WHICH WILL IT BE?

WHICH WILL IT BE?

Have you ever come to a fork in the road, and wondered which way is the right route to go? I have done it, both in the natural, and in the Spiritual. It is a rough experience in either realm. We want to avoid it if we can.

The Church world, expecially the Charismatic group, have come to just such a "fork" in the road.

We have truths, which God is clearly shedding light on, but they do not follow the "standard curriculum" at all.

The painful decision is upon us. Will we follow what God is clearly showing us, or will we adhere to what we have always believed to be true? Or will we, worse yet, try to mix the two - the old teachings and the new teachings? THEY DO NOT MIX!

We have most of the ingredients of a potential disaster within our ranks today. We have the "makins" of mass confusion.

To illustrate what I mean: God is clearly showing us today that He is planning to pour out upon the Church the most powerful anointing of His Spirit the world has ever seen. We are learning that God will empower (anoint) His Church to subdue and overthrow the "Kosmos", or World Order. This means the economic, political, and religious aspects together. We revel in this knowledge, hardly able to comprehend what it all means.

The sad part of the matter is that we often try to fit this new light into what we have believed through the years about what is going to happen on the earth.

The "standard curriculum" tells us of "Anti Christ", "Great Tribulation", "Any-minute Rapture", "Return of the Jews", the "Revived Roman Empire," and a whole list of others.

This curriculum, for the most part, has been handed down to us by wonderful men of God who did the best they could with the light they had. But they were working without the added revelation which we are now receiving from the Spirit of the Word. New light from God often does violence to the old teachings, which is what we are facing right now. The old and the new are clashing violently. And, sadly, some of the Word was deliberately altered by men who wanted to divert the attention they were receiving as God began to shed light into the life of Martin Luther, as well as others of the Reformers. Some of The Word has been turned into a lie!

The painful task before us today is sorting it out, to see what will stand the test of present revelation from God.

Painful, because of the violence it is doing to our emotions when we realize we have been wrong in our understanding.

Painful, because for the most part, the waters ahead of us are largely uncharted, and we will have to depend upon the "compass" of the Spirit to guide us. We will not have the familiar landmarks to take bearings from. It CAN lead to shipwreck.

Already, a few hulls are appearing along the rocky shores. Someone's compass was not properly "boxed."

Insincere motives of the heart can badly distort our sense of "direction".

JESUS, SAVIOUR, PILOT ME.