When Genuine Spiritual Experience Degenerates Into Feasts And Celebrations! (1)

The Word of God says...
"...His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover."

The first pointer unto the missing Jesus I want to draw your attention to in this message under consideration is - The Passover became a feast! The Passover became a feast!

The Passover, when it was instituted was an experience. It was something that changed people's lives. In the Old Testament, everybody knew that he actually passed-over from the dominion (kingdom) of Egypt, out of bondage at the Passover. PASSOVER MEANT DELIVERANCE!

It was the foundation for all other spiritual encounters! It meant coming out of the tyranny of darkness into the light, under the cloud of the presence of God.

But at this particular time in question, people that never had the real experience of Passover only attended it as a feast. A Christian loses Jesus from his life when the experience that changed many people's lives in the past becomes an ordinary feast to him.

When Church attendance is no more to encounter, or to have an experience with God, but an ordinary feast and entertainment to a man, he will soon lose Jesus in his life.

Do you know that singing: choruses, praise worship, hymns, etc for instance can become a feast? It can degenerate, as indeed it has done several of our denominations today into mere 'frenzies and jamborees'! It has actually become nothing but mere "musical concert" embellished with all kinds of beats and instruments borrowed from 'Babylon', though these songs are usually spiced with gifted soprano voices that come from unbroken and fleshy hearts!!

Is it not a common knowledge that several of our so called 'Christian albums' are nothing but 'Jamaican reggae beats' covered with Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley voices? is it any wonder then that when we now sing such songs, our lives do not bear the same fruits and results as those saints of blessed memory?

Dear 'man of God', instead of the bogus and carnal launching of the twelve million Naira musical instruments accompanied with prayer and fasting, you have plunged your congregation into, you should first in your life, and then with your congregation do a 'spiritual launching' for the recovery of the Holy, consecrated, Spirit filled, and obedient life that was once delivered unto the saints!

FINISH UP HERE, BELOW.

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Again, let me remind you, church activities and indeed, every religious activity for that matter can become an ordinary 'feast' when it carries no spiritual experience in your life again.

Even prayer as spiritual as it is can become a 'feast'. When prayer time is no longer a genuine fellowship with God, but a routine of vain repetition and meaningless words, or even in the name of 'speaking in tongues'! Or worse still when your prayer time with God instead of bending your self-will and writing eternal characters in your life becomes only an avenue for using God to advance your selfish ambitions.

When it is no longer a place of receiving God's will and the grace to do it, but rather, a routine of 'God give me this', 'God do this for me', 'God destroy all those who are standing in the way of my blessings and promotions'. When prayer time - God's opportunity for breaking the tyranny of self, sin and rottenness of our life becomes diverted to serving your interest, then you have entered into the realms of ceremonies and feasts!

There are yet others who presently attend prayer meetings, family prayer times, or devotions, or even fasting retreats, not because of the burden and the desire to pray is present, but rather more out of 'saving face', 'a name', or even their 'past reputation' of being once upon a time a spiritual brother or sister. The truth however, alas, is Ichabod! The glory has departed and the heart has backslidden .

To such, Jesus in the book of Revelations says, "thou has a name that thou liveth, but thou art dead". When you participate in any religious activity just to protect a name or to defend yourself against people thinking that you are no longer fervent - then, spiritual things have become just a feast or ceremony to you as well. You are on the shortest possible path to losing Jesus.

Friends, from the above and other indices too numerous to mention, will you not agree that the things of God are becoming just a ceremony to you? Don't you now for instance just go to Church on Sundays only as a ceremony? Imagine that for weeks, you don't do any genuine personal study of your bible, yet on Sundays, you get up and dust your Bible to go for service.

Perhaps, you may be going to show off our new dress, your new car, or even to parade your fine looking (and probably spoilt) children! It is certainly not out of a hunger or the desire to see the glory of God.

When you see these parameters in your life, they are pointers unto missing the reality that you may already be missing the Lord Jesus out in your life and you do not know it.

I am equally guilty of all i have shared with you above. i guess it's time we retrace our steps.

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