FELLOWSHIP OF GOD SERIES

THE ANGER OF JESUS

God has given this prophecy especially for this conference.

 

 There are many who are saying that we have seen some shaking over the past few years in the body of Christ throughout the world. And it seems like the shaking is about over and there are things being established. But the Holy Spirit says that it is not yet over. There are still things that have to be shaking. There are still things that God is shaking while at the same time He is building.

 

Personally I believe that we don’t have that much time before Jesus Christ comes again. No man knows the hour; no man knows the day. And no person having a rightful theological balance should ever want to try to predict the date of the Second Coming. However we do know the season. And there are some who say we are close to it; we probably may have about 30 to 40 years, but that is short to me. Considering the many things that God has placed in my heart that I must finish; to run the race which God has for all of us to run. And there are many churches that are not ready for the 21st century.

 

I was speaking to a denomination leader, who was one of the main prominent leaders, a man of influence. I said as I was having fellowship with him over breakfast. I asked, "Is your denomination ready for the 21st century. Can the present infrastructure continue to exist in the 21st century? Will you reach the people of the 21st century with your present structure?" He thought very carefully and he said no. I said that is the reason why God has to shake the church to get the wineskin ready for that which He has for us in the 21st century. Therefore there will be still much more shaking; much more things that God wants to establish and remove before His coming. The time for playing church is over some years back. What happens is not only the time for playing church is over, but God Himself will begin to deal with those things that are just a superficial covering for Christianity. And God will bring up only what is genuine. There are too much niceties and diplomacy; but behind them is insincerity of heart. There are too much things that we sweep under the carpet that will come to the surface that God has to deal with until we begin to walk in the perfect will of God.

 

I would say it is a very dangerous thing to be outside the perfect will of God in the 21st century. It is so dangerous that in the acceleration of what God is doing in the times that we are living in, there are many things that happens much faster than before in the body of Christ. And along with that the negative is also true that anything that is in His permissive will may be removed completely. God will not tolerate it any longer.

 

I want to show the times when Jesus was angry and upset. We know Jesus was perfect so when He felt that way it was from God's heart Himself. He was not just loosing His temper or feeling of human emotion. He was experiencing the displeasure of God. And communicating it in His manifested ways. Lets look at the gospel of Luke 6:6

 

Lk. 6:6-11 On another Sabbath, when He entered the synagogue and taught, a man was there whose right hand was withered. And the scribes and the Pharisees watched Him, to see whether He would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against Him. But He knew their thoughts, and He said to the man who had the withered hand. "Come and stand here." And he rose and stood there. And Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to destroy it?"  And He looked around on them all, and said to him, "Stretch out your hand."  And he did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus.  Jesus upset them. They got angry with Jesus. I want to focus on that moment in verse 10. Something was taking place in Jesus' heart. He was feeling the emotions of the displeasure of God. 

 

It looks like a typical synagogue service where everyone was there. The bible says that they were all looking at Him. And there was one man who needed healing, a man with a withered arm. That day he was in the synagogue and everyone had heard about Jesus. They knew what Jesus would love to do. Now they were watching, in a Sabbath day, would Jesus heal like He heals before? So everyone was staring at Him. Do you know that Jesus stared back? The amazing thing is the feeling of Jesus at that time. Jesus looked back at them. I wondered how the man with the withered hand felt. I think he must have felt like a guinea pig. Everyone was looking at him and looking at Jesus. I believe that on that day he was in the synagogue probably seeking Jesus. He was there seeking a miracle from Jesus. He probably heard about Jesus. He didn’t come to the synagogue that day to be stared at. Nobody volunteers to be a guinea pig. But on that day as he was sitting there all eyes were on him.

 

Let me cross to Mk. 3:4-5 And He said to them, "Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. And He looked around at them with anger.  Christians who had a visitation from Jesus would often see much love in His eyes; His eyes look like rivers of love flowing out. But if you ever see an angry Jesus it makes you want to hide. Kenneth Hagin in his book I Believe In Visions speaks about how Jesus visited him. And he says that he had looked into the eyes of Jesus. And he had seen the love in His eyes. And he said there was one time when Jesus gave him an anointing. And then he laid hands on a man who couldn't bend his back. And he said see if you can bend and the man couldn't because there was doubt. Although the anointing was there, there was doubt and it couldn't flow. Then as he was getting the man to be healed, Jesus appeared to him at the side. And Jesus said I told you that if you use the anointing it will work. Then Hagin started talking to Jesus. Other people didn’t see Jesus but he saw Jesus. He said yes Lord I did but he is not healed. I told you that he would be healed. Then Jesus came nearer and pointed a finger between his eyes. And he says for the first time he saw what Jesus looked like when He is angry. He says there was fire in His eyes and He said I told you that he would be healed. Jesus was angry because he had doubted. And when Jesus disappeared suddenly it dawned on his mind what he should do. He didn't say see if you can bend. He said bend and the man bent. What a difference doubts could do whether we receive the miracles from God or not.

