Radical Disciples – A Remnant Revolution

Sorry this isn’t an intro to a wild action movie – it is however a message about maturing as saints!!! Did you know that the Bible proclaims that we are called to be “Vessels of Peace” and warns us “Not to be seated with the scornful”.

I was thinking about the message that was discussed Friday night (01/11/13) at the believers Acts 2 meeting hosted by Presence Church.

The message was about the peace of God – not only about how in 2013 we are entering into a season of seeking the Peace of the Lord but also that we are to allow Holy Ghost to position us that our own lives maybe filled and that along with this we allow Him to position our lives as surrendered vessels in which the Fathers peace finds no resistance in flowing through to impact others live for His Glory.

I think back of the the lessons Holy Ghost taught me ending out this last season. In all truth I see that He had spent much of the last 2 months of 2012 twelve scolding me and correcting me to be a vessel of peace rather than one of scorn. I remember that time as it was a massive blow to my inflated ego of thinking I was the Lords person Don Quixote sent to expose all that is evil in the Church.

How could I have been so blinded by the strings Hell had attached to my spiritual life?

I believe we are in a season when it is very important that we don’t find ourselves focusing on the Devil. We must seek to Glorify none but God and we don’t want to give the enemy any glory.

As I look out with a broken heart I see many who are operating under the same strings of Hell that I had been. filled bitterness blindly believing they are bringing freedom (the light of Truth) when in reality that are but bringing division (The veil of darkness). Unknowingly they are attempting shred what God has called Holy. Now whether it is right now or not is not the question.

Often times they have been so blinded by Hell that one finds them failing to heed even to the very warnings of Scripture such as how the devil actually “prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8).

I write this with the hopes that those who are trapped and operating under this spiritual delusion hear my warning for if they are not cautious they will find them selves in the very pit Holy Ghost pulled me. If they heed it not they may well find themselves consumed (devoured!) by all kinds of irritations in one another and in the church and become vessels of the enemy’s destruction rather than the “Vessels of Light” they blindly believe they are.

Such a person will be found wasting much time taring down rather than building up, They will be found scornfully scowling at how new programs run, personalities of the leaders, worship styles that they allow to become the focus and the quarrel. They will become bitter and unknowingly become a tool of Satan’s religious elite and in error tare down any person or people who “just don’t get it” spiritually the way they do. They will be found walking in false humility with down cast spirits of gloom they begin to rob the joy and peace out of everyone they come in contact. And then turn on them and call them their accusers and tormentors.

They can be found, having their hearts filled with pride, idly wondering why no one has recognized their “Leadership Quality” and then they become bitter that others are stealing their effectiveness in the body of believers.

Again, sadly they are blind to what is happening to them, they close off all who would bring correction into their lives, believing the lie that anyone or anything having associated with the modern day Church is false and they spend their time rejecting all leadership under the guise that they need none save Holy Spirit.

They often become oblivious to what is really going on in the spiritual realm around them. You often hear them saying “The Lord told me this, and the Lord told me that” Even when what they are saying the Lord told them contradicts His own Word.

We ourselves must not be drawn into a personality battle with them either – above all else we must peaceably hold to scriptures such as, “We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers…” (Ephesians 6:12)

The question is “How to we respond to such”?

Called to be Peace Makers – Not vessels of destruction

We are called to be peace makers not judges or ministers of discipline.

Now, God has sent Holy Ghost for the purpose of bringing correction and He does so through those who have been proven mature and faithful as vessels of His truth. Such not only bring Godly counsel to the table, they are a witness of His calling as elders for they walk in the authority of His Word.

We must avoid allowing bitterness to open the door to pride, for they are like twin sisters who seek but to destroy. The Word tells us that we are to be at peace, to walk in peace and to proclaim the gospel of peace. The same Bible warns us against being found in the seat of the scornful. You will learn to discern the scornful, for though they cunningly proclaim to come in Love their true spiritual nature is a coat of anger and hatred.

The Gospel of peace will give you peace if you follow the things that make for peace. Being prepared to go where God ask you to go, When you do go where God wants, you will have peace, no matter what the situation.

Therefore let us pursue the things which make for peace and the things by which one may edify another. Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All things indeed are pure, but it is evil for the man who eats with offense. (Rom 14:19-20)

Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known. (Rom 3:16)

Preserve peace run away from these things that rob us of peace. When you are being disobedient you have no peace. Make a stand for the things of God by faith, draw a line in the sand and do not cross it.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.(Prov 28:1)

When you have done something wrong, you always feel like you’re going to get caught. You’re always looking over your shoulder.

Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips; Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known. (Rom 3:13-17)

We can be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. As always it’s by faith that we wear our shoes of the Gospel of peace.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. (Rom 5:1-4)

Even as I thought I was bringing Glory to the Lord in pointing out what I thought was false in other people, ministries and Churches – Holy Ghost showed me that I was but bringing division – open the door wide for the enemy to enter in and bring death & destruction.

Even as the Lord has sent me into a deeper understanding of true discipleship, along the way He has pruned me of thorns I had picked up and opened my eyes to the hurt I was bringing when I thought I was bringing liberation.

So yes Father, I have heard Your message that we must not only seek to be grounded in Your peace but we are also to hunger and thirst to become vessels of Your peace and Your very wells from which You can flow Your peace through.