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FELLOWSHIP OF DARKNESS
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by Pastor Kevin Badgley
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FELLOWSHIP OF DARKNESS
Preface
(compromise)
If you are saved, God is supposed to be walking in you.
As a believer you take Him wherever you go, and if you
are mingling with unbelievers too long He will take His
flight, and you will be lost.
When you are in fellowship with unbelievers you will
sooner or later touch unclean things, and they will defile
you.
You can’t trust a child of the devil.
Sooner or later they will sell you out to save their
own skin!
Don’t compromise your walk with God; two can’t walk
together except they be agreed.
I know that we have unsaved loved ones, and I know that
we have to be out in the world of work and school, but there
are a lot of times that you don’t have to be with them.
The Bible says that if you perpetually and willfully
mingle with unbelievers, and you compromise, the wrath of God
will abide on you.
FELLOWSHIP OF DARKNESS
by Pastor Kevin Badgley
Great tragedy has resulted from “mingling” with
unbelievers. We
are supposed to come “out of the world” when we get saved, yet
many are in a family of unbelievers, so you have to fellowship
with them.
However, God wants us to know that we can get in trouble
associating with darkness.
God wants us to keep our heritage, our blessing, and
the anointing that He has put on us so we will go further in
the things of God.
Keep your hands clean; don’t be partakers of
wickedness. 2
Corinthians 6:14-16 says, “Be ye not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part
hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the
temple
of God
with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God
hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them;
and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
If you are saved, God is walking in you.
As a believer you take Him wherever you go, and if
mingle with unbelievers too long He will take His flight, and
you will be lost.
When you are in fellowship with unbelievers you will sooner or
later touch unclean things, and they will defile you.
2 Corinthians 6:17‑18 says, “Wherefore come out from
among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters,
saith the Lord Almighty.”
Prayers answered, a deeper walk with God, and blessings
of God sometimes are withheld because people monkey around
with unbelievers!
How can you be a witness to someone who mocks and scoffs at
the things of God?
I’m not talking about the initial reaction of a person
who will later be saved.
I’m talking about casting pearls before swine as in
Matthew 7:6.
There is to be a working, a sanctification, a
progressive move of God in our lives.
One critical point of this is that we cannot willfully
mingle with unbelievers.
I’m talking about joining lodges, clubs, gatherings or
groups where a Christian calls a sinner their brother or
sister. There is
no place in the Bible for that type of activity!
The Lord says anyone who is born again ‑ bought by the
blood of Jesus ‑ must be separate from them!
A Christian cannot continue to attend that kind of
fellowship with unbelievers. It
is because you cannot have Christ and anti‑Christ working in
the same vessel!
You are supposed to witness and bring the Gospel to them when
He opens the door.
Then God will give you the words to speak.
Leviticus 20:24 says, “. . . I am the LORD your God,
which have separated you from other people.”
A child of God is different!
If you don’t behave different, then you aren’t a child
of God; you are a hypocrite.
Leviticus 20:26 says, “And ye shall be holy unto me:
for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other
people, that ye should be mine.”
To sever is to cut your connection with them.
Exodus 34:14 says, “For thou shalt worship no other
god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:”
He won’t share you with anybody else.
There is a great security in knowing that my wife and
children love me.
There is a connection there of love, mutual respect, and
commitment. When
things get tough many people throw the commitment down and
consequently, love goes with it.
The devil can bring a lot of pleasure, but it only
lasts for a short season before you go to hell.
However, Psalm 16:11 says that in God’s presence is
fulness of joy and pleasures for evermore.”
God has separated us out of the people of the world
unto Himself, and He calls us peculiar!
When the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you know that it is
God moving on you, getting rid of pride, that old stiff neck,
and starchiness!
When you yield over to God, He will anoint you to pray the
prayer of faith, and the sick and the dead will be raised up!
Every single one of my old friends that I used to run
with are not serving God and are worse off than when I knew
them. When I got
saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, I had to make a
decision. God
dealt with me that I could not mingle with the old crowd.
