*** LITURGY OF THE WORD ***
THE FLORILEGIUM
Lector: Readings:
(Jeremiah 20:7-13; Romans 6:1b-11)
The Old Testament:
Jeremiah 20:7-13 Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are
stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day
long. Everyone mocks me. For as often as I speak, I cry out; I shout, “Violence
and destruction!” because the Word of Yahweh has been made a reproach to me,
and a derision, all day long. If I say, “I will not make mention of him, nor
speak any more in his name,” then there is in my heart as it were a burning
fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with holding it in, and I can’t. For I
have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. “Denounce him, and we
will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall...
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore, my persecutors will
stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because
they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never
be forgotten... Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of
the needy from the hand of evildoers.
The Epistle:
Romans 6:1b-11 Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? May it never
be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know
that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as
Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also
might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him in the
likeness of his death, we will also be part of the likeness of his
resurrection; knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be bondservants
to sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. But if we died with
Christ, we believe that we will also live with him; knowing that Christ being
raised from the dead dies no more. Death no more has dominion over him... Thus,
consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
The Historical Witness:
“When the fire of the Word is shut up in your bones, the whispers of familiar
friends cannot quench it. Stand naked in the truth, for the Awesome Mighty One
hedges about the soul that refuses to deal unwisely with the age.” — Polykarp
(2nd Century martyr)
“Baptism is an execution and a
resurrection. The old man is dropped into the deep waters of judgment, and the
new man emerges, legally emancipated from the dominion of decay, anchored in
the immutable life of the Son.” — Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd Century)
Hear the Word of God!
Sheep: Thanks be to God!
GOSPEL READING
Pastor Jim: Please Stand for
the Gospel Reading found in Matthew 10:24-39… 24
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord. 25 It is enough
for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If
they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of His
household! 26 Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered
that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known. 27 What I tell
you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the
ear, proclaim on the housetops. 28 Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body,
but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both
soul and body in Gehenna. 29 “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin?
Not one of them falls on the ground without your Father’s will. 30 But the very
hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Don’t be afraid therefore. You are of
more value than many sparrows. 32 Everyone therefore who confesses me before
men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever
denies me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in
heaven. 34 “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come
to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I came to set a man at variance against his
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against
her mother-in-law. 36 A man’s foes will be those of his own household. 37 He
who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves
son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 He who doesn’t take his
cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He who finds his life will
lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.” Hear the Word of
the Lord!
Sheep: Thanks be to God!
SERMON
“Proclaiming from the Housetops”
Pastor
Jim Allen Sermon Text: Matthew 10:24-39
Theme:
Standing unshaken in the absolute security of the believer, relying on the
sovereign, tracking care of our Heavenly Father, and equipping earthly fathers
to lead their households with uncompromised truth in the face of cosmic and
geopolitical intimidation.
Introduction: The Double-Agent’s
Code and the True Father
In the terrifying winter of
1586, England was locked in a cold war of religious espionage and political
survival. Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, uncovered a
deadly, underground conspiracy known to history as the Babington Plot. A group
of radical dissidents was planning to assassinate Elizabeth and place Mary,
Queen of Scots, on the throne. To trap the conspirators without alerting them,
Walsingham engineered a brilliant, counterfeit communication channel. He
intercepted the secret, coded letters Mary was sending from her confinement
inside beer barrels.
Walsingham didn’t destroy the
letters. Instead, he employed a master cryptanalyst named Thomas Phelippes, who
decrypted the intricate cipher, copied the contents, and then—crucially—forged
an additional postscript onto the decrypted letters, asking the conspirators
for the explicit names of the assassins.
The plotters fell for the
counterfeit message completely, writing back with the exact names Walsingham
needed to crush the network. The conspirators thought they were operating in
absolute, uncrackable secrecy, completely hidden by darkness. But every single
word they whispered in the dark was being systematically logged, transcribed,
and laid bare on the desk of the spymaster.
