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Seventh accusation: disrecognisment of the nature of the Church.
- Seventh accusation: ignorance about the nature of the Church.
- God has only one religious institution.
- And the church.
- And our goal and the end result of awakening will be the establishment of biblical churches.
- I am very afraid that the local Church today will be despised.
- Tell someone you’re a traveling preacher.
- That you have a global ministry.
- And that everyone will bow down.
- Tell someone that you are a group pastor of 30 people and they will make you feel it in the background during the conference.
He is not the prince of itinerant preachers, he is the prince of shepherds.
Many years ago, Bill Clinton had a slogan during the election: “Is the economy stupid?”My pastor, Jeff Noblett, one of our elders in the Church, the lead pastor and preacher, once said to me, “You know, I’d like a lot of shirts to be made. “
“What would you say, Brother Jeff?
“Is the Church stupid?
Jesus gave his life for the Church, a beautiful virgin, the early church. If you want to give your life for something in the ministry, give it to the Church, to a church, to a body of believers, to a local congregation. it’s the Church. Now, let me tell you something about the Church, I want you to listen. There are no remnants of believers in the Church, we all know the theology of the rest, you know that throughout the course of Israel there was Israel, the people of God and a remnant of true believers, this is not the case of the Church. There is no remnant of believers or a small group of believers within a large group called church, the Church is the rest.
And I want to say this: if the shepherds almost blasphemed, that’s it. I hear theologians, itinerant teachers, pastors, both saying this kind of thing: “There is as much sin within the Church as outside, there is so much divorce in the Church. Church as it were. There is as much immorality and pornography in the Church as outside. And then the preachers say, “Yes, the Church acts like a prostitute. “
I want you to know this: you must be very careful when you call the wife Jesus Christ a prostitute.
I’ll tell you what the problem is. Pastors and preachers do not know what the Church is. I want you to know that the Church of Jesus Christ in America is beautiful today. Sometimes it’s fragile. She’s weak. She’s slapped. It’s not perfect, but I want you to know it’s broken. Walk humbly with his God, Your problem is that you don’t know what the Church is.
Today, due to the lack of biblical preaching, the so-called Church is full of carnal and evil people who identify with Christianity, and therefore, because of goats among sheep, sheep are accused of all that goats do and the name of God is blasphemed among the heathen for our sake (Romans 2:24).
Are we just going to do it? I know we’re already working overtime, but go quickly with me, quick, I want to show you something. Go to Jeremiah 31, thank you, verse 31 of Jeremiah 31.
“These are the days,” the LORD said, “in which I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. “
Now, I don’t want to take anything away from the people called Israel, but this text also applies to the Church. Understand it. I don’t want to get involved in eschatology battles, but in the Bible, in the New Testament, the book of Hebrews is applied to God’s people.
“Not according to the covenant I made with your parents the day I held your hand to get you out of the land of Egypt. “
I hear the preachers say all the time: “Well, when you look back and see Israel, you see a lot of villains and idylathers. And among them was a small remnant of true believers. That is true, but do not apply it to the Church of the New Testament because He says, “I will do something different, not like the covenant I made with their parents the day I took them by my hand to bring them from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, even though I was their husband,” the Lord said. But will this be the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after these days, declares the Lord, “I will put my law in them.
He not only gave you, if you are converted, he not only gave you the Law on a stone board; He supernaturally wrote these laws in his heart by the doctrine of regeneration. And why did he do this, “I will be his God, and they will be My people. “
And look what it says: “You will not teach each one your neighbor, nor each of you to your brother, saying, “Know the Lord. “Because everyone will know me, from the smallest to the greatest, the Lord said. Because will I forgive your iniquities and always remember your sins? [Jr 31:34]
Once again, the doctrine of regeneration, God is doing something new in the last 2000 years. We don’t have many churches in America. We have many very beautiful brick buildings with finely carved lawns.
Just because some people say they’re from the church or that they’re Christians doesn’t mean they really are. See what you’re saying. They won’t have to teach each other.
This is not to say that there will be no shepherds or teachers, but there will be an important knowledge of God among them, especially with regard to the forgiveness of their sins.
Briefly look at chapter 32 verse 38. ” They will be my people and I will be their God. “He doesn’t say, “I hope, perhaps, if I’m lucky, oh, if I have enough evangelists to work. me, maybe everything’s fine.
He said, “I will bring a people, a people for which I will deliver my Son. “And he said, “They will be my people, and I will be their God. “Look at this:? I’m going to give you a heart and a shape.
Now, don’t blame me more than you at least do, but listen to me. In the 70s and 80s and all the marches to Jesus, everyone lamented and cried: “The Church is so divided. Isn’t the Church one?”
My dear friend. Let me tell you something. If the church is not one, then there is a prayer to which God the Father did not answer for his Son, and that promise of the New Covenant failed. So I want to redirect you a little, I want to introduce you that the Church is one. She’s always been one.
