DEEPER LIFE BIBLE CHURCH WORLDWIDE.
TUESDAY'S LEADERS' DEVELOPMENT SESSION.
DATE: 19/09/2023.
MESSAGE ANCHORED BY THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
TOPIC: PRESERVING THE FOUNDATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR A REWARDABLE MINISTY.
PSALMS 11:3; 82:5; ISAIAH 58:10-12; 2 TIMOTHY 2:9.
Praise the Lord, ,I welcome you to our Tuesday's Leadership Session tonight, and I bless the Name of the Lord for keeping you alive, and for keeping you strong, and for keeping you healthy. I pray that the Lord will perfect everything concerning your personal life, concerning your family, and concerning your ministry IN Jesus Name Amen. Once again, I welcome you and I'm happy that we can connect together this time to look at something very important in the word of God.
Tonight, we come to something very important in the Scripture, and it's so much important for you, for me, for the church and very important at this days of the end time.
Here the Psalmist was asking a very sensitive and important question, saying, If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Think about that, here the Spirit of the Lord leading the Psalmist to say and to ask God that, what can the righteous do if the foundations be destroyed? As we look at the children of Israel, we see that, there were times they needed to think about their foundations.
✔️ The foundations of the temple, and if the foundations of their temples be destroyed, what shall the righteous do? How will the righteous come and worship before the Lord if the foundations of the temple were destroyed,.
✔️ If the foundations of the city were destroyed, what shall the righteous do? You see, the children of Israel had cities and they had the walls round about the cities, and those walls had foundations, and you're asking if the foundations of those cities were destroyed, what will the righteous do? The righteous will be insecured because the enemies can come in since the foundations are destroyed and then the enemies will take over the cities. What will the righteous do?
✔️ As a nation, Israel had foundations, the foundations of truth, the foundations of the word of God, and the foundations of the doctrine that came from Heaven that the Lord has given to Moses, and you see, if the foundations were destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ In fact, you know there was a time that Moses went to collect the commandments from the Lord, and before he came back, the foundations of worship and the foundations of righteousness, and the foundations of Truth had been destroyed, and if the foundations of be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ You know, in the land of Israel, they also had Justice, and they had righteous rulers that ruled well, and they had foundations of the constitution, when the foundations of the constitution of the word of God were destroyed, what will the righteous do?
✔️ You can think about our nation here, and you can think about any country of the world, if the foundations of justice, if that is destroyed, and the legal institution does not have any foundation again, if the constitutions of the country were destroyed, what will the righteous do? You think about that, there will be insecurity, there will be injustice and there will be oppression, and everybody will be running helter, skelter, because in the day, there's no security, in the night, there's no security.
* What I'm saying is, the foundations is very important and the Psalmist recognized that, and he said, if the foundations were destroyed, what can the righteous do? Let us come back home to our ministry, and to the church, Jesus Christ said, upon this rock I built my Church and you remember the words of Jesus, He said, anyone hearing this word of Mine, and he obeys, he hears, and he believes and he act according to the word he hears, he will be like the Man that built his life, his Christian's Faith upon the foundations and the storms will come and beat vehemently upon that house, it will stand, but you know He says, if anyone hears and he does not do it, then he's like a person that built his house, his spiritual house and his house of worship and his house of ministry, he builts that without a foundation, and if that foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ You wants to think about the foundations of our Faith, the Faith of our fathers, the Faith delivers unto us from the Saints, if the foundations of Faith were destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ You think about the family, and if the foundations of the family were destroyed, what will the righteous do?
✔️ You know something important in our ministry, something important in the works He's given us to do, and what God is going to find out on the final day is our FAITHFULNESS, if the foundations of faithfulness be destroyed, what can the righteous do? That is, instead of being faithful, instead of being righteous, the foundation is gone, and we are just labouring and working and serving and we are active in the ministry, if the foundations of Faith, if the foundations of faithfulness be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ Have you noticed families in our days, you know the way people get married, they don't refers to the word of God again, and the way they run their family, many people don't refers to the Bible again, it's just like the foundations of the family has been destroyed, and if the foundations of the family be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ And you understand Christ says, follow Peace with all men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord, if that foundations of righteousness and Holiness were destroyed, and we are still ministering, and we are still preaching, and we are still running up and down, and we are doing the service, but the foundations of Holiness has been destroyed, what can the righteous do?
