Folks don’t realize how many times I have attempted to write this article. It is extremely difficult. I have written it many times in many ways and then deleted it.
The difficulties are many faceted.
One reason is some folks think I believe I think I am perfect myself. I can guarantee you I know there is error on this blog, I speak alot of opinion here. And am quite certain there is even error on my website where I teach doctrines and theology. And as I discuss elsewhere where Paul and James both discuss the dangers of being a doma minister because of the responsibility and judgment we/they will face when we/they err. But yet Paul also stated that we see darkly.
Christianity is about faith not absolutes. I discuss this on my tenet page:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/tenet.html
Focus:
1 Cor 9:25: MKJV
25 And everyone who strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Then those truly that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
God has called me to be a balance. I try not to minister in extremes. I try to filter all my doctrine and teaching through this principle.
It is my belief, that the people and church of God, in some capacity, in most cases, seek after His truth. During the coarse of history the church became divided. It is my belief, that you can find pieces of truth from perhaps every denomination and movement of God. I like to say, “A broken clock is right twice a day.” Therefore, I try to even see where God has used those people whom I even disagree with. It is the pride of man that often separates men, and keeps them from seeing the work of God in others. Perhaps, how I have dealt with my greatest spiritual father, Watchman Nee, is a good example of separating out what he mixed into God’s revelations. Watchman Nee was a very balanced teacher, except when it came to entertainment. He condemns any entertainment that has any chance involved. He believes entertainment or games should have skill only. He even condemned the mixture of skill and chance. Any game with cards or dice, he would condemn. Playing games like UNO or even children’s games like CandyLand, would be wrong. Why did he take this stance? Because his own mother was addicted to gambling. From the great pain of gambling, he failed to see a balance in entertainment. Therefore, I take out his imbalances. I have done the same from other ministers; Randy Shankle, Kenneth Hagin, and so on. I have even gleaned truth from the Catholic church which protestants don’t even teach about; the fiery judgment on unfaithful believers: Click here
Many christians are so quick to judge and condemn, but if we repent of pride, we can easily glean truth from people who have missed God in some part.
On the other side of the scale, we ought not to stand on truth just because others we agree with, believe it. We shouldn’t build doctrine from tradition, nor refuse to listen to other doctrines because we or our group do not. Doctrines should be based on scripture alone…
Everything I teach and believe is by faith. God made it so that we need the church and ministers to teach us doctrine. The Bible is not meant to be a handi-book of easy to read doctrines. The doctrines must be dug out and taught. For this reason, ministers will receive a stricter judgment. While many of my beliefs are accepted thru most of christendom and many of my more “rare” teachings are from a handful of ministers, I have gleaned many truths from many different sources. One of my favorite sayings is “a broken clock is right 2 times a day”. One of the baptisms in the Bible is called the Baptism into the Cloud (1 Cor 10:2). This baptism is God’s calling the church to follow after Him. This is often results in the restoration of doctrine and theology. The Reformation is a prime example of this. What often happens tho, is man follows God to a lost truth then makes a camp there, refusing to follow God further. We can glean truths from such stale camps, but should continue to follow God ourselves.
Isa 28:10: For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
1 Cor 13:12: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
1 Cor 2: LITV
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That being said there are also another group which thinks that I think I am perfect (and most others in the church) and those are they who have fallen from grace, perhaps hurt by spiritual abuse. They have fallen into sin, and don’t trust any standard, may hate God, distrust the Bible, or something to this sort.
These folks don’t have hope, and anyone who is holding onto hope and striving towards a standard offends them.
There are things I simply don’t know. for example I believe in a partial rapture, but am uncertain what the qualifying necessity is, whether is being born again (as opposed and being different than being saved, see here: http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/bvb.html or whether is being baptized in the Holy Spirit).
Then again, I also may not have all the details and truth about the differences between being born again and saved, nor fully understand the difference between the 1st baptism and the 2nd. Since as Paul said we see darkly.
Which leads me toward the point of this article. Another reason why we fail to reach god’s perfect is because of the fallen state of the church, as well as our own sin nature.
In the 1900’s many books were written especially in the early 1900’s about how Rome is Babylon and how it has corrupted even the protestant faiths.
While there is some truth to this, it hits it at the wrong angle. Jesus saw the failure of the church before even Scripture was complete. You can see this by reading the 1st 3 chapters of Revelation. Also a careful reading of the Old Testament will show you how the end time shepherds will fail.
Hence while I believe pastor Bruce Delay is awesome and the best pastor I know of, he still is an end time shepherd and is missing it. But we all are.
I discuss in more detail how I believe that those who are not raptured will out do us who will be raptured here:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/two.html
and somewhat here:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/latter.html
We will not be the 1st in God’s kingdom, we have not entered into the perfect:
Math 20: MKJV
8 So when evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers and pay them their wage, beginning from the last to the first.
