4 Types of Messengers

4 Types of Messengers

In the Church there are 4 major types of messengers for Christ. The first group includes those who love God and want to tell everyone the true Gospel which includes repentance and the need of a Savior (plus holiness and sanctification). Group two are the wimps who only tell people that Jesus loves them and never mention the words “repentance or sin”. These people will have lots of loved ones staring at them on Judgment Day as they are thrown into the Lake of Fire. Finally, the last group includes those who preach the truth of the Gospel but they do it for the wrong reasons which appear to be a constant on TV today. In Philippians Paul writes this: “Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will. The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds, but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel. What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice”

(Philippians 1:15-18). This tells us that it doesn’t matter the motivation of why someone preaches just as long as Christ is being preached.

So who is in the fourth and final group? They are the attack dogs of God who appear to have an axe to grind and there are plenty of them on “social media” and they are a dangerous group...

The attack dogs are people who in simple terms think they have great knowledge of the Word and many of them think they are better than everyone else. To be honest, it is really easy to fall into this group because most of the time (not all), these people are indeed speaking truth and most actually start out wanting to reach people. However, many times they will eventually go off the rails and start speaking the truth correctly. Some will seem to be constantly beating a dead horse and others will make a crusade out of their doctrine. For instance, have you ever had someone on your social media page that constantly attacks homosexuality, Christmas, or any other of a thousand sins that they want to point out all the time? If so, there is a real chance they fall into this fourth group. There is nowhere in Scripture where we are told we have a ministry of speaking against say drinking or drugs or homosexuality. Why? Because to GOD the littlest sin will send someone to hell! Also, if you read John 3 it says this “He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God and this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved” (Verses 18-20). Did you see it? It does not say those who are homosexuals are condemned or those who are drunks are condemned, no it says “but he that believes not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God”! However, how many times do you hear THIS message mentioned on social media? NO VERY OFTEN! We are told to discern (judge) ourselves and our fellow brethren but NO WHERE are we told to judge a sinners lifestyle because they are sinners and sinner’s sin. No, no, no! We are told to being them the GOSPEL which is the GOOD NEWS that Jesus came to set them free and give them real life.

One of the main reasons people fall into group four is because they want to be seen as a great “preacher or teacher” which means they have fallen into PRIDE or they have a HAUGHTY spirit and as we should know “Pride (self exaltation of arrogance) goes before destruction (breaking, shattering, or a crushing), and an haughty spirit (thinking you are all that) before a fall (a calamity or stumbling)”. Many Christians are constantly having issues and the main reason is they have a haughty spirit and always want people to “look at them and what they are doing for God". Of course in Matthew 6 it tells us when we do things for God we are to do them in secret not tell people what we are doing for God. So many in the American church have this “haughty spirit” and do not realize that this is why they are having issues that go from finances to health and even all the way down to depression and the contemplation of suicide.

In closing, I have been here so I know what I am talking about and there are NO fingers pointing at my brothers and sisters but only the hopes that we can put on the brakes with this final group and start “speaking and preaching the truth in love” as we are commanded to do.