(JOSHUA 1:1-2) Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all these people, to a land that I will give them.
Brothers and sisters, Moses is dead, Paul is dead, the disciples are dead, and all the great prophets of the Old Testament are dead, now the question remains, what are going to do, and who are you going to follow?
For JESUS said, follow Me!~
Brothers and sisters, you can get stuck trying to follow in the tracks of dead men and imitating dead men, but I’m following JESUS only!
(MATHEW 8:21-22) And another one of Jesus disciples said to him, lord, suffer me first to go and bury my dead father! Jesus said to him, “you follow me”: and let the dead bury the dead.
Brothers and sisters, have you ever seen people who say they believe in JESUS CHRIST, and they claim to be followers of CHRIST JESUS, but you can tell them the exact words of CHRIST JESUS, and they will use the scriptures that talk about JESUS against the words of CHRIST JESUS!………SAD~
Brothers and sisters, I love Paul, the disciples, and all the great prophets of GOD, but neither Paul, the disciples, or the great prophets of GOD are the way, the truth, or the life, only JESUS is!
As a matter of fact all of them are dead, but yet, JESUS has died for your sins, arose from the grave, and is now standing at the right hand of GOD waiting for you to make all his enemies his footstool, but you keep trying to follow dead men, and imitate dead men!
Brothers and sisters, I understand that Paul, the disciples, and all the great prophets were great men and women of GOD, but people tend to forget they all lifted up JESUS, they all exalted JESUS, and they all told us to follow JESUS!
Brothers and sisters, JESUS never told you to imitate the church in the book of Acts or to follow the great men and women of GOD who were before you!
JESUS said follow me, learn of me, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the father, except by me!
Brothers and sisters, JESUS said, greater works than these works I have done shall you do also, if you believe, but how can you do greater works than JESUS if you’re trying to imitate someone else and be like someone else?
JESUS said follow me, but who are you following?
(JOHN 8:52-58) Then the Jews said to Jesus, now we know that you have a devil!
“Abraham is dead”, and “all the prophets are dead”; and you say, if a man keeps my sayings, he shall never see death.
Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead?
Who do you make yourself out to be?
Jesus said to them, if I honor myself, my honor is nothing,
It is the father that honors me; of whom you say, that He is your God:
Yet you have not known him: but I know him:
And if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like you are a liar:
But I know him, and keep his sayings!
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then the Jews said to Jesus, you are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?
JESUS SAID TO THEM, verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, “I am.”
(MATHEW 24:35) Jesus says, heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall never pass away.
Brothers and sisters, many of you are following spiritually dead men who are walking, but they are spiritually dead, and their church buildings are desolate and dead also, because all they talk and teach about is money, prosperity, financial gain, and material possessions, and they cause the people to be spiritually dead just like they are, because like people, like pastor!
Brothers and sisters, I have seen spiritually dead pastors, prophets, evangelists, apostles, priests, and ministers who are spiritually dead, and the people who follow them are spiritually dead also, and they gather people of like spirits unto themselves, and they make them just as spiritually dead as they are!~
And the people don’t know JESUS for themselves, they don’t GOD for themselves, and they don’t know the truth of GOD’S word for themselves either, but they can tell you everything there is to know about the pastor!………….SAD~
Brothers and sisters, everything that glitters ain’t gold, and just because things look good on the outside that does not mean the inside is clean!
Brothers and sisters, “let the dead bury the dead, and you follow JESUS!”~
(MATTHEW 15:14) JESUS SAYS, Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, they both shall fall into the ditch.
(LUKE 6:39) And JESUS spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?
(2 JOHN 1:9-11) Whosoever transgresses, and does not abide in the doctrine of JESUS CHRIST, does not have God. He that abides in the doctrine of JESUS CHRIST, he has both the Father and the Son.
If there come any man unto you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
For he that bids him GOD speed is partaker of his evil deeds.