Now the church is collapsing.

There are 3 reasons why I think this way:

1. Now the church doesn’t know God (Isa. 45:4, 5). 

The reason is because the church has rejected knowledge of God. 

Not only the saints but also the pastors have rejected the knowledge of God (Hos. 4:1, 6). 

Now we the pastors don’t know ourselves because we have rejected the knowledge of God.

As John Calvin said we must know ourselves by knowing God, and we must know God by knowing ourselves.  But since we don’t know God, we don’t know ourselves now. 

As a result, now we go beyond our thoughts and say and do beyond what we suppose to

(Num. 16:3, 7).

Therefore, now we dishonor God’s holy name and steal God’s glory.

Now the more we the pastors who have forgotten the word of God multiplied

the more we sin against God (Hos. 4:6-7).

2. Now the church is not preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

The reason is because the church has rejected the knowledge of God (vv. 1, 6). 

Now the church doesn’t know the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:8).

In particular, since we the pastors don’t know its value,

not only we don’t preach the gospel of Jesus Christ but we also cannot preach it.

As a result, we don’t preach the gospel that “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures”

(1 Cor. 15:3-4).

Now we don’t proclaim “His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead,

according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 1:3-4).

Rather, now the church is preaching “a different gospel” (Gal. 1:6-9). 

Now the church is telling the other gospel that we can be saved by human effort without proclaiming the gospel of salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, who died and rose on the cross.

In other words, now the church is proclaiming that we can be justified by keeping the law.

Now the church is saying that we can be saved by doing good deeds.

Also, now the church is preaching ‘a mixed gospel.’

In other words, the church is now saying that we can be saved through faith plus good works. 

Also, now the church loves to listen to “a different doctrine” (1 Tim. 6:3). 

Now the church doesn’t endure sound doctrine, but wants to have our ears tickled,

we accumulate for ourselves teachers in accordance to our own desires,

and turns our ears from the truth and turns aside to myths (2 Tim. 4:3-4).

What's really serious is that the Church now accepts another gospel, the mixed gospel and myths (2 Cor. 11:4).

As a result, now the church isn’t conducting ourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ (Phil. 1:27).

In other words, now we aren’t standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel (v. 27). 

Although the church supposes to fulfill only the Lord’s will with one mind,

Now the church is doing our own way, according to our own will and opinion

(Deut. 12:8; Judg. 17:6, 21:25).   Isn’t this the broken church?

3. Now the church is rejecting Jesus’ discipleship. 

Now the church is rejecting the word of Jesus saying, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me” (Mk. 8:34; Mt. 16:24; Lk. 9:23). 
Not only the saints but even we the pastors are not denying ourselves

and taking up our cross and follow Jesus.

Now we are “lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power” (2 Tim. 3:2-5).

Now we aren’t denying ungodliness and worldly desires (Tit. 2:12).

Now our religion is worthless (Jam. 1:26).

Now we are leading to further ungodliness (2 Tim. 2:16).

Although “all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (3:12),

Now we are more inclined to applaud than persecution.

Right now, we love and look forward to being praised by people

 rather than earnestly seeking praise from the Lord.

Now we are soaked with the prosperity gospel and like to hear when our church members say that they have received grace from us when we have proclaimed to them, ‘Believe in Jesus and be blessed.’

Now we have deposed God not as an object of worship, but as a material blessing or instrument for personal happiness and put the purpose of faith in Jesus Christ into temporal things such as personal prosperity and business prosperity (Internet).

In the midst of that, we are now walking on the wide path of the world rather than on the narrow path of the cross that Jesus walked.

Now we prefer to live in “cedar building” (Jere. 22:23) like church building

and sit on our “couches” (Amos 6:4) and live in peace rather than to bear our own cross.

Now we refuse to learn obedience through sufferings like Jesus, the Son of God (Heb. 5: 8). 

So how can “a fragrance of Christ” be spread? (2 Cor. 2:15)

The church has no choice but to collapse.  The church must fall.

The church must be broken and destroyed.

In particular, the church pulpit must fall.

The reason is because the church pulpit now abandons the knowledge of God.

The reason is because we the pastors,

who don’t know the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus our Lord,

are preaching the different gospel, the mixed gospel and myths.

Since we preach only with our lips in front of the pulpit

and don’t live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ

and don’t preach the gospel, the church pulpit must collapse.