Thursday, November 19, 2020
The False Pastor System
The problem is the false "Pastor" system in which one must have gone to seminary in order to secure a "job" as a main one-man pastor. The problem is that the church sees the paid "Pastor" as the only one who has the truth. The one-man pastor system is based on titles, which are unbiblical, and one-man rule which are not biblical.
The Bible teaches a plurality of elders and no one is paid. This allows for accountability and there is no threat of losing an income if the people don't like what you say.
The modern church system was born out of Catholicism promoting hierarchy rule over the people instead of the Holy Spirit working in every born again believer.
I can't count the number of times people have said to me, "you can't know you didn't go to seminary." I asked one lady this question, "oh, does the Holy Spirit only go to seminary"? Then I reminded her that the Holy Spirit lives in every believer and can discern truth from error by His wisdom.
Those who depend on pastors for their wisdom are not depending on the Holy Spirit, they will believe things that are wrong because every preacher has flaws, but the Holy Spirit has no flaws. Many preachers depend on famous writers for their wisdom far more than the Bible and the Holy Spirit.
The reason God has shut down all the churches is that they are operating under a false system of authority based on man not on the teachings of the Bible.
We do not title someone based on their Spiritual gift. "pastor" is a gift that is given to several men in the gathering, no one takes priority over the other. They are all equal and each must evaluate what the others say. I do not capitalize it here because it is not a position or a title, it is a calling.
Our churches have become apostate because the hirelings, that is the paid pastors preach wrong messages to keep their pew people coming back every week. They need those numbers to keep a salary coming.
Just watch the manipulation in those large gatherings. There is music being played during the prayers to invoke emotions. There is constant levity and joking to make the people laugh and there is preaching on tithing, while the organ plays, also not Biblical, to make the people want to give their money to that particular church.
It would be easy to write a book about all the umbilical practices in the modern apostate churches, perhaps there have been some written that I don't know about, but nevertheless, so much is wrong that GOD shut them down. He brought the virus to discipline everyone, even the churches.
Hebrews 12:11
"For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it."
Revelation 3:19
"Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent."
But, what do we see, instead of repenting these churches are fighting the courts to remain open. They know if their gathering closes their salary will dry up and their buildings will close forever.
The early church didn't have buildings, they met in homes because those who were dedicated to Christ were not concerned about buildings. Some met in the synagogues because they had already been built for the Jews, but most met in homes.
God never commanded man to build lavish buildings nor did He command pastors to be salaried. We can see why, this human thinking of paying pastors comes from verses intended to be for traveling preachers who needed to have offerings to continue to their next town. It was never meant for salaries for permanent one-man pastors.
I see this all the time; so many taking scripture out of context to justify how people have always done things. They will not pray about it, they will not even consider what they are doing to find out the truth. They just reject any challenge to read the Bible in context as well as rejecting the person who brought the challenge.
We also have to remember that our English Bibles have been tainted with western thinking leaving many to believe things that are not true.
YES, God has shut down the culture because it is a stench in His nostrils. We must not complain about the shutdowns because to do so is to complain against God.
I remember years ago when a godly older lady chastised me for complaining about the weather because it was God Who was in control of it. SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!! The same truth holds for political matters and others things in life that we have no control over. If you have no control over it and it was not your responsibility then you must trust Christ.
The more we try to have control over God's business the more joy is sucked from our souls and manipulated by the devil.
Let's not give the devil smiles by fighting against God's decrees. God knows what He is doing, how silly to think we know better than God does.
I heard a saying recently that makes a lot of sense to me; "if you want to see God laugh, tell Him your plans."
Evil people cannot carry out their plans without God's permission. Just as Job's attack from the devil was given to him to accomplish, it also had a greater purpose than Job's comfort. Job came out the other side better off than he was before. During all of the terrible things he endured, he never rejected God.
Job 2:9-10 "…9 Then Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!” 10 “You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said."
Job was reminded by God who was in control, this helped him come through it all without ever being angry with God.
Job 38:4-7
"4 Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding,
5 Who set its measurements? Since you know.
Or who stretched the measuring line over it?
6 On what were its bases sunk?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
7 When the morning stars sang together
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
There you have it, will we stop complaining about things we cannot control realizing that God has complete control. Do not blame it on the devil, even the devil is controlled by God for His purposes.
1 Corinthians 10:13
"No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it."
Matthew 28:18
"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth."
Lean into Christ continually and you will come out the other side of hardship stronger and better than you were before the trials.
Romans 5:3-5 "3 And not only this, but we also celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
Trust the Holy Spirit, do not look horizontally to the mess around you, look vertically to the hope of our redemption.
Luke 21:28 "28 When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near."
God told us we would have trials but if we are looking up we need not be devastated by them.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIVING (PT.1): 1ST TIMOTHY 1-3
Apply the Scripture in totality and there need not be debate.
When They Reject You
Never attempt to continue to explain anything to someone who has rejected the information the first time. They must want to know from their own heart in order to receive it.
If they do not receive it the first time then they are choosing to believe what they want about the matter and will twist everything you say.
Until a person is ready to hear it is an exercise in futility to even attempt a discussion about the problem.
O.K. what does one do now?
The believer has a very powerful option that unbelievers do not have. They can go to prayer and even fasting to maintain themselves in holiness.
When we cannot get through to someone who refuses to listen then the most important thing we can do is to keep ourselves from responding in ways that do not glorify God.
The narcissist wants you to blow up in anger, this is why they poke at you with insults and loud voices to cause you frustration. When you blow up they will claim you are the crazy one, it is their favored tactic, in use by many these days.
