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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Today, the pressure to fill auditoriums and services has driven many pastors to place the felt needs, or tastes, of the people above their duty to Christ. On every hand we hear of the Gospel being molded into a non-confrontative message intended to meet felt needs and impress the sinful heart. And, by most standards, this new philosophy of church life is working, as more and more auditoriums are filled with people hungry for a message that will affirm that they are actually on fairly good terms with the Almighty. But the biblical message is the message of the cross. It cuts right across the grain of the modern age's preoccupation with pride, tearing down the façade and exposing the wretchedness of the human heart… Unfortunately, while the modern “un-gospel” may fill seats, it is the true gospel of sin and grace that is “the power of God unto salvation” (Rom. 1:16).
David Hegg

Here’s the Christmas message: The shepherds believed and their belief resulted in action. They immediately departed for Bethlehem. The Bible says they “found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He lay in the manger.” They also proclaimed the good news to others as the first Christian evangelists when they told others what was told them about the Child. And then they worshipped. Luke 2:20, “The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.”
Randy Smith

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    Working Mothers Should they

    Working Mothers

    WASHINGTON (AP) – June 1988 – The labor force participation rate for new mothers climbed to 50.8% last year from 49.8% in 1986, marking the first time a majority of women reported they were working or actively seeking employment within a year of giving birth. By comparison, only 31% of new mothers were counted in the labor force in 1976, the first year the Census Bureau sought to calculate this rate. For new mothers with college degrees, the job rate was 63%, well above the 38% rate for those whose education ended during high school. The increasing share of mothers returning to jobs led to a total of 13.4 million two-worker families with children last year, up from 8.3 million in 1976.”

    HOW TO CONQUER THE GUILT

    Are you going to school or working with a joy while you have children at home? Do you ever feel guilty for leaving your children with a baby sitter or at a day care center? Ever feel like someone else is raising your child? Well, for those who feel guilty about being outside the home we have a sure-fire 100% method that will take care of all your guilt. The solution is easy. The solution is called “repentance”!

    If you are feeling guilty about working – good! You should feel guilty! You’re in SIN!

    If you don’t feel guilty – get that way. There should be a very heavy sense of guilt resting on your shoulders right now; unless you’re just dead to the conviction by God’s Spirit.

    Jesus said,

    “And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.” -Matthew 10:21

    The reason that children will betray their parents is that parents first betrayed their children. They betrayed their children to serve the god of self. Parents had their careers to love. Christian parents had their ministry in the Lord to do. Fathers and mothers demonstrated to their children that serving themselves must come first. For they served the gods of gold, silver, pleasure and self-fulfillment. With each passing day the world and the worldly serve self more and more. The end result will be that “brother” will “deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.” All because the children were shown that to please self, no matter who it affects, is the proper thing to do.

    GOD’S COMMAND

    If you are a married mother and working away from home take notice of God’s command. If your church has a “Christian Day-Care Center”, listen up to God’s command. For you are in direct disobedience to God! For GOD says in Titus 2:3-5:

    “You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. Likewise teach older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self controlled, to be BUSY AT HOME…”

    Are you “busy at home”? Is this the “sound doctrine” and the “good teaching” you and your church are teaching? If you’re not obeying this by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are in deep sin and wretched disobedience to God! So cure your guilt by “godly sorrow” and repent today, [2 Corinthians 7:8-11].

    CHILDREN SACRIFICED TO IDOLS

    Every day that a child is dropped off at the baby-sitter’s, or the day care center, is another day that your child is slowly drained of life. You should be “busy at home” raising children for the Lord. For God says he made your husband and you one flesh for a purpose. That purpose is:

    “Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his. And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring.” -Malachi 2:15

    God’s intention was that you raise children up who would know and love Him! God’s plan is for mothers to be busy at home, raising children for the Lord, being quiet spirited, full of good deeds and submissive to their husbands, [Ephesians 5:22, 1 Peter 3:1-6, Titus 2:3-5, Colossians 5:22]. Instead, the children’s “blood” is being sacrificed to idols of money, pleasures, convenience and that “independent feeling”. Ezekiel 16:35-38 says:

    “Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your children’s blood…I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger'”

    Women who delay marriage to get an education God calls prostitutes. Married women who work outside the home pour out the life-blood of their children and God says that He will judge you with “blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger”.

    CHURCH DAY CARE CENTERS

    God’s anger burns against a church that is encouraging mothers to sin by opening “Christian Day Care Centers”. How deaf the hearts are to the voice of the Holy Spirit. How opposed they are to the concerns of Jesus! Because they worship themselves, even though they sing of Jesus, they cannot hear the Holy Spirit says, “Close the doors to the day care centers and open your hearts to my Holy Word!!” Make no mistake about it. Were they a group of Christians listening to the Holy Spirit the day-care center doors would be closed. For they would see and feel what the heart of God feels and sees.