 

What I want to point to the fact is that when Jesus gets angry it is not like a man getting angry. It is not like without principles. It is not like a person loosing the temper. It is because of the displeasure of God coming down on a person's life. See it was not just anger.

 

Look at Mk. 3:5 So when he had looked around at them with anger being grieved at their hardness of heart. Many people think that Jesus was a loving person. They don’t know that there are times when God is upset. I want you to know that these are the last days and the Holy Spirit is speaking to us. And we want to talk about 3 things that upset God. We need to know these three things that make God angry so that we won't make Him angry. And on that day while the man with the withered hand was there, Jesus saw his condition and He saw the group that was against Him. And the bible says He looked around at them. For a moment there was high tension. They stared at Jesus and Jesus stared back. There is only a few time the bible mentioned that Jesus was angry.

 

The Holy Spirit says in this message that He is bringing forth that there are many things that His church and His people are making Him upset and angry. We may not sound that we have those kinds of things. But I have said many times it is ignorance. But we are upsetting God. We are making Jesus filled with grief and upset. The more you want the power of God the more you must not grieve Him. Remember Kathryn Khulman in her meetings there is always one thing that she keeps telling the people not to do. She said do not grieve the Holy Spirit. Many of us don’t realize that it is not a purposeful, premeditated thing to displease God. That is the problem because there are very few people who actually do that. But the vast majority does it ignorantly. Sometime when He gets across to us and tells us don’t hurt Me because you are hurting yourself, we don’t get the message. Then He sends another instrument to tell us in some way not to hurt Him. I want you to know that the power of God is available in every church, in every fellowship every time. It is not He holding back His glory. It is we holding back the glory by grieving against Him. So that He cannot work and He cannot move because He is upset.

 

No doubt Jesus did one miracle and that was because this man was ready. But you read about another story in the gospel of Mark 6 where He says that He could not do any miracles there because of their unbelief. You may quote one scripture and say in spite of that if He still wants to work He still can work since He is a sovereign God. But I can also quote one scripture in Mk. 6 where He wanted to work but He couldn't because of their unbelief. God wants to work but there are things that upset Him and make Him angry.

 

The thing that also upsets Jesus is the hardness of their heart. Many of us don’t realize that just letting our hearts to go cold, letting our hearts to lose our zeal cause displeasure to God. I think on the overall many Christians take God for granted. On the overall most Christians take salvation for granted. God has been taken for granted. Please don’t take the peace that you have for granted. Because one day you may lose that peace and never find it again. Don’t take the joy that you have in your life as a Christian for granted. Don’t take the love that He loved us with for granted. I want you to know these are the last days. There are many things that God wants to do. God wants to make some of you so blessed that you never realized how great the blessing is.

 

 There is another prophecy that God gives me several weeks back about how God wants to give finance to people and His gifts. But a lot of people are not receiving that because there are things in their lives that upset God. In this convention God can do something in your life that will work in your life as you open your heart to that. Hardness of heart is something that we never realized. Look at those Pharisees. They have not broken any commandment in a sense. I am sure they have because no man has kept all the 10 commandments. The Pharisees are not like the publicans who don't know the law. The Pharisees do know the law. Jesus even said in Matt. 23 do what they tell you to do but don’t do what they do. They have become so hard in their heart that when God was there they didn’t know it. When God was manifested in the person of Jesus Christ they didn’t know it and they opposed Him.

 

The bible tells us in the book of James 4 it is an area where even if you got your life right. You have to keep a watch all the time so that it never comes in any future time in your life. James 4:6 But he gives more grace; therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."   It didn’t say that God tolerated the proud. But it says He resist, He opposes, He seeks to tear down, He seeks to pull down, He resists the proud. And that was the kind of anger that Jesus felt against the Jews who esteemed in their religious pride. So hard hearted were they that they neglected the most fundamental purpose for the existence of the synagogue. To help people like the man with the withered hand to find God. In their religiosity, in their traditions they forgot the purpose of why they exist. Sometimes in our religiosity we forget why the church exist. Some times in our church politics and in our administration and structure we forget why we exist. We get so absorbed by the non-essentials. People fight and fuss over the politics and control of the church. And they forget why they exist. These are some things that God tolerated but no more. He is going to deal with those things. Hardness of heart must be broken.

