Many churches have appointed leaders, who lead the people of God back to Egypt. 有领导, who have come up with all kinds of doctrines that deviates from the Word and causes the people to stay the way they are and keep living in sin, instead of causing the people to enter the process of sanctification and committing their whole lives to Jesus Christ and to follow Him. It’s just like the people of God in the Old Testament, who were redeemed by God from the oppression of Pharaoh, but while they were in the wilderness on their way to the promised land, they didn’t like God’s appointed leader Moses and God’s way of doing things. The people wanted to appoint a new leader, who would lead the people of God back to Egypt.
The people of God wanted to appoint a new leader and return to Egypt
So they said one to another, “Let us appoint a (新的) leader and return to Egypt (数字 14:4)
The people of God were on their way to the promised land. When they arrived in the wilderness of Paran, God promised Moses, that He would give the land of Canaan to the children of Israel. God commanded Moses to send from each tribe one man, to search the land of Canaan. Moses obeyed the commandment of the Lord and sent the twelve heads of the children of Israel to spy out Canaan. 后 40 days, the twelve men returned to Moses, Aaron, and the congregation. They confirmed, that the land flowed with milk and honey. 然而, they also said, that the inhabitants were strong and that the cities were walled and very great. When the congregation heard these words, they became troubled.
The twelve men had beheld the same things, but they didn’t share the same report. Because Caleb had a good report and believed that they were well able to overcome it. 所以, Caleb stilled the people before Moses, by saying that they should go up at once and possess the land.
But the other men didn’t share the same opinion. They didn’t believe, that they were able to go up against the people because, in their sight, they were stronger. They brought up an evil report, 通过说: “the land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight” (数字 13:31-33).
The children of Israel didn’t listen to Caleb and his good report. But they listened to the evil report of the other men. Because when they heard the evil report, they lifted up their voice and cried and wept that night.
The congregation began to murmur and complain
The congregation didn’t listen to the words of Caleb and the words and the promise of God and didn’t believe in His ability. But they listened to the words of the other men, who relied on their own abilities instead of God’s ability. Immediately, the people began to murmur and complain against Moses and Aaron. They asked, why God couldn’t have let them die in the land of Egypt or in the wilderness, and why God had led them to a land, where they would fall by the sword and where their wives and children would be a prey
By believing the words of men, they had allowed a worst-case-scenario into their mind, that didn’t line up with God’s scenario.
God promised to give them the land. But the people believed the report of the eleven men above the words and the promise of God. They listened and relied on them, instead of listening and relying upon God. 因为事实, that the people were led by fear, that was caused by the evil report, they wanted to appoint a leader, who would bring them back to Egypt.
They wanted to appoint someone, who would bring them back to their old life, that they missed so much. They would rather live in bondage under the rulership of Pharaoh and serve strange gods, so that they could live after their will, fulfilling the lusts and desires of their flesh, then that they would live in freedom and be depended upon God and serve Him and live according to His will.
任命领导者, who will lead the believers back to Egypt
而这正是, what happens Today with the congregation of God; 教堂. The people have become a 新创作 in the spiritual world, by faith in Jesus Christ and by 再生. They have been bought with the blood of Jesus Christ and redeemed from their 罪恶本性, and therefore redeemed from the power of the devil and darkness, who reigns in the lives of people through sin. 但…. Because of the love for the world and themselves, many believers don’t want to 穿上新人.
They have the ability to live in freedom, but many rather choose to live in bondage. Because many people don’t want to submit to the Word and don’t want to 肉体死去. They want to hold on to their old trusted live and the 老人 and his nature.
正因为如此, many don’t enter the place, that God has prepared for them. Many people do not spiritually mature and grow up into the image of Jesus Christ. But they stay the old carnal man, who lives after the flesh in the bondage of the devil and is led by the weak and beggarly elements of this world.
然而那时, 当你们不认识上帝时, 你们为那些本质上不是神的人服务过. But now, 之后你们就认识了神, 或者更确切地说是为上帝所知, 如何让你们再次成为弱者和乞丐, 你们又渴望再次受奴役吗? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years (加尔 4:8-10).
