How do you weary the Lord? The Bible says, you have wearied the Lord with your words, Yet ye say, wherein have we wearied Him? When ye say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and He delights in them; or Where is the God of judgment (Malachi 2:17)
We live in an age, where evil things are considered good and good things are considered evil. Every week many preachers preach from the pulpit that it doesn’t matter what you do or how you live, God loves you and accepts you anyway. They say, that once you are saved you are always saved and you can have a relationship with God, no matter how you walk, act, and behave. It’s all the grace of God and therefore it’s all right to stay carnal and live, just like the world, in sin. But by preaching these sermons and by listening to these sermons and by believing and following up these sermons, many Christians weary the Lord.
The false grace in the church
Grace, grace, and grace. The house of God overflows with grace, love, tolerance, and acceptance. But is the grace of God that is preached in many churches and urges believers to tolerate and accept all things, even when they are evil, really the truth of God?
Is it true, that when you accept Jesus as your Savior and make Him Lord of your life, that it doesn’t matter how you walk? That it’s all right to keep living in sin? Doesn’t it matter that you, as a born-again Christian, live and walk just like the world? (Read also: ‘Lost in the sea of grace‘)
The truth
There is only one truth, and that’s the Word of God (the Bible). In His Word, you will find the truth. When you open the Word and read His Word, you shall find out, who God is, who Jesus really is, and who the Holy Spirit is, and what They like and dislike.
When you become a son of God, you should get to know the Word, because you are born of Him. God has become your Father and you should walk according to His will and His commandments.
When you are baptized with the Holy Spirit, God’s nature comes inside of you.
Although you have received a new nature, the old nature is still present in the flesh. Therefore, you have to put off the old nature and put on the new nature.
How do you do that? The first thing you should do is to invest time in the spiritual new man. Spend time in the Word in prayer, and have communion with God, through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Renew your mind with the Word, so that your old carnal mind will be changed into the mind of Christ.
When you feed your spirit with the words of God and you become a doer of the Word, your spirit will mature. Your mind and your thoughts will line up with the Word, your spirit will reign over your soul and body and you will walk after the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit and the Word are One. They are inseparable and never contradict Eachother. That’s why it’s important, when you receive a dream, vision, revelation, or a word, that you check this with the Word (the Bible). Because if you have received a dream, vision, revelation, or a word that doesn’t line up with the Word, you should reject it. Remember, that the devil comes as an angel of light and not as an angel of darkness.
Where are the new creations?
Jesus said, that if you love Him, you shall keep His commandments. You will find His commandments in the Word. Therefore, if you love Jesus, you shall keep His words, obey His words and act upon His words, and become a doer of the Word. The Word, the Bible, should be the highest authority in every Christian’s life. The Word is the manual for the new creation, which you have become in Jesus Christ.
But where are all the new creations? Where are the sons and daughters of God? When do they come out of the closet? Everyone is coming out of the closet, except for them. Why is that? What is keeping them?
Well, what is stopping them are the false doctrines, that are preached from many pulpits. Very slowly, many false teachers and preachers have settled themselves in the church. With their vein deceiving carnal words, that derive from their worldly carnal mind, they have defiled and changed the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
They have mixed the gospel with the knowledge and wisdom of the world,. Yes, they have defiled the gospel with their own philosophies, findings, opinions, and experiences. Therefore the message, which they preach are carnal and are nothing more, than lies of the devil. Many lies are being preached, and the worst thing is that many believers are blinded by their lies and think, that they still have the truth and walk in the truth.
Deceived and misled by motivational speakers
Many preachers and pastors have become charismatic motivational speakers, who please the people instead of God. They adjust the words of God to the needs, lusts, and desires of Christians. Their sermons are based on what people want to hear, the age we’re living in, and the worldly standards, instead of God’s standards. With their motivational and self-help message, they feed the carnal old man instead of the spiritual new man.
Instead of experiencing persecution, many pastors, preachers, prophets, and teachers, are being exalted, worshiped, and put on a pedestal.
The reason why they are worshiped is that they belong to the world and have the spirit of the world living inside of them.
They are led by the spirit of the world and therefore they respect, tolerate, and accept every sinful behavior, and preach what carnal people like to hear (Read also: The Holy Spirit vs the new age spirit).
Unfortunately, there are not many spiritual fathers anymore, who disciple, teach, and correct their children in a correct manner in the Word. So that, they will stay on the right path of life.
Instead of correcting Christians these false pastors, preachers, prophets, and teachers approve and accept all things even if they go against the will of God. Why? Because they don’t want to upset the carnal Christians and cause them to walk away from the church. No, they want to be liked and accepted by them and by the world. But what many of them don’t know, is that by their behaviour, they weary the Lord.
They not only weary the Lord, but they cause many Christians to also weary the Lord. Many Christians think, that they are walking in the truth, because of what their pastor says. But the truth is, that they are walking in a lie. They think they please God, but the reality is, that they are not pleasing God at all, but they please the devil and are on their way to the eternal lake of fire (Read also: The new heaven and the new earth which will not come for many).
Everyone who does evil, is right in the eyes of the Lord
The Lord says in Malachi 2:17, that people weary the Lord, by saying that everyone, who does evil things, which go against the will of God, and against the Word of God, is good in the eyes of the Lord. And that the Lord is delighted in those people, who live in sin and iniquity. But God doesn’t love sinners, who habitually keep walking in sin.
