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The full Counsel Newsletter - No 164

THE HEART OF THE WISE IS IN THE HOUSE OF MOURNING
BUT THE HEART OF FOOLS IS IN THE HOUSE OF MIRTH.....
                                                                ECCLESIASTES 7 : 4

BUT ARE YOU HAPPY?

After disputing a point with a certain young man recently he wrestled as the young usually do when confronted with raw truth .....................vehemently........Jeremiah 23:29.

Many older people are in the same boat and the very old, sad isn't it?.................but the good ole truth will set all free................................. ..The wise reprimand, fools flatter.

The point of dispute which I had with this young man on the phone was all about faith. I simply said that no man or woman can say that they have faith in God or trust in God when they........demand tithes, send letters out asking for money to do the work they reckon God called them to do and put price tags on all their products, video, audio, books and even sermon notes........that is called marketing.

The young man was not happy. He even believes that when a minister stands in a pulpit and says........we are believing God for $50,000 for our building renovation please pray about it........this young man believes that this is faith, no, it is not, it is a public announcement with a dash of the power of suggestion behind it.

When I insisted that it was not faith he then detoured to another subject. He then eventually said to me....but are you happy..... ........happy?.......what's happy got to do with christianity? I sow in tears how about you?..............Psalm 126 : 5,6.

Revelation 12 : 11 says that true christians love not their lives up until the day they die, does that sound happy to you?................ .....O, happy day!

Happy is the yard stick for the world and the churches today, happy is one of the children of positive thinking, happy was one of the seven dwarfs also if my memory is serving me well. I'm sure John the baptist was happy when his head was on a plate and Jesus sounded real happy in the garden of gethsemane, what about Isaiah being sawn into two pieces with a large tooth saw / no anasethic you know.

But are you happy Paul?........my goal is not happy, rich, great, fame, popularity, acceptance, self esteem, wisdom, knowledge, peace, power, gifts or healing, my goal is God, Jesus my God. I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine.........Psalm 16 : 5.

Did you know that all the talk about........vision.........in the churches is but hocus pocus and that no apostle or prophet or pastor or evangelist in the new testament had visions of natural, materialistic accomplishment? The reason the people of God needed visions and plans etc in the old testament was because they had not God's Spirit dwelling in them. We have holy ghost in us, all visions of materialistic things have passed away in Him / Jesus. The cross wipes out all self marketing visions and self glorification. Our eyes should be on the author and the finisher of the faith. What was Paul's vision, Peter's vision, Silas's vision, Stephen's vision????........nothing to do with the material world friend, nothing!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of my God! 


Amen.

Pastor Paul Sheehan

20.04.2003

http://www.fireandhammer.com

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