March 2, 2021 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John

Your Theology or Jesus Christ?

Leadership and the Body of Christ (part 3)

There is only one promotion in Christ, and it is to become a servant and eventually a slave to Jesus Christ as the Apostle Paul states so clearly in his Epistles (this is our first step in fulfilling Christ’s calling on our lives). Notwithstanding, there are three steps all of us must make.

Too many of our Church leaders fall into the trap that the world (and Satan) promotes the idea that one has to make oneself into a somebody and admired by those around him or her. We are told to become ‘a somebody’ with/in Jesus Christ. Just the opposite is true, we become ‘nobodies’ if we are to do Christ’s perfect will in our ministries. We are no longer living, but it is ‘Christ in me’ that makes me alive. Each of us must always remember that ‘I am not good’, as Jesus said, “No one is good but God”. Each of us should no longer try to become significant or consider oneself important—I do not ‘brand myself’ as the world wants me too, but I consider whatever I know or how I have succeeded in this world to be nothing! And, if I boost of anything I boost only in the persecution I have suffered for Christ’s sake. I deserve no honor, no glory, or no recognition.

The anti-Christ has come, and we are now in the battle for the Second Coming of Christ (this is our second step in fulfilling Christ’s calling on our lives). The Apostle John wrote in I John that “now there are many anti-Christs” (KJV) and that was written 2000 thousand years ago. Today you can see the mark of the anti-Christ upon people i.e. if you have the eyes of the Holy Spirit; also, his image is in so many institutions, and his lies are proclaimed all around us by what is written daily in newspapers and books and what is distributed in social media platforms. The spirit of the anti-Christ denies that Christ came as a man and denies that Christ himself now lives in men, women, and children. If you cannot realize this and do not see it daily, you are blind and living in your sins (as Revelation states in chapters 2 & 3).

Becoming a person of faith—a person that responds to the purposes and action plans of God (this is the third step in fulfilling Christ calling on our lives.)The Apostle Paul said, “You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him” (Hebrews 2:8 NKJV). A kinder version states it like this, “Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him” (ESV). All things are quickly changing. If you do not see through your spiritual eyes that this spiritual struggle is taking place, I would repent, ask God for healing, and prepare for only one thing—the coming of Christ/His return and Christ’s judgment on this world.

A person of faith is a person that responds in actions not just words to what God says, asks, requests, or demands. Book of Hebrews chapter 11 tells us what is required to walk in faith. Verse 6 is the foundation of faith: “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him” (KJV). All the other verses give us examples of what faith can do and what it looks like. Each of the people of faith in this chapter do not walk by sight but first hope then by responding in faith to what God says. When we respond positively to what God has said or is saying, we are called ‘people of faith’. It is our response and choice to believe what God says is ‘true and correct’, and all God is asking of us to respond to Him—this is faith in action. We must choose God and choose to do things as God does everything.

This is where many of today’s leaders are walking in error, personally and regarding their ministry and calling. We must never say that ‘we believe in Christ’ and then not walk in humility as well as not realizing what God is doing in this our generation and time. Failure to fulfill steps one, two, three, will only promote failure, confusion, and doubt. Satan will only continue to win in his battle against the Church. We must do as the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ tells the Church in these last days. Let’s be wise, full of faith, and willing to take this fight against everything that exalts itself against Jesus Christ.

“Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision;

the Day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision” Joel 3:14, NLT.

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What would Jesus want me to do?

Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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