Although changes are made in churches worldwide, and many churches compromise and adjust the words of God and lower the standards of God, we serve the Almighty God, Who is the Creator of heaven and earth and all there is within, Who is the same, yesterday, today and forevermore and shall never compromise and lower His standards, but still acts according to His Word that stands forever. God is clear in His Word regarding sin and the consequences of sinning willfully. Is it the will of God that fallen pastors and leaders stay appointed in the church or not? What does the intentional sinning of church leaders say about them? What do their works testify?
Do church leaders, who willfully sin or live in sin, belong in the pulpit?
If church leaders are appointed, who have willfully sinned or live in sin, after their repentance, regeneração, and during their leadership in church, then they shouldn’t be appointed and teach in the pulpit and lead the church.
This may be hard to read and some people may find this ruthless, but the person has consciously made a choice to disobey God and His Word and do something that goes against the will of God.
That’s why in the Old Covenant there was a difference in sins. Everything a person does that goes against the words and will of God is sin, but there is a difference in the kinds of sin
Someone can unconsciously say or do something that is not good and during or afterward be confronted and corrected by the Holy Spirit. But someone can also consciously say or do something with premeditated intent. This means that a person knows that is not good and that it’s not according to the will of God and diametrically opposes His Word, but the person does it anyway, because the love for the flesh is stronger than the love for God and His Word (Leia também: What is a sin not unto death and a sin unto death?)
Adultery is a premeditated sin
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornicação, Impureza, lascívia, Idolatry, feitiçaria, ódio, variação, Emulações, ira, luta, sedições, Heresias, Envyings, Assassinatos, embriaguez, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God (Gálatas 5:19-21)
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornicação, Impureza, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. But now ye also put off all these; raiva, ira, malícia, blasfêmia, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all (Colossenses 3:5-11)
Por exemplo, when we look at adultery, we can conclude that adultery doesn’t just happen. A pair of trousers don’t go down themselves. Não, a person has consciously made a choice to commit adultery, despite the knowledge of God and His will. Every Christian knows, that adultery is a sin.
When a person commits adultery, the person doesn’t walk in love toward God, que significa, that the person doesn’t keep the commandments of God (que também são os mandamentos de Jesus), because if you keep His commandments you walk in love, but the person has consciously rejected God and His Word (Leia também: Os mandamentos de Deus versus os mandamentos de Jesus Cristo) .
The person doesn’t love God with all his heart, alma, mente, e força, because when the person commits adultery, the person loves himself and the strange woman or strange man and the lusts of the flesh above all.
The person doesn’t keep the second commandment either, que é, you shall love your neighbor as yourself, but has rejected this commandment. Since the adulterous person didn’t remember his wife or her husband and the wedding vow he or she made.
Não, when the person commits adultery the person doesn’t love his or her neighbor, in this case, his wife or her husband, but loves himself or herself and wants to satisfy his or her temporary sexual feelings of the flesh.
And… the person didn’t remember the precious souls of the saints and his responsibility and the consequences of this selfish deed to the congregation. Since the uncleanness of sin defames (disgraces) the Name of Jesus Christ and defiles His church and mocks His redemptive work (Leia também: Jesus é um promotor do pecado?).
And so the adulterous church leader has despised God, by rejecting both the words of God as his wife or her husband, and by disobeying the words of God and the wedding vow he or she made and not remembering the souls of the saints and defiling the church.
It’s just like Esau, who didn’t consider his birthright a privilege and precious, but Esau sold his birthright to satisfy his temporary hunger, which was abominable to God. God didn’t say about Esau that He loved him, but that He hated him because of his deed that derived from his wicked heart (Malaquias 1:2-3, Romanos 9:13, Leia também: Você pode resistir à tentação?).
Existem muitos cristãos, who jeopardize their relationship with Jesus Christ and the Father and sometimes even forfeit eternity, by prioritizing their feelings and the will, desejos, and desires of the flesh and putting them above the Word
The blind guides and white sepulchres
It’s already bad that this happens among Christians, who don’t hold a leadership position in the church, but that this also happens among church leaders is really bad.
Because how can they, who are spiritually blind themselves and are led by their flesh and don’t live a disciplined life after the Spirit in obedience to God and His Word, but reject God and His Word and walk in disobedience in darkness and sin willfully, teach the members of the congregation and expect the believers to walk after the Spirit in obedience to God in holiness in the Light?