You cannot have fellowship with Satan and with
God. You will get
pulled down and think you can get by with it.
You laugh at dirty jokes, and you become dull.
Sinners become appealing and witty, and soon you are
all the way down.
Some of this we wrestle because we have no choice.
We have to get out into the world and earn our living.
Some have to go to school or college.
We live in this world, but Jesus prayed in John
17:15, “I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.”
Jesus keeps us from the evil by separating us by the
Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and by the
power of the Holy Ghost.
Then we can walk uprightly.
Philippians 2:5 says, “Let this mind be in you, which
was also in Christ Jesus:”
If you walk willfully with an unbeliever, soon you are
going to let the devil’s mind be in you instead of Christ’s.
You will lose your faith, and God won’t be appealing to
you anymore. You
will backslide in short order!
Get a hold of God so tight, and get so filled with the
Spirit and fire of God, that whenever you get around them,
they will leave or get saved.
Then they can walk with you as a brother or a sister in
Christ. We are
not to go their way.
Ecumenicalism is when all religions and denominations
get together and form a league.
They say, Look.
I will compromise with you a little if you will
compromise with me a little, and they call that becoming
one in the spirit, but it is the spirit of Anti‑Christ and the
devil!
Compromise means “surrender”.
When you compromise, that tells me that you have
willfully not even fought the battle, but you have given it
up. You will
become a prisoner thereafter.
God doesn’t want us to go through tribulation because
we backslid. He
wants us to press on toward the mark for the prize of the high
calling of God in Christ Jesus, because we have taken a stand.
If we refuse to walk ungodly, He will bless us and He
will walk with us.
If you are walking with God the devil cannot walk with
you. God wants us
to forfeit all our old worldly friendships.
I haven’t got a one left.
They are still hard‑hearted and hard‑headed like I was,
but I’m praying them miserable, so they will get saved.
A long time after
David, Israel and Judah were a divided
kingdom. The king
of Judah was Jehoshaphat, a godly king.
He followed in the ways of Asa, his father, who was a
godly king. He
put away the prophets of Baal and the groves, and God blessed
him. He had great
power and wealth in his kingdom of Judah.
The king of Israel
was none other than Ahab.
His wife was Jezebel, and they were an evil couple.
She killed many of God’s prophets, and she tried to
kill Elijah. She
introduced Baal worship, which is idol worship, into
Israel and even set up a house of Baal
where the temple
of God
was.
In that day and time Jehoshaphat made a wrong move; he
began to mingle with Ahab.
2 Chronicles 18:3 says, “And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him, I
am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be
with thee in the war.”
Ahab needed help to fight at Ramothgilead.
Ahab was full of the devil, but he got too much
pleasure out of Jezebel and her ways to care.
He had wealth, but Israel
was going down fast.
He knew that if he went up against Ramothgilead by
himself he would lose, so he tried to make a league with
Jehoshaphat.
Have you ever had a sinner try to make friends with
you, so they could get you to do what they were doing?
There was a deceitful work in it.
Backsliders are miserable and want company in their
misery. If you
hold fast, they might come to themselves one day, like the boy
did in the pigpen, and turn and go back home to his heavenly
Father!
Ahab successfully wooed away Jehoshaphat to come in
league with him.
This is like an Ecumenical move in the church.
I see people that love God going to things that are
known to be cult activities, and they are being seduced away
from the truth of God’s Word and His blessing.
They are bringing upon them and their households a
curse. This is
what began to happen with Jehoshaphat when he got to monkeying
around with Ahab.
However, God was still dealing with Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 18:1-2 says, “Now Jehoshaphat had riches
and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.
And after certain years he went down to Ahab to
Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen
for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him,
and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramothgilead.”
Sooner or later you are going to join them, even
if it takes years.
Verse 3 says, “And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah,
Wilt thou go with me to Ramothgilead? And he answered him,
I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will
be with thee in the war.”
Sinners will use your blessing to get them something!
Jehoshaphat still sought God about these things.
Verse 4 says, “And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the
word of the LORD to day.”
