From The Pit To The Promise

"If those who can work refuse to work, let's just give them a government check and call it welfare." The Word of God says, "you get nothing until you work for it." Do that! "If we refuse to discipline our children, let's not call it parental cowardice. Let's call it building self-esteem. If we use God's name in vain," which by the way according to the Bible, will send you straight to hell, "let's call it freedom of speech. If we are addicted to pornography, let's not call it lust. Let's be comfortable and call it art appreciation. If we mock the Word of God, refuse to read it, let's not call it paganism. Let's call it enlightenment."

"If Israel is under attack, fighting for survival, as Iran is racing toward obtaining a nuclear weapon, let's not get involved. Those people have been fighting since the birth of Ishmael and Isaac. Let's give the land to the Palestinians and call it land for peace." Not now, not ever! That land belongs to the Jewish people according to the authority of God! Woe to those rotting religious corpses, singing "Amazing grace" in a dead church. If you join that church and lived according to New Testament holiness, you will have to backslide to be in fellowship with those people. Woe to those who look at their church and say, "This is good enough". It's not good enough until there's a national revival sweeping this nation from coast to coast!

Why do we build a magnificent church school for our children? To liberate them from American paganism. They will only know, when they get to be adults, how blessed they are. Why are we expanding our television ministry, training pastors and missionaries, preaching the Gospel to all the world, becoming defenders of Israel? Because we're not going to get comfortable in the pit called success. Our objective is not comfort. Our objective is victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It's not good enough until there's a revival of righteousness sweeping America that will not tolerate the forces of evil that are destroying this nation. God bless America, and God, bring us back to the old-fashioned gospel of Jesus first, the Word of God is true: all else is deception.

High up in the Swiss alps, there's a memorial tablet placed in honor of a famous climber who went out one day, and he never returned. Beneath his name are these simple words, "He died climbing". I think Paul would have appreciated that inscription. Paul writes, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things that are forward, I press, I press, I press toward the mark... of the high calling in Christ".

Paul did not whine his life away when he was beaten, when he was stoned, when he was taken to prison. The day before his head was cut off, he wrote to the New Testament church, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course". To the last day, to the last hour, to the last breath, I gave it my all. I died climbing. Are you? Or have you become complacent with where you are and what you've accomplished? Rise and shine! For the light and the glory of God is looking for a way to manifest itself in your life! Something good is about to happen to you, because God wants you to have the palace!