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By Lahry Sibley
Such a challenge to all who would hold a position of leadership in the church,
and such a guiding light to any and all who would follow them.
Wisdom would ask this question, does my pastor, prophet, deacon, etc.
follow Christ? Can I see Christ in His life? In what ways do I see Christ in His
life? In what ways do I NOT see Christ in His life?
No one is perfect. Paul certainly wasn’t. But so much of his life, how he lived
it, and what he lived through, so modeled Christ. Knowing full well that he
was God’s called Apostle, he accepted his responsibility to lead others, as a
very noble shepherd.
To lead as a shepherd, means that you live it and experience it before any of
the sheep do. You are out front in everything. You experience the same
things they do and you do it FIRST. You let them see Christ in you, the hope
of glory.
It makes me wonder, why people flock to men who say they are shepherds,
and yet provide little leadership by being a model of Christ before they ask
others too. They themselves live according to tradition, and compromise,
rather than according the dictates of the Scriptures.
If you say your are born again, do others see Christ in you, the hope of
glory? Or do they see a “religious” person, but not Christ? You cannot “learn”
how to live like Christ. It’s either who you are, or who you are NOT. If Christ
lives in you, that means YOU have been CRUCIFIED. You have that newness
of life. But if you have never been to the cross for death to sin and self, no
amount of training and practice can make you a Christian, any more than a
goat can become a sheep by living with sheep.
You may ask, “Bro. Lahry, why do most of your messages end up in the
same place?” It is because as Paul was so obviously grieved continually over
the spiritual state of his beloved kinsmen, so am I over what is called church
today. God has called me to minister to the so called “Christian community”.
He has called me to keep bringing you to the Cross, for death to self, so He
can live His life in you. Why is it such a big deal? Well, apart from Him, you
have no life. And there are so few in what is called “churches” today, who
are actually walking in the newness of life. God in His mercy has raised up
men and women to cry out truth and light. REPENT!!! Your life does not
model Christ. If there is no fruit of the Spirit in your life, you are part of the
apostasy, the great falling away from truth and light. You cannot hang “fruit
of the Holy Spirit” on a dead tree like folks hang ornaments an X-mas tree,
and call yourself a Christian. Fruit grows naturally upon the branch, or the
branch is DEAD.
Is defending what you have been taught and what you believe that does not
line up with the Word of God more important than your eternal home? You
cannot escape, and furthermore, you are without excuse. You can’t say you
didn’t know, because I am here to state it clearly before you. If you do not
lose your life, you cannot keep it. That’s what Jesus said. How can you
explain that away? How can you excuse your lascivious lifestyle, and yet call
yourself a Christian. How can you boast of being a resurrected man, when
it’s obvious there has been no death to self at the Cross? REPENT!!! Or you
shall surely PERISH!!!! - Lahry