Just Don't Touch Those I Idolize!

Who saints is to be our example for living our daily lives?
Whom are we to have faith in?
Whose Word are we to follow?
In whom are we to place our trust?

Then why is it that many feel they must have a man or a woman to follow?

Because they don’t yet understand….God has not brought them to the place where they realize that He is their sufficiency…He is the one in whom they are to place all their trust….He wants to be their All in All...

Many have fallen because they have sought to follow this person or that person, and when that person has discouraged them, or caused them to fall by their bad example…. they loose their faith in God, because their faith has been in man not in God.

Man can be very seductive, very alluring, why else would thousands get sucked into idolizing man. Many in ministry today want to be held up and loved and get a name for themselves, and are willing to compromise the Word of God to attain the favor and adulation of men.

So many who seem well meaning, and who preach good sermons... have underlying goals..they want to leave a legacy, a name for themselves in this earth. This is prevalent in the Kingdom groups.... they seek to emulate the forefathers of this country, when they should be seeking nothing but to be accepted of God, and to emulate Jesus Christ.

Yes we are to give respect to whom respect is due…but we are not to carry that respect to the point where we become blindly trusting of any man or woman and hang on their every word, thinking they can do no wrong….very dangerous position to put ourselves in saints…

What are we to stand in defense of?

Jesus Christ and His Word

What are we to contend for?

The Faith, our Faith in Christ Jesus our Lord

There are many seeking to devour us saints, who have no true love for our souls…only for their own gain. They seek their own disciples to follow them....they take no thought for your spiritual condition...

The Internet is one place today where these things are becoming more prevalent.

It is easy to portray oneself as righteous and all knowing over the Internet. However we can’t see one another’s daily walk, we really don’t know one another. Talk is cheap, we must be on guard saints that we be not deceived…we need discernment in this hour more than any other hour in history.

We should always and only hold Jesus Christ up as all-knowing and full of truth. Every mans words must be held up before the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you do not know a man's walk, then seek God that his ways be made manifest to you.

John 3:19-21

19. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

2 Corinthians 4:1-7

1. Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
2. But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
3. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4. In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
5. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

We are to be as the saints of old as they followed Christ!