If the only place that you Pastor is in a church or an institution or if it takes a congregation to make you a Pastor, then you were probably never called or sent by God to Pastor but hired and certified by men to serve the status quo and belief system of their particular religion. You are a hireling or a religious entrepreneur at best. But you certainly aren’t one of God’s gifts to HIS Ekklesia. (Ephesians 4:11-12)
God didn’t send His chosen ones to just pastor in a religious organization (church) at that organization’s pleasure or to preach only to a select group of self-proclaimed believers who already think they know GOD’S TRUE WAY. (Denominationalism and Catholicism)
YHVH sent us into all the world as His ambassador just like He sent His Only Son into the the world. (Mark 16:15 and 2 Corinthians 5:19-20)
We Are To Be Pastors and Undershepherds To All Believers In Our Reach and To All Those Souls Assigned To Our Care By YHVH and Christ through the POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT.
DON’T GET IT TWISTED!
Sheep do not make one a shepherd nor do sheep choose their own shepherd. GOD DOES! (Jeremiah 3:15, Ezekiel 34:23 and Acts 20:28)
The World Is The Congregation To Whom God Sends His Chosen Shepherds.
I Am Just Keeping REAL
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There Are Many Servants Of Yahweh That Have Become Frustrated By The Lack Of Positive Responses To GOD’S Anointed WORD Of Warnings And Salvation. And I am sent unto you this day to tell you that you are not alone.
Frustration can drive anyone to give up on GOD’S MESSAGE, their DREAMS, their CALLING and Themselves.
Jeremiah must have felt frustrated when he preached the message that He was assigned and sent to preach but only received reproach and derision for his efforts and his obedience to Father God. He was treated as a household joke. He was constantly ridiculed and looked upon by his peers and contemporaries as a loser. (Jeremiah 20:8-10) Jeremiah’s life was full of frustration and tears.
And although Jeremiah wanted to shut up so that he could live a normal and fruitful life and be liked by his friends and family members, the unction to preach God’s admonition and saving WORD was too great for him to resist and hold and keep in his heart. When He Tried To Hold His Peace It Became Like A Burning Fire Shut Up In His Bones. (Jeremiah 20:9)
And although Jeremiah suffered personally for preaching God’s Word, he suffered even more when he tried not to preach God’s TRUTH. The burden and pain of disobeying God’s directive far outweighed any pleasure or comfort that he might have received from tickling the ears of his listeners.
I CAN RELATE SOMEWHAT TO JEREMIAH IN MY MINISTERIAL CALLING AND IN MY PERSONAL LIFE.
Regardless of my desires for personal comforts and accommodating conversation, I am charged with the task of preaching what THE LORD says for me to preach and I do so with PASSION, POWER and PURPOSE for His Glory and not my own.
This is the attitude and commitment that every God-called and God sent messenger needs to have in these End Times.
We Should Stand Ready and Willing To Answer The Call And To Go Wherever YAHWEH Sends Us and Preach Whatever Divine Truth or Warning That He Leads Us To Preach.
For If I Don’t Preach God’s Word, I Become Weary Of Holding It In, And I Cannot Endure Its Burden. I Must Preach GOD’S HOLY TRUTH. I Can’t Keep It To Myself Least In My Heart It Becomes Like A Burning Fire Shut Up In My Bones.
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THERE IS AN ANOINTED SAVING WORD FROM THE LORD JUST FOR YOU.
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23 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” 24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet.”27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things. (Matthew 21:23-27 English Standard Version)
I will never fully understand the need of repentant, water baptized, Holy Spirit filled preachers to be licensed/ordained by some human ecclesiastical agency before carrying out their divine assignment.
To seek sanction from a human agency is like saying God’s anointing and appointing isn’t enough.
The best that any human agency can do is recognize God’s choice and appointed authority in you. A Ministerial License or Certificate of Ordination orreligious academic credentialdoes not make one a servant of God. Only God Has That Prerogative.
Stop Waiting On Other People To Give You Permission To Do What God Sent You To Do.
I bring you greetings in the name of the Holy Messiah.
Please allow me to share a little about myself and make myself perfectly clear and repeat what I have been saying for over 30 years.
I did not “go into the ministry” as some men and women do. I did not seek the office I now serve in nor did I receive it from any man or institution. Any knowledge or insight that anyone may perceive as coming from me is not from me but from Him who sent me.
Being a Preacher-Teacher is not a job (vocation/career or big business) for which I am seeking employment, prestige, honor or glory. I am not called into the Kingdom of God ministry to compete like a business for finances, membership, property acquisitions, worldly accolades and material investments and prosperity. I am called out from the world’s religious systems and sent by GOD to teach and preach His divine Truth of salvation and challenge every creature to repent. It is a “LIFE” to which I was especially and personally called and sent by the FATHER through Christ.
Initially, man’s system of “Church and Religion” tried to indoctrinate me and pervert the message and assignment that the LORD sent and is still sending me on. But thanks to God’s intervention, I was removed from their influence and freed to operate in the office to which I was appointed and gifted by God through Christ. I do not knowingly subscribe to any institutional faith or religion. My calling and election is strongly anchored in Christ and in God as all ministers of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God should be.