 

This morning I want to speak about 3 things that upset God. Normally I have very nice messages but this is the word of the Lord. God gave me a prophecy to give this morning. Then God said share with my people these things that I am not pleased with. That if they don’t deal with these things in their lives, then I will deal with them. Three things that Jesus is upset for these displease God. We want to look at things that displease God and be careful that we don’t move into those areas especially in the critical times that we live in. To be in those areas is to be in danger of the wrath of God.

 

Revelation chapter 2 and 3. In the message to the 7 churches there are some warnings that God gave to some of the churches and not to all of the churches. If you are living your life right with God, if you are doing what you know is best. I am not talking about necessary being perfect in every way. All of us are on our way to perfection and we are still being transformed. I mean in the best sincerity of your heart you do know that you are seeking to do God's perfect will. However if in your heart you know you are not in God's perfect will and you are only living in the permissive will, it is important that you get your lives right. It is for your own good.

 

 

1. Sins of Ignorance

 

Rev.2:4 But I have this against you, see there are some things that put us against God. Sometimes Christians don’t realize it but unknowingly they go against God. I think the vast majority of people who go against God does it ignorantly. There is only a few that really mean to go against God. Do you know that the apostle Paul himself while persecuting the Christians thought that he was pleasing God. He thought that what he was doing was what God wants him to do. Lets turn to I Tim. 1:13 though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and insulted Him; but I receive mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief.  See Paul when he was going against God; when he was persecuting the church in his heart he thought that he was doing the right thing. He says he was ignorant of what he was doing. And the vast majority of people who go against God they don’t really do it on purpose.

 

And that's where the danger is. The danger is sometimes we slip into ignorance and we go against God unknowingly. If we have known that we are going against God we would have bowed down and repented. But we don’t know and that is where the danger is. We slip into it without knowing.

 

Turn to Acts 26:9 I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.  He himself thought that means he had a thinking process. But being ignorant does not mean that you do it blindly. It's your thought process taking on a different direction, leading your conclusions to be wrong and before long it becomes ignorance in unbelief. Unbelief is not non-believing. Unbelief is believing the wrong things. Somehow in his thought process he began to think otherwise about Jesus and some of things about the early Christians. And he did things contrary to the name of Jesus.

 

Turn to Acts 22:3 I am a Jew, born at Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as you all are this day.  Notice the statement he made: not only was he ignorant in unbelief, not only was he doing things contrary to the name of Jesus. He says he was zealous towards God. The marvelous thing was that he thought he was pleasing God. But in thinking contrary that he was pleasing God and in ignorance and in unbelief he was actually displeasing God. There is a danger that in these days that we move in when the move of the Spirit is accelerated in so many forms, that we be found in ignorance and unbelief and end up going against God without knowing that we are against God. The thing is that we thought that we are for God. What a contradiction. At different points in our life and in our growth we may have been ignorant. Only by the mercy of God we managed to get out of it and get into something of God.

 

I remember when I was new to the Charismatic Movement. I was in a Baptist church and I had some schoolmates who had become Charismatics. For some unknown reason without knowing much about it I just went against them. In a sense I was guilty like Paul but not to his extend. So in my early days those things took place. As I look back, I couldn't explain why. Maybe because of my natural carnal human and unrenewed attitude to anything new of God, I first rejected the movement. But later I accepted it. That's possibly why I have always wondered but thank God for His grace. Although I went against them and spoke things against them and I had not gone into the ministry yet my heart was hungry for God. What a contradiction here: I was hungry for God and there was something new in God and I went against it.

 

There have been a lot of good preachers; some of them have died and gone. Some are marvelous preachers. Think about people like A.W. Tozer and those people before the Charismatic move. A.W. Tozer called the Charismatic move the last vomit of Satan. But his other books are fantastic. Why is his reaction that way? I am not talking about any person. I am talking about a man of God, mightily used, anointed by the Holy Ghost and a mighty preacher for God. During the revival in China under Watchman Nee, there was a pocket of Charismatic movement. John Sung in his biography discouraged it. He called it emotionalism. Yet these are men of God.

