“If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place” (2 Chronicles 7:14-15, NKJV).
PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: RACE versus GRACE!
There has been an increase in the media about racism, taking
down statues of the history of the United States because
it offends some people, demonstrations
by the KKK on college campuses, shootings across the nation which now
include two church shootings, the most recent in Sutherland
Springs,Texas more addictions and
crimes from drugs, the list goes on and on.
Pastor John
Collins has preached it before and continues to preach the same
thing: it’s not about RACE, it’s about
grace. Grace of the living God. Grace of the sacrifice of the man who is
Jesus. Grace
that saves ALL of us from ourselves, yet we continue to choose to continue to
cling tight and hard to the world that we live in. We don’t or won’t let go of our love and passions that
do not come from God.
.......WE'RE CLINGING HARD TO THE WORLD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS
Are we paying attention to the unusually large hurricanes? Are we noticing fires,
floods, earthquakes in strange places, changes in weather? Some do and say it’s “mother nature.” Some do
and blame it on global warming. Pastor John Collins
has said it before and continues
to say it over and over: God is NOT happy
with us. The United
States was meant to be the land of milk and honey for the
Gentiles. We’ve turned it into a land of
greed and money, said also by
Pastor John Collins. When are we
going to wake up? When are we going to give in and recognize
that there IS
a living God, one who loves us unconditionally
when all that is needed is to believe in
Him? Jesus preached over
2000 years ago that all it takes is a really small amount of faith, and
God will take the rest in hand and teach us what we need to know. We are so bent on being in control, in knowing everything, being
right no matter what, and expecting immediate
results when we do choose to pray. God
loves us, but He is darn sure disgusted with the way things are.
PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP?
Pastor John Collins said:
“I find myself sitting here thinking out loud about society
and its double standards
and lack of reasoning and morals. I am going to strongly voice my opinion
and will NOT engage in any comment war with anyone. Everyone has their right to opinion, so
here is mine.
There are a lot of pastors on the pulpit preaching
wrong. Not all pastors are wrong or bad, but many of them are. The ones
that are NOT serving God are preaching hate and prosperity.
I have been called an outlaw preacher, a rebel
preacher and many other names. Say whatever you want; however, I am God’s. I
serve Him, NOT man!
We live in a country that was founded upon “In
God We Trust”. Now, we have turned our backs on God, slapped him across the
face and told him to leave!
We have all conformed
to this world as the Bible has told us NOT to do by catering to sin. Those
who are against sin, you are a racist, offensive, homophobic or violating
peoples civil rights. What about MY rights
as a Christian? Oh wait, that goes against society as well. If you follow God’s law, you are
wrong in the human
eye. Humans would rather you break God’s laws
than man’s laws! What
the hell is that all about!
The
world is falling apart. God’s Wrath is here and it is going to get worse.
People are more than willing to jump on any bandwagon that comes around.
Meaning, we are so quick to join the latest fads, no matter how sinful they
are.
The guy in South
Carolina kills people inside of a church. There is no excuse for what he
did, none! We blamed that on a flag? We took the flags off of the state
capitols and out of some confederate cemeteries. On the other hand, radical
Muslims are killing innocent children and adults. Do we ban their book? NO.
Just like the flag, not all
Muslims preach hate, nor support the ones that do. I have Muslim friends
who are good people. I was born in the great state of North Carolina and I know
a lot of people who have confederate flags. They were disgusted by what that
moron did by shooting
those innocent people in a church. Yet, we were more worried about a flag
then we were about bringing in refugees. Now, again NOT all of the refugees are
radical. However, what about the ones who are?
Some might say, why listen to me? I am a preacher who has
been to prison. Yes I was, before I was a preacher. Many people have been to
prison and then changed their lives. Also, many people in the Bible
were imprisoned! If you have a problem with that, I pity you for judging. Unless
you have walked in my shoes, you simply do not know who I am or what God has
planned for me.
Our country is full of hate groups,
for what reason? The New Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, Radical Islam,
some in Black Lives Matter, the KKK is still there as well as the White
Supremacists, and David Duke is making headlines again.
This is not looking good for us Americans. If we do not work
together and stop blaming each other, it’s over. We are right now, a country of hate.
Not a country of God. We blame everyone but ourselves for what is going on.
Preachers use the
bible to benefit themselves. To put money in their pockets and prosper off
of God’s Word. This makes them sinful and those that follow, destined for hell.
Politicians base their decisions by being politically correct because it is
more popular and it is more beneficial to them. Heaven forbid we hurt some ones
feelings by telling the truth.
I think that when Jesus was here, he could have cared less
about being politically
correct. Being politically correct will lead you to the pit of hell. If you decide that
living by the flesh and all of its pleasures is your thing, good luck with
that. When you close your eyes for the last time, just remember the word
“oops”. That is what you will be saying as you are headed straight to hell.
The United
States of America is united. Not by the love of God anymore, but by hate,
greed, vanity, self-indulgence, to name a few. We are going to have to deal
with God’s Wrath.
STOP blaming God and blame yourself. Turn it around, follow
the bible, fellowship, and become a country of God once again.
It seems like everyone wants to fight for a cause. What
better cause is there than to fight for God.
LOVE THAT CROSS, PASTOR JOHN
We are here by the grace
of God. Do we want to fight with
each other, or do we want to be warriors for God? We can make a choice to serve Him or serve
ourselves. One second after we die, it’s
too late to change a blame thing in our lives that could have made a
difference. Preying on others’
weaknesses, taking advantage of those who have nothing, lying, greed, theft,
anger, resentment, envy….all of it won’t get us into Heaven. Yes, life is hard, yes, life hurts. How we get through the harsh and the hurt is
our choice: we can either do it “on our
own” or we can totally submit and
give it to God. Jesus will help us,
but we have to first make our own sacrifice and give up the things that aren’t
God’s.
As Pastor John Collins says, God’s Wrath is here. It’s not getting any better; it’s been two
years since the North Carolina shooting and now there’s been another in Texas. What’s changed in the United States? What’s changed in your life? The time is now to make that change.
