The Apostle Paul's Letter to the Modern World in March 2007
By Matthew Robert Payne
I was chatting to the Father tonight as I do each night when I go the bed and after a while He told me he had sent the apostle Paul to earth to have a chat to me. The Father bid me good night and I tested the spirit on the end of my bed and once he had confessed Jesus had come in the flesh, Paul started to comfort me. Now an hour later he has come with me to my computer and wants me to dictate a message to you readers. This article is what he had to say.
Greetings from the everlasting Father, from Jesus His Son and from the Holy Spirit the comforter.
The prophet Joel prophesied that in the last days people would see visions and would prophesy. Today when I arrived Matthew was surprised I was dressed in a Roman soldier’s uniform and I told him that I was a soldier for Christ. He was happy with the answer.
I have some questions for you readers to contemplate.
Are you are a soldier for Christ?
Are you taking ground off the enemy?
Have you put to death the flesh in your life and are you living a life of power in the Spirit with a crucified life?
Are you walking in communion with the Spirit of God, in a close walk so that your every decision and every action is ordered by the throne room of heaven?
Are you set apart, holy and consecrated for God alone, or do you live this life as a slave to righteousness and sin at the same time?
Are you serving two masters, or are you trying to serve the lusts of this world in the flesh and trying to serve God at the same time?
Do you claim Jesus as Lord, yet have little idea how to walk in the Spirit and move in the power of the Spirit?
Are you hungry for the meat of word and reading book after book in search for knowledge?
Is the modern church lacking power, full of dissentions and quarrels and strange doctrines?
Do you serve Jesus with all you heart, all of your mind and all of your strength?
Do you love your neighbor as you love yourself?
Are you one of the sheep in the parable of the sheep and the goats or are you more of a goat?
These are some of the questions I have been sent to ask you. The world that we look upon is very far from the world that I left. Knowledge has increased and yet sin is out of control. The people of earth seem to have lost touch with what is shameful and not only do evil in private but now make it available on DVD’s for people to watch and be entertained by it.
The sin in the church is an abomination to God and to see what some of the congregation members of churches are doing is shocking for the great cloud of witnesses that watch human affairs. Men are leaving wives and taking other wives in second and third marriages, young children are being abused and grace has been taught in such a way that the average Christian has no fear of a Holy and righteous God.
Where is the spark and the excitement?
Why is not the possession of Christ so precious anymore that the Christian wants to share it with everyone he knows?
Why have you become so lukewarm, neither hot nor cold?
Why has the church become a social club and where has the faith gone so that signs and wonders are not so prevalent in the West?
Where is the repentance, true Godly sorrow that has people walk away from sin and turn their back on it?
What is so good about the Television and the Newspaper?
Why is so much time and money being wasted on goods and services when the same money and time could be put into winning the lost?
Do you even care about the lost in the world?
Where is the zeal, that unquenchable fire of the Holy Ghost?
Where are the intercessory prayers, where are the people praying for change and the prayer meetings where earthquakes disturb them?
Why do the people honor the Lord with their lips on Sundays and all of the week the Lord gets no thought and the poor beggar get no bread from you?
Where is the fire in the pulpit, the sermons that are unwritten and un learned that have the whole congregation in tears of repentance?
Where is the meat of the Bible? Why are you preaching these fluffy weak sermons pastors?
The whole of heaven mourns and cries for the lost of the world and the whole of heaven mourns for the lost in the church. The gates of hell remain wide open for the unrighteous and the people that continue in lawlessness and sin. The prophets are seeing the world that they prophesied come to pass and the great men of faith are in mourning as they watch human affairs and the church that is sliding so far from the right path.
What is the matter with serving the Lord with all your might?
What is wrong with sowing money into tracts and putting one into every post box in your city?
Where is the passion?
Why are people so excited in church and come to feel the anointing, but can’t feel it all week?
Why does the world accept the Christian church being so like them?
Why are you marketing with banners and with flyers and competitions and all manner of marketing tips just like your selling a product like the world does?
What do you have this “send me money and I will send you a love gift sort of promotion?” Doesn’t the Holy Spirit have enough power to inspire people to give to your ministry?
Why are you being seduced by the ways of the world?
Why do you allow Jezabel a position of power in your church and into your pulpits when the Revelation of John said not to tolerate this spirit in your fellowship?
Beloved people of the Lord. Seek God while you can. God is not in a denomination; God is not at the latest conference or in the latest bestseller. The God of heaven and earth is revealed in the Holy Scriptures. With enough prayer and with an earnest heart the Bible will be opened up to you by the Holy Spirit. Even my letters that sometimes can be hard to understand and are used and twisted by dishonest men can be understood and obeyed by you if you make the effort.
