Prayerfully consider what the Lord tells us is a clear indication that we are growing in grace. Let us strive with all our hearts to “GROW THAT WE MAY KNOW”.  I thought it was interesting that, as a last resort, God will use heresy to awaken and sift His people and bring them to a greater knowledge of Himself. Truly His ways are past finding out.

Whenever the people of God are growing in grace, they will be constantly obtaining a clearer understanding of His word. They will discern new light and beauty in its sacred truths. This has been true in the history of the church in all ages, and thus it will continue to the end. But as real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth. Men rest satisfied with the light already received from God’s word, and discourage any further investigation of the Scriptures. They become conservative, and seek to avoid discussion.

The fact that there is no controversy or agitation among God’s people, should not be regarded as conclusive evidence that they are holding fast to sound doctrine. There is reason to fear that they may not be clearly discriminating between truth and error. When no new questions are started by investigation of the Scriptures, when no difference of opinion arises which will set men to searching the Bible for themselves, to make sure that they have the truth, there will be many now, as in ancient times, who will hold to tradition, and worship they know not what.

I have been shown that many who profess to have a knowledge of present truth, know not what they believe. They do not understand the evidences of their faith. They have no just appreciation of the work for the present time. When the time of trial shall come, there are men now preaching to others, who will find, upon examining the positions they hold, that there are many things for which they can give no satisfactory reason. Until thus tested, they knew not their great ignorance.

And there are many in the church who take it for granted that they understand what they believe, but, until controversy arises, they do not know their own weakness. When separated from those of like faith, and compelled to stand singly and alone to explain their belief, they will be surprised to see how confused are their ideas of what they had accepted as truth. Certain it is that there has been among us a departure from the living God, and a turning to men, putting human wisdom in place of divine.

God will arouse His people; if other means fail, heresies will come in among them, which will sift them, separating the chaff from the wheat. The Lord calls upon all who believe His word to awake out of sleep. Precious light has come, appropriate for this time. It is Bible truth, showing the perils that are right upon us. This light should lead us to a diligent study of the Scriptures, and a most critical examination of the positions which we hold.    CW 38 – 40

Brethren,

I believe that God would have us begin 2010 entirely different than we have done things in the past. There is the distinct possibility that we are to give a greater prominence to the precious truths contained in the books of Daniel and Revelation. The gospel, the truth as it is in Jesus, must be presented as a WHOLE. This would entail not only the presentation of how we must be prepared to meet Him, but also a clear and distinct knowledge of where we are as God’s people in the prophetic line of the last days which would also serve as a faith builder as we see the prophecies outlined coming to past. God would call upon us as His chosen instruments to obtain from the Holy Spirit the ability to obtain the balance as well as the skill and understanding to intertwine an understanding of the prophetic events outlined in Daniel and Revelation with a clearer insight into how we as Christians are to surrender completely to God so that He can manifest Himself to the world through us. The counsel admonishes us that we are not to present strong meat to those who do not understand the first principles and by God’s grace as we strive to make 2010 a year of greater evangelistic efforts on our part we shall keep this injunction in mind – but brethren, OUR PEOPLE, those within our congregations, it is HIGH TIME that they be brought up to speed. Some will not be willing to quicken their pace and unfortunately may be left behind, but as those whom God is holding responsible, we must take them higher. What is the formula? Teach it to them and then compel them through love to teach it to others. This is the ONLY way that we as churches can grow in grace. In order for us to teach it to them, we must know it ourselves. As you read the attachment I will be interested in your perspective. Be Blessed

Brother Sharpe

The following website was brought to my attention. Now, more than ever before we must make sure that our anchor is grounded firm and deep in the unchangeable word of God. The strongs winds of deception will blow more vehemently this year. The following webiste will give you a small glimpse into Satan’s game plan for the Adventist Church in these last days. There is a distinct difference between genuine Godly love for a soul and acceptance of sin or the “redefining of sin” in the name of love. It is time for us to weep between the porch and the altar like we have never wept before. Be prayerful as you read.

www.asolemnappeal.org

This is a comes in 5 parts just click the next clip to continue.