When that does not work they will "ghost" you, meaning they will refuse to interact with you purposefully to make you feel unloved. When people feel unloved in an extreme way they do crazy things. If they do crazy things the narcissist is gleeful that they have won convincing themselves that they were the same ones and their target deserved what the narcissist did to them.
Never follow your feelings, go to prayer trusting that God has this for you. You will never succumb to the tricks of the narcissist if you are praying to remain calm, the Holy Spirit will control your reactions and give a strong message as to when to walk away.
Believe it or not, God can give you complete peace during these hard times but we must do the battle in prayer.
1. "Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7
2. "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." 1 John 4:4
3. "For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." 2 Cor. 10:3-5
The Eyes of the Lord
RS Wilkinson said this:
(This picture was borrowed from THE BATTLE IS REAL.)
The Bible was Replaced by Paganism
They had to take the Bible out of public schools because it refuted the theory of evolution that they were teaching as fact.
I grew up in public schools where evolution was the only theory they taught, but they did it as though it were not a theory but a fact.
I am 68 years old, this has been going on a long time.
The lies and indoctrination that have been taught to destroy the faith of many children has been going on a long time in our country.
By mixing the word "Christ" with pagan ideas has confused superficial Christians. They think if they hear that word nothing else in the thinking or doctrine matters. And, yet there will be an anti-christ, who will claim to be the Christ. He will deceive many people who will call themselves Christians but have no discernment and little desire for the Word of God.
I have met people who would call someone a Christian merely because they asked for prayer. I knew a Jewish man once who was unsaved, he denied Christ and even mocked Christianity, but I was the first one he came to ask for prayer for a wayward daughter who ran away from home to become a prostitute. Why me? Because a part of him knew I had a special "in" with God that he did not have.
Often people are offended by us because we speak "Bibleeze" but something about us makes them feel safer in a disaster. They do not realize that they have no protection because of us, they must become born again to be protected by our God. We had to become born again and so do they.
Just knowing about God or knowing someone who knows God will not bring protection. After all, the devil knows God far more intimately than we do, he was the highest-ranking angel in heaven at one time before he allowed his pride to challenge God for supremacy.
Too many people depend on their "feelings" and their "own ideas" that make them comfortable, it is fantasy thinking that leads to destruction.
Philippians 3:19
"Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things."
Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
Fake Believers Have Taken Over the Church
Fake believers have come to divide the church. They act foolishly, speak lies, and accuse believers unjustly for standing for righteousness.
These same people have done more to divide the church merely by claiming to be one of us while bringing crassness and rudeness to the gathering.
I have seen Christians who were thrown under the bus by other Christians for calling out the false brethren who are deliberately dividing the believers.
False brethren come in causing trouble with false teachings and crass attitudes dividing people one from another. When we see this happen the one to avoid is the false brethren, but in order to know they are false, we must know the scriptures.
Unfortunately, in our day the false brethren will win others to their way by accusing the authentic brothers of being divisive by using the Bible as the measure for truth and conduct.
Sadly most people in the apostate gatherings today are false brethren, they have never been born again but claim to know the Bible they disobey regularly.
Romans 16:17
"I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them."
2 John 1:9-11
"Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works."
Romans 12:1
"I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."
2 Timothy 3:5
"Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people."
False brethren divide the church merely by being false brethren.
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
"For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds."
Nearly every politician over the past 50 years of my life has been false brethren, claiming things about themselves that were not true and deceiving many who were superficial in their thinking, many didn't know the Bible they claimed to believe in.
The Bible is not a prop to be used to feel good or elevate self, it is the word of God to instruct and guide the born again believer. We live in a culture that uses this very holy book as a prop to "prop up" their egos and feel safe by the comforting thoughts in times of trouble but they have no desire to actually seek Christ to obey Him.
The reason I know this is because when most "Christians" are confronted with their error that leads to sin they fight back as though we did something evil by exposing wrong thinking.
When I speak to people about divorce and remarriage they go right to defensiveness without taking a breath. They will defend their disobedience against God as if their life depended on it.
Even though what they are doing can easily be exposed as a sin against God they will not only rage against us as well as turning others against us who are defensive of them.
Acts 20:29
"I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;"
Modern Christians are defending sin today that everyone who was a Christian 80 years ago would have agreed was sin and even warn and shun the believer who did them. The church believed in disciplining someone to help them return to obedience. They knew this from their knowledge of God's Word and their desire to obey Christ.
What people fail to realize is that the Bible is the Word of God. It is the very heart and essence of Jesus Christ, Who is called the Word. When we minimize, even becoming angry at the mention of HIs Word we are mocking and diminishing Him. This is why God says:
Hebrews 4:12
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart."
The Word of God and Jesus Christ are offensive to pretenders today, they want to be able to "appear" as a good person who has a Bible but they want nothing of Christ Himself.
I have seen this more times than I can count, Christians following rules, parading up and down as though they are special because they have a Bible and even teach it, but they have none of the fruit of the Spriit nor do they have the greatest of all commandments:
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?”
37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.”
These pretenders do not love the Lord let alone the brethren, they love their sin and their pride while lacking the fruit of the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
When we expose their sin they attack rather than pray. They malign our character rather than appreciate the correction. This is how we know the character of a pretender or an authentic believer. The believer can be corrected and will respond with gratefulness and go to prayer, however, the pretender will become angry and attack our character refusing to take a look at their own.
Proverbs 29:8-10 "…8 Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger. 9 If a wise man goes to court with a fool, there will be raving and laughing with no resolution.10 Men of bloodshed hate a blameless man, but the upright care for his life.…"
My prayer has been that God would cause repentance to role over the apostate church gatherings and many become born again.
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