(Charisma News) Many of us have read Jesus’ letter to the Laodicean church in Revelation 3:14-22 and have rightly understood it to describe the end-times church—the church as we see it in the West today. We are rich and seemingly do not need a thing, when in fact, we are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. As a result, we are under the discipline of the Lord but are unable to recognize it. Like the frog being cooked in the slowly heated kettle of water, many are unaware of God’s judgment and chastisement because we spend little time pursuing Him, listening to His voice and receiving discernment and wisdom from Him.
Instead, we demand to be entertained and flock to superstar leaders who “tickle our ears” (2 Tim. 4:3-4) with false doctrine, unbelief and a grossly misplaced focus of worship. And because of our compromise and complacency, we have become powerless and are in darkness. It’s just as God said to His prophet Ezekiel: They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. For they do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness. You are to them as a sensual song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they do not do them (Ezek. 33:31-32). READ MORE
Let us not only speak against half truths, but the whole truth. The biggest sexual immorality sin is not committed by the leaders, in fact this article is mostly based on the sin committed by the leaders of today churches. The biggest sexual sin is committed by every one of us who had had sex before they got married, and the practice is normalized as a need in many documents. I clearly remember sex being part of a list of needs alongside food, clothing & housing in Economics 101. Today, how many people get married whilst they are virgins? Our parents/elders do not teach us the sacredness of sexual intercourse. SEX IS EXCLUSIVE TO MARRIED PEOPLE. This should be what is hammered into our minds, along with “fear of the Lord, is the beginning of wisdom”. Rather, mothers and fathers of 16 years olds will certainly encourage their sons and daughters to “go and get some”. I am talking about churchgoers here. We sit and grin that our son/daughter had sex as if it is some major holy achievement. Shame on us “believers”. We fornicated as young adults, and we think that because now we are married, its okay to continue with the curse, rather than feel ashamed and advice our kids to do things better than us and wait for marriage, we encourage them to “get some”, to an extent of even buying condoms for them.. “SHAME ON US”.