Thursday, March 10, 2011

Jeremiah Chapter 50 verses 45 & 46

"Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them. At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations".
Hallelujah! As Babylon is taken and falls in Ireland, and around the world, as the foul religious spirit over the nations is defeated and cast out, the cry of freedom and victory will be heard among all the nations of the earth. From here "The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation, he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth" (Jer:25:30). And what's amazing is that he will use the "least of the flock" to accomplish his purposes against Babylon. "Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom is greater than he" (Mt:11:11). From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Now, Jesus is saying it is the "least" who will be "greatest". It is the least who God will use to destroy Babylon from off the earth. It is the most humble that God will use to destroy the "most proud". It is the "meekest and the weakest" in their own strength that God can pour his strength into. We must become emptied of all that is us in order to be filled with all that is him. Our strength must fail us for his strength to save us. In our weakness he is made strong. Through following in Jesus' spiritual footsteps, we are all used by God to "destroy the works of the devil" (1 Jn:3:8). But we can only "take away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images and cut down the groves" (2 Chron:14:3), if we are walking in humility. Only Jesus could cast out the money changers in the temple (the equivalent today would be prosperity teachers, who focus their whole lives on what they call prosperity, getting more and more money and material possessions). Anywhere there is a fixation on money, anywhere they take up more time to take an offering than they do to worship, somethings amiss. I understand that America's god is Mammon (money), which also happens to be Babylons's idol, and teaching God's people to give generously of their finances is a way to deliver them from following this false god but if their hearts haven't been given to him, their money won't be given from their hearts, so if you use emotional pleas or fear or condemnation to motivate them to give it won't do them any good. And if their do belong to the Lord, you won't need to compel them to give, God will do that himself. In our services, the Father's Spirit told us not to take offerings; he said "My people give them". Not that we can't take one for special occasions, like a guest minister or a financial emergency or to give as he leads, but we are not to take one for ourselves. He told us to trust him to move on the hearts of his people, that they should give as he prompts them to, not as a man propmts them to. God's people do not have to be taught to give, for them, giving is as natural as breathing.
Only Jesus can go to the high places in our hearts and tear down our heart's idols because only he is sinless when it comes to pride, and it's fruit, idolatry. Only Jesus through the Holy Spirit can confront Babylon and succeed in casting it out of us, as he cast out the money changers in the Temple. If we'll allow him to, he will deal with Babylon in each of us, we we can then in turn be used by Him to deal with Babylon around us. We can't deal with Babylon in someone else till we've dealt with Babylon in us. And even then all we can do is expose them to the truth, and show them a life that is free from Babylon's influence. God will have to do the delivering himself. Suffice it to say, as this message spreads throughout all the earth, wherever there are saints, this message will go, and may I quote the words of an old song "You ain't seen nothing yet!"

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