“Who art thou, that judgest another man’s servant.”

“I will avenge…”  (GOD)

 

Reader,  The pastor is a gift to the church; a gift from God, “God gave some pastors…”  If you, Reader, do not look at your pastor and see a gift, there are a few possibilties to be considered:
*The pastor is an apostate or has not been called by God.
*You are the one (1) out of the will of God and worthy of a visitation by God’s chastening, see Korah and Miriam in Exodus.
*You see your pastor as being a wolf in sheep’s clothing and are very correct and you should pray and as God how to and when to act.
*You need to meet with the pastor and discuss what is going on.
*You are being influenced by another person’s gossip and backbiting.
*It may be time for you to depart from that church.
*Either the pastor is wrong or you are wrong.
*THe pastor has reuked you on an issue(s) and your pride cannot bear it.
*You are lost and the pastor knows it and you know he knows it.
*This pastor is different from the last pastor.
*You do not favour the preachers style of preaching.
*The pastor is preaching sound doctrine and you do not like it  because “it is not what I’ve been taught or how I was taught.”
*You do not like how the preacher talks.”
*You do not like how the pastor walks around or doesn’t walk around.
*The pastor spends to much time in the O.T or N.T.
*You do not like how the pastor reads the Bible.
*The pastor doesn’t preach loud enough/ Too loud/ too short/ too much, etc.
*The pastor doesn’t coddle you.”
*The pastor doesn’t appreciate you like the last pastor.
*The pastor knows you love the church more than you love Christ. You are a Church-ian more than a Christ-ian.
*The pastor does not practice the Lord’s Supper enough/too much.
*There have not been enough baptisms/ enough hands raised, enough money given.
*Too many familes are leaving.”
*Not enough families are joining.
*There is not enough focus given to…”
*Too much focus is given to…”
*The pastor has chosen a bad carpet color.
*I give a lot to the “church” and I should get more attention for that filthy lucre….I mean offering.”
*I bring a lot of visitors in, I should get more praise.”
*The pastor hasn’t thanked me even once for coming to church.
*The Pastor is to fat/skinny
*The Pastor’s wife is too skinny, too fat, colors her hair, Doesn’t color her hair, Doesn’t sing specials, doesn’t lead Bible studies, didn’t use the recipe I gave her, spends too much money on clothing, wears pants, hair is too short. too long, Did you hear what she said?  I’m just saying, did you see, hmmm, U huh, Yep, Doesn’t control her children, laughs to loud, doesn’t smile enough, works outside the home, etc. etc. etc…
*The pastor’s kids are too rowdy, too quiet, too fat, too skinny, hair is too long, hair is too short, talks too much, told my kid, s/he was not right, where’s shorts, where’s pants (if a girl) too, too, too, too………….

Reader, i could go on and on. I have been around A LONG enough time, I’m like the insurance company commercial, I know a thing or two (2) because I have seen a thing or two (2).  I have, by God’s grace been honoured and enabled to preach and teach the people and the persons, and the person of God for over twenty-three (23) years.

Many faith leaders do not like that word, authority and that is why their church is in the state they are.  Many church members do not like a pastor who accepts this authority from God and practices it.  Many pastor’s families do not like when a husband or father practice his pastoral/fatherly authority and authority as the head of the family. A man in authority is the arch-enemy of the backsliders and all rebels, even rebels in the church and family. This is part of what Christ meant by hating others, including family members.

This rebellion can take the shape of one (1), or many of the bullet points above.  It is the pastor’s charge from the third (3rd) Heaven, where God doth reside, to deal with this rebellion very quick and very fast.  It has been my long held belief that a man of God that lives under the Lordship and Authority of Christ, should expect to lose upto sixty (60%) percent of a church that calls him to be a new pastor.

This has been the experience of many pastors.  I would encourage any pastor that has, is, or will experience this.  What happened when Christ enterer the synogogue in Luke four (4)?  They chased Him out unto a precipice and tried to stone Him and throw Him off the precipice!!!  Pastor, You should expect this…maybe not literally, but know, within the hearts of many you have been stones and dispatched of the local precipice.
How many time was Paul’s life nearly extinguished, humanly speaking, (2 Corithians 11).  Stephen was killed after or before he finished his first (1st) message!!!

Many a blessed man of God has been betrayed by a flock, by a flock that has been shepherded for many years.  I’ve heard of a man that asked for a vote of confidence by a church. This precious man, that belongs to and is loved by Christ, and his family, wife and children, turned their backs to give the congregation the time to stand up or remain sitting.  Those that stood would be with the man of God; those that remained seated were against him.

The man of God heard chairs moving and justling.  After a few moments the house of God was silent.  The man of God; the man from God and his beloved family turned around and the church and the seats were EMPTY.  Reader, the entire church forsook this man and his family in a matter of minutes.  Boy o’ boy, how I would’ve liked to preach at that church the following Wednesday or Sunday.  I would (DV) preach that the judgement of God begins in the house of God.  That church would either be empty by the time I was finished or they would have been on their faces repenting before a disgusted God, and someone would have been on the phone re-calling their pastor back!!!

