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Step 1 – Testing the Message
from the book YHWH Is Calling
Esteemed elders of the congregations, receive the message I speak under the mantle of a prophet from the Lord, and begin to test it in the Spirit. Be sure to choose for this task born-again servants of the Lord who are familiar with the work of the Holy Spirit, for testing in the Spirit cannot otherwise fulfill its purpose. Any elder who declares that the Lord has changed over the centuries, or that things named as sin in the Bible have somehow become acceptable to God due to changing times, is unfit to be a tester of the message. Therefore, be careful in selecting those who will test the message.
In those congregations where the message is tested and the Spirit confirms it to the elders, but where doctrinal decisions are made by lay members, there may first be a need to gather those responsible for doctrinal decisions and ensure they understand the work of God’s Spirit and the necessity of placing the Lord’s Word above the ear-tickling desires of the market economy in this new era. Only then should teaching be provided to the rest of the congregation, for example, by implementing the first step in responding to the Lord’s call, which involves the restoration of the Sabbath.
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Scriptures taken from the New King James Version:
Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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“ Give ear, O my people, to my law; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
Telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
For He established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
That the generation to come might know them, The children who would be born,
That they may arise and declare them to their children,
That they may set their hope in God,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments”
(NKJV PS78:1-7)
Picture: The Church of Utsjoki, located in the far north of Finland.