Restoring Order To A Church in Chaos, Confusion and Heresy Man cannot come into the order of God until he acknowledges the Christ and the Kingdom. Nothing proceeds forth that did not come out of the reign of God. So we must encourage men and women to relearn the Jesus that they claim saved them. We then must encourage them to study this same Jesus, His Kingdom message, manner, motive and method and let them know all things are just as Jesus said they are to be. For instance, Jesus tells His disciples, follow Me and I will MAKE YOU (develop you to be) fishers of men. Then He proceeds to train these disciples by preaching, teaching and demonstrating the Kingdom of God before them. Jesus makes Himself to be the living example of the assignment and anointing He is going to delegate to His followers. Where are the apostolic models today that are preaching and teaching the same Kingdom message Jesus did? Too many men and women are running around calling themselves apostolic parents and yet they are without the message that precedes mans obedience. So we must encourage men and women the world over, to put themselves in the scriptures as the disciples of Jesus to obey Jesus instructions just as He gave them to His disciples. The Church is first the Church the individual, called out from the world, called to God out of the dominion of darkness into the Kingdom of Gods dear Son. Then we are the Church corporate, all acknowledging the same call and being submitted to the royal authority, rule, order, dominion and right of God to reign over us, through and within us, that we would live according to His way of doing and being right submitted to His reign daily. Now where we who are genuine authentic followers of Jesus are found, we gather together in fellowship as that remnant that God always has. It is still true, Straight is the gate and narrow is the way and few there be that find it. You wont find many on this highway. So as leaders we must teach people first to repent just as youve said, and to submit to the message in submitting to Jesus as not just Savior but also Lord, Master and King. As we are teaching them to submit to Jesus words and submit to relearning the One who saved them, they will begin to start hearing from Jesus again because you cannot learn the Kingdom of God without hearing Jesus as He says; The Kingdom is as, or the Kingdom is like this, or the Kingdom is.... In other words, we must take people back to hearing Jesus again, not in the imaginations of their minds being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, moved by their emotions and made to believe God is moving, but hearing Jesus through His own written Word. Jesus makes powerful dynamic life changing statements like: John 14:21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. John 14:23 Jesus replied, Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. John 15:10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Fathers commands and remain in his love. Matthew 7:19-23 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits. Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter into the Kingdom of heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles? 23And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS. Jesus makes statements like: Matthew 24:14 This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be preached to all nations. And look at what Luke records in Acts as Gods set day of judgment: Acts 17:31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead. Now this man the Lord God appointed is Jesus. We are unfortunately leading people away from Jesus while calling ourselves leading them into the divine order of God. Fact is, if we will use Jesus model, mission, message and method for ministry in preaching the Kingdom and obedience to Jesus commandments we will lead people back to rediscovering Jesus and therefore rediscovering the Kingdom that they would submit to the words of Jesus, submitting to the Sovereign royal reign, rule and dominion of God over and through their lives moment to moment, day to day. The culture for God to flow is set by the individual follower of Jesus and those who follow alike. What the first Church had in common with one another was that they all acknowledge that Jesus was not just Savior, but Lord, Owner, Master and King. The first Church understood what it meant to be under authority to Jesus. The Son of God was the beginning of visible authority and the example of submission to God. Those that rebelled to the reign of Christ and God the Father as Supreme King were admonished by the Epistles to bring themselves in line with the governing reign of God by sowing to the Spirit, crucifying the flesh, yielding to the will of God and living Spirit controlled lives. To do such is to live according to the culture of our Kingdom citizenship in wisdom, knowledge and power. Now these truths are available to every man who will come back and relearn the Jesus they never got to know because the under-current, the under-tow of religion in all its various forms seduced them to get away from the simplicity that be in Christ. Today authentic apostolic leaders and all that make up the five-fold know Jesus preached doctrine of the Kingdom and His commandment that those who follow Him would keep His commandments as a part of their display of love for Him. And Jesus promise is that for their obedience He will manifest Himself to them, whoever they are, the Church, the individual and wherever such individuals gather having acknowledged that He is Lord, Savior, Owner, Master and King. This is why we are to teach the Kingdom of God. Order proceeds from the King and His Kingdom, not the varied theological ideas of men, many seeking the preeminence as though theyve arrived. Until we are following Jesus message, method, manner and motive we will only have so called apostles who dont emphasize or preach the Kingdom because they dont know it. And we will have their students espousing doctrines if not untrue, most certainly incomplete. Lets lead the people back to King Jesus that He would teach them the first principles necessary to be in the faith. Every follower of Jesus aught to be able to preach the same Kingdom message Jesus preached, the 12 and the 70 because in Matthew 28 Jesus commanded the great Kingdom commission. He told His disciples to go into all the world and make disciples (not of men but of Him) of every nation, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, teaching these rulers in training to obey all things whatsoever Jesus had commanded His disciples. That instruction most certainly must have included the Kingdom of God. You want order? You want culture, Kingdom culture? You must start by modeling Jesus in message, motive, method and manner thereby fulfilling His Kingdom mandate on His terms. If anyone is an authentic Kingdom leader, teachable and transparent, then from you will come those who will restore the old waste places. From you will come those who will be the repairers of the preach and restorers of the paths to dwell in. From you God will rebirth a Kingdom nation and many will be brought into Gods sovereign royal rule, reign, dominion and act of God ruling within them moment to moment, day to day because like you, they will have made Gods Kingdom and righteousness their number one priority. This not a intellectual movement. This is not an ideological movement, nor is this a philosophical movement. God doesnt care what people think about this or that. He is looking for authentic Kingdom leaders who will seek first His Kingdom and righteousness, leaders who will understand the Kingdom, who will have the courage to take the treasure theyve found and serve their gift and the culture of the Kingdom in word, power and deed to the nations of the world. Dr. Leonard Robinson
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:56:26 +0000
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