You're going too fast!

[Book of Jeremiah]

After reading William Booth's sermon this morning I find myself asking, Is there anything new under the sun? Those who reject the work of God are forever complaining about those who do it and were that not enough they even complained about the speed in which it was done back in Booth's day!

Complaining about the laborers in their midst - William Booth quoted them as crying: You're going too fast! These days they say, there are too many posted sermons by that one! There is too much mention of God! Is there no place we are safe from hearing about Jesus Christ? Sound familiar?

William Booth was a British Methodist Preacher who founded the Salvation Army and became its first General. To this very day the Salvation Army is known as one of the leading Christian organizations which use contributions to feed, shelter and clothe the poor worldwide. William Booth was a humble servant of God whose labor was not in vain.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Luke 10:2

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They say we go too fast! This accusation comes from all directions. Our enemies do not like our speed and our friends are afraid of it. What do they mean? If they had complained that we did not go fast enough, I could understand them. If our enemies had argued that after all we say about the evils of sin, the terrors of the Judgment Day, and the damnation of hell, we do not believe in these things ourselves, I could understand that, and feel humbled under their indictment.

If our friends came together and said, "Why don't you increase the speed? Look at the dying millions at home and abroad. You have evidently got a wonderful way of reaching the masses. You have accomplished what no other organization has. You can adapt yourselves to all peoples and countries and climates. Why don't you push on faster? Why don’t you train more cadets-send out more officers-hunt up more criminals, drunkards and fallen women? Go faster; get up more steam!”

Now, this seems to me would be the natural way of talking for both foes and friends. But no! The cry is not "Go faster” but "You go too fast!" What do they mean?

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Speed is a good thing, and, if combined with safety, the faster the better. It is reckoned good in traveling. I don’t know of any train that goes fast enough for me. Time is so precious that unless it can be spent in sleeping or working, every minute of it is begrudged.

My feeling whenever I am in a train is, "Now, engine driver, do your best, and fly away!"

Speed is reckoned a good thing in money-making. Who would complain if we were an Investment Company developing a profitable gold mine? The same people who complain of our speed in spreading salvation and saving men would all want to buy shares, become our partners or buy us out.

If we were a killing army, no one would complain of our going too fast on the line of victory, slaughtering Arabs, or Afghans, or Zulus, or anybody else who did not live on our side of the sea.

If we killed plenty of them, burnt plenty of houses, took plenty of spoil, we should fascinate the world again as Napoleon did with the speed of his successes. Painters and poets and newspapermen would fill the whole earth with our fame.

But because God has given us a little success in saving men and women from endless damnation, and extending the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, there is a great outcry–especially from those who every morning pray "Thy Kingdom come!” -that we are going too fast; they say we are ambitious and seeking great things.

Can we go too fast, my comrades in saving souls? I will not attempt to answer that question. No soldier in the Salvation Army would ask such a question. It is an insult to the Bible –to the teachers of Christianity. I refuse to reply to it.

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[Book of Jeremiah]

If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell whose brothers and sisters are following them there. Let him go and ask the blood-washed throng in Heaven, whose eyes are wide open at last to the value of salvation.

Let him anticipate the Judgment Day, and in spirit stand before the Throne and propose, if he dares, the question to God Almighty. I think from Hell, Heaven and the Great White Throne, the answer would come back; “More speed! Go faster!" If it should entail the stopping of legislature, pleasure, business, and all the employments and occupations of time, push forwards! Hurry onwards! Save the world!

Some warn us, “but there is danger with great speed”. Perhaps there is, but that is not certain; and even if so, I refuse to abate the speed to avoid the risk. If this thing is worth doing, let us do it with all our might.

They say, "but if you go on at this pace a smash will come”. Well, perhaps it will. Perhaps God will let the devil and those who help him smash The Salvation. Army. They smashed Jesus Christ. There were slanders and riots and injuries terminating with the Crucifixion. Then a great number looked on and said, "I told you so!" If they smash The Salvation Army, there will also be a great number looking on and telling them to do it, and saying the same thing. However, there are no evident signs of this terrible danger.

For twenty years we have gone on paying our debts, breaking up and taking possession of new ground, and holding it when occupied; and, thank God!

We are more closely bound together-more wrapped up in the spirit of sympathy and unity today than ever we were before.

Is our speed really too great after all? Is not all this talk a delusion? Speed is a relative thing, and the accuracy of the estimate depends upon the standard you measure it by. The coach is a rapid vehicle compared with the old carrier's cart, but it is very slow when put alongside a royal express train.

What do our objectors measure us by? Anyhow, I object to be measured by the standard of the carrier's cart.

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[Book of Jeremiah]

Does salvation travel as fast as sin? See how wickedness spreads. Talk about a prairie fire – it devours everything before it. Does Salvation keep pace with our ever-growing population? Make the calculation in your most favored Christian cities, and you will find we are terribly behind in the race.

Do we keep pace with the devils in energy and untiring labor? Do we go as fast as death? Oh, say no more! We'll close our ears to this cold, unfeeling, stony-hearted utterance of unbelief.

LET US GO FASTER! We must increase the speed if we are to keep pace with the yearnings of the Almighty Heart of Love that would have all men to be saved. We must go faster if we are to have a hand in the fulfillment of the prophecies.

