Radical Disciples – A Remnant Revolution

Again the kingdom of heaven is like a man who is a dealer in search of fine and precious pearls, Who, on finding a single pearl of great price, went and sold all he had and bought it. (Matt 45-46 AMP)

Here are a few of the crucial question’s every believer of Jesus Christ must answer:

• Do you really believe He is worth abandoning everything for?

• Do you really believe that Jesus is so good, and so rewarding that you will leave all you have and all you own and all you are in order to find your fullness in Him?

• Do you believe Him enough to obey Him and follow Him wherever He leads, even when the crowds in your culture – and maybe in your church – turn the other way?

These are questions every believer of Jesus Christ must answer – those who are radically in love with Him will shout “Amen and Here I am Lord – bowed to your will and service“. Those who are halfheartedly, filled with pride of life and selfishly holding onto their worldly treasures will walk in the same direction that the young rich ruler went, a totally opposite direction for which the Lord Jesus Christ has called us to follow.

One of the most treacherous errors in modern day Christianity is that this message if not taught with the urgency and boldness that it must be done in. As I look back over the majority of my Christian life, I find a disconnection between this, the authentic teachings of Jesus as found in the Word and that which is being taught today!

As I read about the saints in places such as Asia, who live day by day with their lives on the line for their faith – my inner man cries out “I want to experience the True Jesus, I want to be apart of the people who delight in Him, like those in the book of Acts and throughout parts of the world.

The radical side of Christianity cries out for men and women who are desperate for true Christianity – where their hearts cry is – I am willing to risk it for the billion people today who have not yet heard the true gospel message. For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church culture, I am willing to lay down my life and risk it all, that the true message of the Kingdom of God is spoken!

I am tired of seeing lives cycled through the powerless churchanity that has been anchored deep with the Christian culture of America and most of the westernized world.This is not the powerful and glorious Bride that I read of in the Bible! That which transformed whole cultures.

Sadly I hear about and have personally witnessed many who stumble from one spiritual failure to another. The messengers of this watered down Christianity pump the people with hyper sensational religious hype up for their own egos, lining their bank accounts and pridefully boasting of the great numbers that “they” have ministered too –yet in the wake of their “ministries” is left the carnage of a weak and defeated church culture.

The truth be told, the majority of the church today serves a Christ who is brought down to the level of their understanding and rendered a messiah of their comfort. They have heard the gospel message according to their own desire, from hirelings who dare not rock the boat – who seek to be popular with the people. In essence they serve an idol of their own making, an idol of conformity, compromise, complacency and self serving which is not even remotely close to the radical Son of God, Yahushua!

I want to live the rest of my life sold out, radically in love with the Lord Jesus Christ. Totally and radically dead to self, not willing to waste another moment of my life on anything but an uncompromising, unconditional abandonment life to a gracious, loving Savior who invites us all to take a radical risk and promises us a radical reward.

This should be the hearts desire of every Christian who has witnessed in the Spirit, through the truthful teaching of the Word, carried forth of the wings of revelation via Holy Spirit, that Yahushua is the One True Messiah.

What about you who call yourself a disciple of Jesus Christ – are you willing, from this day forward, for the rest of your life live a life that is radically without hesitation or limitation for He who has called you, for He who gave, His blood, His life, His all for you?

Ask yourself brother or sister – Is He worth it all too you?

As for me and my household we shall, with our whole heart and life radically serve the Lord – For indeed He is an Awesome God!