Meat in due season Week 38, 2014

I hardly see the need for these motivational speeches we are getting these days in place of sermons.

“Motivational speeches? Is that what you call them? That is what is needed now.”

Needed now. Have you been in counselling sessions lately? Our church is crammed with people struggling with purity. Many boys who open up either have issues with pornography and masturbation, or are in open rebellion against authority. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unfeeling, uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal, hateful of what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God2Ti 3:2-4(ISV). Fund raising cannot be what is needed now.

“Ah you are wrong. You asked if I have been to the counselling sessions. Where is the privacy? Man of God cannot talk to clients alone in this place. I wonder how you do yours in the open. We need funds urgently for office accommodation.”

It has never bothered me staying in the open. Our voices cannot be heard by those seated far away, and no Delilah can play funny tricks either. These people need to overcome. They are really struggling.

“Suit yourself with poverty mentality. A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things Eccl 10:19(KJV). When a man has been made to give sufficiently to a cause he becomes committed to it. Where you heart is there your treasure is also...”

Is it not the other way round? Is it not when a man has so imbibed a cause that he gives freely? What message on giving came from Jesus at Zaccheus’ house yet upon repentance he gives freely to the poor after restitution? Jesus called us to give meat in due season. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Mt 24:45(KJV).  That means what the brethren need to become ready for Jesus and His return. They must be fed how to be without spot, blame or wrinkle. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish Eph 5:27(KJV). The church could do with a lot of money true enough, but her members need to be taught now how to walk in holiness. Positional holiness at new birth must translate to experiential blameless living that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom ye are seen as lights in the world Phil 2:15(ASV) 

“What risks do you envisage with this series of teachings?”

You know how the heart is. A man can give you money but not his heart, and in giving money retain his evil lifestyle whilst consoling himself he is a partner with God’s work whilst clearly on the road to damnation.