Praise the Lord! I pray everyone is well and enjoying God's blessing. Last Sunday was Resurrection Sunday and I and my wife were able to attend a wonderful service at our Church. God truly moved that day and the alter was filled with those touched by the word of God. I thank God He touched my body enough to allow me to attend the service and feel His presence in the place.
We had the usual Easter Sunday turnout. We had the faithful core group that comes out for almost every service, the casual crowd and the once a year crowd that come out once a year to get their annual blessing. Everybody was there including God. Our Pastor, Elder Jonnny Green, was in rare form and thunder and lightening seemed to be coming out of his mouth and as I sat there I was praying that some body would be set free and delivered that day. God wants to transform us from sinners to saints, from fleshly to spiritual. His word says in 2nd Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
There is a very popular movie series in the world called "Transformers" about these robots that look like normal cars, trucks, planes and other inanimate objects that can transform into these powerful intelligent robots and then turn back into objects again at will. Can you imagine driving a car and as you are driving the car stops and turns into a monster robot? Imagine yourself then walking home and finding that "car" parked in your driveway like nothing happened. Their jobs are to blend in with the normal machines until the time comes to take over.
There are "Transformers" in the Church, They sit next to you and they appear to be Christian. One day you are out fellowshipping with Brother or sister "Smith" and everything seems fine and then out of the blue Brother "Smith" says "Hey I feel like having a drink, you coming?" or as you are walking together he suddenly stops at a news stand and buys some porno magazines or steals something and then comes out and keeps walking as if nothing happened. These transformations mostly take place when you are not around. Christianity has become nothing more than a loose over coat worn by many to hide behaviors and issues we don't want to deal with or confess to others. They can be removed and put on at will. Romans 12:1+2 states
1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
The word used is "Transformed" not transform, by the renewing of your mind, the word transformed speaks to a one time event. We are called out of darkness by God not so we can go back and forth from light to darkness. Paul tells us in Galatians 5:1
1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Paul also writes in James 1:8
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
No body is saying you can't be overtaken by a fault but to one minute claim to be holy and the next minute to willfully turn away from God and living holy to return to your former state of being ruled by your flesh is unacceptable to God. We are not called to be "Transformers" but "Reformers" bringing about change for the glory of God everywhere we go.
God bless,Brother Darrell, A Watchman
We had the usual Easter Sunday turnout. We had the faithful core group that comes out for almost every service, the casual crowd and the once a year crowd that come out once a year to get their annual blessing. Everybody was there including God. Our Pastor, Elder Jonnny Green, was in rare form and thunder and lightening seemed to be coming out of his mouth and as I sat there I was praying that some body would be set free and delivered that day. God wants to transform us from sinners to saints, from fleshly to spiritual. His word says in 2nd Corinthians 5:17
17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
There is a very popular movie series in the world called "Transformers" about these robots that look like normal cars, trucks, planes and other inanimate objects that can transform into these powerful intelligent robots and then turn back into objects again at will. Can you imagine driving a car and as you are driving the car stops and turns into a monster robot? Imagine yourself then walking home and finding that "car" parked in your driveway like nothing happened. Their jobs are to blend in with the normal machines until the time comes to take over.
There are "Transformers" in the Church, They sit next to you and they appear to be Christian. One day you are out fellowshipping with Brother or sister "Smith" and everything seems fine and then out of the blue Brother "Smith" says "Hey I feel like having a drink, you coming?" or as you are walking together he suddenly stops at a news stand and buys some porno magazines or steals something and then comes out and keeps walking as if nothing happened. These transformations mostly take place when you are not around. Christianity has become nothing more than a loose over coat worn by many to hide behaviors and issues we don't want to deal with or confess to others. They can be removed and put on at will. Romans 12:1+2 states
1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
The word used is "Transformed" not transform, by the renewing of your mind, the word transformed speaks to a one time event. We are called out of darkness by God not so we can go back and forth from light to darkness. Paul tells us in Galatians 5:1
1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Paul also writes in James 1:8
8A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
No body is saying you can't be overtaken by a fault but to one minute claim to be holy and the next minute to willfully turn away from God and living holy to return to your former state of being ruled by your flesh is unacceptable to God. We are not called to be "Transformers" but "Reformers" bringing about change for the glory of God everywhere we go.
God bless,Brother Darrell, A Watchman
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