Pray much for what is happening in the world today.

Learn the the blueprint of the coming New World Order hidden in the music.

It is a 11 video series just click on the next video to continue.

I want you to pay attention to how”wonderfully innocent” and “restricting of conscience  free” the logic of this article is. Saints of the Most High God, each and every one of the points made in this article are legitimate and not far fetched. I am not positive that his statement as to why Sunday laws were enacted in the first place is correct, but the resurrection of the Sunday law is not something that it is impossible for it to take place in our lifetime and possibly in the not too distant future. Just consider the powerful, masterful wording “So perhaps we should consider a Sunday Law, Not to restrict people from working, but to give liberty to those who can’t choose.” That statement was inspired from beneath!!!! Let us rejoice, for this is a wonderful time to be living, Jesus’ coming is indeed even at the door. Make your calling and election sure.

From the barackobama.com website:

“So perhaps we should consider enacting a Sunday Law.  Not to restrict people from working, but to give liberty to those who can’t choose.”

“I have to wonder if there weren’t more benefits to this.  First, without businesses being open, your kids would have nowhere to go for entertainment.  Parents would have at least 1 day they could spend with family & friends without having to align work schedules. “

You don’t believe me?
Check it out for yourself from the Barack Obama website. 
http://my..barackobama.com/page/community/post/Tritium/gG5ngR This was written in June, 2008.  Everything is so controlled by the administration, that if this wasn’t on their agenda, surely they have had over a year to remove this “misinformation” from their website.  Nothing in the administration flies under the radar without careful scrutiny, permission or purpose–especially for one year.

Here is the message in its entirety……
There have been a lot of changes in the past 100 years.  Not only have we seen gang activity increase along with crimes, but so has energy consumption.  The other change I realized was the recinding of the “Sunday Laws” across the united states .

Originally, the sunday law were instituted to make sure that people wouldn’t have to choose between work and church.  Often, the nobility would use financial enticements toward the religious heads of households  in order to coherce them to work in order to increase his own financial gain. This was unfair to those who needed money, feared losing their means of supporting themselves, and without such a law banning people from working (though I don’t believe it applied to you working for your own business), people would be further burdened.

I have to wonder if there weren’t more benefits to this.  First, without businesses being open, your kids would have nowhere to go for entertainment.  Parents would have at least 1 day they could spend with family & friends without having to align work schedules.  Decrease in gas use across the board.  Less crime (since parents are home on Sundays, there is no reason why you can’t keep an eye on them.)  Fewer homeless people begging in the street (Since there are no people to beg from).  Less Police would be necessary (if any at all… They could go on an “On Call As Needed” basis so they might be able to spend time with family.  Neighbors would have time to get to know each other.  How well do you know your neighbors now?  Have you had any barbecues?  Right now, I would guess that most people who may have barbecues, are only hanging out with people who are white collar regardless of the neighborhood you live in.  Our work schedules can determine what class you relate to and hardens those lines even more.

So perhaps we should consider enacting a Sunday Law.  Not to restrict people from working, but to give liberty to those who can’t choose.  And imagine the tax dollars that would be saved?

Look at what is done when they think you are not looking

Part 2

I do not know what denomination the author is but I believe that He is a brother in Christ from the content of his article. His denomination is irrelevant. Truth is Truth. There are parts of this article that may make some of you upset, but I believe that it is the truth anyhow. His perspective is sobering. Sobering because it is very likely that it is true. At the very least…………it is truly something to make you check your walk with Christ and see if you are indeed making your calling and election sure……….Read with an open and prayerful heart.

Hard Times Coming

By: Michael Pearl    http://www.nogreaterjoy.org/

For believers, there are bad times and then there are BAD times. A recession is not a bad time; it is an inconvenience.

Recession? Probably. We’ll get through it. DEPRESSION? Could be. But it will be good for the character of the church. Or Worse? Yes, something worse is coming.

