Discerning the one who is with Him (II) Apostle Sergio G. Enríquez O. Guatemala, June 30th Year of Abundance
When we see what is happening around the world, not only the political panorama but all that that can have humanity with a passion, we see that suddenly it is a situation that can take the control of human lives; not only at referring the concept of passion, we are not only talking about a sexual matter, but to all that that can cause a dependence or a wildness to feel good, an example of this could be the sport: people to everything to be aware of what an athlete does in a competence. The problem with this situation is that is not only being manifested with people of the world but still with Christians, at the point of losing control depending of the behavior of the soccer team at the moment of the game; unfortunately they focus this passion in things of the world but never in searching the face of God, they do not search do God´s will with the same passion, they have accommodate at hearing the word of God but they burn in passion in supporting a sport team. This is why God is allowing that many things happen in a general point of view to cause a personal effect, all this for us to see all that is happening in the world to realize that everything goes forward in the scatological matter to make us understand that the returning of the Lord Jesus Christ for His encounter with His bride is next. In such way that we cannot ignore the fact of the separation of England from the European Union, which marks the beginning of a prepared chaos which is not just by chance; because all this was prepared by a group of people called the puppeteers of the world, because many things that are happening around the world have being manipulated by this people with very personal interests. Thank God that the Church of the Lord Jesus Chris, depends on His kindly hand which is always extended upon us, we are not depending of the world, we are obviously here, but we do not belong to this world, in somehow we have a link in the development of everything and we take part of the trade, because we need to buy what we need to live, but God allows that to bless the people of the World to give them an opportunity. However we need to know that no matter what happens in the world there will be always a higher one upon everything which is God the Almighty. In such way that although the world persist in their secret operations, the Lord take care of us to live in peace and that should teach us to depend on His hand. Even the political changes that could be, as we said before like the problem that is now happening in Europe, there are also local problems, sometimes people believes that certain organizations have risen to save the world, but this is not possible. It is necessary that we analyze the intern problems of some countries which are used to cause chaos by taking their international or local sovereignty away, later they search for a subject to be seen as a savior of the word, but they are only a tentacle of the antichrist to have control over each country, this can´t be seen as it really is for most of the people because this is humanist people. But then everything is being focused to cause a chaos, to let the world order arise, first in a local way, but with the purpose of becoming the new world order. It is quite important to make clear after all we have said that we are not against to any organization, we are not saying that we should oppose or take part of a revolution. But we cannot just be agree with what read in some newspapers, whether they are local or international, neither have a feeling in our souls based in the political tendency of those who write their own criterion to impact peoples life. Let us remember that Christians have a book that God left written for us to form us according to God´s heart and that in that way we will not be impacted by the hate of the world. This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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Discerning the one who is with Him (II) Apostle Sergio G. Enríquez O. Guatemala, June 30th Year of Abundance
Now taking as basis the Bible, we also need to have our own criterion based in what we see around the world and not by others are commenting around the world. It is important that we see which could be the scatological impact, because that is our purpose, at analyzing he world´s events, and realize that we are seeing fulfilled the Biblical prophecy and that we could be like the sons of the tribe of Issachar that were expert in discern times (1 Chronicles 12:32) but not for a personal criterion but under the guide of the Holy Spirit in our heart and in that way we will not be deceived by the enemy by making us believe that the Lord is not coming yet and say what others is saying and have deceived others, at the point of believing that the Lord is not coming no even in 400 years. Somebody could think that we are a political group disguised of religious, but thank God we are not of both things; we are born again Christians in search of doing God´s will to please him and in that way we could be qualified to be the bride of Christ to marry Him. However, to reach the holiness that we were called, it is also necessary that we be alert to not be deceived and that is where we could be wrong seen because we question what happens unexpectedly happens in the world. That is the reason why we could be wrong seen by the authorities of the world because we don´t accept everything that is happening in the world is just a consequence or has an innate origin; but this is not either to be contrary to everybody, but the truth is that sometimes we see events that happens very accurately that does not seems to happen by chance, but all seems to be part of an event accurately programed, for instance: the attempt of the world trade center of New York looks like a perfect programed demolition, and that is where we wonder, Why it happen in that way? This is not a product of our imagination: many professionals have made calculations and they said that there is no way that a building of such magnitude could fall in the way it did; it fell like there it was some kind of programmed demolition. This situation would bring a political effect that would move the armies in the world, it would create a political tension in the middle east where Israel which is considered part of the clock of God, and now we must pay attention of what is going to happen there always under the scatological point of view and not the political. But then, here is where we wonder; why they brake down the world trade center? And now we wonder also; Why the Brexit? We know that the Brexit is the exit of the Great Britain of the European Union, which had started to cause financial problems worldwide, but not as the puppeteers of the world expected, because they search to cause a world chaos to impose a new world order which would be leaded by a man who is identified in the Bible as the antichrist, this man will amaze the entire world, which is why the nations of the world will not hesitate in handing over their sovereignty, but for that time the Bride of Christ should have left this earth. About this we need to remember that we as primary ministries of God, need to effort to help the Church to reach the stature that we need to have to leave this earth and being part of the weddings of the Lamb; but that is for the sheep of the Lord because the pastors will be in this earth for that event, but what is our basis to say this? Eph 4:11-16 KJ2000 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ: 