Spiritually Misinformed
Pity
to those juvenile souls who are still on their way to learning and
understanding the ways of life, they face great challenges and difficulties in
discerning what is true from what seems to be true. With an eye of a beholder
and the one who observe the ways in which modern Christianity is conducted, I stand
in a peak of the mountain craving for those who would obey the words of Paul
the Apostle when he said in 2 Corinthians 13:8 “For we cannot oppose the truth,
but must always stand for the truth” (NLT). We may like it or not, but the
truth cannot be overrated. We can twist it the way we want, we can mislead
people and the nations of God in order to gain for ourselves, but the truth
will remain steadfast and true to what it is.
We
see the world of Christianity today being one of the places which no longer
pertain the ingredients of attracting the other worlds to it because it has
been intruded by a virus. This kind of virus tries to mould lies and self-interest
ambitions, making them to look like the truth. There are many so-called “man of
God” who are out there, they seem anointed and powerful, they preach and
prophesy like heaven has jumped into the world. Their messages are filled with biblical
promises and they surely have the backup of the scriptures compiled to give all
generations direction to God and understanding life. But surprisingly, they
turn to overrule most of the scriptures which all the promises that they preach
about are mandated or governed with. They will tell you that “You will be
blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out” (Deuteronomy 28:6), and
during that moment you will be celebrating and shouting “I receive”, of course
everyone want to receive, but unfortunately you have missed the principle that
they turn to omit or leave out, “If you fully obey the Lord your
God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today,
the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All
these blessings will come on you and accompany you
if you obey the Lord your God” (Deuteronomy 28:1-2). The most
amazing thing is that the people who shout I receive always shout I receive
year after year without the manifestation of what they should receive, aw Sunday
after Sunday you are always receiving and yet remain the same!!!
Before
all those blessings fall upon you, before they accompany you and overtake you,
there is a thing that you need to understand and fully obey, that is the truth
of God, His principles. God’s principles cannot be overruled by anything, even
the grace of God which we are misusing and abusing on a daily basis. People are
being spiritually misinformed almost every moment as we roam on earth.
That
was just a piece of example that people should learn to discern and
differentiate what comes from God and what doesn’t. There are so many
generations that have passed before us, so many people who walked with God and
those who did not. They were all governed by the same principles that are still
governing our lives today. He who obeyed would be called the upright/righteous
of God; but unfortunately these days you just have to carry a bible, look like
you can pray in tongues, preach a few sermons, tell people about the spirits
tormenting their lives or the pains in their stomach, or predict their bank
accounts, and then you will be named the powerful “man of God”, you will be
declared upright and righteous. They don’t even want to know how long have you
been saved (sometimes you don’t have to even tell them that you are saved or
not) or how long have you been in the ministry, only if you know how to tell
the things that have been bothering them for long and tell them that their cries
have been heard (even if they never cried to God), and also tell them that it
is their time for breakthrough, then you become their major Apostle, Pastor,
Prophet. You are Spiritually Misinformed, and
you need deliverance, hence only accepting the truth will deliver you.
Many
of you have even run away from your churches or ministries to follow those you
think that they are powerful. You even call them your spiritual fathers and
mothers, unfortunately spiritual guidance is not like your physical ID book
which you can change names anytime you want, and pity for you because the only
person who will be asked by you during judgment will be the one who was
assigned by God for your care as spiritual father or guardian, and they have
all rights to say that it was your choice to run away from home to leave as a
foreigner in other people’s property and therefore you will account for all
judgements by your own self. Stop running around, what you are doing can also
be called spiritual prostitution and hence can be regarded a sin. Who told you
that those who recruited you to have your own ministry really heard from God,
have you considered that even prophets and pastors can lie? Consider what happened in 1Kings 13:8 “But the
old prophet answered, "I am a prophet, too, just as you are. And an angel
gave me this command from the LORD: 'Bring him home with you so he can have
something to eat and drink.'" But the old man was lying to him”.
What
most people are teaching or preaching in the house of God is nothing but a
message of “call me back” if they are invited, people are teaching and
preaching messages of “go out there and tell them that I have power”, they
proclaim messages that say “I am better than your pastor”, all these are not
proclaiming the true gospel that promote the truth of Christ, but rather to
satisfy their weak ambitions and self-interest, they pollute the truth and
misinform the young ones who consider them as role models. If you claim to be on
the side of the truth, why you wait for a fat envelope after ministering, why everyone
can’t be able to consult you, only those with money can. Spiritually Misinformed
It
is said so many times in the bible that obedience is better than sacrifice; we
may not clearly see it because it is said in so many different ways. Think about
Cain and Abel, they both offered a sacrifice to God, but God was delighted in
Abel’s sacrifice because it had some sort of obedience in it, he did not just
burn anything, but ‘First of all’ (the most important). Abel was spiritually
self-aware and well informed, but his brother Cain was full of greed and
spiritually misinformed. When they misinform you, they will make you see the
opportunity out of what is forbidden, they will twist what you know to be wrong
until you see it to be true and because you are weak in discerning spirits, you
will therefore fall for the temptation, and once you try it, you might not be
able to come out from it. Genesis 3:1-6 “Now the serpent was craftier than
any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did
God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said
to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God
did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the
garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You
will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For
God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be
like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the
tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for
gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who
was with her, and he ate it.”
A
piece of truth compiled a big lie that became the whole truth which enticed the
woman (Eve) and she saw a great opportunity from what was said to be forbidden.
And today we bear the sin and death because an opportunity became a great fall
of man. Everything looks very perfect and promising when you are being misinformed,
but cries, tribulations and great pain follows after the moment of enjoyment. People
must learn to put their trust in God than in fellow human beings who have been
misinformed and who are yet to be misinformed… TO BE CONTINUED
BY
KATEKANI UNSTOPPABLE MASANGU
