Church organizations are behaving more like cults than the House of God—the House of Love. If a person isn’t a member of a church and doesn’t walk in step with them in all things—right OR wrong, they ostracize and treat them like they’re unlovable. Folk claim they love people, but more besides those who are a part of their organization…cult…should feel their love.
It’s past time to STOP:
- S Seek Him
- T Turn from wickedness
- O Obey the Word of God
- P Pretend no more
Some folk are as prickly as porcupines, but people love and support them ANYWAY in spite of their annoying and tiring stuff, yet they have the audacity to make declarations about who they deem worthy of THEIR love and support. Just…STOP!
Promiscuity—heterosexual AND homosexual (yeah, folk know about it)—is going on throughout the church and those folk still stand over the people of God in places of leadership and ministry. Preachers are boldly setting up “harems” in their churches, treating multiple sisters like they’re the wife and the wife like she’s less than human. You’re out of order! Sit yourself down somewhere until you get yourself in order. S…T…O...P!
Just who do you think you are? God is going to hold us accountable for how we handle His people IN HIS NAME. Oh, my, my, my you’d better STOP!
Folk say they don’t understand why there’s no respect for the House of God. It’s simple: The inhabitants of the House, calling themselves His people, have become the mirror image of those outside the House. Nasty attitudes, hypocrisy, bigotry, infidelity, greed, corruption, lying, hatred, spitefulness, jealousy, isms, and schisms. It’s all going on up in there.
Folk dance (got a sophisticated one too), pray, preach, sing, operate in their gifts, and use their talents, yet their relationship with God was severed a long time ago by their choices. The sinful place they’re living in has become so comfortable to them, they boldly wear it like a second skin. S.T.O.P!
Some try to justify where they are by saying they’re covered by the Grace of God and all else is legalistic. Thank God for His Grace and Mercy! They are constant, unchanging, and available to all. But their choices stepped them out from under the umbrella of Grace a long time ago.
Galatians 5:19-21 KJV
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
There is no salvation by exception. If I must obey God’s Word, so do you. If I must crucify my flesh and live according to His precepts, so do you. If I have to love without dissimulation, so do you.
The resolution to the whole matter is simple: repent.
We’ve got to earnestly seek relationship with Him, crucify our flesh, turn from wickedness, obey His Word, and quit pretending we’re in relationship with Him when how we live scream a different story.
- S Seek Him
- T Turn from wickedness
- O Obey the Word of God
- P Pretend no more
God help us! 
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