The Wayward Church will Soon be Ashamed

Posted on July 16, 2009 by pjmiller

For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD:  That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.  – Ezekiel 16:59-63

Carter Conlon gives a prophetic word, May 3, 2009

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  1. Yemi, on July 16th, 2009 at 11:06 pm Said:

    Maybe it’s unrelated but I suspect you will find it interesting:

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443833907&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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    • pjmiller, on July 17th, 2009 at 5:49 am Said:

      Why do they do that Yemi? I just don’t get it.

      Twenty-five thousand prayers from US Christians make their way to to be placed in the Western Wall on Thursday.

      The prayers were brought by Rabbi Abie Ingber of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio;..

      I live within 15 minutes of Xavier University, so i know it pretty well. Its just confusing to me why a Catholic school would be involved in this, or why Christians (period) believe sending prayer requests to be placed in this wall is something sacred or, is an assurance that their prayer will be answered!

      Ever since i started reading about this practice (and i receive frequent emails from at least 3 “Christian org. that ask me to personally participate) i have wondered if believers in other parts of the world do this, or if its a westernized heresy…

  2. michael, on July 17th, 2009 at 2:25 am Said:

    What a message, PJ!

    As I listened to it I kept coming back to some words in an essay written by Michael Horton, one of the contributors to the newly released book: ” THE LAW IS NOT OF FAITH, Essays on Works and Grace in the Mosaic Covenant.” Mr. Horton is the last ocntributing writer of this collection of essays. It is an excellent book, well worth purchasing and reading. It is diverse in discipline and well researched by the contributors.

    Here is a portion of what Michael Horton writes in the book on page 334:

    “Interpreting this strange freedom displayed in Luther’s [TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN LIBERTY], Wingren adds, “… In faith, which accepts the gift, man finds that it is not only “heaven that is pure with its stars, where Christ reigns in his work,” but the earth too is clean “with its trees and its grass, where we are at home with all that is ours.” There is nothing more delightful and lovable on earth than one’s neighbor. Love does not think about doing works, it finds joy in people; and when something good is done for others, that does not appear to love as works but simply as gifts which flow naturally from love…”

    The commandment to love, Luther insists, is lex naturae. Thus, the same law that was inscribed in the human conscience in the covenant of creation and on tablets in the covenant at Sinai is now written on our hearts in the new covenant.

    Under the law, in Adam, one is trapped in the cycle of sin and death, resentment and despair, self-righteousness and self-condemnation. Yet under grace, in Christ, one is not only justified apart from the law but is able for the first time to respond to the law of love that calls from the deepest recesses of our being as covenantally constituted creatures. It is not the law itself that changes, but our relation to it, and that makes all the difference.

    Horton goes on to say that a new day has dawned this side of the resurrection and the terrible realities that come against violators of the law diminish in light of the awful reality that comes after God changes our hearts with His mercies and Grace!

    I cited Horton because of two outstanding points made in the preached word by Carter Conlon, one the shame the Islamic faiths speak about when they come here to the United States or to Great Britian or to any “so called” Christian based nation and witness the reality or fruits of a law based society gotten far away from God’s Love and by that is hardened by sin; and two, the reality he points as his text from the Book of Ezekiel where God Himself gives us a reason to Hope in Him even when we find ourselves hardened and far away from Him because of what He is going to do for His faithless Bride in bringing her back to Himself and changing her heart from one of stone cold legalism to that of one of a tender heart filled with His Love and Mercy. That same “law” just softens one’s heart by the Life of Our Savior’s LOVE!

    To that end then I end with one citation of Scripture, myself, that combines mercy with love and does for us what the preacher preached in his sermon when he called people to come to the altar of God available to them at Times Square Church and really, to everyone who, wherever they might be, calls upon the name of the Lord coming to His altar of Grace, Mercy and Peace:::>

    Eph 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
    Eph 2:5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved–
    Eph 2:6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
    Eph 2:7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
    Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
    Eph 2:9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

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    • pjmiller, on July 17th, 2009 at 5:37 am Said:

      Michael i agree…its a FANTASTIC message!! Hallelujah!!!

      While watching i almost felt like i was there. The message truly spoke to my heart…

      I cited Horton because of two outstanding points made in the preached word by Carter Conlon, one the shame the Islamic faiths speak about when they come here to the United States or to Great Britian or to any “so called” Christian based nation and witness the reality or fruits of a law based society gotten far away from God’s Love and by that is hardened by sin; and two, the reality he points as his text from the Book of Ezekiel where God Himself gives us a reason to Hope in Him even when we find ourselves hardened and far away from Him because of what He is going to do for His faithless Bride in bringing her back to Himself and changing her heart from one of stone cold legalism to that of one of a tender heart filled with His Love and Mercy. That same “law” just softens one’s heart by the Life of Our Savior’s LOVE!

      Amen, amen.

      I’m planning on listening to this message again, i feel i should.

      Thanks for the Michael Horton quote and book recommendation. I first became acquainted with his writings a few years ago while browsing at the website, Monergism.com:

      http://www.monergism.com/

  3. Tertius, on July 20th, 2009 at 3:15 pm Said:

    “England, famous for it’s missionaries, famous for the knowledge given it, famous for it’s military power” “And it had all come because there was a foundation of Christ in the nation”.

    I’m sorry but “military power” does not come by having a “foundation of Christ”. That is insanity.

    Other than that I liked a bunch of what he was saying, mercy and grace. It’s all about God. We go to our self-help group meetings (or churches) and think we’re worshiping YHWH.

    But again I must make this point, killing people (i.e. military power) does not come from Messiah.

    This belief grieves me deeply.

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