It's the 5th Quarter... And 'the Church' Has Left the Field— We Are About to See... "Sudden Death"in all of US(A)
" In a day when we should be in Kingdom-Dominion, we can no longer afford to put a team on the field in the name of God that has more loyalty and allegiance to political parties, ethnic and religious brands and other small 'g' gods, (money, fame, etc.), and expect to win a World for God! It is foolish to think otherwise. Our moment in time is at SUDDEN DEATH. Will the Church that is all about JUST GOD come to the field? Will we come to declare victory?" Rev. Arthur L. Hunt, Jr., 10.3.21
SUDDEN DEATH
In a sport or game, sudden death/sudden victory (or a sudden-death round) is a form of competition where play ends as soon as one team is ahead of the others, with that team becoming the winner. Sudden death is typically used as a tiebreaker when a contest is tied at the end of the normal playing time or the completion of the normal playing task. Sudden death provides a victor for the contest without a specific amount of time being required. It may be called "next score wins" or similar, although in some games, the winner may result from penalization of the other competitor for a mistake.
HAPPENING NOW ON THE FIELD OF FAITH
It's the 5th Quarter and... 'the Church' has left the field— No... It is Not "THE CHURCH" that Jesus built... Nonetheless... we are about to see a "JUST GOD" 5th Quarter/Sudden Death moment.
Is 'the church' a game? For many people and so sadly, it is. (more on this later). For now ask the question... who' is it that is tied with 'the church?' And what is the church doing being tied with anyone?
The good news is that we know... THE CHURCH will prevail/win. But we (the true warriors) and members of the Body of Christ must be on the field to do our part. Who's In?
Truth vs. False Advertising
Moses and Aaron in the old testament had a rod that was in their toolkit. In one moment of use of this application, they were guided by God to drop their rod, and it turned into a serpent. The magicians smiled and dropped their rods, and like Moses' and Aarons' rod, their rods likewise turn into serpents. The game/show (aka power of God) concluded with Moses' and Aaron's rod consuming their serpents in what is known as SUDDEN DEATH.
Thus, many brands today seek to mock God or seek to play the role and take the place of God. But this post is a strong reminder that false advertising can never win over a proven product. {Get you a $1.00 bottle from Dollar Tree with 24 ounces of generic dishwashing 'liquid' and I promise you it will not clean as 'thoroughly' and as sanitizing as a $3.00 bottle with 8 ounces of Dawn.} Note: Yes you can use more of it, scrub harder, etc., but the concentrated measure of truest product will give the greatest overall impact and results. (Whew) for you technical tacticians. :)
Yes, in this game... there is opposition but never competition.
Could it be that 'the game' that 'the church' has been playing is about to end and 'sudden death' or sudden victory is about to bring forth a world that has been here since the beginning? We are about to see THE CHURCH that Jesus built, lining up with our full gear/amour saying... Buckle down (or better yet unbuckle) as we enter the World of JUST GOD: No Brands... No Labels...
Everything Has Its Time: Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
3 To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; 3 A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up; 4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh; A time to mourn, And a time to dance; 5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; 6 A time to gain, And a time to lose; A time to keep, And a time to throw away; 7 A time to tear, And a time to sew; A time to keep silence, And a time to speak; 8 A time to love, And a time to hate; A time of war, And a time of peace.
The God-Given Task
9 What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? 10 I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
Who's Watching is Who's Winning
So, in the midst of a pandemic where the majority are blaming everything on COVID-19 as a way to... not do... take a break from... make excuses for... the many things that could be and should be done from the leaders and members of the BOC- Body of Christ and the KOG- Kingdom of God. The opposing team(s) have come to play and to win.
This post aims to paint the picture of a team (the church) that has left the mission field of helping the least of them. Yes, we have marked ourselves absent while the clock is ticking beyond the 4th quarter. Invisible here, but (the so-called church), the political parties, the many 'idols of appeal' are on the field ready to declare victory.
Where did we go? Where is the good fight of faith? Why are we still yet divided and on the mission to build our brands and labels as more and more people are dying from the pandemic of sin, poverty, doubt and the lack of faith, hope and love? And yes, let's not forget COVID!
The next list of questions include: What is God saying to and about His Church? No, not the one that man has built with brick, mortar, by hand. The one that so often seeks to glorify man and our brand(s).
Where is THE CHURCH that Jesus built with the blood shed from the stripes beaten upon him and the wounds inflicted upon him and in him? A friend of mine, Chris Cloninger sent me a recent news clip of the Dead Sea turning blood red. Is this a reminder of the blood that Jesus shed, the plague? God is talking. Who's listening?
Why are we yet distracted and so easily led off the field as though the game is over as outlined in the metaphor here? PEOPLE OF GOD... what has happened to our love, our loyalty. Why have we left our first love?
The church (our brand) has been lured to leave the field and join other teams with a 'brand-loyalty' concept and motivation. The sad news is that is the wrong brand. Wrong, as in the opposite of right. Thus, it is the 'unright' brand. The unjust brand. The contaminated brand. The false brand. The 'lesser-than' brand. The diluted brand. The corrupt brand. A brand in need of cleansing by the washing of the Word.
This team that comes on the field the win in Sudden Death is the JUST GOD: No Brands... No Labels team. We have limited time to get back on the field and declare victory. Again, who's in? We have no time to lose.
Many are seeing the continuation of the church missing the mark. Too much competition, too much infighting over who's NUMBER ONE, etc. So many detours and self-fulfilling agendas have misguided, diluted the church away from pursuit of 'The Mark' of God in Christ Jesus. This is also known as the 'high calling'.
The visual in this post shows that the field is empty and the ball is ready to be possessed and carried to victory with the game/mission not over. It's a tied game by all standards in the world and regrettably, the church has become irrelevant in so many ways.
The victory comes when the 'true Body of Christ' takes the field and focuses on winning for God and getting with the JUST GOD people who know that God is a 'Just' God.
When this happens, the sudden death of poverty, inequities, disparities, games of politics and religion take place.
People of America, people of God, let us drop the brands and labels of our Nation and politics over God, our ethnicities, over God, our religion over God , and seek Him first and Keep Him first. Let us reawaken the people of God to unite as ONE NATION UNDER GOD! Let us run to back to the fields in this SUDDEN DEATH SEASON and win this for our JUST GOD. Let US(A) make Him happy over anything and everyone else.
This is the way to being more than conquerors in Him. People will see that in the final moments of time, God's people will come out victorious.
The ones who are 'IN' are the ONLY ONES who WIN! Sudden Death is upon US(A) Come on People Let's Get Together. www.justgod.today
