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, Vem är skaparen av himmel och jord och allt som finns inombords. Gud är densamme, i går, Idag och för 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, återbildning, and during their leadership in church, they shouldn’t be appointed and teach in the pulpit and lead the church (de troendes församling).
This may be hard to read and some people may find this ruthless. dock, 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. dock, 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. (Läs också: 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. Nej, 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.
Nu är köttets verk uppenbara, Vilka är dessa; Äktenskapsbrott, otukt, orenhet, elakhet, Avgudadyrkan, trolldom, hat, variation, emuleringar, vrede, kiv, uppror, kätterier, Avundsjukdomar, mord, fylleri, frossningar, och sådant som: av det jag berättar för dig tidigare, Som jag också har sagt till dig tidigare, att de som gör sådana saker inte ska ärva Guds rike (Galaterbrevet 5:19-21)
Dödar därför dina medlemmar som är på jorden; otukt, orenhet, överdriven tillgivenhet, ond belåtenhet, och eftertänksamhet, som är avgudadyrkan: För vilka saker’ Guds vredes skull kommer över olydnadens barn: I det ni också gick en tid, När ni bodde i dem. Men nu skjuter ni också upp allt detta; ilska, vrede, illvilja, hädelse, smutsig kommunikation ur munnen. Ljuga inte till en annan, eftersom ni har avskräckt den gamle mannen med hans gärningar; Och har tagit på sig den nya mannen, som förnyas i kunskap efter bilden av honom som skapade honom: Där det inte finns varken grek eller jude, omskärelse eller oomskuren, Barbar, Skythian, bindning eller gratis: men Kristus är allt, och i allt (Kolosserna 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 (som också är The commandments of Jesus).
Only if you keep the commandments of God, du går i kärlek. Att veta detta, 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, själ, sinne, och styrka.
When a person commits adultery, the person loves himself, den främmande kvinnan (eller man) and above all the lusts of the flesh.
The person doesn’t keep the second commandment either, vilket är, du ska älska din nästa som dig själv, but rejected it. Since the adulterer didn’t remember his wife (or her husband) and the wedding vow he (eller hon) gjord.
When people commit adultery they don’t love their neighbor (deras make) but themselves. They want to satisfy their (temporär) 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 namn, and defiles His church, and mocks His redemptive work. (Läs också: Är Jesus en främjare av 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. Därför, 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. Varför? Because of his deed that originated from his wicked heart. (Malaki 1:2-3, romare 9:13, hebréer 12:16-17 (Läs också: Kan du motstå frestelsen?)).
Det finns många kristna, 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, lustar, 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, karismatisk, piously and righteous on the outside. dock, inwardly they were full of extortion, orenhet, hypocrisy and iniquity (laglöshet).
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. (Läs också: Är kyrkan 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, till exempel, 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 (hålla ut i synden).
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. (Läs också: Vad menade Paulus med att plötsligt inte lägga händerna på någon)
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.
För detta är Guds vilja, även din helgelse, att ni bör avstå från hover: Att var och en av er bör veta hur han ska ha sitt fartyg i helighet och ära; Inte i lusten av konkupiscens, även som hedningarna som inte känner Gud: Att ingen man går utöver och bedräger sin bror i någon fråga: för att Herren är hämnaren av alla sådana, Som vi också har förvarat dig och vittnat. För Gud har inte kallat oss till orenhet, Men till helighet. Därför förvarar han det, föraktar inte man, men Gud, som också har gett oss sin Helige Ande (1 Tess 4:3-8)
Is God love, merciful and forgiving?
People say God is love, merciful and forgiving. Men är 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. dock, 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 kärlek. (Läs också: Den Helige Ande vs den nya tidens ande, vilken ande bor i dig?)
sa Jesus till fariséerna (gammal köttslig skapelse) that they obeyed the lust of their father and not of God. (Läs också: Guds vilja vs djävulens vilja).
