Conclusion

Conclusion

What is this ministry all about? what is the Five-Fold ministry? what is the purpose of The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH? It is nothing less than the tool that brings YAHVEH and man together again? Is it the repairer of that rift that was established in the Garden of Eden.

There has been a rift between YAHVEH and man, we know when it took place, we know where it took place, we know just what happened, but there it is, YAHVEH and His creation apart, due to sin, there is a big gap between us. It is not only a gap, not merely a physical distance, but there is a condition of negative conflict; conflict of nature, conflict of interests, conflict of realm, enmity between YAHVEH and man.

Enmity is that which creates a distance between YAHVEH and Man; it is also called alienation or uncleanness. YAHVEH and man are at variance in their natures. The whole service of the people of YAHVEH was compromised as set forth in the duty of the Priest and the Five-Fold ministry, who was to stand in the gap and put the hand of man in the Hand of YAHVEH, and to build Altars, points of contact between YAHVEH and man.

The contact between YAHVEH and man is through the cross, and the process of the cross is illustrated by the five Altars. To reach spiritual maturity we must follow the Messiyah as He died on His cross.

Matthew 16: ²⁴Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Matthew 10: ³⁸ If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.

Mark 8: ³⁴ Then he called his disciples and the crowds to come over and listen. “If any of you wants to be my follower,” he told them, “you must put aside your selfish ambition, shoulder your cross, and follow me. ³⁵ If you try to keep your life for yourself, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will find true life.

³⁶ And how do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul in the process? ³⁷ Is anything worth more than your soul?

The ministry, that is, the ministry of reconciliation by the cross, represents the attitude of YAHVEH, and sets forth the fact that YAHVEH does not accept this state of division. YAHVEH never intended it this way, He does not accept it, and therefore He established a ministry against it. These are those who know Him themselves, in their history, in their own experience, what it means to have peace with YAHVEH, to be united with Him in spirit, and nature.

A further objective of this service is to preserve the presence of YAH’S Shekina with man. The whole issue of the Scripture is to provide historical records of YAH’S dealings with His people. It starts in Genesis with, in the beginning and ends in Revelation with the Tabernacle of YAHVEH is with men.

It has always been YAH’S desire to dwell with men from the beginning. Therefore the real service of the ministry to YAHVEH is whenever men or women come into contact with them, they would meet YAHVEH. People would no longer be concerned with either doctrine and teaching, or proper form and practice. When someone meets YAH’S ministers, they would see the Shekinah of YAHVEH. May YAHVEH again establish a ministry that will refrain from being an empty shell.

That the world may see us and know where to find YAHVEH, if they want to find Him, they would know where to go. This is not true today! Many young believers today, keep playing the church hopping game in search of more, and have gone away disappointed. When the song leader and the Pastor have to get up in service and say, “The Holy Spirit is here, if you believe it say Amen!”  they are only partaking in wishful thinking.

The indwelling of the Holy Spirit does not come by faith; it comes by being holy and faithful. Some of these church’s religious forms might be right, but I have not seen the Shekinah Glory in any of them. The ministry will fail in the service to YAHVEH unless, the Shekinah is found in them. It is something great when two or three are gathered together in His name, there He will be. When two or three ministries, the Apostolic, the Prophetic, and the Teaching ministry, are found in the church, The Shekinah Glory will be there. The real ministry is to lead new converts to a Burning Bush experience and bring others to the place where they meet YAHVEH for themselves.

May YAHVEH forgive those Pastors who are nothing more than empty shells, broken cisterns that do not hold water? YAHVEH gave His Holy Spirit to The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH, as He gave it to His disciples, that Men might know where to find YAHVEH. This was true in the time of the Apostles; it is even truer today. Many Pastors got their position because of a degree from Bible school, and not from a personal relationship with YAHVEH. They have no idea where or how to met YAHVEH. As Moses took the children of Yisrael back to the same place where he met YAHVEH, so must today’s ministry do likewise.

