Week 29:
The Church Today is Rich
You know the church that was rich and increased with goods? That's where the church is today. She's rich, she's increased with goods, she's in need of nothing. Which church was it Jesus spewed out of his mouth?. "I would rather that you were hot or cold so then because thou are neither hot or cold , Ill spew... " (He didn't spew the cold one out of his mouth, it had never been in.) It was His church that He spewed out of His mouth. It wasn't a heathen religion, it was His church. They were neither hot nor cold. They were kind of midstream. And because they were neither one thing nor the other, He vomited them out. He didn't vomit the cold church out. He didn't bother with it. God will not stand for mediocrity.
Some eager, keen, young seminary fellows, were asking after a meeting, "Well, what's the secret, the real secret of abounding in the Christian life? What's the secret of not being a failure? What's the secret of not letting your branch get withered up?"
Some of them call today for prayer. I'm sorry for some of the situations they are in, but its the only way they'll grow in grace and in the knowledge of God. They've been leaning too much on what they have, and now Gods going to dry up their source so they only have God on whom they can lean. They've had so much flesh, they've had so much ability, they've had so much organization, they've had so much security that God says, "Well, let me pull it all away". Doesn't the word say, "Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord is everlasting strength?"
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