During the time I was finishing up writing about the seven churches in the book of Revelation, which is for all professing churches today, I felt that the message today is setting the final stage with a warning before Jesus returns.
This is what I was jotting down as the Spirit of God was feeding me. Many churches are functioning like a social club, and that is not what the church of God should be doing. They are not about our Father’s business. Did you not know that I must be about My Father’s business?” (Luke 2:49b).
The church’s spiritual eyes need to be opened. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints (Ephesians 1:18). The church needs some spiritual eye salve. Eye salve in the Bible refers to a medicinal ointment believed to heal vision and provide spiritual insight.
They can only see from their natural (carnal) senses The Word of God should have first place over everything pertaining to His church., and they have made God’s house of prayer a den of thieves.
How is that so? They are feeding people dessert rather than the sincere Word, which causes spiritual malnutrition. They are robbing people of the Word of God. The church has become a place of entertainment, and their ears are being tickled to soothe their emotions.
When the children of God are putting Him on the back burner, He is not being worshipped in Spirit and in truth (John 4:24). It is a shame for people to call the songs they are singing praise and worship, when they are operating in the flesh.
Even though the church is a physical building, it has a spiritual purpose, and that is to glorify God. the church (temple), as well as our temple (where the Spirit of God lives in). How do you act in and out of the church?
How can there be true worship when everything else is prioritized? How can unsaved people get healed when the church is sick –Jesus answered and said to them, Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick (Luke 5:31).
It is time for the church to examine itself to see where they are in the faith; repent and turn its heart back to God. Judgment day is coming soon. Please don’t make New Year’ resolutions; purpose in your heart to surrender your all to the Lord.
I beseech [urge] you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable [within reason] service. 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 (Romans 12:1-2).
His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org
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