During a time of devotion this evening, a thought came that possibly you can use in a sermon or devotion. Please feel free to use it if it will be a blessing to you or to those to whom you minister.
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During a time of devotion this evening, a thought came that possibly you can use in a sermon or devotion. Please feel free to use it if it will be a blessing to you or to those to whom you minister.
I will be 64 years old on 19th. So I will reckon there will be some that will call me old fashion.
I have attended the Church of God and the Assembly of God churches all my life.
My first infilling of Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues was when I was 9 years old. I have been refilled many times. I have also interpreted the messages.
I come from a long line of Pentecostal Preachers. My Grandfather and with his brother, was an ordained Assembly of God preacher. They started preaching in 1919. My grandfather passed away in 1987 at the age of 98, so that meant he started preaching when he 30 years old at the end WWI which he served in. My Father and Mother were both preachers. I had an Uncle who was a Pentecostal preacher and I have a Son who is Pentecostal preacher.
I am an independent Pentecostal preacher.
Why am I independent? It is because of the worldliness promoted and in most of the COG and AG denominations.
When did God quit convicting people of what people were convicted of years and not call it sin today?
I am not judging anybody? Why did God require more of the pioneers of the Pentecostal movements, but does not require it today?
Some say it is because they have PROGRESSED. God is not seeking PROGRESSION but TRANSFORMATION.
PROGRESSION is CONFORMISM.
Is this scripture still true?
Romans 12:1-2 King James Version (KJV)
12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
JUDE
3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
WHAT DID USE TO BE SIN
1. Men & Women wearing makeup.
2. Men Having long hair.
3. Women having short hair.
4. Men & Women wearing jewelry.
5. Men & Women wearing tight cloth to highlighting their physiques.
6. Men wearing women’s clothing.
7. Women wearing men’s clothing, such as pants, jeans and pants suits.
8. Men & Women who were not married swimming together.
9. Men & Women dying their hair.
10. Going to the movies.
11. Drinking Alcoholic Beverages.
12. Going to worldly entertainment such as football, baseball, basketball games. Also going to worldly music shows.
13. Men & Women Dancing.
14. Listening to rock ‘n’ roll music that the artists themselves said it was the devil’s music.
Shall I go on. I could.
There was time you could tell a Christian person by the way they conducted themselves in actions and dress.
WHAT CHANGE? WHAT HAPPENED?
Why is it that old time preachers, most had no college education, and maybe didn’t finish high school and some couldn’t read, but they could preach under the anointing and people believed them. They had no computers just a KJV BIBLE and KNEEOLOGY.
If God gave it to them that way back then, explain to me why Bible College trained preachers don’t have that way now?
The Bible says:’LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF.”
Do you LOVE YOURSELF when you are painting yourself up and coloring your hair?
Are you not covering up the way that God intended for you to look. Isn’t that hypocritical by putting on a mask, which is what you are doing by painting up and coloring your hair?
Can you prove me wrong?
Is the power of God as prevalent in the churches now days as is was in times past.
When was the last time that you saw a miracle or a person healed in a church service. Most of the time we call a person, who has cancer and has an operation to remove the cancer and part of the body A MIRACLE. That is not a MIRACLE. That is not the GIFT OF HEALING. God’s Gifts do not have to learned in a college by man.
This is what we use to see people healed with taking medicine or going to a doctor.
WHAT CHANGED?
Has God lost His Power?
THINK ABOUT WHAT I JUST SAID!!!!
Is there a differing standard for a Biblical SB woman verses a CoG woman?
And she does not look like a CoG woman according to who’s standard?
At one time you could tell. And not just if she was ugly or not. All to be done in with modesty. Church of God women had an aura of holiness that came from the inside. I am all for cutting your hair if you like it short or makeup if you like. But ladies, lets not let that be all that the world sees of us or what draws others to want to have what we have. Let them see Christ in all we do, including our appearance.
Sylvia
Well spoken.
Wisdom at it’s finest.
Thank you.
Is Paula going to heaven ? Oh yes.Are you I wonder