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When Jesus was
personally asked about His Own works, He said that it was the Father within Him
doing the works, John 14:10.
Jesus doesn’t say here to the people of Thyatira, that I know our Father is
using you more now than He did at your beginning? Jesus told us that many
people will do even miraculous works, but He will proclaim that He never knew
them, Matthew 7:23. The people
who Jesus knows, are the ones Who He is doing His works through. Our Father
does the works!
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The anti-chrits’s
church will be full of works. They will work so much that every last detail of
our lives will be under a rule or a law. It will all be in the Name of
fairness, godliness, and unity. But all of their works and all of their laws
will bring glory to man. Causing men to be prideful, arrogant, boastful, and
lovers of self, 2 Timothy 3:2.
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So just because a
church is active isn’t necessarily a good thing. The true glory of a church is
when our Father is being fully acknowledged as the power for all things and
when there is humility.
20 But I have this against you: that you tolerate the
woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess [claiming to be inspired], and
who is teaching and leading astray my servants and beguiling them into
practicing sexual vice and eating food sacrificed to idols.
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Sexual sins will
destroy a church. They do because it is such a selfish sin. It is all about the
person and gratifying the flesh. To allow a person to come into leadership who
encourages it, will destroy a fellowship.
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Think of today’s
churches and how they are allowing leaders in who do not meet what our Father
had written in 1Timothy and Titus. According to the Word leaders should be the
husband of only one wife, not given to drink, knowledgeable of the Truth, their
children should be well behaved, and they shouldn’t be desirous of money.
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Many churches fail
to bring in true anointed leaders who meet the criteria set by our Father
because they are trying to be inclusive, but leaders have to be what our Father
said they should be. Everyone is welcome into a True Church, but everyone is
not called to be a leader. Only those who are anointed by our Father and who He
has empowered to be what He said they should be.
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It doesn’t mean
that our Father doesn’t love all people; He just hasn’t called all people into
leadership. Be thankful, leaders are held to a higher standard. Not being a
leader doesn’t mean that you will not be used by our Father, it just means you
haven’t been anointed to be a church leader.
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Not many [of
you] should become teachers (self-constituted censors and reprovers of others),
my brethren, for you know that we [teachers]
will be judged by a higher standard and with greater
severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and
the more condemnation]. James 3:1
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