Saturday, May 2, 2009

Disciple the nations!

Again lets spread some newspaper on the floor and look at, what we are thinking....

WARNING! THE SURGEON GENERAL HAS DETERMINED that some of these sentences will need to be read more than once, and slowly, or your, (yes thats you!) your mind will ascribe meaning to it, that is not there!

No one need to answer these questions to what I am asking. But we are all accountable to the Father for how we think on this stuff. So please think about it.

This is a critical topic for us. We all nod our heads that, oh yeah I believe this , but if we were to actually stop and give legs to the commandment to disciple the nations, people break out in hives, they manifest, etc etc

You can go back through the emails and my website and over and over it has been expressed that this topic is not about getting to heaven. It is not about making ourselves righteous! Why do I have to keep saying it? What is it about this topic that can leave us apoplectic?

This topic is about since we are going to heaven and the word says we serve the God of the living, not the dead, and we have been bought and paid for that you are no longer your own, and like peter we should all see ourselves as bondservants.....so how does our master want us to conduct ourselves? How should we then live? If you rate by intensity, as framed by the word of God this is the big cahuna topic of the word of God. This topic defines God and establishes his authority for all or only some of life, for just the saved or everyone, are nations excused or not and it will even define what loving others is.

As bondservants, has our master left instructions for us to be doing churchy things, or did he leave enough instructions so that we can disciple the Nations? We are to spread the good news, that does involve salvation, but to disciple the Nations Is the New testament extension of taking dominnion. Yes loving people will be a part of it. But that expression narrows the command, and narrows the gospel, the good news. It will try to keep the leaven in one part of the loaf. A lot of our problems stem from us thinking that this leaven we have been given ....is really, only, for one part of the loaf.

A nation needs to know what attributes God wants or doesn’t want concerning its monetary policy, Banking systems, its view of private property, what should be the standard for right and wrong, what are just punishments, to what purpose has God created the magistrate for, what brings Gods blessing or curses, how should the military function, who should be in the military, when should it be used, what tax’s will bring blessings or curses, what should a marriage or family look like. Does God care about weed control, how the government is organized, dice, tire inflation pressure, whether the next persons turn is to the right or the left, etc etc. etc You disciple a nation by discipling its people. What will your reference point, your standard be, to do that? ….how about Romans 3:31 as a place to start? " do we then nulify the law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary , we establish the law" let the manifesting begin!

Here is a good one, what are those topics, what foundations of understanding are being implanted in your families home schooling. Are you following Gods clear directive to father's about this subject? If you are being obedient to God, then they are being given the groundwork to work with ,and understand ,all of this discipling the nations stuff. If you do not see how Jesus is at the center of it all, then can it be passed on to them?

This is how poorly the church understands this….. today, much of the Church wants to rally around and take a stand with a women in her bikini in the name of traditional marriage. And we don’t see the incongruity of it all. The inconsistency.

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