Good Morning Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I trust you experienced an awesome Thanksgiving with your families. As Believers, we have so much to be thankful for and to praise our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I don’t know about you, but I love being around positive Believers. I love all Believers, but I really enjoy being around positive Believers. By “positive,” I mean a Believer who subscribes to the whole counsel of God’s Word and puts his/her faith in the Word. No matter the storm sent by Satan against them, they just stand on the Word, in joy, knowing with all faith in their heart God turns the storm into a rainbow for them (Romans 8:28) every time, that God increases their children and them every day (Psalm 115:14), that all of God’s thoughts and plans for them are peace (Jeremiah 29:11), that no man (unsaved or carnal, the government) can stand before them (oppose them successfully) all the days of their life (Joshua 1:5), they are joint-heirs with Jesus Christ (Romans 8:17), receive all that Jesus receives (Revelation 5:12), and they (bodies, soul, and spirit) are just as Jesus is (powerful, healthy, rich, wise, strong, glorified, honored, blessed) in Heaven, on this earth (I John 4:17). These are the Brothers and Sisters I love to be around. They recharge me, excite me, encourage me, and embolden me with their stand on the Word of Almighty God. And, I see it the fruit of it in their lives every single day. It makes me want MORE and MORE of their Jesus.
Colossians 2:6-8
6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him:
7Rooted and built up in Him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
These are very powerful words from the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul. These three verses identify the three reasons the Body of Christ is not living the way God intended on this earth – in dominion over everything (Satan, his demonic forces, governments, the natural and carnal man, nature, finances, sickness and disease, death, etc.).
Reasons for lack of Body of Christ’s Dominion on Earth:
- How did we receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior? Through faith – believing in something we can’t engage with in the natural senses (taste, touch, see, hear, smell). If we could engage it with our senses, it wouldn’t be faith. The Holy Spirit is instructing us, through Paul, in Colossians 2:6 to do everything God commands in His Word using the same level of faith you used to come to Christ as your Savior. It doesn’t take any more faith to heal someone of a disease, an infirmity, than it took for us to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior. Where are we putting our faith. In Christ just as the verse states, “walk ye IN Him:”. I put my faith in the faith of Christ to do any of the commands in God’s Word. Isn’t this some much easier than trying to do things in your faith? Your faith will fail many times, but Christ’s faithfulness to us will never fail. Sadly, many Believers never get beyond receiving eternal life.
- How is a Believer “rooted and built up in Him, stablished in the faith”? There is only ONE way. Through the written Word of God. By studying the written Word of God, it will lead us to the Living Word of God, Jesus Christ.” Remember from verse 6, we are to walk in Him. “As ye have been taught.” I say what follows with all the love of Christ. Many Believers are in churches where little-to-none of the Word is taught. Many need to go to God in prayer and ask God to lead you to a church where you will be taught God’s full, unadulterated counsel. If you’re not willing and obedient to do this, you will not eat the good of the land (Isaiah 1:19). God is no respecter of persons and will not break His Word to allow you to sit in a dead or dying church because this is where you are comfortable, this is where your parents went, this is where my child goes to school, etc. You are not being willing and obedient and not honoring the Word of God, Jesus Christ, and what He did for you and your generations. Because the Believer is not rooted, built up, and established in God’s Word, they are the man that built his house on sand and not on the rock of God’s Word. When the storms come, and they will, their foundation of ignorance or unbelief will be washed away and the rest of their house will come tumbling down.
- Colossians 2:8 is the foundation stone of Satan’s assault on the Church and the Body of Christ. It started in the Garden of Eden with Eve and Adam and has continued through the ages. “Spoil” means “to rob or strip.” The Holy Spirit is warning Believers, through the past 2000 years and present day, robbing or stripping Believers of the Word will be the number one weapon of Satan’s warfare. How is Satan going to do it? Through men and women (Beware lest any man). The verse doesn’t say “Beware lest Satan spoil you…” Satan has to use men and women to get anything done in the earth. He can’t do it himself. It’s happening in government, in education, in families, in arts and entertainment, in business, in the media, and last, but not least, in religion. God meant for the Body of Christ to have dominion over the seven spheres aforementioned. But, the Church, the Body of Christ, allowed Satan, through men and women, to strip or rob us of our dominion through stealing the Word from us, from the churches, from the pulpit. Satan has done such a good job in the churches there are pulpits teaching there is no hell, there is no sin, Mary wasn’t a virgin, Christ wasn’t pure and holy, Jesus was gay, much or all of the Bible is false or just stories made up by men, the Word of God is fallible, the works of the apostles and disciples (healing, raising from the dead, casting out demons, prophesying, etc.) passed away with them, Jesus didn’t resurrect, there is no God but rather a consciousness, sin has no consequences, etc. There are many more horrendous lies coming from the very pulpits of churches. Sadly, many ignorant Believers are being “robbed and stripped” of the Word of God sitting in dying or dead churches. They have NO power and will live and die like an unsaved man or woman (Psalm 82:6). This is NOT God’s will.
Beloved of Christ, I apologize if something I write steps on your toes. I write it out of Christ’s love for you and His desire for you to live at His very best for you in this earth. We won’t need any of this when we get to Heaven. It’s for us here and now, so we are seen as the Blessed of the Lord, and we can fulfill our covenant with God to be a blessing to others.
I always ask many Believers, “which Christ do you represent? The Christ of the scriptures or the Christ of man’s wisdom?” By “represent,” I mean by how you live, by how you speak, by how you operate, and MOST importantly, by your RESULTS. What RESULTS are you experiencing? If your results are the same of the world’s, they don’t care about your Jesus. Why do they need your Jesus to get the same results? They want the Jesus that physically heals, that emotionally heals, that financially prospers, that blesses relationships, that spiritually prospers, that blesses His sons and daughters who believe and obey with long, healthy, disease and pain free lives, that blesses His sons and daughters that believe and obey with such material abundance they are able to be a huge blessing materially to other Believers and the unsaved, that blesses His sons and daughters with victory in every single circumstance, no matter how it initially looks in the natural. If they’re NOT seeing this in you, then why do they need your Jesus?
Father, may Your Word remove any spiritual blindness, deafness, and dumbness and enlighten the hearts of my Brothers and Sisters and all those they love. We know Your Word is the Seed that never returns void, but accomplishes all that You please, and prospers in the thing whereto You sent It (Isaiah 55:11). I thank You Father Your will is for all Believers to materially prosper and be in perfect health, always, even as their soul (mind, heart, and emotions) prospers through Your Word so they can fulfill the covenant You have with us in Genesis 12:2-3, as Abraham’s seed through Jesus Christ, the Seed (III John 2; Galatians 3:29). Help our lack of faith by building us up in Your Word, driving the root of the Word deep in our souls so we understand we only need to walk in the very same level of faith we accepted Christ with to accomplish all You promise us throughout Your Word. In the powerful and matchless name of Jesus, Amen.
In closing, God has instructed us to, “QUIT LIVING AT THE LEVEL OF THE WORLD. COME UP TO MY WAY AND THOUGHTS. I’M NOT COMING DOWN TO YOURS. TRY ME, THE WORD, AND SEE IF I WON’T KEEP ALL MY PROMISES TO YOU. LIVE AS I’VE INTENDED – AS THE DOMINATOR AND NOT THE DOMINATED.”
In Christ,
Larry