Public Service at Surabaya - Sunday, April 29, 2007

SATANIC CHURCH

Jude 1:6-7
6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

verse 6 “the angels who did not keep their proper domain”; angels are pastors “To the angel of the church of Ephesus write,…”, “And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write,…”, etc (Revelation).
Thus, those who rule over satanic church are disobedient pastors, whom the congregations are led to disobedience and kept in the hands of Lucifer, the ruler of disobedient angels/pastors.

These are the signs of satanic church:

• The pastor is disobedient to do his duties, not obeying the word of God
  A good pastor is the angel of the church. One of the duties of a pastor is to feed the church with angels’ food, that is, shepherding word.
  Psalms 78:23-25
  23 Yet He had commanded the clouds above, And opened the doors of heaven,
  24 Had rained down manna on them to eat, And given them of the bread of heaven.
  25 Men ate angels’ food; He sent them food to the full.
  In former times to the Israelites God had given manna from heaven and today to the Church, God by a pastor also gives angels’ food, which is called shepherding word. (food/bread = the word; angels = pastors/shepherds; angels’ food = shepherding word)
  I, as a pastor, ask your help to pray for me that I may give the angel’s food/shepherding word carefully in order not to become disobedient angel (satanic church).
• The pastor is a falling star like Lucifer
  Lucifer was the ruler of angels, falling away because of disobedience. Thus, a true shepherd is the angel and the star of the congregation. The term ‘star’ here is to show a shining light or we say, a role model. This means: a shepherd should be an example to the congregation.
  1 Peter 5:2-3
  2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly;
  3 nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;
  A shepherd ought to behave as being examples and not as being lords – for this is a monarch (the condition of giving command always). If a pastor becomes a star, he will serve willingly, not by compulsion, not for dishonest gain but eagerly and being examples to the flock.

Hebrews 13:7-9
7 Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
9 Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

“those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God” = pastors who feed the congregation with angels’ food.

Here are the examples of a pastor in faith:

• Being consistent with and holding fast to the only true teaching word, just like Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Such pastor becomes a shining star for the congregation.
  A pastor inconsistent with the true doctrine will go astray and become a falling star. A pastor is responsible of this thing because the sheep follow his example. Likewise, a husband/father becomes example for the wife/children. So, he is responsible of holding the one true teaching word he has experienced in life.
• Leading their lives according to the faith/truth of God.
  Faith is the truth; living in faith means walking in righteousness.
  A pastor working by compulsion and dishonest gains – being an obstacle and not being an example – will be like Lucifer, who was the morning star but now the falling star.
  A pastor first has to become the example of faith through holding one true teaching word he has experienced in life so the congregation will become true Church, not the false one. Likewise Sunday school teachers have to become the example of faith for the children through holding one true teaching word and living in righteousness so that the children will become true Church.
  If the pastor is a falling star – without obedience and dedication – the congregation will surely not be shepherded even though they are in church.
  Here are the conducts of the congregation being unshepherded:
  • wildness = being unrestrained
    Jude 1:7
    7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
    After the people of Israel went out of Egypt, Moses went up to Mount Sinai and was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights. He had earnestly prayed and received the two tablets of stone. While he was still on the mountain, the Israelites led by Aaron worshiped the golden calf. Aaron portrays a pastor being neither example nor consistent with the word of God. At the beginning he worshiped the Lord, but at the end made a golden calf. That is the fickle Aaron. The congregations of Israel were unshepherded and unrestrained; they set their lusts free and walked in all sins, even to its top, i.e., sexual sins and eating-drinking (which are the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah).
    Thus, a pastor determines and is responsible of the conduct of the congregation.
  • pride = pursuing and being proud of material things, but being lukewarm/decreased in spiritual things like the church of Laodiceans “I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing?”
    Ezekiel 16:49
    49 "Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
    Many times we have the blessings of God either in study, job, great income, etc. then we become lukewarm in spirituality because of pursuing and pride about the physical matters. Lukewarmness in spirituality manifests in unfaithfulness and not being fervent in spirit like the Church of Laodiceans. Accordingly, God vomit them out of His mouth. Acceptable service will become the food God may consume. On the other hand, being vomited = being thrown away = being cast into the place there are weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • egoism = abounding in everything but in no way sharing with the poor and needy.

The false churches with their lawless deeds will torment the true church.

2 Peter 2:6-8
6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds) ––

Lot represents the true church in the midst of satanic church. The world is now like Sodom; evil and unclean deeds are everywhere, and the worse is to know that the church of God is also like Sodom by the existence of false churches. We can imagine how terrible it is.

The epistle Jude refers to the covering of badgers’ skin of Tabernacle. This is to show God’s attempt to cover the true church, since the atmosphere of Sodom and Gomorrah is tormenting them. Every day we hear and see the atmosphere torments our soul. Therefore, we must hear and see the true word / the shepherding word.

Luke 2:20
20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

We must be shepherded in shepherding word to manifest the covering of God. Those who heard and saw are the shepherds. Meaning we have to hear shepherding word. Do not let strange sounds influence. Or else, we will obviously be perceived and influenced with the atmosphere of Sodom and Gomorrah. Apostle John on Patmos also heard and saw the word like the shepherds (Luke 2).

Revelation 1:9-12
9 I, John, both your brother and companion in the tribulation and kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet,
11 saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands,

verse 10: hearing ; verse 12: seeing
We, especially the Gentiles, must hear and see the teaching word that:

• our soul is not tormented.
  King David said “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures”; Our soul is peaceful although there are many beasts around us as well as in the condition of Sodom and Gomorrah.
• we are not influenced with the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah
• we see the golden lampstands (http://gptkk.org/pelita-en.php), that is, the church of God sanctified and renewed to be as perfect as Jesus Christ is.

