How can you set the captives free that don't want to be free?

 How can you open the eyes of the blind that don't want to see?

 

The sad truth is

too many don't care

to breathe the sweet air

of their   promised land.

They'd rather serve and follow and obey man

then honor God and His ways.

In prison they'd rather stay.

They'd rather not be free.

They'd prefer it if i throw away the key.

They'd rather not hear truth and gain the victory. 

They say "Don't speak, for we have no ears to hear.

We like our prison just fine,

you're wasting all those tears

and you're wasting our time.

Why our prison's the finest in this town!

And our jailor's the best that can be found!

We're quite comfortable here

and we're really well fed!"

And not one of them realizes they're dead.

They say to me, quite clearly,   "Be gone!"

"With your talk of the spirit of religion and Babylon "

"We'll continue to look at the scriptures,  not live them.

 Apostles and Prophets are never for now, only then."

And those that do choose to hear prophetic voices,

often prefer false prophets full of empty noises,

saying "Peace! Peace!  when there is no peace.

Only tickle my ears,

and tell me how much God loves me."

The last thing they want is maturity, 

so they forever remain like babies in a nursery,

sucking on the pastor's tit,

never growing  out of it.

Never gathering manna themseves,

they actually think all is well.

Ever learning yet never arriving at The Truth,

they honor God with their lips but their hearts remain aloof.

Laying down their lives,

in living sacrifice 

is too heavy a price.

Go back to sleep little ones,

close your ears and your eyes,

lest you awaken, and you come to realize-

You are Satan's most treasured prize,

for he knows the greatest pain and wound he can inflict on God

is to populate hell with the souls he's robbed.

Babylon's greatest commodity after all is the souls of men,

denying God forever the pleasure of them.

The lake of fire

is God's desire 

to cleanse all creation 

ftom the stain and the stench

of man's sins and abominations.

Though i have the keys to death, hell and the grave,

the churches are so full of people who do not wish to be saved.

I am a lonely voice

crying in the wilderness. 

So few care to listen to 

what i have to profess.

Though i lie here naked

and shed many tears,

Still - they do not want to hear.

They stone the Prophets today

just as surely as they've done throughout history.

They crucify Apostles too,

because their hearts are immunized to the Truth.

I wish i could say otherwise 

but the path to destruction indeed is wide

and narrow indeed is the path to life,

very few go on to become the Bride....

                                                                     .....of Christ. 

Very few will enter the Holy of Holies.

Very few go on to intimately know Me.

Though I've flung the Door wide open,

most choose to put their hope in

the religions men have devised,

that exalt the flesh and abase the wise.

They are those who are wise in their own eyes, 

yet I hear the remnant's cries!

I am theirs and they are Mine,

and I will deliver them from every lie.

They have not bowed the knee of their hearts to Baal.

They've refused to remain in religion's jail.

They pursue Me at any cost,

they'll pay any price,

including laying down their lives.

In service to My will, their will is sacrificed. 

Their reward is greater than they know -

It is the redemption and salvation of their souls -

So....

           listen to My voice and My voice alone.

My Spirit will keep you blameless and lead you home,

where I will wipe every tear from your eyes

and deliver you from this world you despise.

Stay in the Ark, in the cleft of the Rock,

while outside the wicked curse you and mock.

Keep your hearts open and turned towards Me

and together we will fully achieve

all that I won for you at Calvary.

Though you've heard it said many times in many ways -

                                           I LOVE YOU

You - I will never leave or forsake,

you who refuse to partake

of the ways that desecrate 

the Temple that I make.

I hold in My hand each one of your days.

So take that next step.

And that next one too.

And do not forget

to forgive all who hate you

and I'll forgive all the sins that you do.

And you will find,

at the end of time,

every word I've ever spoken to you

is eternally faithful, just and true.