That's what the Lord is calling us today, and the Lord is saying, we need to think about the foundations, preserve that foundations, observe that foundations, and reinforce that foundations, so that we know that, if the foundation is there, and we are serving and we are ministering, and we are doing the work of God on the basis that the foundations is still kept,
✔️I want you to think about your calling, and what God has called you for, if the foundations of your calling be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️Think about the commission, the commission the Lord has placed in our hands, and if the foundations of the calling and the foundations of the commission, if they were destroyed, what can the righteous do?
✔️ Think about the ministry, the ministry we have, and the ministry the Lord has committed into our hands, the ministry of the pastors, and the ministry of the teacher, and the ministry of the evangelist, and the ministry of the supervisors who are watching over the flocks of God, if the foundations of the ministry, if the foundations of our service, if the foundations of the service of the ministry be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
That's what the Lord is calling us to today, and when you think about people in the Bible, and as they looked at the foundation, and they saw that, if the foundations were destroyed, and the foundations are being eroded, they did something, what can the righteous do?
å A righteous man like Moses, he came back from the mountain top, and he saw that while Aaron was with the people, the foundations had been destroyed, they came out of the land of Egypt, and they were coming out of the idolatry, and they were coming out of all the pollutions of the land of Egypt, but now before Moses came back, that foundations of righteousness, and that foundations of worship, and that foundations of Truthfulness had been destroyed, and what can the righteous do? The righteous has to do something and Moses did something to bring back the foundations, and to bring back the minds of the people unto the Lord, you
å you remember the time of Elijah, Ahab and Jezebel and then the foundations had been totally destroyed, Baal worship has taken over the whole land, and a man like Elijah that is the righteous, a man like a prophet of fire, he came and he said, how are you standing between the two opinions? If God be your God, serve Him, and if Baal be your god, serve him, and Elijah called the people together, and they prayed until the fire of God came down, and eventually, Elijah rebuilt and he repaired the foundations, we have to do something, this our days, this last days, as we are expecting the coming of the Lord, when the foundations of righteousness, the foundations of truth, the foundations of doctrine and the foundations of truthfulness is being destroyed, and something must be done.
å Do you remember Ezra? Ezra came to the land, and when they came back from captivity, all the people that were here and there, they were doing what they like, all those who are going to marry strange wives, and those who did whatever they did, and Ezra came back, the righteous can do something, Ezra did something so that the foundations will be rebuilt again, and be restored again, and be repaired again, Ezra did something, he rebuilt, he repaired and he restored the destroyed foundations.
å You remember Nehemiah, he came and he went out, he investigated and then he interceded, he prayed for the situation of the children of Israel, the whole city is down and there is no proper worship, he looked at their cities, he looked at the temple, and he looked at the lifestyles, the foundations have been destroyed and if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do, if you know the story of Nehemiah, he did something, that is why the Lord is calling you today, and He's calling me today, and He's saying, we must do something.
å The Lord called Jeremiah and He set him apart, and sanctified him, and it is so that he will throw down, he will pull down, and rooted out, and then he will build, when Jeremiah came, the foundations have been destroyed, and now as a righteous prophet, he have to do something.
å Paul the Apostle in the New Testament, when he came, all those apostles, they were with the law of Moses and then when Paul the apostle came and the foundations of the New covenant were been eroded and Paul the Apostle rose up single-handedly with all the team that he raised up around him, and he did something.
* That is why the question is coming to us today, if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
* If our Ministry is going to be rewarded, if our commitment is going to be rewarded, if our service is going to be rewarded, we must preserve the foundations of righteousness, the foundations of righteous worship, there are foundations of sound doctrine, and there are foundations of redemption teaching, we must preserve the totality of the word of God.
