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.

John Wesley said: “What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.” Sadly we have tolerated a hell-less, eternity-less, sin-less gospel and this next generation is aimed at accepting this as the genuine apostolic original. The true Christian witness seems to be almost overshadowed by false doctrines, false cults, and false prophets. It is time for a holy desperation for revival to arise in God’s people! – Greg Gordon

HOLY DESPERATION
The prophet Isaiah declared the woeful state of Israel over three thousand years ago: ”Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.” How much different are we? Churches are failing, leaders are fumbling, and truth is fallen in the streets.

The prophet Isaiah continues with this divine reprimand:“they declare their sin as Sodom, they hid it not.” And what shall the end of a people be that “hid not their sins”? I have seen a strange thing under the sun: professors preaching “continue in sin” from the pulpit. The Apostle Paul in contrast preached “God forbid” which is one of the strongest emphatic statements in Scripture used to convey the ceasing of sin in the life of the believer. John Wesley said: “What one generation tolerates the next generation will embrace.”

Sadly we have tolerated a hell-less, eternity-less, sin-less gospel and this next generation is aimed at accepting this as the genuine apostolic original. The true Christian witness seems to be almost overshadowed by false doctrines, false cults, and false prophets.

It is time for a holy desperation for revival to arise in God’s people! Mary Warburton Booth said this when the Salvation Army movement was waning: ”How we have prayed for a Revival – we did not care whether it was old-fashioned or not – what we asked for was that it should be such that would cleanse and revive His children and set them on fire to win others.”

We need a fury of passionate pleading, desperate crying, fervent praying for a heaven-sent revival in our day. Chuck Smith gave this searing statement to a church that does not realize its hour: “Today, we are living in desperate times. Yet, the Church is not desperate before God in prayer.”

Leonard Ravenhill said that “Revival only comes by birth.” With birth comes: laborious gestation,travailing birth-pains, and conceptional agony, shall the birthing of of revival be any different? Revival prayer is born out of a holy and healthy desperation for the presence and power of Christ in His church.

We need not shrink back from emotions and displays of desperation for revival, read this old report from one hundred years ago with the Irish Presbyterian Church:

“Perhaps you say it’s a sort of religious hysteria. So did some of us when we first heard of the Revival. But here we are, about sixty Scottish and Irish Presbyterians who have seen it-all shades of temperament-and, much as many of us shrank from it at first, everyone who has seen and heard what we have, every day last week, it is certain there is only one explanation-that it is God’s Holy Spirit manifesting Himself in a way we never dreamed of.

We have no right to criticize; we dare not. One clause of the Creed that lives before us now in all its inevitable, awful solemnity is ‘I believe in the Holy Ghost.’”

God is desiring to manifest Himself in ways that we “never dreamed of ” which is reminiscent of the Scripture in Psalms that says: “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.” Oh Lord! turn back our captivity and grant us revival.

REVIVAL OR DEATH
“For decades sincere believers have asked, “Why don’t we have revival?” And for decades the answer has always been the same: We don’t have revival because we’re willing to live without it! It really is that simple. Do we really want to hear the truth? God responds to hunger and thirst. He fills those who recognize their need, who are empty and broken, who are at the point of desperation, who are panting for Him the way a deer pants for water in the desert. He answers dependent prayers. Sure, we want revival. But we don’t need revival. That’s the difference. God will meet us at our point of need, not our point of preference.

Revival is God’s radical measure to get the church in a given area or at a given time back to normal before it falls into spiritual oblivion and cultural irrelevance. Revival comes when we realize that it’s either revival or death, revival or continued backsliding, revival or the world around us goes to hell.”

In this above quote from Michael Brown, he really speaks to the high requirement for revival namely in one word: Everything!

Oh Brethren we must realize that this has always been so, there are no shortcuts with God, we will never see a revival until this is realized and acted upon. In light of eternity let us have tears for our lack of desire and desperation for God. John Knox was a Great Man of God and this was his prayer, ” God give me Scotland or I die!” Again, John Hyde who was a missionary, prayed, ” God give me souls or I die” Again, Whitefield prayed, ” God give me souls or take my soul!”

