Many servants of God are neutralized and
eliminated through the fear of men, the
respect of men. If you speak the words of
God then people will hate you, they will
reject, you they will persecute you.
You will not be accepted by people if
you speak the words of God, and people
will leave you. The church members will
disappear, the contributions and
donations will disappear. They will call
your heretic and they will persecute
you.
But if you do not speak the words of God,
if you compromise for the acceptance of
men, you will be neutralized, you will be
eliminated. If you respect men more than
God then you cannot be a disciple of
Jesus Christ, and you cannot bear fruit for
the kingdom of God. Many preachers have
been compromised, because they were
offered a nice positions in churches,
provided that they speak the words of
the church, that they do not speak harshly,
that they do not speak about sin, that
they do not speak the words and God
gives them to speak. Many are afraid to
speak the truth because men will reject
them.
Many have submitted themselves to the
leadership of the church, to the elders
instead of to Jesus Christ, and therefore
they have become useless for the kingdom
of God. Many of those have been cut off
because if we did not bear fruit for the
kingdom of God. We will get cut off. The
respect for men
is a snare, that has destroyed and
eliminated many. I want to read for
you what happened to a young prophet who
respected the old prophet and rather
than doing what God told him to do, he
listened to the old prophet and he was
cut off;
he was killed. I read from
1Kings 13. God sent this young
prophet to go and speak judgment against
an evil king of Israel, Jeroboam. I read
from verse 1:
Now behold there came a man of God from
Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord.
While Jeroboam was standing by the altar
to burn incense, he cried against the
altar by the word of the Lord and said:
"Oh altar, thus says the Lord Behold a son
shall be born to the house of David,
Josiah by name; and on you he shall
sacrifice the priests of the high places
who burn incense on you, and human bones
shall be burned on you." Then he gave a
sign the same day saying:" This is the
sign which the Lord has spoken,
Behold the altar shall be split apart
and the ashes which are on it shall be
poured out. Now when the King heard the
saying of the man of God, which he cried
against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam
stretched out his hand from the altar
saying: "Seize him!" But his hand which he
stretched out against him dried up so
that he could not draw it back to
himself. The altar was also split apart
and the ashes were poured out from the
altar,
according to the sign which the man of
God had given by the word of the Lord.
The king said to the man of God:"Please
entreat the Lord your God and pray for
me that my hand may be restored to me."
So the man of God entreated the Lord
and the Kings hand was restored to him,
and it became as it was before. Then the
king said to the man of God:"Come home
with me and refresh yourself and I will
give you a reward." But the man of God
said to the king"
"If you were to give me half your house, I
would not go with you, nor will I eat
bread or drink water in this place, for
so it was commanded me by the word of
the Lord saying:"You shall not eat bread,
nor drink water, nor return by the way
which you came. So he went another way
and did not return by the way which he
came to Bethel. He obeyed the Word of
God against the king, but see what
happened then. Another prophet, a man of God,
came to him and seduced him. I read from
verse 11. "Now an old prophet was living
in Bethel and his sons came and told him
all the deeds which the man of God had
done that day and of the words which he
had spoken to the king,
these also they related to their father. Their
father said to them:"Which way and did he
go?" Now his sons had seen the way in
which the man of God who came from Judah
had gone. Then he said to the sons:
"Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled
the donkey for him and he rode away on
it. So he went after the man of God and
found him sitting under an oak. And he
said to him:"Are you the man of God that came
from Judah:" and he said:"I am." Then he said
to him:"Come home with me and eat bread."
He said:"I cannot to return with you, nor
go with you, nor will I eat bread or
drink water with you in this place, for a
command came to me by the word of the
Lord:"You shall eat no bread, nor drink
water there. Do not return by going the
way which you came." He said to him:"I'm
also a prophet like you, and an angel
spoke to me by the word of the Lord
saying: "Bring him back with you to
your house, that he may eat bread and
drink water," but he lied to him.
So we went back with him and ate bread
in his house, and drank water. Now it came
about, as they were sitting down at the
table that the word of the Lord came to
the prophet who had brought him back, and
he cried to the man of God who came from
Judah saying:"This is the Lord:"Because
you have disobeyed the command of the
Lord, and have not observed the
Commandant with the Lord your God
commanded you,
but have returned and eaten bread and
drunk water in the place of which He
said to you:"Eat no bread, and drink no
water, your body shall not come to the
grave of your father's." It came about
after he had eaten bread and after he
had drunk and he saddled the donkey for
him, for the prophet whom he had brought
back. Now when he had gone a lion met him
on the way and killed him, and his body
was thrown on the road, with the donkey
standing beside it. The lion also was
standing beside the body and behold men
passed by and saw the body thrown on the
road and the lion standing beside the
body. So they came and told it in the
city where the old prophet lived. Now when
the prophet who brought him back from
the way heard, he said it is a man of God
who disobeyed the command of the Lord,
therefore the Lord has given him to the
lion, which has torn him and killed him,
according to the word of the Lord which
he had spoken, which he spoke to him, and
he spoke to his sons saying:"Saddle
the donkey for me." And they saddled it. He
went and found his body thrown on the
road, with the donkey and the lion standing
beside the body. The lion had not eaten
the body, not torn the donkey. So the
prophet took up the body of the man of
God, and laid it on the donkey
and brought it back, and he came to the city
of the old prophet to mourn and to
bury. He laid his body in his own grave
and they mourned over him saying: "Alas my brother."
This young prophet
listened to the old prophet instead of
listening to God. We have one Leader, we
have one Lord and Master. If we follow
Jesus Christ we must listen to Him and
obey Him. We are called to serve Him only,
and not be distracted by people. Many
servants of God have been neutralized,
eliminated and killed by God because
they submitted themselves to men, they
did not keep on listening to and serving
the Lord. The respect of men is a snare
that has, and will destroy many. Follow
Jesus Christ and obey Him, then you will
bear fruit; but if you start respecting
men you are not suitable to be a servant
of God, you are not suitable for the
kingdom of God. You will get cut off and
burned. May Jesus bless you.
Jesus Christ is Lord
and He is alive.
Hell is real and those who disobey Jesus
will go there.
I am here to share my testimony and to
put your hand in the hand of Jesus, so
that you can know Him and follow Him
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