{"id":3235,"date":"2016-10-09T22:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2016-10-09T22:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T22:28:50","slug":"audio-for-sunday-october-9-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO for Sunday &#8211; October 9, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3236\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool-992x1024.png\" alt=\"audio-speaker-and-mic-cool\" width=\"625\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool-992x1024.png 992w, http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool-291x300.png 291w, http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool-768x792.png 768w, http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool-624x644.png 624w, http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AUDIO-speaker-and-mic-cool.png 1850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Are we hearing God? Are you hearing God? And before you answer too quickly, I want you to understand that many don\u2019t hear him but they think they do. Many\u2014thousands upon ten thousands\u2014will sit in churches across our land this morning assuming that they are hearing God, convinced that they are doing the right thing, because someone is standing in the pulpit of their church preaching from the Bible. But the problem is that even though the Bible is used, and a lesson is taught, God is not being honored as God. And the word of God is not being honored as the word of God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">How could this be? Is this even possible? In church, all dressed up and looking good, message from the Bible. How could this not be a good thing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let&#8217;s look at some precedent, an example of this very thing which is available to us in the biblical record in the OT. As crazy or unlikely or preposterous or outside of your religious box as it may sound, we will see from your Bible and mine, that the preacher, the prophet, picks up God\u2019s word, tells lies and &#8230; the people love it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Is that wild or what? But listen to the prophet Jeremiah:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(Jeremiah 5:31 NIV84) The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it this way. But what will you do in the end?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You may have noticed, probably have noticed, that people love having things their way, whether it is how their burger is prepared or their morality or immorality, as it may be, or their life direction. People love to choose what they believe is right for themselves. Some love to choose what is right for everyone else. People love to have things their way. But Jeremiah asks, what will that person do when the end comes? What will you do when the choice is in God\u2019s hands and no longer yours?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We are in a time of turmoil as a nation, and we will have people, both liberal and conservative, many of them standing in pulpits, telling us what we should do, who we should believe, even who we should vote for. Some will, in the name of God, call us to certain choices. They will quote and misquote Bible verses and demand that we listen to God, telling us that God says this, and God says that. And what you had better do if you are a good person, or a good Christian, or a good whatever their context calls for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But here\u2019s the thing about speaking for God. If you say that God said it, then you better make sure that he did, or what will you do in the end when God calls you to account? What will you do in the end when God calls you to account for the words and agendas that you pushed in the name of God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We can collect everyone\u2019s opinion and analyze the data from the news services or from Gallup polls or examine the latest from George Barna, follow Breitbart on the web. Whatever suits your fancy. We can talk to all of our Christian friends and share opinions and read books and attend seminars and listen to all of our favorite preachers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You\u2019ve heard \u201clast man standing\u201d. Well, how about \u201clast information standing\u201d? Will our information stand up to the judgment of God? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We will not be ready if we are not hearing God! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">God is talking to us now. Are we listening? What happens in the end is all about being prepared and ready for the end, having the right information, God\u2019s information, before it is too late. The book of Revelation, really the entire Bible, is about preparation, and Revelation is the final chapter in the Book of Divine Preparation, the Bible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>REVELATION MESSAGE 4 &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Revelation-The Final Chapter of Preparation \/ Revelation 2 \/ 100916 AM<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3235-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/REVELATION%20MESSAGE%204%20-%20Revelation-The%20Final%20Chapter%20of%20Preparation%20:%20Revelation%202%20:%20ffc%20:%20dave%20scott%20:%20100916%20AM.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/REVELATION%20MESSAGE%204%20-%20Revelation-The%20Final%20Chapter%20of%20Preparation%20:%20Revelation%202%20:%20ffc%20:%20dave%20scott%20:%20100916%20AM.mp3\">http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/REVELATION%20MESSAGE%204%20-%20Revelation-The%20Final%20Chapter%20of%20Preparation%20:%20Revelation%202%20:%20ffc%20:%20dave%20scott%20:%20100916%20AM.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.\u201d Are we hearing God? Are you hearing God? And before you answer too quickly, I want you to understand that many don\u2019t hear him but they think they do. Many\u2014thousands upon ten thousands\u2014will sit in churches across our land this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.faithfellowship.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}