"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord,
and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
(2 Corinthians 6:17)
and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you."
(2 Corinthians 6:17)
Sadly, I can't help thinking that this is now the most appropriate sign that should
be placed outside full many a Church, Christian Book Shop, Bible College...
be placed outside full many a Church, Christian Book Shop, Bible College...
Sometimes - though today that should probably read often! - the unsafest place for a truly born-again believer to be is in a church! For that church may have - and frankly is now all too likely to have! - a different "Jesus" and an alien "Spirit" and an alternative "Gospel" that is no Gospel at all! From any such corrosive repository of falsehood we need to turn and RUN!
Never has being a Berean and checking everything against the Word of God been so vital! Yet never has this been so neglected a spiritual safeguard. Never have wisdom and discernment been so needed. Yet never have they been so conspicuous by their virtual absence. Never has the professing Church of Jesus Christ been so "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." (Ephesians 4:14). Never has it been so given to such reckless abandon, so deliriously determined to dive off the Rock and sink into the sand, so ready to switch from the narrow to the broad and to follow blind leaders into the ditch. It is now so very largely not a faithful Apostolic body, but an unashamedly unfaithful model of apostate shoddiness. There has never been a time like it, for the time of the great Falling Away from Truth is upon us - no longer a future tense prophecy but a present tense reality.
In this critically important context, please watch - and more to the point LISTEN! - to this short Carter Conlon sermon extract, embedded here from my YouTube channel:
I'D REALLY URGE YOU TO HEAR THE FULL IMPASSIONED MESSAGE, WHICH HAS IMMENSE RELEVANCE TO ALL WHO WOULD CLAIM TO BE GOD'S PEOPLE TODAY. DELIVERED AT TIMES SQUARE CHURCH IN NEW YORK JUST A FORTNIGHT AFTER 9/11, IT HAS BECOME ONLY THAT MUCH MORE PRESSING TO HEED WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME. THE ONLY THING I MIGHT RESPECTFULLY VENTURE TO ADD IS, AS IN AMERICA AND CANADA, SO ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC ALSO!
"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues."
(Revelation 18:4)
