Covenant

[OBW]

Originally Posted by HERn

This touches on a raw nerve for me. Just recently my brother-in-law tried to insert "loyalty to the ministry" between and me and my wife (that's right Awareness I'm not a sister) regarding my decision to pull back from LSM recovery church meetings. He told her to just tell me that she would still continue to meet and he said that this "could be my salvation" (I guess I was wrong all this time thinking that my precious Lord Jesus was my salvation because it turns out that loyalty to "the ministry" is all I needed after being saved). Does anyone out there detect a shift away from loyalty to Christ to loyalty to a man's ministry? Those of you with discernment (you know the scanners of the souls of men) please answer me: What kind of spirit would direct a believer's heart away from the person of our Lord to the ministry of a man? God could only be in this if "the ministry of a man" was equivalent to "the person of the Lord". If you think these two things are congruent I fear you may have been bewitched.

Loyalty to a man rather than loyalty to Christ. This has long been the case. If you have something burning inside that says there is something wrong, it is challenged in terms of your oneness with the ministry, not with Christ.

What kind of spirit? One that is seeking to collect men to itself for gain. Or one that is deceived by such a spirit. Either way, it is a spirit of deception. It is centered on ones who like to be first. Who teach things for the purpose of their personal gain. Who make merchandise of the believers. (How much does a standing order cost and what benefit do you derive from it?) Know that everything that is published today is not new. Even if you like Lee's ministry, he hasn't written anything in 17 years. Every new publication is just a repackaging of what was in another book published before.

And you don't even have to read the Bible to get the "best" teachings because he told us that when he died, "it's all in the books."