Copyright © Othealor W. Prince February 2018
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Copyright © Othealor W. Prince February 2018
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Because you do it in a church or in a worship service doesn’t make it righteous or holy.
Because you do it to the beat of gospel music and praise music doesn’t make it apart of acceptable praise and worship for God.
Just because you call it holy doesn’t make it holy.
Satan can dance many of us under the pews.
Unrepentant, disobedient, fornicating practitioners can out shout the holiest of Saints.
Many folks come to “church” or worship just to be seen of men and to put on a demonstration whereby they are perceived by others as being saved and full of the Spirit of GOD. (They are full of something.)
But God Has Left His Ordained plan of Salvation in Holy Scriptures whereby one may be saved and their salvation confirmed and sealed by the gifting of the HOLY SPIRIT that speaks out of us in tongue. (John 3:3-7, Acts 2:38)
AMEN!
NOW DON’T GET IT TWISTED!
I am not condemning any Holy Spirit Led expression of praise to God and I am not ridiculing anyone’s tradition or culture of dancing as an expression of worship to GOD. What I am doing is trying to put things in their proper perspective relative to Salvation and obeying the WORD of GOD.
There is no need to shout about something or someone who you haven’t obeyed or kept His Commandments. You are not fooling God and you sure aren’t fooling His Holy Spirit.
Judge what is right for yourselves.
If I tell my child to empty the trash on Friday and he does it on Tuesday, he has not done what I commanded and he has demonstrated disrespect and unfaithfulness toward me and my authority as his parent. (Matthew 7:21-23)
If I tell my child not to drive my car like her friends drive their parent’s cars and don’t put oversize rims on my car and she does it anyway, she has disobeyed me and violated the trust and defaced the property that I entrusted to her. (Leviticus 19:28)
Many believers don’t see themselves as clearly as they see the wrongs of others.
Judge What Is Right For Yourselves!
Note: The heathens danced and yelled to their idol gods and performed many acts of extreme personal sacrifice and physical praises. But God forbid his children from worshiping HIM like the heathens worshiped their false idol gods. (Deuteronomy 12:4 and Deuteronomy 12:31)
Judge For Yourselves What Is Acceptable To God.
There is no need to come to a church to shout and dance and yell and roll around on the floor and run around the pews when you haven’t obeyed GOD’S orders of how to enter into HIS Ekklesia (CHURCH) through repentance and water baptism in HIS name.
There is no need to visit a church just to “get your praise on.” Many so-called Christians act irreverently toward the House of Prayer as if worshiping the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY was a dance club and a place for them to be made to feel good although you haven’t been good, holy or saved.
DON’T GET IT TWISTED!!!!
DANCING AND SHOUTING IS NOT SALVATION!
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DOES THE LORD TAKE PLEASURE IN YOUR DANCE?
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The devil is a master of disguise and deceit. He is the author of confusion and the architect of identity theft. Satan is the progenitor of lies. He is ambitious, crafty, imaginative, intriguing, captivating, entertaining and convincing. He is one slick dude.
He wanted to be like the Most High and he has not ceased to try to ascend to the throne of God. And although he has been cast down out of the Kingdom of God and temporarily assigned as god of this world, he still seeks to be like the Most High God by imitating what is God’s and God’s alone. The problem is that he can only imitate and counterfeit what is God’s. He can never duplicate God’s perfection and holiness. He can only twist, pervert, distort and lie which is his nature.
The devil took the human and secular art of interpretive dance and replaced the word “interpretive” with the word “praise” and added some music that he placed the word “gospel” in front of and called the combination “Praise Dancing.”
The problem is that every gospel song isn’t the gospel and every praise dance doesn’t praise the Lord. It is mostly entertaining theater these days with painted face and costumes. But didn’t the LORD warn us not to worship him in the manner that the heathens and the ungodly worship their gods? Weren’t we admonished not to bring the secular into the sacred? (Deuteronomy 12:4)
Although the scriptures instructs us to “Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!” (Psalm 105:1-6)
The Word of God also says that “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24)
There is no worship or honor in praise dancing when the dancers aren’t born again and worshipping in The Spirit of God’s Holiness and Truth. It is only entertainment with a religious twist (Perversion).
I am not criticizing anyone’s practice of praise dancing no more than I would criticize anyone practice of singing on the choir or preaching from the pulpit while unsaved, unrepentant and sexually immoral.
What I am saying is that whatever you do for the LORD, let it be REAL! And in order to be real, we have to be born again – born of the Water and of the Spirit.
There is no need to try to praise the Lord when your praises are defiled by your sinful unrepentant heart and sexual immoralities. You must repent and be born again!
The Bible says that God doesn’t hear the prayers of sinners. He says that “your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.” (Isaiah 59:2) Therefore it stands to reason that God will not hear or acknowledge the praises of sinners either.
Your church and congregation may hear and applaud the acts of praises of practicing and unrepentful sinners but God does not.
However, Psalm 51:17 tells us that “a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.”
We must first and foremost become broken and contrite about our sinful nature and practices and repent of our sins before we can offer any acceptable sacrifice of praises to God.