POINT ONE: OUR WATCHFULNESS IN RETAINING THE DIVINELY REVEALED FOUNDATION.
PSALMS 11:3; JEREMIAH 12:10-11.
Not Just any foundation, not to pick up something and then build a religion foundation, ecumenical foundation, but the divinely revealed foundations, it's what God has revealed, He has revealed in the word of God, and Jesus said, heaven and Earth shall pass away but His word shall not pass away. That revelation and that entirety revealed word of God for us to preserve that, and for us to watch over that, and make sure that we retain in the divinely revealed foundations, that's what the Lord is calling us to do. This is our watchfulness in retaining the divinely revealed foundations.
I. The Comprehension of the righteous foundation.
Ephesians 2:12-20; Acts 4:11-12; 1Corinthians 3:10-12; 1John 2:1-2.
That is the foundations of righteousness, we need to comprehend that, we need to understand that,
å what is the foundation of our Salvation, that's our Saviour,
å what is the foundations of our Sanctification, that is our Sanctifier.
å what is the foundation of our having peace with God, that is Christ our peace.
å what is the foundation of our Redemption, that is our Redeemer Himself, and we need to understand and we need to comprehend that righteous foundation. Jesus is that foundations,and He's the righteous foundation, He's the one given to us to bring us out of the wilderness of sin, and to bring us to the light of the Gospel of redemption and salvation. He's out Peace, we need to defend that foundations, the foundations of our peace, how can we have peace with God? It's through Jesus. How can we have peace in Justification? it's through Jesus Christ. How can we have peace in our hearts, it's through Jesus Christ, for He is our Peace, no other person is our peace, we were told that, the Antichrist is coming, and there are people that profess to be working for God, but they are working for Antichrist, projecting themselves as the people that will bring Peace, they are not reckoning with Christ, they are not reckoning with our Saviour, they are not reckoning with the Prince of Peace the foundation of our Peace, and if that foundation of our peace is been erodes, if the foundations of our redemption is been eroded, Jesus Christ as the Mediator, He came between the Holy God and the sinful men, and He joined us together, He reconciled us unto God, He's the One that came to make peace, we need to reestablish that, we need to preach that over and over again, and we need to reaffirm that in the minds of our people, there is Just one way for anyone to have peace with God, and it is through Jesus Christ our Lord, He's the very foundation, that is why we are told that, there's no other foundations, there's no other man, there's no other redeemer, there's no other saviour, there's no other religious personality, there's no other religions instead, and there's no other religions denomination that can bring salvation and peace with God to anyone, and while we are building, don't destroy the foundation, the foundations has been lain in the word of God by those prophets of God in the Old Testament, and by all the Apostles, and Paul in particular, the apostle of the Gentiles, as a wise master builder, they laid the foundation that we are building on, let us make sure that we are not contributing to destroy the foundation, let the foundation remain intact, it's the righteous foundation, He's the only way our people can be saved. He's the only way our people can be prepared for heaven, so that when Christ will come, don't let any personality replace Christ with himself, and He's the source of our Salvation, and the source of our supply, and the source of our blessings, there's no other foundations, Jesus Christ is the foundation, make sure that the foundation is not ruined, make sure that the foundation is not destroyed and scattered. Build on that foundation, it's something valuable, it's something like a treasure, like gold and like silver, other people are building on wood and stumble, the Judgement day will reveal that.
II. The Completeness of His Revealed Foundation.
Matthew 28:18-20; Proverbs 30:5-6; Hebrews 6:1-2; Revelation 22:16-21.
