Radical Disciples – A Remnant Revolution

That no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and ^[e]told you plainly. For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity]. Therefore whoever disregards (sets aside and rejects this) disregards not man but God, Whose [very] Spirit [Whom] He gives to you is holy (chaste, pure). (1 Thes 4:6-8)

Now,  a student could read this and only look upon the sexual language here and not get the deeper meaning for which the apostle Paul is admonishing the hearers to whom this was written.

One of the greatest travesties in the modern church is the lack of true discipleship and mentoring. Thus we are left with a generation of immature Christians who have all the big words down pack yet they are spiritually void in regards to Spiritual character. We see through out his writings how Paul taught those whom the Lord had entrusted to him as students (disciples) how to walk, not how to talk. To talk well without living well will never bring us to heaven: for the character of those who are in Christ Jesus is this: They walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Yet this is lacking today in the body and Holy Spirit is breathing the fire of the Lord’s passion through out the Bride in this regard in the hour in which we live.  Watchman must rise up, teachers, mentors, mothers & fathers in the faith and come along side the young in faith and not merely be as the leaders of these past generations who have pridefully taught from a place risen above the others. They must be a leader like Jesus Himself and mix in with the people, to be a true servant, serving the needs of others.

In this day we have young men and women who are in leadership positions because they can talk the talk and are willing to nestle up to the “leaders” of the church to gain an important role, yet their character is far from that of Christ our Lord. They defraud their brothers & sisters in the faith. They cheat and steel, they leave their homes like war zones, their children are undisciplined.

Living a life as a spiritual Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!

I praise God for the work and continued work of Holy Spirit in my own life, who upon shinning the light of purity and consecration on my character exposed a great void from that which the Lord called me to live, to which I was presently living!

I knew all the right words to express in the public place yet in the private place I was spiritually dead with regard to the character of Christ’s expression in my own life.  Anger prevailed in my private life, total disrespect of my wife, not parenting my son in the ways of the Lord, rather displaying for him the ways of Hell.

Praise God for a Father who loves enough to bring down His hand of discipline and through the continued conviction of His Word and Holy Spirit’s drawing, I fell upon the alter of the Lord, crying out for mercy.  From within a depth of my soul  crying out for transformation of my inner man – that the following Word manifest in my life;

“Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! (2 Cor 5:17 AMP)

O’ the years of hell that my wife, son and even myself had to go through before this came to pass – Yet had there been a true discipleship in my life – one where a brother comes along side and requires accountability in relationship one to another the chains that bound me from walking a truly sanctified life could have been broken earlier!

My prayer today is that true mentors of the faith will rise up and those who read this who are lacking in Spiritual character will cry out to the Lord, that He send such a person, matured in the Faith,  into their lives that will be as “Iron sharpening Iron”.

Wives do you have a husband who is as an Angel in public and a monster in private – Cry out to the Lord that He send a true mentor and friend – Husbands the same can be said in regard to your wives, parents towards your children (grown – for you should mentor your children who are young in age)

We must allow the work of Holy Spirit to come upon us –  birthing the true sanctification of the Lord in our lives or else we will never reach the place of maturity in our walk.

Friends, Pray today that Holy Spirit will search your life and see if there be  any deception, any spiritual lack in your character and allow Him to begin the spiritual surgery to heal and produce a spiritual “make-over” in your life today!

For Indeed we serve an Awesome God!