Ahab assembled all of his prophets, ending up with 850
of them. They all
said to go for it, and that he was going to prosper, but
Jehoshaphat felt that something wasn’t quite right.
He wasn’t convinced.
Verse 6 says, “But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here
a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him?”
Although 850 prophets had told him that everything was
going to be fine, he didn’t have faith for the battle at hand.
That happens when you start mingling with unbelievers.
You won’t have power over their devils, because you
have been seduced away.
Verse 7 says, “And the king of
Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may
enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied
good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of
Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.”
They brought Micaiah and tried their best to get him to
say the right words to the king of
Israel, but Micaiah didn’t
mingle with unbelievers, and he stuck fast by God and told the
truth.
He told the king that he was going to lose the battle,
and Israel wasn’t going to have a king.
The king got mad and Verse 17 says, “And the king of
Israel
said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not
prophesy good unto me, but evil?”
Jehoshaphat still went with Ahab to battle!
Your senses get dull when you compromise with those who
are bound of the enemy!
Things start happening in your judgment.
They will woo you around to where you have a certain
amount of respect for them.
Some people are very witty, intelligent, and good
looking. Some are
good in academics, or sports, or all of the above!
However, if they can seduce you away from the truth of
God’s Word, what have you gained?
If they aren’t serving God, they are serving the
devil, and it does not matter what they say
otherwise!
Verse 14 says, “And when he was come to the king, the
king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to
battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and
prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.”
At first he said exactly the same thing that 850 of
Ahab’s paid prophets told him.
He said exactly what the king wanted to hear, but then
the king got mad!
Look at Verse 15:
“And the king said to him, How many times shall I
adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the
name of the LORD?”
Do you see that the man was deceived of his own heart
and of the devil?
He had just heard 850 of his own prophets say that he would do
well, and the man of God came up and told him the same thing
to mock him.
That would be like someone coming up and saying,
Hey, you are just fine.
You are going to make heaven.
You can sin all you want to, and you are going to be
alright.
Then, I come up (and you know what I preach) and you want to
hear the same thing.
You ask what I have to say about it, and I would say,
Go right on; you are going to be just fine, but then
you call me a liar!
Ahab more or less called the prophet of God a liar,
although he said the same thing that the other prophets said!
By doing that he just called all 850 of his own
prophets liars too!
Verse 16 says, “Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains,
as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, These have
no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in
peace.”
In other words, Ahab was going to die, and they were
going to loose the battle.
He told Ahab the truth then, and he got mad again,
because he didn’t want to hear it!
He didn’t want to hear him mock him, and he didn’t want
to hear the truth, so what is left?
Ahab knew that he was against God’s Word, yet he
willfully went anyway.
Jehoshaphat, a godly king, sat in on the whole thing,
but he was so caught up in Ahab’s big party and his prophets
that he still went to battle with him after knowing what was
prophesied against it!
The Bible says that the children of darkness are wiser
in their generation than the children of light.
Verse 29 says, “And the king of
Israel
said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to
the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they
went to the battle.”
He wasn’t going to let them know he was the king.
Ahab and Jehoshaphat and all the people were there in
the court. They
heard that the king of Israel was going to die, because the
man of God said so, but the prophets were 850 to 1.
The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords was right, and
they were wrong!
The Bible is right, and the opinion of man is foolish.
It may seem that you are following God by yourself for
a while, but heaven is going to be crowded.
God has an innumerable multitude standing before the
throne of God praising Him!
Jehoshaphat disregarded the words of God’s prophet and
continued to go on with that old backslid man.
King Ahab dressed himself as a common soldier, since
Micaiah had said they were going to kill the King of Israel
(Ahab), but he had the gall to tell Jehoshaphat to keep on his
kingly robes! Was
Ahab thinking, They will kill him and not me?
You can’t trust a child of the devil.
Sooner or later they will sell you out to save their
own skin, and that is what happened here.
Jehoshaphat got to mingling, and he was so impressed by
all the shenanigans that he must have thought there had to be
something to it!
