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 (男性和女性), 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
但感谢上帝, 你们是罪的奴仆, 但你们从心底里服从了交付给你们的教义形式. 然后就脱离了罪孽, 你们成了正义的仆人. 因为你肉体的软弱，我按照人的方式说话: 因为你们使你们的肢体成为污秽的奴仆，成为罪孽的奴仆。; 即使这样，现在也要让你们的肢体成为公义的仆人，以致圣洁. 因为当你们还是罪的奴仆时, 你们脱离了正义. 你们当时在那些你们现在感到羞耻的事上有什么果子呢？? 因为那些事情的结局就是死亡.
但现在已经脱离了罪孽, 并成为神的仆人, 你们已经结出圣洁的果子, 和永生的终结. 因为罪的工价就是死亡; 但神的恩赐是通过我们的主耶稣基督获得永生 (罗马书 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 再生 in Christ have the Holy Spirit.
神圣的灵魂, 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 圣灵的果子.
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, 将要, 以及肉体的私欲和私欲.
They are workers of righteousness and therefore they shall not lie, covet other people’s possessions, 偷, commit idolatry, use God’s Name in vain, get involved with (性的) 不洁, 通奸, 淫乱, 离婚, excessive drinking, 和吃东西, ETC。, but they shall love God above all and their neighbor as themselves (另请阅读: '你爱神胜过一切吗?' 和 '爱人如己是什么意思?’)
The fire of God is not a feeling, but calls to sanctification and action
这里有很多人, 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, 义, 成圣 (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, 方法, 和仪式, like for example music, singing, mantras, false meditation, 消防隧道, ETC.
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, 神子; 活生生的话语, and God the Holy Spirit and represents the holiness, 义, 成圣 (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 (另请阅读: ‘The process of sanctification’ 和 ‘把老人推开').
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 (申命记 4:23-24)
Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire (希伯来语 12:28-29)
圣经说, 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 (另请阅读: ‘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, 看, I will make My words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them (耶利米 5:13-14)
Is not My word like as a fire? 耶和华说; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (耶利米 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! 假设我来给地球带来和平? 我告诉你, 否; 而是划分 (卢克 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 (耶利米 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
I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 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. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry (2 蒂莫西 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, 不爱的, judgmental, racist, ETC. 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 蒂莫西 2:4-6, 2 彼得 3:9).
所以, they will speak the truth of God to sinners and call them to repentance in order to save them, 尽管后果.
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 (使徒行传 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 帖撒罗尼迦人 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
耶稣回答他们说, 确实, 确实, 我对你说, The Son can do nothing of Himself, 但他看到天父所做的: 无论他做什么事, 子也照样行这些事. 因为父爱子, 并将自己所做的一切指示给他: and He will shew Him greater works than these, 让你们惊叹. For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will (约翰 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. 就像耶稣一样, 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
耶稣又对他们说话, 说, 我是世界之光: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, 却必得生命之光 (约翰 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 (马修 5:14-16)
如果全世界都讨厌你, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you. 如果你们是世界上的人, 世界会爱他自己的: 但因为你们不属于这个世界, 但我从世界上选择了你, therefore the world hateth you. 记住我对你说过的话, 仆人并不比主人伟大. 如果他们迫害我, 他们也会迫害你; if they have kept My saying, 他们也会保留你的 (约翰 15:18-20)
那些, who belong to God and are His sons shall be the light of the world, 就像耶稣一样, 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.
世界不能恨你; but me it hateth, 因为我作证, 其行为是邪恶的 (约翰 7:7)
当他来的时候, 他将责备罪恶的世界, 和正义, 和判断力: Of sin, 因为他们不相信我; 出于正义, 因为我到我父亲那里去, 而你们再也见不到我了; 判断力, 因为这世界的王子受到了审判 (约翰 16:8-11)
神圣的灵魂, 真理的灵, abides in them and shall reprove the world of sin, 义, 和判断力.
正因为如此, 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, 谁属于世界, 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, 仇恨, false accusation, temptations, 反抗, and persecutions of the world.
Let the sons of God be (精神) flames of fire, so that many people will be saved from the flames of fire.
‘成为地球之盐’
