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Prayer is the instrument and means that God has chosen to communicate and
direct His will in our lives. Prayer must be a priority in the church, in the
leaders, and in the individual Christians daily planner. Yes God will accomplish
His means without our prayers and devotion, but where does that leave us?
Bankrupt and useless! How can we be the people of God without getting direction
to do the work of our God? We cannot! God is acting through our prayers with Him
and with each other. God works through us, we are His tools, we are the
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Being Loyal to Christ and His Bride
We got trouble in our churches--a lack of loyalty. A tough question needs to be asked of ourselves, are we being "harlots" with His Church? This is all about betraying God by committing not only acts of immorality, but disrespecting His Word and ignoring or failing to teach and pass on His precepts-the prime responsibility of a church leader and pastor. The majority of people in John's day had no reservations or protests to following an evil empire and being used by them. Their belief was that one has a license to sin; thus, one does not need to be obedient to God, His precepts, civil law, or any moral standards, and many Christians felt as they do today, they do not have a need to bear fruit. God says this is evil as it portrays evil as being good. This can also be practicing and promoting trends that dilute God's truth, using it as an excuse for extreme immorality and wickedness (Judges 17:6; Jer. 2:31-37; Rom. 6:1-2; 14-15; 13:8, 10; Gal. 5:14; 6:2; Gal. 5:22-25; James 2: 14-26; Jude 4; Rev. 2:20).
The point? This means to choose sin is a deliberate choice, one that God hates passionately. This was also a term used by the early church for Rome (Lev. 17:7; Is. 1:21; 26:16-18; 57:3; Jer. 3:1-14; Ezek. Chaps 16& 23; Hos. 4:15).
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Being Loyal to Christ and His
Bride
We got trouble in our churches--a lack of loyalty.
Look at it this way. If you want your church healthy and lined up to God's
call, commands and precepts, you have to be loyal! That means being trustworthy,
faithful and devoted to Christ as LORD and His Truth! That means more than just
placing Him first or ignoring the relativisms in our society. It means a
defining quality that I am fully engaged to be in Christ, to follow Christ and
lead others to Christ. In contrast, if we are not loyal; then, we are betraying.
As a pastor, my first and foremost job is to point people to The Shepherd. So,
the point of this message is simple. We have to recover our churches from the
desires of what I want, from the false trends, away from betrayal of Christ's
Lordship, to turn back to the true Truth of Scripture that glorifies Christ as
LORD!
If not, if we dare to go to our pulpits, boardrooms, small groups, classes
and families with what I want to say and ignore Him, we are in fact being
disloyal. If we dare teach what is false, give only half truths and merely feel
good messages, like "sermonettes for Christianettes ," we are in fact being
prostituting His Word and Truth.
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Pray that your church family gives
Christ real, authentic adoration, praise, impassioned worship, and glory both
in private and collectively as a Church, and that worship is never a show,
entertainment, or talent focused, rather making God the audience to our praise
(Gal. 6:14).
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