The sinning of church leaders not only reveal their nature and state, but also the nature and state of the church. Although many churches (worldwide) make changes and compromise and adjust the words of God and lower God’s standards, God and His Word will never change. We serve the Almighty God, الذي هو خالق السماء والأرض وكل ما في داخلها. الله هو نفسه, أمس, اليوم وإلى الأبد. God shall never compromise and adjust His word and lower His standards. He still speaks and acts according to His Word that stands forever. God is very clear in the Bible about sin and the consequences of sinning willfully. Is it the will of God that fallen pastors and leaders stay appointed in the church and preach behind the pulpit or not? What does the intentional sinning of church leaders say about them?
Do pastors and other church leaders, who are sinning willfully, belong in the pulpit?
Church leaders who are sinning willfully don’t belong in the pulpit. If church leaders keep on sinning willfully after their repentance, تجديد, and during their leadership in church, they shouldn’t be appointed and teach in the pulpit and lead the church (جمعية المؤمنين).
This may be hard to read and some people may find this ruthless. لكن, a sinning pastor or church leader has consciously made a choice to disobey God and His Word and serve the flesh and do something that opposes the will of God.
That’s why in the Old Covenant there was a difference in sin. Everything a person does that opposes the words and will of God is sin. لكن, there is a difference in the kinds of sin.
Someone can unconsciously say or do something that is not good and during or afterward be confronted and corrected by the Holy Spirit. But someone can also consciously say or do something with premeditated intent. This means that a person knows that it’s not good and not according to the will of God and diametrically opposes His Word, but the person does it anyway, because the love for the flesh is stronger than the love for God and His Word. (اقرأ أيضا: What is a sin not unto death and a sin unto death?)
Take for example adultery.
Is adultery a premeditated sin?
Adultery is a premeditated sin. الزنا لا يحدث فقط. Pants don’t fall down themselves. لا, a person has consciously made a choice to commit adultery, despite the knowledge of the truth and God’s will. Every Christian knows, that adultery is a sin.
والآن ظهرت أعمال الجسد, ما هي هذه; الزنا, الزنا, النجاسة, شهوة, الوثنية, السحر, الكراهية, التباين, مضاهاة, غضب, الفتنة, الفتن, البدع, الحسد, جرائم القتل, السكر, الاحتفالات, ومثل هذا: مما أخبرك به من قبل, كما قلت لك أيضًا في الماضي, أن هم الذين يفعلون مثل هذه الأشياء لا يرثون ملكوت الله (غلاطية 5:19-21)
لذلك رضى أعضائك على الأرض; الزنا, النجاسة, المودة المفرطة, الشر الشرير, والطمع, وهو عبادة الأصنام: أي الأشياء’ من أجل غضب الله على أبناء العصيان: في الذي ساروا أيضًا بعض الوقت, عندما عاشت فيها. لكن الآن قامتم أيضًا بتأجيل كل هذه; الغضب, غضب, خبث, التجديف, التواصل القذر من فمك. لا تكذب إلى آخر, رؤية ذلك قد أوقفت الرجل العجوز بأفعاله; وقد وضعت على الرجل الجديد, الذي يتجدد للمعرفة على صورة الذي خلقه: حيث لا يوجد يوناني ولا يهودي, الختان ولا الغرلة, بربري, محشوش, سند ولا حر: ولكن المسيح هو الكل, وفي كل شيء (كولوسي 3:5-11)
adulterers don’t love God and their neighbor but themselves?
When a person commits adultery, the person doesn’t walk in love toward God. Not walking in love toward God means, that the person doesn’t keep God’s commandments (which are also The commandments of Jesus).
Only if you keep the commandments of God, أنت تمشي في الحب. معرفة هذا, if a person knows the truth (adultery is sin) and God’s will but consciously rejected God and His word, then the person doesn’t walk in love.
The person shows through his deed that he doesn’t love God with all his heart, روح, عقل, والقوة.
When a person commits adultery, the person loves himself, المرأة الغريبة (أو رجل) and above all the lusts of the flesh.
The person doesn’t keep the second commandment either, وهو, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, but rejected it. Since the adulterer didn’t remember his wife (or her husband) and the wedding vow he (أو هي) صنع.
When people commit adultery they don’t love their neighbor (زوجهم) but themselves. They want to satisfy their (مؤقت) sexual feelings of the flesh.
When church leaders commit adultery they forget their responsibility for the precious souls of the saints
When a pastor or other church leaders commit adultery, they don’t remember the precious souls of the saints. They don’t remember their responsibility for the saints and the consequences of their selfish deed to the church. Since the uncleanness of sin defames (disgraces) اسم يسوع, and defiles His church, and mocks His redemptive work. (اقرأ أيضا: هل يسوع مروج للخطيئة?).