I clearly remember every administration since Dwight Eisenhower, and I never heard a prominent official suggest that we could be on the verge of another Great Depression. But I am hearing it now. Sure, from time to time Christian alarmists come out with dire predictions, but not until now have political leaders dared suggest a possible return to the 1930s. My father told of collecting potato peelings out of garbage cans to make soup. Of course it is possible, but how probable? No one really knows.

For believers, there are bad times and then there are BAD times. A recession is not a bad time; it is an inconvenience. A bad time, with a little “b”, is a great depression when we are forced to eat “Gypsy Soup” in order to survive (see Debi’s article). A bad time can be a good time for the spiritual life of the nation, can bring out the best in the church and the family, and can create strength of character and enduring spirits.

A truly BAD time for us believers is when the state becomes hostile toward the Christian family and denies us the liberties to rear our children in a godly manner. That’s a BAD time. A BAD time is when the Department of Education forcibly assumes the role of overseeing the curriculum of homeschoolers, policing what parents teach their children in private. A BAD time is when the church is policed as to what it can say, the Thought Police arresting preachers for declaring the whole counsel of God regarding sin and righteousness. In Europe, preachers have been arrested for preaching that sodomy is a depravity contrary to nature. A BAD time is when ministers are silenced on pain of arrest for the crime of causing mental harm and guilt to children. A BAD time is when the State forbids parents from teaching their children the Word of God and encourages children to tattle on their parents as they did under the Communist rule during the fifties and sixties.

Bad times (with a little ‘b’) may come within the year—I said “may.” Who knows? And I don’t much care one way or the other. Families with small children should consider the Ant (Proverbs 6:6).  But BAD times as described above are coming to America. There is already a famine for the Word of God—not the state’s fault—but there will be a time in the USA when the Word of God is openly forbidden, being labeled as “mentally unhealthy”.

When will this occur? I don’t know. But we can all see the trend. If you make a projection based on the present drift, it most certainly brings us to the BAD times in about ten to twenty years—maybe longer if there is a revival in the church. However, if the country is torn apart by extreme poverty and personal suffering, if violence so disrupts society that societal restructuring and social engineering are adopted, then Christians could be made the scapegoat as were the Jews in Hitler’s Europe. A nation that suffers greatly and sees no way out can be aroused to a hostile Nationalist spirit that is willing to believe the propaganda that the enemy within must be crushed for prosperity and stability to return. If a socialist or nationalist government were to publish propaganda that  blames believers and the Bible for upsetting the country’s stability and prosperity, persecution could arise in one to five years.

The world is not going to get better. No political party is going to save us. Satan is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Our judges have neutered the Constitution insofar as it expresses Biblical principles and justice. That will not change, no matter who is in office. We just had an election between the bad and the very bad. This time, the very bad won. I think that God sometimes laughs as we choose our own form of judgment. Would it not be just for ten men and women to fall for every child the AMA digs out of the womb? You can be certain that abortion will continue, and with you, the taxpayer, footing the bill.

The USA leads the world in both the production and consumption of child pornography, with over one fourth of it depicting violence toward children. Judgment is surely at our door.

We will have socialized medicine to match the socialized schools and socialized culture now being engineered through the public schools and the digital entertainment industry.

The world stumbles around blindly, drunk on entertainment, while many Christians are planting “faith seeds” deep in the soil of avarice. The “emergent” church is emerging with a new christ, a gentle, tolerant, understanding christ who teaches us to love ourselves and lay down our narrow convictions for the greater good of a guiltless body of unified worshipers, swaying and swooning in a mega-Church and listening to light sermons from a New International Perversion. When the hymnbooks are closed, over half of the Christless-christian men hurry home to their computers to seek stimulation through pornography.