When the apostate world
operates in the spiritual and geopolitical realms, it works under the delusion
that its dark conspiracies, its counterfeit agendas, and its underground
persecutions are hidden from the eyes of heaven. They think they can whisper their
deceptions in secret rooms and manipulate the trajectory of human history. But
today, our text in Matthew chapter 10 shatters that illusion.
Today is also Father’s Day.
When we look at our families—as I look at Miss Carol, our children Kathy, Jon,
Sarai, and Becca, their spouses and our twelve beautiful grandchildren—we
recognize that the core duty of a father is to guard, protect, and pass down
truth to his household. Even my golden doodle, Paddy, knows when “Dad” is
standing at the door ready to secure the perimeter of our home. But earthly
fathers can only guard so much. We are limited clay pots. In Matthew 10, Jesus
points us beyond our human limitations to the ultimate cosmic Spymaster and
Protector: our Heavenly Father. Christ strips away the power of fear by
revealing that our Heavenly Father has already decrypted the plans of darkness.
He calls us, and especially our fathers, to a life of uncompromised, public
boldness, anchored in the absolute security of the believer, proving that what
the enemy whispers in secret will ultimately be crushed by the public
manifestation of the King of Kings!
II. Verse-by-Verse Commentary:
The Exegesis of the Fearless Mandate Verses 24-25: The Household Identity
“A disciple is not above his
teacher, nor a servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be
like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master
of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!”
Jesus begins by establishing a
fundamental principle of covenantal alignment. If the cosmic masters of this
world system looked at the perfect, uncompromised Son of God and labeled Him
Βεελζεβούλ (Beelzebul) (beh-el-zeb-ool’)—the lord of filth—then we are fools if
we expect the apostate culture to applaud our preaching. The servant cannot
expect a softer path than the Master. But notice the deep, comforting security
hidden inside this warning: we are called members of “his household.” If you
share His reproach, you share His name, His inheritance, and His legal
protection.
Verses 26-27: The Decrypted
Darkness
“Therefore, don’t be afraid of
them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that
will not be known. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and
what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.”
Jesus issues a direct command:
μὴ οὖν φοβηθῆτε αὐτούς (me oun fobethete autous) (may oon fob-ay-thay’-teh
aw-toos’)—”Therefore don’t be afraid of them.” Why? Because the secrecy of the
enemy is an illusion. The Greek word for “revealed” is ἀποκαλυφθήσεται
(apokalyphthesetar) (ap-ok-al-oop’-thee-seh-tai), meaning to completely strip
back the veil. The underground plots of the fallen אֱלֹהִים
(elohim) (el-o-heem’) and their earthly puppets are already laid bare before
the divine council. Therefore, the ekklesia does not hide. We do not operate
like a secret society. What Jesus teaches us in the quiet intimacy of prayer
and Scripture, we are commanded to blast from the “housetops”—the most public,
unmistakable platforms available!
Verse 28: The Proper Fear
“Don’t be afraid of those who
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear Him who is able
to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.”
Here is the ultimate
calibration of human perspective. Jesus contrasts the finite leverage of
earthly tyrants with the infinite sovereignty of God. The Roman legions, the
counterfeit political leaders, and the persecutors of this age can only
terminate the physical tent—the temporary body. They cannot touch the ψυχή
(psyche) (psoo-khay’)—the immortal soul, the core identity of the believer.
Instead, we are to hold a holy, weight-bearing reverence for God alone, who
holds judicial jurisdiction over eternity in γέεννα (Gehenna) (gheh’-en-nah).
The 2nd-century martyr Victorinus emphasized this text when facing imperial
execution, declaring that the emperor’s sword could only break the clay jar,
but could never reach the treasure inside.
Verses 29-31: The Value of the
Flock and the Father’s Care
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for
an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground without your Father’s
will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid
therefore. You are of more value than many sparrows.”
Jesus moves seamlessly from
cosmic sovereignty to tender, individual, fatherly care. He points to the
assarion—one of the smallest, most insignificant copper coins in the Roman
monetary system, worth less than a penny’s fraction.
