Posted: 07/10/2016 at 11:08am
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Beloved of the Lord,
Many who read this forum are maturing in the things of the Kingdom of God and are pressing on toward the mark of the high calling of God. This post may not be for you.
This morning in prayer, I saw some new born Kingdom minded people stepping out of from the church age system of today, looking for the more of God and for the true Kingdom of God reality.
This post is to encourage these young ones not in their years in being saved , but perhaps in understanding the Kingdom of God reality. It is to encourage them they are hearing the voice of the Holy Spirit and why.
I pray that this post reaches God's intended target of those hungering for more of God and Kingdom reality either waking up to the reality of it or ready to step out of one age into the next.
A word for those seeking the reality of God's kingdom and more of God today:
We are living in the time of the Anointing of the
Moment,. We are in the between of two prophetic
days Daniel spoke about concerning the end of the age. 2nd Peter 3:8 says: 8 Nevertheless, do
not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord
one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day.
In 2016, We have two prophetic days happening at one time. We are at
the close of the 2nd day or 6th day of the Jewish/Church age and the
beginning of the 3rd day or 7th day of the Kingdom age.
The second day church has existed in it's present form for over 2000 years since Christ rose from the dead. The second day church has taken on the form that men have made it to be from the 1000's of years under the influence of the Catholic church to the 100's of years since Martin Luther reformed it. In every century since, we have kept much of the form of a religous institution that conveys a religious life of trying to serve God verses the true Kingdom life found through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Since 1900 from the Welsh revival and subsequently through the Azua street revival in California, the Holy Spirit has restored what we lost through the dark ages.
He has brought back many restorational truths lost of the ages like being saved by grace, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. He has also helpeed restore the 5 fold ministry gifts of the Pastor, Evangelist, Prophet, Teacher and Apostle to the body of Christ.
However: much of this restoration has happened within a " religious church system" a "Babylonian church system" that still contains much of the doctrine of the Nicolaitans that Jesus hates as found in Revelation chapter 2: Revelation 2: 14-1t says, But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the
teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before
the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit
sexual immorality. 15In the same way, some of you also hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16Therefore repent! Otherwise I will come to you shortly and wage war against them with the sword of My mouth.… This Nicolaitan teaching still forms many churches and ministries today even though they may have experienced more freedom then ever before. This system still produces a ministry where there are big people and little people. It produces a system of two types or classes of people; clergy and lay people. These terms are not even mentioned in the Kingdom of God. Perhaps you are reading this post, because something inside of you has said, "there has to be more than this concerning God." You have worked hard at church. You have been a faithful servant to the man of woman of God and have been faithful to your local church, but your heart cries out for more.
Your heart cries out to know God as he wants you to know him, but where you are at may be all about ministry, ministry, ministry and what you need to do for God, but your heart yearns to be with God. You may have or am coming to a holy frustration in your heart yearning for freedom, victory and to live the life like you read in the Bible.
There is nothing wrong with you brother or sister in Christ. It is God drawing you out from this religious church system into the reality of the power and majesty of His true Kingdom.
Beloved's Jesus is
about to manifest fully in his people and manifest as Lord over all the
Earth and reign for 1000 years. His kingdom is within us. Jesus taught
us the authority of the Kingdom on the sermon on the mount in Matthew
5-8 and how it grows in Matthew 13 parable of the sower.
Have you cried out to love you enemies, pray for those who use you, bless those that curse you, but struggle to do so? Have you longed for the kingdom of God life to be 100 fold in your life, but seem like the cares of the world choke it out even though you go to church Sunday and Wednesday?
Beloved you are not abnormal, you are being called higher by God himself to know Him and His kingdom in reality? Religious church life as you have known it to be can NEVER SATISFY THAT LONGING! It wasn't made to satisfy it, only God can do that.
We are
now at the end of the age where the wheat will be separated from the
tares. God's kingdom is now about to be manifested in and through a
holy, consecrated, and separated people, his Bride. Through His
over-coming peole, His Sons of God, His man-child company of people, His
glory is about to be revealed like never before. This is a people who
have separated themselves wholly unto God and His purposes.
