Beware Of Blind Dogs

Beware of Blind Dogs

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: My wife and I have a little Chitsu named Allie. Allie is 12 years old now and that is 94 in dog years. She is blind in one eye and can’t hardly see out of the other. When we take her out in the backyard we literally can be 4 or 5 feet in front of her and she can’t see, she will look but can’t see us right in front of her. Allie doesn’t bark much anymore, there use to be a time if someone came over knocked on the door or if she saw a cat or another dog through the window she would bark like she was about to tear that animal or person to pieces. Allie is literally fat no because all she does is sleep and eat. She is greedy always sniffing for food and will sit there staring towards the kitchen whenever my wife is cooking thinking she is going to get something to eat. It is sad now because we know that we don’t have a long time before she is gone so my wife really pampers her.

Although that is sad, I want to talk to you today about a different type of blind dog, a dangerous, lazy, good for nothing, greedy dog. That’s not Bishop Maughmer calling the dogs that is the Word of God.

PRAYER:

It is my desire going forward as I said on last week “Teach me thy ways of Lord. I want to be able to and make sure that I am giving a clarion call to the people of God.

SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 56:9-12 says “All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest. His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant”.

One of the disappointing and damaging with what is called church today is the plague of the spirit of assimilation, accommodation, and association.

Let me break this down a little bit.

Assimilation has to do with changing the sound of something to be more like something else. The church has a distinct sound, when on the Day of Pentecost there was a sound of a Mighty Rushing wind Acts 2:2, Exodus 19: 9 says, “And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice”. Now before someone wants to jump on and say “Oh here he goes talking about music” I’m not that is another lesson in and off itself. I am talking about the church not sounding like the church. It doesn’t talk like the church used to talk, it doesn’t call wrong wrong like it used to do, it’s not crying out Repent, Be Ye Holy, Holiness without no man shall see the Lord. It has begun to assimilate and sound more lie the world thinking they are winning the world. God just wants you to be happy, He approves of you just the way you are, You don’t have to Repent that’s for those other Christians, just try to treat everybody nice and pay your tithes and you are on you way to heaven.

Accommodation is a lot like assimilation they offer sugar coated candy pop sermons that tickle the ears and make you feel good in the midst of sin but brings no conviction and definitely no conversion. They are sermons that sound like Richard Simmons Sweating to the Eighties saying “Come on you can do it” God just wants you to have the best life now. You don’t have to change. We don’t preach or teach about Hell here because we just and God just wants you to be happy. No God said Be Ye Holy for I Am Holy. Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord.

Then there is Association if I can get Kanye to come a lead a praise service then we can fill the church up. If I can be seen backing this political figure or stand for or against this cause then I will have made it, my name will be known and then my church will grow. They are to busy trying to associate with the world instead of trying to pull people out of the world who are lost in the world and headed for Hell’s damnation.