WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO SAY ABOUT THE LOVE THAT COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS. Josimar Salum

WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WANTS TO SAY ABOUT THE LOVE THAT COVERS A MULTITUDE OF SINS. Josimar Salum

The saved community is merciful, more forgiving than condemning, and exceptionally welcoming.

“If your brother sins, go and point out his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won him over." Matthew 18:15 

This is the purpose for you to seek out your brother who has sinned against you, so that you may win your brother.

In what context did Jesus say these words?

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish." Matthew 18:10‭-‬14 

“My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins." James 5:19‭-‬20 

The Father's heart means to convert those who have strayed from the truth.

“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." 1 Timothy 2:1‭, ‬3‭-‬4 

When an presbyter sins the Holy Spirit teaches that he is to be rebuked in the presence of all. By who? The presbyters. So that the other presbyters may also have fear. It's not in the presence of everyone, of the church. Any conclusion that leads to saying that it is before the church is not supported by the text. The hermeneutically analyzed text easily determines that these are presbyters and not the whole church.

“The presbyters who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor (double salary), especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.” Do not entertain an accusation against an presbyter unless it is brought by two or three witnesses. But those presbyters who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning." 1 Timothy 5:17‭-‬20 

I have watched young men and women being pushed out of the church and I know of many sons and daughters of pastors who have left the Church because of reproofs and harsh disciplines that are not supported by the Bible. Many were disciplined while many wrong behaviors in the church were tolerated. The church became an environment of partiality, hypocrisy and judgment that helped to hurt so many lives that today walk away, because the Love that heals and restores was lacking.

If your son or daughter, if your brother or sister has sinned, has committed what is sinful, he must be treated with great love so that he will come to repent and be forgiven, so that he will be restored.

The willingness of many to deal with the sin of the brethren with severe discipline, without compassion and mercy only adds to the ranks of those who leave the church wounded.

“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." 1 Peter 4:8 

What is this love that covers or forgives a multitude of sins?

We sympathize with the wicked, immersed in the vilest behavior and we accept them in the community of saints because they professed Jesus, but we harden with those who are brothers and sisters and treat them with rigor when they commit sins.

At no time should we agree with the sin and error of those who have not repented and do not want to repent. We must not accept into the bosom of the church one who has not heard the admonition and wants to continue on his wrong path.

“If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector." Matthew 18:17 

But what scares me is to have seen people like these being disciplined with joy and celebration as if such discipline was an act of purification for God. The Father's heart for those who are lost remains full of mercy and love.

The command of the Holy Spirit is to love one another ardently which will lead us to seek the sinner's restoration and not his condemnation. This love is what covers a multitude of sins.

#ASONE

Theological Content X The Person of Jesus

All theological content are just interpretations made by men. 

The Bible is not to be interpreted if you want to know Jesus. 

There is no way you can find Jesus interpreting the Bible. 

You search the Scriptures because the Scriptures testifies about Jesus. 

But you only find Him by Revelation from the Father. 

Moreover the Holy Spirit does not produce theology. 

The Holy Spirit guides to all Truth. 

And the Truth is a Person and not a teaching or a concept. 

The Scriptures only bring profits if you first find the person of Jesus. 

Because it is through Jesus only you can interpret the Graphia (Scriptures) of God.

Aruba, The Lover of His Soul.

By Josimar Salum

Text written July 31, 2013 almost midnight!!!

What friends we have in this beautiful Happy Island! 

Sons of the King! They are Kings! They are seeds in the King’s hands. 

The King is about to sprout them all!

How I love the country and the whole nation! 

How I love these young and old burnt by the Son of Righteousness!

How sure I am the Holy Spirit is sweeping the territory from coast to coast and bring into the Kingdom thousands and thousands of Aruba natives and tourists from all over the world? 

I am sure to the point that before I leave rain will pour our out from 

Heaven and Sky!

Rain that only eyes can see and wind only ears can hear!

Who is He like the Son of Man coming and walking on the waters and over the waves?

The King! Oh the King of Glory, the Lover of Aruba! 

Oh! Yeshua, the Desired One; for all islands of the oceans, seas and rivers.

