In the book of Judges chapter 2 verse 10 it
says:
"AND ALSO ALL THAT GENERATION WERE GATHERED
UNTO THEIR FATHERS: AND THERE AROSE ANOTHER
GENERATION AFTER THEM, WHICH KNEW NOT THE LORD,
NOR YET THE WORKS WHICH HE HAD DONE FOR ISRAEL".
Suppose the Lord does not come in this
generation? Are your children, and all the
sunday-school-raised kids on fire for the Lord
to carry the torch of the light of Jesus? Are
they filled with the Holy Ghost and do they
prophesy like the daughters of Philip the
evangelist? (Acts.21:8-9).
Remember King Hezekiah of Israel was so close
to God that God turned back the sun dial for him
by ten degrees. (2Kgs.20:3-11). Yet, Manasseh
his son after him was the cause of the
destruction of Jerusalem and Judah! (2Kgs.21:11-
16; 23:26). How did some men of faith fail to
bring their children in? Yea, consider the
scriptures: "BE THOU DILIGENT TO KNOW THE STATE
OF THY FLOCKS AND LOOK TO THY HERDS. FOR RICHES
ARE NOT FOR EVER: AND DOTH THE CROWN ENDURE TO
EVERY GENERATION?" (Prov.27:23-24).
Is the sunday school and family gathering
enough to keep the children full of the word?
Are your children merely nice church kids
waiting for the slightest opportunity to be free
from papa and mama's policing? It's the "Word"
that delivers! The following series of real-
life stories will show you the deception of a
lukewarm christianity. Though some kids follow
their parents to church, many teenagers had been
seen, behind the church building, doing their
own things while the church was in progress.
A Korean man was witnessed to one day who
related his experience with church ladies, in
order to dismiss the born-again believers as
fakes. Evidently he had been introduced to
church and he was trying to learn about this
christian way from a "fundamental" church. He
said immediately they found out he was single,
the single ladies in the church descended upon
him like vultures. He said one particular lady
was so bold and would do anything to get what
she wanted in that when he was sick, this lady
volunteered privately to sleep overnight with
him. He said he was even reminding this lady
that "doesn't the preaching said those kind of
things are wrong?" And the lady's reply was
"don't worry about it". Well, she did; and this
young man decided there is nothing to this
christianity anyway and stopped going to the
church. But the lady kept calling him,
proposing that he should marry her!
Lo, these are sunday-school-raised kids! All
they want or perhaps all they got out of church
sermons is "get all you can get from Jesus to
live happily here on earth". Whereas the Lord
said "seek ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added unto you".
A pastor may say "I don't have such ladies or
men in my church"; Are you certain? If sound
doctrine is preached without prefering one topic
to another, your flock may be little but it will
be the few that are heaven-bound! "Fear not
little flock, for it is your father's good
pleasure to give you the kingdom". There are
some churches where the preachers are mere
specialists. They only preach on one topic! A
sinner can be in the congregation for five years
and never hear a sermon that touches his or her
lifestyle. Why? It's not the specialty of the
pastor to talk on lifestyle. Therefore the
world folks do not see any difference between
themselves and the church folks.
Apostle Paul said "PREACH THE WORD, BE INSTANT
IN SEASON, OUT OF SEASON; CORRECT, REPROVE,
REBUKE, WITH ALL LONGSUFFERING".
"And the Lord said unto him, GO THROUGH THE
MIDST OF THE CITY, THROUGH THE MIDST OF
JERUSALEM, AND SET A MARK UPON THE FOREHEADS OF
THE MEN THAT SIGH AND THAT CRY FOR ALL THE
ABOMINATIONS THAT BE DONE IN THE MIDST THEREOF"
(Eze.9:4-6). "And to the others he said, GO
AFTER HIM THROUGH THE CITY, AND SMITE: LET NOT
YOUR EYE SPARE, NEITHER HAVE YE PITY: SLAY
UTTERLY OLD AND YOUNG, BOTH MAIDS, AND LITTLE
CHILDREN, AND WOMEN: BUT COME NOT NEAR ANY MAN
UPON WHOM IS THE MARK; AND BEGIN AT MY
SANCTUARY".
Yea! Doesn't the scriptures say "judgement will
begin at the house of the Lord?" (1Pet.4:17).
It is time for the church to preach against
iniquity from the pulpit and outside the pulpit
without favour! If you are not sighing and
crying out against the iniquities around you,
you may not receive the protective seal that
separates the good from the bad when God sends
his wrath.
Yea, church folks, wake up!