To fully grasp what Jesus is
illustrating here, we have to look at the first-century Roman monetary scale. A
single silver denarius represented a standard day’s wage for an ordinary field
laborer. An ἀσσάριον (assarion) (as-sah’-ree-on) was worth a mere one-sixteenth
of that single denarius. It was baseline pocket change, the smallest
operational denomination for a common laborer. For one assarion, a person in
the local market could buy two sparrows to be plucked, roasted on a skewer, and
used as cheap food for the poorest segments of society.
When we look at Luke’s version
of this exact same sparrow text, the historical marketplace dynamic becomes
even clearer. In Luke 12:4–7, Christ declares: “I tell you, my friends, don’t
be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can
do... Aren’t five sparrows sold for two assarion coins? Not one of them
is forgotten in God’s sight. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.” Look
at the merchant’s math! If you put down two assarion coins, the seller threw in
a fifth sparrow for free as an insignificant incentive.
And yet, if an earthly father
knows how to watch his household, how much more does our Heavenly Father track
that fifth, free, forgotten sparrow? Think of how Jesus underscores this exact
fatherly dynamic earlier in His ministry. In Matthew 7:9–11, He asks: “Or
what man is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him
a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent? If you then,
being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” Luke
11:11–13 echoes this text perfectly, changing the final gift to the highest
treasure: “...how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask him?” If finite, flawed human parents know how to provide
for their households, how much more does our infinite Heavenly Father
aggressively maintain a flawless, sovereign inventory of your life?
Not a single one of these
seemingly worthless birds drops to the earth without the explicit knowledge and
sovereign allowance of the Father. The Greek text says the very hairs of your
head are ἠριθμημέναι (erithmemenai) (ay-rith-may-men’-ahee)—mathematically
cataloged and tracked!
As a farm boy from Wisconsin
who raised sheep, wrestled, engineered, managed and later entered the ministry,
I know what it means to keep watch. When you are out in the lambing pens in the
freezing cold of a Wisconsin spring, you have to know your stock. You track
every single weak lamb, ensuring they are protected from the predators and the
elements. (When standing in “NO MAN’S LAND” at the site of the village of Thiepval at the Battle of the Somme I saw
sheep grazing. Ironic, and one of those sheep a ram lamb was limping… Oh how I
wanted to help the sheep.) If an earthly shepherd or an earthly father can care
that deeply, how much more does our Heavenly Father have a flawless inventory
of your life? This is the absolute bedrock of the security of the believer! If
God governs the lifespan of a half-penny bird, how much more is your life
hedged about, guarded, and aggressively protected by the Creator of the
universe?
Verses 32-33: The Eternal Echo
“Everyone therefore who
confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in
heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also confess before my
Father who is in heaven.”
Our public witness has cosmic,
judicial consequences in the heavenly courtroom. The word for “confess” is
ὁμολογήσει (homologesei) (hom-ol-og-ay’-say), meaning to speak the exact same
word, to be in total public agreement. If we stand uncompromised before the
hostile tribunal of this world and say, “Jesus is Lord,” Christ stands before
the Divine Council and says, “This one belongs to our Father’s household.”
Verses 34-39: The Sword of
Division and the Cross
“Don’t think that I came to
send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword... He who
doesn’t take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. He who finds
his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.”
Jesus shatters the false
narrative of a sentimental, compromise-driven Gospel. On this Father’s Day, we
must hear this clearly: true spiritual leadership in the home means standing
for truth, even when it causes friction. The truth is a sword—μάχαιρα
(machaira) (makh’-ahee-rah). We must ask ourselves: what kind of sword is this?
In the first century, a machaira was not a heavy, two-handed battlefield
broadsword. It was a short sword or large dagger, typically six to eighteen
inches long, used by Roman soldiers and travelers for close-quarters precision.
It was an instrument of precise, face-to-face surgical cuts and incisions. By
using this word, Christ reveals that His truth makes a clean, surgical incision
directly through our closest human alliances.