10 But when the first came, they supposed that they would received more; and they also each one received a denarius.
11 And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
12 saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13 But he answered one of them andsaid, Friend, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
14 Take yours, and go; I will give to this last one the same as to you.
16 So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, but few are chosen.
Rev 14:13 And I heard a voice from Heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on. Yes, says the Spirit, they shall rest from their labors, and their works follow them.
Even Randy Shankle and others prophesy the latter house will be greater. But they get it wrong, they think it’s their ministry when its the church!
And Bruce DeLay thinks my desire to reach and inspire those afterward is a hidden agenda to be uncorrectable because my fruit can’t be judged. This is an example of how click mentality and denomonationalism, or even Babylon has affected the church!
While many of us are pleasing God, we are not walking in His perfect will. Let me go ahead and say it. God’s perfect will for me was to be single. But God hates divorce. And some folks hate me and despise me, because I refuse to divorce my wife, because they won’t submit to a standard. But, that doesn’t give me the right to judge and condemn those who have divorced, because none of us, including me are in God’s perfect will. However, I do not endorse divorce, and I promote God’s will. But I am not gonna sit and judge folks who have been divorced.
For the longest time I wondered how I could obtain God’s perfect will. If we are on a path, should we abruptly change our path to God’s path in a violent manner? For me this question has been especially strong because I disobeyed God and joined the Navy. I went AWOL, turned myself in and was court martialed. Miraculously I was found not guilty. Another long discussion.
But I have been asking myself for 15 years, was it God for me to go AWOL or not?
Finally about a couple weeks ago, the Holy Spirit gave me some revelation on the subject. The disciples were on their paths doing what they were doing when Jesus interrupted their lives and changed their courses. He even manifested fishing miracles to pay their debts before they followed Him.
And this is what Jesus did for me with the Navy. Sorta like what Aslan did for Edmund in “The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe” as well.
I had no plans to go AWOL. One nite I had a dream I went to the Church in Marshall andRandy Shankle wearing a robe with a medallion cast out 2 demons from me. I had never seen Randy in real life. I woke up to a knock on my dorm door, and had a call that informed me my stepdad had died. I was in Japan. I proceeded to fill out paper work to go home for the funeral also believing that once I was State side the authorities there would help me leave the Navy as I was convinced those in Japan were withholding legal methods from me.
I had to get permission of all my superior officers, about 4-5 levels up. All agreed I could go but the last said no. It was then I decided to leave Japan AWOL, without any previous plan to do so.
To shorten my tale which you can read here:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/testimony.html
I ended up at the Church in Marshall, and the 2nd Sunday there, I saw Randy for the 1st time. He was doing a wedding and was wearing a robe and a medallion as in my dream.
It took an encounter from Christ to get me onto God’s will. And Jesus paid the cost of my missing His will by declaring me not guilty in court, as He also filled the disciples nets with fish!
I can’t leave my wife and family. But if God were to intervene Himself, then I would follow. But we are stuck to God’s acceptable will due to the state of the church, the world, our souls, and sin nature.
But are we like David, and willing to admit our sins, or are we gonna be like the end time shepherds thinking we have it all?
We all are missing it. But are we striving for God’s will? Are we lieing and thinking we have arrived? That is what matters.
The salvation of the soul is a process, and unfortunately most of humanity will not reach 100 fold. But we shouldn’t give up and throw in the towel, and condemn those who are trying to reach the standard.
No church, no denomination, no man has it all. That’s why I look to many sources to write my teachings on doctrine as stated earlier from here:
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/tenet.html
Yet even the doctrine of the rapture has the church divided. Most use the newer stance that since the church fathers were quiet on a pre-trib rapture it mustn’t be true. Truth was not absolute to the church fathers even when Paul said he saw darkly. Peter said, and I got this from Watchman Nee, that revelation about the salvation of the soul would increase in the last days:
1 Pet 1:
5: Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
9: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Also OT prophets hinted at last day revelations, so did Sir Isaac Newton. I even got from Randy Shankle and Kenneth Hagin that just as the gifts decreased from the Acts and the Apostles, they would increase in the last days.
This comes from unity, realizing that we all have a piece of the whole. It’s an act of humility to see that even denominations who we oppose, or that oppose us may have revelation or truth we miss.
It bothers me horribly that I cannot finish teaching the foundational principles on my website. I got the 1st 3 down well. But am seriously lacking in laying on of hands and of resurrection of the dead. But believe I have some revelation on Eternal Judgment that is new.
I simply don’t have it all. And I can’t. I also lack in the evangelical giftings. While I make up a bit in being a reasonably good example to others, I am lacking strength in proclaiming the gospel of salvation to the lost. It takes all of us to achieve the perfect. And when we reject body members, we can’t achieve perfection.
The point here? Well as I have stated to Bruce and others before, a major focus of mine, is to inspire those left behind after the rapture. That they can achieve what we could not. But it is also to inspire all of us to go a little further, including me.
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