DON’T BE AN ILLEGITIMATE PERSON IN THE KINGDOM – DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR: SEEK THE NEED FOR SPIRITUAL PARENTING AND MENTORING!

“And I will GIVE you SHEPHERDS according to My heart, who will FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15.

Don’t GROW IN GRACE by ISOLATION as some do or have done. We are called to be SEPARATE but not to ISOLATE. And to being “SEPARATE” in Scriptural terms as written in 2 Corinthians 6:17 (16-18) means being SET APART for God’s good and goodness in us, and doesn’t necessarily mean being in ISOLATION from others or to grow in grace without COMMUNION or ASSOCIATION in the FELLOWSHIP of the Brethren as written:

“But GROW IN GRACE, and in THE KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen” 2 Peter 3:18.

“And let us CONSIDER one another in order to STIR up love and good works, 25 not FORSAKING the ASSEMBLING of ourselves together, as is the MANNER of some, but EXHORTING one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching” Hebrews 10:24-25.

Do you have a Spiritual Parent/Mentor in the walk of grace in Christ Jesus stead or you are just a vagabond child in the kingdom? Don’t Take The Need For Spiritual Parenting and Mentoring For Granted!

“. . . 8 But if you are WITHOUT chastening (GUIDANCE), of which ALL have BECOME PARTAKERS, then you are ILLEGITIMATE (BASTARD, VAGABOND) and not sons . . .” Hebrews 12:3-11.

May I advice and say – Don’t be a headless and a no Shepherd guide Child in the Kingdom. Much more so, endeavour and ensure that you go to a Church gathering place of WORSHIP and FELLOWSHIP where there’s a SHEPHERD and not a HIRELING as Christ warns in John 10:1-15. For you are the Church and there’s the need to find yourself in a gathering of same like faith in Christ Jesus where the WORD of God is the center context without prejudice and dissimulation (hypocrisy); and where one is not bounded by sectarianism and denominationalism and traditional dogmas of creeds, bye-laws, man-made and man-make beliefs.

“And now, brethren, I COMMEND you to God, and to THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, which is able to BUILD you up, and to GIVE you an INHERITANCE among all them which are SANCTIFIED [SET APART]” Acts 20:32/Emphasis Mine.

Don’t be deter from the principle act of responsibility and accountability in the Kingdom, because you think or know that there are some TOUTS and PERVERTS operating around in the name of Ministry/Church wherein are gathering people in the name of God and His Church – [Galatians 1:6-9; Jude 1:1-24; Philippians 1:12-21, 27]; and don’t allow the errors of some to make you take for granted and play low the essence of Scriptural injunctions for yourself to gather with other same like faith as written in Ephesians 4:7-16 and Hebrews 10:24-25; know for sure, there’s an essence for the place of Shepherd in the Kingdom – to cause growth, maturity and perfection in the Body Ministry, in Christ Jesus stead as in Ephesians 4:7-16; Jeremiah 3:15; Proverbs 27:23-27. This is needful until He returns for His Church, that’s set to be glorious, victorious, triumphant, overcomer, more than conquerors, without spot and wrinkles and faithfully awaiting Him.

For the cause of the above reasons, Apostle Paul, dearly and passionately exhorted, admonished and gave a charged in this wise:

“For though ye have ten thousand INSTRUCTORS in Christ, yet have ye not many FATHERS: for in Christ Jesus I HAVE BEGOTTEN you through the GOSPEL” 1 Corinthians 4:15.

Thanks to God for the workings of the Holy Spirit in all BELIEVERS in Christ Jesus stead. Yet Today, there are many SPIRITUAL PARENTLESS Christian’s around, who are busy changing churches places of worship and fellowship as they change their clothes; and in some cases they have become more of a spiritual harlots; And for this absurd behavioural act of conduct, some parts of the Churches of Christ are in many phases of decay and having overwhelming leadership problems; and some on a fall outs as Apostle Paul admonished young Timothy on how he OUGHT to BEHAVE – CONDUCT himself in house of God among others as written:

“These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; 15 but if I am DELAYED, I write so that you may KNOW HOW YOU OUGHT TO CONDUCT yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” 1 Timothy 3:14-15.

Some of these absurd behavioural act of conduct are people who can’t lead themselves in the kingdom, but now are leading people and with no appropriate counselling and guidance, and have gone further to reproduce their kinds forming the mixed multitude around, creating schisms and questions both within the body of Christ and even among the unbelieving world who we ought to give the light of God without question.

Just because you are born of God, filled with the Holy Spirit and knows some couples of scriptures and speak forth in other tongues even more than your teachers doesn’t makes you to live without spiritual parenting. You need to SEEK for one. It’s possible to have many people around you to INSTRUCT you about the ways of God both in life, family and ministry, BUT endeavour to locate your Spiritual mentor’s as FATHER’S and MOTHER’S in faith that is reachable and you will respect, honour and dignify their spiritual position in your life for guidance knowing they will not take advantage of you or make you vulnerable in the faith. Their guidance as said by Apostle Paul in the scripture above of 1 Corinthians 4:15, will enhance, establish, strengthen and impart your faith in the Lord in order to THRIVE, FLOURISH and FULFILLED in Christ.

There is the NEED for SPIRITUAL PARENTING and MENTORING in the Kingdom Gospel of Christ Jesus. I do encourage you to Pray about it and God will lead you right to such gracious and graceful spiritual parent in faith as promised in Jeremiah 3:15, who will endeavour to see you established all round in Christ Jesus stead in God’s grace and BLESSEDNESS. Amen.

Blessed regards in life and godliness!

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK!

SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“And I will GIVE you SHEPHERDS according to My heart, who will FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15.

“Be thou DILIGENT to KNOW the STATE of thy FLOCKS, and LOOK WELL to thy HERDS. . . .” Proverbs 27:23-27.

“Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me DAILY, the CARE of ALL the CHURCHES” 2 Corinthians 11:28.

“So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, FEED MY LAMBS. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, FEED MY SHEEP. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, FEED MY SHEEP” John 21:15-17.

“”For though ye have ten thousand INSTRUCTORS in Christ, yet have ye not many FATHERS: for in Christ Jesus I HAVE BEGOTTEN you through the GOSPEL” 1 Corinthians 4:15.

“Therefore I urge you, IMITATE me. 17 For this reason I have sent TIMOTHY to you, who is my BELOVED and FAITHFUL SON in the Lord, who will remind you of MY WAYS in Christ, as I TEACH everywhere in EVERY church” 1 Timothy 4:16-17.

“These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; 15 but if I am DELAYED, I write so that you may KNOW HOW YOU OUGHT TO CONDUCT yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” 1 Timothy 3:14-15.

“For God is my witness, whom I SERVE with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you ALWAYS in my prayers;  10 making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.  11 For I long to see you, that I may IMPART unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;  12 that is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me” Romans 1:9-12.

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My SON, despise not thou the CHASTENING of the Lord, nor FAINT when thou art REBUKED of him: 6 for whom the Lord LOVETH he CHASTENETH, and SCOURGETH every son whom he RECEIVETH. 7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 8 But if ye be without CHASTISEMENT, whereof all are PARTAKERS, then are ye BASTARDS (ILLEGITIMATE), and not sons. 9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which CORRECTED us, and we gave them REVERENCE: shall we not much rather be in SUBJECTION unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no CHASTENING for the present SEEMETH to be JOYOUS, but GRIEVOUS: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the PEACEABLE fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby” Hebrews 12:5-11/Emphasis Mine.

Further Scriptural Reading: John 10:1-15.

REV. CHUKIE MORSI