After a speech, pro-life activist Penny Lea was approached by an old man. Weeping, he told her the following story:
"I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews but, like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?
A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the
whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!
Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time that train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. God, forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians yet did nothing to intervene.
"Their screams tormented us... If some of their screams reached our ears we'd just sing a little louder."
Now, so many years later, I see it happening all over again in America. God, forgive us as Americans for we have blocked out the screams of millions of our own children. The holocaust is here. The response is the same as it was in his country - SILENCE!"
Have you ever wondered HOW people could have stood by and let the holocaust just happen? Do you wonder why the Christians in this story chose to just sing their praise to God a little louder to drown out the victim's cries?
Christians today have a distorted view of who Jesus Christ really is. The ideal that Jesus Christ is just some good ole boy that understands the sin in our lives is a fatal and eternal mistake. The true doctrine of Christianity and what it means to be a true follower of Jesus Christ has been compromised.
Many so called Christians today have let themselves be misled by wolves in sheep's clothing, Not only by these deceivers but also by themselves by not reading scripture daily and communing with the Lord.
Proverbs 24: 30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Believers today have been conquered by the enemy and have given Satan full legal right to rule and rain in their lives.
When we hear, read, and see the news reports of international Christians being persecuted and murdered for their testimony, babies being aborted, Homosexuality being excepted as normal. Christians with the response that if it doesn't affect me I'm not concerned with it. This ineffective response is the effect of singing louder and blocking out the cries of the Holy Spirit and of the Saints of God, with entertainment influenced by the world that has been accepted by the church.
We think that our twitters and Facebook post accomplish great victories but they are of no effect and are invalid attempts to validate our conquered spiritually dead walk to appease our conscience for being a lukewarm Christian. We are a delusion thinking that this is the gospel call.
The pride and arrogance of denominations and doctrines of beliefs has separated and blinded believers from being effective members in the body of Jesus Christ.
The Church is an image of a modern day Esau who is just going through the motions on the outside neglecting the spiritual responsibility and trading it for temporary satisfactions of physical desires. Christians today are so ready to sell out their God given rights for fleshly desires.
The American Jesus
The American Jesus way of salvation is not by being washed in the blood, transformed by repentance, sanctification, and the renewing of his mind, but by the perception of mankind's ideal of who Jesus is.
Who is this Jesus in the church today?
So many people in the world today and that have passed on into eternity, to a life of everlasting torment because of this lazy lukewarm prideful attitude by so many people who call themselves believers in Jesus Christ. We just sing louder to drown out their cries, and signs of help, so we can continue to be disillusioned, and preoccupied with our own selfish lives.
People effected by:
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Put on your spiritual eyes and observe the state of the American Church.
Are you serving another Jesus?
2Cor 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
The Church has gotten away from the doctrine taught by the Real Jesus Christ.
Today's pulpits are filled with pride and self-idolization. Not concerned with the state of their congregation when a believer is offended and decides to leave there is no going after the lost sheep. There is only self-justification as to the reason people are leaving the church.
Look around in the churches today men and women walking around as idles of lust. Women you can have your skirt as long as you want to but if the print is loud, eye catching, and fits tightly you are drawing attention to yourself and being a stumbling block in the house of God. Low cut tops tight jeans knee length boots and high heels that only used to be worn by a harlot are not sacrifices that are holy and acceptable unto God.
Men with dress pant or jeans worn too tight and muscle shirts, hair with gel and hair spray like a women. Fancy watches and gold chains wandering eyes with a rubber necks are not sacrifices that are holy and acceptable unto God.
If you're more concerned for your appearance than holding a holy reverence in the house of God you don't know who the real Jesus is.
When I see a Christian family and the wife and daughters are dressed provocatively. It makes me think of several things.
1) I think where is the father's presence in that family?
2) Why is he not taking god's word seriously?
3) Why does he not have control over his family?
4) Why is he allowing his family to contribute to the problem instead being part of the solution?
5) Why doesn't he be truthful about how strong the temptation of lust of the flesh can be?
6) Why doesn't he tell his family they are dressing to be a stumbling block for other men and potentially destroying marriages?
7) Why does the dad not want to rid all of this sin (leaven) out of his life including his family?
8) Why is he allowing this sick cycle to go on and not giving his family the knowledge they need?
It is destroying lives, marriages, and families and we just sit back and sing louder.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
Rom 12:1 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.
Who is the Real Jesus?
All we have to do is open the bible and read it for ourselves and we will find the real Jesus. But if we keep singing louder and ignore the lost people who are crying for help and continue being occupied by the distractions of this world and playing church we will have to stand before the Lord and give an account.
Prov 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Matt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Friend, I challenge you today with a question. Are you serving another Jesus?
To hear more on this topic listen to my sermon titled "The American Jesus Says Sing Louder"
"I lived in Germany during the Nazi holocaust. I considered myself a Christian. I attended church since I was a small boy. We had heard the stories of what was happening to the Jews but, like most people today in this country, we tried to distance ourselves from the reality of what was really taking place. What could anyone do to stop it?
A railroad track ran behind our small church, and each Sunday morning we would hear the
whistle from a distance and then the clacking of the wheels moving over the track. We became disturbed when one Sunday we noticed cries coming from the train as it passed by. We grimly realized that the train was carrying Jews. They were like cattle in those cars!
