COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE (REV 18:4)
COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE (REV 18:4)
The Lord has pastors around the world that are faithful to Him in shepherding His people in truth, love, and in the Holy Spirit. Though rare, they can be found. One would think today's prevalence of ministries would help prevent leaven and apostasy from spreading, but the opposite is true. Leaven and apostasy is not only spreading like wildfire, it will become even worse, and it is a sign of the end.
Beloved, it is a Biblical truth to submit yourself to a pastor who watches out for your soul (Hebrews 13:17, 1 Corinthians 11:1). It is also true that this is an extremely dangerous practice because submitting yourself to the wrong pastor can lead to ruin, devastation, judgement, and wrath.
BIBLE PASSAGE: Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind. Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself. (Philippians 3:12-21)
BIBLE PASSAGE: And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Ephesians 4:11-16)