John 11:47-50 (AMP)
47 So the
chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the council (the Sanhedrin) and
said, What are we to do? For this Man performs many signs (evidences,
miracles).
48 If we let
Him alone to go on like this, everyone will believe in Him and adhere to Him,
and the Romans will come and suppress and destroy and take away our [holy]
place and our nation [our temple and city and our civil organization].
The Pharisees
where so blinded by the threat Jesus posed to their organization, that their
faith somehow took a backseat. They could not see their Saviour right in front
of them because they where blinded by the structure they where trying to
uphold.
God often
chooses us because of our focus and dedication to growing His Kingdom on earth.
But could it be that we can become so focused on building our ministerial
organisations, that we literally become one track minded? Look at the Jews.
They had knowledge of the entire Old Testament, that explained exactly how to
identify the Messiah, yet they where in so much FEAR of damaging their organization, (their status
quo), that they where too blind to see the Saviour Himself, whom they had
been anticipating and awaiting for their entire careers...
We can never
make choices purely to benefit our organisations. We have to be “living
sacrifices” that would give up the comfort of all we have built, to further
that which God Himself is building!
There is no
such thing as bodies of Christ, only THE Body of Christ! We have to stop
thinking that our agendas are bigger than God’s. We have to respect that God
has given each man the ability to hear God’s voice, and bless each other to do
what God called us to do.
I truly believe
that a great leader has the potential to recognise the ministerial call on the
lives of the people he raises. This should be clear in the fruit he produces.
Such a leader will raise great strong leaders in short periods of time (keep in
mind that Jesus took 3 years to raise 12 people upon whom the entire Christian
church was built + they where trusted to write a great part of the inspired
Word of God), and they will be dispatched like wild mushrooms! If it takes you
much longer than 3 years to raise a person (unless age is a factor), then you
are not effectively raising leaders, or you are not identifying the right
people. Boiling a chicken for 20 years does not maketh a more flavoursome dish!
If you are not
planting churches after 4 – 6 years in your ministry, you are missing the call
on your leaders lives. If you say “well that’s all fine and dandy but I just
don’t have leaders in my church” then I say it is your fault, because if God
knew that you could be trusted with the future of great leaders, then surly He
would provide...
There is a
horrifying doctrine floating about the modern church, that advocates that
if you believe God has spoken to you, and you decide to follow God’s voice and pursue your life
calling without the “blessing of the man in charge” you open yourself up to die
of cancer, get run over by a steamroller, or even worse...
This teaching
puts people is such bondage, and they are so brainwashed, that by the time they
do cut themselves loose, they are broken, battered and drenched in fear.
Their own fear leads to a lack of faith and often the eventual acceptance of the
curse put on them by “the man that never sent them”. The irony is that if
people “in charge” loved the people under them, at least as much as they love
themselves, they would adhere to God’s voice, and those who are supposed to be
sent would not be left in the “wilderness” dying outside of God’s perfect will
for their lives.
If we as assemblies
are going to use terms like, Father, Mother, Children etc. then at least let
those terms not be a mockery compared to a true family setup. In reality good
parents go to bed hungry to feed their children, and fathers work in the most
inhuman conditions to give their children more than what they ever had.
Apostle G
Maldonado preaches that, the most a father has gathered in resources during his
lifetime should be the start, (the least) of where his son should set out in
life.
If you expect
the spiritual children in your church to start off in life with all the same disadvantages you had, instead of all the advantages you have gained... check your heart for
unresolved pain, and make sure you are not taking revenge for hurts that where
inflicted on you, or
even worse, a general lack of the God-kind of love towards people... Would you
give up a comfortable life to do the will of God?
Matthew
19:16-26
16 And
behold, there came a man up to Him, saying, Teacher, what excellent and
perfectly and essentially good deed must I do to possess eternal life?
17 And He
said to him, Why do you ask Me about the perfectly and essentially good? There
is only One Who is good [perfectly and essentially]—God. If you would enter
into the Life, you must continually keep the commandments.
18 He said
to Him, What [a]sort of commandments? [Or, which ones?] And Jesus answered, You
shall not kill, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall
not bear false witness,
19 Honor
your father and your mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as [you do]
yourself.
20 The young
man said, I have observed all these from my youth; what still do I lack?
21 Jesus
answered him, If you would be perfect [that is, [b]have that spiritual maturity
which accompanies self-sacrificing character], go and sell what you have and
give to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; and come, be My disciple
[side with My party and follow Me].
22 But when
the young man heard this, he went away sad (grieved and in much distress), for
he had great possessions.
23 And Jesus
said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, it will be difficult for a rich man
to get into the kingdom of heaven.
There is
only one New Testament law that covers all: Love God and Love One another as
you love yourself.
There is only
one New Testament law that covers all: Love God and Love One another as you
love yourself.
Extra:
2 Corinthians 2:17
17 For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God’s Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God.
Extra:
2 Corinthians 2:17
17 For we are not, like so many, [like hucksters making a trade of] peddling God’s Word [shortchanging and adulterating the divine message]; but like [men] of sincerity and the purest motive, as [commissioned and sent] by God, we speak [His message] in Christ (the Messiah), in the [very] sight and presence of God.
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