If Christians don’t become ministers of flaming fire and not be cast into the field of God’s harvest, millions of people will be cast into the eternal flaming fire of the lake of fire on the Day of Judgment. If you have become born again in Christ and have become a son of God (wanaume na wanawake), you have become a servant of God, a servant of Christ, and ought to be a minister of flaming fire. But what does it mean to be a minister of flaming fire? What does the Bible say about ministers of flaming fire?
Ministers of flaming fire have been made righteous and walk in righteousness
Lakini Mungu akushukuru,, Ninyi mlikuwa watumwa wa dhambi, lakini mmetii kutoka moyoni aina ile ya mafundisho ambayo ilikombolewa. Halafu unakuwa huru kutoka kwa dhambi, Mmekuwa watumwa wa haki.. Ninaongea kwa kufuata tabia ya wanadamu kwa sababu ya udhaifu wa mwili wako: kwani kama mlivyowatoa viungo vyenu watumwa kwa uchafu na uovu kwa uovu.; hata hivyo sasa watoe washiriki wako watumishi wa haki kwa utakatifu. Kwa maana mlipokuwa watumwa wa dhambi, Mlikuwa huru kutokana na uadilifu. Basi mlikuwa na matunda gani katika mambo yale ambayo sasa mnayaonea aibu.? Mwisho wa mambo hayo ni kifo.
Lakini sasa kuwa huru kutoka dhambi, Uwe mtumishi wa Mungu, Mna matunda yenu kwa utakatifu, na mwisho wa uzima wa milele. Kwa maana mshahara wa dhambi ni mauti; lakini zawadi ya Mungu ni uzima wa milele kupitia Yesu Kristo Bwana wetu. (Warumi 6:17-23)
The ministers of Christ are as flames of fire. They have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus Christ and through kuzaliwa upya in Christ have the Holy Spirit.
Roho Mtakatifu, Who abides in them, is holy and righteous just like God the Father and God the Son and therefore they shall walk in holiness and righteousness doing righteous works and bear the tunda la Roho.
They don’t belong to the devil and his kingdom anymore and shall not serve sin and death anymore, because they are dead to sin. Therefore they shall not exalt themselves and put themselves above God by walking in pride according to their own words, mapenzi, na tamaa na tamaa za mwili.
They are workers of righteousness and therefore they shall not lie, covet other people’s possessions, kuiba, commit idolatry, use God’s Name in vain, get involved with (ngono) uchafu, kufanya uzinzi, uasherati, talaka, excessive drinking, and eating, na kadhalika., but they shall love God above all and their neighbor as themselves (Soma pia: ‘Do you love God above all?' na 'What does it mean to love your neighbour as yourself?')
The fire of God is not a feeling, but calls to sanctification and action
Kuna watu wengi, who associate the Holy Spirit and the holy fire of God and being on fire for God with an energy and a feeling, instead of a Person and holiness, Haki, utakaso (purification), judgment of God, and the call to action.
They want to experience the fire of God and feel and enjoy this so-called fire in their flesh, which they stirrup within them through natural means, mbinu, na matambiko, like for example music, Kuimba, mantras, false meditation, fire tunnels, na kadhalika.
But the holy fire of God is not a feeling, and therefore it can’t be felt.
The fire is one of the symbols that is used to represent the nature and the character of God the Father, God the Son; Neno Hai, and God the Holy Spirit and represents the holiness, Haki, utakaso (purification), and the judgment of God.
It’s a spiritual holy fire that can’t be felt but can be seen in the natural realm by the changes in a person’s life and the righteous walk of a person.
Because the holy fire enlightens the dark inner corners of the heart and exposes the evil works. The holy fire of God cleanses, purifies, refines, and eliminates the impurities in the life of a person, if the person allows the purification of the holy fire, submits to God and His Word and follows His Word, and does His will (Soma pia: ‘Mchakato wa utakaso’ na ‘Put off the old man‘).
