I know the preparation time before a move of God is always tough; that’s where we’re at. We need to get excited anyway because we know what’s coming, don’t we? The greatest move the church has ever seen is on the way. Our job is to get ready, to get prepared for this move of God.
We have three types of mankind. We have the natural man, the carnal man, and the spiritual man. The natural man is the lost man and they don’t understand the things of God. They don’t understand the word, the gifts of the spirit. And you have to be able to be sensitive to minister to them. Much of what you say to them it will completely blow them away. You have to become sensitive to the Spirit to know what to say and what not to say. There are some things you can say that will chase them off. We don’t want to chase them off; we want to get them saved, right? The carnal man- this is the born again man, even born again spirit filled Christians. Wasn’t the Corinthian church a Spirit-filled church? Paul called them carnal. He said the reason I know there’s carnality is because there is envying, strife, and division in the church. That’s carnal. Paul continued to say they were walking as men, as mere men. In other words, you are born again, spirit filled and walking as a natural man. You are walking as though you weren’t saved. Our goal is to become spiritual men. Most of the church world is living like this. They are in it for what they can get out of it, they couldn’t care less about what other people are doing, and they just want their brownie points, go on and go to heaven and phooey on the rest of the world. As long as we sit, do nothing, we don’t intercede, we don’t attempt to grow, we don’t attempt to get the word stored in us, we don’t have any desire to walk in the gifts of the spirit, then we are in it for “me.” Hello. And you’ve been left here for a higher calling than that. It’s not enough to just live a good moral life; you must live to what God has called you to be. You see, God wants you to win the lost, heal the sick. He wants you to cast out devils, perform miracles. If necessary, he wants you to walk on water. He wants us to rule and reign. How many of you reading this feel qualified to rule and reign right now? Let’s start in 1st Corinthians 3:1, “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual (that’s our goal), but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. The Corinthian church was filled with the Spirit and walking in the gifts, but being spirit filled doesn’t make you a mature Christian. In verse 2, “I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” Our goal is to be able to eat meat, to grow up and become the useful servant, useful warriors that God called and designed you to be. Amen. Verse 3, “For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? Here’s born again, spirit filled people acting like lost people. I’ve seen churches split because they didn’t like the carpet. That’s carnal. Doesn’t that sound like an infant, like a little kid, to scream and throw a fit because they didn’t get their way? Our goal is to grow up, become spiritual men, spiritual women, grown up-mature people that are fully equipped that are ready and available to be used at a moment’s notice by the King, being instant in season and out. Turn to 1st Corinthians 2:1-4: 1) “And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 2) “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3) And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4) And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: The testimony of the spiritual man is Jesus. The spiritual man is the one that takes up his cross daily. Learn more about taking up your cross by reading Matthew 16:24; Matthew 10:38. Taking up your cross is being obedient to what God has called you to do. Don’t take up someone else’s cross by trying to do and be like them. There calling will be different than yours. Begin to do daily what God has for you to do, that’s taking up your cross. The messages I bring you is to help equip you to do your calling in life. This is the most fantastic generation to be alive in. It’s for such a time as this that you’ve been brought into the Kingdom. You were reserved for this time. God placed you here for this day and time. This is the most exciting time the world is ever going to see and we’ve got to get ready. God wants you to be blessed, but you can’t sit and do nothing. God is preparing us not only for graduation but for life that’s coming shortly. Things are going to start changing and God’s going to have to have educated people. I’m not talking about going to seminary. I’m talking about getting in the word, find out what God has called you to do and to study and show yourself approved so that God can use you. Great is the harvest, few are the laborers. Folks, t here’s not enough laborers right now if a revival was to start. Some time back I worked some numbers. According to the number of Christians in the world at that time, every one of us would have to personally minister to a hundred thousand people to get us to the place where God is going to take us. Are we mature enough to be sensitive enough to know how to minister to a hundred thousand people? We need to get ready. God’s called us to take up our cross, to have a testimony of Jesus Christ. He wants us to be spiritual people. Doc
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