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Human Government with its Hierarchy:

Satan’s Access to Earth

Whether they be in D.C. or in Albany or in Moscow or at the UN or in religious denominations or in the local independent churches or in mega churches. Human government Is Satan’s primary way of access into the earth!

With governments he can has and does do much more damage to life and limb.

Also, (and much more upsetting to me.) Any study of church history whatsoever shows us that when allowed to rule the churches, (through confused and talented men,)

Satan can make the church spiritually irrelevant at best, outright evil at worst. He can and does rob the Lord of his purpose and plan for his ecclesia.

We Christians who want the Lord to be Lord on earth, need to be willing to learn another to organize ourselves. To no longer look to human government. It’s the way of Satan since Cain left Eden and built his city without God.

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Wait For Ministry

For some it is easy to engineer and deliver anointed sermons from scripture. For others it comes natural to design a church vision as we see fit.

Some of us have leadership skills drilled into us during our elementary years that come natural in our adult years and we just apply it to church.

Plus there’s always a crowd to target who crave to be led around and told what to do.

For others it’s easy to live and minister to others according to what seems right and according to our biblical worldview and sense of morality.

But living like that is not what Jesus wants, regardless of how well we’ve been trained at it. And since Jesus is Lord and not we, we just cannot live like that …and suppose we are pleasing him.

This is true even if it means we will never do a productive thing in a ministry!

Few will accept that.

I’d much rather do nothing while clinging to Jesus Christ than have a full life of “ministry” that Jesus is not really actively doing through me.

I’d never want my Lord think “He is just doing his thing, because it seems right, he’s on religious autopilot. It looks great to many but he hasn’t checked with me about doing all that.”

But man I get it, it sure is tempting.

I see why men go get their “credentials” and take a church to fill their lives. It can be difficult to wait on him and only do as he does.

I bet it would be even more difficult if I had family ministry pressures and expectations to live up to.

I bet it would be even more difficult if ministry is how I am accustomed to earning a living.

One thing I know is important that many just won’t accept or submit to. Never do ministry out of your own self it’s a huge life mistake which also leads others astray.

This may mean wait but it really means listen for the life of Jesus Christ… then try to keep up.

Jesus Christ is very active, he is like a river of life which is constantly flowing.

Dip your bucket into him and let him be your source.

Always having Jesus as our source means naturally that we will not be idle for long unless he leads us that way for a specific season and purpose.

No matter the reason or length of time he leads us that way; it’s critical that we are ok with it. If he is Lord we will be ok with anything even if it causes us to look bad in the eyes of others.

He is well worth whatever wait or embarrassment we may be subjected to.

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The Only Means To The Only End

So The End Justifies The Means?

Jesus once claimed that he was THE Way, in the letter to the Colossian church Paul called Jesus the End. The end always justifies the means, when Jesus is both the end and the means.

Most Christians would agree but might confine this to him being the way to salvation. But I think him being the way means much more.

It is a common saying that “the end justifies the means.” This means that what you are trying to do justifies the way that you do it. In other words if you have to kill, or steal, or lie to accomplish what you are doing then so be it.

But Jesus himself is the ultimate end to all things, he is what we are all headed for. Whether we realize it or not He is also the real motive for all that we do.

Jesus once said “if you have seen me you have seen the father.” Back to the Father the universe goes. We departed him and have been trying to get back to him ever since.

Noble Ends That Fall Short

Applying this to Christian; the end that we are headed for is not “revival”. It is not ministry success or ministry fame, it is not “souls saved”. Which is often seen as the highest and most noble end and motive for whatever we do. In comparison to Jesus himself all these are but ulterior motives having varying amounts of self-interest.

Man apart from God tells himself “I’m going to be powerful and influential and successful, I won’t be accused of this or that, I will be a winner, not a loser.” But we are already a loser if we’ve left Jesus as our means himself and Jesus himself as the End game for those means. In other works, the end that Jesus has for us is not to be causing salvations. By the means of us fulfilling our specific and custom destiny.

Jesus Christ is our end, our ultimate motive. But he is also the means to that end (The Way).

Jesus really is the only way (means) to the only acceptable end.

To the extent that we have other motives (other ends) and use other means (other ways) to achieve those ends are the extents that we error and are off track.

More on The Way

What is your End? and what Ways are you pursuing that End?

 

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