You may be reading this post because God is calling you to be one of these people. A people within a people, a church within a church. He called 12 apostles but in Mark chapter 9 he only takes Peter, James and John up the mountain of transfiguration. Have you ever asked why?
Beloved's this is a prophetic picture for those just like you. He is calling you out from the 12 or maybe from the religious church life you have known to go up the mountain to seek the Lord in a new way. He is calling you out of the much religious activity of our present day to separate you for a new revelation of Jesus like Peter, James and John, are you ready for that?
John
chapter 2 says, On the third day, their was a wedding at Cana where
Jesus performed His first miracle to reveal His glory. He changed water
into wine. So He is today, changing this set apart people (which God is calling you to be) who will make themselves
ready like a bride found in Revelation 19:7 "Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready.”
This bride is being changed right now from water into the best wine saved for
the end of the age to be poured out in every nation. The world has never seen what is about to come through these overcoming saints of God filled with this best wine. Wine in the scriptures is one of the symbols used to speak
of the Holy Spirit. Are you one of these people God is
preparing? Are you coming out of the church age mentality of doing stuff
and working for God? Are you getting revelation from God that His
kingdom is within you? Are you getting revelation that God is making an
army of over-comers ready for his end-time and 1000 year reign?
Are you
seeing that Kingdom life is, Christ in you, the Hope of Glory? Are you
understanding that we are not to live or work for God, but to live and
work with Him as his Bride and He our heavenly Bridegroom? Then
press on toward the mark of the high calling of God. Don't settle for
church life as we have known it to be. It only produce a people in
bondage and slavery that never change or have victory in their lives.
I encourage you to come out of the religious Babylonian (business as usual church system)
that has enslaved people to their ministry and hardly ever produce a
people who can live wholly for God's will alone.
This system passed down
from generation to generation has produced a people who stay in bondage
of a doctrine of the Nicolatians who set men over God's people to get
what they need from them to build their ministry instead of finding God
Himself! This Babylonian church system points you to men, their
ministry, their anointing, but never or hardly bring you to the true and
living God. God did not come to establish a clergy or build someone a
ministry, but to established a Kingdom in men's hearts and on the Earth.
There are not two classes of people in the kingdom of God. There is no
clergy and then everyone else. There is only one people, different,
different gifting and calls, but one body, one faith, one baptism. No
big people, no little people, just MY people God calls us. There
are those called to lead by the Holy Spirit because hey have matured
in their walk with God and now are equipped to teach and train the
younger ones until they come to maturity and can teach other. The
Pastor gift is not to build a church bu to equip it. Jesus said, "upon
this rock I WILL Build my church! The Pastor job is to equip the
saint to come to maturity in knowing God so they now can equip others as
they have been equipped. The pastor or any 5 fold ministry gift is not
to count or boast about the numbers who come to their church, but the
gift they were given is to get underneath God's people to get to God and
to know God for themselves and not need them anymore to do that.
Paul writes in He-Brews 5: 11-12 the following: "We have much to say
about this, but it is hard to explain, because you are dull of hearing.
12Although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to
reteach you the basic principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid
food! This is God's intention for the leaders who he uses for his people: Paul writes to us in Ephesians 4:
Ephesians 4: 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the shepherds[a] and teachers, 12 to equip the saints
for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13
until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of
the Son of God, to mature manhood,[c] to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children,
tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of
doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into
him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body,
joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when
each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds
itself up in love. There is no such thing as clergy or laity, but
there are gifts given to us by God to the building up of the body of
Christ so that you can be and do all God has called you to be. If you
are not going to a gathering that builds you up to maturity as we read
above then perhaps you need to pray and say God why am I there?
Am I
there to do my duty? Am I there because it is easy and I don't have to
change? Are they bringing me to maturity? Are the leaders pointing me to
hear you for myself, know you? Are they getting underneath me to
understand why God made me and help me in my destiny? If not, beloved
why go there? Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you to a group that is dedicated to God's will, His Kingdom reality so you can grow.
Beloved, It is not where we go to church that defines us,
but how much do we allow the seed of God's kingdom to grow in us
producing the fruit of the spirit that defines us. Know a tree by it's
fruit, Jesus taught us.
