God says Let no one defraud you and declare you unworthy

God says “Let no one defraud you and declare you unworthy” Brendan Mc Crossan

God says “Let no one defraud you and declare you unworthy”

Brendan Mc Crossan 21-2-2011

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Colossians 2-18 Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize. {Amplified Bible}

For a long time I have been giving talks and talking on this subject during my talks telling the Christian children of God that they are not unworthy, or sinners, they were once unworthy and sinners and that is a fact; but when they accepted Jesus as lord and saviour they stopped being unworthy. Christ died for us while we were still sinners but now we are no longer sinners or unworthy, the words were is past tense, now is present tense. Satan has been deceiving the body of Christ for thousands of years by having people believe that they’re unworthy and he uses religion to do this with a little bit of truth to help it along its way. But the word of God clearly states that we are not unworthy, but who do we believe?

Romans -5-8- 8But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us. 9Therefore, since we are now justified ([f]acquitted, made righteous, and brought into right relationship with God) by Christ's blood, how much more [certain is it that] we shall be saved by Him from the indignation and wrath of God. {Amplified Bible}

Being unworthy means, worthless, not fit for nothing, undeserving and that you are not in right relationshipwithGodbutChristgaveyoufellowshipwithGodandbroughtintorightrelationship with God the Father through what he done for us while we were sinners, were means something is past tense, it means it has gone it’s in the past. The word, “are” is present tense; it is now the way things happen to be right at this moment.

Galatians-2-18-rather we are sinners if we starter building the old system of trying to be saved by keeping the Jewish laws.

Trying to justify yourself by religious acts or beliefs will never make you right with God, and in fact as you can see from the previous scripture it makes you sinners if you try to get saved by religion, and scripture says a sinner is destined for hell.

1 Corinthians 11:26-28- 26 For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.27 So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. 28 Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup. (New International Version, ©2010)

An uncle of mine shared with me one day a revelation that he had from the Lord regarding the word “unworthy” and the ‘communion service,’ he said the lord explained to him that his children received him in communion in an unworthy manner because they believed the devils lies that they were unworthy and this made their share in the communion service unworthy.

The word manner means, way, mode, method, style, approach, behaviour, conduct and comportment, attitude, demeanour, posture. It does not necessarily mean sin; it is an attitude towards communion that causes you to eat of the bread and drink of the cup in a wrongful way.

Everyone needs to examine themselves before receiving communion, where does your believing lay? Do you believe that you are unworthy, a worthless piece of garbage as the dictionary explains, if you do, you are eating of the body and blood of Christ in an unworthy manner, {approach, behaviour, attitude} and that can cause sickness in some people and some have even died because they took the body and blood of Jesus in communion in an unworthy manner, their attitude towards what God has done for them through the death and resurrection of Jesus is all wrong, it is a sin to believe that you are unworthy after God declares you righteous, holy and spotless and perfect in his sight, you are denying what God declared you to be, you’re in effect calling him a liar.

Luke 17:9- Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’” (New International Version, ©2010)

When I read this scripture I thought at first that this is a contradiction to what the first scripture tells us, let no one call you unworthy, but as I said this to the lord he said this to me, in scripture Jesus told the disciples this story describing a servant who is declared unworthy, then remember that Jesus then later on told his disciples that he no longer called them servants but friends, he made the distinction between servant and friend.

John-15-15- I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Jesus distances servants from friends putting servant in the past tense, {no longer call you servants} and making the disciples and us friends. A servant was unworthy, he is lower than his master but Jesus took away the unworthiness from them and us by declaring us his own friend; God does not contradict his own word, he calls us worthy and holy and righteous, as we are no longer a servant but friends of God

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I went searching through the concordance in the bible to find out how often the word ‘unworthy’ was used in reference towards Christian children of God the Father and I was amazed that is used only three times in the new testament In the {NIV Bible}

The word righteous was used 137 times mostly regarding the children of God. The word worthy is used 37 times in the new testament regarding the children of God and Jesus, in the {NIV Bible} The words children of God in the New Testament is used 47 times reference us and some other things, in the {NIV Bible}

And the word sinner is mentioned in the NIV bible 76 times always separated from the saints who are righteous.

The word reconciled is mentioned 7 times in the New Testament; {Amplified Bible}

Romans 5-10- For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, it is much more [certain], now that we are reconciled, that we shall be saved (daily delivered from sin's dominion) through His [resurrection] life.

James 3-9-With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. We are made in God’s likeness, is God unworthy? He is if you declare that you are unworthy, because after all you are made in his likeness. Likeness means similarity, portrait, duplicate, image, reproduction. You are a reproduction of God a duplicate of him, amazing to think this isn’t it?

Colossians 2-18-Let no one defraud you by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy and disqualifying you for the prize. {Amplified Bible}

Scripture dictates here that you are not allowed to let anyone call you unworthy, simply because they are defrauding you acting as a judge and jury and umpire. No one is to call you unworthy, not even yourself otherwise you are defrauding yourself of the glorious things that God has spoken about you, he declares you holy, spotless and clean without a single fault. Who is right you or God, the minister or God, the priest or God? Even if the pope said you are unworthy, he is wrong, he doesn’t have that right to declare anyone for whom Jesus died and rose again for and declared good in his sight, he does not have the right before God to call any born again child of God unworthy. Nor does the head of any religious Christian denomination have that right either to contradict God.

I know at mass we say, “Lord I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed.” Let me ask every born again Catholic of which I am one; did you receive Jesus into your life when you asked him to become your lord and saviour? Did Jesus come into you when you asked him to come in? Of course he did, and he will never leave you, he is there permanently. So how can you be unworthy to receive him in communion when you already have him inside you? Can you please explain that to me, and by the way this is not a different Jesus than the one you already received, is he?

Jesus made us worthy, no one else, Jesus alone through his suffering at the pillar and on the cross made us worthy, that is what he was doing taking the sins of the world onto his pain racked bloodied body, and he was paying the price of our unworthiness on that cross where had a sign nailed above his head, saying “The King of the Jews,” and as scripture says he took the list of our sins on the cross, I think that that sign wasn’t just a sign saying the king of the Jews but it was a sign saying spiritually, “the list of our sins.” I’m probably wrong but I feel that the sign was there for a spiritual reason not just because of Pilots whim. {This is just my thinking not an inspiration from the Holy Spirit, or maybe it is? On this I don’t know}

Let “no one” defraud you or call you unworthy, and that means litterly “no one,” no one in this world has the right to call a child of God that Jesus died for and who accepted him into their lives ‘unworthy,’ and that of course means you also, don’t make God out to be a liar, he doesn’t like it.

Colossians 1-22-Yet now has [Christ, the Messiah] reconciled [you to God] in the body of His flesh through death, in order to present you holy and faultless and irreproachable in His [the Father's] presence.

How can you be unworthy if you have been reconciled to God, in order to present you, holy and faultless and irreproachable in the Fathers presence. If God decided to make you holy and faultless and irreproachable to him who are you to let a man or women call you different by calling you unworthy. The feeling of unworthiness keeps us away from drawing close to God, yet God calls out to his children, come to me come close. Satan is defrauding the Christian children of God of their God given rights by telling them they are unworthy or sinners and undeserving of the grace of God, and if you feel unworthy how can you resist the devil when he attacks you, you have no confidence to withstand him and he whips you about the place holding you up to mockery and ridicule and you are the one who criticizes yourself tearing yourself down by agreeing with him, and you have no confidence to just walk boldly right up to the Father in the throne room of heaven and get what you need, and the word of God says come boldly

{Ephesians-1-4-6 For he chose us in him “before” the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will} {NIV Bible.

From before the foundation of the world he chose us to be in Christ and to be holy and blameless in his sight. As far as God is concerned we are holy and blameless in his sight, it matters not how the world sees you but it matters a tremendous lot how God sees you and you have a choice to make; do I believe God or myself or the world?

But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].{Amplified Bible}

How can you possibly be unworthy, if you are righteous, pure and holy? God says let no one defraud you, {that’s you who read this} by acting as an umpire and declaring you unworthy.

Satan does not have the right to call you unworthy, even after he gets you to commit a sin, you are still not allowed to call yourself unworthy, you have to repent and you are instantly forgiven and in right standing with God again. What an amazing loving Father God we have, what a wondrous saviour we have, and what a glorious Holy Spirit we have and all live inside us in our spirit.