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Greetings in Jesus' Name. I'm sorry

that I seem to be getting a little slack

in posting. Time is the most precious

commodity of all... and it's precious

because we often have so little of it.

The one thing on my mind tonight is

probably the church's witness to the

world. Well, actually there are a

couple of other things but they pertain

mostly to sleep and setting my alarm

clock... so I'll talk about one's witness.

I know too many people who have

seen so much hypocracy, sin, and

sometimes just plain foolishness in

churches that they've gone to that

they now find it hard to really trust

anyone that goes to church. This

should not be.

Pastors must hold their people

accountable and chasten them when

they do wrong. Pastors must know

the people they put in leadership

positions and if they don't measure up,

remove them from their position!

When we leave them in as song leader,

youth leader, deacon, whatever... we

are essentually taking away their

opportunity to repent. Remember

the man in first Corinthians that Paul

told them to put out? We find in the

second letter that that man did repent.

Leaving them in will destoy those who

are really trying to live right.

Finally, we should not get caught up

in signs, prophets who tell us what we

want to here, or even often times the

interpretation of tongues.

God will sometimes give a sign, but

it is usually in His works; the sick being

healed, people filled with the Holy

Ghost, etc... It's been my experience

that most people looking for signs are

just superstitious.

Most true prophets tell mostly of

unpleasing news. Why? Because when

something bad is about to happen, or

may happen, God wants to warn us.

He's looking out for us. Good things

are prophesied too, but if you look

in the Bible, most of the prophets

gave warnings and admonitions.

The people who come passing pleasing

words as prophecy do so because they

know people want to here it and will

come out to have good prophesies

spoken of them. Remember Ahab.

And last, yes even supposed

interpretation of tongues can be a

guise for falseness. Often, like with

prophecy, only pleasing things are told.

God usually doesn't need to give us a

prophetic pep talk... He gives us the joy

in the Holy Ghost. I have heard of a number

interpretations of tongues that I knew

were false based on the lives of the poeple

that they supposedly prophesied of.

So let's keep the church in order and truth

so that our witness is not tarnished.

He that have an ear... let him hear...

God Bless!