Today’s ministry message is only salvation; initial salvation is only the beginning, as the Children of Yisrael did not stay in Egypt after the Blood over the door post experience (first Passover), they moved and crossed the Red Sea, Baptism of repentance, then on into the wilderness where they were asked to go up to the mountain to meet YAHVEH, exactly 50 days after leaving Egypt, the first Pentecost. The Holy Spirit filled the Disciples 50 days after Passover initial salvation, on the Day of Pentecost.

The service of the Ministry was always in relation to the Covenant of YAHVEH. The central theme of their service, their work, their ministry, was the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark is always the central piece in every thing that the Children of Yisrael, the Redeemed community did. It was the ultimate goal, the prime directive, the centerpiece of their community, they gathered around it, and they ministered in relation to it. Today’s church does not minister according to the pattern sent from heaven.

The Ark went before the Children of Yisrael in their journey through the wilderness, when it stopped they stopped, when it moved they moved. The Ark was entrusted to the Ministry on the journey, of the people, this is in essence very important, that the service of the ministry was in connection to the Covenant of YAHVEH. Why? Inside of the Ark, was the Word of YAHVEH the Torah. Moses wrote thirteen Torah, one for every tribe of Yisrael and one for safe keeping in the Ark of the Covenant. Just as the Ark is a type and shadow of Yahushua our Messiyah in His inclusive, essential, moderator Person, The Word of YAHVEH is and will always be in Him. The Scripture must either be the Word of YAHVEH, making it absolutely true in every sense, or it is not.

What does the Ark of the Covenant represent? Let the Ark come up against the Philistine, let Uzzah put forth his hand and touch it, and see what happens. The Covenant of Yahushua is not something in word only, it is not a theory, or an idea, it is a breathing living impact, and the service to YAHVEH is to register its impact on the redeemed community. Remember it was not given to a lost people in Egypt, or to a redeemed people who was still in Egypt. It was given to a people who was holy unto YAHVEH in the wilderness, where holy means to be set apart.

Service to YAHVEH implies that we bring the presence of YAHVEH into every situation that is what the ministry is here for. We are here in relation to the Covenant of YAHVEH. When the Apostle John coined the phase, as he did so often, particularly in Revelation he said he was in Patmos “for the Word of YAHVEH and the Testimony of Jesus” he was implying that he had been sent there because he stood for the Covenant of Yahushua. When the ministry begging to do the true ministry of YAHVEH something will happen, even if it is in opposition.

As a representative of the thought of YAHVEH, the ministry embodied, and strove for the full thought concerning the redeemed community. YAHVEH said that Yisrael (the redeemed) should be His people, a kingdom of priests. YAHVEH started the process by telling Moses to bring Aaron and his four sons, the first example of five-fold government. This was the Divine thought taking shape.

As Moses spent time with YAHVEH in the mountain for forty days, towards the end the people asked Aaron to make them a religious symbol, to remind them of YAHVEH. In his weakness of not being liked by the people Aaron compromised, and tried to cover it up with a lie. On the return of Moses, who challenged Aaron as to why he let the people sin, with its inevitable judgment. Aaron had to watch as thousands of the people perished due to his foolishness. Aaron did not die with the others but he certainly wished he had died, when he saw all his other brothers and sisters die as a result of his lack of leadership.

Moses the epitome of a true leader put out a challenge to the people. Who is on YAHVEH’s side? Those who took up the challenge were the Levites, who sided with Moses, and Moses ordered them to put his sword on his side and go throughout the whole camp, and slay every man his brother, his friend, his neighbor and the Levites did so. From that point on, the Tribe of Levi was set apart for ministry, so YAHVEH rose up a group of Yisrael within Yisrael. A group that represented the full thought of YAHVEH to the redeemed community.

A ministry of representation was what was true about them in more ways than one. It was the first born of all the homes, and families of Yisrael, that were the priests, then it moved to the Levite, becoming the church of the first-born, Hebrew 12:23. It was when the nation of Yisrael failed, that the zealous Levites were taken, to become those who set forth by embodying in themselves YAH’S full thought for His people that they should qualify to serve as Priests.