14 That we from now on be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, by which they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ: 16 From whom the whole body being fitly joined together and knit together by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love. Let us remember that the encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ with His bride will be in the clouds, it will be part of the court of the Son, where some will continue to the weddings of the Lamb and others will return to the earth to continue to be equipped; but that equipment needs to have ministers to equip to those who will return to the earth; that is the reason why we need to return to this earth after deliver the Bride that will marry with the Lord. When the group that will return to the earth finished their capacitation, as we read in the Bible, then next verse will be fulfilled. Rev 7:14 KJ2000 And I said unto him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, these are they who came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Beside this, we see in other verse that the church that will be in the middle of the tribulation will be given two wings of the great eagle. Rev 12:14 KJ2000 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. There is a lot to explain here, but that is not the purpose of this study; what we need to know is that we are servants of God and we have the privilege of working in His vineyard preparing His Church; in this time all those who have dispose their life to be well capacitated, but also in the tribulation we will be working for the Lord for those who will have to return to finish their process. Obviously we need to have a balance in everything because just in the same way that we will give counts for the sheep under our care we will also have to give counts for ourselves and our family, later for the doctrine that we have had lived in all moment and after that for His sheep. The ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ must know that that work that we have is the best that we could ever had, we have the best boss because there is no other like Him, but we also need to know that this is a very important job, and it is vital that we see it in its true dimension because we are children of God, but also we are His servants and if at any moment we sin for lack of wisdom; we would be falling in serious problems like Goliath. Which is Why David, knowing in the name of Whom he was going to face that giant, he said what is next: 1Sa 17:45 KJ2000 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46 This day will the LORD deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from you; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. 47 And all this assembly shall know that the LORD This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give you into our hands. We must never being playing with the calling that we have from God and never underappreciate the power that we received from Him being His servants. If God tells us to do something, as hard as it looks, let us remembers that we have received a divine order and it is not with sword or spear; the battle is of the Lord and if we obey His word, He will deliver in our hands His victory. This is why we need to be careful with our tongue, because we could start talking ill of someone and finish talking ill of God, blaspheme and brining difficult situations to our life. This is why it is quite important to beg the Lord to give us discernment to know what and how obey his orders because in the contrary case we could blaspheme against the Tabernacle of the Holies, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, against the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The problem is sometimes people talks ill about a person and when he or she sees that nothing happens he or she could increase the lever of blaspheme and in that way go on until he reaches a moment when he blaspheme against the Holy Spirit, and that is when they fill the patience of God. Pro 30:7-9 KJ2000 Two things have I required of you; deny me not them before I die: 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food needful for me: 9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain. We can clearly see with the previous verse that some could commit blaspheme not by what he says but what he does. Let us see another example of blaspheme and its consequence. 2Sa 12:13-14 KJ2000 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die. 14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto you shall surely die. David led a blaspheme and he consequence was the death of his son, David sinned, the enemies of the Lord blasphemed and his son died. Then the fact of sinning, an illicit act against God, could make other blaspheme and this will bring bad consequences against us. However, this case was amazing because the one who died because of David sin was his son, David did not die. And let us remember that Jesus is known as the son of David who gave His life for us; so in that situation the son of David died as a shadow of what was coming. This is why we need to allow the Holy Spirit to work in our life to help us to perfect the holies of the Lord, because in other way we could be falling into the mistake of pretending to perfect according the flesh as it happened to the Galatians: Gal 3:1-3 KJ2000 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been openly set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received you the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the flesh? This teaches us that pretending to perfect the church through the flesh is a foolishness; some other versions of the Bible says: O stupid Galatians! Who bewitched you?... this means that they could have being guided by witches, this is why it is necessary that we are very careful with
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what we do and the way we do it because we could be doing God´s work through the flesh, with humanist precepts and not by the guide of the Holy Spirit. Let us remember that with the Lord Jesus Christ we cannot see things and take only what we like and left aside what we don´t, with Him is everything or nothing, if we follow Him with all our being and we do everything He tells us to do, in contrary case we are falling into in that situation. Mat 12:30 KJ2000 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathers not with me scatters abroad. When we investigate the word “scatters abroad” in different biblical dictionaries, we find what is next G4658 skorpizo = wast, scatters abroad, disperse, spread Inside the wide meaning of that word, once again we notice the traduced word Spear because then we can clearly see that if someone do not gathers with the Lord he is spearing. Now let us see the next verse that teaches us what this situation means: Lev 19:16 KJ2000 You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you take a stand against the life of your neighbor: I am the LORD. The one who spreads slanders is the one who did not gather wit Jesus; then if somebody is talking ill about another person about a situation of which he is not every sure of it is true or not, is spreading slanders, why? Because he did not gathered with Jesus, because he is not with Him; and this means that he is against Him. A clearly example of slanders against a brother in Christ could be in the next way: if we are not agree with the doctrine of some ministers and their way of develop their ministry: situation that in some moment could drive us to warn the sheep that we