 

The Lord's Spirit tells me, "Son in the past I have tolerated some of these things. But in the time of acceleration it becomes more dangerous. I expect people to get into God in the times where they live in, and examine what they believe by the written word of God, not by our own traditions or by what somebody else said." Sometimes we do ignorantly slip into the area where we are up against Jesus. And Jesus counts us His enemy. Yet we thought we are of Him. We thought we are pleasing Him but we don’t realize we are going directly against Him.

 

There are many other examples we could quote. Think about the move of God from the Jews going to the Gentiles. There were some Christians who opposed spreading the gospel to the Gentiles not realizing that was the move of God. And they stood against Peter for going to Cornelius' house. And there was a whole group of them in Acts 15 who rose up and said that the Gentiles should become Jews because God is actually working among the Jews. Then we have the apostle like Peter who because he was an apostle to the Jews didn’t fully understand some of the things of the Gentiles. So in the book of Galatians Paul talks about how when Peter was with the Gentiles he behaved like a Gentile. When Jews came in he changed and became like a Jew and Paul was upset. And he said that is not right.  That is being insincere. You are not what you are. When the people come you pretend to be something that you are not. So we have in the bible accounts and stories of people who slipped into an area where they went against God without realizing that they were going against God.

 

Rev. 2:4 But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Verse 14-15 But I have a few things against you; you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice immorality. So you also have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

 

  Do you notice that there is something that Jesus hates and this is after the resurrection of Jesus. We are talking about the New Testament. Jesus had already died on the cross, risen from the dead, ascended on high, seated at the throne of God. Now He appeared to John the apostle and tells him what He feels about certain churches. And He says I have this against you and He named those things. There is something that I hate and you tolerate. I hate the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. And He says you have them among you. Implying that Jesus hated them yet the Christians of those particular churches loved them. I hate them but you tolerated them. I would have removed them but you allowed it.

 

Once you begin to look at what God is saying in these days it's so dangerous. The Lord showed me that those who don’t hearken to this message may die. This message is a warning that the Lord is giving. What happens is that our life gets shortened. William Branham died early in a car accident and went home early. But Kenneth Hagin said the accident happened because William Branham taught false doctrine. The mercy of God is there. God is patient and His patience many times last several years. And if you repent quite quickly every time you fall it last quite long.  Because the bible says He forgives and He forgets. But there comes a time when that period of reckoning is over for some lives. And He says either you get that right or I am taking you home.

 

Do you notice something about all these messages in the book of Revelation 2 and 3? They tie up to His second coming. Whether you have a historical view or eschatological view of the book of Revelation the historical view would apply these messages to actual churches. The eschatological view would point to the end time churches. But in principle it still applies to us His church. And they are relevant because each time He mention this He talks about His second coming. He says I am coming again. Every time He tells them about how quickly He will come.

 

Chapter 3 to the church of Sardis. Verses 2-3 Awake, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. Remember then what you received and heard; keep them and repent. If you will not awake, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come upon you. Look at the surprise factor. In the other churches where the warning is, is also a surprise factor. I will come quickly He says.

 

To the church of Laodicea He says here in verse 16-17 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. Jesus says that He is going to come to them. To each of the churches He keeps on saying I am coming. And we of any other generations are closest to His coming than before. Personally it is not a theological view neither it is a prediction. My own personal estimation is we may have about 30 odd years, which is not very long to do what God wants us to do. And it's time that we roll up our sleeves, pull out our bootstraps and get into that which God wants us to do without delay.

 

2. Making Merchandise of the Gospel

 

In Luke 19 when Jesus Christ went into the temple, He found a whole bunch of people making business with the offerings. The holy offerings as commanded in the Old Testament have lost their meaning and had become a money-making thing in the New Testament.

 

Luke 19:45-48 And He entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, saying to them, "It is written, My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers."  Jesus meant that the people were selling and buying and cheating and making use of a holy sacred ordinance to make money.

 

 I want you to know that the modern way of making the house of God a den of thieves is by merchandising the anointing or the offices or ministries of God. Doing so would stir the anger of Jesus in the same way He became angry as He drove those people out of the temple. We find that the ministry could be a moneymaking thing. A Christian bookstore can become a moneymaking thing unless there is a God-inspired vision. It can either be a ministry or it can be a moneymaking scheme. A tape ministry can be a moneymaking business or a ministry. Even an evangelistic or a traveling ministry can become either a profit making industry or a ministry. Many times we have to question our motives and ask whether the Christian work we do is a ministry or just an excuse to make money. We have to make a decision always not to lose our priority. We are here in the ministry to minister. As far as possible we want to seek to give. Like Paul says he gives not expecting any return. He gives because he feels that he was like a father to the people who he ministered to. And he never lost that perspective. And that is the second thing that Jesus is angry about. He is angry when there is a merchandising of the office or the anointing of God. And we need to keep ourselves from those things.

