ELECTRONIC MINISTRY – Part 4 (Open Letter pages 141-147).
And then, there is another servant of Yours, dear Lord, who also has been serving for long years. And he, too, has been building a religious enterprise which demands begging for money and using every clever worldly tactic available to build something for the Holy and Almighty God.
It is not uncommon for this, or many other servants, to go down to heavy debts … and then hope for a miracle to get them out of their pit. Is this walking by faith, or is it a “Christian adventurism”? I believe, Lord, it is the latter, for they even seem to lose common sense in building and preserving their enterprises. Their letters, describing their financial misery, also show their spiritual misery!
True, this servant is one of the few voices condemning the evils in his nation and around the world, warning against these evils and fighting these evils even though using fleshly weapons. His voice is not false, he does not preach lies. It is also true that his aim is to stop, and even reverse, the tide of evil, claiming that the majority of the people are moral and law-abiding citizens.
He may be quite right. Also, he may be quite unaware that “the mystery of iniquity doth already work” (2Thess.2:7) for over nineteen centuries and NO MAN shall stop nor reverse this process! Why? Because You, Lord, have allowed this process to take place, so that, the true fruit of evil (the grapes) would also ripen for the time of harvest!
It is written that an angel shall proclaim with a loud voice unto You: “Thrust in thy sickle and reap, for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe” (Rev.14:15). This is the precious fruit of the earth for which You, the Husbandman, have been so patiently waiting (Jas.5:7).
And then, another angel shall be told: “Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the wine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe” (Rev.14:18).
What shall I say, then? Should Your servant stop preaching? Stop proclaiming the truth? Stop pointing at all evils and condemning them? Stop educating young Christians? Not at all! Yea, I pray that he would continue and be not discouraged, for that is what You Yourself were boldly doing during Your brief ministry on earth.
But, Lord, I have never seen You going to Herod’s palace to lobby for anything! Nor have I heard You sending any of Your disciples for the same purpose. Yet, this servant, and his partners in faith, would not hesitate to go and seek help and answers in “Herod’s palaces” where the spiritual wickedness is no less than in the nightclubs of the same city.
He even has the courage to claim that “God told him so”, that it was Your leading! I believe he should REPENT to You for this.
And should Your servant or one of his colleagues be offered the very throne of Herod, they might not hesitate one minute. Yea, they would see in it Your hand … and a great opportunity for the forces of God to reverse the tide of evil. They have never read nor perceived the truth in John 6:15 because their minds would not allow them to see and understand Your Wisdom in this area. Only their spirit could allow them to see and understand. But, can they hear their spirit?
Furthermore, there is another fact which applies not only to Your servant’s educational system but to all religious educational systems, and it is this: The true champions of Christ are NOT those who deny the voice of Your Spirit, pick up their certificates, and follow their leaders no matter where those leaders are going and whose will they are doing. The true champions of Christ are those, and only those, who deny their own selves, pick up their crosses and follow You (Mt.16:24).
Nevertheless, I do pray, Lord, that You would richly bless all the young people who, with pure hearts, decide to study Your Word and heed Your calling. Also, I pray that You would show them that the true minister, the true servant of Christ, is not trained at a seminary as such, but in his own house, in his own family, and at Your feet!
Lastly, I desire, Lord, that You would show them and their teachers and leaders that not one word of Your Scripture was written by a scholar!!! Yes, even apostle Paul used nothing from the scholarly Saul of Tarsus, rather, he wrote solely out of the abundance of the revelations he received at Your feet (2Cor.12:7).
There is yet another thing I must insert at this point. It touches not only this servant of Yours, but many other servants and leaders, as well as their followers.
Lord, whenever I see a “TV evangelist” holding a poor black child in his lap in some distant refugee camp, and soliciting money, I get sick to my stomach. My spirit is “ruffled”” for several reasons.
