Northern Farmer

As of today the combining and the baling of the straw is done. Amen! Glad that itchy job is over with and also glad and thankful for such a wonderful crop! Getting dry here again, thinking about pulling a pasture next week. Nothing left, just to dry out there on that pasture. But the good news is that there’s plenty of feed to feed the cow herd and all the yearlings without even the slightest worry at this point, unlike last year and the year before. The corn is already at full height and it doesn’t get much better than that! Might be a reduction in corn cobs, but nothing to worry about. And the Goliath corn I planted, well, its big, very big. We had us a wind storm a week or so ago and allot of it was blown over, but allot of it has come back up, amazing! Not to worry though, the whole field is fenced in with five wire barb, tighter than a fiddle string and anything our old chopper doesn’t pick up can be grazed well into fall. So nothing at all lost with that one!

Over at Herrick Kimball’s site Herrick wrote one very worthy of a read. About the modern prosperity preaching. I’ll call it a religion, which is defined as forming God in your own image. And lust and greed are overwhelming in this society so it just makes sense that the church follows suite. This move by much of the modern church has deeply grieved me, because it is so unscriptural. And so many people lap it up, hook, line and sinker.

Now we have a religion that condones the ways of the world, nothing less. And it goes against everything in the Gospels. There’s so many that take it a step further and say that if you have sufficient faith your not going to have any problems. And I can’t believe it when I hear this false Gospel being preached. Because massive problems are promised to believers, from your own family hating you to about everyone else in the world too! So what part of the Gospel don’t these false prophets get??

I remember last winter reading from the writings of John Wesley over a couple hundred years ago and his writings were ditto to Herrick Kimball’s post. And the amazing thing was, back then in England John was writing about people borrowing money to live at a supposed higher standard than what they could afford. Yup, had em back then too. How many folks have I seen that were going down the tubes financially and even with everything going to pot for them still managed to get their priorities right as far as this culture goes. They couldn’t pay their basic mortgage but still would somehow get the important stuff like big screen TVs or the newest electronic gadgets available. And to top it off, they didn’t think anything was wrong with getting this junk!!

If I was left with two choices to read out of the Bible it’d be the Gospels and the Book of Galatians. And hopefully it would be a red letter addition so I could just dwell on the words of Jesus which are so very different than what’s being preached today. And Galatians so I’d keep it straight that there ain’t nothing I could ever do to “earn” salvation, its a gift for undeserving sinners like me.

Oh Lord, what a mess there is today. No wonder the church is basically falling apart in the western world. There’s no question about it, when a false gospel is preached things go down hill. By the next generation this country will be so non Christian most people now can’t even imagine it. Figure that with luck there’ll be around five percent Christians come the next generation. So what answer does the church give, more programs and preach to please and hope that enough stay to oil the cash machine that they’ve become. Make it entertainment, but nothing that would ever go against the humanistic desires of the modern church goer. I tell you, there’s be allot lost, almost everything. I used to have a post and link on this blog about humanism. That’s the basic problem, no denying it. The page got lost in the domain transfer this blog went through but I do have it over on the Healing Water’s blog in full, plus the audio sermon itself. The last couple hundred years has seen a tremendous change in the church, and not for the good either. Humanism has crept in, and now its become incorporated with the mainstream church and is not even noticeable to the average luke warm church goer. And this humanism that has crept in is the cause of most of the problems in society today. It has done a thousand times more damage than doctrinal differences between denominations. In fact today those doctrinal differences pale in comparison to the modern get rich, (money wise), from God movement. Humanism has made it into about every domination, whether they care to admit it or not.

This move to humanism was documented in a book I read a couple months ago about a circuit rider in the eighteen hundreds. As the folks got more and more “inventions’” making their way into the backroads a new “religion” was forming. Where man was so smart, so wise. The true faith was slowly left behind, that simple faith the people had before man’s accomplishments became the center of worship. That’s the problem, man thinking he’s something special. And then forming an image of God where God’s purpose is to please us to the highest degree. But my Bible doesn’t say that, it says the opposite!

I really want to expand on this, because there are very few things closer to my heart than this subject, how folks are being swindled in church after church, and I ain’t talking money either, I’m talking life in Christ! The good news is there’s an awakening happening. It might not be so noticeable because the Christian culture is dominated the same as agriculture today. By the “system”. But God ’s Will will be done with the mainstream church or without it!

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