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, Hver er skapari himins og jarðar og alls sem er að innan. Guð er hinn sami, í gær, í dag og að eilífu. 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, endurnýjun, and during their leadership in church, they shouldn’t be appointed and teach in the pulpit and lead the church (söfnuði trúaðra).
This may be hard to read and some people may find this ruthless. Hins vegar, 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. Hins vegar, 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. (Lestu líka: 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. Adultery doesn’t just happen. Pants don’t fall down themselves. Nei, 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.
Nú eru verk holdsins augljós, sem eru þessar; Framhjáhald, saurlifnaður, óhreinleiki, lauslæti, Skurðgoðadýrkun, galdur, hatri, afbrigði, eftirlíkingar, reiði, deilur, uppreisn, villutrú, Öfund, morð, ölvun, Revellings, og slíkt eins: af því sem ég segi þér áður, Eins og ég hef líka sagt þér í tíma áður, að þeir sem slíkt gjöra munu ekki erfa Guðs ríki (Galatabréf 5:19-21)
Dragið því limi yðar, sem eru á jörðu; saurlifnaður, óhreinleiki, óhófleg ástúð, ill tilviljun, og ágirnd, sem er skurðgoðadýrkun: Fyrir hvaða hluti’ sakir reiði Guðs kemur yfir börn óhlýðninnar: Þar sem þér hafið líka gengið um tíma, þegar þér bjugguð í þeim. En nú leggið þér líka af öllu þessu; reiði, reiði, illgirni, guðlast, óhrein samskipti úr munni þínum. Ljúga ekki hver að öðrum, þar sem þér hafið aflagt gamla manninn með verkum hans; Og hafa sett á nýja manninn, sem endurnýjast í þekkingu eftir mynd þess sem skapaði hann: Þar sem hvorki er grískur né gyðingur, umskurn né óumskorinn, Barbarian, Skíta, skuldabréf né ókeypis: en Kristur er allur, og í öllu (Kólossubúar 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, you walk in love. Að vita þetta, 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, sál, Hugur, og styrkur.
When a person commits adultery, the person loves himself, undarlega konan (eða maður) and above all the lusts of the flesh.
The person doesn’t keep the second commandment either, sem er, 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 (eða hún) gert.
When people commit adultery they don’t love their neighbor (maka þeirra) but themselves. They want to satisfy their (tímabundið) 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) the Name of Jesus, and defiles His church, and mocks His redemptive work. (Lestu líka: Er Jesús hvatamaður syndarinnar?).
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. Þess vegna, 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. Hvers vegna? Because of his deed that originated from his wicked heart. (Malakí 1:2-3, Romans 9:13, Hebrear 12:16-17 (Lestu líka: Geturðu staðist freistinguna?)).
Það eru margir kristnir menn, 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, girndir, 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, just like the Pharisees.
The Pharisees appeared beautiful, karismatísk, piously and righteous on the outside. Hins vegar, inwardly they were full of extortion, óhreinleiki, hypocrisy and iniquity (lögleysa).
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. (Lestu líka: Er kirkjan sjáandi eða blind?)
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, til dæmis, 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 (þrauka í synd).
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. (Lestu líka: Hvað átti Páll við með því að leggja skyndilega hendur á engan mann)
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.
Því þetta er vilji Guðs, jafnvel helgun þín, að þér skuluð halda yður frá saurlifnaði: Að sérhver yðar skuli vita hvernig á að eignast ker sitt í helgun og heiður; Ekki í þráhyggju, eins og heiðingjar, sem ekki þekkja Guð: Að enginn maður fari fram úr og svíkur bróður sinn í neinu máli: af því að Drottinn er hefndarmaður allra slíkra, eins og vér höfum líka varað þig við og vitnað. Því að Guð hefur ekki kallað oss til óhreinleika, heldur til heilagleika. Sá sem fyrirlítur því, fyrirlítur ekki manninn, en Guð, sem einnig hefur gefið oss sinn heilaga anda (1 Þessaloníkumenn 4:3-8)
Is God love, merciful and forgiving?
People say God is love, merciful and forgiving. En er það satt? 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. Hins vegar, God is also righteous and many times they leave that part out.
The love of God is a righteous love and not a nýaldarást. (Lestu líka: Heilagur andi vs nýaldarandi, sem andi býr í þér?)
Jesús sagði við faríseana (gömul holdleg sköpun) that they obeyed the lust of their father and not of God. (Lestu líka: Vilji Guðs vs vilji djöfulsins).
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 (Þetta á bæði við um karla og konur) 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; Orðið segir, en er stoltur, uppreisnargjarnir, 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, postula; og sumir, Spámenn; og sumir, guðspjallamenn; og sumir, prestar og kennarar; Til að fullkomna hina heilögu”
Og hann gaf eitthvað, postula; og sumir, Spámenn; og sumir, guðspjallamenn; og sumir, prestar og kennarar; Til að fullkomna hina heilögu, fyrir störf ráðuneytisins, til uppbyggingar líkama Krists: Þar til við komum öll í einingu trúarinnar, og um þekkingu á syni Guðs, til fullkomins manns, að mælikvarða á vexti fyllingar Krists:
That we henceforth be no more children, kastað til og frá, og barst með hverjum vindi kenninga, af mannavöldum, og slægt handbragð, þar sem þeir bíða eftir að blekkja; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, jafnvel Kristur: 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 (Efesusbréfið 4:11-16)
Öll ritningin er gefin með innblæstri frá Guði, og er hagkvæmt til kenninga, fyrir reproof, fyrir leiðréttingu, til kennslu í réttlæti: Til þess að guðsmaðurinn sé fullkominn, vandlega búinn til allra góðra verka (2 Timothy 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.
