“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:” Galatians 1:15 – 16
In our “today’s world” there are so many false conceptions about salvation that is leads to a mass confusion about the true salvation of God. Satan wants this mass confusion because it makes the truth about salvation sound irrelevant and unrealistic. It is the churches and their Pastors that are responsible to echo the truth about salvation in this evil world. Jesus left the gospel in the hands of the church’s leadership in the great commission. It is the Lords churches that that have the sole responsibility of holding on to true gospel and carrying it this lost and dying world. The worldly assemblies do not understand this because it was not given to their charge. It is the church at Jerusalem’s charge and her descendants charge only. Every person or organization like missionaries and mission works are descendants of a local church and held to the same responsibility as their mother church. Paul commanded this young minister and missionary to preach the gospel truth, “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ… Preach the word…” 2 Tim. 4:1-2 Paul went on to say in our text “…when it pleased God…To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen…” This proves that salvation and the power to preach the gospel are those who has had a revelation to do so. It is the local churches that are called “The Pillar and Ground of Truth” 1 Tim. 3:15 “…the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” Paul wrote also these words “immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood” but why not? Because every church, every Pastor, every Missionary, and every Ministry is deity controlled. The gospel is not originally “our message” it is God’s message and God’s chosen message for salvation, it is our gospel because God put into our trust. We are all sent by God into the world by God’s power to preach His message called the gospel. None of this is a “human power” because it is the Holy Spirit that controls it all. People cannot even understand the simplicity of the gospel message if it is not revealed to them by the Holy Spirit. Do you remember this conversation between Jesus and Peter, "He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? (16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 16:15 - 17 The only way Peter knew who Jesus was is because the Holy Spirit taught him, it was not a human revelation. Paul said, it was God who caused him to be born from his mother’s womb, saved his soul, and caused him to preach the gospel wherever God sent him to preach it. Why would Paul, or any church, or any Pastor, or any Minister confer with human beings when their entire existence and ministry is accomplished by God’s hand and power. If I ever ask my church or another minster a question or for advice, it is only “for data input” all my decisions are made by the Holy Spirit for me and my ministry. Our church is the absolute same, we never ask another outside source anything except for “data input”.
Let me conclude with this thought. God does not trust His ministry in the hands of mankind not even His own believers, because we are weak to the flesh, even as Christians and churches. Jesus tells us to “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41 The spirit is strong because of the Holy Spirit, but the fleshly side of all Christians is weak. Our worship of God is “spiritual” because it is the strongest part of our being after salvation. Remember the spirit in lost people is dead therefore there is nothing in them that is strong. Therefore, God controls everything by the powerful workings of the Holy Spirit. Not even can we witness the gospel unless we are sent to that person by the Holy Spirit. “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? (15) And how shall they preach, except they be sent?” Rom. 10:14 – 15a. The churches are sent by Jesus to the world and we as individuals are sent by the Holy Spirit. We do not know the elect, they are few and far between, therefore God sends us to the elect or sends the elect to us. Therefore, we all work by a revelation from God, we are not on our own, we get no credit for the saved nor blame for the lost.