These leaders are blind guides and whited sepulchres, just like the Pharisees, who appeared beautiful, charismatic, piously and righteous on the outside, but inwardly they were full of extortion, Impureza, hypocrisy and iniquity (Ilegalidade).
Although they taught the people in the law and the prophets, and made the will of God known to the people, they didn’t submit to the law and the prophets and didn’t walk in the will of God (Leia também: A igreja está vendo ou cega??)
And so there are many preachers, who have not truly repented and are not born again in Christ and don’t walk after the Spirit in obedience to God. They don’t fear the Lord and don’t take the Word seriously and therefore they consciously keep sinning and persevere in sin, assuming that they can keep sinning or live in sin without consequences, since they remain appointed anyway or after some time are reinstated in the office.
And the congregation, which is many times carnal and therefore makes decisions on the basis of feelings and emotions instead of the Word of God, substantiates this behavior and gives a foothold to the devil and supports sin, by keeping the fallen leader in their office or reinstating the fallen leader in their office (Leia também: What did Paul mean by lay hands suddenly on no man)
What is the will of God?
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us His Holy Spirit (1 Tessalonicenses 4:3-8)
Deus é amor, merciful and forgiving, they say. But is that true? God is absolutely merciful and forgiving if someone truly repents and not because the person is caught in the act and asks forgiveness out of a religious habit and after some time falls back into the same sin. Still, God is also righteous and that part is many times left out. The love of God is a righteous love and not a new age love (Leia também: Nova era na igreja? e O Espírito Santo versus o espírito da nova era, qual espírito habita em você?)
It is the will of God that all His sons (isso se aplica a homens e mulheres), who are born of Him and have His nature and represent Him on earth, walk after the Spirit in holiness and not in uncleanness, fornication and the lust of concupiscence, as the Gentiles, who don’t know God and are not born of Him and walk in disobedience to God and His Word in the will of their father in darkness.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, who were the old creation and therefore carnal, that they obeyed the lust of their father and not of God (Leia também: A vontade de Deus versus a vontade do diabo).
Would God appoint a worker of iniquity?
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (2 Timóteo 3:16)
And He gave some, apóstolos; e alguns, profetas; e alguns, evangelistas; e alguns, pastores e professores; Para o aperfeiçoamento dos santos, para o trabalho do ministério, for the edifying of the Body of Christ: Até que todos cheguemos à unidade da fé, e do conhecimento do Filho de Deus, até um homem perfeito, até a medida da estatura completa de Cristo: Que doravante não seremos mais crianças, jogado de um lado para outro, e levado por todo vento de doutrina, pelo truque dos homens, e astuta astúcia, por meio do qual eles ficam à espreita para enganar; Mas falando a verdade em amor, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, até mesmo Cristo: From whom the whole Body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the Body unto the edifying of itself in love (Efésios 4:11-16)
Would God trust and appoint leaders in the church, to raise His sons and teach them in the Word, so that they get to know the will of God and lead them into the truth so that they grow up into spiritual maturity in Christ after His image, if the leader is not spiritually mature and doesn’t walk as a mature son of God and doesn’t submit to the Head Jesus Christ and don’t do what Jesus; the Word says, but is prideful, rebelde, carnal and does the will and the works of the flesh and willfully sin and/or live in sin?
Would God trust His sons to someone, who claims to know God, but doesn’t listen to Him and doesn’t do what He says and deny God through His works? Does this person belong to God?
What does the intentional sinning of church leaders say about them?
Jesus answered them, Na verdade, em verdade, eu digo a você, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin (John 8:34)
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate (Tito 1:16)
Porque a graça de Deus que traz a salvação apareceu a todos os homens, Ensinando-nos isso, negando a impiedade e as concupiscências mundanas, devemos viver sobriamente, justamente, e piedoso, neste mundo atual; Procurando por essa bendita esperança, e o aparecimento da glória do grande Deus e nosso Salvador Jesus Cristo; Quem se entregou por nós, para que Ele possa nos redimir de toda iniquidade, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zeloso de boas obras.These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee (Tito 2:11-15)
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame (1 Coríntios 15:34)
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not (1 John 5:18)
The works of the church leader testify that the church leader is carnal and walks in darkness and does the will of the flesh and is a slave of sin. Sin still reigns as king in the life of the church leader and the wicked one aka the devil still has a hold on the leader. This should already be a warning to the church.
