it bugs me to bits to call you that on Sundays when from Mondays to Saturday I dont see you in the Living Room nor in the hallways at home or you rarely give me a call when I go away for long periods of time or are you not my Brother’s keeper ? and worst of all when i get back home for dinner there is no Mummy G.O at the Dinner Table nor a daddy G.O to tell me Bedtime Stories ..
That is what Jesus conveys to the people in the two instances illustrated from the Gospels. In the first case His mother and brothers were prevented from approaching Him because of the crowd. The Scriptures say that Jesus was still speaking to the multitudes when someone interrupted His teaching to tell Him that His mother and brothers had arrived and wanted to speak to Him. An ordinary person may have become angry over the interruption, or would have excused themselves from the crowd to go to say hello to his relatives. But Jesus is no ordinary person; He is the Son of the Most High God.
What He demonstrates to them (in word and in deed) is that everyone who does the will of God is His brother, sister, and mother; that is to say, all the members of His family are on equal ground before Him. In this family He plays no favorites, He gives no preferential treatment. He does not have special brothers and special sisters; all are equally precious, all are equally valuable in His sight. Others may argue over who will be the greatest and seek the recognition and praise from man with their title, degree, position, or gifting, but Jesus said, “It must not be so among you” (Matthew 20:26ff). If He makes no distinction among brothers and sisters then we dare not do so.
For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, He is My brother and sister and mother ..
There are many lambs who have been led into the Christian Faith by wolves and even as babes they are left out in the pasture to fend for themselves . They make you say the so called “sinners prayer” accept Jesus as your Lord and personal Saviour but how can we accept a Lord when we do not have the Holy Spirit of God ?
When our pastors are busy “preaching” the word Overseas & Across States when their own local flocks and even Families are “perishing” It becomes clear that the The only True Shepherd here on Earth is the Holy Spirit of God.
When we lead someone to Christ if we do not impart the Gift of The Holy Spirit or make the new Believer know his ABSOLUTE importance . We are sending them on a Kamikaze suicide mission to failure . The christian faith has only one motto in my opinion
“The End justifies the means” for many are called few are chosen .
If you lay up treasures on Earth There exactly will your heart be on earth for no one plans to go to heaven to use their BMW X6 on the Golden streets of Heaven or spend the billions of dollars they have amassed at the Shopping Malls of Zion ! The only Treasure we have here is the HOLY SPIRIT !
He is the one we spend here on Earth by spreading his Gifts abroad and letting the world see the Fruits of his Light !
Christianity is not about Material Physical Prosperity for God has said clearly to be content with what you have, not what you are planning to have, for if you have FINISHED seeking for the Kingdom of God & his RIGHTEOUSNESS….ALL these things shall be added to you !
No man can truly Love two Masters Y’all can’t love God & Mammon !
or as our popular Rappers & musicians say “get rich or die while trying” well many will die while trying and go to Hell where your life will not be worth 50 cents !
BUT if God’s eyes are on the sparrow how much more on you his child so don’t fret little flock for I once was young and now I am old (not very old sha ), but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread !
The Ekklesia that Jesus is building is a spiritual house of living stones. This Ekklesia is a family, and “of [Jesus] the whole family in heaven and earth is named” (Ephesians 3:15). Which family? The family of believers. Some of the family is in heaven, while some of the family is on earth. In this family, God is Father, and Jesus is the Firstborn among many brothers and sisters (cf. Romans 8:29). When we become a disciple of Jesus we become members of a family, not members of an organization. This is one of the key differences between a living Ekklesia and a dead “church”.
If the means to an end are justified by faith expressed through works led explicitly by the Holy Spirit of God then We are home free and a great big welcome awaits us ! But if the means justifies the end then we must ask what means have we succumbed to ?
for it means we have focussed not on the Prize but on the Race itself when the prize of Salvation is our only goal here on Earth and the crown of Heaven at the side of our creator our only medal.
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful!
The fellowship of Christianity is not in Sermons delivered by one man or his acolytes to a congregation of silent believers but in many sheep conversing and eating the grass of the word and like the berean christians asking WHY ? whilst the Shepherd looks on making sure they dont eat of the weed or fall off a cliff or a wolf snatches one of them . Remmeber the church of the Apostles ? What happened to ananias & saphira ? The church had sold all its possesions and they were living together as one Family !
Acts chapter 4:32 closes by stating that the first followers of Jesus did not consider their possessions to be their own, but they had all things in common to use what they had on behalf of those in want. Barnabas, a Levite from Cyprus, sold a plot of land and donated the profit to the apostles.
The parables of Jesus were sometimes diffcult to determine but analogically if you have a discerning mind you will be presented with clear pictures of A Shepherd and his flock.
If a sheep wanders astray the shepherd will leave ALL 99 of his flock and go after that single sheep until he finds it and brings it back to the flock ! And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable ? How will you understand all the parables ?
How many of you do their pastors visit once a week or once a month ?
Fellowshipping is a word that describes the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, believers who have been blessed with the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. If we dont have the Spirit we are none of his !
so ask yourself today Do i fellowship with men or with the Holy Spirit !
what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.4These things we write, so that our joy may be made complete.
“Repent ye, and be baptized … unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
You know that at one time you were unbelievers. You were somehow drawn away to worship statues of gods that couldn’t even speak. 3 So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “May Jesus be cursed.” And without the help of the Holy Spirit no one can say, “Jesus is Lord.”
4 There are different kinds of gifts. But they are all given by the same Spirit. 5 There are different ways to serve. But they all come from the same Lord. 6 There are different ways to work. But the same God makes it possible for all of us to have all those different things.
“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.” (1 Corinthians 12:7-11)
Now I will number and bold each one of these 9 gifts of the Spirit
The Word of Knowledge
The Word of Wisdom
The Gift of Prophecy
The Gift of Faith
The Gifts of Healings
The Working of Miracles
The Discerning of Spirits
Different Kinds of Tongues
The Interpretation of Tongues
I realize some want just gifts but there are also 9 Fruits of the Spirit are. So here they are in order from Galatians 5:22
Love
Joy
Peace
Longsuffering
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-control
And all these with get from fellowshipping with the Holy Spirit and if you have no idea how that feels maybe that still small voice we call our conscience might just be as close as we can get so long we dont sear it or grieve him as the case may be !
Frank Adeche writes from www.netchurch.ng
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