Recovered In Christ

Monday, December 29th, 2014

I just love how these people who are the most obsessed with “open mindedness” and being inclusive are the first to start labelling people as dogmatic or judgmental if they say anything outside of the prepackaged liberal new Agey approved toolkit.

Here’s the thing…the reason why you think anyone who claims to know/have absolute truth is being dogmatic, the reason why you think no one, including yourselves can know absolute truth, isn’t because it is impossible, it’s just because you don’t have it. You have no spirit of truth in you nor a desire for truth in you – you actually think that anyone who claims Truth is a dangerous zealot promoting dogma. You actually think the safe route is to simply put your faith in “no truth” and that everyone’s truth is truth.

But you are so wrong friend. Deceived. And wrong. And actually really annoying. Because out of all the “zealots” that I meet you are the worst kind. Because at least the J.W’s, Mormons, Muslims, fanatical tongue speakers and atheists have the balls to actually have a belief. But your dogma is to pretend that you don’t have any.

You aren’t defending “open mindedness” or promoting “many paths to God”…you are actually an enemy of God, a prostitute trying to teach us about marriage.

And I’m sick of it! Quoting early AA history and Bill Wilson quotes and random shabby chic Bhuddist sayings to support an “inclusive” recovery philosophy. It’s bullshit. Bill Wilson spent 20 years struggling with suicidal depression and untreated sex addiction and spearheaded a demonic cult that oppresses and destroys the spirits of people more than alcohol ever did, because he walked away from the biblical truth that saved him and exchanged it for an angel of light and all that it offered.

But there IS still a way out. One way. God’s way.

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

The reason why some of you get into so much trouble for what you say is not because the words you use are all that different from the words that “conflict free” Christians use – it’s because you actually mean them.

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Monday, December 15, 2014

How many times have I heard my buddy believers quote this verse? They love to!

Joel 2:25—“I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten”

They love to quote this – partly because they have an infatuation with sounding cryptically prophetic – and partly because they really want to believe that God will restore to them what has been lost. And He does. But what they rarely, if ever think about or ask is…why did HE send the locusts to begin with?

See everybody and their uncle likes the God of restoration, of renewal, of mercy and forgiveness – they push to the front of that line to hop on His wagon – but it never ceases to amaze me how their pride and arrogance blinds them from seeing the rest of who He is.

The God that you want restoration from is the SAME God who sent those locusts. The God of mercy is also the God of justice. The God that you are asking forgiveness from is also the One who has a major problem with sin.

The truth is – there can be no renewal, restoration, return of what the “locusts” have eaten without repentance.

If you think that makes what I am proposing “legalistic” or hard or mean…then you seriously need to revisit the Bible that you love to regurgitate, because you are so busy spitting out selective scriptures, that you have never taken the time to digest it to begin with.

You are so busy overlooking the fact that it is God who sent his judgment into your life – a very real consequence to the evil that you love. Even if you do recognize that, you are so quick to jump into sermonizing on receiving what the locusts have taken – that you completely miss the whole repentance thing. Again – why did He send the locusts to begin with?

Have you intimately come to know what God really thinks of you? Do you agree with him? Do you agree with His opinion on sin? On your sin?

You are not being asked to remove all sin and evil and hardness of heart from your own life, you are not being asked to manufacture sorrow for sin, but what I am asking, is that you stop defending your sin. Stop feeding your fat, insatiable pride with all the excuses we’re all familiar with. Stop focusing on what God needs to restore and instead focus on admitting and addressing what attracted the locusts to begin with. THAT is your real work to do.

My mission in life is not to comfort you as you sin – it isn’t to go to meetings and church groups with you so you can show off what you know about the Bible all the while you are living like a devil – and have no conscience about it. My mission is to call you to repentance. Even if you stop liking me.

“Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
for the Lord your God? Joel 2:12-15

“The conclusion of this section of Joel summarizes God’s intention for the restoration: “And my people shall never again be put to shame. You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God and there is none else. And my people shall never again be put to shame” (Joel 2:26-27). God must deal with sin, but when His people repent, they find abundant blessing that more than compensates for what was lost in the judgment. His grace abounds.” – GQ

http://biblia.com/books/esv/Joe

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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Someone mentioned to me that my posts are being plagiarized…lol…I’m flattered!!

Rewind Wednesdays:

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

There are some who really think they are doing God’s work as “peacemakers” – ambassadors of Mr. Let’s get along with everybody. But the truth is, you are actually aiding and abetting those who breathe out spiritual violence against the Christ you claim to Love. You think that makes you a peacemaker? It doesn’t. The fact that you are able to fellowship with people who harass and slander those of us for bringing the Bible back into recovery meetings makes you worse than weak, or double minded. It makes you worse than the persecutors themselves. Being friends with someone who hates my brother would make me share in the condemnation that hatred brings.

Preferring the company of those who live in darkness, and who attack those in the light you claim to be a part of, doesn’t make you a “bringer” of the light – it makes you deceived about the standing you think you have with Him – who IS The Light.

“Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them…

…Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.

But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” 1 John 2:9-20

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