Fw: BEAST OF REVELATION

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At 07:07 PM 12/28/95 -0600, T Nally wrote:

JAN>* Don't say, or imply, that 
JAN>* some hot eternity awaits those who happen to disagree with you. 
>
>I've never done that.  I feel like many people are like Cornelius (the member
>of the Italian band) in Acts.  Where he was a devout man of God, prayed alway,
>gave alms, etc.  His prayers came up for a memorial before God.  God sent an
>angel to him to tell him that there is one called Simon Peter who knows the
>way he needs to go to be saved.  Many, many, are truly Corneliuses when they
>currently believe they are a Peter.  They suffer from the illusion they can
>be comfortable with their theology and not try and seek the deeper depths of
>God.  So they stagnate.  They get set in their ways.  They argue their beliefs
>they've reasoned.  They are convinced there is no other way.  To accept 1ness
>theology would be a major hit on their pride and they would lose face with
>those they've brought to a similar level of faith.  What's their choice then?
>Do they go the right way and choose 1ness and possibly lose what they've 
>labored over?  Are they willing to leave their traditions (and current 
>comforts) to enter into a realm of where they are unsure?  Or do they just
>dismiss the leading of the Holy Ghost and stay a Cornelius who never lets
>the opportunity to have full salvation to come to his house?
>

Indeed!  My father once had the pleasure to witness to a pastor of a Trinity
church.  His aunt attended this Baptist church, and he also had attended it
for a long length of time.  When he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost,
God showed him the full oneness of his Deity, and my father began to try and
reveal this to his aunt.  Needless to say, his aunt took all his statements
to her pastor, and her pastor asked to talk with my father.  My father
agreed, and they set a date.  This was shortly after my parents were
married, and I was not yet even conceived.  However, my father tells me that
it was a wonderful experience. In the end, the man told my father, "I see
what you are saying, and I understand it.  However, I have pastored this
church for so long, that if I began to teach this now, I would be an
outcast."  This is a trajedy.  But it is a clear example for how modern
"Religious leaders" act the same way the Pharisees did in Jesus' day.

Michael Frazier
miykael1@mail.pernet.net
http://www.pernet.net/~miykael1/index.htm
"... I am set for the defense of the gospel ..." (Phip 1:17)