Jesus Christ is the foundation of our power, He's the foundation of our strength, He's the foundation of our Authority, if anyone depends on any other power, occultism power, satanic power, political power, witchcraft power, they are power of the darkness, and because he want to do the work of God, and now he go to another power, he has destroyed the foundation, and we need to know that, Jesus is enough, Jesus is sufficient, and Jesus with His revelation, with the word He has given to us, that is a complete revelation, and we need to keep that, we need to watch over that, we can't change that foundations, we have to read the gospel to know all things that Christ has commanded, Matthew, we have to read through, we have to read Mark, Luke and John through, and then He said, He will send the Holy Ghost, and He will guide us to all truth, and we have to read what the Holy Ghost has revealed in the Act, in the Epistles and Jesus said in revelation, that His Angel will reveal all things to us, we have to know what Christ has revealed, all the Apostles ,in Acts of the Apostle, the Epistles and revelation, we need to know everything, that's why He said, to teach them, we are not teaching them story, we are not teaching philosophy, we are not teaching ideas of men, we bring back the word of God, we need to teach everything Christ has revealed in His complete foundation on the basis that we keep to that foundation, and on the basis that we keep to the revelation of the word of Christ, and on the basis He's with us always, even to the end of the world. That means, that foundation should not be tampered with, it should not be destroyed, and it should not be blown up, it should not be replaced by any other ideology, even until the end of the world, make sure the foundation is laid, secured and preserved, and intact and after you're sure that the foundation is intact and nothing is erotic into that foundation, now you can go on unto the foundation. Here is the foundation, the foundation of repentance, He calls us to repentance, He calls sinners to repentance, and He says that is the path of Salvation, and He says, the foundation of Faith towards that is part of foundation, you laid hands on people so they can be healed, that's part of the foundation, you laid hands on the people so you can send them forth to ministry, and after considering the qualifications of those who are called, commissioned, He say that foundation we must not erode.
There are people that can not talk about hell fire, they can not talk about judgement anymore, and they cannot talk about the great white throne anymore because they have destroyed the foundation, all they are running after are just things that are superficial, not based on the foundation of the word of God, the Lord wants us to build on that foundation, and not to destroy, and not to ruin the foundation of the word of God.
He has revealed to us the total foundation in which we ought to build, many people exalts the title of a man over the word of God, many people deviated from the word of God, the people in general, Worshipers in general, they exalt and they respect a man, a leader, an overseer than they exalt the word of God, whoever they exalt above the word of God, but He says if anyone, whatever his name, whatever his title, whatever his position, whatever his authority in the nation, in the continent, in the religious, if anyone shall add to this word of God, if any man of a great title, if anyone of a great power, if any man who is popular, whatever he says that people will forget the word of God, the Lord shall take out their names from the book of life. People listens to them than they listen to the words of Christ, they are not even going to refer to the word of God, they are not even going to make any reference to the word of God, and yet by whichever method they are taking from the word of God, and the minds of the people and the minds of those who listen to them, no more on the word of God, no more on the sound doctrine, no more on Christ, and no more on the foundation that Christ has given to us, there is no man that can change the word of God and change the mind of God .
Whosoever take away from the word of God,
✔️ God will take his name out of the book of life.
✔️ God will take his name out of the Holy City.
✔️God will take his name out of eternal blessings that are written in this book. It's the Lord that testifies this, He affirms this, if you abide in the word of God, if you conserve the foundation, if you're watching over the foundation, the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ will be with you.
III. Our Commitment to His Redemptive Foundation. Luke 6:46-49; 2 Timothy 2:19-22.
The foundation we are talking about is not historical foundation, is not just a religion foundation, it's a foundation that is redemptive and redeems us today, and preserve the redemption of God in our lives, and also, that foundation will preserve us until the final redemption. If you're a preacher, teach the word of God, do the things which He has said, if you call Him Lord, let Him be the Lord of your life, let Him be the Lord of Your character, let Him be the Lord of your ministry, if you're faithful to that, blessed you will be.
* There are people that talks about Grace, but their grace does not do the will of God, their grace does not obey the word of God, their Grace covers all iniquity and all transgressions, and their grace covers all disobedience, and the Lord is saying, He's not giving any grace like that to just scatter the word of God, and be disobedience to the word of God. There are some people, they don't repair anything, and the foundation is destroyed, while you're preaching, look at the foundation.
