Kirkeledernes synder avslører ikke bare deres natur og tilstand, men også kirkens natur og tilstand. Selv om mange kirker (over hele verden) gjøre endringer og gå på akkord og justere Guds ord og senke Guds standarder, God and His Word will never change. We serve the Almighty God, Hvem er skaperen av himmel og jord og alt som er innenfor. Gud er den samme, i går, i dag og for alltid. 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, regenerering, and during their leadership in church, they shouldn’t be appointed and teach in the pulpit and lead the church (Forsamlingen av troende).
This may be hard to read and some people may find this ruthless. derimot, 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. derimot, 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. (Les også: 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.
Nå er kjødets gjerninger åpenbare, hvilke er disse; Utroskap, utukt, urenhet, liderlighet, Avgudsdyrkelse, hekseri, hat, varians, emuleringer, vrede, strid, opprør, Partier, Misunnelser, drap, Drukkenskap, nytelse, og slikt: som jeg forteller deg før, som jeg også har fortalt deg tidligere, at de som gjør slike ting ikke skal arve Guds rike (Galaterbrevet 5:19-21)
Mortify derfor medlemmene dine som er på jorden; utukt, urenhet, overdreven kjærlighet, ond konkupiscence, og begjær, som er avgudsdyrkelse: For hvilke ting’ Guds vrede kommer på ulydighetens barn: I det som også gikk litt tid, da dere bodde i dem. Men nå utsetter dere også alle disse; sinne, vrede, ondskapsfullhet, blasfemi, skitten kommunikasjon ut av munnen din. Lyve ikke en til en annen, ser at dere har satt av den gamle mannen med sine gjerninger; Og har satt på den nye mannen, som fornyes i kunnskap etter bildet av ham som skapte ham: Hvor det verken er greker eller jøde, omskjæring eller uomskjæring, Barbar, Skytisk, obligasjon eller gratis: men Kristus er alt, og i alt (Kolosserne 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, Du går forelsket. Å vite dette, 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, sjel, sinn, og styrke.
When a person commits adultery, the person loves himself, den fremmede kvinnen (eller mann) and above all the lusts of the flesh.
The person doesn’t keep the second commandment either, som 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 (eller hun) laget.
When people commit adultery they don’t love their neighbor (deres ektefelle) but themselves. They want to satisfy their (midlertidig) 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) Jesu navn, and defiles His church, and mocks His redemptive work. (Les også: Er Jesus en som fremmer synd?).
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. Derfor, 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. Hvorfor? Because of his deed that originated from his wicked heart. (Malaki 1:2-3, romerne 9:13, Hebreerne 12:16-17 (Les også: Kan du motstå fristelsen?)).
Det er mange kristne, 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, lyster, 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, akkurat som fariseerne.
The Pharisees appeared beautiful, karismatisk, piously and righteous on the outside. derimot, inwardly they were full of extortion, urenhet, hypocrisy and iniquity (lovløshet).
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. (Les også: Er kirken seende eller 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, for eksempel, 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 (holde ut i 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. (Les også: Hva mente Paulus med å legge hendene plutselig på ingen 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.
For dette er Guds vilje, til og med din helliggjørelse, at dere skal avholde dere fra utukt: At hver og en av dere skal vite hvordan de skal eie sitt kar i helliggjørelse og ære; Ikke i begjær av besindelse, likesom hedningene som ikke kjenner Gud: At ingen går utover og svindler sin bror i noen sak: fordi Herren er hevneren over alle slike, som vi også har advart deg og vitnet. For Gud har ikke kalt oss til urenhet, men til hellighet. Derfor den som forakter, forakter ikke mennesket, Men Gud, who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit (1 Tessalonikerbrev 4:3-8)
Is God love, merciful and forgiving?
People say God is love, merciful and forgiving. Men er det sant? 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. derimot, God is also righteous and many times they leave that part out.
The love of God is a righteous love and not a new age kjærlighet. (Les også: Den Hellige Ånd vs den nye tidsånden, hvilken ånd bor i deg?)
sa Jesus til fariseerne (gammel kjødelig skapelse) that they obeyed the lust of their father and not of God. (Les også: Guds vilje vs djevelens vilje).
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 (Dette gjelder både hanner og hunner) 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; sier Ordet, men er stolt, opprørsk, 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, apostler; og noen, profeter; og noen, Evangelister; og noen, Pastorer og lærere; For de helliges fullkommengjøring”
Og han ga noen, apostler; og noen, profeter; og noen, Evangelister; og noen, Pastorer og lærere; For de helliges fullkommengjøring, for tjenestens arbeid, til oppbyggelse av Kristi legeme: Inntil vi alle kommer i troens enhet, og om kunnskapen om Guds Sønn, til et fullkomment menneske, til målet av Kristi fyldes vekst:
That we henceforth be no more children, kastet frem og tilbake, og ble ført rundt med hver læres vind, av menns slede, og utspekulert list, hvorved de ligger på lur for å bedra; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, Til og med Kristus: 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 (Efeserne 4:11-16)
Hele Skriften er gitt ved inspirasjon av Gud, og er nyttig for doktrinen, for irettesettelse, for korreksjon, for instruksjon i rettferdighet: At Guds mann kan være fullkommen, velutstyrt til alle gode gjerninger (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.