God gave this man of God all the flashing red lights, but
he went on in his own will.
Ahab set him up for an ambush, and he still went!
How was the enemy going to know which one was King
Ahab? Look at
Verse 31: “And it
came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw
Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel.
Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat
cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to
depart from him.”
They thought that it was the king of Israel,
and they were going to kill him.
Jehoshaphat was mingling with an unbelieving king, and
he shouldn’t have been there!
If you go mingling with unbelievers, sooner or later
you are going to defend their actions.
If someone has done something wrong, you cannot defend
their sin. The
blood of Jesus is thicker than the blood of men.
You have to take a stand for God!
You cannot condone sin and wrong doing!
If you run with them long enough it won’t sound like
sin to you any more, and you will say, Well, I can
understand why they did that.
I would have done it too, if I had been in their
place.
Jehoshaphat cried out to the Lord, and the Lord
helped him. Some
people get so bound up in their fellowship with the enemies of
God that they don’t have the guts to cry out to God when they
get in trouble.
If you get stuck in an automobile riding with somebody that is
drinking, and you know you aren’t supposed to be with them,
what are you going to do when you are headed right toward the
front of a semi?
The whole situation has been taken out of the hands of God and
put in the hands of the devil.
If you stay with unbelievers long enough, they will
take you to the same hell they are going to.
They will just pick up somebody else when you are dead.
There are no exceptions to God’s rules.
Revelation 3:15‑16 says, “I know thy works, that thou
art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor
hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
I have seen unbelievers intimidate Christians as they
mingle with them.
If you start acting a little bit Christian‑like they start
mocking, but sometimes they will back off if you back off.
You will be so filled with pride, and you don’t want
them to think that you are a sissy, or a fool, or not cool.
Will your pride keep you from crying out to God?
You think, Oh God, you have to get me out of here,
but will you say the words?
Will you just sit there while the devil closes in for
the kill?
Jehoshaphat had enough of God left in him that he cried
out to the Lord, and the enemy turned aside from him when they
saw it wasn’t Ahab.
God had mercy on Jehoshaphat, but Ahab died at sundown.
God may get you in a place where you have to cry out to
Him. I don’t want
to cry out to God as a defensive action.
I want to cry out to God as an offensive action against
the devil, making ground instead of trying to reclaim what I
have lost.
2 Chronicles 19:1-2 says, “And Jehoshaphat the king of
Judah
returned to his house in peace to
Jerusalem.
And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet
him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the
ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath
upon thee from before the LORD.”
A child of God is not commissioned to die for the
devil’s child.
Jesus died for them, and the only way they are going to get
saved is to accept His atonement.
God’s Spirit has to change them.
If you try to do it on
your own, invariably you will compromise with them.
The prophet said that wrath was on Jehoshaphat, and
wrath will come on you if you mingle with unbelievers.
Jehoshaphat is a case in point.
Abraham mingled with Pharaoh’s crowd, and by not
admitting that Sarah was his wife, he almost lost her.
Samson mingled with the Philistines who were enemies of
the Lord and lost his eyes.
Men don’t care if they are blind in their ways, but
when they go blind physically they don’t like it!
Samson prayed through, but he died before his time.
Jesus already died for us, so don’t lay His sacrifice
on the devil’s altar!
You can read in the book of Numbers what Balaam
prophesied about things to come.
That man talked to God.
However, Balaam was bought by a heathen king of
Moab
to curse God’s people.
If the devil sends some people money temptations with
too many zeros, they fall.
Balaam took the bait of the devil by mingling with the
wrong crowd, and he ended up fighting against God’s people.
Israel destroyed Balaam.
His eyes were open, but he died like a fool, because he
mingled and listened, and came in league with unbelievers.
David mingled with Achish the Philistine.
Saul was vexing him so bad, and had him so tormented
running from his attacks, that he went over and took Ziklag
for a trophy for the king of the Philistines, an enemy of
Israel.
1 Samuel 27:6 says, “Then Achish gave him Ziklag that
day. . . .” He
gave him that city and all 600 of David’s men, and all of
their wives, and their children lived there.
