As we enter some very difficult times ahead, there will be life situations and circumstances that will present a faith challenge to Christians. When the world starts coming apart, the real Church will come together in a true unity. This true unity will be rooted in a true Gospel – not this crazy perversion of the gospel that has been centered around the love of money and the love of self. God is about to shake up the church world and bring judgment on this abominable lie being preached as gospel – and judgment will begin in the House of God.
The true Church will transition from what has been to what really is. There’s that word again – transition. When Cindy Jacobs was here, she said a lot about transition. Cindy said 2011 is going to be a pretty tough year for the Church. There’s going to be a lot of shaking going on and a lot of change (birthing new and better vision). This change is going to look differently than most people think. It’s not going to be change “for the sake of change” or to accomplish any man-made goals. It’s going to look a lot more like upheaval in our thinking and in our priorities.
God wants to birth His strategic end-time plan in those who will embrace this transitional process. He is looking for those whom He can trust to run with His priorities in one of the most critical times in the history of mankind. It is time for His justice to be known and enforced. The time is near – this is the year it begins.
The sad thing about the perverted gospel being preached today is that many Christians are so accustomed to hearing the babble (disguised as gospel) and it sounds so familiar to them, that they think it’s real – or right – or true – or comfortable –or just the way it is. What they are really hearing and settling for is a perversion of faith. Sadly, many will be shipwrecked in their faith because their gospel didn’t work for them like they have been taught it would.
The false “gospel” being preached today says that Jesus came to save people from a lack of money, a lack of purpose, a lack of happiness, or from living a stress-filled and problem-filled existence, i.e. “Happy Church”.
In days to come, true unity has to go beyond the local church, or even the denominations. True unity has to be rooted in the knowledge of a Gospel that is so pure it’s unchallengeable! The true Gospel sets sinners free who are destined for God’s wrath unless they come to the saving knowledge of the grace of Christ and His death in our place (John 3:16). This is the Gospel Paul and John and all the disciples preached and this is the “faith of the Gospel” around which Paul told the Philippians they should be united.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him. For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. (Romans 5:8-10)
Any church that does not clearly and publicly preach this message from the pulpit, yet talks about “unity,” is promoting a false and man-made corporate unity (even within the church) that is unbiblical. And it’s going to get worse as the world’s problems bring about the circumstances that will cry out for an answer or relief from the Times of Trouble.
First, we have to get past the “love of money” gospel. It isn’t true, it has never been true, and it will fail you in the days ahead. We have to understand that God will not be mocked with a false gospel. He did not send His Son to die so that we could live in luxury. He did not have one good thing to say about money, in fact, He warned against the love of it! What an abomination! Jesus died that our eternal souls might not perish if we believe in Him – period!
We must know Jesus as the Savior – the sacrifice that was given for OUR sin! We ARE sinners – we need a Savior! And this Jesus who died to save us is coming again very soon! That reality cannot be minimized, diluted, or incorporated in some other agenda! And when He comes, He is coming for those who are carriers of His Truth – that God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, will not perish but have eternal life! (John 3:16)
“Unity” is not walking in lockstep behind someone’s purpose or vision statement.
“Unity” is not agreeing together for things God has not promised you!
When Bob Hartley was here, he talked about 5 waves of supernatural challenge coming against the nations in 2011. One of those waves was “false unity”. Bob said “Jesus showed me those who would join together in wrong alliances and not around a lovesick God who was lovesick for people. Instead, they would gather around the survival of human beings and out of their desperate need would purpose to make false alliances.”
Unless the Church understands the meaning of true unity in the Times of Trouble ahead, they will misplace their faith in wrong precepts, and may even rely on and readily accept the world’s solutions, substitutions and counterfeits. There will be more and more rhetoric from the media and false teachers claiming to have the answers for the woes of mankind. They will be very convincing and sound very logical – to the untrained spiritual ear!
The bottom line is that we must be very careful who and what we align ourselves with!
The winds of doctrine that are blowing people about and undermining their precious faith must be resisted. Teaching the truth of God’s wisdom with God’s Word will give the Church the spiritual strength to withstand these winds and to progress in true Christian unity.
