WE HAVE REACHED AN ALL TIME HIGH IN LOWS

"The same things win that always won. And we just have a different bunch of excuses if we lose."—Coach Paul William "Bear" Bryant (1913-1983)

What the great coach was saying is when it is all said and done, it’s all about being solid in the fundamentals of the game. If you can block better and tackle better for sixty minutes, protect the ball and play great special teams, you will win. It is more about Jimmy’s and Joe’s than X’s and O’s! If Coach Bryant was still coaching I do not believe he would be running the spread.

Would to God that the church would walk in this wisdom and get back to the fundamentals of the Book of Act’s. In my twenty-seven years in the church I have seen everything from inner healing to a laughing revival. I have been through the shepherding movement, seen everybody get a personal prophesy, and have heard that when three million Jews left Egypt they all left as millionaires! I’ve lived to see modern day prophet’s and apostles commission a “young champion” evangelist and exalt the man to the point of nausea, only to see the “revival” end in adultery. Now to top it all off I have seen the latest “glory” manifestation: Sudden weight loss—I guess we can pack it on and the Lord will take it off!! One teacher has said we no longer even have to confess our sins; good thing: I don’t know if we’d have enough time.

Just how ridiculous do we want to be? If the world realize what a fiasco much of the “charismatic” church was pulling off, they wouldn’t have time to cover the recent “balloon boy" hoax. We live in a time where the fruits of sin are at an all time high and yet some in the church insist that “sin is no longer an issue” with God. Then why do so many New Testament scriptures have to do with correction of the church? How is it that if God can not lie, and He has said no idolater will inherit the Kingdom of God, we preach that there are “saved” idolaters—sin does not affect your born again spirit? Have we not reached an all time high in lows?

The church in the Book of Act’s majored on repentance, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost, and the preaching and teaching of the Word of God. Their repentance was on a daily basis, they were filled and refilled with the Spirit and their preaching and teaching was from heaven—it was not the fabrication of man’s mind. How strange would they have considered a seminar on the newest way to grow a church. Peter pointed men to the Christ that they had crucified with “wicked hands”; today we crucify the truth because we do not want to offend wicked hands!

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
— Jeremiah 6:16

May God multiply the true preaching and teaching of the Word. If we are not preaching and teaching the Word of God may He mercifully kill us!!!