Sister Cynthia Croes, an Aruba woman of God wrote today 

(August 3, 2013):

"Our friend Josimar Salum wrote this last Wednesday when 

he arrived in Aruba (text above). 

I told him that we didn't have rain in Aruba for about 6 months. 

Alleluia! It is raining in Aruba in so many places today. 

The Weather.com is broadcasting rain for next 3/4 days. 

Alleluia! Josimar will leave Aruba this Monday, but it is raining 

already. Glory be to the King!

Watch this video, click here, "Aruba - Rain - Chuva - Alleluia! 

--

اللذي يحب يعرف الله لان الله هؤ اللحب 

He who loves knows God, because God is Love! Aquele que ama conhece a Deus, porque Deus é Amor
El que ama conoce a Dios, porque Dios es amor!מי שאוהב את אלוהים יודע אלוהים, כי אלוהים הוא אהבה

Josimar Salum

      The Kings Net

      Kingdom Transformation

            www.thekingsnet.org     

  It doesn't belong to anyone

      It is not a church or a ministry
         It is just a Net, the Kings Net

            You and I, we and our King

There is a Cry!

Where to find preachers that preach the Cross of Jesus and His cross alone?

Where are those who have just one Gospel to proclaim, the Gospel of the Kingdom, from the King who came to serve and died for His servants who become friends when they obey?

The Gospel of the Power of Resurrection that still amazes, setting all kinds of men free!

Where to find revival messages to hear which were burnt by the Fire not only from Heaven but in Heaven which echoes only the desires of Heaven that it is not in the business of entertaining men but saving and sanctifying their lives.

Don't you see the distractions of men, religious or non religious have went so far in the night that it doesn't bother anymore to honestly survey the soul, because the voice in the night can be heard this night "Man, if you die tonight who will get what you have, to whom what you think you have will belong?

Titanic is in its collision course against that iceberg, not seen not perceived, because men in church and out are so well entertained and distracted, the dangers became so familiar and so common that were ignored long time ago, so that sin, that other one, this divorce here, the show gospel here, the other one with girls for the night there, where if someone saw it didn't bother to complain, let the party find the sunshine because it does not bother them anymore even if they die tonight before making peace with God.

The Love and Grace of our Jesus Christ reaches out right now to muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, to anyone, even to those who called themselves Christians: Will you right now surrender to My Kingship and my Lordship?, ssays the Lord.

Where are the cries of a burning soul full of that Love and Grace eager to see men saved and transformed? Where are they?

My heart and mind explode just with the thinnest idea I may be on the wrong side of the fence.

If this is what we called Gospel in America we are already rejected by God.

The Holy Spirit names: competition, pride, acquiescence with the culture, this church is a ship that looks more a cruise in the Caribbean than a rescue boat...

These churches that are more a corporation headquarters and their pastors CEOs than the Living People of God who had renounced and denied everything just for the privilege to follow their King.

Are you hearing it! There is a cry in my heart tonight! O Lord, have mercy on me!

Josimar Salum - 05/12/2012 @ 4 AM

THE POWER OF PRAYER EQUALS THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

8/12/2008 

I was born in an environment surrounded by prayer. Although my parents at that time didn’t believe much in the power of the Holy Spirit as displayed in the Book of Acts, my mom taught me how to pray. And, we needed to pray since we had to pray for everything.

One of the cherished memories I carry from my infancy is the many occasions my dad would awaken me to pray with him in the temple. Oh, how I loved to walk with him to the church at 4 a.m. just to pray! I have learned since childhood to depend on prayer. As a matter of fact, prayer is my survival tool.

In 1997 God was using our ministry to touch hundreds of lives in Brazil. I told my wife that the U.S. Visas on our passports were not the final answer from God that would allow us to return to America. God, however, spoke to us clearly in Zechariah 6:8: “Then He called to me, ‘Look, those going toward the North Country have given my Spirit rest in the land of the north.’”

What a charge! Just to think about it still humbles my spirit and gives me a feeling of total dependence upon the Lord. Moving to the United States was indeed God’s direction for my family, and I have known since the beginning that only prayer would enable us to fulfill His plans for us in this land.

