Know the Church
Root of the Fruit Part 3
2 Days ago I talked about Knowing The Root by the Fruit.
Yesterday, I started talking about Knowing GOD,
Now we need to speak about the critical importance of the corporate worship.
Today’s message is really to continue that train of thought.
Today’s message is really to help remind us to KNOW THE CHURCH,
And to know our thoughts, actions and behaviors IN it.
As the meme with today’s verse shows, there are groups and churches who are obviously created to counter the message of God.
There’s Satanic, Cult, Collective Salvation, Liberation Theology, Prosperity Message, Westboro Baptist, the LBGTQi+%$@! Churches;
As I said yesterday, those churches and so many more are ‘usually’ easy to spot.
They may (on purpose), or may NOT even realize it, but those churches are openly mocking God in their worship.
☆ Remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions,
• Jude 1:17-19
But there are so many more churches that, because in their love of self, success, popularity and culture, think they are right.
When their message is dangerously wrong!
After a Sunday service, they may leave a person leaving their church ‘feeling’ good, but not leaving them with knowing God any more than when they walked in.
Then when the real message is brought to the attention of those leaders, they attack the messenger!
Instead of humility, repentance and submission the The Word, they push harder, further and louder in their desire to promote THEIR word.
☆ Your ancestors refused to listen to this message. They stubbornly turned away and put their fingers in their ears to keep from hearing.
• Zechariah 7:11
It has become a deadly social contagion.
Spreading faster than Covid or the Spanish flu…it is a real Black Plague.
When people find out how they can be in a place where they can participate in an appearance of Godliness yet, can still do what they want, how they want, with who they want, when they want…if they really don’t know God…they WILL!
That is why it is critically important to know the church.
Because the secularization, through the worldy culture, has too many churches refusing to walk in then truth of The Word.
☆ Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God.
• 1 Thessalonians 4:8
So,
Now the speech that people hate,
Is what they’re calling hate speech.
When censorship is now accepted,
When the Bible is rejected due to cultural sensitivity,
When speaking the message of Jesus can get you imprisoned,
What does YOUR church say?
Do you know The Church standard there?
It should BE EXICTED!
☆ Jesus said, “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.”
We are right where we need to be.
We know that we are in those last times.
We need to know the church we are in,
And know our church knows the God of The Truth.
We need to be doing what we can to make disciples.
We need to be spreading the Gospel message of HIS love.
How is the best way for us to do that?
By being the best example of Christ we can be.
And…what would Jesus do?
☆ Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
• Luke 23:34
Because not only are we getting close to our Lords imminent return, which is AWESOME!
We are also being refined, in the persecutions, that WILL be coming, and WILL be increasing.
We are being prepared, strengthed and built into the person God n3eds us to be to spread HIS message,
WHILE we are going given a fullness of joy, and the deepest of peace that a human can ever have.
☆ Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
• James 1:2-4
The outcome of all of that is our life RIGHT NOW.
When we know that the church we are in walks in the truth, we will be fellowshipping in The Truth.
When we have that personal joy and peace in us, and we fellowship with others that share that kind of faith…
THAT IS POWERFUL!
And no one can harm us, and God will protect us.
☆ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
• 1 John 1:7
The very near future will show us which churches bear fruit, and which churches are rotten.
So, do you know the church you are in?
Do you know the Church as it should be?
And, are YOU the example of what the church should look like?
I love you guys!
