What Happened To The Good Old Days

We have people in the church being boasters talking about look what I have done, my congregation is growing, my church is the biggest, I am so great, I can sing better than anyone else, I can preach better than anyone else, I can teach better than anyone else forgetting that it is all about God and that it was God that blessed you in the first place.

The church is in perilous times.

We have unholy folks in the church, people trying to hold on to the world and serve God also. We have liars in the church, false accusers in the church, heady and high minded people in the church, (you know them they are the ones we call Holier than Thou) disobedient people in the church, trucebreakers in the church, despisers of those that are good in the church. They are singing in the choir, preaching in the pulpits, they walk around here having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. The church is living in perilous times. O Zion what’s the matter now.

There use to be a time this type of thing wasn’t in the church, there use to be a time when there was LOVE in the church, you didn’t talk about people, you didn’t try to find fault in them, but because of Love, you prayed fro them when you didn’t see them, you prayed for them instead of trying to fault in them, but that’s not the way it is any more. Services were unlike anything we have today. I can remember when we were little, my mother would put us in pajamas and we would go to church, laying down on the bench, I remember the saints of God praising God like never before. The songs were different the atmosphere was different. I remember going to church in Barberton, they had a piano that the woman couldn’t really play, but she did and a big bass drum, that the person only knew one beat, but they praised God. People were getting saved, delivered, healed, but now if the music isn’t just right, if certain people are not or are on the praise team determines how the service will go. We have become so formatted that we never let the Spirit take control, we are more concerned with were we are going to eat after church than God showing up. I ask the question “What Happened to the Good Old Days”? O Zion what’s the matter now, you don’t pray like you use to pray, you don’t walk like you use to walk, you don’t sing like you use to sing, What’s the matter now. What Happened to the Good Old Days.

I got an answer. This new generation has done so-called received a new revelation, they believe that they have a special interpretation of the scriptures, eventhough the Bible says there is no scripture given of any private interpretation, and God said I am the Lord an I change not, I am the same yesterday, today, and forever more. Yet in still we have people saying this is a new thing, they say we need to get rid of tradition, they say that we must be on a mission to destroy tradition, not realizing that what they are calling tradition is really foundation and when you begin to mess with the foundation of a structure you weaken the whole structure causing the structure to eventually collapse.