This is a sad fact, but one of reality. Not all of YAHVEH’s ministers are fulfilling their role as Priests. The people of YAHVEH as a whole are not living up to their calling, and is not fulfilling their heavenly calling. That was true in the early church and it is true today. One of the main aspects of Paul’s ministry was to get believers to live up to the hope of their higher calling. I do not have to tell my son to marry and reproduce; it comes naturally as he reaches his early twenties. So it is in the spiritual realm, it will come naturally for a mature believer to reproduce themselves in others as they mature on a spiritual level. The fruit of the spirit cannot precede the seven Spirits of YAHVEH. The roots come before the tree, which comes before the fruit.

YAHVEH called the whole nation of Yisrael to come up closer to Him at Mt. Sinai, as He is calling us today to come up closer to Him, but they as we do today, refused. Therefore He had no choice but to write the law upon the stone tablets instead of on their heart. YAHVEH is now at work trying to get those who are willing to come up close, these are they that will be given the responsibility to be His ambassadors, His ministers, His Right Hand, to serve Him in the highest plane, service in the fullest realm.

Service is one of the most essential elements in ministry; it is not to be doing a lot of things for YAHVEH, but to be obedient. To be sure of what YAHVEH wants most, and then bend our will, mind and emotion accordingly.

 The parable of the wedding feast of Canaan presents a remarkable example of ministry. Lets start with John 2:5 His mother said to the servants whatever He says to you, do it. In this example the servants were The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH. They were to fill the earthen vessels with water; they were to pour the pure Word of YAHVEH into the people.

This purification of water is also illustrated in Numbers 19:9 meaning it is for purifying from sin, much like what the role of the Pastor was meant to be. Yahushua told the ministry to fill the earthly vessel to the brim, give all of the Word that they can hold. Later He instructed them to draw out, release them, to minister to others from what was inside of them.

It was as they were asked to minister to others that the water turned to wine. Every time we minister to someone else the new wine or a new spirit is produced. This is on the same level of what Yahushua said at the Second to Last Supper, when He said take this wine and bread and as often as you do it in remembrance of Me. This bread is the word of YAHVEH and the new wine is the New Spirit; we should do it everyday if possible in remembrance of what Yahushua has done in our lives.

But many so-called Pastors and ministers are not aware of the full plan of YAHVEH, His process to reach maturity. They do not realize that there are three levels to our Christian walk. First the Outer Court, second the Holy Place and third the Holy of Holies. There are those who stand in front of the Throne, Revelation 7:11, there are those who stand around the Throne revelation 7:9 and there are those who sit on the Throne, Revelation 3:21.

Ecclesiastes 11:³ and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. This implies that if a person dies in the Outer court on earth he or she will be standing before the Throne in Heaven, those who die in the Holy place will be standing around the Throne in Heaven, and those who die in the Holy of Holies will get to sit on the Throne in Heaven.

This then is a scary thought, that the ministry is responsible for bringing the sheep to maturity. The ministry must stop being an end in themselves, and be a means to an end. Moses met YAHVEH at the burning bush and took the children of Yisrael to where he met YAHVEH for himself that is true ministry. The people might not choose to go up the mountain to meet YAHVEH, but that is their choice, not the choice of the ministry. A sheep might not choose to eat when it gets to a new pastor, but it is the responsibility to get them to the field.

The office of the Evangelist must take the Good News to the unsaved. The Pastor must remove through counseling the attachment of that new believer to the thing that will keep him or her bondage. The result of this process, will determine what type of ground the Teacher will have to sow the Word of YAHVEH in. Will it be a hard surface, will it be a stony ground, will it have weed still growing in it, or will it be a well-tilled soil ready to receive the seed of the Word of YAHVEH.

The Teaching ministry is the one who sows the Word of YAHVEH. The prophetic ministry is one of a correcting ministry, who preaches the uncompromising Word of YAHVEH; he is the one who says THUS SAYS YAHVEH. The Apostolic ministry is a minister who has walked in all of the previous four ministries, who is the senior minister, who by himself can walk in the fullness of the other entire ministry. The Evangelist brings the unsaved to Yahushua, the Pastor cleans them, and the Teacher teaches the ways that a new believer must live. The Prophetic makes sure everything is done according to Scripture.