God is a consuming fire
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God (Kumbukumbu la Torati 4:23-24)
Kwa hivyo tunapokea ufalme ambao hauwezi kuhamishwa, Make Us Grace, ambayo kwayo tunaweza kumtumikia Mungu kwa heshima na hofu ya kimungu: Mungu wetu ni moto unaoteketeza (Kiebrania 12:28-29)
Neno linasema, that God is a consuming fire. God is a holy and righteous God and can’t have communion with sin and iniquity and hates disobedience and lawlessness.
God is a God of His Word and acts according to His Word. What God says, shall come to pass, despite people’s opinions and findings.
God’s Word is the truth and stands forever and no one can change that.
Thankfulness, reverence, and Godly fear for our Almighty God are hard to find these days.
Instead of believers submitting themselves to God and His Word and are thankful and have reverence and a fear of God aka a great awe for God and therefore walk after His will and His commandments, many believers treat God like a sugar daddy, who must submit to them and fulfill their wishes and will and the lusts and desires of their flesh and therefore do and give what they say and want.
There is hardly any reverence and fear for God and therefore the wickedness increases and many people become apostate and have become lukewarm for Jesus Christ and His Kingdom and compromise.
But God is a consuming fire and if His holy fire doesn’t take possession of man during this life on earth then after life on earth the fire shall take possession of man (Soma pia: ‘The baptism in fire‘).
The Word is as fire
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, tazama, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them (Yeremia 5:13-14)
Is not My word like as a fire? asema Bwana; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (Yeremia 23:29)
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Tuseme kwamba nimekuja kutoa amani duniani? Nakwambia, La; lakini badala ya mgawanyiko (Luka 12:49)
Just as God is a consuming fire, His Word is also as fire. The words of God are holy and righteous and are spirit and life and condemn sin and get rid of evil and iniquity.
Just like the prophets, who belonged to God, spoke the words of God, which were as fire and condemned sin and confronted and got rid of evil and called to repentance and to return to God, Jesus Christ the Living Word also came to the earth to send fire on the earth by doing the will of God, dealing with evil and calling God’s people to repentance and to sin no more.
The Word of God is a burning fire in the heart
I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of Him, nor speak any more in His Name. But His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay (Yeremia 20:7-9)
Jeremiah was in derision and the people mocked him. He was persecuted and endured many hardships, because of the word of God, just like all the other prophets of God, who were faithful to Him and spoke His words.
The word of God was in his heart as a burning fire, whereby Jeremiah was weary with forbearing and could not contain. Jeremiah couldn’t do anything else than speak the words of God instead of being silent or speaking words that the people wanted to hear.
Just like in Jeremiah the words of God were in his heart as a burning fire, the words of God were also in the hearts of the other prophets as a burning fire and the words of God are still a burning fire in the hearts of the sons of God, who belong to God and are His ministers of righteousness.
Ministers of flaming fire don’t compromise but speak the truth of God
Basi nakuamrisha mbele za Mungu, Bwana Yesu Kristo, ambaye atawahukumu walio hai na wafu wakati wa kuonekana kwake na ufalme wake.; Hubiri neno; Kuwa papo hapo katika msimu, nje ya msimu; karipio, Karipio, Kuhimiza kwa uvumilivu wote na mafundisho. Kwa maana wakati utakuja ambapo hawatavumilia mafundisho ya kweli; lakini baada ya tamaa zao wenyewe watajitundikia walimu, Kuwa na masikio ya kuwasha; Na watayageuza masikio yao mbali na kweli., na kugeuzwa kuwa hadithi za uwongo.. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry (2 Timotheo 4:1-5)
Ministers of flaming fire have the Word in them and don’t speak according to what people want to hear and don’t please the itching ears of the hearers, but they speak the words and the truth of God, which can be hard, confronting, unpleasant, uncomfortable and may come across as judgmental and considered as unloving.
Although the world and ‘believers’ who belong to the world consider their words as hard, confronting, unloving, judgmental, racist, na kadhalika. they speak after the will of God the truth of God in love. Because they know what will happen with sinners, who won’t repent of their sin and are disobedient to the will of God.