May we take it further dear reader, can you pray: “Give me revival or I die?”

Where are those that have a burdened heart like Evan Roberts, he prayed for revival night and day for twelve years. At the end of these twelve years he prayed with such intensity, agony and urgency that his landlord asked him to vacate his living quarters.

Is there a burning in your soul? a building desire in your heart? Let us not fool ourselves the prayer meeting is “dead” and so are multitudes in their trespasses and sins. We need a holy desperation to fill our prayer meetings, a holy zeal that will not relent until revival comes. The “Lord comes suddenly” to his temple, let us not be found sleeping or great will be our shame. Mario Murillo in his article: ‘Vital insights into God’s preparations for revival’ states: “now is the time to pull out all the stops. No program is sacred, no worthy project is worth enough. None of the ointment can be spared. It is revival or death!”

William Seymour the father of the modern day pentecostal movement prayed for five to seven hours a day for over a year for revival. And what resulted? a glorious powerful sweeping pentecost swept the world. Winkie Pratney told why there was no revival in the church over twenty years ago: “We do not have men and women who are prepared to pay the same price to preach the same message and have the same power as those revivalists of the past. Without these firm believers, the community can never be changed. Our concern is conciliatory, our obedience optional, our lack theologically and culturally justified. Quite simply, it costs too much!”

S.B. Shaw who wrote on the welsh revival shares the results of a true heaven-sent revival: “A revival that like a tornado will sweep away all the old dried-up sermons, and all the cold formal prayers, and all the lifeless singing, and like a whirlwind will carry everyone that comes in its path heavenward.

A revival that will fill the hearts of saints with holy love, and so burden the hearts of God’s ministers that the word of God will be like fire shut up in their bones. For such a revival our heart cries out to God! For such a revival we are ready to watch and toil and pray.” May we take it further dear reader, for such a revival are you willing to die?

IF NO REVIVAL
In the writings of Isaiah we see three clear consequences for the result of the nation of Israel not having repentance towards God. May I say that these three consequences will also be ours if we do not have a renewed repentance in the Church and a revolutionary revival from Heaven. If no revival then we will see these three judgments come on the earth and surely anyone that has been awakened to the hour will realize these monstrous consequences are already have fallen upon us.

If no revival then, hell will be enlarged. “Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure.” Oh the horror of it, hell yawning and swallowing multiplied millions of souls that will be damned forever. To just see a glimpse of this reality will shake any soul to ask what can be done?

George Whitefield said: “At the day of judgement we shall all meet again.” How will you feel when you meet all of the millions of souls that could have been saved if you prayed and sought God for a revival of religion? When the Church does not have revival hell enlarges what a frightful thought.If no revival then, sin will abound. Men will begin to draw sin “with a cart” speaking of the enormous amounts of sin that abounds in a season when the Church is not being the salt of the earth. We see that evidently today where people call good evil and evil good and to such God says “Woe unto them.” As Richard Baxter said of sin, “it is the murderer of the whole world.” The only hope for lost captive sinners is Christ! yet the Church and Christians keep multitudes from Christ. Lamentable fact! When the church is not the “light of the world” the world falls into outer darkness. When the Church does not have revival sin abounds on the earth.

If no revival then, the Word will be despised. In a season where there is no revival in the church the world will begin to disregard the law of God as the Scripture says “they have cast away the law of the Lord.”

And they begin to “despise” not only the Word of God but the “Holy One of Israel.” This is a doublesmart; the church is ineffective and God is mocked. Martyn-Lloyd Jones wrote to this fact: “Does it grieve you my friends, that the name of God is being taken in vain and desecrated? Does it grieve you that we are living in a godless age. The main reason we should be praying about revival is that we are
anxious to see God’s name vindicated and His glory manifested.” When the Church does not have revival God’s name is despised.

Leonard Ravenhill wrote: “this generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of sinners.”