Jesus svarte dem, Sannelig, sannelig, sier jeg dere, Den som gjør synd, er syndens tjener (John 8:34)
De bekjenner at de kjenner Gud; men i gjerninger fornekter de Ham, å være avskyelig, og ulydig, og til all god gjerning forkastet (Titus 1:16)
For Guds nåde som bringer frelse har vist seg for alle mennesker, Lærer oss det, Å nekte ugudelighet og verdslige lyster, Vi burde leve nøkternt, rettferdig, og gudfryktig, I denne nåværende verden; Leter etter det velsignede håpet, og den strålende visningen av den store Gud og vår frelser Jesus Kristus; Som ga seg selv for oss, at han kan løse oss fra all misgjerning, og rense for seg selv et særegent folk, nidkjær av gode gjerninger.These things speak, og formane, og irettesette med all myndighet. La ingen forakte deg (Titus 2:11-15)
Våken til rettferdighet, Og synd ikke; For noen har ikke kunnskapen om Gud: Jeg snakker dette til din skam (1 Korinterne 15:34)
Vi vet at hver den som er født av Gud, ikke synder; 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, opprørsk, og ulydig, the sheep will follow the example of the fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders and shall also walk in pride, opprør, and disobedience to God and His Word.
Det samme (urent) spirit that dwells in the pastor (or other church leaders) shall come over the church.
Som et resultat, the church members shall bear the same fruit as the church leader. They shall walk in wickedness and uncleanness. (Les også: Mange pastorer leder sauene ned i avgrunnen).
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, varsle, correct and chastise a church member in these areas and forbid fornication and adultery? Exactly the church leader can’t.
Som et resultat, 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
Følg fred med alle menn, og hellighet, uten hvilken ingen skal se Herren: Ser nøye etter at ikke noen svikter Guds nåde; for at ikke noen rot av bitterhet som spretter opp skal plage deg, og derved blir mange urene; For at det ikke skal være noen hor, eller profan person, fra Esau, som for en bit kjøtt solgte sin førstefødselsrett. 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 (Hebreerne 12:14-17)
I den nye pakt, i 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 likevel, 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. derimot, they forget the Scriptures about carnal leaders, who are sensual and unspiritual and have the mind of the world and are addicted to pornography, onani or involved with other sexual uncleanness and commit fornication, utroskap, bor sammen ugift, have a homoseksuell relationship, er skilt and remarried and therefore the spouse of more than one women, begå avgudsdyrkelse, hekseri, stjele, bedrageri, (pathologic) å ligge, have an alkoholavhengighet, etc. 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 Korinterne 15:34, 2 Korinterne 6, Galaterbrevet 2:17-21;5:13-26, Efeserne 4,5, 1 Timothy 3; 5:19-25; 6:2b-12, 1 Titus 1:6-9, 2 Peter 2, 1 John 3,5).
Does the intentional sinning of church leaders have consequences
If an apostle, evangelist, en profet, pastor, lærer, eldre, 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.
Vær derfor Guds etterfølgere, som kjære barn; Og gå i kjærlighet, likesom Kristus har elsket oss, og har gitt seg selv for oss et offer og et offer til Gud til en velduftende duft. Men utukt, og all urenhet, eller begjærlighet, la det ikke en gang bli nevnt blant dere, som det skal være helgener; Verken skitt, heller ikke dumt å snakke, heller ikke spøk, som ikke er praktiske: men heller takke. For dette vet du, at ingen horer, heller ikke uren person, heller ikke en begjærlig mann, som er en avgudsdyrker, har noen arv i Kristi og Guds rike. La ingen forføre deg med fåfengte ord: for på grunn av disse ting kommer Guds vrede over ulydighetens barn. Vær derfor ikke delaktige med dem (Efeserne 5:1-7)
What does the Bible say about someone who habitually commits sin?
Whosoever commits sin transgresseth also the law: for synd er overtredelse av loven. Og dere vet at han ble åpenbart for å ta bort våre synder; og i ham er ingen synd. Hver den som blir i ham, synder ikke: hver den som synder, har ikke sett ham, heller ikke kjente ham. Små barn, La ingen mann lure deg: den som gjør rettferdighet, er rettferdig, Selv om han er rettferdig. Den som begår synd er av djevelen; for djevelen Sinneth fra begynnelsen.
For dette formålet ble Guds sønn manifestert, at han kan ødelegge djevelens gjerninger. Den som er født av Gud, begår ikke synd; for hans ætt blir i ham: Og han kan ikke synde, Fordi han er født av Gud. I dette er Guds barn åpenbare, og djevelens barn: den som ikke gjør rettferdighet, er ikke av Gud, heller ikke den som ikke elsker sin bror (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, karismatisk, an eloquent speaker, rik, 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.
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