* Let me make an illustration from that, a new governor comes in the state, and when that new governor comes, he's taking over from another, governor, and the other governor, the former governor is gone, and he's now there, he looks at the projects, he looks at all things that has been given him, then he readjust, he wants to make sure that he's leading the people now on a strong foundation, and he wants to make sure that, whatever is collapsing, and whatever is not alright, he repairs everything, he restores everything and he wants to go in the direction of having a work, a governor that is steady, that is solid upon a strong foundation, the something you're going to do, when people come to the church, what foundations are they coming with, what is their background, did they have the foundations of being Born Again? Did they have the foundations of real word of God and of total redemption, you check up and then you look at the local church, do they keep to the foundations, if you're a leader, you're like a governor, and you need to look at that foundations and make sure that, we are established on the foundation that is going to take the people to heaven. As we are training and developing leaders, there are some people, they hears but they do it not, they comes on Monday and they do it not, they comes on any day of meeting and is like they didn't come, they hears but they are not going to work on what they are hearing, they are not going to look at the various area of their ministry and make sure that the foundation is still well secured. Jesus said, a person like that hears and do it not, is like a man without a foundation built an house upon the earth, whatever people says, whatever people do, however people minister, whatever they prophesy, whatever lies they tell and whatever frivolities they might manifest, whatever false doctrine, whatever false idea they brings into the ministry, the foundation of God standeth sure, He knows those who are faithful, He knows those who are building on the solid foundation, He knows those who are repairing the destroyed foundations, and He knows those who are restoring the destroyed foundations.
POINT TWO: THE WORK OF THE RIGHTEOUS, REPAIRING DESTROYED, RUINED FOUNDATIONS.
PSALMS 11:3.
We must do something, we have a work to do, we have a service to render, we have an assignment that we cannot dug, and we must put our soldiers under the load and work. if you look at the Christianity in our country, in the continent, you will find out something that the foundations of doctrine, the foundation of the redemption, the foundation of real Salvation, the foundation of heaven sent salvation, and the foundation of sanctification and Holy living, that foundations has been destroyed, it has been ruined and now we come to the work of repairing, and the Lord has called us, that we will be committed to the work of righteousness, that is the work of repairing the destroyed, ruined foundation. Maybe, as you look at the foundation, the foundation has been destroyed and what can the righteous do?
* The history of our own nation over here, religiously, you know in 1960, we had a civil war and eventually, people scattered abroad, there was insecurity, crime and everything rose up and the Judges didn't have a place to stand, and to live, and eventually, the Lord raised us up before 1973, no foundation, talking of salvation, you're talking on faith, you're talking of healing, holiness without which no man Shall see the Lord, you're talking of reading the bible, you're talking of interpreting the Bible, abide of the word of God in the lives of the people, the foundations were destroyed, you're talking about marriage, one man one wife, you're talking about righteousness, profiting and faithfulness in the offices, things were dawned, the foundations were destroyed, and then when God raised some men of God up, and then DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY started, we started the Bible Study, we didn't say, well, the foundations are destroyed, and say what can the righteous do? We went out and we fought a good fight of faith, contending for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints, that's what the Lord is expecting, that a righteous ruler do something to the destroyed foundations because the Lord has raised him up, if repairers comes, and he says, God has raised him up and he says, he's going to be a repairer, a restorer, and he says God has raised him up that he must be a restorer, a reformer, when Matedoda came, the foundations of justification has been destroyed, and then mattedonia did something, he rose up and he said, the righteous must do something, and so you today, the Lord has called you.
The Lord called me before 1973, you have the platform on which to stand, you have the foundations on which to stand, and you can go everywhere now, evangelizing and preaching the word of righteousness, let a righteous and and a righteous woman rise up, as we look at the history, you know if the righteous does not rise up, if a reformer does not rise up, if a repairer does not rise up, if a revivalist does not rise up, everything will go down the drain.