To fully illuminate how this machaira
operates, we must look to the rest of the scriptural witness. Jesus is directly
drawing from the prophetic warning of Micah 7:6, which states: “For the son
dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his
own house.” This sword is the ultimate tool of spiritual discernment
described in Hebrews 4:12: “For the word of God is living, and active, and
sharper than any two-edged sword [machaira], piercing even to the dividing of
soul and spirit...” It is the single offensive weapon given to the ekklesia
in Ephesians 6:17: “...the sword [machaira] of the Spirit, which is the word
of God.” And make no mistake, the very same word that makes a surgical
incision between truth and compromise in our living rooms today is the word
that will bring ultimate geopolitical judgment at the second coming, when out
of His mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword to strike the nations as
written in Revelation 19:15!
The great commentator Adam
Clarke noted that the Gospel inevitably provokes the fierce hostility of the
apostate world because it refuses to blend in.
And then, notice the profound
prophetic mystery hidden inside this mandate. Jesus commands His disciples to
take up their “cross.” It is an astonishing moment in the text because,
chronologically, the historical event of Calvary is still strictly in the
future! To our modern ears, the cross is a beautiful piece of stained-glass
theology, but to the disciples standing there on that afternoon, this statement
would have been a visceral, bone-chilling shock. They knew exactly what a cross
was. Living under the iron fist of the Roman Empire, crucifixion wasn’t a
religious metaphor; it was the ultimate tool of state terror and execution.
Whenever Rome crushed an underground insurrection, they forced the condemned
rebels to carry their own heavy crossbeams naked through the streets as a
public warning.
By issuing this call early,
Christ is deliberately filtering the crowd. He is telling His followers that to
follow Him means a total, public break with the world system—walking a one-way
street where you have already surrendered your human leverage and counted your
old life as dead.
Church, we have to be specific
about what it means to pick up our cross or find our life and lose our
eternity. In the Roman world, taking up that crossbeam meant declaring that you
had completely surrendered all worldly citizenship, legal rights, and social
status. You were dead to the system. Today, taking up your cross does not mean
tolerating a minor personal inconvenience; it means a public, irreversible
choice of witness over social safety.
For example, in the ancient
world, it meant refusing to pinch incense to the Roman Emperor as “Lord,” even
though doing so guaranteed your business license, your safety, and your family’s
social standing. In our modern context, it looks like an earthly father
standing up boldly in his community or corporate workplace to publicly confess
that Jesus Christ is the sole, absolute authority over his life and
household—even if it results in being marginalized, losing social capital, or
facing professional cancellation. For a parent, taking up the cross means
establishing a rigorous perimeter of biblical truth around the home, refusing
to let the dominant cultural ciphers form the minds of their children, even
when it causes a sharp, surgical incision of friction and awkward division with
extended family, school boards, or next-door neighbors.
Conversely, Jesus warns us
against trying to “find our life.” Finding your life means navigating your
daily choices purely to preserve your immediate physical comfort, earthly
safety, and temporary reputation by cutting deals with an apostate system. When
you prioritize saving your temporary skin over uncompromised loyalty to Christ,
you trade an eternal weight of glory for a passing, counterfeit survival—and
you risk losing your eternity.
Look at what this compromise
looks like in the real world: it is the Christian leader or the father who
watches an unbiblical agenda or a counterfeit spiritual wave sweep through his
community, but chooses to remain silent, tone down his theology, and use
sanitized language just to protect his status, his income, or his comfort. He
has preserved his immediate “life,” but he has failed to stand as a true
watchman before the Divine Council. In the coming eschatological landscape,
when a global, digital system demands total alignment and an explicit denial of
the Son of God to participate in the economy, “finding your life” will look
like taking the easy road of compliance just to preserve your physical wealth
and standard of living. But “losing your life” means letting go of that
temporary leverage, choosing to let your reputation be executed by the culture,
and trusting completely in the tracking care of the Father who numbers every
sparrow!
It reveals His absolute,
divine self-awareness. Long before the puppet leaders and the apostate powers
whispered their dark plots in secret rooms to have Him executed, Jesus already
perfectly tracked the path to Calvary. He was calling them to the exact same
execution and resurrection that Irenaeus later described—dropping the old man
into the waters of judgment so that the resurrection life of the Son could
emerge uncompromised! By willingly picking up that cross beforehand, the enemy’s
final weapon of physical fear is completely de-escalated.
