A NOTE OF EXPLANATION




A NOTE OF EXPLANATION



                When I mention Pentecostals as I did in this last article, I am not bragging on a certain denomination as such. What I am saying is that the Day of Pentecost is the day on which the Church was conceived and the New Covenant initiated as Jesus, our New High Priest (after the order of Melchizedek) poured out His Spirit upon His followers. To ignore Pentecost then is to ignore the entire New Covenant, the New High Priesthood of Jesus and the priesthood of believers.



                To ignore Pentecost is to ignore the power source of the New Covenant as well as the source of Agape love that those who will overcome must attain. To love with Agape loves is the new commandment that our High Priest has given to us and Agape love fulfills the Old Covenant completely. Love is the fulfillment of the Law and we enter into His rest when we come to know Christ in us as our hope of glory. 2 Cor. 4:7, Col. 1:27, 28, Eph. 4:13, Eph.  4:23, 24, 30



                Everything that we must attain in this life is produced in us by the Holy Spirit… not by the works of our flesh. Therefore we must spend time before the throne crying out for that which He alone can give. We must be washed by the Word and cleansed by the blood and empowered by the Holy Spirit.



                As Christians we tend to spend too much time arguing over things that do not pertain to salvation or add a single watt of power to our lives… nor do these arguments produce Agape love in us. So when we talk about maturity we are talking about learning how to  live by the Spirit and to love with the God kind of love and that means getting involved with people… people in need… the same kind of people that Jesus chose to minister to.



                Far too often we tend to sit in the seats of the Pharisees, rather than in the highways and byways of the disciples and we live in smug superiority because we have “The Truth.” When in fact “the TRUTH” is out there healing the sick and casting out demons and teaching the people and getting its hands dirty with the needs of sinners.



                Pentecostals, like all other needy and desperate Christians, are crying out for more… for the real thing… for a revival of Holy Spirit power in our midst… distancing ourselves from the smoke and mirrors of a church going astray… we hunger for the real presence and power of Jesus. We need a revival of that which God poured out on the day of Pentecost if we are to bring in the harvest in these last days.



                Today the actual power of the New Birth and the New Covenant are being traded in for unity under the global government and religion of the beast. We are selling our birthright for a pot of beans and even as we do, we are gravitating back towards the Law which came before Christ… back to Judaism…back to days and weeks and rules about food and drink. We are trading our living reality and our living Savior for types and shadows even as we contribute to the temple that is being built foe “the Messiah.”



                But bear this in mind: Since they reject Jesus as Messiah, then we have to ask who their messiah will be and Matthew 24:15 tells us and Revelation chapter 13 tells us… but today the church has very little stomach for the prophecies that could guide them away from these grand delusions and deceptions. We need the Holy Spirit and the Word like never before and we surely must begin to understand the difference between Old and New Covenants and which one we are in now.



                Jesus came to earth and died to bring us this new covenant and this new priesthood. Should we not bend every effort to find out how to fully enter into it and to walk in it and to minister by its power?



                The church is full of false prophets today, prophesying peace and safety and clear sailing ahead, even as they fail to identify our sins and call us to righteousness. They have become prophets of the church rather than prophets of God. But the church today is largely a house of cards and so we must pray like never before, because there is a great falling away taking place and we don’t want to be a part of it.

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