THE LIFE OF FAITH AND THE GLORIOUS CHURCH - 2009
january 16th
THE PREPARATION OF A TRUE WORKING "FIVE-FOLD MINISTRY"
Joshua 24:14-15 NASB
One of the
chief things that has been happening over the past few decades in the Church,
is that God is preparing His apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and
teachers and bringing them into their proper position. He has trained them in
their times spent before Him in intimate fellowship to walk in perfect
obedience, and to gain a revelation of His absoluteness as the Church age comes
to a close. It is through these "absolute revelations" that the
absoluteness of the "Divine Requirement" [Luke 10:27] shall be
ministered to all those children of God who are truly seeking Him and, thus,
they shall be lifted up [elevated] - as they hear these precious and holy words
coming forth from the Throne Room - into their proper place in the Church. Let
it be understood that there are two messages of judgement: one good news and
one bad news. The good news is for the people who are worshipping in spirit and
truth, and seeking to walk in perfect obedience in all that they do. The bad news
is for the slothful and the wicked and the rebellious children who refuse to
reject the spirit of this world and, who have thus, "allowed"
themselves to be possessed [heavily influenced] by all that that spirit entails
[humanism, false religion and carnality].
CHOOSE
THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE!
Now it is certain that it is up to each individual believer to decide whether
they are going to go on with God into the "fullness" of their
inheritance in Christ or remain in bondage to an element of self-desire
[self-agenda], but it is just as certain that those who "forsake" the
will of God to follow after their own rebellious way [and who, thus, will be
found reviling the delegated authorities and blaspheming the glory of God] will
be severely and thoroughly judged in this most critical hour of the entire
Church age. There are many when they hear words such as these who say,
"well, God's not like that", but because they have no knowledge of
their own sinful and rebellious ways - through a lack of "direct
contact" in the inner chamber with the One whom they claim to serve - they
do not realize that through their rebellious [presumptuous] words and actions
they have trampled underfoot the Son of God, and have regarded as unclean the
Blood of the Covenant - and, thus, have insulted the Spirit of Grace. God has
no hatred for mankind and does not judge mankind in themselves apart from sin
and rebellion. It is the sinfulness and rebelliousness that are inherent in the
old nature, by way of the first Adam, that God has a controversy with, and it
is only as we continue to reach out to receive the fullness of the provision
that God has blessed us with in Christ, that we can escape the sin and
rebellion that shall surely be consumed regardless of where it is found. For,
indeed, all things that have their origin apart from Christ will be judged in
this final hour. In all judgement, whether it be the church of Jesus Christ or
the world, the onus is not now with God, for He has clearly stated, through the
ministering of His Word, the way to experience salvation from the certain,
terrifying expectation of judgement and the fury of the fire which will consume
the adversaries. Let each one of us come to know [have a deep revelation of]
the judgements that are upon the earth, for indeed it is a terrifying thing to
fall into the hands of the living God without having the assurance that we are
cleansed continually from all unrighteousness by the precious Blood of the Lamb
[Hebrews
10:26-31; 1 John 1:9].
Related
Scriptures: Romans 1:18-25; Hebrews 10:22-23;
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