They took it over, but one day he went out to battle
with the Philistines against Saul and Jonathan.
A lord of the Philistines contended that David couldn’t
go with them, because he was liable to turn in the middle of
battle and fight for the Israelites!
Yet, David pleaded with Achish that he could go fight.
He was blind from mingling with the enemy. You cannot
walk with the devil and serve God!
They will destroy you for a nickel.
Finally Achish told him that he couldn’t go, so David
pouted and went home.
When he arrived home to Ziklag he found the city had
been destroyed by fire by the Amalekites!
They came home to no home, only ashes.
David had been out consorting with unbelievers.
David didn’t keep God as his only refuge; he was
tucked away behind heathens.
Times will get rough, but don’t take the council of a
devil. When you
are wrestling for the things that God has put on you to do,
and the devil is pounding you, don’t think that Satan won’t
send one of his own to tell you, Well, I understand.
That preacher is too hard, and I don’t think God is
that way. He is a
loving God.
The devil is trying to seduce you away, and steal from you,
and when you go home you will have ashes!
David and his men got down and cried so hard there was
no more power to weep.
The men were going to stone him, but they prayed
through, and God caused them to recover all!
Don’t think that you can always pray through.
Saul mingled, and the Spirit of the Lord departed from
Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
It was a devil, but God sent it.
God smote him that he might repent, but he never
repented, because his mingling gave him more popularity with
the people.
Solomon had many wives, and he mingled one time too
many. He built
Pharaoh’s daughter a big house.
She had a house, and God had a house, and the glory of
them was in competition.
In the latter days of his life Solomon’s wives turned
his heart away from the Living God.
I see a great similitude between him and Lucifer.
Jehoshaphat mingled and he almost died.
If he had died in that condition, under the wrath of
God, he would have gone to hell.
If you willfully step into a car load of people who are
drinking, you know you are with unbelievers.
If the car wrecks, you will all go to hell together.
If you don’t listen to God, it could cost you eternity
in hell.
Jonah mingled.
He didn’t want to get a bunch of heathen saved that he
hated, so he paid a fare and got on a boat full of heathen!
When the storm came the people cried out to one god and
then another. The
Bible says that when you call upon the name of the Living God,
you shall be delivered!
Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of
a whale. Do you
know what he looked like when the whale puked him up?
Jonah was an honored, anointed prophet of God, and when
he repented, he retained his anointing.
The glory and the power of God was on him, and he
preached the greatest revival message in the history of man!
The entire city Nineveh - thousands upon thousands of people
repented!
Everybody fasted and sought God for three days!
It was a wicked city, but Jonah preached an anointed
message from God, and they couldn’t help but get saved.
God had mercy and set them free by the power that was
working in Jonah!
Jonah had been fish bait because of his mingling.
The men believed Jonah’s God was the cause of the storm
and in melancholy, Jonah told them to throw him out as a
sacrifice. He was
hoping that he would die and get out of it.
I know all about it, because in times past it came on
me. There were
days when I got out of bed and thought, Oh, God, maybe I
will die. God, I
feel congestion working up my throat.
If I will just lay here really still, then it will
choke me, and I will get all blue, and then Collette will find
me laying here on the bed.
Then I won’t have to push, and hammer, and wrestle this
stupid devil in this area any more!
Then I won’t have any more faces to look at that don’t
want to serve God!
No more arguments, and I can just go to Heaven!
Some are afflicted.
Some are weak and weary, but we need to get up, get
going, and serve God!
Jonah was turned from an anointed man of God into a
puke. That is
what will happen to you by mingling with the wrong sort and
resisting the Spirit of the Lord (when you know that the
preacher told you right)!
Jonah cried out from the belly of hell!
He knew he was dying and going to hell!
He had to pray through right in the middle of sea weeds
wrapped around his head.
Jonah 2:1-2 says, “Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his
God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of
mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the
belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.”
Imagine what Jonah looked like when the fish puked him
out! When you’ve
been in water too long you get all wrinkled.
