Another good one from Chip Brogden.

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>I read a quote the other day which goes something like this:
>"Whenever God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel next door."
>
>That truth is demonstrated throughout the history of the Church.
>Jesus said, "I will build My Ekklesia, and the gates of hell will not
>prevail against it." So what does the devil try to do in the
>meantime? First, he tries to destroy the Testimony of Jesus. He
>comes against this Ekklesia that Jesus is building and he wants to
>steal, and kill, and destroy it. And he will have some success, but
>there is always a Remnant who will be faithful to the Testimony of
>Jesus and to the Ekklesia that Jesus is building.
>
>So when the devil cannot kill it, he tries to spoil it.  How? By
>setting up another system, making it religious, filling it up with
>false teaching, setting it up as a counterfeit, a distraction from
>the real thing, but convincing everyone that it really is from God.
>Now if you don't believe that has happened today then you really need
>to wake up. Take a look at the last 2,000 years and see what has
>happened.
>
>When you look at the state of the Church today, are you sad? Do you
>grieve?  Do you cry out to God over it? Does it make you angry?
>Does it make you sick to your stomach? If it doesn't then I would
>suggest that something is seriously wrong with your understanding of
>things. Because when you read Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 of the Book of
>Revelation you get the perspective of Jesus on all these churches,
>and you see that for the most part, He is not happy. He is not
>pleased at all. He is grieved and sickened by the state of things,
>overall. Yes there are some praiseworthy things, and whenever
>possible, He encourages them to keep doing the right things. But by
>and large the direction of the whole thing is downward.
>
>The Church that Jesus is building doesn't need to be saved, and the
>church man is building isn't worth saving...
>
>--- Listen to the rest of this message in MP3 format:
>
>REVELATION CHAPTER 2 (Part 2)
>http://www.theschoolofchrist.org/webcast.html
>
>
>I am your brother,
>
>
>Chip Brogden
>http://www.TheSchoolOfChrist.Org
>
>
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John


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