Gods Call To Social Justice

I believe that like Isaiah 9:1-8 when you encounter pain in yoru life like the year Isaiah's homie Uziah died. He had to feel that pain and go through that experience to see the Lord high and lifted up. Its only when we become totally effaced of self that we can see the Lord. When we see him we see that He is holy and the temple gets shook (judgement starts in the house of God) and we see our sins, Isaiah saw that he was a man of unclean lips amongst a people of unclean lips. And this was the prophet of God. The one thing about the bible is its real. Poeple deal with issues murder, incest, , war, violence, etc. Once he saw his sin, the angel took the coal and purged his lips burning fire. If you have a wound and seal it by burning it with fire. You seal it and forever leave a permenant mark that you will never forget and probably never go back to. Once you died to self, see the Lord high and lifted up, see you sina nd deal with it, then you can hear God, and when you hear God it is my conviction based on scripture and hours in His presence that you can not leave without feeling called to do something for people who are hurting and need help. The more I spend time with God the more I feel called to like Isaiah "who will go for us and whom shall I send" and Isaiah had dealt with his issues and was ready to go. Without that experience we would have had one of the 2nd largest books in the bible in my opinion. I could be wrong but I believe that since this is an early recorded experience it was foundational for him and his ministry. Just like Paul and the Damascus road experience.

Jesus said count the cost and there is a whole list of things that we should do in the New Testament in response to our free gift of salvation to show our love. Jesus said if you love me obey my commands and go and learn what this means I desire obedience not sacrifice. Ya feel me.

God has saved us by grace Eph 2:8 but predestined for us to do good works Eph 2:10. People like Eph 2:8 but overlook Eph 2:10. Its good we are not saved by works and don't get extra brownie points for doing them. But we are all called to do something.

Too many misunderstand the function of the church Eph 4:10-13 says the Fivefold gifts to the church are NOT MINISTERS but EQUIPERS to equip the saints for the work of Ministry. The Saints Are MINISTERS. The Catholic Church flipped that upside down and many still act like they need to be prayed for by a "priest" or "pastor" or be touched by a leader and forget we are a "kingdom of priest a royal nation" and we all have free access to the throne.

It was Phillip a simple deacon a healper not a bishop or apostle who was translated in the spirit to convert the Etheopian Eunic.

Anyways, there I go all passionate and preaching again, dropping knowledge... lol