The Evangelist brings us to our Brazen Altar experience, the Pastor brings us through the Laver Altar experience, the Teacher bring us to the Altar the Golden Lamp stand experience, The Prophet brings us face to face with the Alter of Show-bread, the commandments of YAHVEH, The Apostle brings us to the Altar of Burnt offering praise and worship. The Evangelist saves us, the Pastor redeems us, the Prophet leads us to the Seven Spirits of YAHVEH, the Teacher make sure we understand the Word of YAHVEH, and the Apostle make sure we worship YAHVEH in Spirit and in truth.

Unfortunately, today’s churches are in a very different position spiritually, than what the early church used to be. We can look back with admiration and wonder at the achievements of those ministries of old, in amazement. Today’s Redeemed community endeavor has much to deal with the soul, instead of the spirit. How does this feel to you? In fact, without making the list endless, one could sum it up by saying that today’s church is addicted to mediocrity.

The Roman Empire and some of the early church fathers have destroyed our YAHVEH given creative instincts in the individual and corporate ministry in the church. Our YAHVEH given right to maturity has been hidden from us, and religion has taken its place. Instead of teaching a person how to fish, they keep giving them one fish every Sunday, forcing them to return next Sunday for another, never for a moment realizing that their duty to YAHVEH and to man, is to bring each and every individual to maturity.

This has produced the unfortunate lack of spiritual maturity in the church today. The unfortunate number of spiritual babies, that line most church aisles every Sunday, is a further indicator of the erosion of the redeemed consensus. Any group of ministers who willingly or unconsciously side steps the spiritual maturity, creativity of the believer, gives up their inheritance. In the redeemed community, their ability to be the salt and the light of the world has drastically demised.

There are basically two reasons why an individual or the corporate church, makes so many terrible mistakes. For my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken My way and have created for themselves religious activity that cannot produce spiritual maturity. One is the lack of the Spirit of Wisdom and knowledge; the second is the lack of the Spirit of understanding and the Fear of YAHVEH.

In looking at the redeemed life, we are conditioned to believe otherwise. The attitude of the church in the area of spiritual maturity has caused some facets of society to reject Christianity, and the seven Spirits of YAHVEH. It seems at times that the Redeemed community, exhibit to the world an I.Q. about forty. Upon reflection, I believe it is true to say that the present spiritual dilemma is in fact, true in relation to Jeremiah 2:13. This departure did not arise all at once and cannot be traced to one specific day. But the gradual removal of the Jewish influence on the church is slowly removing the Spirit of Adonai from it. This dilemma was developed in two specific ways.

The first is what I would call a spiritual depredation; the second is an economic development. After the death of the original Apostles, the slow demise of the faith started, it picks up momentum, and when Constantine made the church a state religion, it reached its summit. At this point, spirituality became something religious and had a great deal less to do with Spiritual truth and the application of Kingdom principles in the lives of the individual and corporate body.

It evolved into a system that is both, the means to an end and the end in itself. Spiritual maturity became a thing separated from the rest of life, resulting in an increasing appetite for religious activity and economical development.

The true division in the believer’s life started with a blurring of activity that is scripturally based and religiously active. Those things that are biblically sinful are indeed cut off and separate from the rest of life in the true ministers life, this is in essence deemed to be true in the mature believer. With the religious mind ministry, however, their activity is what is of importance. It is either the whole life comes under YAHVEHship of Yahushua or no part can effectively come under it. Either Adonai is the Creator of the whole man; the whole universe or He is the creator of none.

If Adonai is only the Creator of some divided platonic existence, which leads to a tension between the body and the soul, the secular world and the spiritual world, then Adonai is only the Creator of some spiritualized feeling. Therefore, He is not much of a YAHVEH, He could not be the I AM. If we allow our belief system to become merely habitual and religious without the incarnation of the Holy Spirit, our faith is no longer meaningful in any areas of our lives. This is in essence what Christianity has evolved into, a system of religious activity that cannot carry the Spirit of YAHVEH.