This responsibility is of eternal consequence dear reader, being a Christian is a somber thing.

Over a hundred years ago Andrew Bonar wrote: “Revivals begin with God’s own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…Oh, what responsibility this lays on the Church of God! If you grieve Him away from yourselves, or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!”

Evan Roberts wrote: “Prayer is buried, and lost and Heaven weeps. If all prayed the wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge.”

LOSS OF REPUTATION
Perhaps one reason why there is no revival is because the minister’s are not willing to pay the cost, namely the loss of reputation.

Gilbert Tennet was used mightily of God in the second great awakening, hear him give account of the popular preaching in his day: “They often strengthened the hands of the wicked by promising them life. They comfort people before they convince them; sow before they plow: and are busy in raising a fabric before they lay a foundation.

These foolish builders strengthen men’s carnal security by their soft, selfish, cowardly discourses. They have not the courage or honesty to thrust the nail of terror into the sleeping souls!”

Preaching without unction, Praying without fervor, are two reasons why revival tarries in our day. We need a moratorium on reputation to see revival. May God rouse this generation to a passionate pursuit for revival and a determined ardor to see it come to pass.

As I listen more and more in regard to what is being passed off to the Body of Christ today as Gospel truth, I hear and sense a great depth of immaturity. This immaturity leads its listeners in the prison of shallow precepts according to men’s opinionated understanding of Gods Holy Word.

Now for the record I am not talking about immaturity based on physical age, I am referencing the maturity in Christ.

A couple of months ago, Holy Ghost really hit me when I read this quote, “When we balance the energy of youth with the experience of age, we will be most effective.” It happened while I was reading a devotional reading through Proverbs, and specifically this verse.

The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. (Proverbs 20:29)

Yet in much of the Church today a fast growing trend we find that we have a younger generations who believes in part that the older generation had its chance and now its time to move aside as “they” have received a “new” revelation from God. I speak of this not as one on the outside looking in rather as one who once was trapped in the same way of thinking. I praise God the Father for bringing correcting into my life in this regard via Holy Ghost speaking to me both in the Word and through Godly men.

The problem with this trend of thinking is that it is deeply rooted in the standards of the world and not the Word of God. We can see how the cultural thinking of the world has swiftly been swept into the Body and passed of as being from God. But I can assure you of this, any revelation that is not directly rooted in the Word of God is error and not of the Lord. For His revelations testify of His authority and can be found in His Word. The world says we must replace the old with the new as what is being revealed today is on the cutting edge. Again I can assure you that if these new revelations do not line up with the Bible and found to be firmly rooted in the Word, they shall and do lack the power of God to render the listeners as spiritually, Kingdom of God liberated people.

The Church does not need a new revelation or a new Gospel message, the Church needs to go back to the firm foundation of the Gospel message Jesus & His disciples taught. We need a Holy Ghost cleansing of all this cultural gibberish and we need His Holy Ghost wind and fire to blow these philosophies of the world out the door.

I’ve heard it said that every great move of God as well as the next great move of God started and will start with the youth.

Really?

Can you show me this in the world of God? What is the Fathers opinion in regard to this thought process? Because I am not seeking mans thoughts on this subject, I am talking about this subject of revival, reformations and spiritual awakenings of which He has laid out in His Word for all of us to read.

Is it not a truth that when we have meetings built upon and based on the opinions of men, vacant of the Word and totally void of sound Biblical wisdom and we dare to call it a Christian meeting, we are in danger of seeing souls lost and Hell’s advancement in the lives of the listeners? We must, in all cases allow the gift of discernment to be fully functioning, for the enemy is slick at allowing a few scriptures in yet they are twisted to the opinions of man.

How mans opinions have destroyed many lives, even nations. We must realize that our opinions need to be twisted and shredded till they conform to the opinion of God the Father. We must put on the Mind of Christ in all matters.

We must understand that God will never purpose a matter that goes against His wisdom found in His Word. Nor will He set aside what He has already said on matter and back track and turn in a different direction.

