we cannot manufacture revivals. Pentecostal fire comes from<br />
heaven alone. It is a sovereign blessing from a God who loves us<br />
and desires to rescue us from ourselves. We charismatics have<br />
generated a lot of our own sound and fury in the past 30 years,<br />
but much of what we have created is a shameful substitute for<br />
revival. We must become desperate for the real thing.<br />
<br />
Today our movement is mired in the shallow waters of self-centered,<br />
carnal Christianity. May God mercifully send us our own version of<br />
Balokole. May gut-wrenching repentance and public confession of<br />
sin interrupt our trendy worship services. May this holy fire spread<br />
until the people of the United States see genuine Christians living<br />
the message we preach.<br />
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-J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma.<br />
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Andrew Strom. IS THE UNITED STATES THE BABYLON IN REVELATION?tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2009-07-22:916966:Topic:8807962009-07-22T03:45:58.675ZRest Of God Ministrieshttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/RestOfGodMinistries
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I took this from a website, there is many blogs and videos that state that the US is the Babylon in the book of Revelations. I have always looked at Babylon as being the world system, but after seeing some videos on the net, I began to wonder if it is true. So below I have both statements I got from the internet, tell me what you think.<br />
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1st Statement:<br />
IS THE UNITED STATES BABYLON ?<br />
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What does the Bible say about the Great Babylon? Revelation 18:3…
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I took this from a website, there is many blogs and videos that state that the US is the Babylon in the book of Revelations. I have always looked at Babylon as being the world system, but after seeing some videos on the net, I began to wonder if it is true. So below I have both statements I got from the internet, tell me what you think.<br />
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1st Statement:<br />
IS THE UNITED STATES BABYLON ?<br />
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What does the Bible say about the Great Babylon? Revelation 18:3 “for all the nations have drunk the maddening wine of her adulteries. The kings of the earth committed adultery with her and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries. Revelations also says the merchants of the earth will weep and morn with Babylon’s destruction because they will have lost their best customer. How do kings and other countries commit adultery with another country? They put greed before God.They put drugs and alcohol before God. Babylon is described in the feminine and as a prostitute. The prostitute sits on waters that represents peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.<br />
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The U.S.A. fit’s the bill on respects. We are the world’s wealthiest nation. The goods of the world are delivered to our shores. We are making the merchants of the world wealthy. We are exporting our culture of greed and corporatism worldwide. Traditional cultures and the environment are destroyed as our figurative lust consumes the earth. We are failing as God’s stewards of the Earth because of our greed. We have people from all over the world living here. We are also the world’s military super power, with military expenditures beyond reason. The rest of the world lives in fear of us. We are the world’s number one arms salesperson, making us the world’s biggest enabler for violence and war. Kings and rulers like the royal family of Saudi Arabia and Musharaff are in bed with us. We torture people. We were glad to supply the weapons to Sadaam Hussein that he used to murder Kurds with, as long as he did our bidding. We worship materialism and wealth, we put the idols of celebrity and fame before God. We put worship of the body, otherwise known as sports, before God, much like the Greeks and Romans before us. Sex is used to sell everything. We support he wealthy and the privileged all over the globe and neglect the poor. Profits before people could be our national motto and global philosophy.<br />
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The above statement came from <a href="http://www.crossleft.org/node/5765">http://www.crossleft.org/node/5765</a><br />
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2nd Statement:<br />
IS BABYLON THE WORLD?<br />
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Over the years I have been asked this question many times. My answer has not changed. No, the United States is not Babylon, because this city was drunk with the blood of the saints and Apostles. Many have speculated that this city is ancient Rome. She certainly was drunk with<br />
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the blood of the saints! Yet, I know of no time, when the leaders of the Church called for Christians to abandon Rome. Such an event must be future because the Christians did not leave Rome in large numbers.<br />
