MY FRIENDS, WE CAN EITHER “FIGHT OR FLIGHT” IT’S OUR CHOICE!!

May 12, 2016

MY FRIENDS, WE CAN EITHER “FIGHT OR FLIGHT” IT’S OUR CHOICE!!

“The fight-or-flight response, also known as the acute stress response, refers to a physiological reaction that occurs in the presence of something that is terrifying, either mentally or physically. The response is triggered by the release of hormones that prepare your body to either stay and deal with a situation or to run away.”

But our focus today is what is our responsibility in carrying out the mandate that God has placed before us in order that His Son may return. I believe we are all Church going Christians. But Christ message is, not a requirement that we go to church to receive salvation. But we are required to “become the church.” Which becomes the light that shines from the portals of God’s kingdom through our lives out onto the front lines of the battlefield.

And going to church being entertained by the Holy Spirit from the various praise teams, soloist and earth moving sermons each week, as we tell anyone who will listen, I am over the usher board or I have been a faithful Deacon or Deaconess for over twenty years, only confirms we are running away from our responsibility. If you study God’s word Christ very seldom went to the temple. His ministry was out on the front lines where the prostitutes, thieves, the sick and a world that had lost hope resided.

So if our desire is to live as Christ lived, we must decide if we are going to fight Satan, with the power of God’s Spirit, out on the front lines, or are we going to run for cover inside our churches. My friends, Christ needs a response today while grace still abounds. Because if we have decided to be all we can be inside our churches and stay silent then “the stones will immediately cry out [for us, Jesus saves]” Luke 19:40 (NKJV)

But if our desire is to finish this journey Christ has placed us on. We must “tell them. Even if they don’t believe we have to tell them. Even if they don’t receive we must tell them” about the One who gave it all for their Salvation. As I look inside most of our churches there is a lack of enthusiasm or passion to serve. But Christ tells us to “feed my flock” and “you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

And you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1:8 (NKJV) But, repeating the same behavior week after week, year after year, decade after decade, within our churches will only “generate the same outcome, it eliminates rather then produces positive change.” Which means, we remain in flight from our responsibilities to God.

We remain in flight from being a disciple of Christ and carrying our cross. We remain in flight from that place “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV) We then become a-part of those who will be the first to cry out Lord, Lord at His second coming. But the sad part is, we will also be the first one’s that Christ will respond too, and say, “I know you not.”

Once again “If the angels could pull back the curtain” and we could see how close the god of this world and all who follow him are in reaching their cup of indignation. We would all tremble and weep while putting on sackcloth and ashes as we fall prostrate before God while saying “Lord, Lord, not my will, but thou will be done”