Over the past few generations we have witnessed this worldly mind set change the landscape of our society and nation as a whole. Out of selfish ideas and lack of respect for our seniors, we have tucked them away along with the wise insight they have in the name of progress only to see a nation loose its identity as on Nation under God founded on Biblical (Kingdom) precepts. In the market place we have suffered greatly, in the schools we have suffered greatly and most of all in the Church we have suffered the greatest loss, for rarely will we find true fathers & mothers in the faith activated and serving in the Church.

I’ve listened to many people state that they believe the revival to ring in the next great age of planet earth will involve the coming together of the passionate young people of the next generation and the brave, receptive, wise older people who will embrace what the Spirit is doing, yet be found setting on the sidelines. Now I will agree that when we see the passion of the young combined with the wisdom of the old to produce a wineskin that will receive and contain the new wine of God’s great end time outpouring is some. I believe that we can see clearly see in the scriptures with a solid Biblical foundation

Now there are cynical critics who, not taking in to consideration the power of Gods transforming Word and Spirit, actually believe and confess that people who have passed a certain age often become hardened in the religious form of a revival of the past. They will tell you that the older people become attached to what happened in the past instead of embracing what God is doing now. That the young have not yet experienced what they saw years ago and are not impressed by their ancient revivals (Guess we need to erase Rev 12:11 out of the Bible).

Such talk has birthed a movement of young people, who like the “ Occupy wall street movement group” are seeking present expressions of God that are real to them and they desire to do it according to their way taking not into the consideration of the things that led up to the Lord’s outpouring. They are passionate for God in their own unique and liberating way and seek present expressions of God that are meaningful to them, thus adopting many cultural trends of the world today and they will rebel against anything from the older days claiming them as being “outdated”.

We must understand, God is seeking older believers who will let the Holy Spirit move in their lives apart from the religious boundaries they have created. They have wisdom that comes from age but they may have allowed their passion for God and His life to wane. The older ones must not forsake the wisdom that God has produced in their lives but they must allow Him to rekindle their passion for His presence.

At the same time the Holy Spirit is seeking young people who are passionate for God and also able to receive the wisdom offered by their older brothers and sisters. God wants spiritual mothers and fathers to come along side of the young spiritual children of the next generation. Young people must respect those who have gone before them and open up to what they have to offer, and the older saints must respect and open to the spiritual passion of the young.

Scripture bears this out. God used the older saints to announce the coming of the Messiah. Simeon was there by the Spirit when the parents of Jesus brought Him to the temple. He announced that this baby was indeed the Christ (Luke 2:25f.). He was an old man declaring revelation from God to young people of the next generation. Likewise, Anna, an elderly woman, bore witness of the Christ (Luke 2:36f.). In essence, Simeon and Anna were passing on to the next generation the revelatory wisdom of the older generation.

Unfortunately, in today’s programmed Churchianity we tend to divide the church by age. The younger ones are sent to their own place to worship in their unbridled passion and the older ones go off somewhere else to worship in their way. How much better it would be for the generations to mingle and share what they have and submit to one another.

Paul tells us to “Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another” (Rom. 12:10, KJV). I don’t believe that Paul would have made a differentiation between the young and the old. Neither should we. Regardless of our age we should honorably prefer one another. The young and the old should both honor those of a different age.

I know that many church leaders disagree with this; they see it with the belief that since the young people are the main thrust of the coming revival that they should be favored in all aspects of activity and the older ones should submit all that they prefer to the younger ones. I have been in worship times where the music was set to the decibel level and style of the youth to the extent that older people were hiding behind the pews covering their ears.

Our leaders must be must be aware as to exactly how tragic it is when:

A. The church ignores the needs of the young and functions completely according to the desires of the older believers.

B.. The church ignores the needs of the older ones for the sake of the young.

We can clearly read in the Word of how Paul admonished the churches when they are gathered to “Let all things be done for building up” (1 Cor. 14:26). In the gathering of the saints of all ages each person should be seeking to build up all of those who are there. “All things” in the gathering are to be for that purpose.

