21st Century Church Religious and Ungodly

By Kobus Windvogel

21St Century Church Religous and Ungodly are focused on the church of today, sepcifically written with the intend to bring the chruch to the realization that we cannot be religous but have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Religoin does not bring you into relationship with the Lord Jesus, Religion rather killing the spirit of the Lord Jesus within the Church itself. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kobus Windvogel
• Release date: Jan 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201702847

Kobus Windvogel

Kobus Windvogel is born in Robertson within the Western Cape in South Africa. The second son of five children. Married for the past 22 years having two children with his wife and two children not in marraige.  Is a Born Again Christian and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as the One and Only Savior of this world. Stated writing in 2016 after the Lord spoke to him regards a message that he preached in the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Robertson. After he published his first book their was no turning back and is still busing writing and through his writing spreading the word of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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21st Century Church:

Religious and Ungodly

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Kobus Windvogel

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Scripts taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version.  Used by permission of Biblica Inc ©. All rights reserved worldwide.

Contents

Chapter 1

No Faithfulness, No Love, No Acknowledgement of God in The Land

Chapter 2  Lack of Knowledge

Chapter 3  Submit yourself to God

Chapter 4. What is Religion

Chapter 5 The Ungodly

Chapter 6  Where are you standing?

Chapter 7  JESUS sets You Free from Slavery!!

Chapter 8 Religion Can’t Save You

Chapter 9 What is Godliness

Chapter 10 Get Renewed in The Mind

Prayer

Closure

Bibliography

Other Books By Kobus Windvogel

Hosea 4: 1-19

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has charge to bring against you who live in the land: There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.  There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.  Because of this the land moans, and all who live in it waste away; the beast of the field and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying. But let no man bring a charge, let no man accuse another, for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.  You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priest; because you have ignored the law of your God, I will ignore your children. The more the priest increased, the more they sinned against me; they exchanged their Glory for something disgraceful.  They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness. And it will be; Like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds. They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not increase, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves to prostitution, to old wine and new which take away the understanding of my people. They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God. They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore, your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughter-in-law to adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they turn to prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery because the men themselves consort with harlots and sacrifice with shrine-prostitutes-a people without understanding will come to ruin. Though you commit adultery, O Israel, let not Judah become guilty. Do not go to Gilgal; do not go up to Beth Aven. And do not swear, As surely as the Lord lives! The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow? Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone! Even when their drinks are gone, they continue their prostitution; their rulers dearly love shameful ways. A whirlwind will sweep them away, and their sacrifices will bring them shame.

Dedicated

Dedicated to every minister, male, female who heard the call and with courage ministered the word and life of the Kingdom of God as present reality with its wonderful future, I salute you for your boldness and passion to teach with clarity the message that Jesus Christ preached, taught and demonstrated during His time on earth.

The future leaders of the church, youth groups or even our country who are challenged with so much in the world today, those who needs to make sound decisions regards the future of the church and the believe system of the church. I hope that this book will allow you to see the role you have to play in bringing forth the Kingdom of God into the world that need it so desperately.

Acknowledgement

Of all the projects I have been working on in the past years, this one took the longest of them all. There are concepts within this book that will change all of us who took the courage to read this book. It will challenge our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ and our walk of life here on earth. Since 2016 I have longing for deeper walk of life is Christ and I was challenge with the writing of this book. It took me to the core of my relationship with Jesus Christ and it also allowed me to take a look at where I stand with the Lord. Looking at the current state within the church it brought me to the place to write a message within the season for the now church who are and will be faced with more and more challenges in the years to come. This also brought forth a deeper relationship and understanding of the Holy Spirit as the One who partner with us in our day to day doers. I have learnt during this time to solely listen to the Holy Spirit and not allow the flesh to take over.

I just want to thank the Holy Spirit for endeavor in my life, thank you for directing me during this time of working on this project.

Thank you to Pastor MP Jansen, may the Lord take you into deeper levels with Him, you have showed your support during this time of our trouble and directions the Lord has taken us as a family. Thank you very much to Estelle Diederiks and Digi Publishers and your staff who made it possible for me to bring this project and all other projects we worked on to live.

To my family who has always been there by my side and specifically during the working of this project you have showed must courage and endurance during this time.

Prop Gerome Abrahams and daughter, Brother Bazil Jantjies and Prop Jason Riddles thank you for taking the time to read through this manuscript and give feedback regards this project. I truly appreciate it; my prayer is that the Lord takes you into His presence with glory.

Foreword

Writing on this book and specific this theme has taken a lot of courage and endurance from my side. It has been an uphill battle back and forth with the content of this book. I however believe this is a must read book for who want to have a deeper relationship with the Lord as you will be challenge to look within yourself to see where you stand with the Lord Jesus Christ. The church in the 21ste Century has come to the point where they no longer can hide behind theological concepts of believes they truly have to get into a true relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. The churches are the only vessel who can lead the world into the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the only vessel that have the truth regards the Lord and not the world or some religious organization,

I need to say this. There is no other way but the Blood of Jesus that can save any person. The word of God is the only book that have the truth about life and that can direct you to the way of life. There is no other book that has the truths about life and that also reprimand us in the way we are conducting our life and ways on earth. I just hope that this book will bring everyone to a different mindset and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Chapter 1

No Faithfulness, No Love, No Acknowledgement of God in The Land

Israel is hearing this word from the Lord their God and accusation directly from the Lord about how they have left the relationship with the Lord to follow idols and to pursue their own fleshly desires. Israel is no longer the nation to God’s heart but more a shame into His eyes. Reading the scripture brought some nervousness to my own life because it is a word directly into my face. I needed to take a look into my own life to make sure that I am not a shame to the Lord or my deeds are not of shame to the Lord. One can so easily get side tracked in the way we do things when we forget about our relationship with the Lord.

Our relationship with the Lord takes priority over everything we do even as our ministries we hold so dear to. We tend to forget that our calling also coming from the Lord and that we have not got it from studying for some time at a university. The calling needs to follow the callers and not the other way around and that is what Israel had missed about the relationship they were supposed to have with the Lord. Hos.4 vs 1 "Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has charge to bring against you who live in the land: There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land."

There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the Land. Not being faithful means to be disobedient to the Lord your God and Israel was truly disobedient to the Lord and did not listen to the word that was given to them. The word of the Lord states that