Thou Shall Be TOLERENT!

 Believers in Jesus Christ have been accused of being Intolerant and un-accommodating.

 What do those words even mean? Since these are “UN-“ words; one must understand the regular word.

“Tolerant and accommodating” – means to be able to change and lower the standards to allow someone with those lower standards to feel acceptable and unoffended

Based upon that definition, Believers in Jesus Christ BETTER BE intolerant and unaccommodating.  Those are the teachings one is accepting when calling themselves a “follower of Jesus Christ”.

Unfortunately, the church is wrong in how much it is tolerant and accommodating.  No where in scripture are believers told that they are to lower all standards in order to be able to love the unbeliever!

The abuse in making the gospel message acceptable has turned the act of “love” into an act to become culturally and socially acceptable. Believers are to be SEPARATE from the World.

Anyone who claims to be a believer and is OFFENDED by these words; I have one statement for you:

Pharisee and Hypocrites need to run and hide before they come face to face with the man they claim to follow!  He will not be able to tell you apart from unbelievers!

 

Matthew 16:1-4; 23:1-36; 25:31-33; 1 Timothy 4:6-11; 15-16; 2 Corinthians 4; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Spiritual Warfare Illustrated by an OLD MAN

Daniel is at least 80 years old; some have listed him as being between 90-100 at the time his fourth vision takes place in Chapter 10 of his book. He spends 21 days in a fast from bread, flesh and wine while seeking understanding and a spiritual break through. After 21 days he is void of all human strength and cannot physically stand when an answer arrives.

The Archangel Gabriel explains to him that “from the FIRST Day that you set your heart to understand….thy words were heard.”  “….but the prince of the kingdom of Persia (one of Satan’s angels) withstood me 21 days…”

Gabriel had come to respond to Daniel’s immediately upon Daniel’s heart being focused.  BUT, it took Gabriel 21 days to get there because of the battle going on in the spirit realm!

21 days of prayer and fasting + 21 days of spiritual warfare = Hundreds of years of pinpoint prophecy in Daniels Fourth vision 

That story may be familiar sermon material on spiritual warfare.

BUT consider what would have happened if Daniel had not pressed on for 21 days? What if he had decided after 7 days (week) that he had enough and called it quitting time?

How about after two weeks of prayer and fasting? Surely that was plenty of time. No, he kept on and on for 21 days UNTIL there was the BREAK THROUGH!

I am not going to recommend fasting for three weeks, but it sure would put a dent in the enemy’s armor. I am going to state that there are not enough sore knees in God’s army. We need to have concern about the outcome of the battles in the spirit realm if NO ONE is praying!

Today’s battle zone is World wide and fiercer than Gabriel dealt with.

IT IS TIME TO QUIT PRAYING “Mother Goose” TYPE PRAYERS that we have learned and start

PRAYING DANIEL TYPE PRAYERS

Pray until it hurts and then keep on praying……