The Commission Ignored, Christ and Calvary Disdained
As always, I adore the inspiration and sudden "Aha" moments I get from the Holy Spirit and I don't even have to be doing my Bible reading and studying, today it came as I was making my bed. I found a question being stirred in my soul, then another and then Bible phrases and hence my reflection based on the Holy Spirits prompting questions etc... Here goes.
With the Church having decided to be anything but the Church, Prophet, Watchman and Witness, but rather a co-whore in Babylon, being in the world, bringing legalism and crap of the world into the Church, conforming to the world rather than clearly refusing to conform to, I can understand the frustration, grievance etc.. of the Trinity, as I concur. The first question prompted in me was Why THE Great Commission? Why that Command? Why not tell them to go build Utopia and free all the world, fix the world with innovative new forms of social justice and government etc..." Why the Command to Preach the Gospel to the Ends of the Earth? Think, use the brain. He said the poor would always be with us, at least until he returned to destroy all sin and evil and to seek God first and above all, then all other things would be taken care of. Why, why the Command of preaching the Gospel, which is in a nutshell "Faith and Christ and what he did at Calvary is your only salvation from eternal damnation" had to be the priority for all Christians, for the Church to take on and preach to all. I went to check how many times Jesus talked of Hell, and Judgement, 27 times. Some will argue that he spoke of heaven more than hell, so what? He wants, as the Messiah, Redeemer, Savior who gave life for all mankind, gained victory over sin, death, Satan's authority on our behalf, which we forfeited at Eden to all to go to heaven, be with him, the Father, the Holy Spirit forever. Just because he didn't speak equally in terms of number of Hell and its' judgement, doesn't mean it is not crucial because we have but one of two destinations when we die, and once you die, that's it, no second chances to get it right. I again got the stirring of "connect the dots" Even Paul said he had not come to Baptize, but strictly to preach, less the Cross of Christ be of no effect because he had been given by Christ the clear message that the main and primary goal of the Church and the Church body is to be to preach the Word, including heaven, and hell, whether people like it or not.
Love sometimes requires harsh truth be told, but the Church instead of honoring this crucial, a soul's eternity depending on it, being a Prophet, Watchman, and Witness has become strictly a social services, United Nations whatever for political peacekeeping, entrainment center, no depth of the Holy Spirit flowing through like the days of Azusa street transforming lives and thus society able to be transformed by the lives of the people transformed, who understood they were, we all are sinners, and our only chance for any salvation is Christ and the Cross, what he did there, his defeat of Satan, death, to return glorious king who will come to rapture her bride on his timetable, not the bride's. They understood the main thing the Church was to do was to stand strong in the Bible, Christ as only Lord, Redeemer, Savior and the Power of the Holy Spirit as the only agent of change for people or anything in this world. Sadly, the Church today is too lost, under Satan's influence or stupid to get it, and that is truly grievous.
This ministry will stand strong in the truth, including that there is a heaven and a hell, may none of us turn our backs on Christ ever to find that out when our lights go out.
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