"Compromise Has A Price - Part II"
I give thanks to our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He is worthy of all praise and worship! Jesus, the only name in which we can receive salvation. Jesus, the only name by which we receive healing. Jesus, our only advocate with the Father. Jesus paid the price and Him alone. You know, Peter was called the �rock�, but in the Greek the word is petros, meaning small stone. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus goes on to say, �Upon this rock I will build my church.� Rock here is the Greek word petra, meaning a massive rock or a rocky cliff. Jesus was speaking of Himself, the very Foundation, and He would build upon that. Peter, with his solid confession, and all who confessed Christ as the Son of the living God, would become living stones that the church would be built out of. Jesus, the first and great Foundation of the Church (I Corin-thians 3:11). Peter spoke it himself in his first letter, 1 Peter 2:4-7, referring to Christ as the �living stone� a chief cornerstone� the stone which the builders disallowed.� Peter and all other true Christians are a part of the structure, part of the spiritual house God is building (verse 5). Too many have strayed from this, taking on teachings of the devil, praying to the �saints� instead of the Father. It is compromise of the true Word of God. Any church that does this will not stand, and will be a tool of satan in these last days. That one compromise of the Gospel will send a multitude to hell. �Compromise Has A Price.�
Lately I�ve met and come to know many people who say, �God has called me to preach�. Men and women wanting to be pastors, preachers, teachers, evangelists � wanting to fill all the offices of leadership. This can be a great and fulfilling calling. It can also be a terrible and tragic thing if the Word of God is compromised. Unless strong and powerful leadership steps up, based and taught in the full uncompromised Word of God, the people will go into an idolatrous, self-seeking church, having leaders that preach and do what the people want, disregarding the Word of God! This happens when a novice, someone young in the Lord and unlearned, steps into leadership. A novice can be someone saved for 30 tears if they haven�t been in the Word and aren�t Holy Ghost led! Any leader must STUDY to show him or herself approved. If you desire to preach the Gospel, you must come to know it and understand it for yourself, BEFORE trying to teach or preach. The Holy Spirit is the Teacher, if you seek from the heart. Ask, seek and knock � only then will you be sent with the uncompromised Word of God! It takes dedication to lead. If a man or woman can�t dedicate time in the Word like a diver seeking the greatest pearl, then, diving into deep waters, that person will hinder, become a stumbling block and a tool of satan. If you want to lead, yet don�t go after the Word like someone hungry for food, then you will fail, taking yourself and others to hell. Someone that delivers bread can handle loaves of bread all day and still go home hungry! The same for someone wanting to lead without going after or eating the Word. Read Proverbs 25:2 and see how you must search out the hidden matters of God! When a leader steps into a pulpit or into a classroom and has nothing to offer but jokes, that person is compromising God�s Word, and is on dangerous ground. They need to stop and dive back into the Word, asking to be taught by the Holy Spirit. The Word of God says that some desired to teach when they had need of teaching themselves! If you desire to be used by God in a position of leadership, you must get the Word for yourself, and this takes time. It is a serious thing to step into a leadership calling. Without knowing the Word, without being led of the Spirit and allowing the Holy Spirit to speak through you, the Word is compromised. That compromise has the souls of men, women and children in the balance. A leader can lead all these souls to Heaven, or to an eternity in hell. Consider it, for certainly �Compromise Has A Price�.
There�s an epidemic in the church today, and it�s not just novices being placed in leadership roles. Some that are �trained� were trained with a compromised word, a pretty word that please, tickles the ear and ruffles no feathers. These are those who either didn�t seek God�s Word for themselves, or wanted a god of their own! Too many Christians today are satisfied by only being taught by man. They receive the Word of God filtered through some preacher, teacher or commentary, never searching the scriptures for themselves. First hand knowledge is the best! If you don�t independently search out the scriptures, you can be led astray. Man can steer you wrong, intentionally or ignorantly. Leaders and congregations who take someone�s word for what God has said, become mere echoes of the opinions of others. They are not grounded, and have no roots or foundation to secure them. The Word of God speaks about this in Ephesians 4:11-16, and I want you to read verses 14 and 15 particularly: �That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.� My friends, you must get the Word for yourselves. STUDY to show thyself approved! That is the Word of God � please seek it out and see if I�m lying to you � for �Compromise Has A Price!�
Many times people are self-seeking, forming their own gods. Across the land today people are being led out of churches. Many are people who have been Christians nearly all their lives. Either they didn�t get the Word for themselves, or they simply wanted a �word� that suited their lifestyle. Maybe they lost their first love. Christians are pulling out of Bible teaching churches all over America, running to churches and starting churches that remove the God of judgment. They only want to hear of a God of love. They don�t want to hear about a place called hell where the unrepentant go, and they don�t want to hear about sin. They want preachers and bibles that give a �feel good� message. These preachings and bibles and the lying devils that teach them, trample on the very Blood of our Saviour, Jesus! The Word of God in several places warns about taking away from or adding to His Holy Word the Bible (see Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 30:6 and Revelation 22:18-19). To do so exhibits a lack of fear for the Lord. Anyone that says God won�t judge, that God won�t punish sin with hell, has created their own god. God doesn�t change and He is a consuming fire � He is a jealous God (Deuter-onomy 4:24). He will not tolerate unfaithfulness or sin! He has a holy jealousy and it is righteous. God will not tolerate any compromise of His Word in any area. Compromise is disobedience and that is sin. Sin will be punished, and not just in eternity � sin is cursed here and now. I pray that you�ll search your hearts. Check me in the Word and consider what the Holy Spirit has said � �COMPROMISE HAS A PRICE!�
By now you�ve probably figured out there will be a Part III to this message. The Holy Spirit has laid much on my heart, and there may even be a Part IV. I sat down to speak on Aaron, David, Samson and many others that at some point in their lives compromised the Word of God. This is a serious thing in a perilous time, and the Holy Spirit wants your undivided attention concerning it. It�s time for churches and leadership to be shaken out of the slumber that satan has them in. Christianity is under an all out attack. The judges and lawmakers in this country are turning farther and farther away from God�s Word. They are stomping the Gospel and the Blood of Christ into the dirt. They are paving the way for the son of perdition, the lawless one. Just recently in Los Angeles, California, a suit was filed by the ACLU. It seems the seal there has a small cross on it and they want it taken off. On the opposite side of the seal is an image of the pagan goddess Diana, but no one has a problem with that? On television and radios, what a man of God has to say is pretty much censored. Yet homosexuality is promoted. Yet pornography is allowed to rage. At a recent �Promise Keepers� Conference a survey was conducted. Fully half of the men there admitted they had viewed pornography the week before! There are now 300,000 porn sites on the internet � they receive over 30,000,000 hits a day! By the way, 37% of those men who admitted to viewing pornography were pastors� Prisons in the US now hold over 2,000,000 people (per a 2003 survey), with a 75% recidivism rate. Many of these are violent crimes, many are sexual offenses. The very basis of family as laid out by God is under attack. I heard a youth pastor the other day say that getting young people in church was like fishing � if one lure doesn�t work, you get another. Oh my... If the Blood of Jesus doesn�t draw the children, they will perish. If the drawing of the Holy Spirit doesn�t work, we will NOT conform to the world to draw them! A recent statement was made that �Las Vegas was the ideal American city� � what people wanted� I hope you see the price of compromise. I hope you see the importance of this message. I pray you stand up and proclaim the uncompromised Gospel. Get the Word in you and run with it! �Compromise Has A Price!�
In Christ's Love, Bro. Don George
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