Jesús svaraði þeim, Sannarlega, Sannarlega, Ég segi þér, Sá sem nam sini er þjónn syndarinnar (John 8:34)
Þeir játa að þeir þekki Guð; en í verkum afneita þeir honum, að vera viðurstyggilegur, og óhlýðinn, og til allra góðra vinnu reprobate (Titus 1:16)
Því að náð Guðs, sem veitir hjálpræði, hefur birst öllum mönnum, Að kenna okkur það, afneita guðleysi og veraldlegum girndum, við ættum að lifa edrú, réttlátlega, og guðrækinn, í þessum núverandi heimi; Að leita að þeirri blessuðu von, og dýrðleg birting hins mikla Guðs og frelsara vors Jesú Krists; Sem gaf sjálfan sig fyrir okkur, að hann gæti leyst oss frá öllu ranglæti, og hreinsa sér sérkennilega þjóð, ákafur til góðra verka.These things speak, og hvetja, og ávíta með öllu valdi. Lát engan mann fyrirlíta þig (Titus 2:11-15)
Vaknaðu til réttlætis, og syndga ekki; því að sumir hafa ekki þekkingu á Guði: Ég tala þetta þér til skammar (1 Korintubréf 15:34)
Við vitum að hver sem er fæddur af Guði syndgar ekki; but he that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that wicked one touches him not (1 John 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, uppreisnargjarnir, og óhlýðinn, the sheep will follow the example of the fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders and shall also walk in pride, uppreisn, og óhlýðni við Guð og orð hans.
Sama (óhreint) spirit that dwells in the pastor (or other church leaders) shall come over the church.
Fyrir vikið, the church members shall bear the same fruit as the church leader. They shall walk in wickedness and uncleanness. (Lestu líka: Margir prestar leiða sauðkindina út í hyldýpið).
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, vara við, correct and chastise a church member in these areas and forbid fornication and adultery? Exactly the church leader can’t.
Fyrir vikið, 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
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 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 (Hebrear 12:14-17)
Í nýja sáttmálanum, í 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. Og samt, 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. Hins vegar, they forget the Scriptures about carnal leaders, who are sensual and unspiritual and have the mind of the world and are addicted to pornography, sjálfsfróun or involved with other sexual uncleanness and commit fornication, hór, búa saman ógiftur, have a samkynhneigð relationship, eru skilin and remarried and therefore the spouse of more than one women, fremja skurðgoðadýrkun, galdur, stela, svik, (pathologic) ljúga, have an áfengisfíkn, o.s.frv. 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 Korintubréf 15:34, 2 Korintubréf 6, Galatabréf 2:17-21;5:13-26, Efesusbréfið 4,5, 1 Timothy 3; 5:19-25; 6:2b-12, 1 Titus 1:6-9, 2 Pétur 2, 1 John 3,5).
Does the intentional sinning of church leaders have consequences
If an apostle, guðspjallamaður, spámaður, prestur, teacher, eldri, 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.
Verið því fylgjendur Guðs, sem kæru börn; Og ganga í ást, eins og Kristur hefur elskað oss, og gaf sjálfan sig handa okkur að fórn og fórn Guði til ljúfs ilms.. En saurlifnaður, og allur óhreinleiki, eða ágirnd, lát það ekki einu sinni vera nefnt meðal yðar, eins og heilögu sæmir; Hvorki óhreinindi, né heimskulegt tal, né grín, sem eru ekki þægilegar: heldur að þakka. Fyrir þetta veistu, að enginn hórmaður, né óhreinn maður, né ágirnd maður, sem er skurðgoðadýrkandi, hefur einhverja arfleifð í ríki Krists og Guðs. Láttu engan blekkja þig með fánýtum orðum: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Verið því ekki þátttakendur með þeim (Efesusbréfið 5:1-7)
What does the Bible say about someone who habitually commits sin?
Whosoever commits sin transgresseth also the law: Því að synd er afbrot laganna. Og þér vitið að hann birtist til að taka burt syndir okkar; og í honum er engin synd. Hver sem er í honum syndgar ekki: hver sem syndgaði hann ekki, hvorugur þekkti hann. Lítil börn, Leyfðu engum manni að blekkja þig: Sá sem gerir réttlæti er réttlátur, Jafnvel þar sem hann er réttlátur. Sá sem fremur synd er af djöflinum; Því að djöfullinn syndir frá upphafi.
Í þessu skyni var sonur Guðs birtast, að hann gæti eyðilagt verk djöfulsins. Hver sem er fæddur af Guði drýgir ekki synd; því að niðjar hans eru í honum: Og hann getur ekki syndgað, Vegna þess að hann er fæddur af Guði. Í þessu eru börn Guðs augljós, og börn djöfulsins: Hver sem ekki réttlætir er ekki frá Guði, ekki heldur sá sem elskar ekki bróður sinn (1 John 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, karismatísk, an eloquent speaker, auðugur, 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.
„Vertu salt jarðar“
