Thursday, November 6, 2014

Blood On Our Hands

Since the day Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission (Matt. 28:16-20, Mark 16:14-20, Luke 24:45-53, John 20:21-23, Acts 1:4-9), a mandate to His disciples; every generation of disciples has had a certain amount of blood on their hands ( Ezekiel 3:17-21, ch. 33,  Acts 20:25-27) of people they should have witnessed to, souls that were and are our (the Church's) responsibility to evangelize; but instead we either ignored them, or criticized them, or we were deceived into believing that they weren't worth the trouble.

The Lord of the Harvest will hold us accountable.

He will hold all of us accountable, especially the leaders in the Church.  We will be held accountable based upon the amount of revelation and knowledge we receive, as well as the particular calling/gifting(s) we are given. God will judge us by our works, by how we use and act upon the stewardship entrusted to us.

This generation needs to get up and into the fields. Our Father created us to work (Genesis 1:15), His business is the ministry of reconciliation, it is a privately owned family business in which we have been adopted into.

Will you daily and intentionally join in God's plan? The ministry of reconciliation is where our Father is redeeming creation through His Son, who shed His blood and purchased all the peoples and families of the earth as his inheritance and the ends of the earth as His possession (see Psalm 22:27, Psalm 2:8, Acts 20:28, Revelation 5:9).

Church, there is blood on our hands today.

In the 10/40 window, which is a geographical area that spans from Senegal and Morocco, to Vietnam and Japan; there are an estimated 50,000 people who daily die in Adam, " For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive" (1 Corinthians 15:22 NKJV). God has an elect from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.  It is our job to go to them, to bear witness of Jesus Christ's everlasting Kingdom, where all of redeemed creation will be reunited with our Father. This is our responsibility, it is our divine mandate which has been mediated to us by God, and only through the power and work of the Holy Spirit can this great task be completed.

"And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end will come."  (Matt. 24:14 NKJV)

"And the gospel must first be published among all nations." (Mark 13:10 KJV)

The end will come, and we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ ( see Romans 14:10, 1 Corinthians 5:10).

The Lord has declared, and is declaring:

"Behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done." Revelation 22:12 NASB


What will be on your hands on Judgment Day?


What will the Lord say to you on that day?





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