 

3. Immorality and Worldliness

 

Let me give point three. Rev 2: 20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel. Do you notice He didn't say that they deliberately do something? He didn’t say that they chose to do something. He just said that they allowed. Allowing is so easy to do. There are some people who go to the extreme and every time something goes wrong they say it is Jezebel's spirit. What about spirit of Balaam; Balaam is even worse than that. He needed a donkey to talk to him. He says in verse 20 you allowed the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess. Now not every one who calls himself whatsoever is whatsoever. Not every one who calls himself a prophet is a prophet. You shall know them by their fruit. Not every who call themselves a pastor is a pastor. You don’t go by what we call each other or what we call ourselves. There are some pastors who are not pastors but are actually evangelists. There are some apostles who are not apostles but are actually prophets. There are some prophets who are not prophets but are actually evangelists. There are some teachers they are not teachers but are pastors. It is not what we call ourselves is important but what God calls us to do. And it is important that we get into what God wants us to do.

 

Jezebel who teach and beguile my servants. My servants are nameless. There are a lot of servants who are nameless who are faithful. In every church they are there. They are the real servants of God.  There are a lot of pastors, a lot of leaders who are nameless but who are faithfully serving. They don’t vie for position. They don’t try to do something of their own. These are those that whatever move God does they are always involved. God is bringing forth that group. But here this group is being let astray by Jezebel who beguile my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Verse 21 I gave her time to repent.  Even Jezebel has time to repent. Jesus said I give her time to repent and she did not. Then verse 22 the judgment comes. Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. Verse 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.

 

I remember one Singapore minister who is an elderly minister. Before he came into the ministry and before he lived his life right with God. He knew Jesus, born again but backslided and he was living with 2 women. And they were very nice to him. But he knew that something was wrong. And he said this in his testimony. He said every time I look at the bible I never like certain passages, especially those passages that talk about morality - that you shall be a husband of one wife. And he says he doesn't like those scriptures. But finally he got renewed and lived his life right. He gave up both women and went back to his wife. And later he went into the ministry and God honored him. Praise God the bible became alive to him again. If we are living according to the bible it really inspires us.

 

Matt. 23 is a long, long list of woes that doesn't look too interesting. But it is interesting if you are not among the woes. But if the woes describe you it is not interesting. Even with all the woes there, there are a lot of principles you can draw out from them. Matt. 23:1-12 Then said Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples. The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat; so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice. They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by men; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the market places, and being called rabbi by men. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ. He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

 

And He pronounced a whole list of woes to the scribes and the Pharisees. Basically with all these things Jesus definitely is angry with them and upset with them.

 

Pride of Life, Lust of the Flesh and Lust of the Eye

 

 Lets turn to the book of I Jn. 2:15-16 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, in not of the Father but is of the world. 

 

I pick up 3 different situations or incidences and these can be summarized in 3 phrases: the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye and the pride of life. These 3 things are contrary to what God wants of His people. We read passages like Revelation 2 where they have lost their first love. Basically they have got into spiritual pride. And you read about sexual immorality as mentioned in the other 2 churches in Revelation 2 and that talks about the lust of the flesh. Then you find the Laodicean church that says that they are rich. They are actually a worldly church. And we find in all those things that Jesus mentioned; the hardness of heart has to do with pride. And in regard to the people in the temple whom Jesus drove out, they had the love of money. As far as the Pharisees are concerned you notice they are all outward people. They love the outwards things. And all the things that has to do with outward matters the things of the flesh they love. And we can summarize that those are the 3 things that make God very angry. Whenever the world creeps into the church he is upsetting the things of God. The flesh and the Spirit cannot co-exist. Either the Spirit dominates the flesh or the flesh grieves the Spirit. The two cannot co-exist. And God want to deal with the church of Jesus Christ as we grow in Him that we do not become more carnal that we become more spiritual and we regard things more spiritually. The day is coming when to be carnal minded is dangerous. God will deal with our lives. There are no more places to hide when the wrath of God begins to manifest.

 

How do people slowly fall into the area of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life? The bible says don’t be proud but we get pride. The bible says don’t have any lust of the flesh but we still get lust. The bible says don’t have the lust of the eyes don’t go for the world but we still go for the world. What is the problem here? What happens is that many people backslide a little at a time and suddenly find themselves an enemy of God.