I am embarrassed to be called a “Christian preacher” and so be identified with the TV and radio charlatans hawking their latest key to a prosperous and fulfilled life. When people ask me what church I belong to, as part of the greater church I sometimes answer, “Laodicea,” which means “rights of the people”, defined in Scripture as the “lukewarm” church. It was the church that Jesus promised to spew out of his mouth (Revelation 3:14-20). He characterized it as a church that left him on the outside, knocking to get into the worship service. They were having a good time without him.

There will come a time when the state will threaten to take your children. It may not occur until after you have raised your now-young ones. It may be later when your children are raising their families, but it is coming—unless there is a revival in the church equal to the Great Awakening that saved England from the bloody revolutions sweeping Europe. Get passports for everyone in the family and keep them handy.
The only sign I see that indicates a revival is possible is the stone-cold deadness of the church and the empty psycho-savior doctrines of the modern apostate church. My hope is that as the church departs further and further from the truth, going to bed with the psychologists while dating the politicians, and “Christians” depart further and further from judgment, completely merging with the world, it will leave the overcomers standing alone to be recognized as the true historical representatives of the Biblical Jesus Christ—not the redesigned christ of the twenty-first century.

I am praying for a true revival, a deep down purity-in-the-inmost-being revival, a loving the Lord Jesus Christ, forsaking all, walking after the Spirit, telling your neighbor the good news revival, a taking the gospel to the whole world revival.

It may be that it will take suffering for us to get serious with God. I think so. And for that reason I am not in a panic to stay the reaping process that is surely coming. Let the fire burn away the chaff and lethargy of the structured church. Let the deprivation drive us to prayer. Let the world’s wholesale indulgence in sin actually cause us to hate it in our own souls so much that we would gladly take up our cross and follow him who died to save us FROM our sin.

When was the last time you sat with a house full of people, some weeping while singing “Tell me the old, old story”, or “Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life”, and they all meant it? I so long for the days of purity in the inward parts.

There will assuredly be persecution, unless there is a revival from God of major proportions. But then, the church is not yet ready for a revival, wouldn’t even welcome it. What will it take to get our attention?  BAD times are coming.

In the meantime, I am not going to stop being joyful, and I will continue to live in and enjoy the blessings of God, sharing the same “blessed hope” that has been an anchor to saints for 2000 years. I will bless my children and help raise my fourteen plus grandkids, expecting good things to come our way. Deb and I will be here helping families and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ even after they carry us away cold and stiff, for our printed material and audio and video material will be out there on the worldwide web, as well as in many nations of the world. Join us for our online Bible study, video and audio, each week.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Pastor David Jones and his wife Mary have been told that they cannot invite friends to their San Diego, Calif. home for a Bible study — unless they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to San Diego County.

“On Good Friday we had an employee from San Diego County come to our house, and inform us that the Bible study that we were having was a religious assembly, and in violation of the code in the county.” David Jones told FOX News.

“We told them this is not really a religious assembly — this is just a Bible study with friends. We have a meal, we pray, that was all,” Jones said.
A few days later, the couple received a written warning that cited “unlawful use of land,” ordering them to either “stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit,” the couple’s attorney Dean Broyles told San Diego news station 10News.

But the major use permit could cost the Jones’ thousands of dollars just to have a few friends over.
For David and Mary Jones, it’s about more than a question of money.

“The government may not prohibit the free exercise of religion,” Broyles told FOX News. “I believe that our Founding Fathers would roll over in their grave if they saw that here in the year 2009, a pastor and his wife are being told that they cannot hold a simple Bible study in their own home.”

“The implications are great because it’s not only us that’s involved,” Mary Jones said. “There are thousands and thousands of Bible studies that are held all across the country. What we’re interested in is setting a precedent here — before it goes any further — and that we have it settled for the future.”

The couple is planning to dispute the county’s order this week.

If San Diego County refuses to allow the pastor and his wife to continue gathering without acquiring a permit, they will consider a lawsuit in federal court.
Click here to watch the full FOX News interview.

Blessing to all this is the first post for PFORC.

We will be posting upcoming events, articles and studies as we gather information.

“Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass: Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.” Deuteronomy 32:1-3 KJV