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Revival or
Apostasy
A Prophetic Look at the church of the Last Generation before
Jesus Returns
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Romans 1:26-32
(KJV) “ 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use
into that which is against nature:
27 And
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves
that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as
they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are
not convenient;
29 Being
filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness,
covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate,
deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters,
haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of
evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without
understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing
the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are
worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in
them that do them. “
God gives them up…
and in that release of protection, the evils of the flesh
corrupt them totally into vile affections.
A mind enlightened with the light of God knows that what they
are doing is vile, but they will feel justified and arrogant
about living this way.
It is against human nature.
Romans 1:26
(AMP) “ For this reason God gave them over and abandoned
them to vile affections and degrading passions. For their
women exchanged their natural function for an unnatural and
abnormal one,”
Romans 1:27
(AMP) “ And the men also turned from natural relations with
women and were set ablaze (burning out, consumed) with lust
for one another--men committing shameful acts with men and
suffering in their own bodies and personalities the
inevitable consequences and penalty of their wrong-doing and
going astray, which was [their] fitting retribution. “
Men will lose interest in sexual
relations with women, but burn with lust for other men. And
women becoming lesbians and losing normal desires for men is the
next step of ungodliness and judgment.
They also
receive the full judgment and reaping from this kind of behavior
from disease to a sickened mind… to the reward of judgment in
the Lake of Fire.
Romans 1:28
(AMP) “ And so, since they did not see fit to acknowledge
God or approve of Him or consider Him worth the knowing, God
gave them over to a base and condemned mind to do things not
proper or decent but loathsome,”
They are turned over to a reprobate mind so that
they believe and do loathsome things, and not know it. They are
reprobate concerning the faith, and their names have been
blotted out of the Book of Life. They have in a very real way,
blasphemed the Holy Spirit. They will
never be able to understand godly things again, for they are
damned and their minds are based in damnable lies.
They are apostates to the faith, and reprobate concerning the
truth.
They have fallen away and they cannot
ever be restored. As I said before, this is not backsliding,
but apostasy.
This leads to the totally UNGODLY
lifestyle and society
that we see arising in Post-Christian America today in 2007.
Once there is no more conscience and leading of God, then all
ungodliness starts to consume these people.
And demons have a party eating on the
carnal flesh of these individuals.
They are filled with all unrighteousness then.
As believers are to be filled with the Spirit, so these
apostates are filled with ALL unrighteousness.
Now a sinner might have a basic conscience, but
he has not the power of the Spirit to be righteous.
He or she knows unrighteousness as a
lifestyle. But seldom do people normally get
“filled” with “all” unrighteousness unless their conscience has
been seared and they have become reprobate.
Look at the list of evils that they are filled
with:
Romans 1:29-32
(AMP) “ 29 Until they were filled (permeated and saturated)
with every kind of unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and
covetous greed, and malice. [They were] full of envy and
jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and treachery, ill will and
cruel ways. [They were] secret backbiters and gossipers,
30
Slanderers, hateful to and hating God, full of insolence,
arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new forms of evil,
disobedient and undutiful to parents.
31 [They
were] without understanding, conscienceless and faithless,
heartless and loveless [and] merciless.
32 Though
they are fully aware of God's righteous decree that those
who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them
themselves but approve and applaud others who practice
them.”
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Iniquity – spiritual sin
that opens you to demons – from homosexuality to
witchcraft to drugs
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Grasping and covetous
greed – a lusting for power and money and the world
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Envy and jealousy – love
is replaced
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Malice – hateful wrath
for others
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Strife – fighting others
and attacking others and discord
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Deceit – lying and
deception
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Treachery – break
contracts and vows and promises and cheat and betray
trusts
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Ill will to others and
cruel ways with no compassion for others, but
selfishness
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Secret backbiters and
gossipers – troublemakers
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Slanderers – the spirit
of Satan – accusing falsely
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Hateful to others
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Hating God and the people
of God
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Insolent and arrogant –
proud and looking down on others
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Boasting – prideful and
self-serving
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Inventers of new forms of
evil – they will try to find new ways to sin
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Disobedient and
disrespectful to parents
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They have no spiritual or
rational understanding
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They have no conscience
and will not care to hurt anyone or do anything in
selfishness
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They are faithless –
these who have turned from the faith will not believe in
God now
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Heartless and loveless
and merciless – this is the ultimate selfish person who
cares for no one
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They know of God and His
Law and their own sin, but glory in their sin and ignore
judgment
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They will promote others
who do evil and pretend that judgment will not come
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They will believe their
own lies
I will leave you with this. If a person has
become apostate, then this study cannot help them. It is too
late and they will scoff at your efforts to help them.
But this study is for us as a warning, and for us
to share with those who might be going in that direction. You
don’t necessarily have to get out of church to fall into this
danger. There are those who pastor churches who have given into
iniquities and turned to a false gospel to justify themselves,
who have become apostates.
There are some who might be hearing or reading
this that might be going to a church that has become like Sardis
in Revelation 3. They might be promoting sins and iniquities in
your church, but you have not totally succumbed to the deception
and God is dealing with you.
I challenge you to repent and leave you with the
exhortation to those in Sardis whose names had not been blotted
out of the Lamb’s Book of Life yet.
Revelation
3:1-6 (KJV) “ 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis
write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of
God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a
name that thou livest, and art dead. 2 Be watchful, and
strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die:
for I have not found thy works perfect before God. 3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and
hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I
will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what
hour I will come upon thee. 4 Thou hast a few names even
in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they
shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. 5 He
that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment;
and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,
but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his
angels. 6 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit saith unto the churches. “
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