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Why The
End-time Church Lacks Power, Part 3, (The Complete Gospel)
Texts: John
4:48 Mark 16:15-29
John 4:48
48 Then
said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
Mark 16:15-20
15 And he said unto
them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
16 He that
believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be
damned.
17 And these
signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
18 They
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it
shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall
recover.
19 So
then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and
sat on the right hand of God.
20 And
they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them,
and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Introduction
This is the third part of a teaching series
that seeks to unravel why the end-time church, which is supposed to
demonstrates the greatest power in the history of the church, now lacks power, and in my reckoning has
become the most powerless in all church ages, instead.
In Part 1 of this teaching, a biblical
analysis of why the end-time church should have the greatest power was carried
out. This was immediately followed by the part 2 of the teaching that explained
the reason why God gives power. In the second part of the teaching, it was
clearly pointed out with many instances from the bible that the principal
reason why God gives power is to make people believe His Word which He has
given to His servants to declare and to defend the Word until His purpose is
fulfilled.
This reason stated in part 2 of this
teaching is summarized in the first text stated above.
John 4:48
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
It can be deduced from the text that the
only reason why God gives His servants power to do signs, wonders and miracles
is to make people believe His Words that He had given them to preach.
In this part, we will be looking at what
complete gospel is, and why the non-preaching of the complete gospel is the
root cause of powerlessness of this end-time church.
Power for the Gospel
In John 4:48, our first text
above, the Lord, Jesus Christ stated that if the people did not see signs and
wonders, they would not believe the gospel. Let us reiterate the statement,
again, in His own words.
John 4:48
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
In
other words, He was saying that what would differentiate the gospel from other
messages would be the demonstration of power that backs up the gospel.
The statement from
the second text above was made after the resurrection of the Lord, Jesus
Christ, when He was commissioning the church to preach the gospel. The first
thing He did was to give the power for signs and wonders that would make the
whole world believe the gospel. See our second text, Mark 16:15-29, for this.
For
this purpose of making people believe the gospel which He sent them out to
preach, He gave them the following categories of power.
-1.
Power to cast out devils:
(Power for deliverance)
-2. Power to speak in new tongues:
-3. Power to take up serpents:
(Power to do wonders) This is what God told Moses to demonstrate in Exodus
4:1-4.
-4. Power not to be hurt: This
protection power.
-5.
Power to heal the sick:
The Lord, Jesus
Christ, refereed to all these powers as ‘these signs’ in Mark 16:17, thereby corroborating
the first text which says ‘Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe’.
All these powers
are given by the Lord to His Disciples to make actually make the people believe
the gospel.
In another scene
before He was crucified, when He sent them to go and preach the gospel, He did
the same thing. He gave them power to back up the gospel He sent them to go and
preach.
Mathew
10:1,5,6,7
1 And
when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave
them power against unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of
disease.
.
.
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and
commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and
into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
7 And as
ye go, preach,
saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
It can be seen again
that the major reason for giving of Power by the Lord, Jesus Christ, to the
church, was to back up the gospel which He sent them to preach because without
signs and wonders.
Why The end-time
Church lacks Power
We have
been able to show, starting from Part 1 of this teaching up till now that the
principal reason why God gives power to His servants is to back up the Word He
has given them to preach. Some examples were listed from the books of the old
testament where God gave power to His servants and allowed them to demonstrate
raw signs and wonders to back up His
Word.
In the
new testaments, also, examples of cases where the Lord Jesus Christ gave power
to do signs and wonders to both His disciples and the church He has sent them
to preach the gospel. Throughout the books of the new testaments, we see many
examples of signs and wonders wrought by the disciples because they preached
the Gospel which the Lord, Jesus Christ, gave them the power for. They raised
the deads. They opened the eyes of the blinds. They raised the cripples.
But
now, the church of Christ in this end-time is not demonstrating so much power
like the early disciples and churches despite the fact that power to do had
been given freely unto them. Why could this be so? The only logical reason
could be that the end-time church is not ready to use the power for what it is
meant for; in this case to preach the gospel. And this was the major difference
between the early church and this end-time church. They preached the complete
gospel that the Lord gave them to preach and as such the power of signs and
wonders to make believe their gospel worked for them.
However,
the end-time church does not want to preach the raw and complete gospel that
the Lord gave them power for and as a result, they are becoming powerless.
Instead of preaching the raw and complete gospel to which power has been
apportioned to make believe it, they are preaching motivation gospel and
prosperity gospel – gospels that have no power. Motivational and prosperity
gospels cannot open the eyes of blind, nor raise the dead nor bring sinners to
their kneels. These can be achieved only by preaching the complete gospel that
the Lord, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist and the rest of the disciples
preached.
In
viewing of this, we will be looking at what the complete gospel is that the
church should preach because the church cannot operate in power unless by
preaching the raw and complete gospel.
The Complete Gospel
Since we have been able to show that the
power of God has been released by God to wrought signs and wonders that should
back the gospel, it is logical to assume that the church of Christ n this
end-time is either not preaching the gospel or preaching the wrong gospel since
the church is not operating in power of signs and wonders that should back up
the gospel. But the church of Christ in this end-time is preaching, then, it follows
that the gospel that this end-time church is preaching is ‘a wrong gospel’ or
‘another gospel’ for which power to work signs and wonders to make people
believe has not been earmarked for.