To find your life by bowing to
the counterfeit systems of this age is to lose your eternity. But to lose your
life—to surrender your reputation, your safety, and your human leverage for His
sake—is to find your identity permanently anchored in the resurrection life of
the Son!
III. Echoes of Eschatology:
The Housetop Proclamation vs. The Cyber-Cipher
We must anchor our souls in
this fearless, public confession, because the deceptive, underground machinery
of the enemy is constructing its final, global cipher today. Looking through
the Divine Council worldview, Michael Heiser reminds us that the rebellious
Watchers have always sought to force the ekklesia into hiding, to silence our
public witness, and to drive truth into the dark.
Today, our culture is drowning
in an absolute famine of biblical knowledge (דַּעַת
- da’at). Because the apostate Church and an apostate Israel have abandoned the
uncompromised Word, they are being systematically pre-programmed to accept a
counterfeit map. My theology warns us exactly where this leads. The unseen
realm does not confine its deception to a single geographic area or one
particular faith system like Islam—though the core doctrine there explicitly
condemns the Trinity and rejects the confession that Jesus is the Son of God.
No, the strategy of the fallen principalities is vastly broader. They are
weaponizing any and every falsity out there in our modern landscape to
blind the human heart.
Whether it is the cold,
secular materialist machine that treats the soul of man like an evolutionary
accident, the synthetic spirituality of the New Age that replaces the
blood-stained cross with self-worship, or the compromise of the lukewarm,
apostate churches that bend their knees to cultural fads—every single one of
these falsities is a distinct front for the exact same underlying mechanism.
The enemy will use this
sprawling web of systemic falsities to unveil the ultimate global conspiracy on
the world stage. They await a counterfeit political savior known as the Mahdi
(the Antichrist) and his religious lieutenant, the False Prophet, whom they
call Isa bin Maryam (a counterfeit jesus). This false prophet will use
technological, political, and demonic signs to enforce a global, digital
cipher—a system of total control where no one can buy or sell without swearing
allegiance to the Beast. They will attempt to drive the true faith into total
erasure.
The apostate world will be so
thoroughly blinded by this illusion that when the true, resurrected Christ
returns, they will falsely label our King as the Dajjal—the grand deceiver!
They will even celebrate in the streets when the Antichrist slays God’s two
true translated witnesses…
·
Enoch (חֲנוֹךְ chanokh) and Elijah (אֵלִיָּהוּ
- eliyahu), who return to testify to the judgment of the rebellious Watchers
from 1 Enoch chapter 6.
But the true ekklesia will not
crawl into a cave! Earthly fathers, we must lead our families to stand tall. We
do not fear those who can only kill the body. We do not hide our faith in the
ciphers of the dark. We climb to the digital and physical housetops and boldly
scream the uncompromised Gospel of Jesus Christ! We know that the Father who
counts the sparrows has already written the final chapter of our victory!
Conclusion: The Printing Press
of the Underground
We began today by looking at
how the secret codes of men are completely laid bare before the eyes of the
master cryptanalyst. Let me close with a powerful, true historical narrative
that shows what happens when God’s people refuse to let the truth be driven
into the dark by the iron fist of a tyrant.
In the mid-16th century, the
low countries of Europe were controlled by the iron, ruthless grip of the
Spanish Empire under King Philip II. The printing, reading, or possession of an
uncompromised, vernacular translation of the Bible was strictly punishable by
death at the stake. The imperial authorities thought they could completely
suffocate the Reformation by policing every book, every shelf, and every print
shop in Antwerp.
But a courageous printer named
Christopher Plantin refused to let the light be suppressed. In his workshop,
under the constant threat of imperial raids and execution, Plantin secretly
engineered a massive project known as the Antwerp Polyglot Bible.
By day, his shop printed
standard, approved imperial documents to maintain a flawless counterfeit front.
But by night, behind locked doors, under the dim light of tallow candles,
Plantin and a small team of scholars worked in absolute secrecy. They compiled
the true text of Scripture into parallel columns of Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, and
Latin.
