Withering On The Vine
© 22 Colin Melbourne
Q: The Lord has sent me to help my Pastor. The problem is they use denominational teachings: Not Biblical. Any suggestions?
A: Yes, this is a very common situation.
Denominations missed the boat, and have fallen from the faith by varying degrees of apostasy.
Time is short and the LORD is trying to wake them up to Father’s Redemptive Plan, and ditch their manufactured doctrines, but make-believers, being carnal, resist the Spirit of the Lord, and prefer bespoke-religion.
In 1988 the LORD used a Baptist fellowship to draw me to Himself, for which I thank God, they were beautiful sincere believers who loved us to Christ, and got us saved, then the next day baptised in water.
But, even to a brand new babe in Christ it was obvious that the salvation Baptists preached was greatly diminished compared to the Saviour whom I’d just met.
They’d received forgiveness of sin and embraced Baptist religion: I’d received The Redeemer: The Living LORD Jesus Christ in my heart.
Redeemed: Not Just Forgiven
It was mystifying why they were somnolent and diffident, instead of boldly rejoicing in their eternal redemption through the Precious Blood of Christ.
“Surely they have what I’ve just got? Don’t they realise who Christ is, and what He’s done for us?” I questioned.
Few did, even amongst the leaders, but nevertheless, the LORD was using them, just as He’s still persisting with us. Praise God for His Mercy and Grace!
We’re all He’s got, and He’s committed Himself to us for eternity.
How His heart aches for His church to live in their redemption and get busy.
Ever Decreasing Faith
Today, that which purports to be the Christian church on Earth is; moribund, paralysed, stuck in religious ruts, and content to remain so.
No Need to Tarry in Jerusalem
Praise God, within days the LORD ensured we met genuinely Spirit-filled believers, and spoke in tongues, the first evidence of receiving the Power Baptism.
Nobody can fulfil their calling without being filled with the same Spirit Who led Christ: Get filled, and stay filled!
Denominations who reject the biblical Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and His Gifts, are doomed to continue in unbelief, wither on the vine, be spat out, and swept aside. Just as The LORD Jesus Christ warned His Churches from the Glory, Rev. 3:15-16 KJV;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Falling Away From the Faith
That’s happening to the denominations; Anglicans, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and many Baptist fellowships have already been spat out; irrelevant, of zero use as witnesses of the Gospel, or the power of The LORD Jesus Christ.
They have fallen away from the faith once delivered to the saints, teaching man’s words of lifeless religion instead of God’s Word. Jude 3 KJV;
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Ecumenical Idolatry
The hardness of their hearts makes them easy prey for Satan’s ecumenical movement, blindly compromising what little faith they have to join in Rome’s idolatry.
The Holy Bible Has The Solution
You say the Lord has sent you to help the pastor, and if that’s the case there’s a definite solution in the Holy Bible to fix this problem.
You’ll know from your own experience that true doctrine is spiritually discerned, not worked out mentally, so the key is to get the LORD to open their spiritual eyes and ears to His Truth.
There’s two Holy Ghost prayers given in His written word that never fail to do this when prayed in faith, both for ourselves, and for others.
Pray these specifically, in faith for yourself, and for your Pastor by name, daily and whenever he comes to mind.
Eph. 1:15-23 KJV;
Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
The other prayer to pray this way is; Eph. 3:14-21 KJV;
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
You will find yourself understanding Father’s words better as He opens your understanding, and so will your Pastor.
You will discover that you are getting spiritually wiser as His Spirit of Wisdom reveals the Living Christ to you.
And so on.
It works every time as long as you stick at it in faith.
These Words are True and Faithful Rev. 21:5
Those are God’s words, so cannot fail to produce what they say when believed and acted upon.
That is our part… Only Believe!
In summary; If you believe God has sent you to that fellowship, do as He instructs in His written word, pray those Holy Ghost prayers in faith, persist and don’t quit, and Father will confirm His word.
© 22 Colin Melbourne