God gave His Son for sinners, so that they could be redeemed from their sinful nature, through repentance from their sins, and by turning to Christ and becoming born again.
If you are really born again, you have been separated from the world and from sin.
Now, that the Holy Spirit lives inside of you, you shall no longer listen to your flesh and your carnal lusts and desires, but your spirit. You shall listen to what the Holy Spirit and the Word say to you and you shall obey Them.
You have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ, and not by your own works; by keeping the law. But now, that you’ve been made righteous, you should also walk in holiness and righteousness, because that’s the nature of the new creation.
Grace is not a permit to sin
The messages of grace and love that are preached today, have been taken out of their context. But this is not something new. Because as you might know, Paul also discussed this in the letter, that he wrote to the believers in Rome. Paul wrote to the church about the misuse of the grace of God.
Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? (Romans 6:1-3)
The grace of God is not a permit to live in sin. But the grace of God means that originally you should have received the death penalty, but instead, God has given you a way out, and you may become a partaker of the New Covenant in Jesus Christ and become born again by His Spirit and be reconciled with God and receive eternal life.
Discipline and correction
If you talk about love, then discipline and correction are part of it. When you love someone, you don’t want anything bad to happen to that person. You want to keep that person safe and protect him or her from evil, accidents, misery, etc.
For example, when parents love their children, they will instruct, discipline, and correct their children. That’s part of raising children and the responsibility of parents. But when parents don’t correct their children and let them lead their own lives, do their own will, and make their own decisions, then these children will become unguided missiles.
Unguided missiles
God loves you, just like a parent loves his child. But God wants you to have a spiritually prosperous life and to keep you from evil, misery, death, and hell. That’s why God has given you His Word to keep you away from evil. The Word shall lead, teach, discipline, correct, and raise you. So that, you will grow up into the image of Jesus.
But when the true Word of God is not preached anymore. When believers are not being corrected. And when the words in the Bible are changed to the lusts and desires of people and twisted so that the words will fit into their lives, then they will become unguided missiles, who are on their way to hell.
But there is only one way and that’s Jesus Christ. When you make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life, you shall submit yourself to Him. You shall obey Jesus and walk in His commandments and abide in Him.
But when you don’t want to submit to Jesus and don’t obey His words and commandments, then you show, by your actions, that Jesus is not the Lord of your life. But the lord of your life is the devil.
Therefore your actions define to whom you belong: Jesus Christ or the devil. When the devil is your father, you should know, that your final destination will not be the new earth, but the lake of fire.
The church needs preachers with backbone
What the church doesn’t need are preachers, who weary the Lord, but preachers with backbones. Preachers, who are not afraid of preaching the truth: the true words of God. The church needs preachers, who are not afraid to stand up for the Word, despite what people feel, think, or say. Preachers, who are not looking for praises and to be worshiped and exalted by people, but who will stay faithful to God and remain in God’s will and take a stand for His truth, despite the opposition and persecutions they might endure.
Yes, we need preachers, who will sanctify and cleanse the Body of Christ with the Word. Preachers, who are not afraid to correct the believers, who keep living in sin.
Even if this means, that if they, who live in sin, won’t listen, they will be removed from the congregation. So that, the other believers won’t be affecting and defiled by the sin of the person and become a partaker of his or her sin through communion. We need preachers, who stop weary the Lord.
Therefore preachers, protect the sheep of the Lord, and raise them in the Word, so that they will mature and grow up into the image of Christ.
When the believers grow up into the image of Christ, then the church will become the powerful body of Jesus Christ, and not a weak body.
If Jesus and the cross are preached again, many people will be drawn to the light, repent and give their life to Jesus. Because Jesus said, that the fields are white to harvest, but the labourers are few. The reason why there are only a few labourers, is that the so-called truth that is preached, is covered with a lot of lies. Let us, therefore, pray for labourers with backbones, who tell the truth, and are not afraid to correct the believers (Read also: Who still dares to work in the vineyard?).
Stop weary the Lord
Let us remove all the lies out of the church; out of the lives of the believers and start living holy sanctified lives. You have been made holy and righteous through Jesus Christ, by His blood and His redemptive work. This means that you are no longer a sinner, but you have become a saint! Therefore, you will not live the life of a sinner anymore and walk habitually in sin (Read also: Do you always remain a sinner?).
You must turn to the Word and do what the Lord; the Word, tells you to do. Instead of walking in the knowledge, sayings, theories, and findings of carnal people and weary the Lord.
When the Word says, that something is evil, it means that it’s evil and not good. Let’s not cover evil with the grace of God. The grace of God is not meant to cover but uncover.
By the grace of God, you have been given His Holy Spirit, so that you will be able to find out the truth and uncover the truths of God and discern the lies of the devil.
Let’s not weary the Lord anymore with our own vain words and by saying, that if someone does something that goes against the will of God and the Word of God, that it’s alright. But let us awake to righteousness and please the Lord, by speaking His words and being a doer of the Word and by removing all evil things out of our lives and out of the church, so that we shall live in His will in holiness and righteousness.
‘Be the salt of the earth’
