When the people of God lean upon the wisdom of this age, they inevitably diminish the wisdom that descends from above, the very wisdom James describes as “pure, peaceable, gentle, and full of mercy” (James 3:17). Earthly wisdom promises efficiency, relevance, and applause, yet it blinds the heart to the counsel of the Spirit. Scripture warns that “the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19), for it cannot perceive the mysteries of the Kingdom. To exchange divine insight for human strategy is to trade gold for dust. It is to silence the whisper of heaven in favor of the noise of men.
A religious system that trims Scripture to fit its preferences reveals a tragically diminished vision of the One who sits enthroned above the circle of the earth (Isaiah 40:22). When leaders extract only the verses that serve their programs and discard the rest as inconvenient, they fashion a god in their own image rather than bow before the Holy One. The whole counsel of God is not a buffet from which we select what suits us; it is a revelation that confronts, corrects, and transforms. To treat Scripture as optional is to forget that “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4). A truncated Bible produces a truncated faith.
In many places, churches and ministries have adopted the identity of consumer culture, shaping their methods around trends, metrics, and market appeal. They hire consultants to craft branding strategies, as though the Church were merely another enterprise competing for attention. Yet the Kingdom does not advance by the mechanisms of commerce, nor does the Spirit move according to quarterly projections. Jesus did not say, “Build My brand,” but “Follow Me.” When ministry becomes indistinguishable from business, the cross is replaced by a logo and discipleship by customer retention.
Such practices will not stand in the dawning of the Kingdom Age, for the Word of God does not bend to preference, popularity, or personal taste. Whether a Scripture is comfortable or confrontational has no bearing on its authority, for “the word of the Lord endures forever” (1 Peter 1:25). To rely on the strength of the flesh is to declare to God that His power is unnecessary, His guidance optional, and His glory secondary. This posture mirrors the rebuke spoken through Jeremiah: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength” (Jeremiah 17:5). When we ask God to bless what we have built in our own strength so the world may admire us, we reveal that we seek greatness before men rather than faithfulness before the King.
Dr. Russell Welch
Co-Founder, Remnant Warrior Ministries
Warrior’s Discipleship School
www.RemnantWarrior.org
Radical Disciples - A Remnant Revolution 
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The End of Church As We Know It
Let me share a dream I had. In the dream, I saw a wooden coffin and inside the coffin, I saw a church with 2 very large pillars outside. also saw the lid of the coffin resting on the knuckles of 2 hands and the hands in turn were resting on the coffin like one would do just
before nailing it shut. So, as you can imagine, there was very little light left in the coffin because of the lid of the coffin being almost on the coffin. Getting back to the church I saw inside the coffin, I saw thousands of people coming out of the church and jumping out of the coffin as fast as they could. However, there were 2 groups of people who refused to leave,
in fact; they had their fists held in the air. These 2 groups were standing by the 2 very large pillars I had seen earlier in my dream. These pillars had names. The name of the first pillar was religion and the name of the second pillar was politics.
The interpretation of the dream was given by a pastorand is as follows:
A coffin is what you bury the dead in. The coffin in your dream is
religious tradition holding the church (the people in the church) in
captivity from following Jesus. The two large pillars outside are the
gods of the church. The hands belonging to the knuckles in which the
lid of the coffin rested on were the hands of the Lord holding theI lid
from closing all the way till those who were going to leave this
traditional church made it out.
The hands which were resting on the coffin like they were about to
shut it was the hands of the spirit of anti christ who was shutting
out the light through lies and deception. This will be a time as the
parrabel in Matt 25 of the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten
virgins.
The foolish virgins will be those remaining in the coffin and refusing
to repent from their gods of religious politics and accept the life of
Christ. Those coming out of the coffin are those who recognize the end
is here and they came out from among them as God said to do in 2 Cor.
6:14-18. The door is about to shut and be sealed.
Some additional things the Lord showed me John 5:25 NIV84
25 I tell you the truth, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live.
Those who hear are the ones coming out of the casket.
The people who standing by the pillars refusing to leave are the ones of whom Jesus says that they are trying to kill Him because there is no room in their hearts for His word. Which is why they did not leave the church in the coffin and why they will try to kill any move of God that would cause people to want to leave the coffin. They prefer the darkness of the coffin where their deeds go unexposed John 3:19-21 NKJV
And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God
Amen