by G. D. Watson
If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Matthew 16:24-25
If God has called you to be truly like Jesus in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility. He will put on you such demands of obedience that you will not be allowed to follow other Christians. In many ways, He seems to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.
Others who seem to be very religious and useful may push themselves, pull wires, and scheme to carry out their plans, but you cannot. If you attempt it, you will meet with such failure and rebuke from the Lord as to make you sorely penitent.
Others can brag about themselves, their work, their successes, their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing. If you begin to do so, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.
Others will be allowed to succeed in making great sums of money, or having a legacy left to them, or in having luxuries, but God may supply you only on a day-to-day basis, because He wants you to have something far better than gold, a helpless dependence on Him and His unseen treasury.
The Lord may let others be honored and put forward while keeping you hidden in obscurity because He wants to produce some choice, fragrant fruit for His coming glory, which can only be produced in the shade.
God may let others be great, but keep you small. He will let others do a work for Him and get the credit, but He will make you work and toil without knowing how much you are doing. Then, to make your work still more precious, He will let others get the credit for the work which you have done; this to teach you the message of the Cross, humility, and something of the value of being cloaked with His nature.
The Holy Spirit will put a strict watch on you, and with a jealous love rebuke you for careless words and feelings, or for wasting your time, which other Christians never seem distressed over.
So make up your mind that God is an infinite Sovereign and has a right to do as He pleases with His own, and that He may not explain to you a thousand things which may puzzle your reason in His dealings with you.
God will take you at your word. If you absolutely sell yourself to be His slave, He will wrap you up in a jealous love and let other people say and do many things that you cannot. Settle it forever; you are to deal directly with the Holy Spirit, He is to have the privilege of tying your tongue or chaining your hand or closing your eyes in ways which others are not dealt with. However, know this great secret of the Kingdom: When you are so completely possessed with the Living God that you are, in your secret heart, pleased and delighted over this peculiar, personal, private, jealous guardianship and management of the Holy Spirit over your life, you will have found the vestibule of heaven, the high calling of God.
The ramblings of a deceived and self centered old man who creates more interest in dates than he does in Christ.
That’s right Rick and if you listened to the the debate plus this then you couldn’t have missed his continual proclamation that the Bible is too complicated to understand just by reading it. No, it has to studied within his hermeneutic which is that is ALL in Parable language, that is, in code that only those selected by God can understand it. That means when Paul wrote those Epistles that those who received them couldn’t get the real meaning of what Paul was writing just by hearing them being read or by reading them themselves. No, they can only be understood by those who have the understanding of this secret Parable language that Camping understands. That makes it pretty convenient for making prophecy out parts of the Bible are not about that at all and then when proven wrong saying that it was just a misunderstanding. His understanding of the Gospel is that salvation must be OUTSIDE of the Church sure is quirky too. I actually think this whole thing coming to light is a gift to the Church. There has been an awful lot of attention lately focused on what Camping and others have been saying about the Church being under judgment and that we should all just get out, et cetera. Well, I have no problem leaving and telling other to leave apostate churches, but that does not mean all churches are apostate. We are in a period of spiritual darkness and God has allowed some charlatans to take over much of the visible church, but that does not mean all the church because our Lord promised he would always build His Church and the Gates of Hades would never prevail against it. Therefore, even though it may be hard to find a good church in some areas like where I live, I have found a few that are Biblical. I think the Purpose Driven/Seeker Sensitive fad can only run so long before God’s people will wake up to their need for true spiritual sustenance. That is, unless our Lord returns first, which is not in anyway a thing any of us can know beforehand it is going to happen. I think things can very well get darker before they get lighter. All we can do is continue to work and pray that the Truth be manifest and be made known more and more and that God use us as He will no matter the cost.
Lost in this whole date issue is that Camping denies the reality of hell, and in the Mp3 he presents his theology based upon a “compassionate” God. That is an old bait and switch routine that denies the complete character of God.
When a theology or a prophetic reality is known by only one man, then you can be assured it is a lie, unless Peter’s writings were not inspired. I do agree that God will use this entire debacle to bring those who hear His voice closer to Him.
Looking unto Jesus…
Amen Rick. Yes, the doctrinal errors in both the debate and in his news conference were amazing. His point seemed to be that he was rejecting everything that he saw as just tools churches used to manipulate people to become members. The man rejects the literal reading of the Word of God and goes for the spiritual or allegorical reading instead so he can make up whatever he wants. As I have said many times, once a person, no matter how solid their profession of faith has seemed to be in the past, starts circling the drain of apostasy, it is just a matter of time time that they reach the point of no return and Camping did that long ago. Professions of faith are easy. Pietism is easy. Walking by faith, obeying God even when it is extremely unpopular with the masses, as long as we abide in Christ through it all, then our faith is proven and we will not apostatize as Camping has done in his fulfilling of 1 John 2:19.
If Camping thinks he is the only one who can explain the bible and that people need him to understand it, than he did not read Psalm 119:130
“The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple.”
It is sad that so many people follow this false prophet.
He would get upset with that Janet and say that that verse itself is in parable language so… Yes, he is a false prophet and we must make sure the Church knows it.