Firstly, such a servant of Yours should make up his mind and decide whether he is Your evangelist, or whether he is “mother” Theresa! He cannot be both at the same time. He should re-read his calling and his duties in the book of Ephesians 4:11-13 and realize that he was NOT called to be … a President of a College, a Chairman of a Christian Movement, an evangelist, a pastor of a church, a writer, a teacher, a builder of schools on the Fiji Islands, a milkman for the poor in Ethiopia, a tourist guide in Israel, a candidate for a secular office … even a good father caring for the spiritual, mental and physical well-being of his wife and children – ALL IN ONE PERSON!! The more these leaders want to accomplish in this physical world, the less they accomplish in the spiritual world.
Secondly, he does not have to fly around the world with all his team to produce such a sad and heartbreaking picture to get at our bank accounts and to build his glory. He can do it in any slum of any city in his own nation – much more cheaply!
And thirdly, he should search his heart real well and find out the TRUE reasons for doing all these things. Are they purely humanitarian reasons? Or is it the leading of Your Spirit? Are we, good Christians, supposed to help all the peoples all the time, no matter where they are or who they are, what they do or what they do not do? And if we are, then why do we need to be “wise as serpents”? (Mt.10:16).
And if we help every one in the world, the world shall praise us, all men shall praise us … how then will we be hated OF ALL MEN for Your Name’s sake??? (Mt.10:22). Can anyone tell me?
Also, could some of Your evangelists and other servants explain Matthew 10:14,15? Can they give one … even ONE example when they were led by Your Spirit to shake off the dust of their feet? Or when they were restricted by Your Spirit to go and help? Even to go and preach? Yea, even to go and pray??? (Acts 16:6,7; Jer.7:16, etc.).
Let me not speak in mysteries, but give two examples.
Has any of them told the peoples of India, including their leadership, to stop worshipping their cows? To stop feeding and worshipping their rats, while thousands of their people are dying on their streets of hunger? To stop playing with and worshipping their venomous snakes? To stop calling and using their worst open sewer as the “holy river”? To destroy their satanic gods and idols, and repent and turn to the living God?
Do they not keep practising their satanism with an ever increasing fervor? Yet, should You – the Lord God Jehovah – send any judgement upon them by Your own hand, we, good Christians are the first to collect our substance and rush over there to alleviate Your Judgement! Are we wise as serpents, or are we just plain stupid fools??
And because we ARE stupid fools, and do not seem to be willing to sit down at Your feet and learn even these very basic lessons, You give us a taste of our foolishness and of their “grand religions”. You allow all kinds of weird “gurus” to come to our supposedly Christian countries and turn hosts of our naîve people into lunatics!
The second and most recent example is Ethiopia. You had given me this clear word: “Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out MINE HAND upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and WILL SEND FAMINE UPON IT, AND WILL CUT OFF MAN AND BEAST FROM IT” (Ez.14:13).
What have the Christian “leaders” and multitudes of their followers done? Without asking You one word, they promptly joined hands with the world and plunged headlong into the farce of “saving Ethiopia”. I would not have been surprised, Lord, had they also joined in their song “We are the world”.
Untold millions of dollars ended up in the hands of devils in human skin; untold tons of food rotted away or were consciously mishandled; untold thousands of Ethiopians were shot and murdered by the guns purchased with the Christian offerings. And additional untold thousands of their people were forcibly transported to the South by the army trucks purchased with the Christian offerings!
O Lord God Jehovah, how long will Your Church be a laughing-stock for the world and for Satan???
I now come back to Your servant and ask him this: “Will you heed these words that I have spoken on the Lord’s behalf, and will you consider them in your heart? Will you reconsider your goals, ambitions and ways before the Creator of all the Universe?
I prayed for you that the Lord of Glory and Might would truly strengthen you, to keep you proclaiming the truth and condemning the evils … to keep you educating young champions for Christ. But will you change your course as the Spirit has been indicating? Will you ever repent if He desires so? I pray that you would … lest the spiritual (eternal) value of your ministry within your own enterprise or any other enterprise you might affect should vanish.” Let it be so, O Lord of Glory and Might! Amen.
(To be continued next week in part 5)
brother Hanola
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