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However, I do believe that cities like New York and London and Paris and Tokuyo, are in Babylon. We must first understand that Babylon represents a lifestyle of acquisition and consumption. It stands in sharp contrast to the New Jerusalem which was seen descending to the top of a mountain.<br />
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Now, do not suppose that we will see a literal city descending to earth. She is already here! "The Kingdom of God does not come with outward observation; Neither will they say, ‘Loa there! for behold the Kingdom of God is within you." - Luke 17:20, 21 I am satisfied that<br />
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God’s fiery judgement shall fall upon man’s city, with its wayward institutions and corrupt lifestyles, creating a revolution in the affairs of men, such as has never been seen. I believe that Babylon is falling right now and that those who do not forsake her will experience the same<br />
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divine visitation as the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. They will be burned with fire just as the Tares in Jesus’ parable.<br />
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This statement came from <a href="http://www.theseventhtrumpet.com/twatt/twatt1.php">http://www.theseventhtrumpet.com/twatt/twatt1.php</a><br />
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So What do you think? WOMEN WEARING PANTS IN CHURCH....tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2009-05-07:916966:Topic:6942882009-05-07T21:49:01.330ZHOPE - Psalm 43:5http://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/TracyCurtis
Over the years, I have heard many men and women in the holiness denominations say that women shouldn't wear pants in the church.<br />
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Were is the scripture to support the ideology that women shouldn't wear pants? If it is in scripture then I would have to ask why are men wearing pants? Did men wear pants in biblical times or did their wear something that covered their loins and then long robe like attire? I mean isn't that what you depict in your biblical plays? So why aren't the men being asked to…
Over the years, I have heard many men and women in the holiness denominations say that women shouldn't wear pants in the church.<br />
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Were is the scripture to support the ideology that women shouldn't wear pants? If it is in scripture then I would have to ask why are men wearing pants? Did men wear pants in biblical times or did their wear something that covered their loins and then long robe like attire? I mean isn't that what you depict in your biblical plays? So why aren't the men being asked to wear similar apparel in the church to maintain a outward appearance of holiness? Why aren't they asked to not cut their hair (both facial and head)<br />
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What are the clothing designations for men in the holiness denominations.<br />
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After all, without holiness NO man/woman shall see God..... CHARISMATIC MELTDOWN?tag:abcpreachers.ning.com,2008-12-08:916966:Topic:2514292008-12-08T15:01:44.680Zlorenzo nealhttp://abcpreachers.ning.com/profile/lorenzoneal
The following is an article from Charisma Magazine. Although I'm not a practicing charismatic/pentecostal christian, I am very aware that I am a part of the entire Body of Christ. The reality is the modern charismatic movement has always been flawed doctrinally to justify alot of strange practices and behaviors, but the issue is not one of practice anymore but personality driven semi-cults where men and women carelessly follow untrained, charismatic ministers who deceive them out of money,…
The following is an article from Charisma Magazine. Although I'm not a practicing charismatic/pentecostal christian, I am very aware that I am a part of the entire Body of Christ. The reality is the modern charismatic movement has always been flawed doctrinally to justify alot of strange practices and behaviors, but the issue is not one of practice anymore but personality driven semi-cults where men and women carelessly follow untrained, charismatic ministers who deceive them out of money, lives, and maybe even salvation. Read the article and please post insights on the condition of the charismatic church (not the church universal) only.<br />
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Preparing for a Charismatic Meltdown<br />
Three prominent charismatic ministries have suffered huge setbacks this month. What does this mean for our movement?<br />
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Foreclosure. Eviction. Bailouts. We’re hearing those terms a lot these days, and not just in the newspaper’s business section. In the last two weeks three charismatic churches that once enjoyed huge popularity have fallen on hard times.<br />
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In Tampa, Florida, Without Walls International Church is facing foreclosure. The megachurch, which once attracted 23,000 worshipers and was heralded as one of the nation’s fastest-growing congregations, shrunk drastically after co-pastors Randy and Paula White announced in 2007 that they were divorcing. On Nov. 4 their bank filed foreclosure proceedings and demanded immediate repayment of a $12 million loan on the property.<br />
