Dumb Idols
There are two different Gods that people worship. One is a dumb idol. This dumb idol teaches you to shut up. You don't see anything, you don't hear anything you don't say anything. If you are obedient to the slave masters then you will not be persecuted. If you have the nerve to speak up about election fraud they will bust your door down in the middle of the night and drag you out of your house to threaten you to shut up. If you dare speak up at a school board meeting about your daughter being raped in the bathroom they will arrest you and call you a domestic terrorist. Those who shut up to the atrocities and do what they are told will win an Emmy, be called "the gold standard" and get the lion share of federal funding. Why do they listen to these idols, why do they allow them to boss them around?
My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
The other God is the word of God incarnate, He came and tabernacled among us and we all beheld His glory. If we receive Him this word will be a seed inside of us that will grow. One word can grow into a ministry. George Mueller received one word and it became a ministry to care for orphans. But those that worship Jesus are the salt and the light. They speak the Rhema word, they live by every word of God. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. If you worship the living word there will be a response, we will see a work of faith.
So who do you worship? 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? Faith is like a seed that is supposed to grow and bear fruit. If you have faith then where is the fruit?
One deceit is that if I truly worship the Lord I must become a pastor. That is absurd, if everyone is a pastor then who are the sheep? In every one of us the word of God will operate and if we let that word grow we will have a ministry and we will have fruit. Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. You don't need to be a teacher. Instead 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
The other thing we don't need is the world's help. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. So many ministries think that the world helps them. The money, the advertising, the skill sets, etc. If you make compromises with the world you become an enemy of God. Do you know that many record labels will gladly publish Christian music so long as you don't include Jesus name or the message that Jesus is the only way. If you make that deal you have become the enemy of God.
There are ministries that run ads for investing in gold or some other scheme. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Make sure you are truly following the Lord and not just doing something because this is what everyone does, or this is the only way "I can reach so many people", etc. I would much rather listen to a ministry that is like pure water, there are no ads, no compromise, and maybe instead of 100K views they only have 10k views or even 1k views.
Do you know what a powerful ministry is? It is a patient ministry. I am not worried about convincing anyone, as long as I warn everyone I have done my job. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.
But the most important thing above all others is to make it very clear Jesus is Lord and you do not follow anyone whose rules contradict the Lord's. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment. Absolutely no loyalty pledges to human governments. This is the essence of the Mark of the Beast.
There are two different Gods that people worship. One is a dumb idol. This dumb idol teaches you to shut up. You don't see anything, you don't hear anything you don't say anything. If you are obedient to the slave masters then you will not be persecuted. If you have the nerve to speak up about election fraud they will bust your door down in the middle of the night and drag you out of your house to threaten you to shut up. If you dare speak up at a school board meeting about your daughter being raped in the bathroom they will arrest you and call you a domestic terrorist. Those who shut up to the atrocities and do what they are told will win an Emmy, be called "the gold standard" and get the lion share of federal funding. Why do they listen to these idols, why do they allow them to boss them around?
My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
The other God is the word of God incarnate, He came and tabernacled among us and we all beheld His glory. If we receive Him this word will be a seed inside of us that will grow. One word can grow into a ministry. George Mueller received one word and it became a ministry to care for orphans. But those that worship Jesus are the salt and the light. They speak the Rhema word, they live by every word of God. 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves. If you worship the living word there will be a response, we will see a work of faith.
So who do you worship? 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is barren? Faith is like a seed that is supposed to grow and bear fruit. If you have faith then where is the fruit?
One deceit is that if I truly worship the Lord I must become a pastor. That is absurd, if everyone is a pastor then who are the sheep? In every one of us the word of God will operate and if we let that word grow we will have a ministry and we will have fruit. Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. You don't need to be a teacher. Instead 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
The other thing we don't need is the world's help. 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. So many ministries think that the world helps them. The money, the advertising, the skill sets, etc. If you make compromises with the world you become an enemy of God. Do you know that many record labels will gladly publish Christian music so long as you don't include Jesus name or the message that Jesus is the only way. If you make that deal you have become the enemy of God.
There are ministries that run ads for investing in gold or some other scheme. 3 Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days. Make sure you are truly following the Lord and not just doing something because this is what everyone does, or this is the only way "I can reach so many people", etc. I would much rather listen to a ministry that is like pure water, there are no ads, no compromise, and maybe instead of 100K views they only have 10k views or even 1k views.
Do you know what a powerful ministry is? It is a patient ministry. I am not worried about convincing anyone, as long as I warn everyone I have done my job. 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.
But the most important thing above all others is to make it very clear Jesus is Lord and you do not follow anyone whose rules contradict the Lord's. 12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment. Absolutely no loyalty pledges to human governments. This is the essence of the Mark of the Beast.