They know where sinners will go to after their lives on earth and after the Day of Judgment, which is hell. And they don’t want anyone to be lost and be cast into the eternal lake of fire and burn forever. Just like their Father, Who doesn’t want anyone to perish but that everyone be saved (1 Timotheo 2:4-6, 2 Peter 3:9).
Kwa hiyo, they will speak the truth of God to sinners and call them to repentance in order to save them, despite the consequences.
Many churches don’t preach the judgment of God and hell anymore, because it makes the people uncomfortable and frightens them. The people rather listen to fables, which please their flesh and cause pleasant feelings, than listen to the truth of God. They only want to experience God in their flesh and feel ‘God’s presence’ and have a good time in church.
But hell exists and the Day of Judgment is a reality and shall come regardless of what people believe and say and regardless of the false doctrines and fables of man that are preached. No one is able to escape the Day of Judgment.
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because He hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead (Matendo 17:30-31).
Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power (2 Wathesalonike 1:6-9)
The ministers of Christ have a responsibility and are obligated to preach the whole gospel and the whole truth of God, instead of preaching a partial truth and a man-made gospel, which is not a gospel.
People find it normal and don’t mind watching terrifying horror movies, horrible, cruel and violent crimes and murder series and movies, and all that other junk on television in which sin and death play the lead. But they don’t consider it normal and do mind when you speak about hell and the Day of Judgment, because that makes them uncomfortable and scares them?
Ministers of flaming fire act according to the Word
Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Hakika, hakika, Nawaambia, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do: for what things soever He doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth Him all things that Himself doeth: and He will shew Him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will (Yohana 5:19-21)
The ministers of Christ are flames of fire and speak and act according to the Word. They speak the holy and righteous words of God and speak and act according to what the Word and the Holy Spirit tell them. Kama ilivyo kwa Yesu, Who was yielded to the Father and spoke the words of the Father and did what He had seen His Father do.
Ministers of flaming fire shall suffer and be persecuted for the Kingdom of God
Then spake Jesus again unto them, akisema, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (Yohana 8:12)
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven (Mathayo 5:14-16)
Ikiwa ulimwengu unakuchukia, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. Kama mngekuwa wa ulimwengu, ulimwengu ungewapenda walio wake: bali kwa sababu ninyi si wa ulimwengu, bali mimi nimewachagua ninyi katika ulimwengu, therefore the world hateth you. Kumbukeni neno nililowaambia, Mtumwa si mkuu kuliko bwana wake. Ikiwa wamenitesa Mimi, watawatesa ninyi pia; ikiwa wameshika neno langu, wataiweka yako pia (Yohana 15:18-20)
Wale, who belong to God and are His sons shall be the light of the world, kama Yesu, and shall walk holy and righteous after the will of God and shall be persecuted for Jesus Christ’s sake and their walk and righteous works.
Ulimwengu hauwezi kukuchukia; but me it hateth, Kwa sababu ninashuhudia, Matendo yake ni mabaya (Yohana 7:7)
Na atakapokuja, Ataukemea ulimwengu wa dhambi, na kwa haki, Na kwa hukumu: Ya dhambi, Kwa sababu hawaniamini mimi; Ya haki, Kwa sababu ninakwenda kwa Baba yangu, Nanyi hamnioni tena; Ya hukumu, Kwa sababu mkuu wa ulimwengu huu anahukumiwa (Yohana 16:8-11)
Roho Mtakatifu, Roho wa kweli, abides in them and shall reprove the world of sin, Haki, Na kwa hukumu.
Kwa sababu hiyo, they shall be abandoned, hated, and persecuted by the people who belong to the world and are not willing to repent and can’t be in their presence, because they are confronted with their sinful nature and their sins.
But there will also be people, walio wa dunia, but through the conviction of their sinful nature and sin by the Holy Spirit will repent and give their lives to Jesus.
Therefore it’s important to continue and keep standing on the Word and keep walking by faith in the truth after the will of God in holiness and righteousness despite the wickedness, chuki, false accusation, majaribu, Upinzani, and persecutions of the world.
Let the sons of God be (kiroho) flames of fire, so that many people will be saved from the flames of fire.
‘Kuweni chumvi ya dunia’