I am a simple man. A man who had no great reputation on earth. I was a driven man and I was close to the Lord Jesus through the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. If you seek one thing, seek to abide in the presence of the Holy Spirit. All those that walk in the Spirit and abide with Him have their prayers answered.
The world looks for revival. But no great revival can come until the church comes to realize that they are lukewarm and have lost their first love. They need to repent and cry to the Lord of the Harvest to send them out as laborers into the harvest. The Lord is not slack and is a God of promises and He will fulfill but He cannot move on a stubborn and stiff necked people except with judgment or the fire of the real gospel..
It seems pastors are afraid of losing their flock by preaching holiness and a righteous sort of life. Pastors are afraid to ban people from coming to church who are involved in sexual immorality as I taught. In fact the modern church does not practice a lot of what my letters taught. They claim to love me, and all sorts of thousands of books have been written about what I said, but few men take my advice and imitate me.
The normal Christian life should be abnormal to the rest of the world. A Christian should shine with the light of Christ and be a light on a hill. The church should be a blazing flame that does not just meet once a week but is alive and together each day. The Christian walking by faith should be a person winning souls each year and growing in faith from year to year. Possessions and material wealth should not be what a Christian should have to show for his life of work but hundreds of souls entering heaven should be their heritage.
The earth is in a sick position and yet never has communication been so possible like it is today. With knowledge and communication sin has increased and yet with all this technology few people have the vision to shake nations with it. Today if I were on earth all of my sermons would be on MP3’s and would be printed and available free on the Internet.
Consider my questions. Pick up you Bible and have sweet fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Sow into the lost and let the Holy Spirit be your teacher and catch the flame and go and spread the light with all men. Read the Bible and apply it. Give up on spending and sow into the kingdom, sow into seed that will bear fruit for eternal life in another person’s life.
May God’s peace find you and stay with you.
Be blessed
Paul the Apostle.
3/31/2007
Matthew shares his heart in these articles and can be found at http://www.online-prayer.net You can read more of his articles at his link below.
If you want a copy of his upcoming book of articles which will have the first sixty of the articles on this web-site called "The Musings of a Mad Prophet" please contact Matthew via email so he can contact you around February 2007 to tell you of the progress of the book.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Matthew_Robert_Payne
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I was chatting to the Father tonight as I do each night when I go the bed and after a while He told me he had sent the apostle Paul to earth to have a chat to me. The Father bid me good night and I tested the spirit on the end of my bed and once he had confessed Jesus had come in the flesh, Paul started to comfort me. Now an hour later he has come with me to my computer and wants me to dictate a message to you readers. This article is what he had to say.
Greetings from the everlasting Father, from Jesus His Son and from the Holy Spirit the comforter.
The prophet Joel prophesied that in the last days people would see visions and would prophesy. Today when I arrived Matthew was surprised I was dressed in a Roman soldier’s uniform and I told him that I was a soldier for Christ. He was happy with the answer.
I have some questions for you readers to contemplate.
Are you are a soldier for Christ?
Are you taking ground off the enemy?
Have you put to death the flesh in your life and are you living a life of power in the Spirit with a crucified life?
Are you walking in communion with the Spirit of God, in a close walk so that your every decision and every action is ordered by the throne room of heaven?
Are you set apart, holy and consecrated for God alone, or do you live this life as a slave to righteousness and sin at the same time?
Are you serving two masters, or are you trying to serve the lusts of this world in the flesh and trying to serve God at the same time?
Do you claim Jesus as Lord, yet have little idea how to walk in the Spirit and move in the power of the Spirit?
Are you hungry for the meat of word and reading book after book in search for knowledge?
Is the modern church lacking power, full of dissentions and quarrels and strange doctrines?
Do you serve Jesus with all you heart, all of your mind and all of your strength?
Do you love your neighbor as you love yourself?
Are you one of the sheep in the parable of the sheep and the goats or are you more of a goat?
These are some of the questions I have been sent to ask you. The world that we look upon is very far from the world that I left. Knowledge has increased and yet sin is out of control. The people of earth seem to have lost touch with what is shameful and not only do evil in private but now make it available on DVD’s for people to watch and be entertained by it.
The sin in the church is an abomination to God and to see what some of the congregation members of churches are doing is shocking for the great cloud of witnesses that watch human affairs. Men are leaving wives and taking other wives in second and third marriages, young children are being abused and grace has been taught in such a way that the average Christian has no fear of a Holy and righteous God.
Where is the spark and the excitement?
