Featured Saved in a Calvinistic Church

I have a web site at https://www.youtube.com/Rockytopva I would like to see go to 4 million views. I like to promote two things as outlined here…

1. Worship
2. Word



My favorite Baptist preacher was the Rev Joseph Brown and I have a cassette with a sermon called, “The need to continue I the Christian faith” I would like to review.



There are also local revivals I may check into…

 

I have….

An Open KJV Bible – In which I have read seven times over
A Strongs Exhaustive Concordance – Very useful with the KJV

And also delighted in the works of John Bunyan reading his entire nearly 60 book library. I would like to read his, "How to Pray in the Spirit" work once again!

 

No problems in the word just don’t take all my feelings away because it sure feels good when I get a touch from him!

 

I am a big fan of Christian radio and seldom watch TV. I also support the bbnradio.org site and they have a local transmitter here in Christiansburg, VA which I listen to all the time. While listening in to Christian radio one day I got the following sermon in which the minister boldly proclaims, along with many other one liners....

"And the Bible says they will think it strange that you don't run with them, but that's all right! If I got to walk alone I will walk alone! People are coming to church and their coming for something, but it is so dead and cold in our churches until you can ice skate down to the pulpit! And whose standing behind that pulpit yawl... Rev Polar Bear! Cold as Ice! The first church of Frigid-aire! No deliverance! No life! No Holy Ghost!" - Radio minister @ 28:47



Preacher goes on to say... "No need telling us to blame it on the devil all the time. Because we give him so much credit until God can't get a blessing in their edgewise. The devil made me do this and the devil is in them, I discern the spirit, and you wouldn't know the gift of discernment if it walked up to you with a red hat on." - @ 6:00

"Were going through a drought period for example in the church. Yes, people are making noise. Yes, they're falling out in the floor. And yes, they are even dancing as they say. But when all that noise is over, and all that speaking in tongues and falling out is over. When they go home they still have no victory... Can you say Amen!"

"It seems like we are going through a spiritual low in the church, where it is Sunday morning, and they come and my God, they will be high up in the Spirit. Come back Sunday night and folk are sitting up looking like totem poles." - 19:00 (Do any still come at Sunday evening service?")

"And sometimes when you council folks once or twice, it takes more than one counseling to get them all unwound, because they done fooled around out there with all these off folks, and off doctrines, until when they get done... They're still mixed up!"

"People fighting over a position, and arguing over a position. Honey, I am not after no position, I am after God! They getting the coming with attitude. They coming in mad, sad looking like 6:00. And then leaving mad, sad, looking like 6:00!" - @ 24:00

Comparing the cold ways to a concentration camp... “Before they said that (all their accusations) to Job they sat and looked at Job for seven days. Just staring at him, you know, here is the richest man in the land, and my Lord he doesn’t have a plug nickel, and what’s going on with him? And they just stared at him! Have you ever been to church and folks are like in a concentration camp? And they sit and stare at you like your in a concentration camp! And they just concentrating on you!” - sermon @12:00

 

So... A biblical reason why I did not recommend Pentecostal Holiness to my friend...

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. - Ezekiel 16:49

Pride
Material Excess
Laziness
Greed

There was a time when the Pentecostal Holiness People...

Humility – As well as showing the fruits and the Christ-like Spirit
Work – They would work during the day and farm during the afternoon/evening
Material – They had small homes but it was no big deal
Revival – They would have a sense of community. I can remember as a young person working restaurants during the summer break, putting up hay in the afternoon, helping with the gardens, plenty of revivals, young people’s meetings, and trips to amusement parks

I worry that the times and the seasons are bringing back the sins of Sodom. And I also believe that these are Laodicean issues that affect us all.