New England is a cradle of great visitations from God even though Worcester, the city we live in and love very much, never experienced a revival in the past. We planted a church in Worcester in 1991 and another in October 1997. We won and baptized many lives during these years. We helped open doors for other churches to be planted in the city and through Massachusetts because we believe that Christ-centered congregations are agencies of God to reach out to the cities. But digging a brand new well of revival in the city of Worcester would require lots of effort in prayer and intercession, and a high cost in suffering and pain – a statement that has proved true during these last years.

There is a mountain on the north of the city about 15 miles away that I have visited many times just to pray there. I’ve cried many times: ‘Holy Spirit, why don’t you come down again as you used to do in the past? Come down, Holy Spirit, come down!” (Isaiah 64:1-3)

“Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you! As when fire sets twigs ablaze and causes water to boil, come down to make your name known to your enemies and cause the nations to quake before you! For when you did awesome things that we did not expect, you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.” (Isaiah 64:1-3)

New England requires a different strategy for advancing the Kingdom, namely "planting hundreds of churches (small ones) and home churches (cell groups, home groups, etc.)" in every corner instead of planting mega-churches. Now, a silent revival is occurring in the Boston area, where hundreds of small churches have been planted in the past 10 years. (Ed. note: See the article “Boston’s Quiet Revival,” Christianity Today, www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/104/32.0.html.)

I want to share a secret with you that has not been captured by national media: There is a strong movement in New England of ongoing, travailing prayer focused on city transformation, rather than individual salvation, that is paving the way for revival right here in the midst of cold, dead religion, humanism, false ideologies and intellectualism.

Let me share a few experiences with you:

· In December 1999, 14,000 Brazilian and Spanish-speaking people came together at the Fleet Center in Boston for a Day of Prayer and Repentance. All these warships (believers) came together under a single Commander, Jesus Himself. (And Fleet means just that; it was fleet indeed!)

· God put in our hearts to call for 40 days of fasting and prayer in Worcester in January 2000. Our church met every night to pray and worship, asking God to send His Holy Spirit. During that time we planned a city outreach event for May, called “Worcester for Jesus Crusade.”

· In May we called for 21 days of fasting and prayer before the crusade. Several pastors came together and on the last day we prayed for 24 hours. During that time we consecrated seven gallons of oil. We rented a helicopter and on Saturday at noon, while some pastors were praying on the ground, we flew over the city and anointed it with oil. At midnight, we sent seven groups out and they anointed every exit of the city, claiming the city of Worcester for God.

· On the first day of the crusade God healed a woman from heart disease, and she left her wheelchair by the power of Jesus. As a result, 35 people from her family were saved. God moved powerfully during those days saving people, healing the sick and a tithe of the crusade fundraising was sent to India to help missionaries with a rehabilitation center. Another significant result of the spiritual warfare of those days was that in the three years following the crusade, the crime rate of the city dropped dramatically.

· September 1, 2001, we again rented a helicopter and anointed the city of Boston with oil; we focused especially on Harvard University. Since then dozens of campus prayer groups have formed, praying for revival of Harvard. This anointing was in preparation for The Call, New England, on September 22, an event which drew 50,000 young people to City Hall Plaza from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. to fast and pray for America. We could not have imagined that on September 1 two airplanes would depart from Boston to hit the World Trade Center towers 10 days later. We still believe God spared Boston because of the prayers of His saints.

You may pray as I did when I was a child, not knowing the power of the Holy Spirit. But we must pray today and intercede while we dream to reach our neighborhoods, our cities and even the nations, relying only on the power of the Holy Spirit. His power is still available and He still performs miracles as in the early church, if we dare to believe Him. If we dare to preach repentance and faith as John the Baptist did, as Jesus did, as the Apostles did. If we dare to preach the Message of the Cross, the only message He is committed to fructify.

Josimar Salum is a member of the Cornerstone Church Network Vision Architects, Director of Greater Revival Ministries located in Worcester, Mass., and Executive Director of BMNET, Brazilian Ministers Network. Email: jsalum@greaterrevival.com