THE WORD OF
THE CROSS IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD TO SAVE US AND SOUTH AFRICA.
Dear Fellow-Christians,
We
can all see that our country is deteriorating very rapidly to a massive failure
and disaster. The God-rejecting laws and the 2-3 million babies that have been
murdered by the abortion law are two of a long list of examples and there is
nothing in sight that will change the situation. Cyril Ramaposa alone cannot
stop the widespread rotteness.
Worse
than the above, Jesus, Son of the
Almighty God, bore the SINS[1],
griefs, sorrows,[2]
afflictions, infirmities, sicknesses[3],
and suffering of the WHOLE WORLD in His body on the cross and it pierced and
crushed Him.[4]
OUR SINS against God fell on Jesus[5],
wounded Him and spilled His blood / life. The wrongs done to the least or
allowed to be done to the least, were done to Jesus.[6]
When His Word is broken, His flesh is broken for the word became flesh.[7]
Even the Earth / nature and it’s Creator are groaning and hurt[8]
due to pollution, exploitation, greed, inconsideration and selfishness. On
the cross of Jesus we can see what our Almighty God and Father goes through
because of all the above. Our sins grieve and wound Him deeply, and He feels the
suffering of the whole world with us.
SELA - Stop and think about it……
What we have done or not done to the
LEAST, we did to JESUS CHRIST and our Father! By passivity, lukewarmness, sins of commission and
sins of omission WE, and the church leaders, have often done and allowed these terrible
things to be done to the least around us – and so did it or allowed it to be
done to our HIM! In the past the churches tolerated abominations like slavery
and apartheid and were guilty and condemned for it. But today the church is far
guiltier because we have tolerated the far worse abomination of abortion -
which is DONE TO JESUS, our LORD AND SAVIOUR!
Added
to this: What is done to GOD’S WORD, is
done to HIM because the Word became flesh, i.e. JESUS. We often broke God’s
commands by our own sins or by omitting to obey Him or by ignoring it when
others break His words - and so were wounding Him or allowed Him to be wounded!
E.g. GOD COMMANDED that we defend the
plight and rescue the lives of the innocent and fatherless, but we did not![i]
The
whole earth and all that is within it belongs to God. It is His property and
His garden, but just look how it is misused, polluted and exploited.
OUR ALMIGHTY CREATOR GOD AND FATHER IS
IN EXTREME PAIN AND GRIEF BECAUSE OF ALL THIS[9].
SELA – Stop and think….
Added
to this: Almighty God, our FATHER, and Jesus, who are greater than the
universe, are looking for pity and sympathy from men for His suffering caused
by their sins and suffering, BUT FINDS NOT ONE!! Psa 69:20 Reproach has broken my heart, And I am full of
heaviness / misery / distressingly sick; I looked for someone to take pity, but
there was none; And for comforters, but I found none. It is true, you will
find no man saying, preaching or writing that. On the contrary, GOD is wrongly
blamed and blasphemed for Jesus’s suffering and murder whilst all men,
especially the chief priest and scribes, pastors and “reverends” absolve
themselves and remain passive to these terrible abominations!! He is treated as
a stone god without feelings. Oh, the hurt He must feel – whilst NO ONE cares!
God
now marks and notes all those who are not mourning bitterly because of all the
evil and who are not acting against it. He said He will mercilessly and
ruthlessly slay all of them - and it begins in the house of God i.e. in the
churches![10]
And it is happening! When they die, He will say to them: I know you not,
workers of iniquity.
Even
mankind knows this. Danté said: “The darkest places in hell are reserved for
those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor said: "What
hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of
the bystander." “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing.” –Edmund Burke. Evil in SA is thriving because the
God-fearing have not done what they could. Darkness is prevailing in our land
because our lights are not shining. God will not leave SA unpunished – neither
us who passively allowed these evils. Even “Fees Must Fall” and “Rhodes Must
Fall” have done better for their own egocentric motives than the Christians for
their God and for the innocent.
All
those who do not truly know God keep on sinning and are passive towards the
evil and suffering around them. Therefore, John wrote: Do not be deceived, he
who does not keep His commandments and sins, lies if he says he knows God, has
neither seen Him or known Him and is of the devil.[11]
God said that the blood of the sinners will be required from our hands if we do
not warn them[12].
Without holiness we will keep on sinning, we will keep on eating of the
forbidden tree, we will surely die and we will not see God – as God clearly
said. Those who are deceived, believe Satan’s lies and think they will surely
not die – even if they sin.
WE
ARE ALL UTTERLY GUILTY AND CONDEMNED TO ETERNAL DEATH BECAUSE OF ALL THIS!!
WHAT
SHALL WE DO?
