Are you carrying the burden of the Lord? Or the burden of religion or flesh?
Are you going by what YOU THINK you should be doing or not doing?
Or what carnal Christian ministers or carnal Christians in general tell you?
We need to get a clue and seek the real righteousness of God. We need to find out the burden and the yoke that the Holy Spirit is requiring us to carry, or else we will go around the mountain our whole Christian walk.
Matthew 11:30
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Why is the yoke and burden that you are carrying so heavy? If it is heavy then it’s not the Lord! Everything God requires from us, He equips us and empowers us to do it! His grace is sufficient to empower us and guide us, without striving! Why is there so much striving and so little fruit in the church today? Is God’s hand too short? Or are people not submitted to the Holy Ghost? The key to victory in warfare is submission to the Holy Ghost! Not praying for 3 hours and going home with heaviness, but being led by the Spirit!
People feared the Pharisees so much that they heeded to their laws and what they saw as right. They heeded to the pressure but not to God. You can see it many times in the Bible where the Pharisees came around where Jesus or John was preaching, and they would start battling fear. Who knows how many people couldn’t give in to Jesus at the time because they feared the righteousness of the Pharisees more than the righteousness of God. Little did they know that the righteousness of the Pharisees was filthy rags, and not even close to what God sees as right. What they walked was just an outward show, because they were never able to walk it out anyway because they had no power, seeming to everyone as holy, but really eating leavened bread and walking in hypocrisy!
This same Pharisee spirit is in the church today! Even in the New Testament we see a similar spirit like the Pharisees on New Testament believers.
Galatians 2:4
“And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage.”
This Pharisee spirit will try to use carnal believers to take captive your liberty in Christ. What is our liberty in Christ? To be led by the Spirit! The Holy Spirit is our new law, the law of God! So, when you’re led to do this or that, and not do this and that, that Pharisee spirit will try to get you to do the opposite or something that the Holy Spirit isn’t focusing on or worried about.
These types of spirits will make you think an ant is an elephant, and an elephant is an ant. Meaning it will make a big deal of things that God is not making a big deal of, and not make a big deal of something God is making a big deal. We need the fear of the Lord, or else our canal mind will bring us into subjection into its own version of righteousness, making you think it is God’s way.
I have seen many times where a person struggles with something that they hate, but have a true heart for God. And Believers with a Religious spirit will bring them under bondage and rebuke them and even cast them out. Though God was working with them and raising them up but the religious folks rejected them.
I have seen many times where God was requiring a big thing for someone. In one situation, God was telling someone to move to another state and they disobeyed. Some religious folk were telling them, “It’s ok, God is not worried about that. It’s up to you, God will still move on your life.” Then after that, the person fell away from the faith, falling into all types of sin. Meanwhile, they could have avoided the whole thing by just obeying the God that is the Holy Spirit and not the religious version of Him.
If we go by what people say or think, or what our own understanding thinks more than what the Spirit is saying, we will never be able to truly walk in the ways of Christ. Sometimes God is leading us this way or that way, and because we can’t understand it, we rebel against it because our yoke with The Knowledge of The Tree of Good and Evil is too hefty!
This is why we need the Word of God! The Word of God wars against that tree. The Tree of Life is rooted in the Truth of the Word of God. It’s the war of the trees. Which one are you eating from?
The problem is when the tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil presents itself as The Tree of Life (and this is the great deception because the Bible says that the devil comes as an angel of light), the devil comes in unawares. This is why we must not eat everything we hear! We must not only discern people, we must discern the Word of God! We must discern when the Spirit of God is speaking through someone, because there lies the Word of God that carries life to it, that quickens your mortal body to carry out the Will of God!
What roots are you rooted in? There lies your fruit! So many people are worried about the fruit that they carry without changing the roots first. Then they try to make fruit with fruit, but you need roots!
Many Christians are trying to act the part, portray the part, but that’s why it’s called the fruit of the Spirit! Because He produces it! So, if we want to have the fruit of THE SPIRIT, what do we need to be rooted in? THE SPIRIT! The Spirit of Truth produces Word in your life that breaks the yoke of all yokes.
Galatians 2:14
“But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to The Truth of The Gospel, I said unto peter before them, if thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of gentiles, and not as the Jews, why compellest thou the gentiles to live as do the Jews?”
We have so many believers because of old time religion that they carried with their family that they try to throw on babies in Christ. Though we cannot teach other believers when we ourselves have not even been taught by God. Your parents can teach you, your pastor can teach you, your friends. Though the question is, is God teaching you? Just because someone has a good reputation in the church does not mean they are ordered by the Lord. When we got born, we didn’t know the kingdom like the back of our hand. So why does everybody all of a sudden know what they are doing and saying? Most really don’t!
We also have some people who had good morals when they were in the world, who are now in the church. Though the problem is they don’t learn God’s way, and they try to throw in their worldly morals and goodness. Though it’s not God, and it’s not HIS goodness.
We need to drop everything we see as right and wrong and learn the new ways of the Kingdom, which is a deeper righteousness. The problem is most people who enter the kingdom still try to hold onto their own thinking and mindsets, but mindsets are one of the main things we need to break when we get saved. That goes for everyone. No one is excluded from the renewing of the mind. And yet people want to hold onto mindsets because it’s good, but it’s not GOD.
Everybody thinks when they get saved, that they are the best thing since sliced bread.
If we only knew how much work the Holy Spirit does, we would not think of ourselves more highly than we ought to, and on the flip side, put so much heavy burden on ourselves and others. Jesus is building the house, we are just going by the blueprint, so when we start building just because we see somewhere that needs building, or we start tearing down because we see things that need to come down but we don’t do it by the Spirit, we begin to ruin God’s project because we want to get things done. But He hired you! You didn’t hire Him! Stick with the program!
Sometimes we want to get things done so much, that we go ahead of the Holy Spirit and we forget that He’s the master builder. He knows what He’s doing. He knows what to take down and when to take it down, when to build and when not to build. He sees the end from the beginning. He knows what happens next and what happens before. He knows what we don’t and what we do know. So, when he tells us to build here and it doesn’t make sense, we just have to do it! When He tells us to tear down this wall or that wall, we just have to be led by Him! Blind faith! Not knowing why, but know that He told you to do it! And in the end peace, joy and righteousness in His Spirit!
Peace because he’s pleased with you, joy because there is therefore no condemnation when I’m in Him and obeying Him, and righteousness because I’m doing things the right way in His eyes. And know I don’t have to worry about all these burdens I have to lift and yoke I have to carry because I realize it’s all in His hands and all I have to do is follow! And when I follow and just do it how He’s leading me, there is grace and ability to do it!
This should be our one and only heart’s desire, to obey the Holy Spirit no matter what it looks or feels like. This is the only burden and yoke we should carry! Simplicity in Him! This is why it says our joy, peace and righteousness is IN the Holy Ghost! Because to walk by His Spirit is to walk in Him! And to walk in Him is to have every burden and every yoke carried with His help! No longer is it I that lives, but He that lives in me! He that will no longer let me lift the load alone, but He will lift with me by the help of His strength, and by this I shall know that I am in His will and grace.
By: Joe Pinto
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