And so the adulterous pastor or other church leader despised God, by rejecting both the words of God and his wife (or her husband) and disobeying the words of God, breaking the wedding vow, not remembering the souls of the saints, and defiling the church.
God hated Esau, who sold his birthright to satisfy his hunger
It’s just like Esau, who didn’t consider his birthright from God a privilege and precious. لذلك, Esau sold his birthright to satisfy his temporary hunger. This act of Esau was abominable to God.
God didn’t say about Esau that He loved him but that He hated him. لماذا? Because of his deed that originated from his wicked heart. (ملاخي 1:2-3, رومان 9:13, العبرانيين 12:16-17 (اقرأ أيضا: هل يمكنك مقاومة الإغراء?)).
هناك العديد من المسيحيين, who jeopardize their relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father and the abiding of the Holy Spirit and eternity, by prioritizing their feelings and the will, الشهوات, and desires of the flesh and putting them above the Word
The blind guides and white Sepulchers
It’s already bad that adultery happens among Christians, who don’t hold a leadership position in the church, but that adultery also takes place among church leaders is really bad.
Because how can they, who are spiritually blind themselves and led by their flesh and don’t live a disciplined life after the Spirit in obedience to God and His Word, but reject God and His Word and walk in disobedience in darkness and sin willfully, teach the members of the church and expect the believers to walk after the Spirit in obedience to God in holiness in the Light?
These pastors and church leaders are blind guides and white sepulchres, تماما مثل الفريسيين.
The Pharisees appeared beautiful, charismatic, piously and righteous on the outside. لكن, inwardly they were full of extortion, النجاسة, hypocrisy and iniquity (الفوضى).
Although the Pharisees taught the people in the Law and Prophets, and made God’s will known to them, they didn’t submit to the Law and the prophets and didn’t walk in the will of God. (اقرأ أيضا: هل الكنيسة ترى أم عمياء؟?)
And so there are many pastors and church leaders, who have not truly repented and are not born again in Christ. They don’t walk after the Spirit in obedience to God.
Why do many pastors and other church leaders fall?
Many pastors and other church leaders fall, because they have not crucified their flesh in Christ. If they had crucified their flesh, they wouldn’t keep sinning and, على سبيل المثال, commit adultery. Adultery is a work of the flesh.
The work of their flesh shows that they walk after the flesh. They don’t fear the Lord and don’t take the Word seriously, because they consciously keep sinning (المثابرة على الخطيئة).
These church leaders assume they can keep sinning without consequences, since they remain appointed in the church anyway or they leave the church temporarily and after some time are reinstated in the same office again.
And the carnal church that makes decisions on the basis of feelings and emotions instead of the Word of God, substantiates this wicked behavior. The carnal church gives a foothold to the devil and accepts and supports sin, by keeping the fallen pastor or other leader in their office or reinstating the fallen leader in their office after some time. (اقرأ أيضا: ماذا كان يقصد بولس بقوله فجأة لا تضع الأيدي على أحد)
What is the will of God concerning His sons and daughters?
It is the will of God that all His sons and daughters, who are born of Him and have His nature and represent Him on earth, walk after the Spirit in holiness and not in uncleanness, fornication and the lust of concupiscence, as the Gentiles do, who don’t know God and are not born of Him and walk in disobedience to God and His Word in the will of their father in darkness.
لأن هذا هو إرادة الله, حتى تقديسك, يجب أن يمتنعوا عن الزنا: أن كل واحد منكم يجب أن يعرف كيف يمتلك سفينته في التقديس والشرف; ليس في شهوة التوافق, حتى باعتباره الوثنيون الذين لا يعرفون الله: أن لا يوجد رجل يتجاوز ويحتل أخيه في أي مسألة: لأن هذا الرب هو المنتقم من كل هذا, كما قمنا أيضًا بحسمك وشهدنا. لأن الله لم يتصل بنا إلى نجس, لكن القداسة. لذلك فإن هذا يحب, لا يستحق الرجل, لكن الله, من أعطى لنا روحه القدوس (1 تسالونيكي 4:3-8)
Is God love, merciful and forgiving?
People say God is love, merciful and forgiving. ولكن هل هذا صحيح؟? God is absolutely loving, merciful and forgiving if someone truly repents and not because someone is caught in the act and asks forgiveness out of a religious habit and after some time falls back into the same sin. لكن, God is also righteous and many times they leave that part out.
The love of God is a righteous love and not a حب العصر الجديد. (اقرأ أيضا: الروح القدس مقابل روح العصر الجديد, أي روح تسكن فيك?)
Jesus said to the Pharisees (الخلق الجسدي القديم) that they obeyed the lust of their father and not of God. (اقرأ أيضا: إرادة الله مقابل إرادة الشيطان).
