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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Two Current Issues, #5
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Hebrews 8:10—NIV)
The significance of Israel invading Canaan did not lie in the fact that Jewish people were receiving fertile agricultural country. The significance was that the Law of God, the Ten Commandments, was coming as the judge of the demonic practices of the Canaanites.
God is not intent on bringing back the Christian believers into the world so they may play in Paradise. God is intent on bringing His law into the world so the influence of Satan will be removed and justice and peace will be brought to the nations. "God so loved the world..."!
The members of the Body must learn to wage war against the enemy. When the Commander in Chief appears, His soldiers will be caught up to meet Him in the air. Then He will descend to the Mount of Olives followed by the members of His Body on the war stallions.
Can you see from this, given the soon coming of the Lord, why we who are pastors and elders, leaders in the churches, must go to the Lord without delay to have Him show us how to build the Body of the Christ?
Let's do it!
The organizing of the members of the Body into an army. If you will listen to today's choruses you will be amazed how many of the new ones have to do with war.
The Christian church services will change over the next few years, I believe. We will have to learn how to battle in prayer, for one thing. Numerous church members are so bound they cannot raise their hands and pray out loud. They can be set free only by spiritual warfare.
The trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they raised their voices in praise to the LORD and sang: "He is good; his love endures forever." Then the temple of the LORD was filled with a cloud. (II Chronicles 5:13—NIV)
And people say we are to sit quietly in church and not raise our voice above a whisper, while the organ plays softly! Such behavior may be suitable for a funeral, but sometimes not even then—especially if one of the Lord's warriors has been released from the chains of the flesh. There ought to be high praises when a saint goes home. I don't know whether or not you agree with this.
Think seriously about the passage above! These people were not even born again or filled with God's Spirit! Are we to sit frozen in our pews like so many graven images?
Also, we must learn discipline. We must obey the elders. We must never, never, never slander or gossip about a fellow believer. This is to drive a sword into a fellow soldier! The day of church gossip is gone forever for those who are being prepared to march in the army of the Lord. I think we who are pastors and elders need to bear down on this. Satan often uses slander and gossip to destroy the Lord's work.
To be continued.