Zech
12:10 -13:9 and Acts 2 give the answer. We need to LOOK UP TO HIM WHOM WE HAVE PIERCED, AND ALLOWED TO BE PIERCED, AND
MOURN BITTERLY FOR HIM – as bitterly and deeply as a parent who lost an only
child. Because of our millions of sins of comission and omission, our guilt
in Jesus’ and the leasts’ wounds and
suffering are beyond comprehension. We need to confess it all, repent from it
all, accept our responsibility, correct the wrongs and go and do right to all
(man, beast and nature) and warn and act against the transgressors. Then
God promised to forgive, deliver, free and cleanse us from ALL our sins by the
blood of Jesus we confess we have spilled, fill us with His Holy Spirit and
power, make us righteous and holy and heal us and our land. Then 1 Pet 2:24-25
will become true; we confess Jesus bore
MY sins in His body on the tree - that I may die to sin, live for righteousness,
be healed by His wounds and stop going astray. Is. 53:11 will become true: By this knowledge of Him, namely that He
will bear our sins if we sin, He will change our hearts and make us righteous
and holy. 2Chron 7:14 will also become true – if My people who are called by
My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal
their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in
this standing / people.
When
we have been forgiven and delivered from our massive guilt and slavery to sin,
we will love Him much[13]
- with all our hearts, minds, souls and spirits. Equal to this we will love our
neighbour as ourselves. Then Isaiah. 1 and 58, Matt 22:37-38; 28:19 and Acts
2-4 will become true. We are now compelled to warn people that their sins
pierce Jesus and they need to follow and obey Him. Prayers only are not enough.
Rom
4:25 is true; who was delivered up
because of our offenses and was raised because of our justification. Our
sins kill His life, our justification (being made just and righteous) raises Jesus
from death in our hearts,
communities and country! So the blood of
Jesus buys us from sin, Satan, self and the world, it cleanses, delivers, frees
us from ALL sins, makes our clothes white, gives us victory over Satan and we
will not love our own lives even onto death. We will become kings and priests
for our God.[14]
We experience 1Cor 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness
to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of
God. We experience God working powerfully in our hearts to save us from ALL
sin onto good works[15]
through the blood (life) of Jesus which is spilled by all sin.
If
we do not do this, God will judge the house of God first (Ezek 9:4-6, 1Pet.
4:17, Is. 1.) and the blood of Jesus and of all the innocent blood spilled in
SA will be required from our hands (Ezek 3, Matt 23:35) – for we should have
done something about it.
STRATEGY TO CHANGE ME, OUR COMMUNITIES AND SOUTH
AFRICA:
1.
PERSONAL:
a.
Confess your
guilt in Jesus’s wounds and death because of every sin of comission and
omission, REPENT and go and do right and live from every word God has spoken.
b.
Do the great command
in Matt.26 for all power is His and He is with us – make all His disciples to OBEY
all He commanded and to stop paining Him with their sins.
c. Read more at Messiahcrucified2012.blogspot.com
2.
CHURCH GATHERINGS:
TRADITIONAL CHURCHES: It is obvious that the traditional churches
and their leaders have seriously erred in the truth about the cross of Jesus, with
the substitution teaching, in tolerating sin and in disobeying God in e.g. in
Slavery, Apartheid, abortion, racism, worldliness, love for Mammon, homosexualism,
etc.
They also failed to obey GOD’S COMMAND in 1Cor. 14 how gatherings
should be arranged. v37-38 say the true
prophets and spiritual know they are commandments
of the Lord. But if anyone /does not recognize this, he is not recognized / is
ignorant, let him be ignorant. Those not following 1Cor. 14 are not spiritual,
and their leaders are NOT prophets of God. That is why they erred regarding all
the above. So, they wounded the church, which is the body of Christ. Follow
Matt 18 to warn and admonish them, but do not join such unspiritual churches
and false prophets. The new wine will go lost there.
Start 1 CORINTHIANS
14 GATHERINGS.
a.
Meet AS GOD
COMMAND in 1 Corinthians 14 or start such gatherings if there is none in your
area. Start a Facebook page 1CORINTHIANS14
GATHERING ……….. (name of suburb or town) to inform all where and when you
gather.
b.
Jesus only is
Head and we are all brothers. No one may rule over others according to Matt.
20:25-28, Mar_10:41-45, Luke 22:25-27. Those who serve are the greatest. Use no titles as Jesus commanded in Matt 12:8-10. Disobedient and false
prophets use titles.
c.
1Cor 13 &
14:1 We all firstly seek to find agapé / Godly love and holiness. Without it we
are noisy brass and nothings.
d.
1Cor 14:26 Every
member may and are encouraged to bring something for edification of all, i.e.
psalm, teaching, tongue, revelation, interpretation, etc. No tongues if there
is no interpretation.
e.