It still disturbs me though that I almost missed salvation while running after Church affiliation. So many people do not realize that the system of “churches” as we have come to know them today doesn’t exist in the kingdom of God or in the message of Christ. Perhaps we shall address that subject in a future post.
I have taught other preachers in the past, through the revelation of Christ, that if we are truly sent by God, we should be able to find our “True Spiritual Selves” in the pages of the Holy Scripture, i.e., a portrait of the person we have become through Christ. And although I have found several passages of Holy Scripture that may reflect who I am and what I stand for in Christ, none seems to be more personal and applicable regarding my calling than that of Paul’s (Saul’s) proclamation in Galatians 1:1-12.
Now as you read the following scripture passage, please don’t get it twisted. I am not professing to be an Apostle of Christ by any stretch of the imagination. That Christ appointed distinction belongs only to the original Apostles of the Lamb. I am only stressing the point of the divine origin and purity of my calling and of the message of my ministry.
Galatians 1:1-12 (CJB)
1 From: Sha’ul, an emissary — I received my commission not from human beings or through human mediation but through Yeshua the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — also from all the brothers with me
2 To: The Messianic communities in Galatia:
3 Grace and shalom to you from God our Father and from the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, 4 who gave himself for our sins, so that he might deliver us from the present evil world-system, in obedience to the will of God, our Father. 5 To him be the glory forever and ever! Amen.
6 I am astounded that you are so quick to remove yourselves from me, the one who called you by the Messiah’s grace, and turn to some other supposedly “Good News,” 7 which is not good news at all! What is really happening is that certain people are pestering you and trying to pervert the genuine Good News of the Messiah. 8 But even if we — or, for that matter, an angel from heaven! — were to announce to you some so-called “Good News” contrary to the Good News we did announce to you, let him be under a curse forever! 9 We said it before, and I say it again: if anyone announces “Good News” contrary to what you received, let him be under a curse forever!
10 Now does that sound as if I were trying to win human approval? No! I want God’s approval! Or that I’m trying to cater to people? If I were still doing that, I would not be a servant of the Messiah.
11 Furthermore, let me make clear to you, brothers, that the Good News as I proclaim it is not a human product; 12 because neither did I receive it from someone else nor was I taught it — it came through a direct revelation from Yeshua the Messiah.
I am not politically correct nor do I profess to be of eloquent and persuasive speech. I am simply and most humbly a servant of Father God.
May God The Father Be Glorified And Praised In EVERYTHING That I Do And Say Through Christ Our LORD!
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It sure is funny how the disciples and apostles of Christ preached and taught the mysteries of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God without any formal education, training, license, ordination or sanction from a body of judicial jurisprudence or ecclesiastical oversight.
It sure is peculiar how the born again Holy Spirit endowed believers in Christ wrote sermons, taught lessons and preached salvation without the benefit of formal training in hermeneutics and homiletics.
In these modern times, we must now acquire a ministerial license and/or ordination papers in order to be accepted, respected and recognized as a divine messenger from Father God. If we are not sanctioned by some mainstream denomination or religious sect and if we don’t have at least an undergraduate degree, then our message and our ministry aren’t taken seriously.
In this end-time generation and culture, it has become popular to attain academic and ecclesiastical titles of honor and prestige, erroneously equating human achievements with divine anointing, Godly calling and moral credibility. This sometimes is known as credentialism.
Parenthetically speaking, I wish that I was never licensed as a reverend or called elder, minister or bishop. The way that Satan has perverted the perception of these offices into something hierarchal is sickening to me and contrary to God’s way. It is more than enough for me to be known as God’s man.
We have become a generation dependent upon our intellect, imagination, ingenuity, philosophies, skills and validations.
What happened to the genuinely called, sent, Holy Spirit empowered and Holy Ghost led man of God?
Where has the Holy Ghost gone?
Was He ever here?
It is sad that many pastors and preachers have never experienced the true power and anointing of the Holy Spirit – The Spirit that confirms salvation and acceptance by God, reveals the Truth of God and The Mysteries of God’s Word.
Needless to say, those who do not have the Sprit of Christ do not belong to Christ and therefore cannot speak for Christ. However, some still dare pretend to speak for God although they don’t have God’s Holy Spirit.
Maybe they are confused and just don’t know any better. Perhaps some are in the dark and unconscious of their lost condition and delusional state. Maybe they have mistakenly interpreted their intelligence, talent and charisma for the Divine Call of God. Maybe they have allowed others to convince them that they are something that they are not.
Undoubtedly there are millions who have been beguiled by the great deceiver into believing the lie, preaching the lie and teaching others to believe in the lie. Thus the cycle of deception continues perpetually.
REPENT!
I DID.
If you are truly called and sent by Father God with His divine Word, no power on earth can annul what God has ordained. And if you are not called and sent by Father God with His divine Word, no power on earth may sanction you as God’s messenger.
May The Lord be pleased to forgive me for my past mistakes of conferring ministerial licenses and ordination certificates to those who were not of The Body and ignorant of the TRUTH. I confess that I too was beguiled and deceived at one time and willingly perpetuated the tradition of lies.