Revelation
3:8, “I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open
door, and no man can shut it...”
The
Body of Christ cannot continue today with business as usual! God has
opened a temporary window for the Church to call upon His Name and
return to Theocratic rule. God is calling us back to His leadership
as the collective Body of Christ. Jesus commissioned the Church to
preach the Gospel Message. In Matthew 28:19, “Go...and teach all
nations… 20Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you...” Christs’ command was to adhere to all that He
had commanded them.
Jude
felt it necessary to write to the Church in the 1st
Century and encourage them to earnestly contend for the faith. That
faith is the Truth of God as spoken and exemplified in the life of
Jesus Christ. Jude 1:4, “For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ...11 Woe unto
them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after
the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of
Core. 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast
with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without
water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without
fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 Raging waves of the
sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is
reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
Cain,
because of his rejection of God’s provision positioned himself
against God’s will and leadership. Balaam was a hired prophet who
used deceit to further his own personal agenda. Korah rebelled
against the Godly authority. All these were an issue in the 1st
Century Church and Paul warned of the same conditions in the last
days. 2Timothy 3:1, “This know also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves…
4lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of
godliness, but denying the power thereof...7 Ever learning, and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and
Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of
corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall
proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men,
as theirs also was.” Jude observed these conditions inside the
Church and Paul prophesied that these conditions would manifest
themselves inside the Church in the last days.
Somewhere
along the path to finish the commission given to us, the Church began
to depart from the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
Every pastor, leader, and congregation has been pressed by the will of
a worldly society to include all men in the Church regardless of
their relationship with Jesus Christ. However, to be a follower of
Christ, one must be a disciple of Christ. To be a disciple of Christ
is to accept His Truth and reflect that Truth in one’s life as a
reflection of Christ. Only then is one acceptable to Christ. That is
what is meant by a person accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and
Savior. Until such a time, one’s life is preserved solely by the
mercy and grace of God.
At
this late hour, we must turn back to the purpose of God in the earth.
Let the Church rise up in the Power of the Holy Ghost and declare that God’s Standard for every human life is the Word of God. Hebrews
2:12, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than
any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul
and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the
thoughts and intents of the heart.” In the Holy Spirit, the Word of
God is our Safety and the Righteous run to it. Let us return to the
God of our Fathers! God will place us where we need to be when we
need to be there if we will obey His Word!
Let
us purposefully and deliberately step through the Open Door that God
has created for us in this hour. No man can shut the Door but we must
choose to enter into the Will of God. Let us awake from the spirit of
Slumber, heed the Voice of God and finish Our Mission as the Body of
Christ! God will close His Door in His Time just as He closed the
door on the Ark. Get in while you can!
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