* You remember in America, when the back are downtrodden, they don't have any voice, they could not even go to the same school with the white children, and then somebody rose up and said, something must happen, he rose up against that foundations that was destroyed, and he went everywhere and the people followed after him until everything was turned around, until latter now a few years ago, a black American now became a president it takes somebody that will rise up, it takes somebody that is bold, it takes somebody that has backbone, it takes somebody that will says, the foundations is ruined and destroyed and scattered, and he will be the man that will rise up and do something to reconstruct the destroyed foundations.
✔️ The question number one is: What can the righteous do when the foundations are destroyed? What will repairers do when the foundations is destroyed, when the foundations is ruined, Job 17:9; Psalms 112:6-7; Isaiah 62:6-7,
The righteous has conviction, he has backbone and he doesn't care about anything, he doesn't care about the praise of men, he doesn't care about the exaltation of men, like John Wesley that said, give me 100 men that fear nothing, but sin, so they can join me and turn the world around. And he said, the world is his mission field, a person like that will stand. You're going to rise up as a repairer, as a restorer, as a reformer, and you will do something. When the foundations are destroyed, and people didn't know anymore which is the truth and the way, what will the righteous do?
å The righteous will Hold his way, if you don't hold unto righteousness, holiness and if you don't hold unto purity of heart, and life, you cannot repair, you can not restore anything. Isaiah 1:1-2. You must hold unto righteousness, you must believe, you must live in righteousness, and you know the foundations of evangelism, the foundations of truth, and the foundation of sound doctrine is been destroyed, you will follow after righteousness, if you're the righteous man, and you stand as a righteous one, and in these days, if foundation be destroyed you will do something.
* In 1973, when we started "DEEPER CHRISTIAN LIFE MINISTRY", I have to stand alone, the church I was attending did not agreed with me, they didn't understand what I was doing, persecution came, friends fled from me, friends forsook me, my name was like household name everywhere ,and in all the various churches, they made the announcement and mentioned my name, they made jest and they ridiculed me, even those who met me on the way, and they said, are you the one bearing this name? And I said yes, they made jest of me, they persecuted me, they ridiculed me, I stood alone, the Lord is calling everyone of us now, if you have conviction you will stand, the righteous that do something must be willing to stand alone, and not mind the slanders, and not mind the persecutors, and not mind the insults and not mind the assault of anyone.
The Question is. What will the righteous do?
✔️ The righteous will speak out and stand firm uncompromisingly,
✔️ And you will speak against error,
✔️You will speak against false doctrine,
✔️ You will speak against hypocrisy,
✔️You will speak against falsehood
✔️And you will speak against false prophets,
✔️ You will speak against anything that is not standing on the word of God,
✔️You will speak against anything that is destroying the foundations, and you're not going to make friends with the false prophets, you're not going to stay along with them, you're not going to compromise with them, and you're not going to keep silent.
* Take the condition of the church to prayer, that's what the righteous will do. Are you righteous? Are you Born Again? Are you sanctified? Are you filled with the Holy Ghost and Power? And do you love Holiness above title, and above anything? Then, do something so that the foundations that is been destroyed will be raised up again.
✔️ Question number two: What will the repairers do when the foundations is destroyed? Isaiah 58:12,1-2; Nehemiah 1:4-6; 2:17; 4:6,21.
When the foundation is destroyed, you don't just keep on preaching and singing, and ushering, you must turn and do something, if we keep on doing all these, and the foundation is not repaired, and the foundation is ruined and destroyed, then we are not wise. We labour in Faith, and so you will rise up as a repairer, you will rise up and speak, don't speak under oppression, don't speak as if you're afraid, don't speak as if you don't want the false prophets to know that you're against their falsehood, don't speak as if you're not sure of what you're saying, there are many people today, they pray, they dance, they go to conventions, they seek the face of God, but there's no foundation of righteousness, no foundation of Holiness, and there's no foundation of redemption, and there's no foundation of living a life without reproach and without sin.
