CONTAINED, BUT NOT TRANSFORMED 

Most all of you live in prisons of your own making
There are prisons to keep evil in and protect mankind

There are prisons which contain people not able to fight

for their own rights
There are prisons which hold people captive because

the mind is distracted, distorted, undermined
by wrong motives

School, to many children seems to be a type of prison

Home can be a prison to a young wife
whose husband takes his anger out frequently upon her

When does church and its rules become a prison?

Yes, there are cults and you’ve heard of their abuses

But look at the American church and their rules, decrees,
and promised blessings for good behavior

Is that a prison?

Most would say, “No”

Many look to church to create better behavior,
more cloned-like, happy people,
but look once more and look carefully . . .

A small boy sits in the corner

He has been punished and so he must sit alone

without playmates, without toys, without any means
of mischief

Is he becoming a better person because
all his manner of trouble-making is removed?

Has he changed or is he simply “contained”?

Are you beginning to see the picture now?

Open your eyes, people and look about you

The church teaches good, kind behavior

They expect people to act as such to fit into their mold

But tell me, return them to the real world

Monday through Saturday and do they not

cheat, lie, steal, fornicate, profane My Name, etc.?

Are they not the same as all others

when their “containment”--
the church is removed from them?

Is this why Jesus the Christ spoke
that you must be born again?

There must be a full transformation
so that you don’t become a better person;
you become an entirely new person
with a right heart and a right spirit

The church confines, disciplines, clones, produces
hypocrites . . .

but where are the transformed ones,
the NEW BREED ---

the ones filled fully with My Holy Spirit?

Where are they?

You won’t typically find them in most churches,

for they won’t be confined with the religious

They would / could never fit in, believe Me!

So, where do we go from here?

Do you prefer confinement, the prison of cloned behavior;

the appearance of good when evil truly rules beneath:

the absence of Truth;

the denial of Scripture;

the hopelessness and deformity of apostasy?

Run from these places, My friends

Run and don’t look back

unless you choose to stand and speak Truth

to release these people from their chosen prison bars

You have a choice

for I tell you the Truth

An army will now march against the churches

and there will be few who survive the persecution to come

Have you become a better person
by reading “Christian” books?

Have you become better by memorizing Scripture?

OR have you become become born-again
and now realize that all that you have to present to Me
is as filthy rags?

You must have / contain My Righteousness to please Me

You must bear My Mark of the Cross to be Mine

You must ask for true Freedom, from not only evil,
but the appearance of good which masquerades
as Righteousness and is often called,
“Christian” in this day

Confinement?

Look around you . . .

Are you free?

Are you Righteous?

Are you Mine?
Are you safe?

“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.’”
John 3:3

The reason that you do not hunger for Me or for My Word;

the reason you return to sin so easily;

the reason you cannot hear Me speak to you;

may just be that you have not been
TRANSFORMED

only “contained”

BREAK FREE --- I’ll show you how to truly change . . .

THE ORIGINAL TRANSFORMER ~ JESUS THE CHRIST

CONTAINED, BUT NOT TRANSFORMED

Sunday, August 16, 2009

“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!’ For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying:

‘ The voice of one crying in the
wilderness:

‘ Prepare the way of the LORD;

Make His paths straight.’

Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their
sins.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, ‘Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.’

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, ‘I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming
to me?’

But Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.’ Then he allowed Him.

When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.’”
MATTHEW 3