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In Duluth, Georgia—northeast of Atlanta—sheriff’s deputies arrived at Global Destiny Ministries and ordered Bishop Thomas Weeks II to leave the property. According to documents filed in state court, Weeks—who divorced popular preacher Juanita Bynum in June—owed more than $511,000 in back rent to the building’s owners. He was escorted out of the building on Nov. 14 while a church service was in progress.<br />
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"The wrecking ball of heaven is swinging. It has come to demolish any work that has not been built on the integrity of His Word."<br />
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In another part of the Atlanta area, leaders of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill announced that their church is officially for sale. The massive Gothic building—which at one time housed one of the nation’s most celebrated charismatic churches, with a membership of 10,000—has slipped into disrepair after lurid sex scandals triggered a mass exodus. The church’s founder, Bishop Earl Paulk, has turned the 6,000-seat church (valued at $24.5 million) over to his son, Donnie Earl, who in recent years has abandoned orthodox Christian doctrines and embraced universalism.<br />
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In addition, the bank that called the loan on Without Walls also began foreclosure proceedings on its satellite campus in Lakeland, Florida. That massive campus with its 10,000-seat sanctuary was once known as Carpenter’s Home Church. Under the leadership of Assemblies of God pastor Karl Strader it enjoyed huge success, but its membership dwindled in the 1990s, and it was sold to the Whites in 2005.<br />
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A crisis hit Without Walls two years later when the Whites announced from their pulpit that they were divorcing. They did not give specific reasons, but Randy said he took “100 percent responsibility” for the breakup. He later told Charisma: “This was a decision of last resort after years of prayer and counseling.”<br />
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In the case of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill, many parishioners walked out 16 years ago when it became known that Earl Paulk and other staff members were involved in wife-swapping. Paulk created a bizarre culture of secrecy to cover the immorality, which included his affair with a sister-in-law—and resulted in the birth of Donnie Earl (who thought he was Earl Paulk’s nephew until last year). The church has only had a few hundred members in recent years.<br />
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Today, Donnie Earl has embraced the inclusionist doctrines of Oklahoma pastor Carlton Pearson, who left the faith in 2003 and was labeled a heretic by a group of African-American bishops the following year. The younger Paulk now preaches that all people, not just Christians, are saved. He told Charisma last week that the Cathedral “has expanded to include all of God’s creation—Christian, Jew, Hindu, Buddhist, gay, straight, etc.” And this distorted message is broadcast from a pulpit that hosted the premier leaders of the charismatic movement during the 1970s and 1980s.<br />
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Even before Weeks was charged with assaulting Bynum in a hotel parking lot in August 2007, the pastor of Global Destiny Ministries defiled his pulpit during a “Teach Me to Love You” marriage conference. He told married men they should use profanity during sex to heighten their experience, and he brought couples on stage to play a game in which men were asked to name their favorite female body parts.<br />
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Lord, help us.<br />
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Was it supposed to end like this? How did a movement that was at one time focused on winning people to Christ and introducing them to the power of the Holy Spirit end in such disgrace?<br />
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I hear the sound of bricks and steel beams crashing to the ground. The wrecking ball of heaven is swinging. It has come to demolish any work that has not been built on the integrity of God’s Word.<br />
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All of us should be trembling. God requires holiness in His house and truth in the mouths of His servants. He is loving and patient with our mistakes and weaknesses, but eventually, if there is no repentance after continual correction, His discipline is severe. He will not be mocked.<br />
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Romans 11:22 says: “Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off” (NASB).<br />
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God is not married to our buildings. If He allowed foreign armies to burn Jerusalem and its glorious temple, He will also write “Ichabod” on the doors of churches where there is no repentance for compromise.<br />
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I pray the fear of God will grip our hearts until we cleanse our defiled pulpits. Let’s examine our hearts and our ministries. Let’s throw out the wood, hay and stubble and build on a sure and tested foundation. It is the only way to survive the meltdown.<br />
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J. Lee Grady is editor of Charisma.