Repented before the eye, but not in the heart
To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt (使徒行传 7:39)
Many believers have repented before the eye, but not in their hearts. 他们认为, that by visiting a church and by doing ‘good works’ that they are saved. But their hearts remain unchanged. They don’t want to listen to the Word, let alone submit to the Word. 不, they want to lead their own lives, with the idea in their mind, that they will go to heaven when they die. That’s why they believe in Jesus, be 受洗礼, visit a church on a regular basis, and maybe have a task in their congregation. 但由于事实, that their hearts remain unrepentant and unchanged, they reject the Word and return to their old habits and their old comfortable life.
They look for leaders, who preach after their itching ears and after the will and desire of their unrepented hearts. So that they won’t have to change, but can live their own life.
因为时候将到，他们将不再忍受纯正的教义; 但他们却会为了自己的私欲而为自己堆砌教师, 耳朵发痒; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, 并将变成寓言 (2 蒂姆 4:3-4)
They seek, just like the children of Israel, for leaders, who will lead them back to Egypt; 世界. So that they can live after the lusts and desires of their flesh and do what they want to do.
They don’t like to be confronted with their conduct and their lives and be disciplined and corrected by the Word. 他们不想 放下他们的肉 and be rejected and persecuted by the world and the people around them. But they want to be liked and accepted by the world. They want to lead a carefree and comfortable life, 就像世界一样.
And that’s why many preachers and church leaders are being appointed, who are unspiritual and live after the flesh. They don’t speak the words of God, but words of men, that will lead the people back to Egypt; 世界, in the bondage of the devil. 他们认为, that they are free and live in freedom, but they are wrong.
God had chosen and appointed Moses as a leader
Moses was not a leader, whom the people would have chosen and appointed. Because if it was up to the people, they would have rather chosen and appointed someone else as their leader. Someone like Aaron, who allowed himself to be intimidated by the people and did what they wanted to do (前任 32). But God had chosen and appointed Moses as the leader of His people, to represent Him.
Lukewarm and passive for Jesus Christ
Because of all these modern humanistic teachings, many passionate believers, who have started with a true and sincere heart, have lost their zeal and fire, and have become lukewarm and passive for Jesus, God and His Kingdom, and don’t obey the truth. In many lives, Jesus is no longer the center. Many believers are no longer focused on how they can exalt Jesus and please the Father by their lives. But they are focused upon themselves and their own kingdom. They are looking for ways, to be as prosperous and successful as possible in this world. They want the same things as the world, but only better and more.
Instead of living after the Spirit, they keep returning to the flesh and live in the bondage of the poor beggarly elements of this world, just like the children of Israel.
Woe to the rebellious children, 耶和华说, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin: That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at My mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion (以赛亚 30:1-3).
Preaching a gospel of men
The gospel isn’t focused upon Jesus, the cross and the blood, saving souls and sanctification; put of the old man with his sins and iniquities. But the gospel has become a humanistic prosperity gospel, full of human grace, that is focused upon…. 男人. 当然, the Lord takes care of you and He blesses and provides for you so that you don’t have to worry about a thing. 但如今, the gospel is only focused upon material prosperity, 幸福, and riches of men. 因为, that is what believers, 随从肉体而行的人, want to hear.
They don’t want to be corrected and disciplined by the Word. But they want to fellowship, be entertained, motivated and pampered and experience warm fuzzy feelings in church. They don’t want to renounce the things they love but are an abomination to God.
这就是为什么, they have chosen and appointed leaders, or looking for a church, who fulfill their lusts and desires and preach after their flesh and their will. These leaders, who have been appointed by men are in service of men. That’s why these leaders preach, what the believers want to hear. Because the more people they attract, the bigger the congregation.
These leaders think they please God and serve Jesus. They consider growth as an indicator, that they operate in faith and walk in the will of God. But instead of teaching, correcting and raising the believers in the Word, so that they will mature and grow up into to likeness of Jesus Christ and keep the body of Christ holy, pure and righteous, these leaders lead the people of God back to Egypt; into the bondage of the world; the devil and darkness. They are no longer the light that shines in the darkness, but they have become one with the darkness.
‘成为地球之盐’
