Just a Thought

 I am only thinking out loud, maybe I shouldn't even publish this, maybe I should, but it is just a thought that is all it is. I have been listening to a few messages and I have had a thought bouncing around in my head for quite sometime now. It is about the Holy Spirit and the Church of today. For example the church I attend does not believe in the filling of the Holy Spirit, not like how the Charismatic movement does, it seems that movement is growing more and more quiet. They believe the Holy Spirit is about not the same things as I was raise believing (like a somewhat wimpy version of the Holy Spirit and I mean no disrespect to the Holy Spirit at all, just that is how they portray Him to be). My Holy Spirit is awe inspiring flame of God. Look at Him in the Bible flame filled the room, coming from Heaven and quenched the people. 

We are an empty vessel, we are directed to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Now on salvation we get a taste, but we are not fully filled, I truly believe it is only a taste. What if we only have a taste and we need to be filled with the rest of the Spirit just like the in the days of Old, the spirit will come in like a flood. Giving power to us like we have no idea and no one of today has observed. What I am suggesting is the people of the new churches are weak and it is only because of the leadership is teaching them that the Holy Spirit is received upon salvation and that is it. I have to ask, what if they are wrong? We could have warriors, I believe we are going into a battle and if what I hear is a fraction of the truth, we here in the USA are going to be tested. 

What I have heard said, is people that claim to be Christians, out of the number of them that claim it, there is an actual number that truly follow God and it is only a staggering number of 6 to 10%. That is low and heartbreaking. I didn't make that number up, you can do the research, I can give you the links and the people that have done the research to find those numbers, that when called upon will not stand up for Jesus Christ. 

Maybe all I am saying about the Holy Spirit will make no difference in the end, but I want to be one that speaks the truth or at least writes the truth. I pray that just as it was in the old, that the scales will fall from the eyes of those who believe so that they may see the truth, before it is too late. 

I believe that there is so much writing in the Bible that people are missing, that people are formulating there own beliefs because they think that God is a God of love only, but I believe in Heaven and Hell and I believe that there is an end and a beginning and we are nearing the end.