Excerpt from Sunday morning:
If you go to the South Side of Chicago and have a ministry booth at a fair . . . when our preacher Art Johnson's Shorewood South Church does this, there's a line from here to the back of this building. The interest is there. We don't see that kind of response at the Walworth County Fair or Schaumburg's September fair.
In the African American community is a natural interest and affinity to spiritual things, and if there's a possibility of America being turned around, it's going to be based upon spiritual things. The problem is, instead of being taught God's Word, grounded in it and having the Spirit of God work through . . . a lack of discernment to see the difference in this (from BLM politics, etc.) and to put personal and group identity above the Spirit is going to be the last straw.
We're not fighting flesh and blood; there are spiritual issues underneath that need to be addressed. Address the real thing.
I don't care what side you're on, you're both missing it. Even if the conspiracy you believe is real, factual and actual, it's also irrelevant to who you are in Jesus Christ and how you should respond to it. COVID-19, Plandemic, Scamdemic, Shamdemic. It's irrelevant. It's all based on the fear of death. and you've got the answer to the fear of death so why don't you talk about that!
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Shortly before his untimely death, world-recognized Bible teacher Keith Blades emphasized in his newsletter that the "growing darkness” accompanying a man-devised alternative reality should make it overwhelmingly apparent to us that "the wisdom of this world" is useless and worthless to us.
He wrote, “But more than this, we should begin to clearly see that it is not only fraught with the foolishness and emptiness of ungodly men’s vain imaginations, sophistry, and corrupt reasoning, but that any attempt to incorporate any of it into our (Christian) walk actually will do damage to our edification and to our vocational training. Hence we should recognize that it is harmful and even dangerous to us.
“In like manner should we also become increasingly disenchanted with, and so unimpressed with ‘the fashion of this world.’ For this world’s criterions for determining what is meaningful in life, what is noble, what is honourable, what is worthwhile, and the like, are clearly not founded upon godliness.
“Instead, ‘the fashion of this world’ is primarily and predominantly hedonistic. As such its pronouncements regarding what can bring a person happiness, satisfaction, and contentment, and therefore what makes one’s life full and rich, are founded firmly upon the pursuit of carnal pleasures, and the acquisition and possession of material things.
“ . . . The expectation is that as we are taught more about these 'works of darkness' we would become even more unimpressed with them, perceiving them to be even more distasteful and detestable than what we first recognized.”
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Jordan: “Paul says in I Corinthians 4:9, ‘We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.’ You reckon that’s a pretty good social standing?! Not much. He says, ‘We are fools for Christ’s sake.’ The world didn’t think he had much education. They thought he was a nut. One guy said to him, ‘You’re mad; you’re a crazy man.’
“Paul says to the Corinthians, ‘You’re honorable but we’re despised. We’re weak but you’re strong. Even in this present hour we hunger and thirst.’ Paul says, ‘I warn you that there's a lot you can face.’
“If the health and wealth preachers are right, Paul must have been one of the most wicked men who ever lived because he’s a guy who says, ‘I’m hungry right now. I don’t have enough to eat. I’m thirsty. I’m naked. I haven’t got clothes to wear.’
“He didn’t open up a closet and say, ‘I can’t figure out what to wear today.’ He said, ‘I don’t have it to wear.’ He says, ‘Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place.’ And yet he says, ‘I labor with my hands.’
“Paul says, ‘Be careful for nothing. Don’t worry about things.’ That word ‘careful’ there has the idea of anxiety and worry and fretting. Paul says, 'Don’t be all caught up.’ You know how you get that way? Pride.
“We have a day coming where God is going to declare us before the whole universe as His adult sons.
“You have a realm of doctrinal understanding that tells you what you see isn’t what’s lasting and with the eye of faith you know ‘the sufferings of this present world aren’t worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.’
“You operate in the realm of the reality of who you are in Christ and it’s inappropriate to have problems of life loom up and cut out the sunlight of the Book—the light from the Word of God."
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