Repentance - Session 7

This is the seventh of seven messages Doug gave in his interviews with GeorgeAnn Hughes in her podcast, The ByteShow recorded November-December 2011.
Here are my notes:
o Doug shares his concern for the church in our day – the end of the church age: “I hesitate to say this, but it would appear that much – and I don’t know if it will be the majority of the church in the West or not – but the way it looks now, that if there’s not repentance of the church in the West, then Jesus Christ is going to vomit out of His mouth that which represents a sleeping, complacent, Laodicean church.”
o “For the Christian, Christ is our ‘Canaan’ (land of the inheritance), and if we’re going to come into the fulness of Christ, there is spiritual warfare”
o “The land spews out its inhabitants, that is, the Canaanites, as a result of the Israelites possessing it.”
o “If you (Christian) practice the idolatry that is indicative of what is taking place with the Canaanites, that land will vomit you out.”
o “If we as Christians don’t take seriously who Christ is as our inheritance, and we begin to pursue any kind of practice or lifestyle that is in conflict with the character and nature of Christ, the warning is: Christ is going to vomit you out. And what does that mean? It’s an inheritance issue.”
o “If we don’t pursue Him as our inheritance, and therefore give Him the right to possess us as His inheritance, then the warning is that there’s going to be a judgment where He spews (believers) out of His mouth. This judgment is a part of the day of visitation. Wherever there has not been a repentance from this lukewarm, complacent Laodicean state in the church, then when the day of visitation comes, there is going to be a vomiting out of His mouth that which represents a people who have rejected Christ as their inheritance, and therefore not given God the right to have us as His inheritance.”
o “We are heirs of God; we stand in line to inherit with the heir, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:2)… and as He was perfected through sufferings, then we come into the value of that perfection through sharing those sufferings…”
o “The sin of Laodicea is spiritual pride; self-sufficiency; complacency, which was, by the way, also the sin of Sodom.”
Note: I find this quite amazing, but I’ve been listening to Pastor J.D. Farag teaching systematically through the bible, and he ‘happened’ to teach on Ezekiel 16 – what I listened to today – after he’d been off several weeks – and then I’m listening to this session Doug taught back in 2011 referring to Ezekiel 16 – what a ‘coincidence’? After listening to JD, I was so disappointed he only taught it as a history lesson and did not apply it to how God deals with His covenant people, including the church, and how this so relates to the Laodicean condition we the church are currently primarily characterized by. Teaching this passage should include a dire warning to the church – but is only taught as a historical and interesting account of what Israel went through. We are so blessed to have Doug’s understanding and teaching as his desire is to bring us (individually and corporately) into repentance so we can receive all that God wants for us to have.
o People say, “Well, this will never happen. God would never allow to happen in the United States what happened in China in 1949 when Communism took over! God would never allow that. We are a Christian nation!” – “Oh, really??”
o “It’s in His heart that we be His inheritance; and that He allow Christ to be our inheritance. This (Revelation 3:16) is not the land spewing out its inhabitants. This is Jesus Christ spewing out that which He desires to be His possession as we saw in Deuteronomy 4, which He desires to be His inheritance as we saw in Ephesians 1, but we say, ‘No! We don’t want to be Your inheritance! We don’t want You, Lord Jesus, as our supreme prize and goal, and our inheritance!’ And, so, I’m going to spew you out of My mouth!”
o Christ is not at home in every heart of every believer. “It takes Christ at home in the heart to be filled with the fulness of God. The measure in which He’s at home in our heart is the measure in which we can be filled unto the fulness of God… As Christ if formed in us, and (Galatians 4:19) we cooperate and allow Him to become at home in our hearts, then we are in that place where we can be filled unto all the fulness of God.”
o “Days are coming – and I think they’re very soon upon us – I don’t know what the precipitating factor will be – economic collapse – a possible military invasion – Russian and Chinese troops come and occupy the United States in the midst of chaos – collapse – whatever it is, the church that Jesus Christ is building will endure… Let us pray that we are in that place where He is building His church, so whatever happens in this country, we’re right in the center of His will, so we can be among those who are alive and survive and are caught up to meet the Lord in the air.”

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