Glory be the God! Hallelujah! God is faithful to his word and when you're faithful to his words supernatural results take place.
There's three major areas of salvation, that we got to beef up on our biblical study. Obviously we need a greater deeper revelation of love.
We're saved by grace through faith and what produces faith, Grace. Grace that actually leads us to repentance.
Grace could also be substituted with the word "goodness" that leads us to TRANSFORMATION.
Greasy grace Christians or dirty grace Christians, use the grace of God as licensed to sin, license to fellowship with non-crucified flesh, which is where a lot of Christians get off into error and weirdness.
A lot of times Christians will ask me: "Where's your love?" - Fully intact with the truth! Because, grace and truth came through Jesus. SEE The gospel of John
We need to understand this LOVE. We got to understand this. It's beyond understanding, even natural logic, but we got to get a greater understanding within respect to His mercy, His goodness, His kindness especially towards the lost - those who Jesus died for.
Religious people have repelled many away because of the lack of the God-kind of love.
The authority is stewardship of God's love and Truth. However, many love to use the holy scriptures to put others into submission to themselves NOT to the Lord Jesus Christ. In Christ, we only have authority to illustrate and demonstrate Christ likeness to others and to angels and devils.
In 1 Peter 5:3, the Amplified Bible states: "Not domineering over those entrusted to you, but being examples (patterns and models of Christian living) to the flock (the congregation)".
The word of God specifically, says to not lord it over your flock, but to illustrate and demonstrate Christ-likeness, how to behave, other words, lead by example, instead of coercion and intimidation, and the list goes on and on where a lot of abuse has taken place and have repelled a lot of people.
The deceitfulness of riches is - power and influence. It's not money and things, though we do have to guard against that, its a very legitimate part of the equation and I'm not anti-prosperity. I believe we're called to ridiculous levels of prosperity where people go "wow!", that is a sign and a wonder that we are walking in ridiculous levels of prosperity. Worshipers of Jesus, able ministers of the New Testament, lifting Jesus up to others, and they're all just Uber successful, and amply supplied and it's not just through means of business and investments but through the Laws of Sowing and Reaping. People will notice - There's something else there - this multiplication factor going on.
However we still need a guard against the deceitfulness of riches. Anytime you're going to hear me talk about the levels of prosperity we're all called to enjoy - you're also going to hear me admonish about covetousness and materialism, which is part of the equation of prosperity to enjoy guilt-free.
The love of God compels us to minister to others, not in a silent way, (I'm NOT talking about bragging about ourselves, but we're freely explaining and proclaiming Jesus. We hollow God Almighty within ourselves and before others. Rejoicing over the Death Barrel and Resurrection of Jesus.
In this goodness we lead others to Jesus.