Omega Message – June 1985
Cecil J. duCille
In our last issue we dealt with the healing of the soul which is not being done by the shepherds who God has called. In this issue we will attempt to bring to a conclusion the rest of this message which brings weeping to my soul and I am sure to God’s. At the beginning of the message twelve indictments from Ezekiel 34, against the shepherds of Israel (the church) were stated. So far we have dealt with eight.
“Neither have ye bound up that which was broken.”
Broken lives; broken marriages; broken hearts; All these have multiplied in our midst and the dead psychology of the theological seminaries is useless against the flood of problems which daily arise. Let me emphasize that “there is balm in Gilead,” or in other words there is deliverance in Christ. When I say “In Christ” I mean inside of a spiritual dimension called Christ. Those who seek deliverance otherwise are only deceiving themselves. There are a lot of stop gaps in many places, but deliverance is in no other place, or name, but Christ Jesus Our Lord and Savior.
“Ye shall call His name Jesus for He shall save His people from their sins.” I was saved; I am being saved; and I shall be saved. He did not save and then leave us to the mercy of falling; He keeps. This keeper keeps from all other keepers; He delivers from all other deliverers; He never rests nor weakens, but continues to wash and refine us until we are perfectly whole and holy even as He is. He baptizes, that is, He condemns my human nature to death, and gives me a living promise of resurrection in the body. The continuous work of God within and without is what I call deliverance.
We were involved with two newly weds who were having a horrible time of adjusting. Their problems were spiritual and were so monumental that they felt discouraged. The sister was from a Pentecostal church so naturally she returned to her ‘Pastor’ for counsel. The ‘Pastor’ took one look at the situation and advised her to get a divorce. These young people were fighting but deep down they loved each other and wished it could be otherwise. Jesus was given a chance to work and the demonic oppression was loosed and they now live very happily together. The gifts of the Holy Spirit will assist in discernment, in healings; but they cannot prevent those who are healed from getting sick again – Jesus Can – If we can believe that all this is part of the fine writing of our Salvation, then we can receive divine health, Spirit, Soul, and body – and if we miss divine health, then God has provided in this same contract, Divine Healing.
I remember one day Jesus Christ supernaturally visited me in my room, and asked me not to pursue the idea of becoming a medical doctor. He promised me that if I gave it up, He would give me more healings in my ministry than I would have received as a doctor of medicine. I discovered that there was some fine writing in that contract which I did not perceive at the time. His gift of healing healed bodies, but the ministry gift healed souls.
The true shepherds of God cannot depend on gifts of the Spirit to heal the hurt of the “daughter of Israel.” They must live dedicated lives of obedience to God and to none other, so that His power emanates from them as they become conductors of His life to others. Then and only then will we begin to bind up that which is broken. Now in the end of time “that which is broken,” is badly broken, very badly broken, and it takes more of the power of God to heal it than it did in the past.
One of the things that is broken in the modern world is faith which we had in Government to teach our children the right things. In the past we allowed them to make our curriculums and teach them morality etc., but now no longer. They are teaching our children dangerous and twisted materials, some of which come from minds, which have been warped by nefarious practices and behaviour. I heard the Secretary of Education giving a talk recently, and was blessed by his understanding of the situation. One point, which greatly impressed me, is that he said an immoral person cannot teach children morality. If a person is living in an immoral condition, he/she is not fit to teach children morality; that morality is a basis of proper human behavior which every child needs. I can concur and add that the reason for the widespread lack of clean thinking and behavior, is that morality has been abandoned by the leaders of education both secular and from the church. It seems too late to save the nation, but the people of the Kingdom should snatch their children from this debacle and flee into the arms of Jesus Christ for deliverance.
“Neither have ye brought again that which was driven away.”
Evangelism is a provision of God, built into every Christian’s system to win others for Christ. The job of the Evangelist as a ministry of the Body of Christ is designed of God to bring people to Christ and to bring together groups of believers exhorting them to come closer into the Body of Christ. Any function therefore, which does not fulfill this commission is not evangelism. The modern church is more prolific in gaining converts than any church in history, but are we bringing people to Christ or to our different denominations? Jesus called this proselytizing or the act of making proselytes or clones. One of the very last commands of Jesus to us was:
Matthew 28:18-20 “All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”
The command is specific: It tells us to go, but it also tells us what to teach and by what authority we should go, and that our power would be the “dunamin” of the Holy Spirit. If we go with the authority of our organizations and teach the wrong message, can we say we did obey this command? Look keenly again at the word of the Lord and you will notice that the only message that God sent us to preach is the message of the Kingdom. Let us look at some other scriptures:
Mark 16:15-18 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.”