The danger is, that when a pastor or other leader in the church, who should be born again and spiritually mature and should know the will of God, refuses to submit to God and His Word and therefore is prideful, rebelde, and disobedient, the sheep will follow the example of the fallen pastor or other fallen church leader and shall also walk in pride, rebelião, and disobedience to God and His Word.
The same (unclean) spirit that dwells in the pastor (ou outro líder da igreja) shall come over the church and the members of the church shall bear the same fruit as the leader and shall walk in wickedness and uncleanness (Leia também: Muitos pastores estão levando as ovelhas para o abismo)
How can a pastor or other church leader expect from the believers that they do submit to God and obey His Word, when the preacher doesn’t do it himself?
If a preacher or other church leader commits fornication and adultery, how can the preacher confront, warn, correct and chastise a church member in these areas and forbid fornication and adultery? Exactly the church leader can’t. Therefore the church shall compromise and accept sin in the church.
Putting the relationship with Jesus at stake and playing with eternity to fulfill the lusts of the flesh
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears (Hebreus 12:14-17)
Na Nova Aliança, in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, Paul mentioned the thoughts of God regarding the profanity and act of Esau, who despised the Lord by rejecting his birthright for the temporary carnal lusts and desires. Paul warned the believers. And yet, there are many church leaders, who say they have knowledge about God’s Word and claim to see, but don’t care about Paul’s warning and disregard this Scripture.
It is remarkable, that so many people object to women in ministry and substantiate their objection with two Scriptures, but the Scriptures regarding carnal leaders, who are unspiritual and have the mind of the world and are addicted to pornography, masturbação or get involved with other sexual uncleanness and commit fornication, adultério, live together unmarried, have a homossexual relationship, are divorced and remarried and therefore the spouse of more than one women, commit idolatry, feitiçaria, steal, fraud, (pathologic) mentira, have an alcohol addiction, etc.. they get free rein and are appointed in leadership without any objection.
No objections and Scriptures are cited with them, while there are many Scriptures in the Bible to exclude them from ministry (a.o Romans 1,2,6,7,8, 1 Coríntios 15:34, 2 Coríntios 6, Gálatas 2:17-21;5:13-26, Efésios 4,5, 1 Timóteo 3; 5:19-25; 6:2b-12, 1 Tito 1:6-9, 2 Peter 2, 1 John 3,5).
The intentional sinning of church leaders has consequences
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. But fornication, e toda impureza, ou cobiça, que não seja nomeado uma só vez entre vocês, como convém aos santos; Nem sujeira, nem conversa tola, nem brincando, que não são convenientes: mas sim dar graças. Por isso você sabe, que nenhum prostituto, nem pessoa impura, nem homem avarento, quem é um idólatra, tem alguma herança no reino de Cristo e de Deus. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them (Efésios 5:1-7)
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Filhinhos, não deixe ninguém te enganar: quem pratica a justiça é justo, mesmo que ele seja justo. Quem comete pecado é do diabo; porque o diabo peca desde o princípio. Para este propósito o Filho de Deus se manifestou, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Todo aquele que é nascido de Deus não comete pecado; for his seed remaineth in him: e ele não pode pecar, porque ele é nascido de Deus. Nisto se manifestam os filhos de Deus, e os filhos do diabo: quem não pratica a justiça não é de Deus, nem aquele que não ama seu irmão (1 John 3:4-10)
If an apostle, evangelista, um profeta, pastor, professor, mais velho, deacon, worship leader or anyone else, chooses deliberately to obey the will of the flesh above the will of God, then the person has made a conscious choice to reject God and His Word and shall bear the consequences thereof.
Even if the person is famous, influential, and powerful in the church world or bears the name of a famous relative or is a theologian, charismatic, eloquent, wealthy, and seems to be sincere and piously from the outside, God is not a respecter of persons and is not misled by words and outward appearances, but God looks at the heart, since the works of a man derive from the heart.
And as long as intentional sins derive from the heart, the heart and nature of the person are not changed and the person is not born again, but the heart is still of stone and the person doesn’t belong in church leadership.
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