Week after week that train whistle would blow. We would dread to hear the sound of those old wheels because we knew that the Jews would begin to cry out to us as they passed our church. It was so terribly disturbing! We could do nothing to help these poor miserable people, yet their screams tormented us. We knew exactly at what time that whistle would blow, and we decided the only way to keep from being so disturbed by the cries was to start singing our hymns. By the time that train came rumbling past the church yard, we were singing at the top of our voices. If some of the screams reached our ears, we'd just sing a little louder until we could hear them no more. Years have passed and no one talks about it much anymore, but I still hear that train whistle in my sleep. I can still hear them crying out for help. God, forgive all of us who called ourselves Christians yet did nothing to intervene.
"Their screams tormented us... If some of their screams reached our ears we'd just sing a little louder."
Now, so many years later, I see it happening all over again in America. God, forgive us as Americans for we have blocked out the screams of millions of our own children. The holocaust is here. The response is the same as it was in his country - SILENCE!"
Have you ever wondered HOW people could have stood by and let the holocaust just happen? Do you wonder why the Christians in this story chose to just sing their praise to God a little louder to drown out the victim's cries?
Christians today have a distorted view of who Jesus Christ really is. The ideal that Jesus Christ is just some good ole boy that understands the sin in our lives is a fatal and eternal mistake. The true doctrine of Christianity and what it means to be a true follower of Jesus Christ has been compromised.
Many so called Christians today have let themselves be misled by wolves in sheep's clothing, Not only by these deceivers but also by themselves by not reading scripture daily and communing with the Lord.
Proverbs 24: 30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. 32 Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.
Believers today have been conquered by the enemy and have given Satan full legal right to rule and rain in their lives.
When we hear, read, and see the news reports of international Christians being persecuted and murdered for their testimony, babies being aborted, Homosexuality being excepted as normal. Christians with the response that if it doesn't affect me I'm not concerned with it. This ineffective response is the effect of singing louder and blocking out the cries of the Holy Spirit and of the Saints of God, with entertainment influenced by the world that has been accepted by the church.
We think that our twitters and Facebook post accomplish great victories but they are of no effect and are invalid attempts to validate our conquered spiritually dead walk to appease our conscience for being a lukewarm Christian. We are a delusion thinking that this is the gospel call.
The pride and arrogance of denominations and doctrines of beliefs has separated and blinded believers from being effective members in the body of Jesus Christ.
The Church is an image of a modern day Esau who is just going through the motions on the outside neglecting the spiritual responsibility and trading it for temporary satisfactions of physical desires. Christians today are so ready to sell out their God given rights for fleshly desires.
The American Jesus
The American Jesus way of salvation is not by being washed in the blood, transformed by repentance, sanctification, and the renewing of his mind, but by the perception of mankind's ideal of who Jesus is.
Who is this Jesus in the church today?
- The American Jesus isn't coming back for a long time; he might not even come back.
- The American Jesus doesn't want to judge us but only quick to turn the other cheek.
- The American Jesus listens to all the latest music, secular or Christian music.
- The American Jesus will bang his head and he likes a good beat and a heavy guitar riff.
- The American Jesus was the first one to turn the water into wine, so drinking is OK.
- The American Jesus teaches that if it doesn't affect you then you shouldn't let it bother you
- The American Jesus says if there's a fellow believer with one foot in hell don't warn him or her it's none of your business it's between them and God.
So many people in the world today and that have passed on into eternity, to a life of everlasting torment because of this lazy lukewarm prideful attitude by so many people who call themselves believers in Jesus Christ. We just sing louder to drown out their cries, and signs of help, so we can continue to be disillusioned, and preoccupied with our own selfish lives.
People effected by:
- Abortion
- Alcoholism
- Drug Addiction
- Pornography
- Abuse
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Put on your spiritual eyes and observe the state of the American Church.
Are you serving another Jesus?
2Cor 11:4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
The Church has gotten away from the doctrine taught by the Real Jesus Christ.
Today's pulpits are filled with pride and self-idolization. Not concerned with the state of their congregation when a believer is offended and decides to leave there is no going after the lost sheep. There is only self-justification as to the reason people are leaving the church.
Look around in the churches today men and women walking around as idles of lust. Women you can have your skirt as long as you want to but if the print is loud, eye catching, and fits tightly you are drawing attention to yourself and being a stumbling block in the house of God. Low cut tops tight jeans knee length boots and high heels that only used to be worn by a harlot are not sacrifices that are holy and acceptable unto God.
Men with dress pant or jeans worn too tight and muscle shirts, hair with gel and hair spray like a women. Fancy watches and gold chains wandering eyes with a rubber necks are not sacrifices that are holy and acceptable unto God.
If you're more concerned for your appearance than holding a holy reverence in the house of God you don't know who the real Jesus is.
When I see a Christian family and the wife and daughters are dressed provocatively. It makes me think of several things.
1) I think where is the father's presence in that family?
2) Why is he not taking god's word seriously?
3) Why does he not have control over his family?
4) Why is he allowing his family to contribute to the problem instead being part of the solution?
5) Why doesn't he be truthful about how strong the temptation of lust of the flesh can be?
6) Why doesn't he tell his family they are dressing to be a stumbling block for other men and potentially destroying marriages?
7) Why does the dad not want to rid all of this sin (leaven) out of his life including his family?
8) Why is he allowing this sick cycle to go on and not giving his family the knowledge they need?
It is destroying lives, marriages, and families and we just sit back and sing louder.
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
Rom 12:1 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.
Who is the Real Jesus?
All we have to do is open the bible and read it for ourselves and we will find the real Jesus. But if we keep singing louder and ignore the lost people who are crying for help and continue being occupied by the distractions of this world and playing church we will have to stand before the Lord and give an account.
Prov 24:12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Matt 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Friend, I challenge you today with a question. Are you serving another Jesus?
To hear more on this topic listen to my sermon titled "The American Jesus Says Sing Louder"
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