Get unplugged, don't worry about form

In the “last days,” all the nations of the earth, including the United States (which will be so insignificant at that point it won’t really matter), will gather themselves against Jerusalem and against Israel. The Antichrist will rule the Middle East as he harnesses the influence of the nations.

“When the Antichrist tries to put ‘the last days’ together—you got to remember Satan doesn’t have a kingdom that’s made of peaceful, loving, sweet people,” says Jordan. “He’s crafty enough to keep all these different creatures--people who’d cut each other’s throats if they had a chance to get ahead . . . He’s crafty enough to stay ahead of it all. He sits on a boiling pot with the lid jiggling. The Antichrist is going to be that master craftsman putting this thing together.

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“Satan keeps up-to-date on what God’s doing so he can oppose it. He doesn’t shoot blanks and he doesn’t waste ammunition shooting at something God used to do and isn’t doing anymore. The Adversary knows God’s not trying to repossess the land of Palestine today. What’s He doing? He’s forming the Body of Christ.

“One brother said, ‘I fear for the future of our country.’ Well, I would, too, if I thought (the good times) were never supposed to end! What I fear about the future is (the Body of Christ) not being prepared for Winter.

“My answer to this guy is I’d say, ‘Get unplugged.’ By that, I mean what Paul says in Romans 12:1-2:

[1] I 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.
[2] And 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.

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“Don’t follow the cohort thinking. You go to get over seasonal thinking and learn not to evaluate the way things were yesterday, but understand the way it’s GOING to be.

"You know what we need to do? We need to get busy talking to people about the Lord and sharing the revelation God’s given us today.

“Be involved in getting that out and get over all the form issues that say it’s got to be done ‘my way or the highway.’ Understand the key is to take the truth and put it in people and let that truth in them do the work of the ministry.

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“Paul says, ‘Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

“When he says one mind, the business way of saying that is we have ‘agenda harmony.’ We’re all on the same page about where we’re going and we’re striving, we’re working, we’re laboring together to the point of exhaustion to get there.

“And then he says ‘in nothing terrified by you adversaries.’ Because there is opposition. You and I have been called to radical risk-taking faith and service. We haven’t been called to living lives of ease. We've been called to lives of united, radical, risk-taking service for the gospel. That’s what you do in the Wintertime!

“It may look radical to the system, but if it’s based in the Book, it won’t be radical; it’ll be FAITH! In this Wintertime, you’re going to get the greatest privilege of your life, and if you’re older, people are going to need your wisdom. If you’re younger, you’re going to be building what you’re going to carry throughout the future."

(new article tomorrow)