We have all excepted the lie to error in Adam , and now we have also excepted the truth to Life in Christ. Because we follow after Him in His Spirit by His Word with our hearts, we are daily reminded what is the lie and what the is Truth. Jesus is the way the Truth and the Life. And yes there is a trying with fire 🔥, it’s a cleansing by a trial of fire 🔥 for our sakes.
In Genesis after Adam’s choice against the Faith that the Lords Word was truth. The Lord then Allowed a cursing of the Whole Earth, because He knew that in the struggle of life with the earth, to get it to once again come to life and sustain us, we in these efforts would be made better. He reaches inside of these trials with us to show us a better way.
Jesus spoke of His Church and said that the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! This Like all things that Jesus said are things that we can absolutely count on. His Word also tells us how to instruct the unlearned and how to deal with apostasy.
Often times it’s not the arguments of the unlearned or of apostasy that tears our churches up. What does have the perfect ability to tear up our fellowships, is the ugliness of pride executed with jealousy.
We haven’t been called to these things, they are part of the curse, and no crops of value can be planted there, where this Spirit is, it also comes with every evil work.
Our fellowships aren’t about us, they are about Him and what He has done and provided first, and when we fit into His format of order we are then made first with Him in His Spirit.
His format is about order, His order, not ours, the order of pride that we may bring in is not of Him, He is a God of peace with Love and He will root out every evil work as we submit our lives to Him.
Why is church membership on the decline in many places? Because some in their place’s are not showing the sheep 🐑 and the lambs under their care the heart of Christ and the freedom that should be theirs as they approach the throne of Grace. Where boasting and the proving by pride is there is a blood clot where the life blood 🩸 is stopped.
We need to let the Shepherd of the Flock ✝️ be the Shepherd and the rest of us follow after Him. He is the One and the only One who is worthy and deserving of “All Glory,”it was His Blood 🩸 that was shed, not ours.
There is a reason that the fire 🔥 comes among us, and it’s to deliver us from ourselves.
— Dan Omann