1Cor 14V3, 19,
24-25, 31. Two or three prophets speak at a meeting, but ALL should desire, may
and are encouraged to especially bring a prophetic word to edify, exhort,
comfort, teach, convince, convict, reveal secrets of heart, cause falling on
faces to worship and acknowledge God’s presence and to encourage the
congregation. (This is revival! No one band or one man shows as is tradition in
+- all current churches).
f.
Jesus and Paul said
God hides his wisdom from the high and learned but reveals it to the babes,
foolish and weak,[16]
the seemingly weak are more necessary and GOD gives more honour to the less
honourable.[17]
Where 1Cor 14 is not obeyed, the lowly are not allowed or encouraged to speak
but only the learned, trained, famous, pastors, reverends, doctors and
professors. Here God’s wisdom is not heard, is being despised and is rejected
in traditional churches. Therefore, the apostacy as is evident from the above
and through the ages.
g.
Overseers must
fulfil Scriptural prescripts e.g. in 1 Tim. 3; Titus 1:5-16; 1 Cor. 1:17-30 and
are those who have been washed, cleansed and freed from sin, bought out of the
world by the blood of Jesus and were made kings and priests onto God, Rev.
1:5-6; 5:9-10.
h.
3.
NEIGHBOURHOOD PROJECTS.
After the truth and work of
the cross and blood of Jesus, the true body of Christ, the church will start
living Matt. 28, Isaiah 1 & 58, Acts 2-4 and 1Joh. 4:17 starting in
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the ends of the world….
i.
Start visiting neighbours
with the gospel and the power of the cross of Jesus to repent and then join 1Cor
14 gatherings and the church projects for the orphans, widows, poor, getting Biblical
values into politics (See heading 4).
ii.
Start projects to
protect and develop your whole neighbourhood, communities and the vulnerable against
crime. The police will not and cannot do it fully and we are the only ones who
can protect our communities E.g. Lonehill model which prevented and reduced
crime by 98%. See their website www.lonehill.info . Start Facebook page – NEIGHBOURHOOD SECURITY ……………….. name of suburb
or town and arrange meetings that all may know where and how to get involved.
4. GETTING BIBLICAL VALUES INTO GOVERNMENT.
The
Christians are the only group with the values and the numbers who can and who MUST
work to correct the rot in SA government - because our Father, neighbours and
nature suffer due to the unrighteous government and sins among the people.
There
are about 20 million “Christians” in SA.
16 million people do not vote. If
each congregation in SA could only identify ONE godly and biblical man and
support him to represent their Biblical values and among these they elect ONE
godly man per ward / suburb to represent their values and to stand as
candidates in the coming elections, our numbers and the formerly non-voters can
elect a majority of God-fearing men into government. They will address and
correct these abominations, corruption and ungodly laws at a governmental level
– AND STOP THE ROT IN SA. The infrastructures already exist in our churches
and we can easily do this – if ONLY ONE man per congregation is found. This is actually
so easy! Therefore, we deserve a rotten government and are their accomplices if
we do not do it.
Every Christian can start wherever he /
she is and need not wait for others.
1. As soon as possible, call all the serious believers in
your congregation together, meet as God commands in 1Cor 14, and tell them
about the message of the cross of Jesus as above. All need to CONFESS THEIR
SINS AND GUILT AND REPENT.
2. Draft a document with your Biblical values for SA.
3. Identify and choose one God-fearing person (Exodus
18:21[ii]) per congregation who lives according to Matt 20: 25-28[iii],
1Tim. 3:1-7[iv],
Titus 1:5-9[v],
Exod 18:21-22[vi];
Deut 16:18-20[vii];
2Sam 23:3[viii];
Is 11:1-5[ix],
Acts 6:3[x];
Ezek 18:4-9[xi]
and who will stand for your values - and support him/her to take it further.
4. Start a fund
for this and other church projects.
5. Any eager person in the suburb creates a Face book page per election ward and
names it BIBLICAL VALUES ..............
(Number & Name of election ward) where all information and arrangements
in the ward are posted. To find your ward number and see the boundaries, search
in maps.elections.org.za/vsfinder
6. Arrange ward
meetings a.s.a.p. with the church
representatives from the other churches in your ward, meet as 1Cor.14
commands, expand the movement to ALL churches,
combine your Biblical values, eventually choose
the most suitable God-fearing person to stand as your candidate in the ward
and choose under what name you will
stand i.e. as independent, or for “Biblical Values” party or for one of the
existing Christian political parties. Assist and facilitate the same
especially in the poorer communities where the majority lives.
7. The ward candidates then register and publicize their party and the community is informed to
register to be able to vote for the Biblical candidates.
8. All the ward candidates per district, then per region,
then per province and then national create Facebook Groups calling it BIBLICAL VALUES …………………. (name of district,
region, or province or national) and so communicate to meet, as in 1Cor.14,
and to combine their values and to strategize.