cover that we are not agree with that doctrine: but this must be something that we could prove because we have seen it. On the other hand, we could fall in a situation of being slander a brother in Christ, when we do not have any prove of what is being said of him. The problem of the time we are living is that in the middle of the modern situation, there are social networks that are used to slander the life of a person, making easy to spread this slander because it is enough just by sharing the publication in the same network, and in this way we are falling into spreading slanders and even worst when the slandered people is a Christian, sometimes the people of the world starts a slander and spread it by the social networks and some Christians instead of stopping this situations they continue spreading it by the simple facto of share the publication. If at any moment we are not agree with what somebody does it, it is better if we remain in silent, even more with it is something that does not bring us any benefit or doesn´t damage us, and even more if we do not know that slander is an attack of the kingdom of darkness to attack a minister of God, because if it is, and if a Christian is being taking part is sharing that slander he is actually being part of the army that came out of the heart of the devil to destroy a Christian or a group of Christians. Therefore, if that implies doctrine, we have to say it and prevent the sheep but also we need to have probes of that and solve it between us and never make it public in the social networks This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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because this will only make the unbelievers to know about the interne differences that we have as church of Christ, it is better to solve it in secret, otherwise we would only make the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme as we said before What gather to not spread? 2Ki 9:36 KJ2000 Therefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the territory of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: 2Ki 9:37 KJ2000 And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as refuse upon the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel. How could the carcass of Jezebel be refused upon the face of the field? The first thing that happened is that the dogs would eat them and in the moment they will defecate they would left the carcass of Jezebel in many places, Which spreads? The carcass of Jezebel, and Who spread it? The dogs, but, Let us see what does the Bible says about dogs Php 3:2 KJ2000 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators. Here we find three characters of whom we need to beware, but there are another two, let us see: Mat 7:15 KJ2000 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Luk 20:46 KJ2000 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at feasts; When God tells us of to beware of something specifically, He tells it 5 times, which represents the 5 anti-ministries: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Beware of the false scribes = false teachers Beware of the false prophets = false prophets Beware of the mutilators = false apostles Beware of the evil workers = false evangelists Beware of the dogs = false pastors
Why does God warn us about them? Because they pretend to have a church but at not gathering the truth with Christ, they finish eating Jezebel to spread her doctrine along the earth. Today we need to teach the church to not do this, but, How? By gathering with Christ. Deu 32:11 KJ2000 As an eagle stirs up its nest, flutters over its young, spreads abroad its wings, takes them, bears them on its wings: If we do not gather young eagles, we could finish spreading, although the fact of gather young eagles is one of the hardest works that we as ministers of God could have. Let us see an example: the eagle stirs up its nest and puts thorns around it with two purposes: when the This study is allowed to be copied and printed by any mean, only if the source of the information is quoted.
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young eagle is a baby could fall, so these thorns keep it away from the borders, the second function is to keep the predators away from the nest, but then the young eagle gets use to be in the nest. Then the time comes when the Eagle mother must teach their babies to fly. Let us remember that everything has its time, in such way that in some countries children leave house since they are very young and start working and study to survive themselves alone. In other countries they wait until get marry to leave the house, although this could happen when they are not too young; because there are cases when they get marry at 20 years old but others does when they are already 32 or more. The problem is that as older they are as harder is for them get used to live alone with other person because it is hard for them to leave the commodities of the house of their parents. This is why sometimes God allows storms come to our life with the purpose that we start walking and fend for ourselves; but obviously under the guide of the Holy Spirit. Now we wonder: How could we motivate the young eagles? By making them see that there is something they need to reach which is the reason why God reached them; it could be a primary ministry or another calling from God, but it is necessary to make the sheep understand that there is something that they have to do in God´s work and that they need to leave the nest to learn to fly. In nature the Eagle mother drops its baby to see if it can fly, and the eagle flies near to see the reaction of the baby eagle, until finally the baby flies. This means then that when we see a sheep who is being persevering in the preparation to become a minister, we take him to be thrown but little by little and in this way he can assimilate everything that God had allowed him to reach. But this does not mean that we need to take them out of the church to put them in another congregation, but they need to be well prepared to be optimum eagles to fly at any moment. But then, this teaches us that at being picking little eagles, this will void us to spread heresies; if we are going to spread something, it must be arrows but not baby eagles, but mature eagles formed in the hand of God. Mat 23:37 KJ2000 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent unto you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not! The previous verse shows us one of the pastoral functions which is the protection of the sheep. When we dedicate to protect the sheep that the Lord put under our care, it is like an occupational spiritual therapy because when somebody has a problem and nears to us searching for an advice, we can ministrate them protection by telling them that we will help them to solve everything under God´s order, although it might means certain risk because there is always enemies of God that want to destroy not only the sheep but the ministries also. When we protect the sheep, we need to intercede for the problems that we think they have, but not only in general terms, but in a specific way too, this means that we are thinking in help the needed sheep and not in spread lies or doctrines of Jezebel. This is why at the end of the times God is rising new ministers according His heart to do the work that he has entrusted them, blessing to all His church.
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1Sa 2:35 KJ2000 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
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