Today’s ministry has become compartmentalized; there are sacred or untouchable areas in our lives. I will allow the Holy Spirit into these areas, but not in the high places of my life. I will only obey nine commandments, but disobey the one that says we must keep the Sabbath Day holy. Spiritual maturity is regarded as over spiritual, creating a lack of setting of any spiritual goal.

The result is obvious, The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH in the church had to abandon their YAHVEH given promises in favor of a man made theology that cannot hold water. Many believers do so, because of the spiritual vacuum left by a lack of spiritually mature leaders such as Moses, who took the people where he, Moses, met Adonai for Himself. The second deadly occurrence, which I consider is economic. This took place in conjunction, with the spiritual demise. Something happened when the church became a state religion under Constantine. No longer was the church in poverty, but it was in a state of influence. In A.D. 324 an imperial edict ordered all Roman soldiers to worship the Supreme YAHVEH on the first day of the week. This was the day on which the redeemed celebrated the resurrection of their Lord; it is a good idea to celebrate the resurrection of Yahushua, but to replace one of the Ten Commandments is totally another thing. Let me think about this some more. Who or which man has the right to set aside what YAHVEH has commanded His people to do? Not even Yahushua, the Son of YAHVEH did not come to do away, but came to show us how to live the Law to its fullness, to give the correct interpretation.

 Sunday was the day of the unconquered sun worship, and the pagans saw no reason to oppose such an edict. One year later in 325, the great assembly of bishops that was later to be known as the First Ecumenical Council gathered at Nicea, and proclaimed Sunday as the new Sabbath day.

The founding of Constantinople was a further step in that process. The very act of creating a New Rome was an attempt to diminish the power of the ancient aristocratic families of Rome, who were mostly pagan. And the raiding of Pagan temples for status and objects with which to embellish the new capital was a blow to paganism; many of whose ancient shrines lost the YAHVEH that was the object of local devotion. At the same time, the building of new and sumptuous churches contrasted with the sacking of the old temples.

In spite of all this, almost to his dying day, Constantine continued to function as the High priest of Paganism. After his death, his three sons who succeeded him did not oppose the Senate’s move to have Constantine declared a YAHVEH. Thus the ironic anomaly occurred, that Constantine, who had done so much to the detriment of paganism, became one of the pagan YAHVEHs.

The impact Constantine had on the church is still being felt today. One of the results of the new situation in the church was an official theology. Overwhelmed by the favor that the emperor was pouring on them, many of the church leadership sought to show that YAHVEH chose Constantine, to bring the history of both the church and secularity to its culmination.

Some however took the opposite view. For them, the fact that the emperors declared the Roman Empire a redeemed state, and that for this reason people were flocking to the church, was not a blessing, but rather a great apostasy, which I agree. I wish I could remember their names, two early church father were observing the construction of the Vatican in Rome and one of them said, “no longer can the church be considered penniless”, and the other one replied, “neither can the church say to the dead rise and walk.”

Following the publication of Darwin’s Theory of evolution, which led to the adoption of the concept of the survival of the fittest and the onward, inexorable, and merciless march of humanity. Since then, people began to view themselves and the church around them in similar terms. The idea that an individual is worthy of something higher, because they were created in the image of Adonai, whatever they could contribute or not was abandoned. This same principle is true in regards to individual talents. Unfortunately the same is true for the church, the silent influences of Darwin theory has infiltrated the church. Today everything that anyone does is measured against the utilitarian ideal in the church. It has to be useful to the onward march of the church, it had to help in its program, its effort, its growth, and it’s fundraising.

This new worldview is now the standard of usefulness, which is based on a false view of spirituality, and a narrow view which selected a few arbitrarily things and called them spiritual activity or witnessing. This is all that is remaining of the redemption experience, we are supposingly drawn to. These are the standard that today’s believing community is renegade to by utilitarian in the church.

