“For God's gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]”
Dear friend, as is usual with most of us, we would have reflected over 2024 and made some resolutions, goals and commitments for 2025.
My simple advice to everyone reading this message today is that you include the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah and Master of the Universe in whatever plans you have for 2025.
You must include Jesus Christ because He is the ONLY person Who would never mislead you because of His unfailing love for you as your Creator and God.
You must therefore follow Him wholeheartedly by diligent study, meditation, obedience and action on His Word in the Holy Bible. When you do this, you can be sure that your every prayer would be answered because He has said for you to ask God the Father anything in His (Jesus’) Name, you MUST abide in Him and His Words MUST abide in you – John 15:7.
Secondly, as you can see from today’s lead Holy Bible text, God does not reverse His spiritual gifts and calling on anyone once He has given it.
The implication here is that God would never change His mind when He has called you to serve Him in a particular capacity. The example of Jonah in the Holy Bible is clear even when Jonah initially disobeyed God’s instruction to go preach to the people of Nineveh but Jonah learned the hard way and later obeyed God – Jonah 1-3.
Fortunately for Jonah and unfortunately for some Gospel ministers, theirs may not be the same ending just as we see with Eli the high priest whose recalcitrant sons got him into deep trouble with God – 1 Samuel 3:11-14.
So what is the implication for the congregation of today’s Gospel ministers? First, let us remember that God has warned us in His Word that there would be false prophets in the last days in which we presently live – Matthew 7:15; 1 John 4:1-6; 2 Corinthians 11:13-15; 2 Peter 2:1.
These false prophets were ordained by the devil as his ministers as seen in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15.
What is common to all these false prophets is that their teachings and actions deviate from what is clearly written as Truth in God’s Word.
Furthermore, there are Gospel ministers today who were called by God and have spiritual gifts from God and they fall into one of these categories – Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers to serve God and minister to the Church, the Body of Christ.
However, along the line, a number of them have deviated from God’s call particular because of their ungodly love for money and so are now serving the devil’s interests without even realising it.
Now, because God does not withdraw His gifts and calling on anyone, some of these ministers are still able to manifest the gifts of the Holy Spirit – speaking in tongues, interpreting tongues, prophesying with accuracy, healing, etc and so they believe they are still in right standing with God and continue to live in sin whilst manifesting the gifts of their office.
Majority of their congregation also believe because they are able to prophesy and manifest gifts of their office, God is still in support of their activities.
These congregants who have this belief are not aware that God does not change His mind once He has given a call or gifts to a minister and so they remain blind to the ministers’ sins even when they are obvious.
Now, do these congregants have a genuine excuse to give God for their ignorance and tolerance of the sin of their minister? The answer is NO because as they eat physical food daily to nourish their bodies, so are they to eat spiritual food, the infallible Word of God, daily, to nurture and nourish their souls and human spirits to know the Truth that God has set forth therein.
Recall God has stated that all humans shall NOT live by bread ALONE but by every Word God has spoken – Matthew 4:4.
However, some members of this congregation of deviated ministers become enlightened and leave the congregation for good when they observe from a careful study of God’s Word that their ministers are living a double life of sin even when they manifest God’s gifts on their office.
These ministers tell lies, cheat people, sleep with their congregants whether single or married, quarrel, keep malice, harbour resentment and unforgiveness, show intolerance and deep hatred to anyone that quietly opposes their teaching and behaviour, give immoral advice to break people’s homes and family, etc.
Dear friend, having read thus far, I want to congratulate you because it shows you are interested in the things of God and you desire to live right before God.
You can see from today’s message the kind of dangerous world in which we live today filled with a lot of deceit from the devil and his agents using false prophets and backslidden gospel ministers to deceive their congregation.
Can we hold God responsible for this?
Of course NOT because God has given us a manual to follow but as a result of sheer insensitivity to the things of God, even church members, Christians, have failed to compare what they hear from the altar with what is written in God’s Perfect Law of Liberty that is the Holy Bible.
It is most dangerous to take everything you hear from the altar hook, line and sinker without verifying it from God’s Word.
So whom should you follow in 2025 and beyond?
Follow Jesus Christ, make Him Saviour and Lord of your life by simple and uncompromising obedience to His commands in the Holy Bible.
Follow genuine ministers of the Gospel who over the years have preached God’s Word and further demonstrated from their lives that they are obedient children of God.
Finally, please note that it is not God’s responsibility to get you into heaven. He has already done His part by re-opening the door to heaven with the sacrificial death and resurrection of His Son, our Lord and Messiah Jesus Christ.
This door to heaven was first closed when the devil successfully deceived our first parents Adam and Eve to make them disobey God’s commands in the Garden of Eden – Genesis 3.
God has also done His part by calling and gifting ministers of the Gospel who are to use these gifts of their office for the perfecting of the saints – you and me -, for the work of the ministry and for the edifying of the Body of Christ, the Church of God – Ephesians 4:11-12.
God has done His part by warning us in His Word about false prophets and also backslidden gospel ministers who call him Lord but fail to enter heaven even after manifesting their gifts of office because of their double life of sin – Matthew 7:21-23.
God has done His part by giving ALL Christians, whether new converts or mature believers, full authority over ALL POWERS AND SCHEMES of the devil, demons and their human agents, when you command them out of your life and circumstances in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has done His part by giving you prayer with which to sincerely communicate with Him for clarification on any issue you are not sure about and He would SURELY revert to you with an answer.
It is therefore your personal responsibility to take these FREE gifts of God and use it to get yourself out of the devil’s distractions in this world and then into heaven through simple trust, faith, hope, and obedience to God’s commandments.
A Word is enough for the wise.
May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus’ Most Righteous Name, Amen.
Gabriel Ama.
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