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"They Labor in Vain"
Written: August, 1998
Publisher: Paul Sheehan, 1998
ISBN 0-958-6223                      NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
(Pages 16 - 21 only)

They Labor In Vain!

Vain living is the product of christians and heathens alike, who take the standard of men and women to be their guide and man alive, don't we have our share of that in THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD TODAY.......click.

Did not Paul the apostle say.....

THEREFORE I URGE YOU IMITATE ME!.......1 Corinthians 4:16

IMITATE ME, JUST AS I ALSO IMITATE CHRIST!..........1 Corinthians 11:1


THAT YOU DO NOT BECOME SLUGGISH BUT IMITATE THOSE WHO THROUGH FAITH AND PATIENCE INHERIT THE PROMISES......................Hebrews 6:12

● What is he saying?....Paul being that mighty man of such great humility was saying this........

YOUR ONLY STANDARD IS CHRIST AND WHEN YOU SEE ME DOING AS THE CHRIST, YOU ALSO DO BUT DON'T FOLLOW ME OTHERWISE, ALSO, IF YOU MAY FIND OTHERS THAT DO AS THE CHRIST DONE FOLLOW THEM BUT ALL IS VANITY......UNLESS IT IS IN CHRIST!

The Tower of Babel was a fantasy of men and women who thought only of themselves......it was all AMBITION. The same sin of Ananias and Sapphira. The other two reasons were....UNITY AND SECURITY. Are we back in the days of Babel? Have we become so insecure that we need to be surrounded by stone and timber as the ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THOSE WHO WALK NOT IN THE SPIRIT?....Surely it's true that most people flock to the big buildings, they feel more secure there. If this be the case where is the one called the Son of God in these faithless ones lives. Or where is He at all in their lives. Works and donations seem to be the flavour of the decade, this makes all very happy. but where is the stone that the builders rejected?

STILL KNOCKING AT THE DOOR I GUESS!!!!......click.
The Word of God tells us that there was a church in the bible that had heaps of money, heaps of people did attend this church, these people had all areas of administration so organised. They were even of good health and wanted for nothing yet Jesus was not part of the congregation,. Is it any wonder that Jesus said they were miserable and poor?
Although this church really thought they had it all together they were so much apart in the eyes of the Almighty One/Jesus........please read Revelation 3:14-22.......click.

Not far down the road was another church that Jesus also had words with. This church was not fancy in any way, it was only small, with little finance and I reckon not popular with the public, because of its devotion to the Word of God...........please read Revelation 3:7-13.

Jesus felt so much at home in this little church....one was in vain and one was in Christ, in right order and standing with Father in heaven. Is your church a big flash place with no Jesus?......or a simple little church where Jesus attends? so many labor in vain today thinking they do God a service. There is only one who can please God and that one denies not the word!.....no matter what!......Do you?

I KNOW YOUR WORKS....SEE I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU AN OPEN DOOR AND NO ONE CAN SHUT IT....FOR YOU HAVE A LITTLE STRENGTH...HAVE KEPT MY WORD AND HAVE NOT DENIED MY NAME....................................Revelation 3:8.

Is the stone still being rejected today?......YES! REJECT!......MEANS, TO PUT ASIDE........isn't this what most christians do during the week?.....Isn't this what most leaders do when making decisions in churches today?

● NO MINISTER CAN PLEASE THE PUBLIC AND JESUS!


Things can appear very much a great success in the world and in the eyes of people who have no life in the spirit and no discernment..............Luke 16:14 + 15.

Many ministers today are quick to have a shot at empire building but would probably do the same thing if they had the opportunity. Great men of God always left words for the people to be led by, inspired by and to rely on. But today there is so much emphasis on possessions, earthly inheritances and securing ourselves in this feeble lifetime.......click.
 
The greatest man of God.......Jesus Christ, left His Words for the earth to live by. And when we live by these words, we will not be rich, great, popular, people of the world at all. Jesus never counseled people on how to become rich in this life. He counseled people on how to walk in integrity in this life and on gold in the next. Vanity says......we can have the both!

BUT WOE TO YOU WHO ARE RICH.......FOR YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CONSOLATION .........................Luke 6:24

Those who will put their trust and hopes in the riches of this world will one day regret it deeply. Jesus does not want that any of us......end up living in eternal regret in an eternal hell. Let me tell you something...there is no man or woman that knows or can know, how horrifying and disgusting the place of hell is. If we have a christianity without hell in its teaching, it is not true christianity my friend. There are many that call themselves christian churches in the world today who believe not in hell fire. No minister, no church, no christian, can please God without telling the world of the horrors of hell that await the rebels and traitors of Jesus Christ. The greatest love of all is to preach hell fire to a dead and perishing world..............Mark 9:42-49.