It comes down to seeing Spirit birthed and Spirit drawn unity in the Body and only in this way can the old benefit from the passion of the young and the young benefit from the wisdom of the old.

This is very important; if we continue to divide up according to age and ignore one another we will hinder the move of the Holy Spirit. In so doing we cater to the world’s way of emphasizing the youth while disparaging the old.

But I can tell you this truth; there is absolutely no need for a New Gospel Model. If we are of the opinion that the gospel message of Jesus and the disciples that is found in the Word is outdated then we need to fall on our knees in repentance and ask God to forgive us for devaluing His Word and ask Holy Spirit to transform our minds till we are of the opinion of God according to His Word.

Now, if all age groups can not worship, fellowship and minister together in the unity of the Lord, what does that say to the world? That our God can not even bring peace among His own, why should we surrender and serve such a God.

The disciples in the Book of Acts would rightly have a just case to tell us “Shame on you for conforming to the world in this manner!

Even though this saddens me, I know it grieves the Spirit even more to look out across the American Church landscape and see how many Churches do turn the Church over to the trends of the youth, and do such for the sake of the large crowds that can be attracted and the income that can be generated. Our goal must be to love the Lord and His people. If we say we love the Lord but despise and segregate a segment of His church for selfish motives, something is wrong. Our commission is to build up the body of Christ, not a segment of it.

Now again, we must realize that we have the cynical critics out there who will make claims that this is impossible in today’s American culture. We are youth oriented, they will say, and that’s just the way it is. Yet the response of the Lord to this would be;,

My church is not to be fashioned according to the principles of the world. My holy bride is being shaped by My Holy Spirit, who has been sent forth to gather My people together under the banner of Love. Stop conforming yourselves to the way of America but be transformed by the power of My word, which cannot be compromised. Come together in Love and you will see fleshly distinctions dissipate and disappear. My kingdom is not of this world and those who would dwell in it must submit to its King and His ways. The god of this world has infused you with his divisive ways and you have bowed down to his disruptive tactics. It is time to come again to Me and submit to My ways

We must understand that the scriptures testify to the fact that the church is not a fleshly organization! It is a spiritual organism that is not governed by the rules of the flesh. When we try to let the church function by fleshly principles we make it into a man-made program instead of the body of Christ. No wonder we are failing to change the world but are being changed by the world. We have decided to operate by its rules instead of responding to the divine presence of our God.

I am going to step out and be bold here when I loudly make this claim to you now that I believe the Lord clearly points out in His Word that the end time church will not be a human organization governed by men and their ideas. It will be a divine expression of Christ Himself upon the earth. It will function by the Spirit and will roll over the fleshly façade of the enemy like a steam roller over a wicker basket.

We can either join the Spirit of God, as He continues to transform the Lords Bride into what the Father has desired it to be and it will encompass young and old, male and female, rich and poor, and every race of man. For, He did not die so that we could go our way and do our thing. He died to purchase us with His own blood and possess us for His will. We are not our own. We belong to Him.

Or we can stand in His way and be rolled over by His Holy will, left sitting with the world on the side lines.

But we must take a stand now and reject any doctrine that tries to come in and replace the doctrine of Jesus Christ. We must reject any other Gospel message save that of the Lord’s. We must make a stand upon the foundation of Gods Holy Word and not be moved by the trends of this world, nor by the emotions and dictates of any age group. God has given us His Word at a Great cost and we must never be moved from its foundation, Period.

We must not allow the wisdom of the worldly mind set and trends govern our meetings, our preaching nor ministry. We must be a people who are of, and who are operating in the culture of Gods Kingdom, as outlined in His Word and we must treat any opposing doctrine as a treasonous act and expel it at all cost, even if it means people leaving the Church and the Tithe basket shrink – For Our God is our support, from whom all blessings flow.

