Where is the Power
7/26/25 2:24 PM
Solitary Man
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To the church, I now ask you to consider these questions.
Does it really matter what man preaches? Is the main issue what you have been taught? How does any of that factor into in any way as to what is really true?
So many reason within themselves, comparing what they hear with what they have been taught. With what their church teaches. And so many stop right there. In the ditch, they remain in the ditch. In darkness, and there they abide.
Why is the church so powerless? Why is there so little reality of the power and presence of God in your land? Do you believe that the fault lies with heaven? Or that the timing of God is not yet, that I only unleash my saving power at certain times and places?
Is not the fault found on earth, rather than in heaven? Instead of trying to strain gnats from the tiniest nuances of difference between one church and another, why do you not look to the foundations? Most foundations that have been built are not of me. They are contrary to my teachings and my sayings.
You claim that the most vital truth a lost man must grasp is that they cannot earn their way into heaven. That they must grasp the concept of grace, and grace alone. You preach and you plead, and eventually they agree to say your prayer, and now you assure them that they are safe. That they have come home, and nothing can ever separate them from an eternity of bliss. That is how you were taught, and that is how you teach others. And therein lies the real problem.
Did you notice in the so called sermon on the mount, that I never gave an altar call? I never asked the multitude to repeat a sinner’s prayer? That I never made it easy to truly follow me, but rather tried to make it abundantly clear that I was not interested in half hearted disciples?
When a man finally comes to realize that he is lost and without hope, he is now ready to hear the truth. And the truth is that I did not come down to earth to die on that cross simply to provide a free ticket to heaven. No, I died on that cross to give each and every one of you a chance. A chance to follow me. To follow me wholeheartedly. To become a true disciple. A chance to choose to get on that narrow path that leads to life. A life that is wholly given to me, so that my grace can do its work.
And on that path, there is peace. Not only peace, but hope and joy and a real faith. There is an assurance, not only now, but for all of eternity. Once on that path, and while you remain on it, no man, devil, or circumstance can snatch you away. Stay on that path, and you most certainly will find security. Remain on that path, and nothing shall truly harm you.
But choose to stray from that path, and things begin to change. Take a wrong turn, or follow a strange voice, and the promises begin to falter. Not because there is anything deficient in the promise, but that you have begun to drift away from your obligations. Peace turns into stress, hope into fear, assurance into doubt.
When you choose to stop following me, then exactly where are you headed? Who, or what, are you really pursuing? Do you really believe that if you choose to go your own way, that your ticket to heaven cannot be rescinded, just because your church’s theology says that this is so?
But what does my word say? Is it not those who endure to the end that are saved? What does the parable of the sower teach? Were there not two groups that received my word, and began to walk the narrow road, but chose not to finish? Do you believe that my judgments and my justice will ignore their choices? Would I be just to show partiality, allowing those who once knew me, but subsequently chose to turn back, to escape righteous judgment?
You have no revival because you refuse to preach the truth. You have little truth because you have little scripture in your sermons. Rather, you have the rationalizations and false reasonings of men who create doctrines that minister to the selfishness and divided, lukewarm hearts of their hearers.
If you want to see the power of salvation restored, then you must be willing to reject and flee from these other gospels that are masquerading as my word. Mankind is lost in darkness and deceit. Only an unconditional surrender of the soul in obeying all that my Father and I teach shall grant you the opportunity to escape the certain wrath to come.
Most simply cannot advance beyond the implied uncertainty of this message. The fearful ministers, in order to free themselves of this truth, create philosophies out of thin air, such as ‘once saved, always saved. If they see a believer that has truly fallen away, they comfort themselves by stating that they were never saved in the first place. Thus your churches continue to be populated with these half hearted individuals. And that is why there is no power in the pews.
This plain truth is not meant to terrify. There is no terror for those who are a whole hearted child of God. If you truly abide in me, if you are truly doing all that you know to do, if you are following me, then all the assurances you ever need are yours. My faithful ones, you need never fear again.
But for those who know in their heart that their commitment is incomplete, I say these things to warn you. I do not wish that any should perish, but that all should come to know me.
But you cannot truly know me unless you embrace everything that I have said. You cannot pick and choose. You cannot take some sayings of the Son, and some sayings of men. I must be everything, or I will be truly nothing in your life. Do not be like one of those who at the end will hear that I never knew them. Do not be afraid to take me at my word. Many will not choose to go along with you. Many will attempt to dissuade you. Stay on the traditional path, they will say. Don’t go down that path that so few have undertaken.
If your heart is tugging at you, do not delay. Embrace the true gospel. Look to my word, and to my word alone. There you will find all the assurances that you will ever need, now, and forevermore, should you choose to truly follow me.
Scripture References
Luk 9:57 And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
Luk 9:58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Luk 9:59 And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Luk 9:60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.
Luk 9:61 And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
Luk 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Mat_24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Mar_13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
2Ti_4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
Mat_10:22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.
Joh_6:27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Jas_1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Mar 4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
Mar 4:17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.
Mar 4:18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
Mar 4:19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Jas_3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Eze 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Eze 18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Eze 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.
Eze 18:27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Eze 18:28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Eze 18:29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
Eze 18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Mat_3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Luk_3:7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Rom_1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom_2:5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
Rom_2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
1Jn_2:10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Mat_18:14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
Joh_3:15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Joh_3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh_10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Mat_10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat_10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
Luk_21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Joh 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
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