9. All members
of all churches are to be reached and
informed to stand together and to vote for the Biblical candidates on election
day.
10. Our numbers can elect the majority MP’s with our Biblical
values into government
If
each of you who receive this letter will
only do this in your congregation and send it to all your contacts to do
the same in theirs, a large number of
Biblical candidates will already be elected. If ALL congregations will do
it, SA can be governed by godly men! Everyone with an obedient and willing heart
can do something towards this just where he is. Just think what a truly godly
government can do in SA, our neighbouring countries, Africa and in the world….
If WE do not do it, we will again allow
the godless, liberal and humanists to implement THEIR values in our laws and government and we will again deny our
God, the least and our offspring – and we will remain accomplices. Then we must
not complain about the condition of SA.
The Christians and more specifically the
God-fearing in South Africa can decide and determine the country they want to
live in and have only themselves to blame for the country they live in. "The
strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity (and
quality) of good men and women in it." - John Rushkin.
Deu
30:19 I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so
that both you and your seed may live. Psa94:16 Who will rise up for me
against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of
iniquity?
For
more information and communication, look on our FB page, BIBLICAL VALUES SOUTH
AFRICA, or request it per e-mail from sdoosthuizen@xsinet.co.za .
CONCLUSION:
Our
sins of comission and omission are responsible for the grief in God’s heart,
for grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit, for piercing and crushing Jesus,
for the breaking of God’s holy commands and words, for the suffering of our
neighbour, for the apostacy in the church and for the rot in society and
government. Seeing Jesus suffering on
the cross due to all this, brings us to deep confession and repentance onto
good works pleasing to God. Then God will do as He promised.
Heb 13:20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our
Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the
blood of the everlasting covenant make you complete in every good work to do
His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Tit 2:13
looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and
Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us (to be killed),
that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His
own special people, zealous for good works.
Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one
despise you.
Read more at Messiahcrucified2012@blogspot.com
[1]
1Pet 2:24
[2]
Is 53:4
[3]
Matt 8:17, Ps. 68:19, Is 46:3
[4]
Is 53:5, 1Pet. 2:24
[5]
Ps. 69:7-9, Rom 15:3
[6]
Matt 25:31-46
[7]
John 1:14
[8]
Jer. 12:10-12, Rom 8:19-22.
[9]
Gen 6:5-6. Isa 63:9. Lamentations of Jeremiah are God’s cries.
[10]
Ezek 9:4-7, 1Pet. 4:17, Is. 1.
[11]
1Joh 2:4, 3:6-8.
[12]
Ezek. 3.
[13]
Luk_7:47
[14]
1Joh 1:7, Rev. 1:5;
[15]
Titus 2:14
[16]
Mat_11:25. 1Co_1:27
[17]
1Cor 12:22 & 24
[i] “Speak up
for those who cannot speak for themselves. Defend the rights of the poor and
needy. Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward
slaughter.” (Psa 82:3-4; Pro 24:11-12; Prov.
31:8-9 Jer 22:3). Hebr. 13:3 Remember those who are in bonds,
as bound with them, those who suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the
body. “…If you do away with the yoke of oppression, the pointing finger
and malicious talk; and if you attend to the hungry and satisfy the needs of
the oppressed, then your light will rise in darkness .... The Lord will guide
you …Your people will rebuild…you will be called Repairer of the
broken walls, Restorer of paths to dwell in.” Isaiah 58:9-12. Isa
1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Isa_1:23;
Psa_82:3-4; Pro_31:9; Jer_22:3, Jer_22:15-16; Dan_4:27; Mic_6:8; Zep_2:3;
Zec_7:9-10, Zec_8:16.
[ii] Moreover
thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
[iii] But it shall
not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your
minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even
as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give
his life a ransom for many.
[iv] A bishop
then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good
behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; Not given to wine, no striker,
not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; One that
ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the
church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the
condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which
are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
[v] and ordain
elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband
of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly. For a
bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon
angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of
hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast
the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
[vi] Moreover
thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens: And
let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great
matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall
it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.
[vii] Judges and
officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just
judgment. Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert
the words of the righteous.
[viii] The God of
Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be
just, ruling in the fear of God.
[ix] And the
spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding,
the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the
LORD; And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he
shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing
of his ears: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with
equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of
his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And
righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of
his reins.
[x] Wherefore,
brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy
Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
[xi] But if a man
be just, and do that which is lawful and right, And hath not eaten upon the
mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
neither hath defiled his neighbour's wife, neither hath come near to a
menstruous woman, And hath not oppressed
any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence,
hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that
hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man
and man, Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly;
he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord GOD.
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