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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Why We Do What We Do!

The Holy Spirit was speaking with me today about why we at ESC care to take the time to "blog" and keep this site. Everyone from ESC is busy, we all work, some have husbands, wives and or children. Some are still in school. Everyone has other things that they could be doing. It's not like we are selling books, videos, games or have a dating service. It's not like we are have allot of responses from anyone who reads this blog. It's not as though we are trying to win a popularity contest.

Why we do what we do is because God asked us to. God meant this blog for spiritual food for those who are lead to it. Hidden manna to those who find it. Liberty to those who are in lifeless churches, to see and experience what the Book of Acts church was like. We are anointed to show that line upon line, precept upon precept leads to a personal Spirit filled oneness with God as He intended. This blog is meant to show people what their church, their relationship with the Holy Spirit should be like. We aren't "special", we are just what the Spirit of God lead us to. The sad part is, that we are the oddity. That does not makes us special, as in better than, but unique in the visible church, because others are so much the same, so bound by the traditions of man. That means that we for the most part cannot "fellowship" together as so many people prefer the old wine of works and don't know or recognize the Spirit of Truth. Most "churched" people lack the liberty, faith or boldness in the Holy Spirit to speak what the Spirit is saying. To be sure, they would be ostracised at the very least. Their dead church, your dead church, is exactly the church that they are to come out of and be separate from as not to partake of the wrath to come.

There is no pre-trib rapture, and if you hadn't been taught so you wouldn't think so either, it is a heresy. The falling away during the tribulation will be people you know. The strong delusion sent by God will come upon all the double minded. There will be no opportunity to be filled with the Holy Spirit or use what you buried.

To those who are humble and love truth, God is for you. That does not mean you can sit where your at, hardly. You must draw close. Nothing in this life is more important than drawing close to God in Spirit and in truth. One day all you think you know will be put to the test. Many, oh so many, who think they know truth but don't hold themselves to the measure of God's word will find themselves foolish virgins.

Why do we do what we do here at ESC.com?

John 21:15 …. when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, love (brotherly) you me more than these? He said unto him, Yes, Lord; you know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my lambs. 16He said to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, love (brotherly) you me? He said unto him, Yea, Lord; you know that I love you. He said unto him, Feed my sheep. 17He said unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love (Godly) you me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Love you me? And he said unto him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said unto him, Feed my sheep.

Because Jesus said to me, again today, If you love Me, you will feed My sheep, teach the truth. All do who speak by the Holy Spirit, who love truth, who speak the truth and haven't lost the savor, the Holy Spirit bearing witness. We at ESC are neither men pleasers, nor do we care to be, that is certain. God does bear witness to truth though and has lead us to know the difference. God does bear witness to truth and that makes you responsible. We choose to please God.

L,J,P&HG
Dave

3 comments:

Amy S. Trosen said...

I really appreciate your ministry.

ryanfromDetroit said...

This is true, Dave.

I thank God for continually encouraging us to speak all that He writes upon our hearts and to post all that He would have us to write.

Amy,
Thank you for your comment and I thank God that you are blessed and stirred by all that the Spirit of God is speaking.

God bless,
Ryan

Anonymous said...

I'm with you - there will never be a pretrib rapture. It's a sick 19th century joke that went too far. The other day I ran into "Deceiving and Being Deceived" on Google - a bombshell of an article written by Dave MacPherson, a historian who wrote the bestselling book "The Rapture Plot (see Armageddon Books) which proves on 300 pages that the "success" of pretrib is primarily due to the incredible amount of dishonesty which has constantly riddled it for 170-plus years! In addition to dishonesty (including a lot of plagiarism, falsifying of historical documents, phony D.D. degrees, etc.) there has been an unnerving amount of unscholarly sloppiness in pretrib circles - for example, Google "Thomas Ice (Bloopers)" and "Wily Jeffrey." Thanks for your great blog. Keep plugging away and Lord bless. Joe