I know of a missionary, years ago, that wrote to their mission board and stated that their understanding of Scripture has changed (This happens very often in the mission field).  The missionary had come to understand that God is a sovereign God Who elects and chooses who will and will not be saved and that Christ died for the chosen alone.  This missionary assured the mission board that his fervancy for the Gospel and his charge from God has not changed. He has, and will continue to preach the Gospel to every creature.  The only difference now is that he knows there are those that WILL repent and believe.

The response from this hate-filled mission board was to drop this missionary and his family from any, all, and every, type of support from prayer to finacial.  This missionary and his blessed and beloved family LEFT EVERTHING BEHIND TO GO AND PREACH CHRIST. These “Christ-ian brethren” that have supported this family for years, completely TURNED THEIR BACKS ON THIS FAMILY AND DENIED THEM LOVE. Not only did this mission board send letters to supporting churches, they sent letters to other mission boards warning them and asking them NOT to support this missionary family if they were ever contacted for support!!!  Many other mission boards, that never supported this forsaken missionary family did, in fact, send a copy of this letter to as many churches as they could.

Reader if you are the type of believer that would turn you back upon another child of God and reveal, demon-strate, man-ifest the fact that you never loved that person, If you can take pleasure in denouncing another believer and making that believer the subject of gossip, backbiting and pleasuring your black, hardened heart….WOE, UNTO YOU, WOE UNTO YOU, WOE UNTO YOU. I PRAY TO GOD THAT THOU BE VISITED BY A CHASTENING AND LOVING HEAVENLY FATHER THAT IS FULL OF LOVE FOR THAT BELIEVER YOU ARE HATING UPON AND WHO LOVES YOU TOO.

I have read and studied how the So-called church of God (catholic) has mistreated, tortured, killed, and burned the bones of the saints of God. This has happened in the Scriptures, after the Scriptures, in man’s history, in pre-modern times, and in contemporay times, and even today. I see how godless nations, today, RIGHT NOW, take pleasure in persecuting the saints of God.

These persecutions take the shape of imprisonments, torture, withholding food, beheading, boiling in acid, and other modes and means.  We should see this no differently than an earthly nation would see this, if another nation was persecuting a citizen of their very own country.  We, the Citizens of Heaven, should look upon the persecution of a brother or sister in Christ, in the exacting, parelleling manner as the United States of America would see a citizen of these United States being persecuted by a godless nation. There is no difference.

Here is where this writer puts you into a corner.  If you go against or persecute or lay hands upon the LORD’s anointed, or a man of God for some carnal reason and for any reason listed above, other than a pastor that has disqualified himself, YOU! You! You! are as guilty as the godless nation that pleasures in persecutiong a Person of God and of persecuting CHRIST HIMSELF…”Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou [M]e?

Do we say these things with anger?  It is certain, we do.  This is what anger should be used for, to change something from a negative into a positive.  Do I write these things without love in my heart, it is to the vary contary that I write these words.  I write these words with a pure, righteous and beating heart filled with love; love for pastors, love for the pastor’s famiies, love for the church, AND LOVE FOR THE ONE (1) BEING REBUKED, and ABOVE ALL, LOVE FOR MY MASTER.

Reader, with the world’s assault upon the Godhead, the church, morality, ethics, and all things good, true, and right;  We must not war with each other. There will be differences of thoughts between believers, there should be no doubt. But these differing thoughts, as long as they are not an attack upon the cardinal doctrines of Scripture, should not cause divisions or schisms or church splits…God forbid.

What I am about to write I write in all soberness, gravity, and love. What I am about to write before the Godhead, before the church of God, before my family, before my friends, before all who love me and all who choose to hate me: This writer, this pastor, this preacher, this husband, this father, this son, this brother, this nephew, this uncle, this friend, this neighbor; We turn any persecuting believer of a child of God, for whom Christ died, and any person still dead in trespasses and sins, or yet lost, unto (s)atan, that the flesh may suffer and the soul may be saved. It is a high crime to touch the LORD’s anointed.  I have seen two (2) persons killed for going against a man of God.

Reader, if this article, this warning, this “prophet’s WOE” speaks to you or moves you or convicts your spirit, PLEASE!!! FOR YOUR SAKE, REPENT BEFORE GOD RIGHT NOW.  If the Christ-ian you are persecuting feels this persecution, GO TO THEM SEEKING CHRIST-IAN FORGIVENESS AND SEEK TO RIGHT ANY WRONGS YOU HAVE COMMITTED AGAINST THAT SAINT THAT FINDS GOD”S GRACIOUS FAVOUR.

Godspeed.

P.S. God willing, in the very, very, near future, we will write upon the responsibility of the church; the Body of Christ, to cast a fallen or apostate faith-leader from the church.