Spiritual maturity along with politics, medicine, science, were particularly and bitterly affected, and is one of the first to be relegated to the basement of the church, and labeled as over spiritual. If and when they were allowed to show they faces, they were only allowed to be useful, as long as useful contribution to the church is concerned. What then is left of the free beauty and creative spirit which Adonai has given to us?

It is unYAHVEHly for a church that claim to know the Torah, who claim to be seen in the eyes of Adonai as worthwhile enough for redemption by dying to the flesh as the Messiyah did. To abandon spiritual creativity, our YAHVEH given gift, for spiritual mediocrity is not an option. The church has negated a large portion of its blessing, as men who are worthy as one created in YAH’S image. We have turned blind eyes on the great spiritual beauty and creative given to us by the Creator.

The scripture is not interested in utilitarianism; it is a book on truth, truth in which things have great value in themselves, because they are Adonai’s creation. There are no religious exercises in the Bible, only historical facts. We may hope that somewhere in our lives we will be able to accomplish something worthy of our calling, whether we do so or not, does not diminish our worthiness, for our worth is guaranteed in the fact that it rests in the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Spiritual maturity in the Church is an example of Adonai’s own creativity. His creations are good and gracious gifts from our heavenly Father. This like so many biblical examples brings us tremendous freedom, not guilt, forward looking, not living in the past. Our freedom that was bought by the Blood of our Messiyah was to go further, higher, and deeper in the Liberty that the Blood of our Messiyah produces, never to relish again in a narrower and ever shrinking world of religious experience.

Messianic ministry of all race, should be those who manifestly apply what they believe in such a way, that it will free them to see the richness, and fullness of everything that has been created for us. The scripture says first in the natural then the spiritual, if this is so for nature, and natural objects, how much more so for our fellow human beings, and the spiritual creative talents that Adonai has given them as tools, for their spiritual redemption. People or things do not need spiritual or theological justification; they are what they are by Adonai’s Grace.

Mature believers are the creative Ministry of Adonai; not narrow minded, uncreative ideologists, who measure everything within a secular ideological framework. Neither must they subject themselves to religious theological propaganda and false spiritual ness. We are those who have been justified to see the world as it is, to enjoy and to reveal it to others in its diversity and beauty that Adonai created it.

It is only as the ministers fully understand, recognize, appreciate, and enjoy the worthiness of every individual, that the church can truly move forward as a church, where we can be free to demonstrate the fruit of the Spirit, as our YAHVEH given human right. To perceive life, beauty, and tragedy is to understand it from its beauty in true wisdom.

What then can be done? We need to return to the well dug by Adonai. As Jacob, reopen the well that had been filled up by the Canaanites in our lives, a return to the ways and means of Adonai. Today’s ministers must free themselves from the utilitarianism misconception, of more than a thousand years of spiritual indulging in mediocrity, where everything must be measured in terms of its usefulness to the cause of Christianity. Christianity is a means to an end not an end in itself.

The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH needs to abandon the utilitarian worldview and realize that Adonai has given an intrinsic worth to every individual and what he or she do in and of themselves also depends on the information given to them by the ministry. The recent scandal over weapons of mass destruction is an example to today’s church, giving the people information about spiritual maturity without having the whole picture. If the churches would bring people to maturity the world would be running to it, instead the church is running to the world for advice.

The churches need to realize that their truncated view on spiritual maturity has placed some people and things on a higher plateau than others that has created a strange and false hierarchy within the Body, where the Pastor is above the people. Brand new Mercedes cars are given to the Pastor and single mothers have to take the bus with their children to church in the winter and no one notices. Words such as full time ministry service are being used. What then is full time ministry? Are the rest of us part time? What is our walk with YAHVEH? What do these slogans mean?

We need to get our basic theology thinking and presuppositions right on, if we are to influence and change people. Having this basic presupposition of our Faith right, we must then actively resist the avalanche of spiritual mediocrity coming to us in the form of religion. Why is there so much of this stuff going around? It is because man was created in the image of Adonai, a void has been created in the soul of man by the denying him of his YAHVEH given right of fellowshipping with Adonai. Man has an inward emptiness, without the proper teaching, it will be filled by something called religion. That is why the church faces such a torrent of spiritual mediocrity, Christianity propaganda and a false sense of spiritual security.