    “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you’, says the Lord Almighty.” -Malachi 1:10

    The same book that says God’s plan is for us to raise “godly offspring” is the very same book that says “close the temple doors”. What a “useless fire” your so called Christian Day-Care Center is. God is in no way “please” with such works.

    All that wonderful singing, fellowship and preaching are “useless fires” unless there is obedience to God’s Word. Unless there be a death to self. All your self-righteous arguments and justifications will not avail you mercy at the judgement seat of Christ. You may complain that “Some women have to work for the money to survive because their husbands don’t earn enough.” What an ugly statement that is about your church fellowship. Use the money, time and prayer invested in a Christian DayCare center and meet the needs of those married working mothers so they can stay home and raise children for the Lord! Be what the New Testament Church was. Holy!

    “And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own; but all things were common property to them…For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales, and lay them at the apostles feet; and they would be distributed to each, as any had need.” -Acts 4:32-34

    “And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in common; and they began selling their property and possessions, and were sharing them with all, as anyone might have need.” -Acts 2:43-44

    See how little dead to self your church is! It would not have even crossed their mind to open up a wicked “Christian Day-Care Center”. Rather, their hearts would have done what was needed to meet the needs of others. They would have done such with joy!

    Woe to those churches that have day care centers! They will indeed experience the jealous wrath of God. For they encourage married women to work and be busy away from home. Your preacher’s “whitewash” their deeds and guilt [Ezekiel 13:10-16]. Do you not know that you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too? [1 Corinthians 10:20-33]

    SPIRITUAL ABORTION CLINIC

    Truly, the church is a marketplace today and no one feels any shame or guilt for throwing their children on the fiery altar to the demon of self and money, [Jeremiah 6:14-15]. You teach women to “make the most of themselves in Jesus”. You teach that satanic doctrine of “self worth” and “good self-esteem”. So mothers are encouraged to sacrifice their children to idols of self and pleasure. Oh, how you condemn abortions but you encourage and bless spiritual abortion!!!

    In Russia mothers are forced to do we Christians volunteer to do. Satan has little need to fight against such Christians, for he has already won. And won while churches, ministers and Christians sing with selfrighteousness haughtiness that they serve the Lord and His Word. What a rude awakening awaits such people.

    “Put a trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. Israel cries out to me, ‘O our God, we acknowledge you!'” -Hosea 8:1-2

    It is no deep mystery that “children will betray their parents” for before that can happen parents will have already betrayed their children.

    WOMEN OF WORTH

    “A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.” -Proverbs 12:4

    Just as Proverbs 12:4 says, that when women no longer remain “noble” the very supporting structure (“bones”) are destroyed. It is little wonder that even within the church the family is not even close to what it should be. For what is considered blessed today is the new family that waits to have children so that they can “get settled in” or “get financially ahead”. Or worse, the couple that waits to have children to do the work of the Lord is what is considered blessed. You cannot serve self and God. How much a need there is in truth to pick up the cross and seek the will of the Lord. How rare it is to find a Christian woman who has the heart of Jesus. That is, raising godly offspring to be given to God. Rare, indeed, is the Christian woman who serves God with a fully surrendered heart. Truly, godly men are crying with the Holy Spirit Ecclesiastes 7:28,

    “‘Look’, says the Teacher, ‘This is what I have discovered:…I have found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among them all.”

    Of course men must ask themselves if they really want a godly woman. Or like Adam do they feed off the sins of their wives? Do the churches and husbands like the extra income that these working mothers bring in? Do the churches like the numbers these women ministers bring in because they are fulfilling the “call of God” in their life, [1 Timothy 2:11-15]? How often ministers and husbands feed off the sins of their wives. And as long as it looks good they don’t care, [Genesis 2:6]. We are a land full of priests, ministers and seminars, yet disobedience to God’s Word abounds. It is as Hosea says,

    “The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against me;…They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.” -Hosea 3:7-8

    Again, the signs abound everywhere that a wife of noble character cannot be found. Instead of men witnessing a “quiet and submissive” spirit among Christian women today we hear that they are “bored” at home. How many mothers say, “I will sure be glad when my child starts school again”? Where is the wife who calls her husband “master” in her heart and life?

    How little we see the Holy Spirit being able to produce a 1 Peter 3:5-6 spirit in the women of the church…

    “For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her MASTER.”

    Instead of women dressing themselves in holy and quiet spirits we find the church to be a place for a fashion show. Excessive make up, wearing clothes that are like the world and the dressing of an independent spirit, [1 Peter 3:3, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Timothy 2:9-11]. We see little true leadership among the men because they feed off the sin of their wives just as Adam did.

    CONCLUSION

    Now, this is not some heavy law or legalism. Rather, it is the heart of God that longs to bless His people. For you miss the godly joy Jesus can bring because of disobedience. Let us remember, “that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” [Matthew 2:27]. That is, no one is going to be so unloving to teach someone in the ghettos that they must stay home and starve because it is against God’s law for a married women to work outside the home. Rather, the church will do everything in it’s power to meet the needs of such married mothers. For the church, like God, desires godly offspring.

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