Snakes in our midst
“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.” 2 Peter 2:9
“And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving while they feast with you; having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercise with covetous practices; curse children. which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; but was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the midst of darkness is reserved for ever.”
2 Peter 2:13-17 (KJV)
Our scripture references above gives us insight into a subject relating to a group of people who have made great advancement in the leadership of the Body of Christ. The Bible call these people cursed children, spots, blemishes, anti-christs, false prophets, wolves in sheep clothing, hypocrites, blind guilds, serpents, generation of vipers, uncleanness, full of dead men bones, and fools. This is a description of a group of people serving within the Body of Christ. They love the ways of unrighteousness. They are wells without water.
I have served with people like what the apostle Peter describes in the scripture reference above. In these organizations, there were times when we made great progress in advancing the kingdom of God agenda. We experienced a move of God. People were galvanized and then all of a sudden the bottom falls out and people are thrown into despair, shock because their leaders had a moral failure or refusal to lead. All the years of labor and money invested into a movement is wasted. People are scattered.
I stepped down from a volunteer christian organization in which I invested much time and resources because the wrong people were able to get into leadership positions. What tends to happen is these leaders thrive off of collecting titles and ranks. They are petty and excessive. They advance their relatives into positions of power.
They hold the office of Bishops. I have a relative who belongs to this denomination. They have to pay yearly assessments when they go to their annual conference. The Bishop sent word to my relative who is a pastor, ‘he better not come to the conference without my money.’ That’s how those denominations are ran; but it didn’t start out that way. Some snake got into positions of power and started a trend that got a foothold and spiral into a dark place.
Churches in my city fail into dark place. It started out as pastor’s anniversaries. It was held on one day. The one day anniversary became a week long anniversary. The week long anniversary became a month long anniversary. The ministry departments were responsible for collecting a certain about of money. The membership was responsible for given a certain amount of money. And over time the process became competitive and just about raising money.
Jesus describes these people as tares
“He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.” Matthew 13:37-40 (KJV)
John said, they came from the midst of us, that they might be exposed
“Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that anti-christ shall come, even now are there many anti-christs; whereby we know we know it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.” 1 John 2:18-19 (KJV)
These cursed children are dangerous in that they often lead congregation and are in positions of great power. They crave authority. They buy titles and positions. I have seen great projects crashed because of their leadership.
Jesus told his workers not to pull up the tares unless they pull up the wheat. He said let the wheat and tares grow together and at the appointed time the angels will gather everything out of his kingdom that offends
Light exposes everything
“But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.” Ephesians 5:15 (KJV)
Jesus let your light so shine, that men might see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits shall know them.” Matthew 7:15-20 (KJV)
Jesus said you could recognize false prophets by their fruit. Tares, wolves and serpents can also be identified by their fruit. What in your hands?
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