If that is the case, what is the gospel
that the end-time church should preach that will make the readily available
power to work signs and wonders that God had given the church to manifest. The
followings give us the highlights of the gospel that the Lord, Jesus Christ,
Himself, and the disciples preached as recorded in the bible. And the totality
of all these messages is what I term the complete gospel that the church should
preach. Through them, they raised deads, opened blind eyes, healed sicks and
did many signs and wonders.
-1.
Repentance
Mark 1:14-15
14 Now
after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
15 And
saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe
the gospel.
- 2. The coming of Jesus Christ at rapture.
Mathew 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached in all the world or a witness unto all nations; and then shall the
end come.
-3. Judgment of secret sins
Romans 2:16
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ
according to my gospel.
-4.
Confessing, Believing and
Calling upon the Lord, Jesus Christ for salvation.
Roman 10:9, 13, 16
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth
the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
.
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,
Lord, who hath believed our report?
-5. Sanctification
2 Thessalonians
2:13-14
13 But
we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the
Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto
he called you by our gospel,
to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
-6.
Resurrection of Jesus Christ
2 Timothy 2:8
8 Remember
that Jesus Christ of
the seed of David was raised
from the dead according to my gospel:
-7.
Eternity of the Word of God.
1 Peter 1:25
25 But the word
of the Lord endureth
for ever. And this is the
word which by the
gospel is preached unto you
-8.
Judgment of God
16 Yet if any man suffer as a
Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
17 For the time is
come that judgment
must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at
us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
-9. Fear of God.
Revelation 14:6-7
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven,
having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying
with a loud voice, Fear God,
and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him
that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters
Summary
For the end-time church to operate in
power to do signs and wonders, which had been freely apportioned to her by God,
she must be ready and willing to preach the total gospel for which the power is
released. This total gospel which the Lord, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist and
the rest of the biblical Disciples/Apostles preached include repentance,
rapture, death and resurrection of Jesus, sanctification, judgment of God,
judgment of secret sins, fear of God, Confessing/believing Jesus and total
dependence on the Word of God.
Through the preaching of this complete
gospel, deads were raised, sicks were healed, lepers were cleansed, blind eyes
were opened and sinners were brought to repentance. Apostle Paul captured this
truth in his statement Romans 15:19.
Romans 15:19
19 Through
mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God;
so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
In other words, Apostle Paul was saying he
preached the gospel in full, that he preached the completely gospel, not the
partial nor the half-truth gospel, and signs and wonders, through the Power of
the Holy Ghost was there to back up the messages he preached.
These are exactly the messages the church
of Christ in these last days need to preach in order to operate in signs,
wonders, miracles and power, for the last time before the Lord, Jesus Christ, comes.
Conclusion
The end-time church can still experience
revival. She can still operate in power. She can still raise deads, open blind
eyes, strengthen lame legs, bring sinners to repentance, and win the world for
Jesus. To do this, she must get her messages right. She must abandon
motivational gospels, prosperity gospel, new world order gospel and the likes –
messages not centered on the blood and cross of the Lord, Jesus Christ. Can
motivational gospels open the eyes of the blind or raise the deads? Absolute
NO! In the same manner, prosperity gospel cannot bring sinners to repentance.
Actions
Are
you an elect of Christ? Are you truly saved? Are you on the narrow road? Do you
want to make the rapture/heaven? If your answers are yes, then,
• Make all efforts to heed the warnings of Jesus Christ.
• Make all efforts to heed the warnings of Jesus Christ.
•
Be watchful. Pay attention to what is happening around the World and see
whether they match what the scriptures say.
•
Be filled with the Holy Spirit and be in the Spirit all the time.
•
Fast, consecrate yourself, run away from sin and worldliness.
If your answers are NO, then you can repent
today. Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Kindly sincerely and
faithfully pray the prayer of repentance below and make a determination never
to commit sin again.
Prayer Of Repentance
Lord, Jesus Christ, I am sorry
for all my sins. I confess them with my mouth and I ask for mercy. Please
forgive me and wash me in your blood. I accept you as my personal Lord and
Saviour. Write my name in the book of life. Give me power over sins and fill me
with your Spirit and Joy of Salvation. When rapture trumpet sounds, let me make
it. Thank you for saving me. In Jesus name, I pray.
Begin to read bible. Begin with the book of
John. Pray always. Fast regularly (you can begin with once in a week). Look for
a bible believing church where they teach repentance, holiness, salvation and
fellowship with them. Pray before you go. Always run away from SINS.
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To Make Rapture:
Confess your sins to JESUS CHRIST and ask Him
to save you.
Repent of your sins constantly on daily basis
and run away from sins.
Be filled with the Holy Spirit
Live in Holiness and Righteousness
Do all Restitutions
Be filled with the Holy Spirit
Live in Holiness and Righteousness
Do all Restitutions
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Forgive all people.
Pray and fast.
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