Week 31:
If I Were a Protestant Pope!
I still say, you know, if I were a kind of a Protestant pope, Id close every church down for a month. Were preached to death. Why do we keep going to conferences? You can't handle the lot you've got, why do you want some more? The next conference you go, whether its this weekend, or next week... you'll have more light!... and therefore more to answer for at the judgment seat. Haven't you got enough to answer for? Aren't there areas in your life where you still have not obeyed?
"Its a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God," the Word of God says. Robert Louis Stevenson said, "I only know one thing worse, and that's when you fall out of the hands of the living God". And that happens. There comes a time when God says to a nation, "All right, you've been putting your hand on my truth. You've been withholding my truth". You say, "Well, we've given money to missions". So we have. But you know, we had a National Day of Prayer last week. No. We didn't have a National Day of Prayer. We had a national suggestion! If we would have had a National Day of Prayer, the president would have said, "Every factory is closed down. Every school is closed down. Every shopping mall is closed down,. Everything is going to stop. Its time we listened to God. Its time we humbled ourselves before God." But when God wants it that way, which He does, we put our hand on the ark, and say, "Well steady it and make it a little bit more convenient". Dear God. There was a time they were so concerned about revival they even put sackcloth on the animals. If you wore a sackcloth they would think you were a crackpot! If you don't think so, get a potato sack and cut a hole in the top, pull it over your head, get your wife to cut some holes so you can put your arms in and go to church like that. And say, "This is an outward sign of an inward sorrow I have. I don't care about the style of my clothes".
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