Today’s churches and ministry have grown to tolerate spiritual mediocrity, because there is a strange double standard between what we called the real world and our spiritual life. The mediocrity that we accept in our spiritual life would never be allowed into our natural life. Even though at times, we pretend to be in heaven on earth, the result is far from the truth. We allowed mediocre teaching to infiltrate our minds, but if we were to pay for it in a local college or University, we would complain.

In the real world one can purchase a new house, if something is flawed, he could easily renovate that building, but one cannot easily renovate a person’s mind, or the image of Adonai that we have in those minds. It is the mind and the soul that spiritual maturity seeks to influence; it is more serious to accept spiritual mediocrity in the area of the mind, than it is in the physical world. The price we pay for this mentality is way too high.

          If you were to go on an airline to some distant land and the stewardess says that brother Denroy is today’s pilot, would you get on that aircraft? Would you not want to know my qualification and experience as a pilot?  The same is true for our spiritual life? Wouldn’t you want to know where the speaker had his or her burning bush experience, where did they meet YAHVEH? Or is it just their degree that renders them spiritually qualified.

The price that today’s ministries will pay for the ludicrous defacing of Adonai’s image before the world, in abusing and manipulating of our YAHVEH given talents, by turning them away from the promises made to our forefather Abraham will be steep. The price of looking only for a cheap shortcut to the fruit of the spirit, without considering the means of getting there, is not one I am willing to pay. The scripture says it would be better if a millstone were put around their neck and they be placed in the bottom of the sea. In other words, the goal of the ministry is the spiritual maturity of every believer, by any means necessary. We must resist at all cost the avalanche of spiritual rubbish, which the world sensibly wants no part of, after all, only lunatics vie for failure.

          There are however exceptions to the rule, but they are few and far between. The general direction is to fill the vacuum of our lives with religious activity, which has been subverted with spiritual rubbish. Only because it seems to be done by those who the media or our opinion of some who claim to be spiritual leaders. The redeemed community as factual accepts these monstrous commercials for spiritual ness.

          There are no valid excuses for accepting this mediocrity. The excuse that sometimes people are saved by these televangelists is no excuse at all. People have been saved in the Concentration camp of WWII, because Adonai can bring the good news anywhere, this however does not justify evil. The idea that the Holy Spirit can work somehow, that Adonai can bring something out of it, if we just sort of throw it out there, is unjustifiable from those who claim to know the YAHVEH of Abraham. His integrity and His dedication to quality are shown in His Word when it says it was good.

 The excuse that many believers use today is that YAHVEH can do anything, we are His hand and feet, and if we are saturated with mediocrity, it is not His fault, it is ours. The excuse that many people sees this and somehow, it must do some good and its better than nothing is no excuse. Since when has quantity been the deciding factored with Adonai? Where is the still small voice of integrity? The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH should be those who are addicted to quality and integrity in every area of their lives, not by looking for excuses, or second best.

          We must resist the spiritual mediocrity of today’s ministry; we must demand YAH’S standard, YAH’S Sovereign will. We must look for leaders with real spiritual creative, integrity and spiritual talent, or we must not dabble in this uncreative ministry at all. This does not mean that there is no room for mistakes, for experimentation, for with such an attitude comes growth.

When a new believer understand the tremendous heritage and promises YAHVEH made to the church, then the church will reawaken the sleeping giant of creativity, and for spiritual maturity, within our spiritual heritage. Believers will start to demand something better, when the church stops accepting mediocrity it is when we will return to YAH’S ordained way, the Five-fold ministry. I place in the church First Apostle, Prophecy and Teachers, both the individual believer and the corporate church can reawaken their interest in spiritual maturity, in the employment of Adonai’s ordained minister, The Mighty Hand of YAHVEH.

