Therefore, Accept Each Other Just As Christ Accepted You, So That Will Be Given Glory

ROMANS 15:5-7
“Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore receive one another, just as Christ also received us, to the glory of God.
”‭‭Romans‬ ‭15:5-7‬ ‭NKJV‬
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The Roman church was a diverse community; made up of Jews, Gentiles, Slaves and free people; rich and poor, both strong and weak. Therefore, it was difficult for them to accept one another. Nothing much has changed today.
Accepting one another means not focusing on our differences, but rather looking for common ground; it means respecting others opinions while working toward the truth.
It means to love one another, removing all barriers that come from status and money. It means , making every effort to socialise with one another, eating and drinking together in fellowship, and being humble, avoiding racial and economic discrimination.
Today, division in the church is at an all time high because of the lies and corruption that is in our governments, world leaders, media, and even church leadership.
The man made pestilence was used to kick start fear throughout the world and has brought our world to economic ruin and has all but crushed the old church.
Regardless of one’s opinion of the darkness that we are experiencing in our world today, we must go out of our way to remove all barriers, and to re-assemble ourselves together for prayer and worship.
We believers must make make every effort to seek truth and to join together in fellowship, prayer and worship. We must support and encourage one another in these difficult times.
Science is not working; many people have suffered and even died as a result of taking the preventive jabs; our godless governments are not solving the issues, but rather, they are making things worse.
They are more focused on their hidden agendas such as cashless society (see REVELATION 13:16-28) than resolving the issues of our world.
We are living in a world of lies and corruption and it is time to wake up.
Jesus said, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.””
‭‭John‬ ‭8‬:‭31‬-‭32‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
My brethren, is it not time to rise up?
Since church attendance is at an all time low, Is it not time to make a conscious effort to contact those believers who you haven’t heard from in a while.
Open your home, invite them in to join in fellowship, prayer, and worship.
Is not time to drive out the spirit of fear that has brought anxiety/ depression, suicides, and so much division. Is it not time to rise up against the devil and his evil schemes?
“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up. Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?”
‭‭James‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
My brethren, “Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
‭‭II Timothy‬ ‭1:6-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
When we look at the evil in this world, wars, frets of war, terrorism, persecution of the church, particularly street pastors. Growing sexual immorality, even among young children as schools push gender changing schemes upon the children within our schools. Furthermore, the explicit sex education in schools today looks more like grooming than education.
We are witnessing increasing lawlessness, breaking economies, increasing poverty, food shortages, sickness and cancers, anxiety/ depression, and even suicides, we know this world cannot continue much longer without God’s intervention.
The truth is, it is all but over.
Jesus said, ““Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5‬:‭24‬-‭30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
My beloved, there’s a great sense of increasing evil like never before in this world, but God is moving too.
While the old church is systematically being dismantled, Jesus is putting together a new thing for such a time as this.
“I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭4‬:‭1‬-‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
A fire has started and revival is gaining momentum as Gods people are opening their homes to worshipers. The apostolic five fold ministry of Jesus Christ is here and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”
‭(MATTHEW 16:18).
“”Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him— A grain offering and a drink offering For the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. Let the priests, who minister to the Lord, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ” Then the Lord will be zealous for His land, And pity His people. The Lord will answer and say to His people, “Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations. “But I will remove far from you the northern army, And will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, With his face toward the eastern sea And his back toward the western sea; His stench will come up, And his foul odor will rise, Because he has done monstrous things.” Fear not, O land; Be glad and rejoice, For the Lord has done marvelous things! Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; For the open pastures are springing up, And the tree bears its fruit; The fig tree and the vine yield their strength. Be glad then, you children of Zion, And rejoice in the Lord your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you— The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the Lord your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel: I am the Lord your God And there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame. “And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days. “And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the Lord Shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance, As the Lord has said, Among the remnant whom the Lord calls.”
‭‭Joel‬ ‭2‬:‭12‬-‭32‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.