We can no longer allow the such insurrectionists movements that have
been secretly and seductively weaving its worldly teachings and formulas into the Body. They are of the devil and though masked as messages of light, they are spawn spirits of hell with a goal of removing the foundational principles of which our Lord and His apostles laid, as written in the Word.

We have seen such deception come in many ways, such as the past 20 years in regard to the trend of weaving in social justice programs and passing them off as part of the Gospel message of Jesus, yet with spiritual eyes open one can clearly discern them as having been motivated and fueled by liberal demands, again even though appear to be Biblical, with inject scriptural references and all. Such doctrines actually run contrary to the doctrines of the Kingdom of God and are not Biblically sound. Such teachings and trends must be exposed for what they are for they are nothing but poison, dressed as holy, yet not of the Lord.

This is why we must walk in spiritual unity with a mutual respect for the wisdom and discernment of both young and old.

Let us get back to holding Gods Word higher than the wisdom of this world, higher than the voice of reason. Let us return to holding Gods Word as sacred, Holy and true with a reverent fear of every Word found and let us turn the pulpits back to the same fear as well, for our God is not just any god, He is the Lord God.

No Mr. Satan, we will not move out of the way for any other gospel message – we are fully content and completely satisfied with the Gospel message of Jesus Christ as written in the Holy Word of God.

“Then he replied, “This is the word the Lord spoke to Zerubbabel: You won’t succeed by might or by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of Armies. (Zech 4:6) There are so many messages just in this verse alone!

TO THE INDIVIDUAL:One can not over come sin nor even the temptation thereof by the sheer will of their determination. True victory only comes when we reach the place where we admit to our in ability (our weakness) and surrender to God’s total ability.

TO THE CHURCH:It’s not about your numbers, it’s not about the amount you receive in tithes and offerings, it not about the pastor being a great speaker, Nor your worship team being better than any other – It by His Spirit and His Spirit alone – for many are the houses that claim His Name yet few are they who have surrendered to His Spirit and His Will that He should come, and not just visit them, but make His abode!!

TO THE NATION: It doesn’t matter who is the head in the White House, it doesn’t matter how large ones military is. It matters not who rules the senate nor the house – a Nations strength lies within its total reliance upon the Lord and His Spirit. When a nation boast of its ability outside of the Lord, He shall pull back His hand of protection and let them see just how far “their strength” will take them!!!!

Many are they who in reference to this verse refer to it’s speaking of doing the work of God, and doing so follows a correct spiritual principle. When God does something, it is not done through physical strength. It is interesting that might literally means “arms,” and power refers to physical activity. The work of God is not going to be done through feats of arms, military victories, or anything that requires physical fighting or contention. Nor can it be accomplished by any amount of physical activity.

Yet we must come to the spiritual revelation of what this verse is saying for it matters not to the amount of work and effort that men put into it, they are not what will get God’s work done properly. They will be helpful, certainly, because God works though men, and men must exert themselves in order to do God’s will. Nevertheless, He says clearly here that all the credit goes to His Spirit. God Himself is at work! Our job is to submit, to do the things that must be done. We must do what the Spirit directs us to do, but God will receive the credit, not us. We could do none of these works by our own means.

For when we grasp all that Holy Ghost desires to teach us here, we shall see that God gives the ability. He gives the inspiration, the strength, and the endurance. He opens the doors. He supplies the manpower, the money, and the other resources to go through those doors. He supplies favor so that the doors can be opened. We merely walk through them.

One could very well say that God’s work is an act of grace. Then again one might conclude that it is a kind of oxymoron to say that work is done by grace, since we think of work and grace as two extremes, but they are not!

What comes first?

The grace comes first: God grants favor and gives gifts, then the work is done.

So where is the glory?

It appears in the grace. The effort comes afterward and accomplishes God’s will.

For by His great mercy are we saved and upon salvation Holy Ghost deposits grace into our lives, empowered with the revelation that we can overcome by our abilities but that through the empowerment of God’s abundant grace through the work of His Spirit shall we walk the narrow road victoriously.

For indeed, our God is a Mighty and Awesome God!!!