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 (detta gäller både män och kvinnor) 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; Ordet säger, men är stolt, upprorisk, 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, Apostlarna; och några, profeter; och några, Evangelister; och några, Pastorer och lärare; För att de heliga skall fullkomnas”
Och han gav några, Apostlarna; och några, profeter; och några, Evangelister; och några, Pastorer och lärare; För att de heliga skall fullkomnas, för ministeriets arbete, för uppbyggandet av Kristi kropp: Tills vi alla kommer i trons enhet, och om kunskapen om Guds Son, till en fullkomlig människa, till ett mått av mognad av Kristi fullhet:
Att vi hädanefter inte längre är barn, kastas fram och tillbaka, och förde med sig lärans alla vindkast, av människors slughet, och listig listighet, varigenom de ligger på lur för att bedra; Men att tala sanning i kärlek, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, ja, 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 (Efesierbrevet 4:11-16)
Alla skrifter är givna genom inspiration av Gud, och är lönsamt för läran, till tillrättavisning, för rättelse, till undervisning i rättfärdighet: För att Guds man må vara fullkomlig, väl möblerad för alla goda gärningar (2 Timotej 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 svarade dem, I sanning, i sanning, säger jag er, Den som begår synd är syndens tjänare (John 8:34)
De bekänner att de känner Gud; men i gärningar förnekar de Honom, att vara avskyvärd, och olydig, och till varje bra arbete reprobate (Titus 1:16)
Ty Guds nåd som ger frälsning har visat sig för alla människor, Lär oss det, förnekar ogudaktighet och världsliga lustar, vi borde leva nyktert, rättfärdigt, och gudomlig, i denna nuvarande värld; Letar efter det välsignade hoppet, och den store Gudens och vår Frälsares Jesu Kristi härliga uppenbarelse; Som gav sig själv för oss, för att han skulle befria oss från all orättfärdighet, och rena för sig själv ett säreget folk, nitisk till goda gärningar.These things speak, och förmana, och tillrättavisa med all auktoritet. Låt ingen förakta dig (Titus 2:11-15)
Vaken till rättfärdighet, och synd inte; För vissa har inte Guds kunskap: Jag talar detta till din skam (1 Korinthierbrevet 15:34)
Vi vet att den som är född av Gud inte syndar; 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, upprorisk, och olydig, the sheep will follow the example of the fallen pastor or other fallen church leaders and shall also walk in pride, uppror, och olydnad mot Gud och hans ord.
Samma (oren) spirit that dwells in the pastor (or other church leaders) shall come over the church.
Som ett resultat, the church members shall bear the same fruit as the church leader. They shall walk in wickedness and uncleanness. (Läs också: Många pastorer leder fåren ner i avgrunden).
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, varna, correct and chastise a church member in these areas and forbid fornication and adultery? Exactly the church leader can’t.
Som ett 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
Follow peace with all men, och helighet, 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 (hebréer 12:14-17)
I det nya förbundet, 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. Och ändå, 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. dock, 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, otrohet, leva tillsammans ogift, have a homosexuell relationship, are skild and remarried and therefore the spouse of more than one women, begå avgudadyrkan, trolldom, stjäla, bedrägeri, (pathologic) lögn, have an alkoholberoende, 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 Korinthierbrevet 15:34, 2 Korinthierbrevet 6, Galaterbrevet 2:17-21;5:13-26, Efesierbrevet 4,5, 1 Timotej 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, profet, pastor, lärare, äldre, 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.
Var därför Guds efterföljare, som kära barn; Och gå i kärlek, liksom Kristus har älskat oss, och har gett sig själv för oss som ett offer och ett offer åt Gud till en väldoftande doft. Men fukt, och all orenhet, eller girighet, låt det inte en gång nämnas bland er, som det befaller helgon; Inte heller smuts, inte heller dumt prat, inte skämt, som inte är bekväma: utan snarare tacka. För detta vet ni, att ingen hormongare, inte heller oren person, inte heller begärande man, Vem är en avgudare, har någon arv i Kristi rike och Gud. Låt ingen bedra dig med fåfänga ord: för på grund av detta kommer Guds vrede över olydnadens barn. Var därför inte delaktiga med dem (Efesierbrevet 5:1-7)
What does the Bible say about someone who habitually commits sin?
Whosoever commits sin transgresseth also the law: För synd är lagens överträdelse. Och ni vet att han uppenbarades för att ta bort våra synder; och i Honom finns ingen synd. Den som förblir i honom syndar inte: Den som Synteth inte har sett honom, inte heller kände Honom. Små barn, låt ingen lura dig: Den som gör rättfärdighet är rättfärdig, liksom han är rättfärdig. Den som begår synd är av djävulen; ty djävulen syndar från början.
För detta ändamål manifesterades Guds Son, att han skulle förgöra djävulens gärningar. Den som är född av Gud begår inte synd; ty hans säd förblir i honom: och han kan inte synda, eftersom han är född av Gud. I detta är Guds barn uppenbara, och djävulens barn: Den som inte gör rättfärdighet är inte av Gud, inte heller den som inte älskar 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.
"Var jordens salt"