Have you ever sat on a plane or maybe met someone you didn’t know in a supermarket and you were Baptist or Mennonite, or something, but really evangelical, really Christian, don’t talk to them for more than a while?a few minutes and you find out: a believer, and the one who’s alive?
And then you’d give your life for him. You’d give your life for him
I remember that once we were in the Department of Amazonas in Peru, it was at the time of Sandero Luminoso and there was a civil war there, we traveled 22 hours in a truck carrying grain under a black canvas and around midnight we removed the canvas, the van stopped and jumped into the jungle. We spent the night by the jungle and headed to a certain place. In half, we got lost in the dark the next day, so we prayed, my dear friend Paco, we prayed: my God, give us an address. We were lost. If we’re here, the terrorists dominate this place. Or would the military come in here? We shouted, “Oh my God, give us an address. Help us. ?”
We heard a bell. And then you hear someone talking, at first we thought it was a strange conversation, then we realized he was a kid coming from the country with his donkey and he was talking to his ass, so we stayed behind him and followed him. So we stayed on the outskirts of town, in a hamlet, huts, brick houses and said, “Paco, do you know that if the terrorists own it, we’re dead?”
“Yes, but we got somewhere. “
So we went down, turned to a man who was drunk in the dark and said, “Are there any brothers here?” Because everyone knows what it means in the mountains. It means a true Christian.
Then he said, “That lady over there?”
So I went there. She was an old Nazarene woman and I knocked on the door and said, “I am an evangelical pastor. Please help me. “
This lady came out with a flashlight. She grabbed me and he shot me inside. She grabbed Paco and drove us down, her house was on a sort of cliff in the middle of the mud, and she took us to the basement where there was hay and chickens and other things, and made us sit there and lit a lamp and then a child came, she called him and said, “Go call the other brothers. “They started bringing chickens, cassava and everything, risking their lives. Why? Because we’re a.
Stop saying all the nonsense you say, that the body of Christ is divided and that it is messy and full of sins, I would not speak like that of Christ’s wife if I were you.
What you have is many goats and straw among the sheep, and because very little biblical and compassionate discipline is practiced in the Church, they live among the sheep, feed on these sheep and destroy them, and those who are leaders. in the Church he will pay a high price when you face the one who loves them, because you did not have the courage to stand up and face the bad guys.
By the way, listen to me. Average scenario in North America with regard to churches in general, churches are democracies and I don’t want to get into the pros and cons of that, but this is what happens: because the preaching of the gospel is so low, the church is basically the majority, carnal, full of lost people, and because it’s a democracy, it’s usually they who govern the leadership of the church , and because the pastor does not want to lose the great number of people and because he has misconceptions about evangelism and true conversion, he takes care of the wicked in his church and his small group of real sheep belonging to Jesus Christ sits in the midst of every theater, in the midst of all worldly life, in the midst of all the entertainment that takes place , “We just want to worship Jesus and we just want someone to teach us the Bible. “And the shepherds will pay for it.
It’s true. It’s true
Are you saying, “Oh, you’re nervous”?
Dear friends, do you know how much it costs me to say that? It’s true. Try to keep a group of villains together while a small herd between them starves and pushes them in the direction they don’t want to go with most carnals. Escúchame. Si my wife was at Walmart late at night and you passed by and I saw two men abusing her, three, four, five, the men were abusing and hurting her and you were bowing your head in the name of self-preservation and you’re leaving, I want to tell you something of mine, I’m not going to chase those 10 men, I’m going to chase you too.
She is the wife of Christ and is precious to him, she will have a hard time serving Jesus, it can cost you your church, your reputation and your denomination, absolutely everything, but the wife of Jesus Christ is worthy of that.
Look what he’s saying. I like that. You see, 39:?And I’ll give you a heart and a way? (Jeremiah 32:39). And what’s the way? It is Christ and it is holiness.
Every true believer I knew spoke a lot about Christ and had a desire to be more holy than he already was, more in harmony with Christ. And you see, “And I will give them the same heart, and in a certain sense, that they may fear me every day, because of them and their children, after them (Jer 32:39).
Ah, what a beautiful text it is. But let’s move on quickly: “And I will make an eternal pact with them that I will not deviate from doing good to them. ” (Jer 32:40)
Now we just read that and a lot of people who are bad, who are lost, only go to church on Sundays. They listen to this verse and say, “Yes, God has made an eternal covenant with me. I’m safe because of God’s grace?But they can’t read the second part.
And look what it says, “And I will make an eternal covenant with them, that I may not deviate from doing them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may never deviate from me. ” (Jer 32:40)
The proof that God has made an eternal covenant with you, sir, is that He has placed God’s fear in you so that you do not turn away from Him and if you turn away from Him and He does not discipline you and continue to walk away. of Him, this is proof that He did not put His fear in you. , that you have not been regenerated and that you have no covenant with God.