Part #2 of two part leson.
Wearing Religious Masks?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
Kyfingers@aol.com
As we continue pondering,
Wearing religious masks and going to hell,
while I sit on a pew --- let me share my heart.
SHALOM.
PONDER: Why do people wear masks?
Several years ago, I had a nightmare, it was terrible.
For many days my spirit was greatly troubled.
In a dream, I saw one of my most serious workers at
church dying a terrible death.
As my church worker was dying,
I saw a battle going against my member.
I was broken beyond belief, as I saw this dedicated
Christian worker die and the Devil was grabbing the
individual and taking the soul to hell.
The smell was terrible, I could smell the enemy and
hell. This was so real.
In the dream, I started screaming, this is a terrible
mistake.
No way enemy, you can’t have this worker!
I have counted on them to do many things to build
this church.
They have touched many people and led many to the
Lord.
I am a better pastor because of this individual, and
the church is a better church, after all the hours
and efforts this family has invested in the church.
The enemy was slowly dragging my church member toward
the lake of fire and great torment.
We could hear the horrible sounds coming out of hell.
The smell was so real and horrible, I shall never
forget.
I was thinking, maybe there was secret sin, and they
were playing Christian games.
This was not the problem. I tried to fight for my
dear friend and the enemy kept slowly pulling my
member towards hell.
The fight was very painful.
I said, this is a good person.
This family paid their tithes.
They were faithful to church.
I could count on them.
What is going on here?
Jesus help me? What is going on here?
With tears in His eyes, Jesus came to me,
and said, I have tried and I have tried to change the
events of this day.
I have personally sent messages through you to warn
this individual?
I have sent radio messages to expose the sin?
I have given the words to television preachers, and
they watched with zeal, but My words were unheeded.
This person has cassette tapes that has warned them,
but they have not heard the message I have spoken to
them.
This person has books on their shelf, they have read
the parts they like, but the message I warned them,
was unheeded.
As a matter of record, when they heard the message,
they said the message was for someone else.
They even said, amen, let it be, but they thought the
message was for the other party.
I again questioned, Why Jesus, what is the wrong?
I knew them! They are good people.
With tears running down Jesus’ face,
Jesus said, "This individual was very angry,
and full of wrath.
Bitterness was rampant daily, and unforgiveness had
helped to bring an early death.
The home was full of coldness and painful rejection.
This person had allowed a critical spirit to tear
down the confidence in everyone.
They refused to pray.
Their hurt and disappointments had become the driving
force in their heart.
The anger they carried had brought physical
affliction, yet this never got their attention to
correct.
The person had rejected forgiveness, and justified
because of unforgiveness.
I was absolutely broken, as I saw one of my best
friends escorted into hell.
I could do nothing to change the hard heart, the
hurt,
the bitterness, --- the bait had been accepted.
The trap had locked on the neck.
I understood blasphemy as never before.
By focusing on the bitterness and pain, the person
had shown contempt and the lack of reverence for God
or His people.
Jesus had warned, the anger was turning into wrath,
and a vengeful driven isolation.
Yet every warning was given meant someone else,
they thought.
In my dream, they went to hell. I still cry over this.
I was awakened and I went into my office and prayed
and cried.
My heart was broken.
I asked God, give me the message to bring a change.
I fasted and prayed.
Slowly the person lost interest in church and
living.
The hurt and pain was never healed.
The hurt festered, infection spread.
They explained it was not me, that I was a good
pastor, but ---?
The individual withdrew from all activity and stayed
on the fringe for a while.
They stopped attending prayer meetings, had their own
for a while.
They stopped coming to the altar during service.
They were so alone, in the midst of the hurt and
pain.
My heart was broken, they were hurt.
God, what can I do?
One service I was so broken, I called the individual
to the altar, and the individual got very angry,
they came, but they resisted the Spirit.
Eventually, they dropped out of church.
I visited them several times.
They informed me that the Lord had told them they did
not need to attend church, that they could worship
God in their own way.
I explained Hebrews 10:25 Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
some is, but exhorting one another: even the more,
as you see the day appearing.
They informed me, this did not apply to their family.
I was so glad when they started attending another
church.
It was not long until they said, the preacher was
picking on them and everybody was hypocrites there,
just like the last place.
They found a real spiritual church, where emotions
took the predominance and they were happy there for
a little while.
They found out there were worse people problems
there.
They were so disappointed.
The husband and wife started intense fighting.
The police was at the house on several occasions.
The anger and wrath escalated.
Today, the people are very polite,
they go to church no where,
and plan to keep it that way.
People have disappointed them.
They cannot see unforgiveness has robbed them of
the glory of God.
This reminds me of a hidden tale in 2 Samuel 17:23.
There was a smart man that had advised three kings.
His wisdom was beyond the average man.
Ahithopel was disappointed in people,
he was hurt by people.
He had loved and counseled Saul a mighty man of God.
Saul was a disappointment and a disgrace to him.
Ahithopel was a counselor to David.
David got a woman pregnant, and was not what he
should have been.
Though many accepted David as a man of God,
Ahithopel could never forgive David for being human.
So Ahithopel throws his support behind the new man,
Absalom.
This must be God?
Absalom criticized everyone and made Ahithopel many
promises, then Absalom is killed in battle.
Hope in people was dashed.
Ahithopel was so hurt and disappointed in God’s men
and thus in God.
Nobody would follow his advise and wisdom, so
Ahithopel gets up and saddles his horse,
he put his house in order.
In order?
He never forgave?
He harbored pain, disappointment, and hurt.
When Ahithopel gets his house in order, (this order
was not of God), Ahithopel hanged himself.
I am here to warn you, disappointment, hurt, people
talking about you, wounded spirits, emotional
disturbances, offenses, anger, wrath,
misunderstandings, failures of others,
failures of self, broken promises,
are not reasons to lose HOPE.
God turns messes into messages. With God even chaos is curable.
Matthew 24:10 warns us that in the last days there
shall be a spirit of offense.
This spirit of offense is of the world.
This offended syndrome is not of God.
The Bible clearly tells us,
Psalms 119:165, Great peace have they which love thy
law, and nothing shall offend them.
As in the lesson of Joseph, we must forgive.
We must love.
We must forget.
We must press against the fad to be angry and live in
wrath.
God has a plan.
Something is wrong when we lose the gladness to go
to the House of God.
Are you focusing on God or people?
Shalom is a word hard to translate,
shalom means total well being.
Bitterness will keep you from coming to the point of
completeness and totalness that God wants for you!
Shalom is a joke, if we are hiding anger, wrath, hurt, disappointment.
Of course people will disappoint you.
You have disappointed others.
Focusing on the pain is a slap to the Divine Plan of
God.
Saying you don’t need the church is contrary to the
word of God!
Who shall we believe?
Here, I am Lord. It is me.
I need forgiveness, I must give forgiveness to
receive.
Let me quote a great man of God, Chuck Swindoll.
"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact
of attitude on Life.
Attitude, to me, is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education,
than money, than circumstances, than failures,
than successes, than what other people think,
or say or do.
Attitude is more important than appearances,
giftedness, or skill.
Attitude will make or break a company ---
a church --- a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude that we will embrace for that
day.
We cannot change our past,
we cannot change the fact that people
act a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string
we have,
and that is our attitude ---
I am convinced that life is 10% what happens
to me and 90% how I react to it."
Shalom, total -- complete -- well being, comes in attitudes that align with the church and the word of God. Let go of the bitterness and disappointmennts, set yourself free.
His servant,
Wade Martin Hughes, Sr.
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