The Until of God part one Understanding our Plight

The “until” of God, the ministry of the saints: Understanding our plight

The church is in transition. It is becoming something. There is arising in the church a “now” kingdom dimension so astounding that it beggars description, yet few even know it is happening. This is sad, for we see in the church today a real exuberance in worship activity. However, this does not mean that true worship is becoming greater.

We will know when worship is what Jah desires it to be, when we see it bring a sword that divides. Worship in spirit and truth is offensive to the carnal. When a person who is bound by tradition, begins to see true worship arise, and the change it brings, they become irritated and usually fight it tooth and toenail.

Even though they fight, they will fail to stop this transition. Worship is a key to power.

We embrace the transition. We embrace the new. We desire to be like Jah. We desire His holiness and His power. We must not fear change.

There are some things that are unchanging in God, and some things that are variable. We have a problem when we in the church make things that are variable, doctrines of the church. I write of the place where religious traditions, begin and from that grow through the generations to become nothing less than an abomination. The church is filled with abomination. The church is filled with religious witchcraft.

Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness and said, “look and live”. It brought life for those who obeyed in Moses’ day. However seven hundred years later it is called “Nepuistan”, (a piece of brass) and is now an idol. What once brought life, becomes an idol when it is made a standard. It was a variable, nothing more.

Any thing we involve ourselves in that is less than the present call of Jah, is idolatry. Our Lord must be seen, in the church. Our Lord must be seen in the earth. We are mandated to glorify Him in all the earth. This will not happen until He is first glorified among His people. I do not speak of building an earthly temple made of bricks, but the establishment of His kingdom in the hearts of His people. This is why there is so much focus on the people of God today. It is not miss-focus. The people must become something new. The transition has been hard in many cases. The solution to the problem of our out-of-order church, is two-fold.

First: There must be a renewing of the Holy Ghost in the people of God. Indeed, there is a progressive sanctification so needed in this day, in the church, that it is the church that has foremost grieved the Spirit of Jah.

Second: There must be change in the structure of the corporate church.

We are becoming saints. We need a proper structure to facilitate that change.

We know that Jah builds His church. The one he builds, will be one that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against. Individually we must embrace the holiness we are called unto. Yet, even in the most Godly, we are but witnesses of the grace He has shared with us. Individually we can grow strong in the Lord and do exploits. But, what if we were part of a whole group of maturing saints? Ah, that is what must happen in this day. We cannot build a God church with a man pattern.

An order problem:

We have an order problem in the church. We are bound to immaturity in the church so long as our government is out of order church. We are suffering first, because we do not walk in His grace. Therefore, we promote flesh and despise Spirit. This is a sorrowful situation. The traditions of men have negated the power of God. We pattern our selves and judge ourselves by ourselves.

David wanted to build Jah a temple. God rather wanted to build his own home to dwell in. He was and is after a resting-place, in our hearts. What we build for God is never God enough.

If our Lord is still intent upon building His temple, we must know that it is He has a plan. It is He, who will start from the foundation, and build upon it.

What is the foundation of our faith? The foundation of our Faith is Christ. Not other men!

1Cr 1:12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
1Cr 1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

The early church erred in that it was caught in following personalities of they who operated in the gifts.
This cause scisms. Thank God for the gifts in your fellowship, but do not worship the gifted!

And:

1 Cor. 3:11. He builds the church. The kingdom is not built. It is already extant. It is righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Spirit. The church consists of people who are baptized into Christ.

The kingdom is found in the Holy Spirit. We do not build God’s kingdom!

Now the trouble we have in the harlot church of this day is that it is a harlot. (Duh).It is trying to perform an intimate service but is not pure.

It is out of order. Ah.

It is not built upon the foundation of Christ. It has been built by man not by God, on man ideals, not God truths. (carnal reasoning, not Holy Spirit revelation)

There are two ways man error, this tends to play out in local fellowships.

The first and most prevalent is a church ruled by vote of the people. This is the Nicolaitian spirit at work. It tends toward Gnosticism, named after Nicholas of Antioch who was a Gnostic Heretic.

The Second is by rule of dominant leadership who listen little to the prophetic voice of the fellowship. (hireling rule)

These two errant governmental patterns tend to promote performance-based church. They are always filled with offended people. So long as this system is extant, the people will live in offense.

The only true government for the church is through Gifts, administrations, and operations. This pattern uses all of God’s people, in their gifts to bring forth fullness. It is the one that is built on the foundation that is Christ. (anointed)

The process of transition:

If a church realizes its government is out of order, it must be changed by cooperation of leadership within the fellowship. No one man will be able to bring about needed change.

1 Cor. 12:5 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

The process will play out something like this. Gifts will bring forth truth and change. Key people will come to realize the error. They will repent. They will them approach others concerning needed change.

The ideal I promote here is that “Jah has an order”. We need to embrace it! Selah

The more people in a fellow ship that see a need for change, the greater the chance of successful movement from churchanity to a kingdom fellowship. Our change is to simply do it God’s way.

We will either have God’s order, or we will have a mess. To accept the change, we will need new wineskins filled with new wine.

To live in kingdom power, we must repent unto the kingdom!

Repentance unto the kingdom is the door through which we enter the now kingdom. To have new wineskins, repentance is the first step. Jah’s government cannot be held in an old wineskin. Churches that try to implement kingdom government in a church paradigm will see the wine spilled as the wineskin burst.

The Smell of Death:

As the prophetic brethren and Apostles begin to establish kingdom order, we will see two reactions, based on heart condition of a fellowship.

2Cr 2:16 To the one [we are] the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?

You will be embraced as life, by those who love God, and death by those who love religion.

No matter how hard the path is for each of us, in this transition, the process will go on, until all come to a unity of faith. It could take centuries for this to take place.

Eph 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

Fullness the Goal:

The goal we strive for, the high call, is the fullness of Christ.

Rom 4:16 Therefore [it is] of faith, that [it might be] by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
Rom 10:4 For Christ [is] the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

Our striving is simply to be engulfed in Christ.
-As we are engulfed in him, we no longer need to make our own pattern, we see His.
-As we are engulfed in Him, we no longer need man’s ways, we have His.

Unless the church embrace the process of change that is upon it we will be in a continual judgment called immaturity. We are in transtition until all come to a unity of faith!

Continued soon: