PULEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!

Oh for goodness sake!  Pastor took his wife away on a much over due vacation yesterday so he had one of the younger fellows preach.  He was soooooo loud and legalistic, I don't think I can sit there ever again and listen to him.  Fact is if he continues to preach, we are outta there.


First off- he got into men wearing sandals and screamed "Men, you ought not be wearing flip-flops on your feet.  Fact is, you had better not be wearing shorts and showing your chest hairs on your chest."  He said the Bible says if you show your thigh your naked.  Excuse me, but didn't Jesus wear sandals?


Quite frankly he made it sound as if a  burqua (spelling) was the order for the day for women and men suits and ties everyday all day long.  Now he has only been saved for 10 years exactly.  He was saved 9/11/01 that evening the terrorists changed our nation forever.  So I would like to chalk it up to his youth and immaturity in Christ.  He said when he got saved he hated everything and everyone.  I wish someone had taped his message and played it back to him today.  Not sure the Lord has changed that area of his life yet.  I am beat down and finding it hard to have much joy today.  


I love going to church and come out with the feeling that we have spent time with God.  But that was missing last night.  In a room about 20 X 35, he yelled as loud as he could to the point I could have sworn the roof was shaking.  This good old boy needs to get out Galatians and do a bit of reading.  You see, the truth is some people have so much grace they have no truth and then there are others who have so much truth, they have no grace.  That was evident last night.  Oh, what do?


Is he a false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage, Galatians 2:4  Christ set me free from bondage and this whipper snapper did his best to bring us back in last night.  I will not walk around ashamed should I be in a pair of capri's and a t-shirt.  I dress for the occasion.  I dress appropriately.  I am nearly 70 years old and if I don't know how to present myself by now, I better stay home.


About a week ago two fellows with white dress shirts and ties came down the street here.  I can guarantee they were not Christians.  As I saw them lock up their bicycles with a padlock.  Proving once again, clothes do not make the man a Christian.  A couple of well dressed ladies stopped here with their Watchtower, which also did not make them Christians. 


How will we know a Christian when we see them, by their love.  By the actions they do, the works which they do to show and share their faith in Christ.  We can't have rules, rules, rules and eliminate the work of the Holy Spirit altogether.  We have the trinity for a reason.  We know her, God the Son and about God the Father but we leave out the work of the Holy Spirit in some of our strict Baptist Churches today.  Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.  Galatians 5:1  Enjoy your life in Christ.  PULEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!