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God says this: If you try to go change The Systems of The World, The Systems of The World will change you! The devil’s lie is this: Bring the kingdom to the business world, to the entertainment industry, to the government, to the religious system, and take all the systems for Jesus! But I tell you this, my brother and sister, those proclamations are traps from Satan!

You will end up bound in the world worse than before you got saved! Too many people in the church say, “We need to bring the church to the world.” The Church is called to be set apart! We are called to be in the world but not of it! But many people are wondering why ten years later now they are totally of the world when they used to be so on fire! What happened? 

Well, maybe you went to a Kingdom entrepreneur business meeting where a bunch of Christians who are into business came together to invade the world of business for the Kingdom. Then you got so entangled, thinking you are doing service to God while making bank. Wow, what an amazing world. My church is all of a sudden my business office. Then you go your whole life making all this money, but in the end, He tells you, I never knew you. 

Unfortunately, many will hear the sound of those words, many people who thought they could bring their faith and take over the worldliness of the world. 

“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2

It didn’t say, “Go transform the world.” It said, “YOU be transformed!” 

We are living for Christ to be transformed to look like Him and be like Him and transform others along the way. To look like He who is the Living Word! That’s the whole goal and point of why we’re still here. If it’s other than that, then there would be no time for the assembling of the saints. We might as well shut down all the churches and send people to the workplace to change the system! Jesus never said go into the world and change it! He said to come out of the world and don’t be of it! Don’t think as they think, don’t do what they do! Be NOT conformed!

Of course, we are going to work a job, make money, and do things. Though God wants to destroy that mindset that we think we have to change the system. We may be in the system, but we’re not called to be of it. We are not called to be consumed by it and let it take our focus. We are not called to be on fire to change our society and culture. We are called to be on fire for Him and Him alone!

Too many people in the church today are more focused on work than the Kingdom. Though what do they say? “Oh, well, I get to preach to all the guys at work.” Yes, you preach, but your heart is really there for the money. You’re not preaching because God sent you. You’re preaching because you want to make money and accomplish your dream and at the same time feel justified before God. But I tell you this, you will not feel justified in His sight, and that residue of condemnation will stick to your soul. You will keep trying to preach and preach to your boss to make yourself feel like God is pleased, but at the end of the day, you will still struggle with condemnation because you’re not in Christ. 

To be in Christ is to obey the Spirit of God. And when you do things because of money, you’re not doing things in the Spirit. When you do things to accomplish dreams, you’re not in the Spirit. We need to do things because we want to purely live by the Spirit that we may please God! 

NO OTHER REASON!! When we do things for other reasons, we fall into teachings of devils. Teachings of devils that will tell you we need to take the world for Jesus. And they WILL find scripture to back up their claim, and if you’re after the same things the world is after, you will fall into those doctrines of devils easily!

People are trying to change their culture and industry for Jesus, but they don’t understand that they are starting to become like what they are trying to change. Why? Because they are so focused on it; it’s their hidden idol that they don’t realize. 

When God is not on it, the devil will be! There’s no in between. And the devil will use the “Jesus wants to change the world card” on you. All of a sudden, you will be wrapped in politics like you never have been before. You will be so focused on the government, on your nation, on your job, on the industry you are a part of. And guess where your focus won’t be? Jesus.

I have seen many ministers so on fire casting out demons all over the world. All of a sudden, all they talk about is the nation and government, still speaking in the church but not about God. Very sad.

Any doctrine that gets you focused on the soul realm is searing your spiritual eyes with a hot iron. 

 

“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” Matthew 6:22-23

So many Christians are now worldlier than ever, more lukewarm than ever. They use to be so on fire, but their fire went out. What happened? Their eye wasn’t single!

Their eyes weren’t focused on the single most important thing which is Jesus. They were deceived. They were told that they were going to take over the 7 mountains for Jesus, but little did they know, it was a trap from Satan to get them worldly-focused, to get their eye to no longer be singularly focused, but now they are focused on other things, too. How great are those other things? How great is that darkness in your eye now! Anytime we make something else the focus, we are making an idol. And anytime we have an idol, we have darkness in our eye. And the question is, is that darkness now robbing you from intimacy with God?

The question is, is what you’re doing setting you apart to be closer to God? If not, then you’re going the wrong way! That’s why we are here, is to know him! To have Him! To cherish Him, our prize, our lost coin. Many hear that parable of the lost coin, and they will think about their bank account. Though are you going to listen to that parable and say my lost coin is God Himself? And I will lose everything to find Him? 

Many people are being fed backward Christianity, now being told to go in the world to gain Him. But it’s a trick, just like how the devil told Eve to eat the apple and she would be like God even though God already created them like Him. It’s the oldest trick in the book! Bait and switch! Take over the systems for Jesus but lose Jesus in the process. 

Don’t lie to yourself! You must forsake all that you live for to gain Him. That’s the only way! The prophets wrote it, Paul said it! And most importantly, Jesus said it and it is written. You must forsake all to have it all! What are you burning for? The power of His resurrection or a nice car and a nice house!

God is furious at these doctrines. I can feel the fire in my bones as I write this. 

The question is will you sell out? Or sell all?

Are you going to get born again and then give up your inheritance for a morsel of meat? Or are you going to give up all your meat and crops so that you can have something not of this world? You can’t see Him, but you can have Him! Are you living for what you can see or what you can’t see? 

What do you see? Do you see with your heart or your eyes? Because if you see with your eyes, they will deceive you! And you will fall to the lies. Blessed are those that can’t see but believe! And cursed are those that pretend to believe and live for what they see!

Father, war against those doctrines with the double-edged sword in your mouth! Rip those filthy doctrines to shreds! Save the sheep, Abba! Send uncompromised laborers to save the harvest so that the harvest would not be destroyed by lies! You will save those that are after you and you only! We renounce every doctrine that tries to get us focused on the world! We renounce every 7 mountain teaching telling us to go into the world, telling us to change our culture and nation! We establish in our heart and vow to do your will which is to feed your sheep! Let’s shock the system of Satan and forsake all!

By Joe Pinto