Thursday, September 25, 2014

APOSTLE/PROPHET/TEACHER,GREGG A.SCOTT ON, "ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CHURCH AND THE LOSS OF POWER IN,THE HOLY SPIRIT":"THE SAMSONITE SYNDROME"(JUDGES 16:25,v.v.1-25ESV)

****THE FOLLOWING ISSUES FOR YOUR DEVOTIONAL MEDITATION(PS.1:1-3...) INVOLVE  MAKING A BIBLICAL DIAGNOSIS, ABOUT THE INCREASING "FEATURE OF ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CHURCHES AND LIVES OF CHRISTIANS", THAT ARE AFFLICTED WITH THE,"SAMSONITE SYNDROME"!THIS IS A "SPIRITUAL SICKNESS" THAT IS BEING CAUSED BY THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT  OF CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES LIVING IN SIN,RATHER THAN IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!THIS IS A CRITICAL WORD TO MEDITATE ON,SINCE "THE BIBLE IS A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE CHURCH BY THE CHURCH, THROUGH THE LENS OF THE LIVING GOD, OF THE WORD WHO SPEAKS.FURTHERMORE,THIS STUDY SHOULD MOVE US TO PRAYERFULLY REPENT IN THE AREAS OF OUR LIVES ,WHERE THE HOLY SPIRIT IDENTIFY,THAT WE ARE NOT LIVING UNDER HIS POWER AND CONTROL(ROM.8:14;EPH.5:18;PS.37:23...)BE NOT DECEIVED NO AMOUNT OF EXCELLENT HUMAN ENTERTAINMENT WILL EVER SUBSTITUTE,FOR A "CHURCH AND CHRISTIANS LIVING IN HOLINESS"AND BEING USED BY.THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,TO DO THE WORK OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD!

****URGENT NOTICE:DON'T FORGET THAT THE DEVIL LED EVE AND ADAM INTO DISOBEDIENCE AND SPIRITUAL POWERLESSNESS,IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN,THROUGH HIS "ENTERTAINMENT SCHEME",OF TRANSFORMING HIMSELF,INTO A TALKING SERPENT.THIS EFFECTIVELY DISTRACTED THEM FROM THE LIVING GOD OF THE WORD WHO SPEAKS, AND RENDERED THEM DISOBEDIENT AND INCAPABLE OF FAITHFULLY EXECUTING THE MISSIONARY WORK, THAT THE LIVING GOD HAD ASSIGNED THEM.NOTE WELL, THAT THIS REMAINS THE ANTI-MISSIONARY KINGDOM WORK STRATEGY OF THE DEVIL,IN THE CHURCH OF THE 21ST CENTURY(;GEN.1:28;3:1-7;JDGS.16:1-25;EPH.6:10-11...)!

-SAMSON, AS THE LEADER OF GOD'S PEOPLE,SUFFERED  WITH,"THE ENTERTAINMENT SYNDROME",AT THE END OF HIS LIFE(READ:THE AUTOPSY OF A DEAD CHURCH,BY THOM S.RAINER)!HE FOUND HIMSELF,WITHOUT THE POWER OF THE,HOLY SPIRIT!THIS WAS CAUSED BY THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF LIVING IN SEXUAL IMMORALITY AND THE VIOLATION OF HIS NAZARITE COVENANT VOWS, WITH GOD.THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES WERE, MANIFESTED IN HIS CEASING TO BE REVERED,RESPECTED,AND REGARDED, AS A POWERFUL CHANGE AGENT FOR THE LIVING GOD!THIS SPIRITUAL AND MORAL,ATTENUATION ULTIMATELY RENDERED SAMSON,AS IT HAS "MANY APOSTATE CHRISTIAN LEADERS AND THE CHURCH IN 21ST CENTURY AMERICA"THAT ARE NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY, AS A DIVINELY POWERFUL SPIRITUAL AND MORAL PRESENCE,BUT MERE "ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF ENTERTAINMENT, FOR CHURCHGOERS AND THE WORLD"!THE APOSTASY OF SAMSON AND "TODAY'S CHURCH LEADERSHIP AND CHURCH INSTITUTIONALISM",IS REVEALED IN REVELATIONS 2:1-6;3:1-4(THE EPHESUS ETHOS AND SARDIS SYNDROME OF THE ECCLESIA).BE NOT DECEIVED!IT IS THE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF THE CHURCH LIVING IN SIN AND HER VIOLATION OF THE,"NEW COVENANT AND NEW COMMANDMENT"THAT HAS CAUSED A GREAT FALLING AWAY FROM HER FIRST LOVE AND WORKS(MATT.22:37-39;JN.13:34-35...)



-CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES,MORE AND MORE ARE BEING RENDERED LITTLE MORE,THAN ALTERNATIVE SOURCES FOR ENTERTAINMENT BY THE WORLD,AS THEY EXPERIENCE THE ABSENCE OF SPIRITUAL POWER IN THE LIVES OF CHRISTIANS,THAT MAKE A REDEMPTIVE DIFFERENCE IN THEIR LIVES,AND THE LIVES OF THE UNSAVED(JDGS.16:24-25...)-

-THE CHURCH,LIKE SAMSON CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE ATTRITION AND WEAKENING,IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,AS LIVING IN SIN AND PREOCCUPATION WITH ENTERTAINMENT,IS INCREASINGLY REPLACING PREOCCUPATION WITH PRAYER AND THE STUDY,HEARING AND OBEYING OF THE LIVING GOD OF THE WORD WHO SPEAKS(JDGS.16:1-25...)-

