Thursday, December 6, 2018

Part two


Pastors will try to convince you that by lording it over you they are actually serving you, do not believe them. If they are truly placed in your life by God they will serve and support your ministry, not require you to support and serve theirs. Discipline comes from the Body when the people are intimate with each other as God intended for them to be. Only the most serious offenses, which cannot be resolved among those involved, should be brought to recognized elders "In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another". Luke 12:1.
Let us never trod upon each other as we seek to follow Jesus. Let us make room for one another's ministries as we seek to honor Him with our own for the best way to honor Him is by honoring one another - the best way to love Him is by loving each other "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me", Anyone who would ever seek to be near our Lord Jesus in any or our meetings at any time, I might add, should be allowed to do so. We should never limit someone's desire or opportunity to meet with God. It is not our work to convict men of their sinful condition but rather it is the Holy Spirit's - and He may, if given place to, move upon someone's heart, revealing Christ to them, at any point in the service, even before the service begins.
Let us not seek honor one of another but rather seek the "honor that comes from God only". We should not, in our hearts, seek the glory that comes from man's praise and attention but rather we should seek the praises of God alone. Let us not even look to one another but let us "look to God". While it is a good thing to comfort one another, to mourn with those who mourn, ultimately God himself is our comforter and the one we seek out and look to during trials and temptations for He truly is the only one we can depend on, who will never fail us. Let's "love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another". So simple a commandment yet the bed rock of our walk with God on this earth - the fulfillment of the law and the prophets along with "love the Lord thy God". Love works no ill to it's neighbor, if we would but keep this single commandment, we could abide in Him and bear much fruit. 

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