No boundaries. No consecration. No spiritual or physical responsibility to godliness. No commitment to the very thing they claim to practice and teach. And what’s worse is they justify their sin over and over again with their apostate teaching on Grace. Just think of it…Christ died on the cross to free us from sin so they like dogs could return to the vomit from whence they came. Only to teach their disciples to do the same by their example.
Mat 16:12 Then they understood that He did not tell [them] to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees. This committment to anything goes grace simply communicates the idea to people that there is nothing wrong with sin. Go ahead enjoy life keep on sinning your covered by God’s Grace. We Don’t seem to realize that this doctrine is in fellowship with darkness (Lucifer).
Mat 23 THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: "The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. "Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. "For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. "But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
"They love the best places at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, "greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, Pastor, Pastor (I added That) "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves."
Teach a class on discipleship, read about it, argue about it but please understand that the reason that the multitude left in the first place was Christ was actually going to require them to do it…to pick up their cross and follow him. To change their sinful life style, give up their positions and possession and follow him. Your rated R movies, your one too many social drinks, your night out with the kids practicing vandalism while toilet papering a home. Your real giving records, your foul mouth before church and afterward (not during). Your adulteress looks at the opposite sex. Your position and praise as a pastor.
People\Church: it’s time to repent so that you can experience the same reality that John the Baptist preached and the early disciples experienced. This is the beginning of your discipleship process. Not the self declared sinners prayer where men declare you holy and you put on the robes of righteousness over your sin, but a true deep and through look at yourselves and the things around you. Repentance. Ish 6. We do this in obedience to Christ so that Jesus can confirm your faith, not men.
Do you understand that God wants you to be able to function in two realms? Why are we so afraid of The Holy Spirit? Why do we grieve Him so? Don’t we understand that He desires to teach us in all things?
See biblical (not religious) discipleship requires commitment, consecration, confirmation and a lifestyle of holiness, sacrifice and godliness. This is not possible by using human or physical means. Your nature must be changed and trust me all your effort, study, fasting and prayer is not going to accomplish it. It is a work of the Holy Spirit ALONE. This is why so many people are still in Egypt (in bondage). They are practicing a form of godliness without any power- the very thing Jesus promised the disciples and the very thing many pastors, in bondage, declare to have passed away. If this was not enough, the complete process of discipleship- including men and women who actually model it- is so very hard to find. For over 20 years I have mentored pastors and struggled personally with this very issue. As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with a pastor of a Calvary Chapel on the east coast that was just lamenting that he is struggling with why God won’t move like he reads in the Bible. But when you challenge the system with spiritual truth or point out the need for repentance, the walls go up and listening becomes very hard to do.
I have seen Presidents of Christian universities/colleges and seminaries, who are supposed to be the best of the best, fail miserably in discipleship- the very thing that every Christian should excel at because it’s the reason why we exist as a church (Mat 28). This is why I will not entertain religious men, those like Korah (numbers 16) who declare themselves holy because of their doctrines in which they claim so true. I find it an insult and frankly flirting with hell itself when they reject the very confirmation that every prophet, apostle and disciple has experienced from the foundation of Scripture itself: The Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
My heart breaks every time I see someone walk away from the very confirmation their hearts and minds need to be fulfilled in their faith. They hear the stories of healing; we experience them. They read about disciples being made; we make them. They hear about demons being cast out; we cast them out. They see that in Scripture there is joy unspeakable and they cannot find it. They memorize verses trying to overcome the bondage of sin; we overcome. They continue to talk about God moving; we move with God.
Discipleship is real and happening now…not in a class or discovered in a book. It’s experienced by faith and learned from a disciple maker. They may be in church, but most likely not. Many have ancient truth to show you…depth of Scripture that comes from the Holy Spirit Himself leaving the Pharisees and Sadducees scratching their heads and saying, "how do you know such things when you did not go to seminary?" These ways have been prophesied in the old testament, written about in the new, and experienced by many who have learned from the faithful remnant that still exist today.
"Come out of her my people!!!! "
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