We do not need to justify our endeavors, by tacking on a few religious slogans at the end of a program, by saying praise YAHVEH, as a means of justifying ourselves. There is no redeemed world, no secular world; there is only one world, the world that Adonai created. Often an encouraging word, an open interest in what someone else is doing in their Christian walk, is enough to help that person to have the courage to continue in their spiritual development. We are all in a pit, the first one that gets out, must reach down and pull others up. We must be prepared to allow other to stand on us, so that they can reach higher.

In order to encourage those on their way to their spiritual Mt. Sinai, we should know something about Mt. Sinai. We must be those ministers, who have experienced it first in their spiritual development. Does this mean that we are expert in spiritual development, no! But by frequently applying ourselves to this process, it will not be long before we will be an expert to others, particularly if that person has not been there before.

A mature ministry should be those who are the least threatened by a new idea, by taking risks, by going where no one has gone before. If indeed our feet, are solidly nailed on the cross, then we will be those who can afford to look the world in the eye with a YAHVEHly confidence, pleasure, and fulfillment and say, thus says YAHVEH!

Too often today’s ministries live in limbo between building spiritual Altars and building their natural lives. Similarly as we graduate from grade school to High School, and finally College or University, so it is with our spiritual Altars, we have never been taught how to build our spiritual Altars in our lives. The situation has become a recurrent activity, of a sheep saving another sheep, which saves another sheep, but none of the sheep are ever coming to maturity, that is why the outer court is so large. Much of the fullness of our spiritual walks come from an understanding of others and ourselves around us in relation to our YAHVEH given privileges.

Activity for activities sake is what today’s churches are all about? If, as the media says, there are millions of evangelicals in the redeemed community, where is the evidence? If we consider all the so called redeemed activity, the money raised and spent, why then is the redeemed community moving at such a devastating speed in an unredeemed direction?

Mediocrity has shown up in the pulpit of today’s churches, in it’s teaching and preaching. Teaching and preaching has become an endless repetition of theological jargon that as taken the place of truth, as long as it sounds spiritual, it is accepted. Someone gets up in church and screams at the top of their voice and we label them as spiritual. Did the Shekinah glory manifest itself, or it is false fire, remember what happened to Aaron’s two sons. Since spiritual mediocrity forms a large part of today’s pulpit ministry, as well as the attitude towards spiritual creativity, since we know that life and spiritual maturity are inseparable, then the churches of today primarily function in mediocrity, where it reigns supreme.

The level of true teaching in the churches today, is reflected in the spiritual development of the people, resulting in the lack of the seven Spirits of Isaiah 11:2. Where there is no spirit, then the fruit of the spirit is not evident in the individual and corporate body. When was the last time you saw the Shekinah Glory in a church? Our so-called praise and worship remains only an exercise in futility. Yahushua said to the lady at the well, that we must worship Him in the Spirit and in truth. What does that mean? It means that we must worship YAHVEH in the seven Spirits of Isaiah 11:2 and by the Word of YAHVEH which is the truth.

The death of Aaron’s two sons signifies an important, yet often overlooked principle in ministry; that one should never enter into ministry to YAHVEH inappropriately. We have discussed previously about Tahor and Tamei two states of clean and unclean. Many ministers today have touched a lot of dead things and are still getting up in church and ministering to YAHVEH. Some ministers fight with their wives, before going to church and expect to lead the church into the Holy Place. The process of atonement takes place in the outer court, before going inside the Holy Place.

The Priests had to wash their hands and feet before entering in. When was the last time we see this process practiced in the church. There is not one word in the scripture that does not have significance. Let’s use them, by making it a practice to be obedient to the Word of YAHVEH.

True spirituality is obeying all the teaching, doctrine, commands, ordinances and precepts of Scripture and effecting changes in the real world, not hiding behind some religious experience. What can be more spiritual in an antifamily society, than to see a father playing with his three-year-old son?

What can be more spiritual than a spiritually creative church, leading people from one divine experience to another until they reach maturity?

 Revelation 21:¹⁴ Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. ¹⁵ But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. ¹⁶ I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.