The church doesn’t have the luxury of discussing and debating history outside the canon of scripture when there are folks who need salvation, deliverance, healing, and prosperity.

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The Church should be an emergency room for the spiritually wounded, a therapeutic outlet for spiritual healing, and a kitchen for the spiritually hungry BEFORE it is a bastion of intellectual debate.

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In other words, FIRST THINGS FIRST! The Church should emulate what Jesus did in His earthly ministry and what the Apostles continued in the first century Church.

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If what you’re discussing doesn’t contribute to making disciples, maturing believers, and multiplying ministries, it should not be a high priority.

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© 2012 – Derrick Day (www.derrickday.com)

Love And Grace – Lesson 10 Of The Love Walk (Part 3), a video teaching Series by Bishop Derrick Day

Love And Grace – Lesson 10 Of The Love Walk (Part 2), a video teaching Series by Bishop Derrick Day

Love And Grace – Lesson 10 Of The Love Walk (Part 1), a video teaching Series by Bishop Derrick Day

The purpose of this lesson is to teach the  believer  that it is not enough to love someone into  salvation, you need to disciple them in the way of  Jesus.

Instead of thinking like “Christians,” let’s start thinking like CHRIST. Too much so-called “Christian” doctrine is really religious in nature. Don’t believe this? Follow along with me…

When someone gets saved and immediately someone tries to train that new convert to memorize the 10 Commandments, that’s religion!

When folks look down their nose at the sister who comes up in the church wearing a pants-suit, that’s religion!

When what saith the Pastor, Bishop, or Apostle is esteemed more than the Word of God, that’s religion!

When the teaching of the tithe is taught such that if you don’t tithe, God will get it back from you in medical bills or some other such threat, that’s religion!

When sexual purity and chastity are taught by leadership but not observed by leadership, that’s religion.

I could go on and on but the gist of it is that it’s not about religion, it’s about RELATIONSHIP with God through Jesus Christ. Religion, denomination, and doctrine can’t even save themselves, much less you.

God was never, is not, and never will be about religion. He is a King, so He is concerned about His Government and He is a Father, so He is concerned about His children. Mankind has taken the simplicity of salvation and perverted it into dogma.

Religion is bondage and is tantamount to spiritual slavery. Folks need to get up off the spiritual plantation and navigate spiritually northward to the freedom and liberty that can only be found in Christ Jesus!

Good HAS triumphed over evil. This has been the case since Jesus came out of the grave. Indeed, Good is superior because evil is simply the absence of Good.  However, we will only see the manifestation of it WHEN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM (Matthew 24:14) is preached!

What do I mean? Many are preaching salvation. But salvation is the door to the Kingdom. Many are preaching baptism, which is an outward display of your allegiance to King Jesus. Many are preaching healing and prosperity, but these are manifestations of Kingdom citizenship.

The Gospel of the Kingdom is rooted in Love and demonstrative of God’s Power! It is the Gospel of wholeness and completion; nothing broken, nothing lacking!

Jesus said in Matthew 18:11 that He came to save THAT which was lost. The “THAT” is His Kingdom and the dominion of man as His regent. Until we begin to exercise this dominion, we are like police officers in a convenience store who witness a robbery and opt to do nothing about it!

Jesus said in Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” That means we have some work to do!

Jesus is talking about the COMPLETE Gospel. Not some piecemeal “gospel.” Not what ”Dr. FeelGood” preaches. Not what the hellfire-brimstone crowd is preaching. Not what the healing and prosperity crowd are preaching!

The whole Gospel for the whole man!

This is something that I am very passionate about. We must be about the business of winning and discipling souls for the Kingdom, showing them the love of Christ that they may experience the power of God.

Then we will see good triumph over evil — in this present world

© 2010 – Derrick Day (www.derrickday.com)

Everyone says the gift of salvation is free but, in reality, it costs.

Imagine if someone gives you a new home or a fancy car. Glory to God!. Then after the “honeymoon” is over, you have to pay the taxes on the “gift.” If it is a car, you have to register it. If it is a home, you need to furnish it. If it is a car, you have to buy gas. If it is a home, you have to pay utilities. Both will need to be properly insured. Both require regular maintenance. Both, during the course of their existence, will require repair.

Likewise with salvation…it may cost you your friends. Salvation may cost you your family. It may cost you your job. It will definitely cost you pleasures of the flesh. Yes, salvation is free but it has ongoing costs. But it is well worth it!

First of all, you have the gift of everlasting life and eternal reward. Your eternal life begins at the moment of salvation and continues into eternity! God has promised all our work will be tried by fire; some will be consumed as hay or stubble – others will come forth as silver and gold.

Second, Jesus said He came that we may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10). So, the more we abide in Him and His Word abides in us, the greater will our reward be not only in the hereafter, but in the here-and-now as well.

That is good Gospel News!

© 2010 – Derrick Day (www.derrickday.com)

Would you ask for something you already have? If your dad buys you a pair of sneakers, you don’t have to ask for them again, you only have to put them on and walk in them. In other words, all you have to do is appropriate what you ALREADY have! Romans 8:11 says that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is inside every believer. The Word also says in Philippians 4:13 that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. And God has given us so many precious promises regarding salvation, deliverance, healing and prosperity. Why, then do we insist upon asking for, instead of appropriating, what we already have?

©2010 – Derrick Day (www.derrickday.com)