The prophet Samuel told us that “To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.” (1 Samuel 15:22)
Before we can offer any acceptable praises to God, we must first be repentant and obedient to God – not just in words but in spirit and truth.
Don’t let the sounds, drama and theater of the performing arts of dance and music fool you. Just because they move us emotionally and entertain us physically doesn’t mean that they are anointed and acceptable to God. The devil has talents and gifts too. He was the brightest and most talented cherub in Heaven.
Satan has fooled a lot of folks into believing that a lot of talented folks are actually anointed by God when in fact they are just gifted by Satan. The devil is a liar and he is great at making wrongs look right and sinners look like saints.
“Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” (1 John 4:1)
All things come out of the spirit realm, including praise dancing and it must be examined to see whether it is from God or man.
Don’t get it twisted. Anything that is from God and that God ordains and anoints as His own can stand to be questioned and examined. However, the devil doesn’t want us to look too closely at what he is doing. We may find that it is twisted just like him and contrary to the Will, Purpose and Spirit of God.
I am just trying to keep it REAL!
One more thing. I’ve got to get some answers on another dance that is now becoming popular in some of our churches. That is the tendency to have black people performing as “mimes” in whiteface. Can anyone else besides me see the hypocrisy in our getting mad over white people in blackface, then put the exact opposite in our churches as an acceptable form of entertainment?
Again, I am just trying to keep it REAL!
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You can’t live like hell and expect the Lord to accept your praise and worship.
“Just because you worship before men in a church doesn’t mean that your worship and your praise is acceptable to God.”
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. (James 3:11-12)
A practicing none repentant sinner cannot bring acceptable praise to God or worship the LORD in Truth.
Only a contrite and penitent heart does the LORD acknowledge and respect. (Psalm 51:16-17)
Repent!!!
No matter how well intentioned or constructive, openly criticizing and condemning the riotous outbursts and actions of a people frustrated by continuous injustices and the blatant murder of their children only demonstrates a lack of thought, empathy and compassion for their sufferings and grief.
When it isn’t you or your children or grandchildren that are being slaughtered mercilessly and when it isn’t you being denied justice and fairness, it is easy to sit back in your safe and privileged status and criticize.
Try A Little Tenderness.
~ Galatians 6:1-2 ~
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(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED OCTOBER 16, 2010)
Hellfire Preaching has been replaced by feel-good prosperity sermons.
Confession and repentance have been replaced by entertainment and crowd applause.
Conviction of sin against God’s Holy Commandments has been replaced by political correctness and tolerance.
Emotional demonstration has replaced the Holy Ghost manifestation.
The God called, anointed and sent Man of God has been replaced with the academically accomplished, denominationally approved hired motivational speaker.
The feminine movement has usurped God’s divine order of gender roles in His Church. The masculine pastor has been replaced with a feminine counterfeit.
Holiness and purity has been replaced with lewdness and immorality.
Virginity is not as highly prized in the church as is fornication and “Single Parenting.” Churches are hosting baby showers for unwed mothers and promoting sexual lewdness through moral apathy and their embrace of sexual immoralities.
Sexual morality and spiritual integrity are no longer a prerequisite for pastors but academic achievement and denominational loyalty are prided above all.
The Holy Spirit no longer leads the worship or directs the message of the ministry but church tradition and theology governs the worship experience.
Although no Apostle of Christ has ever heard of “praise dancing” or “miming” as a part of the worship experience, these aberrations have entered the Church and are celebrated.
While the hypocritical dogmas of religion point out the outward subjective taboos and ills of smoking, drinking and drugs – which have no precedence in the Ministry of Christ – they neglect to point out the soul threatening and damning sins of cowardice, greed, homosexuality, lesbianism, fornication, material extravagance, whoredom and prosperity gospel preaching.
The focus of many Christian ministries and churches have moved from conviction, confession, repentance and salvation to wealth building, prosperity preaching, social agendas and competitive membership growth.
The attitude of the Church has changed from that of being enthusiastically grateful and loving toward God because He is God to that of being manipulative toward God because they want material wealth from God.
The Contemporary Christian Church as a whole has moved from looking toward Heaven to looking for Heaven on earth.
Instinctively and historically and from time immemorial, sinners and saints alike knew that the divine office of pastor/elder/bishop is masculine in nature and in origin but now it is redefined as being gender neutral.
Fear, shame, sorrow and embarrassment were normal for a young woman who was discovered to have been having sex without the benefit of marriage and had a baby without a husband. But now shame has been replaced with irreverence, brazenness and bold-faced defiance.
The Church Of Christ that was founded by the True Apostles of Christ had a clear understanding of what was holy and acceptable to God. They knew that they were to separate themselves from the world’s value system, behaviors, foul language, sexual immoralities and way of thinking. But now so-called Christian churches are welcoming the world’s views into their ministries.
Children were always a part of the worship experience and were trained, encouraged and nurtured by parents to believe and trust in God and His Son our Lord Jesus Christ. But now parents are spiritually deficient, twisted, wicked and lost. Unconverted parents cannot lead where they do not go and they cannot teach what they do not know.
