Holiness
A W Tozer Prophecy
PROPHETIC WORD from 50 YEARS AGO by A.W. Tozer
“Let me go out on a limb a little bit and prophesy. I see the time
coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by
the Holy Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.
The house will be left desolate and there will not be a man of God,
a man in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, left among them.
I hear Jesus saying…Mat 23:37-38: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
one killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her,
how often would I have gathered your children together, even as
a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
Behold, your house is left to you desolate”
As the Church now stands, the man who sees this condition of
worldly evangelicalism is written off as somewhat fanatical. But
the day is coming when the house will be left desolate and there
will not be a man of God among them. I would like to live long
enough to watch this develop and see how things turn out. I would
like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God – holy,
separated and spiritually enlightened – walk out of the evangelical
church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking
ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form
a new ark to ride out the storm.”
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They Laid Down Their Armor
THEY LAID DOWN Their ARMOR
by David Wilkerson
“And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had
made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:) then
Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the
Lord’s side? Let him come unto me” (Exodus 32:25-26).
The Hebrew word used here for naked is para, meaning “to loosen,
expose, dismiss.” It also implies “a new beginning.”
A modern beer commercial admonishes this generation to “turn
it loose tonight.” It simply means to throw off past moral inhibitions,
shake free of all law, begin pleasing yourself. Do your own thing,
whatever makes you happy.
Merely taking off their clothes was not corruption; it was the signal,
the message they were sending to the heathen looking on. Can
you see the Amalakites on the surrounding mountains, far off,
looking on this peculiar scene? These enemies, who had trembled
when they saw God at work among them, now laughed and mocked,
“Look at them. They are just like us! Their God has no power. They
don’t even trust in Him! They want to lust and party and play just
like all the rest of us. What hypocrisy!”
In that one act of nakedness they belittled their God in the eyes of
the ungodly! They made God seem heartless, cruel, uncaring and
helpless. They besmirched the honor and majesty of an omnipotent
God. They were no longer an example, no longer admired or feared
or respected.
They had laid their armor down to party! They put in jeopardy God’s
plans for their salvation. They were saying to the world, “We don´t
want to fight any more enemies! We don´t want to resist! We have
had enough of rejection, of sacrifice, of future hopes and far-off
blessings. We want to live now! We want to enjoy ourselves! We
want the good times to roll.”
The corruption was this: This was to be their new beginning. No
more combat! If they were going to have to exist in a hard, cruel
wilderness, then they would quit the struggle and make do the
best they could-on their own.
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When God No Longer Speaks
by David Wilkerson
Isaiah faithfully prophesied to Israel that the “ears of them that hear”
would one day be opened. But, sadly, his listeners had shut their
ears to God’s voice. They wanted to hold on to their sins!
“When I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear;
but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I
delighted not. Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my
servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants
shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall
rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my servants shall sing
for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl
for vexation of spirit” (Isaiah 65:12-14).
How tragic it is to refuse to hear the loving warnings of the Holy
Spirit. Whenever we shut our ears to God’s command to mortify
the sins of our flesh, we are doomed to experience every kind of
sorrow and pain.
Please understand, I’m not talking about a servant of God who is
overtaken by a sin he hates. Nor am I referring to the believer who
won’t allow himself any rest until the Holy Ghost sets him free.
Rather, I’m talking about the believer who has learned to love his
sin, who has laid his head in the lap of a Delilah. Such a person
has a calloused conscience.
The servant who continues his sinful ways will hear voices but
none of them will be God’s. Instead, that person will be given over
to delusion: “I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when
I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes,
and chose that in which I delighted not” (Isaiah 66:4).
What an awful thing it is when God no longer speaks! But how
encouraging to know that the Holy Spirit will lovingly caution us
and keep us from sin.
Source – When God no Longer Speaks
by David and Patricia Knowles
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