Thursday, August 14, 2008

God is Not Pleased!

This is a prophetic word. It is not a response to any article. However, it can apply. Notice how the Holy Spirit addresses each of the ministry gifts from Ephesians 4:11.

God is not pleased with those apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers who have and are leading His people astray. He is not pleased with those ministers who are ministering for gain, no matter how subtle or deceitful it is. He is not pleased that some are even brash and forthright with their gain off of the gospel. They announce it as their right and everybody’s right. Their good works do not hide their misleading and misuse of the people from God‚s eyes; their occasional proper use of Scripture does not excuse their often misuse of Scripture. God is not pleased!

God is not pleased with those apostles who are planting structures of their own understanding and making. God is not pleased with those prophets who prophesy words, dreams, and visions of their own imagination, their own understanding, their own making. God is not pleased with those evangelists who spread man-made doctrines throughout the Church and excite people with false revivals. God is not pleased with those pastors who, week after week, feed His people with man’s ideas and interpretations of Scripture rather than sanctifying them with truth. God is not pleased with teachers, especially those trained in Greek and Hebrew, who teach, point by point, man’s understanding of Scripture rather than God’s wisdom and revelation of Scripture.

All of these ministers are accountable and will receive their due for how thy have stood in the way of God’s people and hindered them from growing in Christ and being one mature body. They are being called to account, and an account they will give.

You political leaders who have been led astray by these ministers, you will also give an account. You will give an account for listening to man’s counsel that promoted your cause rather than God’s truth that advanced His kingdom and helped His people. God is not pleased with you professing Christians who have sat under these ministers and blindly followed them because of your selfishness, inner greed, lusts, and self interests. You people who have been deceived by these ministers, God is calling you to wake up and follow them no longer. If you refuse to heed the call to wake up, then you will reap accordingly.

God is calling all to repentance! Rend your hearts and turn your faces toward God! Do not try to appease Him with temporary or external changes. Change your mind and your heart and follow Jesus Christ.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brother, thios is a great word and needed!

Rather than my posting it, would you post it to my site page at http://www.icminternational.org/archives/308

NanWills2 said...

Thank you, brother Dan. Your comment and request are certainly encouraging for us.

I am Pastor Wayne's webmaster, and I have posted the word to your site as requested.

May Jesus be glorified as we lift Him up and spread His truth.

Nancy Williams