The Church at one time knew that a real conversion experience – a born again experience (Born of the water and of the Spirit with evidence of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the speaking in tongues) – had to take place before a person could serve in the body of Christ. But now all one has to do is recite a witchcraft incantation called the “Sinner’s Prayer” and they are magically transformed into a so-called Christian.
The Christian Church knew that in order to be saved one must repent (die to sin), be washed in the blood of Christ by being baptized by immersion into water in the name of Jesus Christ and be gifted with the Holy Spirit of God, as taught in the Bible and demonstrated by Christ and His Apostles. But now they say that you can have salvation any old way and they are putting church clothes on sin and parading it around as holy.
Christian Churches used to be a place of serious, effective, heartfelt prayers – a place for learning about how God loved us so mush as to die for our sins and give us a right to eternal life. It was a place of genuine ministry where we learned of God‘s forgiving love and we were challenged to live a holy, clean, respectable, morally straight and honorable life; where the saints gathered to worship in Spirit and in Truth. But now it is a well orchestrated theater where entertainers, motivational speakers, actors and artists, musicians, playwrights and choreographers come to perform their crafts – where book deals or promoted and salvation is commercialized.
At one time the name of God and of Christ were revered but now The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has been irreverently referred to as “J.C.” or someone’s “elder brother” and “God” has become a term to be used with obscenities and profanities and is treated as common thing.
Homosexuality, lesbianism and oral and anal sexual perversions of all kinds have been welcomed into the Church without repentance or conversion and that which was holy has been defiled and is no longer of God’s design and purpose.
The Church used to have a clear vision about what was godly but now they are blinded by their own greed and need for popularity, fame, social acceptance, political power and wealth.
For many, the Church has become a whore that welcomes other whores. It is for sale to the highest bidder. It caters to clientele with the most money so as to maximize its own wealth and popularity.
The intimate relationship between pastor and parishioner is no longer seen due to the advent of the “Mega-church.”
Church folk used to look for a real man of God to lead them but now they want a figurehead to represent their interests, their causes and their beliefs. They do not really want to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. They want to hear the voice of their denominations or religious groups, their causes and their personal agendas. They don’t want to hear God‘s Eternal Word.
At one time, folks understood that only God can save – only God had a Heaven and Hell to place us in. But now people behave as if their churches are the gatekeepers to Heaven or Hell and we must go through them to receive eternal life.
At one time it was important for Christians to represent God and holiness in the way that they dressed. But now it seems that Christians have chosen to represent the arrogant, pretentious and lewd apparel of the world.
Holy Spirit filled women in the Ekklesia of Christ used to obey God and dress modestly in order to please God and keep down confusion and distraction in the body of believers. But now it seems that the women in the church are dressing as clown-like and seductive, naked, lewd and provocative as possible.
Well, I have got some good news for some and some not so good news for others.
The world may accept, embrace, promote and applaud the changes in sexual morality, gender roles and what religion calls worship, but God has not.
The world may sanction many forms of religious practices, methods of soul salvation and pseudo-moral dogmas, but God has not.
Some so-called Christians may have bought into the false notion that church membership makes them right with God and their faith is just as good as anyone else’s, but God has not.
The religious community at large may have accepted, tolerated and sanctioned women as pastors and leaders of men in their churches, but God has not in HIS Ekklesia.
Institutions of religious education, preparation and ordination may confer upon the unconverted and practicing sinner a license to preach and teach in their churches, but God has not in His Body of Spirit and Truth.
Man-made religious institutions may guarantee salvation through the recital of a “sinner’s Prayer,” but God does not.
Lesbians and Gays may call their sexually deviant and perverted behavior a normal sexual orientation or a right of their freedom of choice, but God does not.
The world and its religions may label the Authentic Saints of God as being sanctimonious, fanatical, judgemental and intolerant because we dare to stand against sin and against the perversion of God’s order, But God Does Not.
Some churches and church folks will seek to impress you with large worship facilities, symbols of prosperity and images of success, but GOD Will Not.
Many are impressed with the multitudes of deceived believers that seem to be drawn to mega-churches and celebrity personalities, but GOD IS NOT.
Professional entertainers, singers and actors as well as profane and immoral individuals are being accepted by many church folk as qualified spokespersons for Christ based solely on material wealth, celebrity and popularity, talent and financial success, but God Does NOT!
Many believe that a Ministerial License, scholarly degrees, ecclesiastical titles and accolades qualifies one to speak on God’s behalf, but God Does Not.
God rejects the changes of the world’s churches and contemporary Christianity and doesn’t acknowledge their ways.
Things may have changed but God has Not. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. And His Eternal Commandments, His New Testament Plan of Salvation and His Eternal Standards of Holiness Have Not Changed.
God says out of His Mouth…
“Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.” – 1 Peter 1:16
“I am the LORD, I Change Not” – Malachi 3:6
Repent and return to authentic salvation. Repent and Rediscover Authentic Salvation.
Again I say REPENT!
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!