Here is the process of hearing and seeing the shepherding word:

1. Being swift to hear
   James 1:19-20
   19 So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;
   20 for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
   Hebrews 5:11-13
   11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
   12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
   13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.
   That is, being swift to hear and understand the shepherding word (the true teaching word in shepherding service system). In such a manner, the word is written on forehead.
   Apostle John heard a loud voice as of a trumpet, that is, the shepherding word preached continuously to mature our spirituality. Babes need milk (pointing to the word of gospel), but those who are of full age need solid food (pointing to the teaching word). If a Christian refuses to hear the teaching word because it takes much time, for example, he is spiritually not grown up. But those who are spiritually of full age must be slow to speak and wrath because he has understood the shepherding word. It is different with a child who speaks many words or asks many things. Being child in spirituality, one rejects the teaching word because he wants milk/gospel only. In such a manner, his spirituality will not grow up and he will be tossed to and fro by heresies until perish.
   I do not mean to despise the word of gospel, but the time limit is apparent to us. The word of gospel is intended to bring those who have not as well as who have just believed in Jesus Christ to see the salvation of the Lord. Nonetheless, growing up in the Lord, we have to consume solid food that we will no longer become children.
   Ephesians 4:14
   14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
   Children are easily tossed to and fro and carried about heresies; they will go astray and perish. Therefore, we need to grow up in teaching word in shepherding system.
2. Being meek to believe in and be sure of the shepherding word – so that the word is written on heart and becomes faith.
   James 1:21
   21 Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
   Hebrews 10:16-17
   16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"
   17 then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
   As long as the word is written on our forehead and heart, the Lord will forgive all sins, including the uncleanness of Sodom and Gomorrah. Unless we believe and understand the word, the salvation is gone.
3. Practicing the word - so that the word is written on hand.
   James 1:22
   22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
   Deuteronomy 11:18-19
   18 "Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
   19 "You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
   Only if the teaching word is written on our forehead, heart, and hand, we will love to speak of it – since the word has been sealed on the whole life. Being empty from the word, however, we must love to speak of women, gossips, and the like.
   Antichrist cannot seal us with his number if the word is written on our heart, mind, and hand; God is with us.
   Revelation 13:16-18
   16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads,
   17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
   18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.
   Never underestimate your little children; they are too small and know nothing about the word. Antichrist will mark all, both small and great, on their right hand or on their foreheads (verse 16). Likewise in the days of Noah, little children followed the angel of disobedience. We therefore must earnestly pray for them.
   If we are sealed with the word and love to speak of it, antichrist will get no place to seal us with the triple six.
4. Seeing the image of the word, that is, golden candlestick (http://gptkk.org/pelita-en.php)
   Golden Candlestick (with seven lamps) symbolizes the church of God sanctified and renewed to be as perfect as Jesus Christ is. This is the greatest miracle. “Seven” symbolizes perfection.
   Colossians 3:10-14
   10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
   11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
   12 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;
   13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.
   14 But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.

Here is the renewal of life:
tender mercies = judging none
A sinful man is heavy laden. We therefore should not judge and burden him more.
kindness = generosity
humility = being able to confess sin
meekness = being able to accept the word – no matter how sharp it is.
longsuffering = patience in suffering and in waiting for the time of God.
A pregnant woman labors pains; she endures patiently until the time to give birth comes. As the time indeed comes, it will work by itself and that is the time of God. We are changed and sanctified little by little that we begin seeing the form of the candlestick although sometimes its light is disappear when we are not patient, not kind, etc. Let us pray that we may see clearly the candlestick through the light of the renewal of our lives. We were formerly stingy but now we can give. In the past we loved judging others but now we are merciful to pray for them.

Pastors become shining stars and churches are like golden candlestick. Both of them are in the right hand of the Great Shepherd.

Revelation 1:20
20 "The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches.

On the contrary, a pastor who does not feed the congregation or not become shining star because of seeking physical advantages becomes falling star and the congregation falls in the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah. Consequently, both of the pastor and the congregation are in the hand of Lucifer. Let us – pastor and congregation – become shepherded by hearing, understanding, believing, and practicing the word until we see it in form of Golden Candlestick. We are changed little by little and we are in God’s hand.

The following things are reaped right after being in the right hand of the Lord.

Isaiah 41:8-10
8 "But you, Israel, are My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, The descendants of Abraham My friend.
9 You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, And called from its farthest regions, And said to you, ‘You are My servant, I have chosen you and have not cast you away:
10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

1. God is with us to protect and care for our lives (“Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God”)
   We do not need to doubt or fear about anything. If God is for us, who can be against us?
   Romans 8:31-32
   31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
   32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
   Jesus has been given to us, how shall the Lord not give us all things? He by the Sacrifice of Christ shall surely supply all our needs in this hard world.
2. The right hand of the Lord helps us by clearing up all of our troubles (“I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you”).
   None can be against the powerful right hand of the Lord, not even Pharaoh.
3. The right hand of the Lord gives us victory over our weaknesses (“I will uphold you with My righteous right hand”).
   Each of the seven churches written on the Book of Revelation had weaknesses. The church of Laodiceans, for example, was the worst just like a vomit before the Lord. However, the Right Hand had upheld them.
   Revelation 3:16, 21
   16 "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
   21 "To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.

Satanic church and Lucifer will end in hell, but the true church under His shepherd will be in the right hand of the Lord. Perhaps we are breaking down in weakness and failure, but everything is going to be fine as long as we hear, understand, believe, and practice the word, and have the renewal of life. The Right Hand will uphold us and give us victory until we become the Bride of God and sit on His throne.
God bless you!