Equipping The saints Part-3 / Challenging Church Tradition / #48

Summary:

Jesus bumped heads with religious tradition every day of His earthly life. He came almost begging people to drop their traditions so that they could see Him for who He really was, but they couldn’t do it, especially the religious leaders of that day. The same traditions that held people back then are holding people back now from what God wants to do and accomplish in their lives. This is why the five-fold ministries, mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, are so important, to help pull people out of the traditional church age and into a true walk with God, where everyone is encouraged to have a personal walk with the Father and to do His will.

Show Notes:

• Abraham lived in a pagan nation and God appeared to Him and told him to get out of his country, from his family, and from his father’s house. Abraham believed God and was reckoned righteous and he went out, not knowing where he was going. Abraham only knew that he had to follow the Father on where to go and what to do.

• Church traditions are not necessarily bad, but if those traditions are keeping you from your true spiritual identity and who you are supposed to be in God, they are not just bad, but are the most evil thing there is.

• The only truths that you can definitely stand on are that Jesus was born of a virgin, He was the son of God, He lived a sinless life, He died on the cross, and He arose from the grave. All other beliefs are going to be continually changing and evolving.

Quotes:

• For the most part, every church is preaching on the facets of their statement of faith. Most of the time, it’s a salvation message and it’s not really geared to equip people to do the work of the ministry.

• The greatest opponents of the moving of God are the people that God moved in the generation before, because it was so good. They saw the life of God moving in that, but they won’t let go of those things for what God wants to do next.

References:

Ephesians 4:11-14

Mark 7:13

Takeaways:

Jesus ached over the people who couldn’t see Him for who He really was, and especially for the religious leaders. They were not only refusing to see Him, but they were also holding back all of their people from seeing who He was. The same is happening today, because of the religious traditions that people are caught up in.