The unrealized promise of the Body of Christ truly filled and walking with God on Earth, the Holy Spirit, is the love of a body one for another excluding none as all are filled with God’s Fruit of belonging.

What we have is an amalgam of understanding that tolerates each other in social gatherings to offer the appearance or Form of Godliness but deny the Power of God’s Holy Spirit within.

No one likes a fake but we all have become that very parasitic mimicry of the real thing such that we want what we want when, where and for however long we want it and will immediately depart to our own castle and understanding when the experience no longer matches the list.

This is not opinion this is the Book of Jude. UnGodly men have crept in among the olive tree, nesting comfortably exuding piety to blend among the faithful but NEVER presenting the fruits of God’s Presence.

We can fool ourselves and it has been proven will be tolerant to the facsimile in order to get along and receive the booster shot of emotional piety at least once a week or month however frequent we can stand to fake it for several hours.

The impact of this is widely realized. First we have murmurers who do not like to extend worship or the penance and piety of those who would come and spend multiple hours in the simplicity of Prayer.

We by nature want to be entertained which is a clear sign of anomaly. We are there to worship God, not fulfill our desires, wants, comforts and joys. Yes those are natural expression of jubilant Christians found in Christ Jesus, but they are also the camouflage of those seeking a tit of sustenance in replacement of real joy.

Go along to get along works for most folks who simply want to check a box to get their God ribbon. However the worst of it is that now there emerges a powerful, worldly counter culture that has to meet approval of the analyst, elder or tax free investor among them.

This excludes those who are unloved by the world, yet filled with God’s Holy Spirit that should naturally be found at home in the Body of Christ as they are tight nit, fitted, mortared in to the Temple of God next to the Cornerstone of Christ.

Alas, the deception is powerful and even now you are pondering the insanity of this pastor insinuating that the Book of Jude is an actual description of an actual problem that has befallen all churches, yours too.