STRANGERS IN THE SANCTUARY part 2

STRANGERS IN THE SANCTUARY part 2.

-by Emmanuel Femi Oyeniyi. JER 51:51

Permit me at this junction to mention some strange elements that secretly crept into the Church of God as a result of this American-imported Christianity.

*STRANGE CHILDREN-

They profess to be born-again children of God but in their conducts & conversations, mode of dressing & make-ups, speech & slangs, they deny Him- Titus 1:16. These are the type of believers that the Bible refers to as "ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2Tim 3:7) Thereby making d name of Christ to be blasphemed among the gentiles- Rom 2:24.

*STRANGE DRESSES-

These are dresses that are demonically fashioned & styled with the aim of appealing to the fleshly lust and vanity of men. The ones put on by ladies are called THE ATTIRE OF AN HARLOT- Prov 7:10. They are skirts that expose their nakedness, blouses that reveal body shapes and every other dresses which are seductive in style- Deut 22:5. That of men is called STRANGE APPAREL- Zeph 1:8. Any dress that makes it difficult to identify whether someone is a child of God or son of Belial is not appropriate for a bonafide Christian.

 *STRANGE LANGUAGE-

The kind of "speaking in tongues" & "praying in spirit" of these unconverted church members and unregenerated folks in our congregations is what I call ‘strange language’. Such talking in tongue by every Tom,Dick & Harry has no meaning in the vocabulary of heaven. It is as a result of what I call ‘penterascal insanity’ and it is an insult to the Divinity- an abomination.

I believe it is high time all Christians lifted up our voices and cry out to God so that He may deliver us from this ‘people of strange language’ in the Temple of our God- Psm114:1.

*STRANGE SPIRITS-

It is called another spirit in 2Cor 11:4 because it is the opposite of the Holy Spirit. These are demonic forces like mermaid-spirit, familiar spirit, serpentine spirit, lying spirit, spirit of error etc. These are the demons that give special ability to strange children and fake prophets to see visions, to prophesy, dream dreams, to speak in strange tongues and perform magic which they trickishly call miracles in order to lure unsuspecting multitude into perdition-Matt 24:11,24. That is why the Bible admonishes us to always test all spirits- I John 4:1.

*STRANGE GODS-

These demonic entities are the ones appearing to many careless Christians as "GOD" in their dream and visions to lure them into error. When you see any prophet committing all sort of atrocities, engaging in questionable adventures and still claim it is God who directed him to do so, you should know that it can not be the GOD of the Bible. If you read the Bible passages sited below, you will understand that there are millions of other gods & lords apart from the original GOD that created the heaven and the earth-Deut 17:2-3; 32:15-19; Isa 26:13; 1Cor 8:5. The Bible calls them strange gods and devils.

All believers must understand that the GOD of the Bible can never and will never ask anybody to say or do anything that is contrary to the teaching of the Bible- Isa 8:20; Deut 13:1-5; John 16:7-15.