Read the sixtieth chapter of Isaiah, and think of the speed that must be reached before all that comes true. We must go faster if we would wipe out the reproach and taunts of the mocking infidels who are ever asking for living proof of God's existence.

We must increase our pace before our own prayers are answered, our own expectations realized, our own relations converted, and our own consistency proved.

My comrades, the General issues the command to every country, and to every division, and to every corps, and to every soldier-to advance. The pace of the past is to be no standard for the future.

We must go faster. Obstacles, difficulties, and enemies shall be swept before us, and the mouths of those who condemn us shall be forever stopped before the Lord.

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[Avatar4321]

I'd rather go as fast as the Lord wants and no faster. The Lord does not expect us to run before we walk. So why not give Him all we can and let him magnify our meager efforts?

 

[shimon]

Speed is not the issue here..... TOO Fast is...... when one " Fasts" they afflict ones SOUL... This is the original meaning and concept... ONe could say on your other thread Jeremiah that Esau was unwilling to afflict his soul because he was only interested in his needs of the moment and did not take the concept of suffering a little now for a future prize that he might or might not have to work for to attain.. He obviously didn't want to work for it and he certainly didn't or couldn't comprehend it's worth.... Your copying and pastings are covering up important lessons for others to learn from... Your posts do not delve into the original concepts and are mere smokescreens...But hey it is like the blind leading the blind... Continue in it all you like.....

 

[Capstone]

Does salvation travel as fast as sin? ...

In my case, the sin routinely outruns/evades the salvation.

This thread has been more useful than you'll ever realize, Jeri.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Does salvation travel as fast as sin? ...

In my case, the sin routinely outruns/evades the salvation.

This thread has been more useful than you'll ever realize, Jeri.

I understand more than you think I do.

Though it may appear that way to you, Capstone, salvation does not evade you. God loves you as much this very moment as He did the day you were born. Some things take time. Sanctification takes time. True saving faith - can take time. Sometimes we encounter people who tempt us to question what we believe. Some of these people are agents of Satan which is why we shouldn't give them the time of day but when a person is young - highly intelligent - as you are - it is possible I suppose to somehow believe we are above the possibility of deception. I should not say "we" as I am not a person who was born with any degree of high intelligence. On the contrary I would say if any child were more naive I do not recall meeting them while growing up.

So perhaps where you were tempted more to dangerous discussions and to lean upon your own abilities and understandings, maybe I was more aware of my own inability to lean upon anything other than the Written Word of God and therein I stayed whereas you wandered.

But it isn't over yet. Because the truth is that the simplicity of the Gospel has been before you all along. The faith that you need was given you long ago. It has never left you. You just stopped believing you had it. You do have it. I know you have it. You have not lost it. You only believe you have lost it and therein you do not see it has been with you all along.

Why did God allow you to go on such a long journey concerning this matter of faith? I do not know. Why did God allow the Jews to wander in the desert for 40 years when the journey should only have taken 2 weeks or less?

If it gives you any comfort at all, I am praying for you and I can tell you with full assurance that God still loves you, Jesus Christ still reaches out His Hand to you and I know that God has a great plan for your life. I know it.

 

[Capstone]

I understand more than you think I do. ...

Ohh...you're a sweet talker, aren't ya', Jeri. Alas! My cyber heart belongs to another.

I wonder how you'd look in a hat, though?

Anywaze, tell me more about...myself (you know, the high intelligence, good looks, voracious libido, ETC., ETC.)...

 

[strollingbones]

jer is going to hell simple as that...

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Yourself is perishing, Capstone. This about your inner man and faith - not your personality. It isn't flattery to say you're intelligent - just an observation. There are many intelligent people in hell so it is reasonable to say that intelligence apart from Jesus Christ is highly over-rated.

So this is what I will tell you. You and others like you look at the followers of Jesus Christ, the state of the church, the state of the world and wrongly surmise that Satan is winning.

Some people have seen the power of the occult and they say to themselves- where is the power of God? If God is all powerful why would God permit Satanists, Witches, Warlocks to get away with what they are doing? Doesn't He see it? Don't the followers of Jesus Christ feel as if they are on the losing team?

No. We don't.

With that said, let's look at why God has not dealt with those in the occult according to what they have done (or deserved). Why has God not poured out His wrath? Because of His great mercy. God's mercy is greater than the worst evil Satan is capable of. Yet there is this point of no return when it becomes too late and the wrath of God is finally poured out - even as we saw the angel of death pass through Egypt - that hour is coming and the people who will be the subject of God's wrath are those who have thus far escaped it (for the most part). Those in the occult.

What you are witnessing is the strength of God, not the weakness of God. God knows exactly when He is going to act. No one knows this but God. The devil doesn't know when it will happen. The devil's children do not know when it will happen. Only God knows.

Jesus said it will be like the days of Noah. Let that sink in for a moment. It will be like the days of Noah. The wicked had never seen rain much less a flood that would cover the earth. When God's judgment was poured out - it was like nothing they had ever seen before. Noah preached for 120 years. How old is America now? 240 years old? That is double the years the wicked were granted in Noah's day. Talk about the mercy of God, right?

Do not waste another second. Stop playing games and get serious with God. You need to get off of the internet, get a KJV Holy Bible and read it day and night.