SPIRITUAL GIANTS
Brothers and Sisters, are you aware that when God created us, you and me, He wanted us to grow and become perfect - Spiritual Giants? Are we aware of it? How do I know that, some of you ask?
Here is my answer. Jesus said in Matthew 5:48, “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” Jesus wanted us to become perfect - Spiritual Giants, and not spiritual midgets or spiritual dwarfs! Jesus ordered us to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect. This is His order! How can we grow and become Spiritual Giants, you ask? Many of today’s Christians say that it is not possible for humans to become Spiritual Giants. How can we become perfect like our Father in heaven who is perfect? Is Jesus asking us to do what we cannot do? Or, was Jesus just kidding? Are we doubting Jesus like some of His disciples? Jesus did not ask from us to do something that we cannot do, for sure. The prophet Elijah was a Spiritual Giant. The Prophet Enoch also was a Spiritual Giant - perfect
The Bible says that He walked with God and was taken alive to heaven. He is a perfect example of what God wants us to be and can be - a Spiritual Giant. Job was a Spiritual Giant. I believe the primary reason why we cannot be Spiritual Giants is because we don’t believe in what He said, just like King Pharaoh of ancient Egypt who did not believe what God said through Moses, and subsequently lost a child. We have little or no faith in Him. We don’t trust Him! But, we believe, trust, and idolize Paul, even though we don’t fully understand what Paul said or wrote. Do you remember Festus, the governor of Judea? He could not understand the mind of Paul either. He thinks that Paul was not in his right mind. Paul is a smart individual. He thinks like a lawyer. He writes like a lawyer. And so we believe in what Paul said or wrote, even though we don’t fully understand him; and we also believe what everybody else says, our friends, our Bible instructor, our fast talking preacher, our professor in college, we believe in everybody, except Jesus. I find that very disturbing! Do we not know that neither Paul, James, Peter, John, and any of the other disciples owns the Kingdom of God? They don't have the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. Why then do we believe them and not believe in Jesus?
In fact, we believe them even when what they say contradict with what Jesus said. Why? Do we not know that they don't own the Kingdom of God. Jesus owns the Kingdom of God, and nobody else.
The Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, `Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you." (Luke 17:6). But please remember, and do not forget, that even though we have faith the size of a mustard seed, God must find grace in us in order for Him to make us perfect - a Spiritual Giant. If we are disobedient to Him, God cannot make us perfect. “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” (John 14:15)
Keeping God’s commandments is nothing but work, work, and more work. And that is how all the Prophets can become perfect - through work. And you say that keeping His commandments is not necessary according to Paul? Why do we have to always quote what Paul said, why? Work is not necessary, really? Don’t we know that keeping His commandments and orders is the work that we must do? God is our Commander in Chief, and not Paul. Why do we obey Paul when we know that he doesn't own heaven? Why do we obey Paul when we know that Paul is NOT our Commander in Chief? Even the Muslims look at us as WEIRD Christians because we obeyed Paul. Yes they do. The Muslims obey all of their Allah's orders. The Christians (Protestants) obeyed the Beast's orders! Isn't that weird? Are we weirdos? Yes, I have heard Muslims say that we are weird Christians! Look, even beggars have to work to get gifts from people who meet them on the streets, get small change, food, or potato chips, and so forth. And we say that we can lie on the beach, do nothing, and still be saved? Since when are we comedians?
Is heaven that cheap? Is eternal life cheaper than a bag of peanuts? Please don’t read the writings of Paul if your Professor at school is not an experienced attorney-at-law. You will get confused like millions of others throughout the world. You want proof? Look, there are over 45,000 Christian denominations worldwide. Do you want to know why there are that many? Because they are all confused from reading Paul’s writings. If white is seen as white, and black is seen as black, there would not be so much confusion. Satan loves confusion. Even in the U.S. there are over 200 different Christian denominations. There was only one Jesus denomination when Jesus was on earth.
After that, all hell broke loose. Everybody has their own Christian belief - confusion.
Do you know how many Islam religions there are in the world? There are only two, and not 45,000 or more.
In John 15:16 Jesus said, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last." What does "go and bear fruit" mean? It means that we have to work if we want to be a follower of Christ. We have to work and glorify His name. It is by work or doing the will of God can we become Spiritual Giants.
The Bible says Enoch walked with God. The Bible did not say that the Prophet Enoch walked with Paul or walked with another Pharisee or another Jew. Do you know what the words walked with God imply? It tells me that Enoch agrees with everything that God tells him to do. That’s what walking with God means.
Do we agree with everything that Jesus or the Father tells us to do? Do we walk with God like Enoch? NO, we do not. We agree only with what Paul tells us to do, even though we have no clue of the deeper meaning of what Paul said or wrote. We agree only with the Roman Emperor Constantine, a Catholic, about the observance of Sunday. Protestant Christians agree only with Martin Luther, a Catholic monk. Are we Catholics, Protestants, or half-half - half a Catholic and half a Protestant?
When are we going to be a Muslim? When are we going to be a Jew? I think Muslims and Jews believe in the teachings of Abraham also, and they may have a better chance of going to heaven than most of us confused Christians.
A half Catholic and a half Protestant can not make us a whole Spiritual Giant as Jesus wants us to be. We can only be spiritual midgets and spiritual dwarfs when we are confused.
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