Imagine Jonah from head to toe!
His clothes were rotted off because that whale was
trying to digest him!
God turned him into a puke!
You talk about a mess!
A prune would be handsome beside him!
Why?
Because he was mingling with the wrong crowd and he got
seduced away.
God reduced the anointed man of God that was going to change
the world in that area into a puke.
If he hadn’t prayed through in that belly of hell,
he would have died and gone to hell forever.
He would have been dung on the sea floor.
Ahab and Jezebel had been warned time and time again,
but they mingled with Baal.
They liked it, they were seduced away, and then they
ended up being dog manure, because they resisted the truth of
God’s Word. You
can resist God but so long, and then comes judgment.
Peter got to mingling with the wrong crowd that still
trusted in circumcision of the flesh.
These Jews had come in to infiltrate the New Testament
church and take away the liberty of the Spirit.
One day Paul stood in his face about it, because he was
to be blamed, but Peter prayed back through.
Judas Iscariot mingled.
He had walked with Jesus as closely as any other man.
Jesus had sent him out just like the rest of them, two
by two. They cast
out devils, healed the sick, and cleansed the lepers.
The Bible declares in the first chapter of Acts that he
obtained part of this ministry.
He was an Apostle of God, but he got to mingling with
the wrong crowd. He betrayed Jesus, killed himself, and went
to hell.
Some denominations are Ichabod, and they aren’t
preaching the truth at all.
Some pastors are full of the devil!
If you receive their doctrine, you will take on the
same spirit they have.
Judas Iscariot mingled with Sadducees and Pharisees,
and he tried to sell off the anointing.
Many men of God have fallen and gone to hell like Judas
did, because they wanted something more than just Jesus out of
God.
The Bible declares in Amos 3:3, “Can two walk together,
except they be agreed?”
Don’t compromise your walk with God.
If you walk with a sinner, you are agreeing with a
sinner. There are
a lot of times that you don’t have to be with them.
The Bible says that if you perpetually and willfully do
it, the wrath of God will abide on you, and you can expect
trouble.
One time a man said to me, I saw you out there with
them others. I
thought you were a Christian.
The situation was such that I didn’t have any choice; I
was doing my job.
It appeared that I was just out there mingling.
Sometimes just sitting there is enough to get you in
trouble. After I
explained, it was alright, but that shows you how quickly you
can lose your witness.
About 1975 there were millions of black birds spreading
a lung disease.
They were roosting heavily around the river in our area, and
the large roost in Joppa was unbelievably nasty.
Histoplasmosis comes from the manure of these birds.
This disease tormented my aunt until her death.
Every once in a while you could look up in that crowd
of blackbirds and see a red‑wing black bird and a cardinal.
Some song birds chose the same flight path.
Ft.
Campbell
helicopters came and sprayed them by the millions.
You could get the disease from the dead carcasses so
they tried to bury them.
You would find a song bird dead along with them
sometimes.
They weren’t carrying the disease, but they were in the wrong
crowd. They
got the same judgment!
When Jesus comes I don’t want Him to find me where I
don’t belong!
When the trumpet sounds I want to be in the will of God!
If I’m around sinners when the trumpet sounds, it will
be because I am talking and preaching to them, trying to get
them saved.
Jesus gives us the ability and the power to be
separated and different from others.
Not that we would be snobs or holier‑than‑thou, but
that we would be truly born again, changed, and different from
what we used to be.
I pray that God will help every soul that receives this
message to know that when we are saved, we are not to use our
liberty to go back into the world!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
PASTOR KEVIN BADGLEY
LIVING HOPE FELLOWSHIP, P. O.
BOX 111, GRAND CHAIN, IL 62941
CHURCH / FAX (618) 634-2541
E-mail
livinghopefellowship@lazernetwireless.net
These condensed Bible
studies have been published to help new Christians in their
new walk with the Lord. Kevin Badgley, the author, is the
pastor of Living Hope Fellowship Church.
This is a Living Hope
Fellowship publication.
© Living Hope Fellowship, Inc
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