The Older You Get

October 23,2002 at 5:00 AM.

As I lay in bed talking to the Lord and praying in the Spirit I heard this “The older you get”.

I picked up my pen and pad and the Holy Spirit spoke—“The older you get means aging physically and spiritually. This speaks of maturity in your walk with me. The older you get, the devil should have a much harder time tempting you. The older you get you should be feeding upon the solid meats and not the milk. The older you get you should know me intimately for you hear my voice. The older you get your faith should be increased and you walk by your faith and not by your logic. The older you get you should be obeying the Spirit and think not what others and the world are saying. The older you get it should be your hearts desire to serve me first, in all things. The older you get your knowledge, wisdom and understanding of my thoughts, my ways, and my plans should be applied to your life and reflected by your lifestyle and speech as an example to others in the ‘church’ and the world. The older you get the brighter my light should radiate from you. The older you get you should know who you are in me and the plans I have for your life. The older you get you should know about Spiritual authority and be submitted to that authority. The older you get you will know you are my sons and daughters and as such, you know that you are heirs in all I have on this earth and in heaven. The older you get your maturity allows you to use the keys of the Kingdom for binding and loosing and to stand in the day of evil knowing I am your protector.

How sad it is for those who profess and claim salvation. They are like children tossed to and fro by every wind of new doctrines. They never age spiritually and only physically and have never tasted the things of the world to come while living in this world and are dying for lack of knowledge. I love all and I am a forgiving God with unlimited grace and mercy. I cry out, enter into my Kingdom. Don’t just stand at the door. Then the older you get, the more you will know me and not just know about me. I am the living God who weeps for my family on earth. The ones who no longer want what my Kingdom can offer them on this earth. As you age, become older not only physically but spiritually and inherit and be blessed now of all I have to give freely to those who seek me. The older you get the more all the things of my Kingdom should be added unto you.” Amen.

Holy Spirit Guided Ministry
John A. Kropf
A Prophet of Jesus Christ
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Rogers, AR 72756
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Unless You Make Time

John A. Kropf

On June 29, 2002 I was praying in the spirit and I saw these two words in the spiritual realm; “time” and “unless”. The Holy Spirit said, write. This is the message I recorded.

“Unless you make time for Me, how can you know Me? Time is a limited commodity in the physical that man calls years. Time in the spiritual is unlimited, unrestricted and has no boundaries. Physical time is finite and spiritual time is infinite.

In your physical time of this life how much do you give Me? Are you washing in My Word or being flooded by the words of this world and it requirements? Time is of essence for those who walk in this world. Time spent in this world should be used to prepare you to receive your salvation when I come. When you called upon My name for salvation, I claimed you as My own and all of your past time was erased. In the new time you have left, is your name glowing brighter in the book of life, or are you using your time to fill the other books, the books of judgments. In due time, I look at all the books to see how your time was spent. Will I find a name unreadable in the book of life and the other books full? With the time you have left and how that time is spent determines where I find you when it is My time to read the books. It is how your time is spent by the words you speak and the works you do that I judge.

Is your time My time or the worlds time? You decide how you want to spend your time. For at the end of your time it will either be joy and rejoicing or tears and sorrow.

Time is like money, how are you going to spend it? Time is not like money, for once time is spent there is no more, but more money can be had. Time cannot be saved, money can. Spend your time to buy knowledge and wisdom and lay your treasures up where rust and moths cannot touch. All worldly time spent is in vain, for the riches of this world cannot be stored up and all will be lost when your time is up and the books are opened. Chose your time wisely and always be prepared for you do not know when your time in this life is up or how it is going to end. I am the giver of time for man. Man chooses how he is going to use that time. I tarry not, I come.”

We belong to God if we have a relationship with him and give him reverence by an attitude of servitude, and then God will provide provision by blessings.

Matthew 12:36-37 36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. 37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. (KJV)

Proverbs 18:21 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (KJV)

Proverbs 24:12 12 Don't try to avoid responsibility by saying you didn't know about it. For God knows all hearts, and he sees you. He keeps watch over your soul, and he knows you knew! And he will judge all people according to what they have done. (NLT)

1 Peter 1:17 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: (KJV)

Romans 2:5-65 But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world, 6 will judge all people according to what they have done. (NLT)

Matthew 6:19-21 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. (KJV)

Holy Spirit Guided Ministry
John A. Kropf
A Prophet of Jesus Christ
8476 Pine Ridge Lane
Rogers, AR 72756
479-531-1903
mej2way@cox.net
www.holyspiritguidedministry.com

What of the cross?

Michael Boldea Jr.

For some years now, I have often asked myself a question that brings sadness to my heart without fail, whenever contemplated. It is a question that has been on the hearts of many faithful souls, who choose to believe the word of God rather than the words of men, and refuse to change with the times as we are often advised, but rather stand firm in their belief that we serve an unchanging God. We watch with horror as God is being banned from the very places that ought to be His sanctuaries, and those sacred things, the basic foundations of our faith are being rejected in favor of stand-up Christian humor, and spiritualized self help rhetoric. What has become of the house of God dear friends? What has become of the house of God?

I have been putting off writing anything on this subject, because it is something that I am overly passionate about, until recently when an article was forwarded to me concerning the ever-expanding ideology of the mega-church. It entailed how some have come to realize that if you remove Christ, and the cross from the church setting, and substitute the message of salvation with a message geared to make you feel better about yourself, then people will flock in droves, support you financially, and help build your kingdom here on earth. Have a community setting, we are told, accept everyone without setting any boundaries, without advising them of their need to be born again in Christ, and your attendance will soar, men will love you, and success in every base material sense of the word will be yours for the taking.

