Dear, Toby

Dear, 
Toby

I don’t believe Nicky Cruz is fake. I think that whole circus style of worship is fake. The Spirit works quietly. Not rowdily and disorderly.
I think there’s a better way than holding circuses underneath a big tent, and moving people emotionally. I don’t think Nicky’s conversion was like that. Not in what I read.
I mean, I just don’t believe that kind of thing saves people. Nicky got saved because God pricked his conscience, and Nicky knew what he was doing was evil. That’s why he got saved. It wasn’t at an alter call.
In my experience, and this is just my experience, genuine conversions come from a deep stirring within us to be right with God, and not from big events and flashy shows. It’s been my experience.
You need a foundation laid of Christ, and the Morality of Scripture. Without which, nothing will last when the floods come. And two hours at a big tent doesn’t do that. Only fine teaching and decades of studying scripture. And also having knowledge of Who Christ was, which many churches today don’t have. There’s a lot of churches, both Conservative and Liberal, who misrepresent the person of Christ. Either making Him too severe, or making Him too lax. We’re in a dire straight right now, and I would suspect not very many people actually know the Gospel at all.
People are stubborn these days. You are, too. You believe something which isn’t true. Did you disregard the entire point I made? You want to know who makes true converts? It isn’t flashy pastors in big tents. It’s your Sunday School Teachers, and your Local Pastors, and family and friends who live the gospel in your daily life, and are renewed by Christ’s strength, despite severe trial and persecution and oppression.
We have this market brand ideology for Christianity, and God will judge the world for it.
Like I said, the faith will be tested. And if it isn’t founded on the Bedrock of Christ, and true Christianity, it isn’t going to last.
Most of the people who get “Saved” at events like this, don’t know anything about Christ. They know one platitude, and when God wounds them, they turn away. And God will wound you in order to test your faith and obedience. “I have not chosen to refine you with silver, but in the furnace of affliction. I will prosper the one who says these things.”
I thought you repented of your last comment, and saw reason.
Again, I don’t think Nicky is a bad person, but there’s methods of evangelism that work, and there’s methods that don’t. This has been tried, and has failed to cause repentance. It only emboldens people to believe they’re saved, when they really aren’t.
I know what I’m speaking is the truth. And I know what you’re speaking isn’t. And people resisting my word, that’s what’s causing all of the bad things that are happening, and about to happen. My ministry comes with power. It shakes entire nations, and causes world leaders to tremble. And I know what is happening, more than you do.
So, if you reject the power of my ministry, they did the same to Jeremiah, and it isn’t my sin.
Nicky wouldn’t reject me. He’d listen to every word I spoke. Because he is humble.
Yes. By God’s power, He speaks through me.
Nicky would understand this. That’s all I need to know. You, however, are very stubborn and won’t listen to reason.
I mean, you are breaking my heart, Toby. Nothing I said should be contested. The fact is, there’s a great falling away already, woe to the inhabitants when that even greater one comes.
I’m not God. You work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. But, I know what I speak is true.
You should know what I’m telling you is true. You want me to clarify, that Christ’s church is not a circus? You want me to clarify, that the younger generations are losing faith? You want me to clarify, that wickedness reigns right now, and our current style of worship isn’t working? You want me to clarify that going to a big tent and saying one prayer doesn’t save you?
Pray over it. What reason do I have to lie to you? I’m neither raging, or being unkind. Rather, you are.
You need to listen to what I’m saying. Clarify it? You have eyes. Look. And see. Is the Gospel reaching people in this country? Or is it just about snuffed out? And I’ve seen a thousand like events. You’re saying this one is different, but I have to disagree.
I never said he wasn’t preaching the Gospel, either. I said, that events like this haven’t been reaching the younger generations, and it’s time we shift our methodology, so that we don’t lose what we have. Because I don’t think most of the people he comes into contact with, are genuinely saved. If they were, there’d be a revival of Christianity, and the country wouldn’t be contemplating putting people in jail for free speech.
No, it is. Because people have forgotten the Gospel. I remember it. The Gospel should be a lot more persuasive than it is now. One person said, if the full Gospel were preached, there’d be no one who wasn’t saved. I believe him.
I mean, I myself have forgotten some of it. That’s how bad it is. The sin of the world has grown too severe, so that pastors aren’t preaching on the nuances of scripture like they should. They have bad heresies, and both you, I and Nicky need to learn how to get rid of that. To get the leaven out of our houses. So to speak.
Yes. But, the LGBTQ would convert to Christ, if we demonstrated charity. A large portion of the meaning of scripture has been lost over time. Due to Satan corrupting the world, and history and time and space. Death is changing the very fabric of time and space, and is corrupting the Gospel from the Pulpit. If we preach the Gospel, as it were originally taught, we’d be spared the Wrath of God and Tribulation. Like Philadelphia.
The letter of the law yokes you into a bondage you can’t burden. We’re free from that law, to live according to the Spirit of Grace in Power. The Tribulation is the captivity, which falls upon the disobedient sons of God, who have strayed from the faith, and sought to work their own salvation. Or forgot the Law altogether.
Many, if not all would convert. Do you remember the power of Peace, and the days of the Son of Man? If we could bring that to the gentiles, they’d all be saved. That’s the power we ought to walk in.
Yes. But [men aren't being saved,] because of Satan’s deception. If people knew the Gospel, they’d all be saved. But, God blinds it from some, because of their sin, so they cannot know it.
I remember its peace, Toby. I know what it looks like. And all of us need to walk in that power, and we’ll save many by doing so. We could save this generation from the evil work Satan is trying to work.
But, also remember that God can open the eyes of the blind through power. We may just be in an age where the average person hates good, like it was at the end of Jesus’ life. If so, there will be great tribulation. But, the hope I have is that good is persuasive, and can soften the hearts of this people.
You were so close. So close.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Let you pass into the things I know to come, since you have no hope in the restoration of this world. But, I will live by my hope that this generation can repent, and be saved.
For my own sake, I hope in that. I don’t want to live under the curse. And my hope preserves me.
There’s much you don’t understand, ye of little faith.
Do you not know, that when the Gospel was preached in its full power, it caused the whole world to believe? Ye of little faith. The wrath of God comes upon this generation very shortly, unless we renew our hope, and preach God’s Peace to the Gentiles.
Satan hides that from you. Because his deception is deep, and he doesn’t want repentance. He wants to dull the spirits of this people, so he can rule over them.
You’re blinded by your own leaven. When Christ came, within 400 years, the entire world was converted to Christianity. Because God’s Spirit enabled that conversion, and that generation obeyed God’s law. Why is it that this generation is losing faith? It can’t be because the Gospel is being preached. It can only be that the Gospel is being preached wrong. A false gospel. And I’ve diagnosed the problem. It’s because we treat the Word of God lightly, and not with due reverence. The Gospel has become a circus.
[You say to me, that I do not go by what Jesus said, but] I am going by what Jesus said. You’re just not listening. And you never have. That’s the sin of this generation. To think you know, but having your ears dulled, and your eyes blinded, you cannot see or hear, by which to repent. It’s your own sin. But, if this generation walked in God’s peace, it would convert the nations, and shut their mouths, and convert many. Woe to you scribes and hypocrites, and Pharisees… you cast your own shame like a cloud without water. Hypocrites! Have you no hope?