Gospel
Date: 07:06:09
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Read 1cor. 2:1-16
I will like to bless the LORD who is worthy to be praised; he has given me the right to be called his son. Within the privilege of sonship comes a lot of responsibilities; the responsibility to always place Him first as Father, Lord, Savior, Comforter, Teacher, the pillar of my life, and the center of my existence. Placing him above every other, respect and love the family (the Church). Every other thing comes after this.
Today I see another school of sonship. One that place the doctrine, teachings, and intelligence of man above the knowledge of God; forgetting that true sons cast down everything that will try to raise up it’s imagination against the knowledge of God the father. [II Corinthians 10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;] that’s what I am going to be doing, bringing every thought to obedience in Christ Jesus our Lord, the first born of the father, our friend and brother.
It pains my heart to endure 1-2hrs of man-gratifying sermons everyday in church and on so-called Christian media. Paul said in I Corinthians 2:1, 2, 5 “And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with Excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”
we are quickly drawn to the reality that our ministers have abandoned the gospel of Christ and his cross and become philosophers forgetting what the Bible tells us in Colossians 2:8 “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” They input a worldview to the truth of the gospel making it simplistic, having drawn out manuals filled with their wisdom, they lead many away who are easily enticed by great speeches.
Cast your mind back to Eden, that beautiful garden, that wonderful fellowship with God, that smooth-tongued serpent, that wonderful speech he made and the outcome in our lives today. Genesis 3:1, 4, 5 “Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” “Oh! What a mystery” she must have said. Vs. 6 sums it all up “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” These minister postulates that our secularistic and socialistic world needs a socialized Jesus, God, Holy Spirit, and ultimately a secularized, socialistic Holy scriptures to meet our new intelligent, vast, political and sinful ideology. The ideology that says that it is alright to sin as long as you do it to the degree that is acceptable by law; its alright not to believe in God as long as you think that there is an infinite being out there who controls human destinies; its alright to be a pervert as long as you have a political ground for doing so, change your whole nature, curse God, tell God he should have made you a woman instead of a man or a man instead of a woman or he should have made you a man with a breast or woman without breast with a masculine voice, a beast with no conscience, the image the devil, but as long as you get a lawyer’s paper to defend your deformity that society says you are alright.
How should our preachers react to this? Give them the true gospel of Jesus. The gospel as handed down by our fathers. The way it suppose to be! For the scripture says: Romans 1:18- 32“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
Is there a new gospel, a new bible? Why then do our actor-like preachers and motivational pastors quote the words of men, mere men who were in their life time never Christian, hated the gospel and even men who seek to destroy the truth of the word of Christ by bringing divers philosophies and theories that were anti-Christ?
Are the words of these men greater than the words of our lord Jesus Christ? Did they in any of their so-called great speeches say the words they spoke are spirit and life? Did the disciples of Jesus quote from the writings of any great teacher, scholar or philosopher in their day? Why have our preachers now abandoned the gospel of Christ and preach mortal men? Was Karl max born of virgin birth through prophesy spinning over one thousand years? Did Napoleon Hills Died on the cross to save you? Did Bill Gate feed 4,000 and 5,000 with few loafs and fishes? Did Aristotle say to the woman caught in the act go your sin has been forgiven? The list is endless.
Why do we quote them today? Are they the 21st century prophets? Are the books they wrote the new scriptures we should read? Where is Jesus in all these? These secular teachers make their presentation while our thinking people (the youths) make bogus notes from these ‘guys’ and not knowing what the bible says about anything.
Shocking as it may sound, when we fall into certain situations, yet find ourselves not being able to quote the bible, rather, one of the numerous pollutants we have heard will pop-up in our minds; the words of Aristotle, Darwin, Hitler, Malcolm, etc will supersede the words and teachings of Christ in the matter. When did this doctrine of demons creep into the church without our knowledge? I know, while we slept! Yes! The church is so preoccupied with programs and administration. The bible says: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. Matthew 13:25. “While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.” Matthew 25:5]. Do you see that? My prayer is that the church will awake from her sleep and flush out this evil that is trying to take a firm root in the church.
Think about this: is not our message Christ and Him crucified? Is not our message the Cross and all it stands for?
The 66 books of the bible, written through over1500 years, only had one central message; Christ, His cross, His suffering, Our Salvation, His Return, Our Glory.
In our local Assemblies, let us stop the mouths of these false teachers, let’s put Jesus Christ as the central focus of our teaching and preaching and let him take the glory in the church. Remember the Lord said in the scriptures in the book of Isaiah 42:8 “I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
If any of the men mentioned here and those not mentioned is God or his Christ, let us keep quoting them in the churches of Christ, from the pulpits. But if they have come into the church of Christ as distraction to the truth of the gospel of Christ, let us kick them out! The word of God is not limited, exhausted or unable to save, heal, deliver, set free or lead us to godly success that we would need to import mere men’s word to complete it.
Think about it!
How many of these men we quote in the church today has ever said to a ranging storm “PEACE BE STILL” or to a sinful man or woman “YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN” or to the dead “ARAISE, COME FORTH” or to a cripple or leprous “BE CLEANSED”. Think and act in the might and Spirit of God.
God bless you.
Pastor O’Sam Nsa
Upper Room Christian Ministry Minna-Nigeria
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