STAND IN THE GAP!--Eze.22:30.             DO 70            5/71

TRAINING LEADERS IS OUR MAIN TASK!

         1. I SEE AS OUR MAJOR TASK, NOT THAT OUR MOVEMENT IS THE GREAT THING, BUT THAT WE, LIKE THE COMMUNISTS, TRAIN THE LEADERSHIP. We are the only ones who can train the leaders!--Whether they stay with us or go elsewhere. There are some, even now, that have left us, but who have gotten the training under us. The more the Lord takes off our hands, the better. We aren't trying to control a big empire. They may not do it like we're doing it, but at least they're doing something!
         2. THE COMMUNISTS WERE UNABLE TO TAKE OVER EITHER FRANCE OR ENGLAND--TO REALLY GET PERSONAL CONTROL--but the doctrine through their sympathisers has conquered--not them personally as actual political leaders, not their personal control--but their DOCTRINE has swept the World & is literally overcoming the World!
         3. WE'RE NOT RUNNING THE JESUS MOVEMENT--THE IDEAS WE GAVE THEM, THE WORD THAT GOD GAVE TO US IS RUNNING IT--it's what we taught those people! Though we personally do not have the personal, immediate responsibility of leading most of the Jesus People Movement, our doctrine which we taught & set the first sample & led them in--people following that doctrine are leading it, even though they're not with us.
         4. THOSE WHO IMITATE US CRAVE CROWDS & COVET QUANTITY, WHEREAS GOD IS LOOKING FOR QUALITY & LEADERSHIP; 'cause you'll never be able to lead the quantity if you don't have the quality leadership. We're never going to be the biggest & largest thing! The true disciples are always going to be in the minority--the pioneers!

INTERPRETATION OF THE GAP VISION--LESSONS ON UNITING TO FIGHT THE ENEMY WITHOUT!

         5. IT WAS JUST AS THOUGH THE PEOPLE WERE SO BUSY FIGHTING THE FIRE OF THEIR OWN TROUBLES WITHIN that they didn't notice that the enemy was there about to enter through the breach. The danger of the fires from within was that they DISTRACTED the people from the greater danger without. The danger from within is serious in that it weakens your defenses against the outer danger & distracts from the main job!
         6. "AND I SOUGHT FOR A MAN AMONG THEM, THAT SHOULD MAKE UP THE HEDGE & STAND IN THE GAP BEFORE ME, for the land, that I should not destroy it!"--Eze.22:30. God's always looking for a man to turn the hearts of the people from their wicked ways, their own selfish affairs & bickering even among His Own people, a man to call them back up onto the wall of His Work to fight the enemy WITHOUT instead of amongst themselves WITHIN--like Nehemiah!--A man to call His people to repent & make up the hedge or wall & stand in the gap or breach until the wall of their defenses against the enemy is repaired & built up again & they are better able to defend His city--God's Work & people--& fight the outside enemy instead of amongst themselves.
         7. OUR SPIRITUAL ENEMY IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A WEAKNESS, A WAY TO ENTER OUR DEFENSES & is casting fiery darts into the city of our own fellowship trying to sow dissension, jealousy, covetousness, bickering, selfishness & internal discord so we'll get so busy fighting amongst ourselves we won't even notice our walls of spiritual strength from the Lord are crumbling from neglect or smoldering with sin, giving a place for the Enemy to enter in & destroy us & God's Work. Only the cool winds & rains of God's purifying chastisements & the waters of His Word can smother the flames of disunity in His Love & wash away the black filth of our lack of love & loyalty, so we can unite against the Foe, save His Own & fill the Earth with God's Light!

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