Rev.Dr.Jeffry David Camm

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A very candid question was asked upon the Editor-In-Chief of this eMagazine:

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"As the LGBT debates spreads across the world and more and more nations pass laws contrary to God’s Word, we are faced with the dilemma. How do we, as Christians follow God’s laws and witness to people, without disobeying the laws of the land in which we live?  

 

The response was very simple:

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"The Answer?  We HONOR GOD's LAWS regardless, the Lord will bless whatever Persecutions that come with that. Many have lost their backbone to stand firm."

*[PSALM 1:1-6] & [DEUTERONOMY 28]  Let's Get Back To Quintessential Holiness!  ~Editor's Notes - ATR

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Cities that Reject God’s Word  ~by Rev. Dr. Jeffry David Camm  Toowoomba, Australia 

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Luke Chapter 9 states: Then He (Jesus) called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And He sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick. And He said unto them, “Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. And whatsoever house you enter into, there abide, and then depart. And whosoever will not receive you, when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them”. And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.

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The scripture tells us that all power and all authority, in heaven and upon this earth, was given unto Jesus after the resurrection, but here, very early in His ministry, Christ is already exercising that authority. Jesus told us that greater power shall we have because Jesus is going to the Father and the Promised One from heaven, (The Holy Spirit) shall come and dwell within us.

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For the average Christian, how does this passage of scripture apply to us today?

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Jesus told us in Matthew 28:18-20 to “GO” and “MAKE DISCIPLES”. Therefore we must decide if today we are “Believers” or “Disciples,” because there will be different responses, depending upon who we believe we are.

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Believers are people, who consciously believer that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and have even taken steps to read His word and to go to church. They may have even taken the next step and been baptized.

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Mark 16:16-18 says: “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow those 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 (unknowingly), it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover”.

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This is the power that Jesus is talking about when He gave His disciples’ power and sent them out. The evidence that they had this power and that they were his disciples was that they could cast out devils and that they could heal of diseases. It is by the evidence of their actions, that you recognize them.

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So, coming back to today’s Christians; what are we?

1. Have you ever laid hands upon a person and prayed and he was healed?

2. When was the last time this happened? Last year? Last Month? Last Week? Never?

3. When was the last time you cast out a devil or demonic force from someone?

4. When was the last time this happened? Last year? Last Month? Last Week? Never?

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These are very serious questions the believers need to be asking themselves, because it is in the evidence of our actions, that we are to be known.

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Unfortunately, there are many in churches today where they have never done these things. They think they are disciples, but their actions clearly show that they are not.

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They go through the motions; they go to church every Sunday; they sing the hymns and attend the various Christian meetings, but they don’t bear any fruit. The test is in the results!

If you go to school for 12 years and then sit for the exam, it is only the ones who pass the test with high marks who are offered places at university. Others have to get jobs, whilst those who failed, either have to repeat the course, or are rejected from this avenue of learning.

So there was a test with the disciples referred to in Luke Chapter 9.

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They were commissioned, to go on a journey, without any of the comforts that they experienced when they were at home. Jesus starts His instructions to them with:

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“Take nothing for you journey”.

1. No staves; to help you walk and to fend off attackers

2. No scrip, a type of satchel bag

3. No money

4. Not even a second set of clothes

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This is a bit different to our society today, where we have the car fully loaded with things to go with us on our journey. This is because over the 2,000 years since Jesus walked the earth, our attitude to strangers has changed.

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When Jesus walked the earth, a stranger would come into a town and he would stand in the town square until someone in one of the houses offered him hospitality, and a place to sleep for the night.

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Once you understand this culture, you can understand more easily why “there was no room at the inn” as referred to when Joseph and a pregnant Mary arrived in Bethlehem.

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The instruction given to the disciples is very clear. If you are offered hospitality, accept it and your peace will bless their dwelling and their city. This is because Jesus gave them the power and the authority to bless those who offered hospitality, to them and to their whole city.

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But to those cities where no hospitality was offered, they were to shake the dust off their feet and to take their blessings with them. This was to be a witness against them for future destruction.

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These are challenges we face today, when we are told to go and make disciples. What do we take with us? In most cases we refuse to go unless we have arranged plenty of financial support, have a good house to live in, a place for the children to go to school, a bible, a computer and plenty of other “necessities of life”.

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Is this why we don’t see the miracles and the growth in the church like took place in the first century church?

 

It was in the first century church that we saw people prepared to be hung, drawn and quartered, fed to the lions, tortured, stoned to death, or crucified, because of their faith in Jesus Christ.

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Last year and early this year we saw Christian people beheaded in Iraq and Syria because they refused to denounce their belief in Jesus Christ and the media was looking at and glorifying the work of ISIS.

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Countries denounced the evil of ISIS, but I am yet to see any church come out and praise the martyrs which were prepared to die for their faith. These people lost their lives for the sake of Jesus Christ.

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The scripture is very clear. If you protect your life, you will lose it, but if you die for my sake then you will receive eternal life.

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You will be one of the martyrs sitting underneath the throne room of God crying out to Jesus, (in the book of Revelations chapter 6:9) “How long must we wait until you judge those who killed us”?

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This year we have seen ISIS terrorists make an attack here in Australia, in our own country, and people were killed.

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There are two new martyrs in heaven, to join the other Australian martyrs murdered in India and in other countries where they went to be missionaries, but these are our first local martyrs, unless there were pastors murdered for the gospel earlier in our colonial days, which we don’t talk about.

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These actions clearly point to where we are in spiritual time. As we enter the end-time journey as a nation, we must make some serious decisions about who we are, and who we claim to be.

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Australia is at the Spiritual Crossroads!   (just as in the USA, UK, and other nations)

We must consciously ask ourselves.

1)      Are we a Christian Country?

a)       Unfortunately I have to say we are not a Christian country, because if we were a Christian country, our laws would reflect Christian values. There would be no laws which are contrary to God’s laws.

b)      There would not be a law in any state, or in the Commonwealth which allows legal murder, (which we call abortion), because God knows us in the womb, and God honors human life, and because He made us in His own image.

2)      As we have to come to our National Day of Prayer and Fasting, we have to decide:

a)      Are we going to pray and lobby for our politicians to review all of our laws and amend any that do not line up with God’s laws?

b)      Are we going to actively proclaim that Australia IS a Christian country and that WE ARE ONE OF THE GREAT SOUTHLANDS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT?

c)       We have to correct the premise that we are the only one, because that is not what Captain Ferdinand De Quiroz proclaimed. He said: All of the islands (plural) south of Vanuatu shall be claimed for Jesus Christ (not for any earthly king) and will be forever known as the GREAT SOUTHLANDS (plural) OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

d)      This means that some Melanesian Islands, Australia, New Zealand, and even Antarctica all fall into this category.

e)      Are we going to act as believers, or as disciples? The proof is in the evidence, that is, our fruits.

f)        Are we going to move into our promises, or are we going to roam around in the desert for another forty years?

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The year (2016) was prophesied as the Year of the Whirlwind, the Year of Destiny for Australia. The whirlwind has already started to move over this nation. Are we going to acknowledge it and step into our destiny?  Only history will tell!

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