Saints, I must be frank, honest and avoid any self justified tendency to conceal the potentially caustic parts of this day. The judgment always begins with me, kneeling before God’s Throne, In Humility and Supplication(surrender). If I am compartmentalizing aspects of my own propensity to sin, mess up or harbor unforgiveness, how then can I assert any evidence that I am willing, able and trustworthy to provide Pastoral Council to those seeking wisdom?
To that end; Though the temporary man born of the water of material birth died on the Cross with Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that day in Calvary of Golgotha, we have been born again of God’s Holy Spirit that we may be convicted of those aspects of our mortal penchant. This life is the proving ground of our eternal readiness and thus the experiences we share and confront allow us to choose to either be set aside for God or remain in our own lusts for worldly gain.
When I have confronted that man in me that continues to sin out of habit seeking death, damnation and hell, I then emerge into transformed thinking consistent with eternal understanding and spiritual sight only found in God’s indwelling Spirit of the Baptism by Fire for which the Apostles obediently waited in Jerusalem nearing the day of Pentecost. What they saw was the Power of Rebirth in Christ Jesus a Power that men who do not know HIM will seek to purchase, borrow or steal from believers to empower themselves in wickedness.
We of the Church cannot and must not remain adolescents pulled by the whispers or potency of false doctrine leading us back into sinful man. We must grow into faith, not needing evidence, that seeks to stand upon God’s Promises for which we received the earnest of our Salvation the Seal of God’s Holy Spirit to protect, guide and empower to boldness in speaking the Gospel to a world that desperately needs listen. We must also recognize and acknowledge that Mammon would have us view this power as ours when it is clearly understood as the Power of God residing within our HOLY HABITATION as His Temple.
Then the Body Graduates to a corporate pursuit of serving God through Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit’s guidance, protection and promise. As a Body, as a nation or community of men we must eschew evil, even when it represents some acceptable form of worldly gain to pursue and achieve the Glory for which God made us and then remade us in heavenly rebirth. We are being gathered together unto Him that in the end we would be the first fruits of that Glory to God Almighty only found through the sacrifice and sovereign demonstration of Christ Jesus for all men.
We who once viewed ourselves as islands among men, using them or viewing them as stepping stools to our own dreams of glory. Must now view them through the Lens of God’s Love for which HE DIED to save All. Not just the people I like, forgive or may find some realized investment prosper my planning, but ALL MEN especially those who hate me or for whom I may exhibit ungodly judgment/contempt. Like it or not, admit it or not we are all on this journey together and the moment we realize that and commit to achieving Godly objectives then the old man truly begins to fade.
For example; There is now clear evidence that we as a body of Christ continue to participate and condone UN-Godly acts, that are clearly forbidden in God’s Word just to live in tolerant harmony with man. May I remind that friendship with the World is enmity with God. You do understand that enmity means; war with God, hate for God, contempt of His Word and His Will. This being your choice and pursuit how may this be reckoned with conforming to the Image of Christ Jesus which is HIS Godly Will for mankind after Rebirth in Spirit. The Temple must reflect and absolutely conform to God’s indwelling Spirit. We have been graced by the TORN Veil of Christ Jesus that allows us to live in the presence of God’s Essence without being destroyed for sin as we are COVERED, CLEANSED, IMPUTED HIS Righteousness to remove our own.
We as a Church/Body all those who claim His name must stand without camouflage consistent with the Image of Christ Revealed in our collective Walk for God. Many tell me that their church is the shining example of that understanding, fully knowing or perhaps in denial of the horrific violations that the Holy Spirit out to each of us weekly. It has been revealed that the Largest Congregation of Christians in the World is in fact historically verified as the origin of the most heinous and wicked actions known to humanity. The death of Saints for mammon, the death of men for profit, the acquisition of lands for immoral leaders, the destruction of women and children for lustful fulfillment and now the purposeful insurgency of the children of disobedience to drown out Christian believers around the world.
This is only possible when those so calling themselves by God’s name are falsely doing. Let us face the truth of God’s Word, Matthew 7 shows us that there will be at the end people who believing themselves righteous will be denied by Christ. You know its true yet most churches especially in America tell themselves non biblical lies about “once saved always saved”. How can both these conditions co exist? They cannot either one is true and the other false or two realities must exist, One of Gospel and one of VAIN IMAGINATION warning of Roman’s 1. Whatever you believe there will be people who view themselves as Christian and yet are denied entry to God’s Presence for their “doings of iniquity” for which Christ will deny them. Reckon that.
Now let us look to our communities and nation as members fully understanding that if we, the followers of Christ do not demonstrate in our Book of Acts, God’s Image upon us then how do we expect they will ever see it, chase it and become like Christ Jesus if we are the Holy Habitation of the Spirit calling them to Grace? If not but for a time such as this, what did that mean in Esther’s Time and why was she warned by her Uncle to step forward in God’s Purpose or someone else would be empowered to achieve it in her disobedience? We were made to fulfill His Will. If we choose to chase our own will then the two will never match unless God as with Jonah forces us into that Holy Action. Are you like me often baiting God to force you? Not a realistic strategy for someone Born of Holy Spirit? Is that even possible? YES, why else would Christ warn us that HE COULD blot out our names from the Book of Life. He would not mention the possibility if it were not “possible”.
We as a Nation have as with Israel of Old Walked away from God and fulfilling His Will for each of us and as a nation called by His Name. You don’t like it, you don’t believe that this speaks to each of us, but let me tell you that He means ME. That’s right, He spoke to me in 2004 with the title, doer of iniquity, when I was serving four services a weekend at the richest, most prestigious, night clubish Church in Mammonville. It broke me praise God. I realized that my faith which I viewed through my self-justification lens of Piety was fake, that I didn’t know Him Worse Yet He didn’t know me. That I was indeed one of those people believing themselves pent for Heaven’s delight only to be truly the most tragic of men, believing themselves righteous of their own regard. A Horrifying Moment of choice.
Our nation or the elected leaders; steal money, created terrorist groups to pressure nations into giving them land, power and more money. Those terrorist nations are supported, trained and maintained by the tax dollars of the chattel we have always been and yet we applaud and continue to employ them in their wickedness before God. How long before their sins are our sins by complicity and cooperation in that wickedness. We were once Great as a nation having been made Great by the Goodness of God’s Image pursued by a nation daring to be different that this world. WE cannot become GREAT AGAIN without dedicating ourselves in pursuit of God’s Goodness Once again by writing His HOLY WORD UPON OUR HEARTS and following His indwelling Spirit through the skinny path of Conviction and Transformation to Heavenly Men and Women.