● We can barely obtain anything that is christian today or marked christian without price......Isaiah 55:1.

 

And not to my surprise but the articles with the greatest prices on them.....whether book, tape, jewellery or other are most of the time rubbish. The vanity in God's House today is beyond a joke. Christians have all the tapes, videos, reference charts, counselors, sunny Sunday services and still remain in defeat. The enemy of all mankind.......satan, does not care about charts, sunny talks and videos. Satan dreads the thought of you having a real relationship, father and son relationship with God Almighty. This scripture explains it all.....click

THE RACE IS NOT TO THE SWIFT.....NOR THE BATTLE TO THE STRONG....NOR BREAD TO THE WISE.....NOR RICHES TO MEN OF UNDERSTANDING......NOR FAVOUR TO MEN OF SKILL BUT TIME AND CHANCE HAPPEN TO THEM ALL........Ecclesiastes 9:11

Let me say this.....it doesn't matter how wise, strong, educated, rich or skilful we are. God holds all things in His Mighty Hand, it is vain to think we can make ourselves someone that God didn't make. The greatest of all understandings is to.........RESIGN AND LOOK TO GOD!.......click.

RESIGN FROM OUR VAIN AMBITIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD HAS A PLAN AND WE ARE CLAY. Some people waste all their lives making themselves perfect (before humans).........so that God will see them and choose them for the job. Oh, they do get their job, just like they planned but God didn't employ them........IT WAS MAN........RELIGIOUS MEN!.......click.

This is why you see so many dead, blind, religious men and women breeding in the churches today. These people were self-righteous, they couldn't and wouldn't take Jesus for real. They listened to the money makers, they spent most of their time at conferences and seminars. And very little time, with Jesus or even listening to Him. God had great and exciting journeys for them to travel but they preferred to be religious and eye serve the organisation they were deceived by.
 

It is somehow accepted today that if we can get the people into a building they are therefore exempt or excluded from hell.

The Bible doesn't say that!......Jesus Christ tells us in His Book/The Holy Bible, that there were houses in His time.....synagogues, that were visited daily by all who considered themselves friends of God.

It is always a good practice to examine our hearts before we enter into examinations in college. This is to make sure that we have prepared ourselves for the test ahead. And it is no different with our souls. The question that needs to be asked throughout the whole of THE CHURCH today is this..........
WHERE WOULD I STAND OR HOW WOULD I STAND IF I WAS CUT OFF FROM THE FOLD?.......DO I HAVE A STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH MY MASTER OR DOES MY STRENGTH COME FROM THOSE THAT SURROUND ME?......click.
There is so much social activity in the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD today that I have my doubts whether Jesus is really being praised in some churches or is it the programmes, plays, dramas, trips and outings. Could we honestly say that people in churches, people who sit in pews today are soldiers of Jesus Christ or mere civilians. People who visit a church building each time there is a meeting. Do we go to church to hear Jesus?

I talked with one lady in a thrift shop only recently and she told me that she was a Presbyterian, anyway she then said......but I go to the UNITING CHURCH now and we have a wonderful minister who is always preaching on love. This woman was not born again!....but she did say this.......WHAT THAT MINISTER SAYS IS ENOUGH FOR ME!....Jesus said, you must!.....be born again!
● How can that minister stand on the judgement day?
● Father has allowed denominations to grow and expand and that they have. This was and is only another test for us all.
But now Jesus is asking for the real christians to step forward and speak up. He wants us to take off our religious masks, put away our bingo, stop preaching the fairy tales, give up our cigarettes, booze, gambling, sexual immorality, lying, stealing, cheating, hating, ambitions and walk with Him.
It's time to take the training wheels off our little religious bicycles!

Most ministers believe today that it is alright to receive Jesus as your saviour and Lord and stay in the dead religious organisation that still has all sorts of idols, wacky ideas and darkness.

No man or woman who has met Jesus Christ personally could sit under a banner that has clearly and openly denied the Word of God. When people have received the knowledge of truth......THEY MUST DEPART FROM THAT CHURCH THAT THEY ATTEND IF THAT CHURCH SPEAKS OTHERWISE! Christians all over ask the same stupid question every time, when you tell them to leave the sinful church they fellowship in, they say......BUT WHERE WILL WE GO???????....They might as well say I'm lost.....click.

This tells us what sort of a relationship they have with Christ.....A very weak one. All christians have been given Holy Ghost to lead them but I believe that they just don't want to listen to Him.

MY SHEEP HEAR MY VOICE AND I KNOW THEM AND THEY FOLLOW ME...........John 10:27

DID NOT JESUS TELL US THAT HOLY GHOST WOULD LEAD US!.....INTO ALL TRUTH?????