STRIKERS NOT DEFENDERS
Thursday, January 21, 2016
The church is God’s strategy against the gates of Hell, because the first time Church was mentioned in scriptures, it was given the status of a military force that would establish the kingdom of God, the gates of hell nevertheless (Mathew 16:18)
In the body of Christ there have been a major drift in assignment. Jesus’ final words to the church before leaving the earth was a direct command “Go ye into All the world and preach the gospel….” (Math 28:19) And then he gave us strategies and supplementary instructions.
Now God did not say we should go in and contend with spiritual darkness, that was never our primary assignment, our primary assignment was to establish the kingdom, in the process we will be confronted by the entire arsenal of hell, no doubt.
Now the trick is that if we focus on pulling down strong holds without establishing the kingdom, we have done nothing, or to console the Church we may think we have done half of the job.
Now the church assignment was not to become giant defenders against the kingdom of darkness, we are Strikers and they are the defenders, but now the church is sitting comfortably as a defender, to defend darkness while the devil is ferociously establishing his kingdom.
Our assignment is to go (strike) into cosmos (the entire system of the world). We do not just seek the salvation of men but the salvation of the nations, until the ideology and dominion of our lord permeates the seven mountains of the world.
The seven mountains of the world is seen in theology to describe the seven areas of influence in the world. They include, family, entertainment industry, media, politics, religion, academics, business world.
What God means by go into the word (cosmos) is to go into this systems. The Church of God must arise and stop playing the defensive role, but the striker role. We must permeate the system and enforce Gods dominion, the devil has gone far in modeling the seven mountains according to the ideology of darkness.
SELAH- Which of the seven mountains have I been called into, primarily?
Shalom