* Nehemiah interrogated, and he investigated about the walls of Jerusalem and about the foundation, and when he did that, then he interceded, he prayed, after that, he came, he left the creative Job he was doing, you must be willing to sacrifice if you're going to be a restorer, a reformer and a repairer you must be willing to leave your comfort zone, and you need to come and do something that others are not about to do, and repair the foundations. The enemies wanted to employ people, hired people so they can silence Nehemiah, and Nehemiah will not be silence, and he called all the nobles that were oppressing people, and he said, they must not continue doing that, he changed all things that ought to be changed, he challenged what ought to be challenged, and then eventually, he got a promise from them that he brought out the Scriptures and he read unto them, and the people cry and they repented, and they brought back the foundations. in the final chapter, all the people that were not living right, and they were comprising, he readjusted everything and he brought back the standard of the worship of God. That is what the Lord is calling you to do, and that's what the Lord is still calling us to, that we will be repairers.
✔️ Question Number Three, What must Restorer do when the foundations are destroyed? Hebrews 8:5; Isaiah 62:10; 2 Chronicles 19:4-9; Galatians 1:6-10; 2:4-5; 4:11; 16:20; 5:1-9; 6:1,7-8,14-15.
The Lord has called us, and He wants us to be restorers and reformers.
Then, what shall a restorer do?
✔️ A restorer must go back to the pattern shows from Heave.
✔️ He must go back to the pattern, revealed by God.
✔️ He must go back to the pattern, emphasized by Christ.
✔️ He must go back to the pattern, given to us in the epistles by the Apostles, and the prophets and Jesus is the chief cornerstone, the restorer must go back to that and see that, and make everything alright. Build all things, and establish all things according to the pattern shewed to be, don't shift the foundation and don't replace it, that is what the Lord is calling us to, so that we don't allow the dust to come over justification by faith, and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. The foundations must be emphasized, cleanse all the leaven and come back to where you ought to be, you restore all those who are fallen in meekness and in Love, but you will tell them the truth. All you want to be is to be a new creature in Christ, and then pass it to everyone. That's what the apostles did when they had restoration.
* Many pastors talk today as if they are the final authorities, they want God to readjust His word, and is like they are above the word of God, is like they are above the Lord and the constitution of the Bible. When somebody gets to that situation where he feels his own proclamation or his own idea, his own false doctrine is greater than the word of God, that's very dangerous man. The Lord wants us to return to the word of God, He wants us to return to the truth, He wants us to return to the revelation of the word of God, and never allow any atom of compromise in your ministry, and in your life, and in your service. The Lord will help us IN Jesus Name Amen.
POINT THREE: THE WILLINGNESS TO REINFORCE AND DEFEND THE RESTORED FOUNDATION.
PSLAMS 11:3; DANIEL 11:32, EPHESIANS 6:10-11; 2 TIMOTHY 2:1-5.
When the foundations of the building is not as strong as it ought to be, we have put the walls, we have put the pillar and everything in the building, but now we see that the foundations is ineffective, what are we going to do? We will reinforce that foundation, so that the Foundation of that building will be solid, and the foundation will be able to take all that we build on it, we need people today, we need teachers today, we need leaders today, and we need those who have the strength, and those who have the energy, and those who say, the spirit of the compromiser is not in them, and they say, the spirit of those who will lend down, those who have the Spirit of compromiser, they don't have the Spirit of reinforcer. A person that will rise up, and if other person does not, he will rise rise up and willing to reinforce and to defend the restored foundation.
* The righteous must be willing to reinforce the foundation and to defend the foundation, once it is restored by flattery, they want to destroy you. But God will help you to remain strong, you will not be among those that are destroying foundations, if you're going to be a repairer, if you're going to be a restorer, you must not be afraid to speak against unrighteousness and against compromise, you must be strong in your mind, you must be strong in your backbone, and you must be strong in your convictions, if there's anytime to stand still, this is the time.
I. Declare the doctrine of full redemption.
Acts 2:37-42; 1 Timothy 4:6,13,15-16; 2 Timothy 3:14-17; Titus 1:9-11.
