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Apostasy And Church Growth
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1.2 Statement of the Problem
Since the loss of his inheritance in
heaven, the enemy has determined to find revenge by causing the church
to share in his disgraceful fall. Very much aware that in our own
strength it is impossible for us to deny the clamour of our fallen
nature, the enemy has perpetually taken advantage of hereditary weakness
and hence fully engaged his false insinuations to ensnare all whose
trust in God is not. He has devised new schemes and channels with which
to assault especially the church. At the nativity of our LORD Jesus in a
cuddled Bethlehem manger, the enemy already knew that One had now come
with a divine commission to dispute his dominion over mankind, and to
finally set the church free. This caused the adversary to tremble much,
at the angelʼs message attesting the authority of the new born King.
Much as it was difficult to fathom the mystery of this great sacrifice
of love, the glory and the peace and majesty and the joy of heavenly
communion, were mightily manifest abound. That the Son of God should
come to this earth as a man, certainly filled the adversary with fearful
amazement and with an extreme sense of apprehension, to mention the
least.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The time of this promised
endtime revival is nigh and here. Markedly, an indismissible Holy Ghost
revival is today beginning to restore righteousness and holiness across
the ends of the earth. It is the youthful modesty and grace of this,
endtime Holy Ghost revival that will eventually disarm the prejudices of
the prosperity priesthood in its totality in order to unconsciously
open their minds to the word of God, that the Holy Spirit may speak to
their hearts. But while that blessed revival is yet to totally consume
the earth, todayʼs spiritual decay indeed marks a significant departure
from the expected norm. This is owing to the fact that any church which
especially walks the highway of holiness, should have trusted the LORDʼs
counsel explicitly on matters of repentance. Furthermore, even in the
greatest milieu of money-preaching and prosperity advocacy, the fears on
the unexpected return of the Messiah are beginning to be aroused. The
church in her best spiritual performance and sensibility knows it too
well that never was an earthly confined living, the original intention
for which Jesus was sent to the Cross to pay such a horrific
heart-wrenching price of redemption. Because of its obvious inborn
spiritual shortfalls, the prosperity gospel has completely failed to
rebuke the sin that has today intruded the church, and instead opted to
accommodate worldliness and spiritual decay within the christian
fraternity. Rejoiced as they may seem today, this kind of apostate
church cannot however afford the luxury of forgetting the grief and
anxiety that their unreadiness will cause upon the return of the
Messiah.
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