By Pastor Glynn Adams
December 8, 2024
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land in which you live. And it shall come about that as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.” (Numbers 33:55:56) HATH GOD REALLY SAID? Yes, we just read it. Romans and I Corinthians also say what was written in earlier times (Old Testament) were written for our instruction. Are we in America going to continue to ignore what God is saying to us? I hear the trumpets blowing to warn us of pending dangerous times coming to America. The only one coming after us is evil because the Body of Christ is asleep and refuses to resist evil, and get into the spiritual war raging in our nation.
Perhaps a story in the Old Testament will let us see what God wants out of the Christians in America. We know in our heart that something is wrong in our churches today in America. Our pastors and churches have been hijacked by carnal and deceived men and the traditions of men and evidence abounds that God has rejected not the church He builds but the one in America that man has built.
In 1 Samuel 15, the prophet Samuel anoints Saul as King and God gives Saul a mission to destroy the Amalekites, which is a type of evil, and completely destroy men, women, children, infants, animals, and all that he has. King Saul defeats Amalek but he saves the best of the sheep for sacrifice and keeps the king of the Amalekites, Agag alive. Samuel tells King Saul exactly how God feels about his disobedience of God, “Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of the LORD, God has rejected you from being King.” (1 Samuel 15:22-23) Then King Saul admits he transgressed the command of the Lord because he feared the people and listened to their voice.
Then in Chapter 16 of 1 Samuel, the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve (mourn) over Saul since I have rejected him from being king over Israel?” We can get some important and life-saving messages from these passages for Christians in America who are not as serious about disobedience as the LORD is, that ignoring the commands of God against evil, the people who are evil, and the things God deems as evil carries a more serious consequence that we can image.
To disobey God when dealing with evil God considers it as rejecting the Word of the LORD, rebellion is as the sin of divination and insubordination as iniquity and idolatry and it causes God to reject people who practice it. For Christians, God is saying that to attend church is not as important as obedience and to heed the LORD. Now for some of you who are deceived and ignorant of the Word of God may not be impressed with or subject to an Old Testament truth. But I Corinthians 10:11 and Romans 15:4-6 also 1 Peter and Jude says that the OT was written for our instruction, as examples to us, and that we would be of one mind with Christ to glorify the God and Father of Jesus Christ.
I often wonder but I have no way of knowing if God at some point will reject us for our disobedience and our blatant refusal to resist evil in this nation. He rejected King Saul from being king and those upwards of eighteen years of age who came out of Egypt, was promised the land of milk and honey but did not enter in because of disobedience and unbelief. I am not saying that God has rejected Christians in America but I am saying that there is amble proof that God has rejected our religious systems that we as men and women have developed in this nation. We have made another Jesus in our American image to fit our American lifestyle. Our religious systems in no way line up with the Word of God and the First Century Church. The New Testament Church was corrupted by Constantine in 325 AD and Christians throughout the ages have held on to those same traditions of men that do not line up with the Word of God. Why do I include the First Century Church? Because that is the church Jesus made disciples and when Jesus went up, the Spirit came down, and His disciples went out to do the things Jesus taught and commanded them to do.
According to the Word of God, that has not changed. Jesus said HE will build His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. We have no such church in America nor have we made one. The gates of hell have entered our religious systems and our nation is unraveling. Doctrine of demons, and demonic strongholds are in all parts of our culture and our religious systems. We have dominion and all the resources of God available to us but we still cannot fix it nor will this religious system stand for one minute when the antichrist is revealed. We can’t compete, stand, or resist the antichrist spirit now; what are we going to do when the real deal comes to power on this earth with all his deception and power given to him?
We need to scrape our religious systems and we will need a move of God to do it. The question God asked the prophet Samuel, I believe God is asking American Christians today, “How long will you hold on to what I have rejected?” How long will you continue to invest in the thing God has moved on from? We are emotionally tied to our religious systems which Jesus neither built, blessed, or anointed. If we continue to focus on the religious system God wants us to walk away from, then we will continue to die spiritually in America. If we will allow God to “rule” us, God promises our latter will be better than our former. If we will forsake our lives for Christ’s sake, our doctrines, opinions, interpretations, our rule and control, then God will give us life. Christians will have real Godliness with the power of God not a form of godliness and no power as it is now. If we come under the Kingdom of God rule, we can’t imagine the glory, anointing, and blessings to do the will of God on earth as it is done in heaven.
Well, Brother Adams, how do we do all of this? Jesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and all these things will be added to you.” Let God “rule” your life; get in the Word of God to learn of Jesus and His Ways to build your spiritual house on the Solid Rock by receiving and acting on the Word of God. Be a hearer of God and a doer. Start sharing the gospel of the Kingdom, make disciples and hear this – teaching these disciples to do all I have commanded you, and use your resources to help others. We are to be in the restoration business to all people. We are a chosen people to fulfill the purposes of God. Jesus has given us all authority, His power, His Word, His Name, and His spiritual weapons to resist and defeat the evil before us.
We have been given power to thread on scorpions (a type of demons) and to pull down demonic strongholds. If we walk in the Spirit and in truth, it will set us free to live and do the greater works of Jesus. But we must be ready, on the alert, and let no one mislead us. Guard your heart and take up your cross by dying to your flesh so His Spirit can prevail in our life. Something wonderful and fulfilling is waiting for the Body of Christ in America when we are obedient, committed, submissive, faithful, and showing allegiance to our King and we shall find great favor with Him but only if we forsake our false religious systems and its ways!!! God bless, I remain His warrior and watchman, Glynn Adams
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