Every time the imperial guards
marched down the cobblestone street, the workers would hide the true galleys
beneath the floorboards. They risked their necks, their property, and their
families, not to hide the Word forever, but to manufacture an unshakeable
weapon of light. When the project was finally complete, thousands of copies of
the true, uncompromised Word of God were smuggled across Europe in the bottom
of wine casks and merchant crates.
But, church, Plantin’s
midnight presses were not the beginning of the Antwerp miracle. Decades before
the Polyglot Bible ever stained a single sheet of vellum, the cobblestone docks
of Antwerp served as the radical, underground sanctuary for another champion of
the Word—a lonely English exile named William Tyndale.
When the powerful elite and
the apostate religious bishops of London locked the doors and threatened him
with execution if he dared to translate the Greek scriptures into the common
tongue, Tyndale chose to pick up his cross. He fled into the dark. He carried
his manuscripts into the smoky print shops of Antwerp, running the presses in
absolute secrecy while imperial spies tracked his steps. When the pages were
dry, they packed those newly minted English New Testaments into the bottom of
cloth bales and flour sacks, smuggling the uncompromised Gospel back across the
sea to ignite a reformation.
Tyndale was ultimately hunted
down. Betrayed by a familiar friend, he was strangled and burned at the stake
in 1536. The tyrannical powers thought that by burning his flesh and scattering
his ashes into the wind, they could delete his name and his witness forever.
But they forgot that the Father tracks the lifespan of a sparrow!
Just recently, while traveling
through London, I stood inside the historic stone vault of Westminster Abbey. I
walked down the South Choir Aisle, and there, embedded in the wall, I stood
face-to-face with William Tyndale’s cenotaph—his beautiful marble memorial
tablet framed in rich alabaster. There are no bones inside that wall. Tyndale
has no physical tomb or sarcophagus on this earth because the fires of
Vilvoorde consumed his mortal frame completely. But staring at that empty tomb
monument, reading his gold-lettered words carved into stone, the Holy Spirit
reminded me of the absolute futility of darkness! The tyrants who lit his fire
have been ground into historical dust, but over eighty percent of the very
scriptures we read from our altars today came straight from the ink of Tyndale’s
hand! His execution became an unstoppable resurrection of the truth!
The Spanish Empire used its
swords, its gallows, and its spies to kill the body, but they could not kill
the movement. The clandestine night-work of Plantin’s press exploded into
the daylight, fueling the rapid expansion of the true ekklesia across the
continent. The empire of iron eventually crumbled into dust, but the printed
Word they tried to burn remains standing on our altars today! To the true
ekklesia today, and to every father leading his home: The world system is
trying to force you to hide your lamps beneath a bushel. The corporate media,
the political elite, and the apostate church want you to keep your theology
locked away in the dark, whispered only in quiet corners.
But you do not belong to the
fearful machine of this world! You are a child of the ultimate, Heavenly
Father! Your life is permanently anchored in the absolute security of the
believer, and your steps are watched over by the Father who governs every sparrow
in the sky. Stop whispering in the shadows! Take up the uncompromised press of
your daily witness, climb to the modern housetops of this culture, and proclaim
the glorious name of Jesus Christ with holy, unbroken boldness! The machinery
of the enemy is already defeated, the tomb is empty, and our King is coming to
claim His own!
The Slogan for the Week:
The sparrows are tracked and the darkness is bare, we stand in the security of
the Father’s care! We scream from the housetops and fear not the sword, for our
souls are secured in the life of the Lord!
Let us pray.
May the God of all grace, who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light, grant you the absolute security of the believer. As you step out into a
world filled with cyber-ciphers and political deceptions, may you be hedged
about and aggressively protected by the Holy Spirit. Fear not those who can
only kill the body, but stand in holy reverence before the One who secures your
eternity. Earthly fathers, lead your homes in truth. Church, climb to the
housetops of your communities, proclaim the uncompromised truth of the Gospel,
and watch the kingdom of darkness fall before the name of Jesus Christ. In the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen!
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