BUILDING PROJECTS – OUR GREAT COMMISSION FROM THE DEVIL

THE CHURCH
The devil has given the church another great commission in this end time, both old time believing churches and the modern mega church are so busy carrying out the great commission as if it is the only work of God left for us to do this time. God gave the church the great commission of evangelism – preaching the gospel to sinners and establishing the believers, we are to channel all our resources to this course, but the case is the otherwise when churches including evangelical outreach ministries are busy building ultra-modern multi-million or multi-billion auditorium.

When these building projects started more than 20 years ago in many churches, Christians were happy that they were making progress. I remember anout 21 years ago, in the year 2001 when I was in a church – Deeper Life Bible Church, when one ICC projects started, we were happy that our church was moving forward physically, but you know the terrific funny thing about building projects in the church today? It never ends, it will always goes from one building projects to another, from local building project, to regional, to state, to national, to new projects to another, you know? Distraction of Satan never ends except you determine to end it.

Incessant building project is a manipulation of the devil against the church in this end time.

Any denominational church that spends more on building projects than for the work of evangelism is a distracted church. Any church that spends more on building projects than building people into the kingdom of God, supporting believers to grow by providing free Christian materials, free Bible to those who can’t afford it, supporting missionaries and their mission works, providing free education, primary healthcare for the needy believers, but rather jumping from one building project to another, you don’t need to speak in tongues before you know that such a church is under the influence of satanic distraction. All we need do is to look into the Bible.

Throughout His earthly ministry, Jesus Christ spent no time on building project and He never prepared us for such. The apostles had about 3000 new converts added to the church like every day so they were not in a small numbers; they never carried out a single building project but they had several projects even with committees – they had daily distribution project, they had missionary projects, they had sharing to the needy project, they had daily evangelism projects – these were the projects the early church spent the offerings and church money for, not the multi-billion building projects of today’s church. Do you think the early church had no money to build a magnificent church auditorium in Jerusalem? They had, because people were donating generously to the Apostles. Imagine disciples selling their lands and houses and giving it to the Apostles, how many people do they need to sell their lands to raise enough money? They did not need so many. They had the money, but they were sharing the money for the needs of e every member on daily distribution, they were using the money to build people not houses. Acts 2:44-47.

Do you know there was no single building project in Christianity, among the early church for about 300 years until inception of Catholic Church by Roman Empire when they brought different Babylonian idolatry systems and ideas into Christianity?

When we are wasting millions of dollars to build church auditorium as if this world is our permanent residency and we ignore spreading the church to villages, distributing free Christian materials to support them, meeting the needs of our members, then we are distracted from the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In 1998, as a young believer, I had great passion for evangelism, my church then – Deeper Life Bible Church, had to sell tracts to do evangelism for their members, even the tracts were not available in the local church to buy, I would need to go far to church secretariat, sometimes trekking half way, just to buy church tracts for personal evangelism. The end time church of today sells almost every to their members – the Sunday booklet, tracts, church tapes, hymn books at profit making margin, and the major focus of the church today is building projects. We need to repent and go back to the old path before we can experience revival in our church.

AND AS AN INDIVIDUAL
As a Christian, if you spend more on earthly things than the work of evangelism, things like your personal building project, buying latest phone, electronics, sending your kids to expensive schools, buying expensive cars, then you need not to look far, your treasures are saved in this perishing world, and where you treasure is saved is where your heart is, it means you are a worldly minded Christian, who is not fitted for heaven.

If you, as a born again Christian, spend your money more on earthly stuffs than spending on personal evangelism, printing tracts, distributing Bible to people, buying and distributing Christian movies to people, giving financial supports to people in your family, church and generally, then you are also among the worldly Christians of this end time.

Spending for the work of God is more important than any projects in your life or family. The work of God here is not contributing to building project in your church or sowing seed, the work of God is your personal evangelism, distributing Christian materials and supporting the needy financially. Without these works in your life, you are either a worldly Christian, whose mind is on this passing world or you are an empty Christian who is set to meet His Lord empty handed on the last day.

Where more of your money goes is where your heart is, either earthly stuffs or heavenly things. Being a heavenly minded Christian is not just by preaching or professing, it is also by spending. When your personal building project, business project, academic project – professional programs, further academic program, fancy project such as buying new car, latest phone, electronics, among others takes priority of your life, it means your mind is set on the things of this world, not on heaven.

CALL TO REPENTANCE
Either as a church or individual, we are called to repent from the care and focus of this world and be heavenly focused. We must do the work of God now when it is day because night is coming when we cannot work.

Matthew 6:20, 21, “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

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Chartres Cathedral, my favourite cathedral in the world being that it is actually a book built when books were not so easily available as they are today, took many years to become what it is today, and if it was commissioned by the devil then the devil must be God.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral