When Christians Disappoint Us.

Many of us are moved to give. We are moved to give some times by fakers who only pretend to be our friends to get from us what they want or think they need. We are moved to give money to sponsor a starving child in a foreign country, or an orphan in Haiti or to help build a Crystal Cathedral somewhere. Only then do we find out that they use our money to build air conditioned dog houses on their property. Or as we have found out, to use the God given contributions to build a theme park or use on prostitutions. We get disappointed and taken by “Christians”.

Our couple did a great thing in selling their land and giving the money to the church to be used for God’s glory. But don’t lie about it. Keep part of the money for your vacation, etc, but don’t go telling the church that you are giving every penny you sold it for. That is not for the glory of God and that is pure greed. You will get your just reward then and there. In this case it was instant death because they were lying to the Holy Spirit.

No matter how hard you try to fake your veneer, the Holy Spirit knows your good points and those ugly things that need purified yet. Our couple was doing something great and good. The church will benefit from their gift. Please always remember this. Every good intended act, satan is around the corner waiting to pounce on the opportunity and spoil the goodness or damage a witness. Satan won this round, but so did the Holy Spirit in teaching us all the consequences of lying, cheating, faking, and sinning.

The Holy Spirit is our silent partner that lives in all of us who have accepted The Almighty Lord as our Saviour. It is given to us from God as a special gift to us for our own protection and guidance. Don’t try to fake your way around spiritual things. Satan will expose you and the Holy Spirit will deal with you.

I told you there were three things that I wanted you to get out of this message and the third one is very important as well.

III. DO NOT WORSHIP OTHER CHRISTIANS

Where does it say in the Bible that we are supposed to worship our spiritual leaders? Making them more than we really should.

It is easy to do. We place them on a high stand and point to them for example. We trust them fully and even think that if we really get close to them we can get to heaven by just being around them. You begin expecting more out of them than yourself.

On the biblical side, we are told that as leaders we are to expect more out of ourselves. We are to give account of our actions. We will stand before God and answer for our sermons, lessons, faking or leading others to sin. Our feet are held to the fire. But congregations should not be expecting a perfect person in those roles. They are human just like we are.

Our spiritual leaders hurt like we do, stumble like we do, repent as we do, make fools out of themselves as we do. In other words they can not be to all people what we demand them to be. Thus, when something happens in their personal life, they sin, and we get disappointed.