The duty of a steward of the Holy Gospel is not to brand for ourselves titles and to seek to control the lives, finances, and personal choices of Christ’s people.
The call is to administer the Good News of Jesus Christ with responsibility and sound counsel to salvage souls in need of rescue.
The church lives as it pleases, doing things that appease their pleasure rather than living in a way that pleases God.
The Lord said the time has come for accountability in the church, and the change is now.
1 Thessalonian 2:4
But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
Are you overzealous for Christ?
Are you living in His word and mourning the people, the souls of men and the bodies of babies, and the paths of your children?
The answer should be yes to any good standing Christian. The Lord’s church is not intended for use as a Hollywood set with velvet ropes and for glamorous shows.
The ten percent is the offering to God and not to be used to the leader’s pockets and build lavish buildings and fly Lear jets.
No, it’s meant as an offering to God for all He has done and to be used wisely. We are to care for Christ’s people. The infants, orphans, widows, and the needy.
James 1:27
27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
To pollute means to contaminate, corrupt, or defile.
I will stand in the authority, strength, courage, and caliber of the Holy Spirit over Pastor Pop Rocks, who make a lot of noise any day of the week—without being shamed for living obediently to the call of Christ.
And neither should you, church!
We live in mid-evil times, and God is ramping up the heat to release fire in those who have been tested in the back desert and with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
These individuals did not start this way, Christ asked them to relinquish all earthly possessions and give them to the poor and follow Him, and they did with thanksgiving.
The testing was dreadful, but it produced in them the character of Christ, and the harvest will be one hundred, sixty, or thirty times the amount.
Matthew 13:8
Still, other seeds fell on good soil, producing a crop—a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.
The seed is the Word of the Father in Heaven, which has produced a Heavenly sound freeing many from bondage.
Those who would have otherwise been trapped and gone unchecked from their idol worship of men will come back to Christ.
This blessing is the direct outcome of a church that lived obediently to their mandate and not because of the self-ascribed and ordinated who have been successful in the church’s business.
Jesus will release many from the bondage of addictions, sickness, sufferings, and the burdens of giving their wealth away to make the disingenuous rich.
There will be a release from the murderous Spirit that has led to the killing of many through abortion and street fights.
The Lord said killers would bow before the throne of the Lord and repent for their sins, and He will forgive them.
Praise be to the Lord, our God, Jesus Christ. Our Lord and Savior are able to rectify the atrocities of man.
The wicked are intensionally proposing to do evil things with our tax dollars in government, such as pay for abortions and build rainbow bridges outside of the Chick Filets, which are Christian-run businesses. We all need to seek to side with Christ.
The Anti-Christ Spirit will overtake you if you don’t stand and fight back—but the truth is, in the upcoming months and years, the Spirit-filled will win the battle.
The tribulation is on the way, and now is the time to get it right. Are you in or out for the ways of God or man?
This is an updated edition of a post originally published on Christine’s Cornerstone
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