A Word From The Lord

A Word the Lord 4/17/09 4: am Andy

President Obama stated that the United States is not a Christian nation. I believed the Lord has used a pagan President to speak to us and wake us up. It was like the Lord was driving the last nail into the coffin and saying to us, “your religion is over.” Have we lost our ear to hear? Have we truly restored life into His people? Any nation that forgets God and uses His name as a means to promote their own interest is ripe for the judgment of God. God has a question to all the theologians, the great teachers, the doctors and all our great leaders who have spun their great revelations on us: here is the question for you all to consider. Do you not know??? Again I say, “Do you not know?” “Know what?” you say: “Do you not know that you are the temple [the building] of God [the Father] and that the Spirit [Holy Spirit] of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God [misuses His people], God will destroy him. [why?] For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” (1 Cor 3:16, 17.) God is about to remove His people from your hands. God is calling a people to come out of every group and come in brokenness to gather in His name only. We have broken covenant with God and have robbed Him of His saints… the living temple. The saints are His [His temple], they should be treated as His, they are one temple and they are not ours to divide among ourselves to use as we choose. The saints are God’s holy temple and anyone who uses the people for self-interest and to build their kingdom for any other reason than what the triune God has purposed is defiling the temple and he who defiles it will in the end be destroyed. The people have been bought with a price and we have used them as merchandise and as a source of revenue. The people are not ours to build our ministries around. We just can’t slap any name on His body. We cannot slap the name of our movement, our church, our ministry…they are His!!! At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and in that one name only we will meet. He will not share His name and glory with the thousands of names and labels we have put on His body. We are on a labeling frenzy, we have labeled everything, we’ve labeled our ministries, our networks, our moves, our streams, our flows, our denomination and non-denomination and we have exalted ourselves with flattering titles that we have given ourselves to get special recognition. The so-called five-fold ministry has become mere titles that we have given to men. What was once much similar to those in the building trades describing the workers responsibilities or function: carpenter, plumber, roofer, etc. has now become the exalted titles of apostle, prophet etc.. The names have been exalted and the faithful services have vanished. What five-fold ministry is working for the unity of the body of Christ or the building of His kingdom? Our labels and titles will not stand the test before Jesus in His hour of judgment, the hour when each man’s work will be judged. Some men’s works will be burned and others themselves will be destroyed. But we all know it will not be us, though we do the very things of which God promised He would send His judgment. We speak of the doctrine of the trinity while withhold from Him the manifestation of His unity before a perverted world. Because we have rejected Ps 133 and John 17, and have not repented for our sins, He has withheld the rain

of His Spirit and is going to send the rain of His judgment. He is jealous for His name and honors it and will bring down every name that man has built. We have yet to learn, “Judgment shall begin at the house of God…” We are witnessing a gradual erosion of our witness and testimony to the people of this nation and now the people are going to put us in bondage like Babylon put Israel in bondage in the height of their iniquity. We have spoken “smooth things” and have not told the people the truth. We have hid our sins and are living as though they are not there. We have taken pride in our sin and have forgotten the covenant of God. We have forgotten what it means to repent. We have thrown away the kingdom of God and have built our own divided kingdoms in our own name. We are no longer the people of God. We have served money as the means to expand our ministries while we have been building without His power. Jesus ran out the money changers of His day, and now the money changers have returned in our day. The moneymaking sin is full in the church in America. Jesus made it clear that man could not serve God and money and now we have returned to the sin of Israel and have trusted in our silver and gold. If our ministries come short, we cry and beg for money while we are poor in power. The first healing in the body of Christ was a declaration that “silver and gold have I none…” We have plenty of silver and gold and we are rich with goods and in need of nothing. We don’t need God to do what we do. We don’t need nor depend on the power anymore, we can do it all with money. We are an impoverished people and no one has uncovered our sin. This is God’s word for us, if we dare receive it. Prophecy from a true prophet of God Lam 2:14-17, “Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captives, but have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions. All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem: ‘Is this the city that is called 'the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?’ All your enemies have opened their mouth against you; they hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, ‘We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day we have waited for; we have found it, we have seen it!’ The Lord has done what He purposed; He has fulfilled His word which He commanded in days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, and He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.” NKJV We don’t need another good book, another good convention and another restoration movement. We need to examine our hearts and seek those who will uncover our sins and repent. We don’t need another day of prayer, we need to face the reality of the coming judgment and weep and cry out in repentance. I normally don’t quote dynamic translations of the bible, but “The Message” says it so well in an up-to-date articulation. "Listen to my Message, you Sodom-schooled leaders. Receive God's revelation, you Gomorrah-schooled people. ‘Why this frenzy of sacrifices?’ God's asking. ‘Don't you think I've had my fill of burnt sacrifices, rams and plump grain-fed calves? Don't you think I've had my fill of blood from bulls, lambs, and goats? When you come before me, who ever gave you the idea of acting like this, Running here and there, doing this and that — all this sheer commotion in the place provided for worship? Quit your worship charades. I can't stand your trivial religious games: Monthly conferences, weekly Sabbaths, special meetings — meetings, meetings, meetings — I can't stand

one more! Meetings for this, meetings for that. I hate them! You've worn me out! I'm sick of your religion, religion, religion, while you go right on sinning. When you put on your next prayer-performance, I'll be looking the other way. No matter how long or loud or often you pray, I'll not be listening. And do you know why? Because you've been tearing people to pieces [dividing His temple], and your hands are bloody. Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don't have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong.” Isa 1:10-16, THE MESSAGE I weep because we can no longer see. We are all excited about what “we think” God is doing in our midst. We have turned a deaf ear to the coming judgement that is coming on all of us. We want smooth things. “Who say to the seers, ‘Do not see,’ And to the prophets, ‘Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.’” Isa 30:10, NKJV