The greatest threat to the existence of the Church is Jesus Christ Himself. Seriously. All other problems pale in comparison.
Observe, if the church has abandoned her first love, her lampstand of testimony will be removed by Christ. To a church who holds to the demonic delusion of Prosperity in its greed for gain, Jesus will make war against them with His sharp two-edged sword.
And that’s not all. To a church that tolerates false prophetesses of immorality and idolatrous traditional practices, Christ will cast those spiritual adulterers into great tribulation and kill their children with death.
Alarmed yet? You should be. But He is not finished. To a deluded church who imagines they are alive in their outward religious propriety but are actually stone-cold dead within, Christ will descend upon them like a thief in the night.
And to crown it all, to a lukewarm nauseating congregation of affluent and complacent self-satisfied fools, the Lord Jesus Christ will vomit them out of His mouth.
I’m not making this up. Read it for yourself in Revelation 2 & 3. It’s there. Christ Jesus the Lord is our greatest threat to the continued existence of the church in Nigeria.
Lacking fervent devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, prostituting herself with lusting after Prosperity, and tolerating prophetesses of immorality while absorbing traditional thinking and practices: is it so small a matter?
Yet the church proceeds in its delusion: unconcerned, shameless and without regret. She continues to boast of being alive as week after week her performing pageants are re-enacted though the stench of death hovers over it all.
The sows wash themselves, mask their foul odor with perfumes, enter magnificent pigsty cathedrals, and perform according to the dictates of the General Overseeing Hog, grunting along upon his every cue. When this travesty of “worship” has ended, the sows find their way back to their own mud-holes and return to wallowing in the mire until the following Sunday’s charade.
Do you protest at such a revolting and insulting indictment? You may register your complaint with the Apostle Peter: “With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed – an accursed brood! For by speaking great swelling words of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, by sensuality, those who barely escape from those who live in error.
“Although these false teachers promise them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption. For if, after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse than the first.
“It has happened to them according to the true proverb: ‘A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.’” You can send your complaint to: 2 Peter 2:14-22. Jesus Christ Himself will answer you.
“You are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked!” –Revelation 3:17.
“It is time for judgment to begin with the house of God” –1 Peter 4:17. The only ones spared are those who “sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being committed in its midst” –Ezekiel 9:4. “And you shall begin at My sanctuary” –Ezekiel 9:6. Jesus Christ is our greatest threat.