Are We Putting Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+,
The LORD JESUS, FIRST ?
A Guest post by
Samson7able
Ye shall keep MY statutes.
Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind:
neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen
come upon thee.
Leviticus 19:19
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Are We Putting The LORD Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+ FIRST?
Oh, YES ! We all proclaim . . .
loud and long, and with great offense.
How could anyone dare to
question if we are putting The LORD first in our lives, first in the Church
Assembly, first at work, first in our hearts and homes ? Can't they TELL that
we are ?
Well, let's merely look at the
apparent, obvious, visible witness going forth.
Let's start with the
pulpit.
Who is in the pulpit ?
Do we have God-fearing men, brothers, who are
careful to follow in their own lives The HOLY Word+ of GOD ?
If we do
have such men in the pulpit, we will KNOW IT .
We will leave that worship
service full of the Presence of CHRIST JESUS. We will leave that time of
worship FILLED with the desire to commit more of our own lives to CHRIST+, no
matter the cost.
We will leave that place,
knowing we had TIME WITH CHRIST. We will be filled with a cleansing humility
and a burning desire to make it right with our fellow-man and with GOD.
The measure of such a man in the
Pulpit is the amount of conviction that falls when The LORD JESUS, Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+, is
shared.
As the SPIRIT of GOD has brought
conviction upon such a man, even his presence will bring conviction upon the
congregation, through the SPIRIT. The
LORD HIMSELF+ will see to that . . . and no-one can trick the HOLY SPIRIT.
In this way, The LORD uses Men
of GOD to feed the congregation through the HOLY SPIRIT.
We are
not talking about eloquence nor even great learning, here.
We are talking about men FIT to fill
the Pulpit.
If a man has not walked with the
LORD, how can he possibly lead others to do so ? The SPIRIT of GOD will not anoint the sharing
of this one.
There will be no conviction from
the SPIRIT of GOD to call forth the congregation unto a deeper, more
consecrated walk with The LORD. . . the kind of walk that CHANGES people deeply
on the inside.
It is the power of GOD changing
hearts which heals , restores, refreshes, and renews with vigor that should
occur at each and every worship service, coming forth from the Message from the
Pulpit.
It is not a matter of learning,
education, of being able to read Greek and Hebrew, but a matter of how YIELDED
that man in the Pulpit is to the LORD.
Who are in our pulpits ? Are they men of GOD.
. . or men who savor this world ?
Are they able to SHARE the LORD
JESUS, Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+, from their own experience of
walking humbly with HIM+ ?
Have they yielded their OWN
lives over to the CONTROL of The HOLY SPIRIT ?
Their thoughts... are they always focused upon The LORD ? [ Their
conversations will reveal this, for out of the heart, the mouth speaks. ]
Do they yearn to have every
single soul in that congregation alive in The LORD, walking with HIM+ with all
their strength, time, energy, and focus ?
Do they work to that end ?
Or, are they rather men who
spend most of their waking hours doing their career or preparing for it ?
Well, we might say, there is
nothing wrong with learning a skill, going to institutes of higher learning,
building a business or working at a profession. "After all, we have to feed
our families," they say. ALL TRUE.
But the Early Christian church
found in the New Testament saw the leaders of the congregations LEAVE THEIR
FISHING NETS, leave their tax-collection stations, leave their physician's
robes, and leave their Scrolls to follow CHRIST JESUS .
HE+ was first and foremost in their
lives. They ordered their homes aright
and their wives followed The LORD JESUS, Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+, too.
They had met The LORD . . . on His+ terms. They had repented of following after careers,
houses and lands, and even families and family businesses.
Their only goal in life was to
proclaim HIM+ in every thing they did, in every place they went, with every
word they spoke.
Yes, they still fished, at
times. And undoubtedly, they still ministered health and healing where needed.
But they, even as young men, set aside these earth-bound goals and
whole-heartedly followed CHRIST JESUS , Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+.
Who are we placing in our
pulpits ? Are they men such as these
Early Christians were ?
Or, do we have men ENTANGLED
with the affairs of this life, mingling Christianity as they savor their
business ... skills ... education ... careers ?
Those entangled men might very
well be sitting in our congregations, but Should They Be Standing in Our Pulpits ?
And that, with the approval of
the church brethren or elders ?
If so, they will certainly lead
the congregation directly into holding the same spiritually-mingled values
which they hold.
Their mixed, entangled spirits
will rule, having the tacit approval of the elders, deacons, and brethren of
the church.
The HOLY SPIRIT will have an
up-hill battle to awaken the flock, which doth so easily drop the spiritual and
run after the temporal values, the values of the Adamic man instead of the
values of a New Creature in CHRIST .
Yes, Men of GOD can have
families, houses, lands, and careers. However, such Men of CHRIST refuse to savor those temporal things, with a
fear of displeasing The LORD JESUS CHRIST, Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+.
And they NEVER, EVER would lead
others to savor those dead things, either. Indeed, Men of CHRIST
will warn others to flee from savoring such.
Men of the church who are NOT of
GOD ( but of this world ) justify
the savoring of their natural lives, as "gifts given" by GOD.
If the New Testament church
would have had "Christian" men who savored their natural ,
"GOD-given" gifts, they would have continued to fish, collect taxes, ,wear
the robes of a physician, and teach the Scrolls in the Temple, among other
things.
Who are we placing in the Pulpit
?
The mingled . . . or the pure ?
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No man that warreth entangleth
himself
with the affairs of this
life;
that he may please HIM+
WHO+ hath chosen him to be a
soldier.
2 Timothy 2:4
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Cultivating luke-warmness is a
very dangerous thing to do. Luke-warmness mingles the hot with the cold. The
Risen CHRIST has promised to SPEW THE LUKEWARM out of His+ Body.
So then
because thou art
lukewarm,
and neither cold nor
hot,
I will spue thee out
of my mouth.
Revelation 3:16,
Words of CHRIST JESUS,
Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+
Y'SHU+ the M'SHIKHA+
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The mingling leads directly to
luke-warmness.
That is why HE+ hates it.
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