Would God trust and appoint a worker of iniquity in the church?
How can God trust and appoint a leader in the church to raise His sons (وهذا ينطبق على كل من الذكور والإناث) and teach them in the Word, so that they get to know the will of God and lead them into the truth and grow up into spiritual maturity in Christ after His image, if the leader is not spiritually mature?
How can God appoint a leader who doesn’t walk as a mature son of God after the Spirit and doesn’t submit to the Head Jesus Christ and don’t do what Jesus; الكلمة تقول, لكنه فخور, متمرد, carnal and does the will and the works of the flesh and keeps sinning willfully?
Would God trust His sons to someone, who claims to know God, but doesn’t listen to Him and doesn’t do what He says and deny God through His works? Does this worker of iniquity belong to God?
“He gave some, الرسل; وبعض, انبياء; وبعض, الانجيليين; وبعض, القساوسة والمعلمين; من أجل تكميل القديسين”
وأعطى بعض, الرسل; وبعض, انبياء; وبعض, الانجيليين; وبعض, القساوسة والمعلمين; من أجل تكميل القديسين, لعمل الوزارة, من أجل بنيان جسد المسيح: حتى نأتي جميعاً إلى وحدة الإيمان, ومعرفة ابن الله, إلى رجل كامل, إلى قياس قامة ملء المسيح:
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, حتى المسيح: From whom the whole Body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the Body unto the edifying of itself in love (افسس 4:11-16)
كل الكتاب المقدس موحى به من الله, وهو نافع للعقيدة, للتوبيخ, للتصحيح, للتعليم في البر: لكي يكون رجل الله كاملا, مفروشة بالكامل لجميع الأعمال الصالحة (2 تيموثي 3:16)
What does the intentional sinning of a pastor or other church leaders say about them?
The intentional sinning of a pastor or other church leaders say that the pastor or other church leader is carnal and walks in darkness and does the will of the flesh. The intentional sinning of a pastor and other church leaders testify that they are a slave of sin. Sin still reigns as king in the life of the pastor or church leaders and the wicked one aka the devil still has a hold on the church leader. This should already be a warning to the church.
أجابهم يسوع, حقا, حقا, أقول لكم, من يرتكب الخطيئة فهو عبد للخطيئة (جون 8:34)
يعلمون أنهم يعرفون الله; ولكنهم في الأعمال ينكرونه, كونها بغيضة, والعصيان, وحتى كل عمل جيد يتوهج (تيتوس 1:16)
من أجل نعمة الله التي تجلب الخلاص ظهرت لجميع الرجال, تعليمنا ذلك, إنكار الشهوات الدنيوية والشهوات الدنيوية, يجب أن نعيش بصراحة, بمنح, واللهية, في هذا العالم الحالي; تبحث عن هذا الأمل المبارك, والمظهر المجيد للإله العظيم ومخلصنا يسوع المسيح; الذي أعطى نفسه من أجلنا, أنه قد يستردنا من جميع, ويطهر لنفسه شعبا خاصا, متحمس للأعمال الصالحة.هذه الأشياء تتحدث, وحث, والتوبيخ بكل سلطان. لا يحتقرك أحد (تيتوس 2:11-15)
استيقظوا على البر, ولا تخطئ; لان قوما ليس لديهم معرفة الله: أنا أقول هذا لعارك (1 كورنثوس 15:34)
ونحن نعلم أن كل من ولد من الله لا يخطئ; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not (1 جون 5:18)
What is the danger of appointing a fallen pastor or church leader in the church?
The danger of appointing a fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders in the church is that they not only despised God and His Word and defiled the church, but Christians will follow their example.
If a pastor or other leaders in the church, who should be born again and spiritually mature and should know the will of God, refuses to submit to God and His Word and therefore is prideful, متمرد, والعصيان, the sheep will follow the example of the fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders and shall also walk in pride, تمرد, and disobedience to God and His Word.
نفس الشيء (نجس) spirit that dwells in the pastor (or other church leaders) shall come over the church.
نتيجة ل, the church members shall bear the same fruit as the church leader. They shall walk in wickedness and uncleanness. (اقرأ أيضا: العديد من القساوسة يقودون الأغنام إلى الهاوية).
How can a fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders expect from the believers that they submit to God and obey His Word, when they don’t do it themselves?
If a preacher or other church leaders commits fornication and adultery, how can the preacher confront, warn, correct and chastise a church member in these areas and forbid fornication and adultery? Exactly the church leader can’t.
نتيجة ل, the church shall compromise and allow sin in the church and approve of Christians living in sin.
