Saturday, February 21, 2009

Ministry of Health


The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established in the year 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Luke 16:8 ~ So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.

It was just half a year ago that in many parts of the world, milk products are found contaminated with Melamine. Melamine by itself is non toxic in low doses, but when combined with Cyanuric Acid it can cause fatal kidney stones due to the formation of an insoluble Melamine Cyanurate. In view of this, the Health Ministry of the affected countries had to intensify their checks on imported products and their locally manufactured products which used milk as part of the ingredients.

The people in the world are very concerned with the food they are consuming and they do not tolerate any mixture of toxic substance in their dietary. The Health Ministries concerned are protecting their people by bringing in high tech instruments and their best researchers to putting up a high standard in scrutinizing all milk related products.

The Health Ministries in this world are doing a far better job than the “Health Ministries” in the body of Christ in term of dietary scrutiny. Today, Christians under the dispensation of grace are still being fed with the deadly mixture of law and grace as their main course for spiritual dietary. The world has their food products labeled with expiry date and look at the body of Christ, many still do not know what is expired at the Cross.

The preaching in many parts of the Christian bodies are not Christ centered but self centered. The preaching is not righteousness consciousness but sin consciousness. The preaching is not emphasizing on resting in the Lord because of His Finished Work on the Cross, but emphasizing on working for the Lord as if Jesus had not died on the Cross. The preaching is not emphasizing on what God had done for them at the Cross but what they can do for God. The preaching is not pointing the believers to Jesus, who is all able, all powerful, and full of grace and mercy, but pointing the believers to themselves who are unable, powerless, and full of hatred and unforgiveness. The preaching is neither hot nor cold i.e. mixing grace with Law or lukewarm. The preaching is not from the Tree of Life but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. When these preachings are diverted from the Cross, the teachings are religious and unintentionally advocating the principles of religion.

All religions are self centered. They emphasize on sin consciousness and what they can do for God. They do not have the Cross and somehow, they are still looking and waiting for somebody to save them. That is why they teach you how to be good and how not to be bad. They teach you how to do good and how not to do evil. Religions do all these because they do not have life. Whereas we are different; we have life because Jesus comes to give us life and life more abundantly. We have a Savior who is not only willing to help us but had died for us on the Cross. Before we are born into this world, He had already finished doing everything and brought forth all the heavenly blessings for us when He cried out, “It’s Finished!” two thousand years ago. What He had finished on the Cross are not only the bad things that our peanut size brains can think of, but that God can think of. Is this not grace?

Do Christians still practice religion as if the Lord they worship had not died on the Cross? Yes… Do you think Apostle Paul was preaching legalism to get approval from men and please them in the Book of Galatians? No… He was preaching GRACE and obviously the religious people were not happy with him!

Galatians 1:10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 5:7~12 You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. "A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough." I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is throwing you into confusion will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished. As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

If Apostle Paul was preaching GRACE, and obviously that is true, because he was called to be the Apostle to the Gentiles who preached the Gospel… Hey, he was not trying to win the approval of men but GOD!!! If Apostle Paul's teaching had God’s approval, I think grace is the right spiritual dietary for the body of Christ and moreover, Paul himself confirmed that there is no other Gospel!

Galatians 1:6~9 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

Spiritual dietary for the believers in this dispensation has not been wisely scrutinized. The "Health Minister" concerned do not pay close attention to the expiry date of their dietary. These lukewarm or expired dietary have brought much harm to the new covenant believers in term of the growth of their faith and leaving them in the state of spiritual malnutrition. It is high time for the “Health Ministers” in the Body of Christ to refer to the instructions written by Apostle Paul (who wrote two third of the New Testament) and bring in the CROSS and Jesus' Finished Work, to scrutinize what has been accomplished by the Lord, which covenant has been expired on the Cross and perform their duty of “rightly dividing the Word” diligently, in the context of the light of New Covenant.

Grace and truth is on the side of Jesus. Grace is the lingo of the New Covenant. When we appreciate His grace, we will have the revelation knowledge of the truth. If we continue to FAST and keep feeding on grace based, Christ centered teaching, we will have the revelation knowledge on what is good for eating and what is not...

Watch out for what you are eating... watch out for the sign "Do Not Consume After The Expire Date". Your dietary can affect your spiritual health...

3 comments:

  1. HA!!! Now, I'm doing the happy dance!!

    Preach it, my brother Alan!! Keep preaching the CROSS!

    WOW!! You just keep getting better and better! I come to your table and I am fed the LAMB and am satisfied. Full of His LIFE! ::burp:: :D

    ReplyDelete
  2. Again, no surprise, but this was SO GOOD! Great analogy my friend ~ you are ministering LIFE!!

    Thanks again.............

    ReplyDelete
  3. Thank you my beloved Sisters in Christ, Jamie and Lydia! I've been blessed by your sharing too...

    BTW, thanks for throwing me with the Living Stone! Life is the sign to show that we have been ministered by the Person of Grace instead of the doctrine on Grace...

    I love this quotation (It's from the Spirit): We are living "Better Than We Know", I'm "a joy to be me" when we "See The World Through His Heart", because He went through the Cross just for me...!

    ReplyDelete