Why is not the possession of Christ so precious anymore that the Christian wants to share it with everyone he knows?
Why have you become so lukewarm, neither hot nor cold?
Why has the church become a social club and where has the faith gone so that signs and wonders are not so prevalent in the West?
Where is the repentance, true Godly sorrow that has people walk away from sin and turn their back on it?
What is so good about the Television and the Newspaper?
Why is so much time and money being wasted on goods and services when the same money and time could be put into winning the lost?
Do you even care about the lost in the world?
Where is the zeal, that unquenchable fire of the Holy Ghost?
Where are the intercessory prayers, where are the people praying for change and the prayer meetings where earthquakes disturb them?
Why do the people honor the Lord with their lips on Sundays and all of the week the Lord gets no thought and the poor beggar get no bread from you?
Where is the fire in the pulpit, the sermons that are unwritten and un learned that have the whole congregation in tears of repentance?
Where is the meat of the Bible? Why are you preaching these fluffy weak sermons pastors?
The whole of heaven mourns and cries for the lost of the world and the whole of heaven mourns for the lost in the church. The gates of hell remain wide open for the unrighteous and the people that continue in lawlessness and sin. The prophets are seeing the world that they prophesied come to pass and the great men of faith are in mourning as they watch human affairs and the church that is sliding so far from the right path.
What is the matter with serving the Lord with all your might?
What is wrong with sowing money into tracts and putting one into every post box in your city?
Where is the passion?
Why are people so excited in church and come to feel the anointing, but can’t feel it all week?
Why does the world accept the Christian church being so like them?
Why are you marketing with banners and with flyers and competitions and all manner of marketing tips just like your selling a product like the world does?
What do you have this “send me money and I will send you a love gift sort of promotion?” Doesn’t the Holy Spirit have enough power to inspire people to give to your ministry?
Why are you being seduced by the ways of the world?
Why do you allow Jezabel a position of power in your church and into your pulpits when the Revelation of John said not to tolerate this spirit in your fellowship?
Beloved people of the Lord. Seek God while you can. God is not in a denomination; God is not at the latest conference or in the latest bestseller. The God of heaven and earth is revealed in the Holy Scriptures. With enough prayer and with an earnest heart the Bible will be opened up to you by the Holy Spirit. Even my letters that sometimes can be hard to understand and are used and twisted by dishonest men can be understood and obeyed by you if you make the effort.
I am a simple man. A man who had no great reputation on earth. I was a driven man and I was close to the Lord Jesus through the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. If you seek one thing, seek to abide in the presence of the Holy Spirit. All those that walk in the Spirit and abide with Him have their prayers answered.
The world looks for revival. But no great revival can come until the church comes to realize that they are lukewarm and have lost their first love. They need to repent and cry to the Lord of the Harvest to send them out as laborers into the harvest. The Lord is not slack and is a God of promises and He will fulfill but He cannot move on a stubborn and stiff necked people except with judgment or the fire of the real gospel..
It seems pastors are afraid of losing their flock by preaching holiness and a righteous sort of life. Pastors are afraid to ban people from coming to church who are involved in sexual immorality as I taught. In fact the modern church does not practice a lot of what my letters taught. They claim to love me, and all sorts of thousands of books have been written about what I said, but few men take my advice and imitate me.
The normal Christian life should be abnormal to the rest of the world. A Christian should shine with the light of Christ and be a light on a hill. The church should be a blazing flame that does not just meet once a week but is alive and together each day. The Christian walking by faith should be a person winning souls each year and growing in faith from year to year. Possessions and material wealth should not be what a Christian should have to show for his life of work but hundreds of souls entering heaven should be their heritage.
The earth is in a sick position and yet never has communication been so possible like it is today. With knowledge and communication sin has increased and yet with all this technology few people have the vision to shake nations with it. Today if I were on earth all of my sermons would be on MP3’s and would be printed and available free on the Internet.
Consider my questions. Pick up you Bible and have sweet fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Sow into the lost and let the Holy Spirit be your teacher and catch the flame and go and spread the light with all men. Read the Bible and apply it. Give up on spending and sow into the kingdom, sow into seed that will bear fruit for eternal life in another person’s life.
May God’s peace find you and stay with you.
Be blessed
Paul the Apostle.
3/31/2007
Matthew shares his heart in these articles and can be found at http://www.online-prayer.net You can read more of his articles at his link below.
If you want a copy of his upcoming book of articles which will have the first sixty of the articles on this web-site called "The Musings of a Mad Prophet" please contact Matthew via email so he can contact you around February 2007 to tell you of the progress of the book.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Matthew_Robert_Payne
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