Itching Ears

In many different places within the scriptures it speaks of Jesus speaking with authority, and that was witnessed by those very familiar with promised words void and empty of any true substance or authority.

So many crave a gospel that comfortably fits in well with their life style, just take a look around, that ‘met’ need is being offered on every street corner.
I love what Wayne Jacobsen says here from The Naked Church; “In a word, kingship leads to exploitation, even if those involved don’t intend to do so. It stifles the growth of hungry believers and it alienates the world from hearing the gospel.
Nothing has turned off this generation more than people who use Christianity to play political power games for the exaltation of their own ego and charge the poor for it.”

We who have believed that the role/office of the prophet was in tact have refused to let them face us with our own nakedness. “Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions. Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!” (Isaiah 30:10-11).

Doesn’t this ring a familiar bell in Paul’s warning to the church; “For the time is coming when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and wholesome instruction, but, having ears itching [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will gather to themselves one teacher after another to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold, And will turn aside from hearing the truth and wander off into myths and man-made fictions.”

“Humanity has never regarded truth itself that valuable-only an illusion of truth that leads to personal ease.”

As we the church are coming awake to His life in us, and learning that we can indeed live out of/from, every word that comes from the Father’s mouth, He is establishing in the earth words/lives of authority that are being heard through the voices of those once gagged and muted by the cheap tricks of the father of lies.

In sharing with my brother Dave this morning, I jumped for joy in hearing how Father met him and set him free. He was reading an email from a friend he has stayed in touch with over the years. The email was heavily laced in such oppressing and fear filled words. Dave said at first he was simply going to delete the email, but decided to respond. In speaking the truth to his friend, suddenly the Truth, Christ in Dave was unexpectedly speaking to him, and in hearing these words of authority, the lies that had been binding in his own life lost their death grip on him.
In following Him, we experience the truth, and the Truth makes/sets us FREE.

It’s not a seminar, it’s a revelation!

Rich

The Last Gospel

For those wanting to read some wonderful and encouraging insightful words of hope, my friend Art has started a discussion on, "The Last Gospel".

Enjoy part one .

Rich

Why Didn’t I think of This

Hey dude, aren’t you Saul of Tarsus? Yes, I mean no, well I use to be, I now go by the name of Paul the Apostle of grace.
Are you still into that Jehovah religion thing? No, not really, I’m into Jesus now, and man talk about a huge demographic this is, its total virgin territory with so many pagan Gentiles ripe for the picking.
Yeah as a matter of fact this revelation thing that I received from Jesus, I’m now working on condensing this encrypted mystery gospel into a formula based thing called, ‘The Grace Walk’. Wow, that sounds cool, is there money to be made in this stuff?
Loads of it man, hand over fist money, I just have to fine tune this message and set it up whereby those who are ‘saved’ they can read only what I put up on my blog, but for those who will support ‘my ministry’ with a monetary gift, and that will be determined by how much they can get by how much the commit to financially. Yeah I can see the dough flooding in now, easy street here I come.

See the deal is, as long as they don’t know that they have free total access to all that God has for them individually, then I will convince them that their continued growth will be a moot point without hearing my special revelatory insights, but of course this is going to cost them big time.I’m hoping that buying into this set up will provoke those on the fringe of Graceland to see how foolish they are thinking that they can have a vital relationship with God apart from what I know and have to offer them.
Anyway, I need to focus on getting my next blog-podcast up and running, I have laced these with some powerful enticements to cause them to dig in even deeper so that might feel they are the choose few…damn this Jesus message, grace walk thang is so slick.


Has the Mystery Gospel been condensed, reduced into a ‘Grace Walk’ message, no longer needing to rely upon the Father of our spirit to enlighten us? Technology is so cool isn’t it, now we can learn what Paul did, only we can shorten the tedious and painful process by cashing in on those great books etc that are available from those who have decrypted this extremely difficult message and broken it down into laymen terms.

Rich