Thursday, Mar 26, 2009

3/26 - No More Freedom of Worship?

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Ok, ok, I know. You are going through withdrawals without your TWG fix! Unfortunately two things conspired against me. #1 I was under the weather, and #2 I was at a Pastors meeting… Ouch… that preacher gave me a headache every time he got up there to preach! I really didn’t feel well and didn’t get as much out of it as I would have liked… and when I wasn’t in meetings I was so exhausted I was sleeping… and then I was still tired when I woke up. Enough of this pity for me! Despite all that we managed to have a good time and listen to some great messages on the need for us Christians to mingle with the world. We’ve gotta quit being worldly anorexics and hang around with unbelievers or we will never win anyone to Christ. It’s our commission!

Today is March 26, this is time with God, I’m Pastor Dennis - I’ve been waiting here for you. Welcome to our life transforming community. We are doing something of eternal significance. We are redeeming the time. That is one of the basic premises of TWG. We believe that what we do every day is so important that we must do the important things each day. That is why we read the word every Day

Today's Scripture reading is Judges 15; Luke 14
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Today’s thought comes from 2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Look out for the future Führer! There is coming a maniacal man in the end of days who will dominate and subjugate the world. He will be an egomaniac who is so full of himself and so driven by the demonic that he will want the focus of all the world to be on him alone! There are three evil acts he will do in regards to God. #1. He will oppose all that is called God. This includes all worship. This primarily relates to the worship of the True God but it also includes any other religion. Right now there is an intolerance for Christianity, and a tolerance of any other religion, but in that day he will impose an intolerance for every kind of worship and every kind of god except for emperor worship. We should inform our religious friends of every stripe that their own intolerance of Christ Alone will one day be turned against them. It reminds me of Martin Niemoeller, a German Protestant theologian who was imprisoned during the Second World War years for his opposition to Hitler who said: "When they came for the Jews, I didn't speak up; I wasn't a Jew. When they came for the trade unionist I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist… When, finally, they came for me, there was nobody left to speak up for me." #2 He will exalt himself against God and demand that he be worshiped. When you see a world leader rise to the forefront with messiah like magnetism… look out! That man will be the most dangerous man in all of history. Goodbye freedom of religion! #3 Eventually he will enter the rebuilt temple and set himself up as the “god” of this world. A prophetic reflection of this has already happened in days gone by. Antiochus IV Epiphanes devastated Jerusalem in 168 BC, defiled the Temple, and of all things, offered a pig on its altar, erected an altar to Jupiter and prohibited Temple worship. The Antichrist will do him one better. He will require that all men worship Him. This will happen about mid-point in the Great Tribulation. The future is on its way. We have a short time to wake the world up to the need for Christ!

Dear Father. The future is coming and it does not look bright. Please remind me that You are in control. You are working all things for your glory. We have a great need to share the good news with all those around us because when darkness comes, if they don’t know you, they will be groping in the darkest night ever. Motivate us, I pray to live our lives as a witness to the Christ of Hope!

Come unto me all you who are weary and heavily burdened and I will give you rest.

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