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Originally Posted by Onlooker
I’m not sure if this will add or confuse this thread, but I was going over Mat 24:48-51, and it speaks of evil servant who said that:
48*But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49*And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50*The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51*And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
During my time at LC, this portion of Scripture was said to be about some other people, who are not in tha church, and who never received the visions and truths as presented by Recovery.
However, since my departure from them, by Gods mercy and grace, this portion speaks precisely about the local churches. I remember almost every meeting, conference, training, one of the speakers will quote Lee or Nee, about how and why “the Lord is delaying His coming”, as if they have a clue.
Every message seems to be about beating up on the saints, smiting them for not growing, not advancing to the level of the hierarchy. God is delayed because of you all! You need to eat more, drink more! You are the reasons why we are still here, we need to bring the Lord back! (As if they can or could or will). Be drunk with the Spirit! Hallelujah! Feast on the Lord! Fear mongering, shamming, uplifting these man made methods, trying to break people. All done under the sweet cover of “care”.
Well, I know the Lord is coming back, and will not give any signs when that will be, could be today and could be 1000 years from now. So you better not be drunk with some spirit, or be feasting on tha ministry, because the end results will be as written. Sobering up is a challenge, and does require some strength and leading from within. You cannot make anyone realize this, especially under the influence. Sad to see it, heartbreaking to experience yourself and those that you love the most.
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Hi Onlooker,
I greatly agree with you regarding your comment here that every message seems to be about beating up the saints, not being absolute enough, not being the ministry enough, not praying enough, not shepherding enough, not opening their homes enough, etc.... And yet so many saints hear it and walk away thinking "what an encouragement!" It's crazy.
And yet....there's not much they can do in response. They can think they are encouraged, but they literally cannot read more ministry, have more open homes, shepherd more, etc. They have been running around doing everything they're told for a long time, and there is very little to show for it.
Most of them don't want to hear it. If you mention any problem, they will rationalize, justify, pretend, everything but see the problem as an actual problem. I don't know how to help those trapped inside it. I wish I did.
Trapped (<---- outdated username!)