Our gatherings together should cause us all to grow in
the knowledge of the Kingdom and God's ways. They are not to entertain
us, but they should train us to know God in reality. They should help us
bear the fruit of the spirit in the power of God and transform us from
being in the world and it's priority to live only for God's will and His
priorities.
What do those gatherings look like? What does the Bible tell us what they should look like. Let's read 1 Cor. 14: 26 "What then is the right course,
believers? When you meet together, each one has a psalm, a teaching, a
revelation (disclosure of special knowledge), a tongue, or an interpretation. Let everything be constructive and edifying and done for the good of all the church." Did you notice, "when we meet together, each of of us is to have something?
Is that taught where you presently go? Do you go there just to listen to a sermon, take notes, get a copy of a CD, and go home? Or does each part of the Body have something to bring from God to encourage each other and build each other up in love? The religious church system does not allow it, or hardly allows it.
The religious church system trains you to "receive a message from a leader" instead of becoming yourself becoming the message and messenger of God as His ambassador. Jesus didn't just bring a message, He was the message. John the Baptist didn't just deliver a message, He was the message.
The apostles just didn't bring a message, their life was the message they brought. Is this what you see coming forth from the present church life you have known? Are you a message of the Gospel others will see?
Beloved of God, Kingdom fruit produces kingdom lives full of the
spirit of God, living only to do His will. Church fruit produces a
religious life of serving God they way you want to, how much you want to
and when to do it while all along you live in the good life this world
has to offer.
Church life for the most part has produced church people
instead of Kingdom people who know the love and power of their God and
bring the true message of the Gospel. Repent for the kingdom of heaven is
at hand. I encourage you "gather together and be the church"
don't just go to one and fill out your spiritual inventory list. I gave
my tithe, I taught my Sunday school class, I did my thing for God and then
live the rest of your life as your own. That is not God's kingdom. That
is dead religion. You may be saved in that life, but you may find your
whole life burned up when you give account to God on that day. Do you want your whole life burned up and you only enter in by escaping the fire? 1st Cor. 3:10-15
10 According to the [remarkable] grace of God which was given to me [to
prepare me for my task], like a skillful master builder I laid a
foundation, and now another is building on it. But each one must be
careful how he builds on it, 11 for no one can lay a foundation
other than the one which is [already] laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious
stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will be clearly
shown [for what it is]; for the day [of judgment] will disclose it,
because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the
quality and character and worth of each person’s work. 14 If any
person’s work which he has built [on this foundation, that is, any
outcome of his effort] remains [and survives this test], he will receive
a reward. 15 But if any person’s work is burned up [by the
test], he will suffer the loss [of his reward]; yet he himself will be
saved, but only as [one who has barely escaped] through fire. Beloved, you are destined for greater things that are yet to come. You have the choice before you to come out and let the HOLY SPIRIT BURN A NEW IN YOUR HEART and bring you into God's kingdom purposes right now.
How do you do it? Seek Him like never before. Spend more quality time with the Lord and listen for His voice. Pick up the Bible and and ask Him to teach you the ways of His kingdom.
I encourage you to find Kingdom minded people to gather with in your area like most of the people on this site and read even Brother Ron's books found on this site to help you see the Kingdom of God more clearly.
God drew you to this website and post for a divine appointment to further your advance as His servant in His Kingdom. Many are called, but few our chosen. One of my Spiritual Fathers in the Lord, Wade Taylor defined this scripture like this. Many are called to full grow son-ship, or to be a bride or over-comer, but few will pay the price to get it.
What about you? Will you come out from a religious church system that can not bring the fullness of God in your life to embrace the Gospel of the Kingdom of God? I believe you will or maybe your have. You are not crazy. You are not rebellious.
You are hungry for the living God, the reality of God. You are hungry to know the hope of your calling Christ in you. You are hungry for His kingdom to come on Earth as it is heaven. It begins in you. The Kingdom of God is within you, Jesus said.
May our Lord Jesus Christ reveal Himself to you as found in the book of Revelation Chapter 1-4. May the kingdom of God reality burn in your heart and draw you deeper into his love and purpose. It is to you that Jesus said it may be known the secrets and mysteries of His Kingdom. Selah!
Edited by Henry Falcone on 07/10/2016 at 11:41am
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