Don't just preach, in your preaching, do you mention repentance? Do you mention faith in Christ at all? Do you mention the new birth at all? Do you mention being a new creature in Christ at all? Do you mention Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord? Do you mention the life of the believer becoming a believer in Christ? Do you mention living uncompromisingly? Do you mention as minister, earnestly contending for the Faith once delivered unto the Saints? Do you mention all these in your preaching? You put the church in remembrance, you put the brethren in remembrance, you put the believers in remembrance, don't say, already they know everything, tell them again, emphasize it again, remind your spouse again, remind your children again about following peace with all men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord, remind your workers, and everything you're hearing, you meditate upon them, already they know that, but still, emphasize it, don't come to the pulpit halfhearted, don't come to the pulpit shallow, don't come to the pulpit, almost dozing and sleeping, don't come to the pulpit and be afraid that you cannot stand and you cannot maintain sound doctrine, give yourself, wholly, entirely, courageously to them, don't be a compromiser, don't support false prophets, don't support the people that have gone above obeying the word of God, don't make friends with false prophets.
II. Develop the disciples for further reinforcement.
2 Timothy 2:2-6; Exodus 18:19-23; 1 Samuel 8:11-12; Acts 4:12-13; 1 Corinthians 4:15-17.
You're reinforcing the foundations yourself, and then you develop other people that will reinforce the foundations along with you. You cannot do it alone, develop, raise up, engage other people, enlist, enlabour, empower other people, take them along with you while you're going to the field, and you're going to stand, you will demonstrate to them how they too will stand, you will develop other people, disciples them, don't change the word of JESUS Christ only is our message, He is our Saviour, commit it to other people, what Christ passed on to the apostles, and the apostles passed onto us, the same you commit to those who are faithful men, who have accepted the word of God, who believed the word of God, who are living by the word of God, who are faithful in their state standing by the word of God, who do everything in their ministry, in their family that they are given to do in faithfulness, those are the faithful people, and the faithful people are courageous, they are not cowards, the cowards cannot be faithful, those who are, spend on them and don't waste your life and your time on unfaithful people, get the faithful people together and develop them, don't get involve in anything that will not get people nearer to God, and that will not get people nearer to rarely serving God, believing the word of God, standing for the word of God, as we supervises people under our leadership, teach them what work and assignment they must do, if somebody is going to remain in ministry, he must be able man, he must be capable man, he must be a man and a woman of ability, strength, and a woman of backbone who still have a thinking faculty and he can think, he can analyze, and he has the strength.
III. Demonstrate the devotion of former reformers.
Ezra 7:20,23,25; 10:1-12; Nehemiah 20:29-31; Acts 5:27-29,42; 20:20-28;Jude 1:3.
The Lord will help everyone of us that we will come back demonstrate the devotion of a reformer. Macedima was a reformer, he was a restorer, that's why we have potential churches today, but some of them are going back to all the various sins and errors because they have left the foundation, and the Lord is saying, we must have a devotion of the further reformers, remember John Wesley, he stood with the word of God, and he went up and down and he established Holiness, he established sanctification, how those people rose up and they emphasized the sound doctrine, our time has now come that God will help us and we will emphasize the truth of the word of God that is what God has called us to, give all your heart and all your strengths to the work of God, we are doing everything for the Lord, give all your ability, give your last breath and you last strength, and the last drop of blood that remains in you, give everything to God, if you can not give all these, you're not able man, maybe you need to step aside and give a chance to the visionary people that will be able to stand up and they can give all diligence to the whole word of God that leads people to reconciliation, righteousness, Holiness and conversion, sanctification and the power of the Holy Ghost the Lord has given us by the grace and power of God, not allowing a jot, a tittle to fall to the ground, the people we are raising up should earnestly contending for the faith once delivered unto the Saints.
* The Lord is calling us to great assignment today, and He renew the assignment today because the foundation is been eroded, and the foundations is been destroyed and ruined, and the Lord is calling us as righteous men and women, as reformers, as repairers, as restorers. And the Lord is calling you to come with the strength and energy and with the devotion and consecration, and with commitment. Don't take the back seat, tell the Lord you're going to be a restorer, a reformer, and a repairer.
