NOT EVERYONE CAN BUILD A HOUSE
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
Like it or not it is a proven fact that not all of us have the same talents. I think at this stage those of us who are part of the church need to recognize that not everyone who is saying "LORD. LORD!" Within the church are there for the purpose of worshiping God. Jesus pointed out the fact that not all of those who claim to know God actually do. In fact there are many today who have a mistaken identity in Christ through the very intent that it is in their heart and serving God.
It is rather disturbing to me to think of it, and yet I can see many weeds growing right alongside of the good seed that has been planted in the hearts of many through the gospel of Christ. Jesus took us on a quick tour of the weeds that are to be found in the vineyard of God in his last statements in the sermon on the mount which is found in Matthew 7:21-27 when he spoke about those people who are in the process of building a house on sand rather than on a rock. There are many today who are building their relationship with God upon a doctrine of division in Christ, or a denomination of belief rather than on a relationship with Christ. Unfortunately the number of those people in this world have been growing more and more as the years have gone by, and now they are to the point where they are almost counted as a majority in the way most churches think. Unfortunately that is centered around good works rather than upon obedience in their relationship with Christ.
Jesus said "not everyone who says to me," Lord, Lord"will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me you evildoers". There are a lot of people in life who have for some reason convince themselves that they can do various things. Some self-professed athletes can talk a great talk but it tells you nothing about the real ability as athletes. Not everyone who talks about heaven belongs to God's kingdom. I have seen people come into small gatherings in her church and immediately begin to put thoughts into people's minds that are contradictory to what Scripture has taught them, and it usually deals in some way with a spiritual kind of knowledge that they claim to have or some direct contact that they have had. These people may talk a lot about God, and the experiences that they have had and yet it seems that they tend to move away from the idea of obedience to the commands that Christ has already given us and many times on toward their own interpretation of what God has supposedly told them along with an invitation for anyone listening to be moved into a place where the direct obedience to God's commands is laid aside or included in a whole new interpretation that is usually not dealt with directly in Scripture. These people like all of the rest of us have heard the words that Christ is given to us, but they have chosen not to put those words into practice. Jesus has told us that those who hear but who refuse to obey our building their houses upon a foundation that is made of unstable material. Jesus told us that in those cases just as in the cases of all of us who build our foundation upon his teachings will find that those foundations will be tested. Everything will be tested in the same manner and with the same intensity. The rain will beat down, the streams will rise, and the winds will blow beat against that house, and while they may have built the house very strongly with the materials they have used the house will fall not from bad workmanship or a lack of knowledge on their part in what they have built, but it will fall because it was built upon a foundation of sand instead of on a solid rock, and it will fall with the great crash.
We can not to rely upon ourselves, or upon what ever advanced knowledge we think we have been building our lives in Christ with. We must go back to the very beginning, and the foundation that we use to start the building with. We need to begin to rethink that process by returning to those basic commands that change our lives from the inside out. We must rely upon the transforming power of God's Holy Spirit that will prepare us as we build. These are the things we begin with as a church to comprehend and understand if we are to hear the words "well done my good and faithful servant". May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
Like it or not it is a proven fact that not all of us have the same talents. I think at this stage those of us who are part of the church need to recognize that not everyone who is saying "LORD. LORD!" Within the church are there for the purpose of worshiping God. Jesus pointed out the fact that not all of those who claim to know God actually do. In fact there are many today who have a mistaken identity in Christ through the very intent that it is in their heart and serving God.
It is rather disturbing to me to think of it, and yet I can see many weeds growing right alongside of the good seed that has been planted in the hearts of many through the gospel of Christ. Jesus took us on a quick tour of the weeds that are to be found in the vineyard of God in his last statements in the sermon on the mount which is found in Matthew 7:21-27 when he spoke about those people who are in the process of building a house on sand rather than on a rock. There are many today who are building their relationship with God upon a doctrine of division in Christ, or a denomination of belief rather than on a relationship with Christ. Unfortunately the number of those people in this world have been growing more and more as the years have gone by, and now they are to the point where they are almost counted as a majority in the way most churches think. Unfortunately that is centered around good works rather than upon obedience in their relationship with Christ.
Jesus said "not everyone who says to me," Lord, Lord"will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me you evildoers". There are a lot of people in life who have for some reason convince themselves that they can do various things. Some self-professed athletes can talk a great talk but it tells you nothing about the real ability as athletes. Not everyone who talks about heaven belongs to God's kingdom. I have seen people come into small gatherings in her church and immediately begin to put thoughts into people's minds that are contradictory to what Scripture has taught them, and it usually deals in some way with a spiritual kind of knowledge that they claim to have or some direct contact that they have had. These people may talk a lot about God, and the experiences that they have had and yet it seems that they tend to move away from the idea of obedience to the commands that Christ has already given us and many times on toward their own interpretation of what God has supposedly told them along with an invitation for anyone listening to be moved into a place where the direct obedience to God's commands is laid aside or included in a whole new interpretation that is usually not dealt with directly in Scripture. These people like all of the rest of us have heard the words that Christ is given to us, but they have chosen not to put those words into practice. Jesus has told us that those who hear but who refuse to obey our building their houses upon a foundation that is made of unstable material. Jesus told us that in those cases just as in the cases of all of us who build our foundation upon his teachings will find that those foundations will be tested. Everything will be tested in the same manner and with the same intensity. The rain will beat down, the streams will rise, and the winds will blow beat against that house, and while they may have built the house very strongly with the materials they have used the house will fall not from bad workmanship or a lack of knowledge on their part in what they have built, but it will fall because it was built upon a foundation of sand instead of on a solid rock, and it will fall with the great crash.
We can not to rely upon ourselves, or upon what ever advanced knowledge we think we have been building our lives in Christ with. We must go back to the very beginning, and the foundation that we use to start the building with. We need to begin to rethink that process by returning to those basic commands that change our lives from the inside out. We must rely upon the transforming power of God's Holy Spirit that will prepare us as we build. These are the things we begin with as a church to comprehend and understand if we are to hear the words "well done my good and faithful servant". May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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