The word of God is true and no matter how we may rationalize we cannot change the truth. We were teaching in India and our interpreter walked out and left us with people who spoke Telegu. We began to lay hands on them for the Baptism of the Holy Ghost and they began to speak in English. It took us some time to realize that they did not know a word of English and in fact it was the Holy Spirit that had given them His baptism. “They shall speak with new tongues.”
Luke 9:2 “And he sent them to preach the Kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:60 “Jesus said unto them, let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the Kingdom of God.”
There are many more scriptures which show that Jesus sent us to preach the Kingdom of God. If we preach and make our converts come to Jesus for Salvation, but deflect them to our denomination, then we are not preaching the Kingdom of God. We are preaching our own Kingdom. Denominations are Kingdoms. They have a king. Any organization with a king is a Kingdom, and rivals the Kingdom of God.
When the scripture, therefore speaks of “Neither have ye brought again that which was driven away,” it is speaking of bringing again to God. Those we have brought to our organizations to be under our rulership are not counted as having been brought to God. God has to recapture them from the Kingdoms of this world where they have been scattered. Those evangelists who are winning many souls and ensnaring them in denominations are not working for God but for denominational kingdoms of this world. The gospel of the kingdom remains to be preached in all the world to bring again that which was driven away by denominational divisions and heretical doctrines.
“Neither have ye sought that which was lost.”
The lost sheep of Christ, or the lost coin of Christ, or the lost son of Christ; Three categories of the lost which do not deal with the sinner, but with the property of the church which was lost.
- The Lost coin needed a Woman (the church) a light (the glory of God); a broom, (the Holy Spirit) to find it. The coin however had the image and mark of the country to which it belongs on it. As a lost coin it had no value or power; it could not reclaim itself. It needed the Woman as much as the woman needed the light, and the broom. The woman without the light would be unable to see the coin and the light without the broom could not identify where the coin was. To find this kind of believer we must be walking in the Light of the Lord, and working with the Holy Spirit.
- The Lost Sheep could cry and the shepherd would hear if he was near enough. A lost sheep needs a shepherd; The Shepherd ministry is given of God and they have a heart to care for the wounded and the dying; to weep with those who weep; to love them and seek after their souls regardless of the buffeting they might give to him/her. The sheep can stray from pasture to pasture but do not have the sense of direction to return home. If shepherds therefore, lead them to a denominational system, then they will follow. The charismatic leaders of our day have for the most part sent back the people to the churches with the result that a counterfeit Holy Spirit manifestation has been created which has strengthened the bands of those who are bound in the systems. I have heard people prophesy in the name of Mary and messages coming from most of the church leaders saying that we should all recognize the Catholic church and the pope as the head of the church on earth. Many will say but we have sought that which was lost, we are an evangelical church – but alas, when we found them we led them astray and locked them in a system, instead of liberating them to Christ. We have put them under man appointed leaders and taught them to reject the ministry of the Body of Christ appointed by God himself.
- The Lost Son must return home by himself. He has the blood of the Father within his veins. He has enough understanding to know right from wrong. He must repent. He does not need a shepherd to lead him home; he knows the way.
“But with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.”
Jesus, in speaking to his disciples when they wanted positions of rulership in the Kingdom, explained to them that positions of rulership was only in the world systems; it is not so in the Kingdom of God. This lesson in Matthew 20:25; was never believed by the church. In spite of the words of Christ the churches have all created a hierarchy and set themselves in positions of dominion over the people of God. Jesus explains that only sinners do these things. In verse 26 he says “But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be greatest among you let him be your servant, and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve and to give His life a ransom for many.”
The spirit of rulership is a spirit of the anti-christ. This is depicted in scripture by the horns.
The promise of God to the church is clear:
Ezekiel 34:10-12 “Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherd feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.”
“For thus saith the Lord God; Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all the places where they have been scattered – In the Cloudy and Dark Day.”
I encourage you to read the rest of the chapter. The Cloudy and Dark day is the Day of the Lord which is described in Joel 2 as being neither day nor night. This day begins while it is yet dark with the blowing of the trumpet or message of deliverance of God’s people out of all the places and circumstances into which they have been bound.
Verse 20 “Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.”
Verse 23 “And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them even my servant David; He shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.”
Let us make a covenant with Jesus Christ. Let us reaffirm His Kingship over all our lives our thoughts and our hearts and let Him breach the walls, the fences, and the lattice work of our selfish ways, and reign in our lives. Come thou over my mountains Oh God, and be thou as a roe or a hart upon the barriers that separate us.
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