Putting the relationship with Jesus at stake and playing with eternity to fulfill the lusts of the flesh
اتبع السلام مع جميع الناس, والقداسة, التي بدونها لن يرى أحد الرب: متطلعين لئلا يخيب أحد من نعمة الله; لئلا يطلع أصل مرارة ويزعجكم, وبذلك يتنجس كثيرون; لئلا يكون هناك زاني, أو شخص دنيء, من عيسو, الذي لأجل أكلة لحم واحدة باع بكوريته. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears (العبرانيين 12:14-17)
في العهد الجديد, في dispensation of the Holy Spirit, Paul mentioned the thoughts of God regarding the profanity and act of Esau, who despised the Lord by rejecting his birthright for the temporary carnal lusts and desires. Paul warned the believers. وحتى الآن, there are many pastors and church leaders, who say they have knowledge about God’s Word and claim to see, but don’t care about Paul’s warning and disregard this Scripture.
Many people object to women in ministry but don’t mind male church leaders who are sinning willfully
It is remarkable, that so many people object to women in ministry and substantiate their objection with two Scriptures. لكن, they forget the Scriptures about carnal leaders, who are sensual and unspiritual and have the mind of the world and are addicted to pornography, الاستمناء or involved with other sexual uncleanness and commit fornication, الزنا, live together غير متزوج, have a مثلي الجنس relationship, نكون divorced and remarried and therefore the spouse of more than one women, ارتكاب عبادة الأصنام, السحر, سرق, احتيال, (pathologic) كذب, have an إدمان الكحول, إلخ. These sinning male church leaders get free rein and are appointed in leadership without any objection.
No objections and Scriptures are cited with them, while there are many Scriptures in the Bible to exclude these males from ministry. (a.o Romans 1,2,6,7,8, 1 كورنثوس 15:34, 2 كورنثوس 6, غلاطية 2:17-21;5:13-26, افسس 4,5, 1 تيموثي 3; 5:19-25; 6:2b-12, 1 تيتوس 1:6-9, 2 بيتر 2, 1 جون 3,5).
Does the intentional sinning of church leaders have consequences
If an apostle, مبشر, نبي, القس, مدرس, شيخ, deacon, worship leader or anyone else, chooses deliberately to obey the will of the flesh above the will of God, then the person has made a conscious decision to reject God and His Word and shall bear the consequences thereof.
فكونوا إذن أتباعًا لله, كأطفال أعزاء; والسير في الحب, كما أحبنا المسيح أيضاً, وأعطى نفسه لأجلنا قربانا وذبيحة لله رائحة سرور. ولكن الزنا, وكل نجاسة, أو الطمع, لا يُسمَّى بينكم مرة واحدة, كما يليق بالقديسين; ولا القذارة, ولا الكلام السخيف, ولا تمزح, والتي ليست مريحة: بل الشكر. لهذا تعلمون, أنه لا يوجد عاهرة, ولا إنسان نجس, ولا رجل طماع, من هو المشرك, له ميراث في ملكوت المسيح والله. لا يخدعكم أحد بكلام باطل: لأنه بسبب هذه الأمور يأتي غضب الله على أبناء المعصية. فلا تكونوا شركاءهم (افسس 5:1-7)
What does the Bible say about someone who habitually commits sin?
Whosoever commits sin transgresseth also the law: للخطيئة هو تجاوز القانون. وأنتم تعلمون أنه أظهر ليرفع خطايانا; وليس فيه خطيئة. وكل من يثبت فيه لا يخطئ: من لم يره شينث, ولم يعرفه. أطفال صغار, لا يوجد رجل يخدعك: من يفعل البر من الصالحين, حتى لأنه صالح. هو الذي يرتكب الخطيئة هو من الشيطان; للشيطان الجزيرة من البداية.
لهذا الغرض ، تجلى ابن الله, أنه قد يدمر أعمال الشيطان. كل من ولد من الله لا يفعل خطيئة; لنسله يبقى فيه: وهو لا يستطيع الخطيئة, لأنه ولد من الله. في هذا أبناء الله واضح, وأطفال الشيطان: ومن لا يفعل البر فليس من الله, ولا من يحب أخاه (1 جون 3:4-10)
Even if the person is famous, influential, and powerful in the church world or bears the name of a famous father, mother or any other relative, or is a theologian, charismatic, an eloquent speaker, غني, and seems to be sincere and piously from the outside, God is not a respecter of persons.
God is not misled by words and outward appearances, but God looks at the heart, since all the works of a man derive from the heart.
When church leaders keep sinning willfully their flesh is alive and their heart unchanged
As long as church leaders willfully keep sinning it proves that the flesh is still alive and the heart unchanged. The intentional sins that derive from the heart testifies that the heart and nature of the person are not changed and the person is not born again and doesn’t walk after the Spirit.
The heart is still of stone and that person doesn’t belong in church leadership of the church of Jesus Christ.
"كونوا ملح الأرض"
