I woke this morning from having a recurring dream. In it I am speaking to a group of people. I begin by asking them if they believe that God loves them? I ask what love is. I tell them He is a loving Father and in that kind of love there is discipline. I then speak about what sin is and how important it is that we be cleansed of it if we want to live forever. In great detail, I show from scripture (Genesis 3) how sin entered a perfect world; how God had created us to be free so He set boundaries around the Tree of Good and Evil. We were innocent of evil when created. He never intended this boundary to be breached yet the enemy of God used confusing language to draw God’s loved creation into the darkness. Then I wake up.
Friends, God’s boundaries were not placed to impede our freedom…they are the very instruments to protect our freedom. When Jesus came, He came to set us free again. Galatians 5:1 says, “For freedom, [our original created state] Christ set us free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.” (Emphasis mine.)
We love to say that God is love…but that love is not without boundaries much like a mother’s love sets boundaries to keep her toddler from the hot flames on the stove. God knows what will destroy us and sets a boundary around it…for our protection.
This dream was so real and my desire is to speak it to that crowd is overwhelming. The enemy is deceiving great multitudes—even within the body. Many think God’s laws are legalistic and He winks at our desire to explore our lusts. Many say God created us with those lusts-- but that is a lie and the result always ends up being harmful for us.
I sense that there is a new and stronger wave of deception falling upon the church. Only those with eyes to see and ears to hear will understand. In this church age, we have become like the Church at Laodicea. Read these frightening words and pray for eyes to see and ears that hear.
Revelation 3:14-22
“Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: Thus, says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God’s creation: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I advise you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be exposed, and ointment to spread on your eyes so that you may see. As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be zealous and repent. See! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. “To the one who conquers I will give the right to sit with me on mythrone, just as I also conquered and sat down with my Father on his throne. “Let anyone who has ears to hear listen towhat the Spirit says to the churches.”
