One day I wondered why great poverty and stagnation was coming upon my life. My son called me and told me he too was having dire distress come upon his life. I’m not a real believer that the word of God brings distress but well-being, butter and milk. When Moses was to go into the Promised Land God promised him a land of milk and honey.
Now why is so dire distress coming upon the world when the word of God is so abundant? It so it seems, but it’s not. There are many abundant preachers preaching the word. Or are they? They preach Christ crucified and that we are sinners and need a Savior.
Well that sounds good, but the Lord has led me to believe that something is lacking in all of that. I was beginning to get on the bandwagon of tithing to support the gospel and ‘preach the gospel’. But something was just not right. Jesus prophesied that many would come in his name saying, ‘I’m he’ and ‘the time draws near’.
It sounds all so good and innocent and seems like the right thing to do, to preach that the time draws near for our Lord to come back. But as we have often said before, the poverty does not lay in words but in example. Jesus told his disciples, ‘All authority has been given to me on heaven and earth, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, the son and the holy spirit, teaching them to OBSERVE all that I have commanded you…
The key word here is that we are to observe the words of God and not make career of telling everyone about it and failing to be the faithful wives, or the faithful employees or the good citizens of our towns and cities. This idea that the commission of the church is to ‘preach the gospel’ is not biblical.
God’s people are to observe everything God tells us in his word and tell others to believe God and his word. This idea of making a church with a mega-dollar building is not what does the Lord wants. If you want courage, have picked up a little piece of paper thrown on the floor and put it in the trash in front of everyone with a bible in your hand?
Or being the content faithful employee or wife or husband who really takes care of their business in clearly exemplary manner. Those are the things that bring glory to God name, a religion with results. The word respect real respect and the world respects real results. Everyone knows something about the bible but not everyone has seen the results of real testimony believer in action.
This is the way in which the Devil has gotten ahead of us and like Paul said, we are not ignorant of his device to bring us to poverty in the business of doing God’s will and then truly preaching the ‘real gospel’. May you be blessed? Amen
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