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Simon Tayengwa Gospel Sanity
Are we in for the Gospel or some brothel? Is it about God or gold? Can we really say we are up for the Word or the world? We had prophets in times past, but I certainly wonder if we are not cascading down to the profiteering abyss.

A plethora of prophets and so-called men of God is awash on the land of the living like a destructive deluge. Nothing against prophets or men of God at all if the scriptures are to be observed to the letter.

Is it the media, scepticism or mere malice that has continually portrayed the dark side of the men of cloth in this era of advanced technology where every Tom, Dick and Harry is a journalist, just by the click of a button?

A day hardly passes without a movie style piece of news spreading like a veld fire, sucking in the men we all look up to. We are all left in profound wonderment and equivocal guesses as to what the future holds.

1 Corinthians 4:4 says: “Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord cometh, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts.”

Then a question comes to mind, can we hold our peace and not indict that which dangles loose before our eyes? Romans 6:1 brings something to the fore; “what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?”

However, 2 Timothy 2:19 has a sanity package to all the Gospel fraternity by the following remarkable words: “Nevertheless, the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His. And, let everyone that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

So, let hypocrites rise from whichever angle, they will certainly fall at a fraction of the speed they elevated themselves. They are only engaged in a smokescreen funfare. The foundation of the Lord is solid and sure.

God’s children are safe and sound on this wise; Mark 13:22: “For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.” Only if it were possible, but the elect cannot be deceived.

If there is something to brag about, it is being the elect of God because the doors to being deceived are airtight shut. It isn’t possible, come what may, for the elect to fall prey to the ravening wolves in sheep skins.

One wonders how false prophets can deceive the nations when the falsehood banner is in plain view. The elements of truth are incorporated in the deceptive affair lest the gimmicks are detected from the outset.

A false prophet does not prophesy lies per se, but can be a jigsaw puzzle fit for Deuteronomy 13:1:’ “If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a sign or a wonder. And the sign or the wonder comes to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, let us go to other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them. Though shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul.”

Before one even asks a question as to how one keeps an arm’s length from deception, the Lord has a sure cure in Deuteronomy 13:4: “Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him and keep His commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him and cleave unto him.”

God is in His Word and He is the Word as prescribed by John 1:1. Keeping His commandments determines your origin.

You can prophesy as accurate as the timing of a motor car, but deviating from the beaten path by a single iota of the word makes you false before you start.

If a blind teacher leads the blind, they both fall into a ditch. Blind to what?  To the word. They have eyes, but they don’t see, ears have they but they don’t hear.

So the scripture is not as plain as it appears because many a man stumbles and falls headlong in the mid-morning light. Doesn’t this testify what the Bible says in John 4:24: “God is a spirit and they that worship Him must do so in spirit and in truth.

The “and” conjunction has kept our religious community in splinters of doctrines which will certainly keep them divided while the devil rejoices.

Our nation has been robbed of Gospel sanity.

Won’t the Lord descend with a whip like he did in Luke 19: 45-46: “And He went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying unto them, it is written, my house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.”

Souls have wept in silence while the false shepherds have, for the umpteenth time, sold wolf tickets to hungry souls, but one of these days the chickens will certainly come home to roost.