 

Rom. 8:6-7 To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot.

 

God says that you are His enemy when you are carnal minded. The word enmity means that it is in direct opposition against God. If you ask a Christian whether he wants to be an enemy of God, he would answer no. But yet many slide into the things of the world and become an enemy of God without realizing it. Just like Paul became an enemy of God without knowing it. And there are people who become ignorant and then become an enemy of God without realizing it. That is where the danger is.

 

Coming Shaking

 

Isa. 66:1-2 Thus says the Lord: "Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for Me, and what is the place of My rest? And these things My hand has made and so all these things are Mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.  God looks at those who are humble and of a contrite spirit. These are the days that we are living in and the prophetic word is that there are many people who are not humble and contrite who will see some great shaking suddenly. The kind of shaking that we are seeing is one of acceleration. In one day you can see the mighty fall. It is the type of shaking like we see king Nebuchadnezzar. Where he looked at his hanging garden of Babylon and he said, "Isn't all these that my hand has made." God was merciful and tried to warn him earlier in a dream that Daniel interpreted for him about a big tree about to be chopped down because of pride. And in one day Nebuchadnezzar was reduced to an animal.

 

In the times of acceleration that we live in the opposite can be true. Joseph was broken, despised and rejected of man. Wrongly framed, wrongly accused, God took him in one day when he was in prison and he became a Prime Minister. In the times that we are living in I could feel in my spirit the heart beat of some of you that in our midst there are many 5 fold ministers, many professionals whom God has called to their specific work. Some of you are having a very hard time because you are experiencing a time of brokenness, so that you will be humble and contrite for God to lift you up. And it seems that the high and mighty are having their way. But I want you to know the change is coming.

 

And this is the word that God gives. Every head bow, every eye close and let just pray to Him now.

 

Thus says the Lord I will raise up many new ministries. And many ministries today are being rejected by their own brethren in the same way like Joseph is being rejected by his brothers. Not that they are perfect. They may have their imperfections. But yet there is no necessity for them to be so thus rejected. And many of them are thrown into the pit to die. And some are sold to slavery. But yet I will raise them up. At a time where the world is being shaken, just as the years of famine are drawing near and in the years of abundance I will raise them up. And there are many like Nebuchadnezzar who take pride in their achievement, who take pride of what they have and do not give Me all of the glory. In one day says the Lord I will take everything away. I will reduce them to nothing. This is the shaking that I bring says the Lord.

 

O Father we pray O God that Your Holy Spirit will quicken Your voice to each one of us. O Lord we do not ever want to grieve your Spirit. Although it is not easy to walk in your perfect will to the natural man. It's not easy Lord to hold true to you. And to live a life of holiness that is pleasing to you. Yet you always give the strength to do your will. Father we do not want to make you angry. Jesus we do not want to make you angry. Holy Spirit we do not want to grieve you. We ask O God to reveal Your perfect will to us. Even in this place there are some of them in the ministry who are seeking direction. I pray Lord that you will reveal direction. Maybe some of them have been wrong or may have made some mistakes. But Lord restore each one to Your perfect will. Father your graces are sufficient for each one of them.

 

Every head bowed and every eye closed. There is a businessman here that has fallen into sin. And you are still experiencing some of the blessings of God. But you have found your position in church affected. This word is for you. The Lord says He forgives you, even though the body of Christ has not forgiven you. And the Lord says get back into the zeal that you have before. Get back to do the things that you have done before. Because there is no one to do those things that you have done.

 

There are some in the ministry who are not in the right place in the ministry. This is what the Lord says, I will open doors for you. Don’t turn down those doors because it is I who open those doors for you. Just like Barnabas opened the doors for Paul. And although you don’t realize it, it is a door to enter the ministry that you have for the next phase. So the next time, says the Lord, don’t close your ears to that door. There is a businessman here who once was a pastor and the Lord speaks to you. He forgives you. Get back into the ministry. The Lord knows you have fallen. The Lord says He is coming. If He doesn't reject you why do you still reject Him?

 

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THE BOOKS OF ADAM AND EVE

The above two books are ancient extra biblical literature that did not make it into the canon of the Word of God. They depict the life of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the Garden of Eden. After their expulsion, Adam and Eve had to learn to live with new phenomena that we take for granted today. They experienced the first sunrise, the first rain, the first thunder and lightning and thought these were               punishment from…Read More

 

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