Romans 10:13-15 King James Version (KJV) 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Paul asks, how can people call on God if they have never heard of Him and how can they believe on Him if they do not know Him? Then he answers, they cannot hear without a preacher. A preacher cannot go unless he is sent. Sent by whom? Unfortunately, many today are sent by the seminaries, or the diocese, of their chosen denominations. They will carry with them the excess baggage of the doctrines of men and their denominational biases. They are limited to the confines of their denominational standards and thus are not permitted to wander beyond them. They are held accountable to men and their traditions. Others may send themselves as they choose preaching as their chosen occupation. It is their living. It is how they will pay their bills. It is simply their bread and butter. They usually approach the Scriptures from an intellectual standpoint and there is seldom any spiritual meat to their messages. They will eventually conduct their messages according to what draws the biggest crowds and brings the most cash into their coffers. There is little accountability to anyone and God is not always in what they teach and preach. In fact, much of what they preach does not often align with Scripture from a contextual standpoint. Still, there are others who may actually have the call of the Almighty upon their lives, but are too impatient to sit under the subjection of the Holy Spirits instruction. They often start out as a gasoline fed fire, but soon burn out, or become just an ember in short order. They usually end up becoming discouraged and disillusioned. They often depart from their calling and frequently become hostile towards God and His children. We are living in the days spoken of by Paul in his second letter to our brother Timothy where he says in chapter four, verses two through five: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. I want to encourage those who have a calling upon their lives to persevere. We are living in dangerous times. Many are looking for an easy and lawless gospel. They want to hear about prosperity. They want to hear that they will fly away and not face the trials and tribulations about to come upon the whole earth. They want to hear nice things. If it is not sugar coated, they will turn away to the mega-church preachers and follow the wide, and easy road. We are instructed to be watchful in all things. We are accounted to endure afflictions as Scripture reminds us over and over again. Yeshua (Jesus) cautions us that he who endures to the end shall be saved. Prepare yourselves. The days ahead are going to be brutal. Many will become disillusioned as they witness things they had never imagined could happen to Gods children. Many will fall away in a great apostasy. It is certain to happen in our day. Pray that you would be found worthy to escape the destruction that is coming upon the whole earth, and to stand before the Son of Man in His kingdom. Heed the warning in Revelation 12:13-17: 3 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child. 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. The woman is the body of believers here on earth. We will be persecuted. However we make a flight into the wilderness here on earth where the dragon had been cast down. The believers are hidden here on earth, not in heaven as many teach. Flying into the wilderness is exactly as spoken of when God bore the children of Israel out of Egypt on eagles wings as spoken of in Exodus 19:4. God does not change. The dragon will open his mouth and will cast out a flood of waters (figurative of people), but God will cause the earth to swallow them up just as he did the household of Ko-rah in Numbers 16:28-33. Also see Isaiah 59:19. God does nothing outside of what is already written in His Word. We are to be praying that we are found worthy to escape Gods wrath. It is coming, and all indications are that it is coming sooner rather than later. Remember Peters warning in 2 Peter 3:3-4,9. Let us be watching and praying. Pray for the Shalom (Peace) of Jerusalem, Barry W. Gaugler
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 22:12:09 +0000
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