Thursday, February 9, 2012

Popular Preachers are Rejected by God

Celebrity preachers and popular preachers are an absolute abomination to God because friendship with the world is enmity with God. If Jesus Christ is in you, you will be HATED by the world. You will be rejected and you might just get killed like the apostles were killed because if you speak the truth people will reject you. That is why Jesus said: I read from Luke 6:22 “Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man. “Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets. They were rejected, they were reviled they were killed we read in verse 26:"Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for in the same way their fathers used to treat the false prophets. If you are popular with men it is proof that you are not approved by God, you are not acceptable to God.
It is when men start seeking the approval of men that they become unsuitable for the Kingdom of God. God has called many preachers to preach the gospel but then they themselves became the object of adoration.  They became the famous people and that is an absolute abomination to God when people are exalted. It is because these people are people pleasers, they say things that people want to hear then they become popular. The words of Jesus fill us with remorse, they cut us to pieces but God has NO REGARD for people pleasers.
God chose Saul as king over Israel but Saul was a people pleaser, a man pleaser. God sent him out to go and destroy Amalek but he kept the choice of the spoil for the people because he wanted the acceptance and the addoration of the people he was worried that the people would reject him and because of that God rejected him as we read in 1 Samuel 15:28 So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you.
God tore the kingdom off him and He gave it to David who was a man after the heart of God. If we lift up Jesus and we preach the words of Jesus then He draws men unto Him, BUT we are rejected! So if you become popular and if you are seeking the acceptance of men you cannot be seeking the approval of God.
Jesus said to the pharisees:How can you be seeking the approval of God when you are so concerned about the approval that you bestow on each other? Dear friends, if we seek the approval of the world and the acceptance of men we are not acceptable for the KIngdom of God that is why God has got no regard,no regard, for celebrity preachers. He does not share His glory with NOBODY because Jesus ALONE is Lord and we have to glorify Him.  We have got to lift up Jesus, lift up the name of  Jesus and He will draw men unto Him but we, if we walk in the ways of God we will be rejected, we will be reviled, we will be persecuted and many of us will get killed! That is the mark of a man of God! He is rejected by the world but approved of, by God.
May Jesus bless you

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