No longer should the shepherd be concerned with what the sheep need to hear, but rather what the sheep want to hear, to make them feel at ease, to placate their indifference toward the word of God, and the standard which God set forth. We do market research with non-churchgoers to see how low we have to set the standard, how little of the Bible we must preach from our pulpits in order to get them to walk through the doors.

If only they’d come to me first, I could have saved them the money they spent on their research, because the Bible already tells us what those of today’s generation want to hear:

2 Timothy 4:3-4, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables.”

It is as it was written, and now more than ever men are seeking a God who will conform to their will and desires, rather than seek a God to whose will and desires we must conform. It is one of the most evident, and obvious signs of the end times that the Bible consistently points out, and one, we are seeing taking place today. I fear I do not do justice to the two verses I just quoted, for to go into a deeper understanding of them would require many more pages. However, I will limit myself to pointing out that reality has always been and will always be the ruination of fables. Truth is what we need to combat the fables toward which so many are turning their ears.

What so many today fail to understand, is that getting someone to walk through the door, does not a saved person make. How will one ever learn of salvation, when salvation is no longer preached from our pulpits? How will one receive the sacrifice of Christ, and receive redemption when the only seminars being offered, are on how to balance your checkbook, and how not to get into too much debt? We have taken that which should be a solely spiritual experience, and transformed it into a self-help oasis, a place where you can get good advice, and learn some practical things to make life here on earth a bit less hectic. We retain a form of godliness, being pious when the need arises, singing along with the newest ambiguous church hit, not knowing if the song is talking about a Creator or simply a romantic interest, while the mention of God is far removed from our lips, and the things of God are scoffed at, and looked upon as outdated, and irrelevant.

How can one not believe that he has found the perfect place to feed the illusion that they are saved, when they are never challenged, never admonished, never encouraged to seek a deeper walk with God? They come and laugh a little, get to meet a few people, see a great show, and leave feeling as though they got their money’s worth. Soon however, reality will spoil the illusions they have weaved for themselves.

What a sad thing the church has become in our modern era. We make a mockery of the house of God, and the world lauds us for it. We embrace sin and duplicity under the guise of tolerance, and the world stands in rapturous praise of us, labeling us forward thinking, on the cutting edge, and ahead of our time.

If one dares to point to the word of God, if one dares to speak such forbidden words as righteousness, self sacrifice Jesus and the cross, they are hastily banished, mocked and scorned, called backward fools, knuckle draggers, men resisting the new age of progress. No longer do we place our trust in our Heavenly father, no longer do we compel men to be transformed by the power of His word, but we place our trust in innovations, schemes and tactics, well-executed business plans, and messages with broad appeal. Call me a fool if you will. I would rather be a fool for Christ, then the cause of countless souls going to hell.

For the most part, the corporate church business goes unchallenged, and when challenged, the retort is simple: “We are just trying to satisfy demand.” Indeed we are. We are trying to satisfy demand for all of heaven at half the price, for paradise without sacrifice.

So popular in fact is this new breed of pseudo-Christianity, that even Harvard Business School uses the model as a template for a successful business.

The recipe for growth is simple we’ve been told. Be theologically flexible, and you will draw untold numbers to your church, they will fill the pews, and overflow the offering plates. In layman’s terms however, theological flexibility, is nothing less than the compromise of truth, and the compromise of the gospel of Christ.

Hire a marketing and management team, do some market research, replace Christ with trivialities, build an entertainment center, put a coffee stand in the lobby of the church, and you’ve got yourself a patented winner. Yet with all this worldly success, with all the excess, anyone with even an iota of spiritual sensitivity must ponder the age old question, what of the cross?

Through it all, the shadow of the cross still looms. The sacrifice that was made, the innocent blood that was shed, will by no means go unavenged when for the sake of a few more coins in the offering plate we trample the precious blood of the covenant, unabashed.

Once more we have allowed our flesh to overwhelm our spirit, and have come to believe that the true measure of success is simply how many people come to hear you speak, how many people attend your church, or how much annual gross income you can generate.

When all is said and done however, God’s measure of success is how many were drawn to the truth, and how many found the path to eternal life by hearing the uncompromising word of God preached from your pulpit.

I say the following, for it must be said, that when it comes to pass you will know they were not my words. The day is soon coming when these man made, man orchestrated, marketing generated cathedrals of deception will be empty as tombs. The day is soon coming when they will no longer house congregations of thousands, but rats and birds. The truth will outlast us all, and superficial faith will soon fail those who only pursue God in half measure.

When Jesus spoke of His return, He never wondered if He would find man built kingdoms and cathedrals, He never asked if he would find scientific progress, treasures, or administrations, He asked if He would find faith. For faith, is the one thing that He will seek to find in those who call themselves Christians. The questions went unanswered, and it goes unanswered to this day.

What we must all take into account is that in the original translation, Jesus did not simply ask if He would find faith on the earth, but the faith. The faith that is consistent enough to carry us through our dark days, the faith that emboldens us to say to the world, think of us what you will, do with us as you will, but we stand firm on the foundation of the Gospel of Christ. We will not compromise, we will not placate we will not twist the word of God simply to be liked, or even accepted.

The day is soon coming when all that can be shaken will be shaken. For God will shake not only the earth, but also heaven. May we have the faith, that will shelter us on that day, may we stand on the truth of God’s Holy word, may we not compromise for the sake of anything this world has to offer.

Hebrews 12:25-29, “See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, ‘Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.’ Now this, ‘Yet once more’, indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore since we are receiving a kingdom, which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.”

With love in Christ,

Michael Boldea Jr.