"Whom Do You Serve?"

I refuse to get cable so I replaced it with Sky Angel. It is just like having cable without the bad stuff but I do half to be very careful of the teachings that are on there. At least 98% of the teaching is denominational and agenda driven and not Holy Spirit driven but just like anything else Abba will use it to his glory. He can and will use anything to get our attention. Before I got Sky Angel, TBN was on my local TV. Most of the shows on there are not good but a week before my dad died he gave himself to the Lord because I was watching a story on The 700 club. Trust me I do not advocate people getting their spiritual nourishment from these shows but just like in Yeshua’s time people were being healed by others and not by Yeshua or the apostles. Yeshua addresses this by saying to John:

Mark 9:38-40 38 Now John answered Him, saying, “Teacher, we saw someone who does not follow us casting out demons in Your name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.”
39 But Jesus said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My name can soon afterward speak evil of Me. 40 For he who is not against us is on our side.

In Luke 13:14-16 Yeshua condemns the Pharisees for loving their righteousness rather than having compassion with spiritual discernment. 14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath day.”
15 The Lord then answered him and said, “Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or donkey from the stall, and lead it away to water it? 16 So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound—think of it—for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?” We need to have compassion for thoes who need God.

 I’m not happy that false teachers can cast out demons and show healings but Abba will still use those situations. If just one more person can hear about God and get saved or healed, is it worth having to deal with it? People like that are all around us whether we like it or not. We need to speak truth to people who are in bondage. Every person is going to have a different view and different levels of understanding of who God is. Now I know there are limits but we need to have compassion with spiritual discernment. I go out and witness with a different church that loves the Lord but we definitely have different viewpoints not as far as salvation but other things. We don’t save people or heal the sick, Abba does that thru us. In Matthew 7:21-23 Yeshua makes it very clear, if we do not seek to have a personal relationship and don’t grow, we’ll stay lukewarm and fall into sin. He will chew us up and spit us out. Each one of us needs to grow. We will be held accountable for our own walk. We need to be in fellowship with Abba and have discernment. 21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ There will definitely be a price to be paid for people who claim to know Abba and don’t. Just like in the times of the early church they cast out demons but didn’t have a relationship with Abba. They have little concern for God or respect for His power following the lusts of their flesh. There are so many books out there that talk about how to heal people. I don’t doubt that it has happened but are these people truly walking with Abba? When we see them or read their books we need to have discernment, to know who these people are and what god they serve. In 2 Timothy 3:5-7, Paul talks about these people “5 And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
Joshua 24:14-15 14 “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Whom do you serve?