The Church, Organism or Organization? Continuation part 8, Words……….

Interestingly when I began to speak about the church, the body of Christ being an organism (a living being) and not an organization that man has created calling it the church, I hadn’t considered the depth of the deception and therefore destruction man has caused to God’s people. I purposed in writing these blogs to do that which God has required. Which is “to open their eyes, in order to turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.” And to reveal the light of His Word so that we would “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather expose them.”

 

In doing so I have come to understand that additional instruction is necessary. Sadly many attend what man calls church dutifully with bible in hand eagerly waiting for what is being called the word of the Lord. Often these words are fragmented in that man picks out a few verses of scripture as the backdrop for the message he wants to convey. He tells stories that he calls testimonies about the power and/or goodness of God all the while promoting his cause. Which is himself and his organization. You hear his stories and have been taught, if God will do it for me, He will do it for you. Inaccurately quoting the scripture, “God is no respecter of persons.”  You admire the man and his proposed faith and may desire to be like him. But what is it that you admire? Jesus said “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.” We have become so dull of hearing that we don’t recognize words of life. We are being lulled to sleep by empty, vain words with no power. (I say we because we are one body) Man thinks that raising the volume and intensity of his voice denotes power. Yet God speaks His Word in a whisper and those of His body the church change their hearts to Him. I have been speaking to you as mature, but you are still babes for you read the truth of God’s word and fail to comprehend the breath of His Words. “Seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.” You acknowledge that man’s words have no life, yet you continue to lend your members to his organization and think you do God’s will. You do not! I fear for you. The deception of man’s words has entangled you and you are unaware that you are bound. Your eyes are being darkened and you are stumbling yet you think God will make you free? You have heard so many empty words that when you hear words of truth you think they are of no effect. “For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who lie in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.”

Beloved, God’s Word is the the power of God. Jesus is the way, He is the truth and He is the life. Jesus is the manifestation of God’s Word!  His Word says, “remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.”  

With each writing I have encouraged you to search His Word for yourselves. I have instructed you to test the spirits to see if they are of God. Now I implore you by the Spirit of God that ”we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation..”