-THEIR IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN LIVING IN SIN,THE ABSENCE OF HOLY LIVING,AND THE GROWING SPIRITUALLY SELF DEFEATING PROMINENCE OF ENTERTAINMENT,IN THE LIVES OF CHRISTIANS(e.g.PREACHERS OF L.A.REALITY T.V. SHOW...)-

-WHERE THERE IS A PREOCCUPATION WITH ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CHURCH.AND ATTRACTION TO THE CHURCH,BECAUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT, BY THE WORLD,YOU WILL EVENTUALLY OBSERVE CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES, THAT ARE BECOMING UNFAITHFUL TO THEIR COMMITMENT, TO THEIR DIVINELY ASSIGNED GREAT COMISSION AND "NEW TESTAMENT REVEALED APOSTOLIC KINGDOM WORK"-

-WHEN THE PREACHING/TEACHING OF THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD CONTINUES TO BE RELEGATED TO A PLACE OF SECONDARY POWER,AS THE ENTERTAINMENT ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH INCREASE IN THEIR PREEMINENCE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH,IT INDICATE THE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANS LIVING IN SIN-

-BE NOT DECEIVED SEXUAL IMMORALITY AS A LIFE STYLE AMONG CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIANS INCREASINGLY PREOCCUPIED  WITH BEING ENTERTAINERS,ENTERTAINING,AND BEING ENTERTAINED,ARE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME,"SAMSONITE SYNDROME"COIN-

-THE WORLD ULTIMATELY WILL NOT TAKE CHRISTIANS AND THEIR CHURCHES SERIOUSLY,AS REDEMPTIVE AGENTS,THAT WILL EMPOWER THEM TO BE DELIVERED,  HEALED,AND MADE WHOLE,WHEN THEY EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVE, IN THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH CHRISTIANS,THAT CHRISTIANS ARE NO THREAT TO THEM DISCONTINUING TO LIVE IMMORAL AND UNCHRIST-LIKE LIVES,BECAUSE CHRISTIANS HAVE THE SAME KIND OF IMMORAL LIFE STYLES(i.e.SPIRITUALLY POWERLESS,BLIND TO THE TRUTH,AND CAPTIVES OF THE LUST OF THE FLESH,LUST OF THE EYES,AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE)!THIS ESPECIALLY MAY BE EXPERIENCED WHEN CHRISTIANS REGULARLY SEEK AND SHOW UP, AT THE SAME ENTERTAINMENT VENUES AS THE WORLD,IN ORDER TO BE ENTERTAINED,RATHER THAN EVANGELIZE-

-WHEN THE WORLD SEEKS TO BE ENTERTAINED BY THE CHURCH RATHER THAN EVANGELIZED AND REDEMPTIVELY MINISTERED TO BY THE CHURCH,THEN CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES ARE SUFFERING WITH A GREAT LOSS OF POWER IN THE ,HOLY SPIRIT,"AND THE SAMSONITE SYNDROME"-

-THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE WORLD'S "ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY MEDIA"(i.e.MOVIES,T.V.,RADIO,INTERNET,MUSIC CONCERTS,PROFESSIONAL AND COLLEGE SPECTATOR SPORTS,MAGAZINES,BOOKS,HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITIES...)HAS REPLACED THE PARENT IN THE HOME,THE TEACHER IN THE CLASS ROOM,AND THE PASTOR/PREACHER/TEACHER IN THE CHURCH,AS THE PRIMARY INFLUENCE ON THE BELIEFS AND VALUES OF MOST PEOPLE,ABOUT THE MAJOR ISSUES OF LIFE(i.e.CHRISTIANS AND NON-CHRISTIANS,SEXUAL INTIMACY,POWER,MONEY,IDENTITY,PURPOSE,MEANING,GOD,DEVIL,HEAVEN,HELL,SPIRITUALITY)THE CHURCH HAS SUFFERED  THE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANS, LIVING IN SIN,THAT HAS RENDERED THE CHURCH SPIRITUALLY INDIFFERENT,INCAPABLE,ACCOMMODATING AND VIRTUALLY HOLDING THE SAME BELIEFS AND VALUES ABOUT THESE ISSUES,AS THE WORLD-

-IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT,AS CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES CONTINUE TO "LIVE IN SINS AND UNHOLINESS"THEY ARE DEMANDING THAT REDEMPTIVE PREACHING/TEACHING DURING CORPORATE WORSHIP BE REDUCED TO LESS AND LESS TIME,SO AS NOT TO CAUSE CHURCHGOERS,TO LEAVE AND DECIDE NOT TO GIVE IN THE OFFERING!THIS IS THE RESULT OF THEIR INCREASING APPETITES,TO BE ENTERTAINED,RATHER THAN EDIFIED!

****THE SPIRITUALLY ENERVATING ESCALATION OF ENTERTAINMENT IN INCREASING NUMBERS OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS(e.g.MEGA CHURCHES WHERE COLLECTIVELY 80% OF REGULAR CHURCHGOERS ATTEND 20% OF THE LOCAL CHURCHES...)MAY BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE FACT THAT, MORE AND MORE THESE CONGREGATIONS ARE BECOMING,"THE FELLOWSHIP OF THOSE WHO DESIRE TO FEEL GOOD"RATHER THAN RIGHTLY "THE FELLOWSHIP OF THOSE DESIRING TO HAVE GOD FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEM , AND BE PLEASED WITH THEIR FAITHFUL OBEDIENCE TO HIM"(HEB.11:6;PHILIP.4:18-19...)

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