“…[D]o I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1)
“Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 11)
AS I look back on my years of service to the Lordship of Christ, I find that I have spent much of my faith on just a few principles. I put much focus on the BIGNESS of God and the Sovereignty of God. I have also tried to teach others how to dwell in the Presence, the sensed Presence of God at all times. In other words, I have tried to explain what Christ was and is now to His disciples, the Holy Spirit is to each of us.
I have put a lot of faith toward teaching others how to walk with God. Of course these are not my only teachings as i am more of a extemporaneous expositor of the Word. That means I use few if any notes and I teach line by line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. This method of preaching and teaching keeps everyone honest and does not allow a man to overtake or lord over Christ’s Flock.
When we begin to preach or teach, I ask everyone to open their Bibles. This is how one is accountable to Christ and those Christ has put in one’s sheepfold. When a man says, “Close your Bibles and listen to me.” a great BIIIGGG red flag should go up. When a man says something like that, if a person is truly saved, the Holy Spirit is yelling, Get Out Now!!! Get Out Now!!! Get Out Now!!! If the person is under a man that says, “Close your Bibles and listen to me” does not get a warning from the Holy Spirit of God, well then, maybe they are in the right place, they are lost but in the right place.
Oh’ I have gotten ahead of myself. I haven’t disclosed my other principle that I beat like a dead horse. MAN WORSHIPING CHURCHES ARE NOT OF GOD, but are of (s)atan. I have recently been told why a friend of mine does not attend church. His reason? An eight (8) year old family member was fondled by a person in a church in Indiana. Loyalty to this kind of wickedness and man-centered worship is inexcusable.
In my years with Christ, I have seen many, so many persons worship the preacher in the stead of Christ. I have seen these men accept this cult worship. When Herod was compared to a god, he accepted such praise. His life was ended by worms eating his guts out. When Paul, Barnabas, Peter, or an angel is given wrongful worship, they stop it immediately. They shut it down fast and quick, this is what a servant of Christ does.
There are two (2) things I think every preacher should fear. Number one (1) is being shelved. Number two (2) is having his flock exalt him. If a man accepts the blind loyalty of “his” people in the place of faithfulness to Christ, this man is a wolf, this man is a psychopath or sociopath. This man is dangerous and if this man has reach and blind loyalty of others there is no limit to the damage he will cause, he is like his father the devil and the lusts of his father, he will do.
I was walking with two (2) men and a boy many years ago. One of the men is the boy’s father. The other man was an evangelist. The little boy blurted out, “You’re my favorite preacher” to the evangelist. I felt sad for his father. The evangelist took no time at all to reprove the little boy. The evangelist said, “There should never be favourite preachers in the minds of the people.” Christ is Who we worship and answer to. It is Christ Who we are loyal to.
When a man accepts the worship of a flock of Biblically illiterate followers he does things like…..STAND UP, SIT DOWN, STAND UP, SIT DOWN. to “his” deacons. Yes, a man that accepted the worship of others would call upon “his” deacons to stand up, now sit down, stand up, sit down. This man did this to show his power. This is text book Psychopathy. Sometimes I feel like a broken record, saying there’s a sociopath, there’s a psychopath but they are there.
Psychopaths and sociopaths are drawn to power and control and authority. Not all Psycho/sociopaths are seriel killers. Many pathologicals are CEO’s, politicians, and preachers. These types find their place and they begin to build a kingdom unto themselves.
Christ warned us of those that would come in His Name and bring harm to the people of God. It seems that not many persons are taking Him seriously on this matter.
How does a pathological preacher build a kingdom unto himself?
*Easy-believism
*Build a community of non-thinkers.
*Food, Fun, and games.
*Bus routes to get inner city kids to his kingdom.
*The Word of God will be twisted and turned in such a way that it makes sense…some kind of sense anyway to a Biblical illiterate.
*”Close your Bibles and listen to me.” This kind of preaching reminds me of the serpent in the garden.
*Get others involved in his sin so they remain loyal and he remains free to build his kingdom unto himself. AKA Blackmail.
How do we know when his kingdom is set and in place?
*Persons knowing his sin and doing nothing about it.
*When persons wear one hundred percent (100%) Worshiped Man buttons on their clothing in support of the pathological preacher.
*When a little eight (8) year old girl is fondled and nothing is done about it.
*When the man tells his cult not to believe what they read or see and the cult obeys.
*When the pathological preacher sends his deviant son to other places to wreak havok and no one says anything.
*When the preacher’s fifty-something year old son in law takes an under-aged girl out of state to dine her and know her, Biblically, while his wife is at home. That is how you know the “church” is really a kingdom unto a pathological preacher.
The fear of man is a snare to all. The fear of God is the beginning of all things good.
Godspeed and please know we are not finished with this wickedness.