What are we going to do when we stand before God and he turns and looks at some "insignificant" man or woman we walked all over in our churches and asks THEM, "Did you tell them what I told you to tell them?" And we look in amazement as that insignificant one says, "Yes, Lord, but they rejected me because I wasn't part of their clique!"
...And God turns and looks us in the face and says..."Why didn't you listen to my messenger? I sent them from outside your churches because no one would carry this message to you from within your congregations. Depart from me. I never knew you!"
Jer.29
[19] Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.
Hey modern Pentecost...UPCI, PAW, COOLJC, ALJ, ALFI, etc., etc., let me break you in on a dirty little secret...God never stopped doing business the same way he always did business. Yes, Christ came, but he never stopped sending his prophetic messengers. Don't believe me? Take it from his lips.
Matt.23
[34] Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
[35] That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.[36] Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
[37] O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
God will restore 5 fold ministry in the Apostolic movement no matter how many of his men and women we reject. He will bypass us if we don't stop being Pentecostal ministerial fellowships and organizations totally disconnected from the Body of Christ we claim to be "over" and start becoming the church of the Living God. We've lived this way under non-apostolic governance so long that we've disenfranchised ourselves from the very congregations that God set us IN...NOT OVER! Don't crucify me yet...he said he's coming back for his SAINTS...he never once said he's coming back for his pastors!
Matthew 20:25-27
[25] But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
[26] But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
[27] And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
Ephesians 4:11-12
[11] And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
[12] For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Hey there, preacher, pastor, evangelist, bishop...Big Kahuna...how many revivals have been stopped in our nation and our world because God dropped a broken, bruised, sickly lamb in our laps in the form of a battered, bruised, hurting, wounded person...or even a backslider, be they saint, minister or messenger...but instead we abused them, ignored them -- or worse stripped them and sheared them instead of healing, helping and sheltering them? Ezekiel 34 is going to kill us on Judgment Day!
Ezekiel 34: 1-8
[1] And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
[2] Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?
[3] Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
[4] The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
[5] And they were scattered, because there is no shepherd: and they became meat to all the beasts of the field, when they were scattered.
[6] My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
[7] Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
[8] As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;
Jeremiah 10:21
[21] For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
How many revivals in just your district or state have been canceled, or put on hold, because we grieved the Holy Ghost? Come on, be honest once before you die! How many revivals were squashed in entire districts because God sent a situation into the church and revealed it for correction and God's ministers would not correct sin? I'm getting where you live now. Come on politics of Pentecost....how many senior board members, seasons saints, heavy tithe payers, or even our minister buddies have we refused to offend when we knew they were doing someone wrong? That's okay, pretend it never happens....
We are no better that the people of Israel 2000 years ago.... To the Ananiases and Sapphiras of modern Pentecost, let it be known, we are only 500 funerals short of a full-blown revival in our nation. Get ready. It's coming. Beware what side of the pulpit it falls on this time. We won't beat the news crews out of our assemblies when that happens. So much for bad press! Since we've created a non-apostolic model of leadership, God's going to start where we are since we won't come to him and he's going to thoroughly purge his floor, starting with the leadership.
Call me a liar if you want to. It's coming, Pentecost. No Oneness organization will remain untouched. If they bear His name and His Spirit, he's going to pluck up out of his body and his kingdom every thing that offends Him before the last day revival harvest. Are you hearing me now?
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