From the Body to the Body
Vital Words to the Body of Christ
from the Harvest Team at New Foundation Publications
We pray these words encourage you
in your walk to press into the Kingdom.
An Exhortation to the Church
from Don Laughlin
Quote:
The church has been spending almost 2000 years trying to grow up. Worrying about what it will be like when it grows up to maturity has been a roadblock.
This is similar to a child thinking of what it will be like to be an adult. The natural thoughts of a child brings him into fear, for he hasn't the maturity to handle adulthood. And when he becomes an adult, the child has to throw off the fears of childhood or he will not be able to take his place effectively as an adult.
The church is now in a similar situation. It has to come to maturity: and one thing it has to do is throw off the generations of fear and enter into the maturity that Christ desires of his church. This is the responsibility of this generation.
In October 93, I happened to see a preacher on TV who was very strongly teaching that Christians will escape the tribulation. There was a demon, the same size as the preacher, standing on the preacher's left. The demon was acting quite dignified. Then the Lord said that the demon through the preacher was stealing faith to believe Scripture verses as, "I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it," and "the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."
Those that receive and believe this message, the devil can keep from fulfilling God's purposes for the church upon the earth. This "doctrine of demons" is able to gain such a great following because of the fear of the future upon so many causing them to accept this "Ishmael" doctrine as an easy way out.
God is allowing this doctrine as a test, to help find those who are willing to follow the Lord with all their heart and soul, Numbers 13:8 so as to go on to the maturity the Lord requires of this generation.
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