"CAN HE DO THAT?!?!"

My sister attends a Baptist church - this past Sunday the pastor actually preached about the impending wrath of God - talked about people and their lack of wholly following God and said he was considering KICKING PEOPLE OUT of their congregation because they are not really His (true followers of Jesus).

This is the first such report that has been brought to my attention - have never heard of any pastor doing this.

To clarify: the pastor is not kicking out non-saved newcomers seeking to know Jesus; he is praying about getting rid of people who sit there week after week with no evidence of Christ in them - religious people who are there for the sake of going to church without relationship and not wanting to go forward in intimacy with Jesus.

You must come to understand how Christ meant His church to gather, how WE are THE Church - His Body. Church in a building isn't scriptural! Yet you will find a 'church building' on nearly every corner of every community (and then some!) in the United States. That is merely ONE problem with church in a building (not going into at this time the sin of separate denominations, pastors in pulpits, the Body of Christ as mere spectators....).

But until the 'Christian world' stops doing things because everyone else does it, it IS encouraging to hear that there are pastors out their finally making a stand in these last days.

Pretty sure this comment was in a movie, but it speaks volumes: "Sitting in a church every Sunday doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in the middle of a garage makes you a Cadillac."

Every TRUE member of His Body has a gift of Holy Spirit AND something to share - we are not supposed to sit in a building like an audience listening to one person speak - that is NOT of God. Study carefully the Book of Acts....how THEY who had just spent years in the presence of The Master, who were then filled with Holy Ghost at Pentecost, how did HE then lead them to congregate for His glory?

Many are talking about the end of days. Record temperatures in all 50 states; extreme drought; unemployment; a bankrupt government who knows not the ways of the Lord....there was even a reservoir in Texas that turned blood red in the last few days. Signs of His coming - signs of His judgment. The Lord is not obligated to excuse or exclude the U.S. from His righteous judgements - in fact our only place of belonging is as friends to Israel. As a TRUE FOLLOWER of Jesus Christ, He DOES hide us under His wing - He will protect those who are His own for the sake of Himself. But you cannot continue to pretend to be His - living however you want day to day and then showing up in the pews on Sunday (or even more often than just once a week). He is NOT FOOLED and is NOT AMUSED.

Therefore God bless this pastor who is making a stand for Jesus the Christ - who is willing to count the cost and speak HIS TRUTHS no matter what the cost to the size of the audience (or the offering basket).

YOU are being given every opportunity to surrender, repent and turn to Him. These judgments have been MERCIFUL and from a loving, long-suffering God. And while He shall always remain so (merciful and long-suffering and loving), the time of GRACE will be lifted - His judgments shall become more severe and any who are in compromise, lukewarm, worldly, unrepentant, are not guaranteed His protection.

Abba I pray that ALL who are YOURS become one body under Christ the Head, Who will lead and guide them according to YOUR perfect will and ways. In Jesus' matchless name - amen and amen