Greetings Flag Branch members and friends and thanks for taking the time to join me, Pastor Jordan, for some Fine Points from yesterday’s service and message “Removed, Remade and Resent”.
In the move “The Terminator 2”, a terminator who was sent to destroy humans was removed or captured, reprogrammed or remade and resent to protect humans. Something similar happened to Apostle Paul as he initially was on a mission to persecute Christians.
Jesus removed him from the Jews and Gentiles who were at the center of his world view, remade and taught him about who Jesus really is and resent him to proclaim Christianity instead of destroying it.
Most true believers complete a similar process in which they are removed from situations that hinder the gospel reaching and transforming them. Once they are removed, they can be remade in their thinking, purpose for living and obedience to God. Once they are remade as evidence by their obedience to God, they are resent to the people and situations they were removed from to help others go through the same process.
There are many others God has used to accomplish His purposes who have removed or been removed from situations and circumstances in order to more clearly hear God’s word and voice. Among those who have been removed are Abraham, Moses, Elijah, Jesus’s disciples, Jesus Himself and Paul.
All believers are taken from and removed from the culture and people in which they live just enough so that they can hear and begin to understand the word of God. All of God’s children will come to Him and learn from and about Him.
As a result, their lives will be transformed into the loving obedient children they were created and destined to become. Once transformed, they will join the effort to find and rescue the remaining children of God by helping them to complete the same process that they themselves have undergone.
We are at a point and time now where people are distracted, preoccupied and concerned with so many things that affect their day to day lives and that of their family and compete for their attention.
It is no wonder that so many people are not removed and detached from these things which make it impossible for remaking to take place. God’s goal for every believer is to be remade or born again in such as way as they can never return to what they were and they are ready to sacrifice everything for their Father and Creator.
Once converted, as Jesus told Peter, they are to strengthen their brothers and sisters by returning to them and helping them to escape the damnation of unbelief and disobedience so that they may receive the eternal inheritance of those sanctified by faith in God.
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Pastor Jordan
