Ego-Driven Christianity: Why Most Christians Lack Spiritual Authority

0:00 hi everyone welcome back to my channel and today we are going to talk about a subject that is really near and dear to my heart especially in this time and this is a topic of ego driven Christianity and the problem that it poses to the body of Christ now first and foremost we need to understand a concept that I believe so many Christians have not grasp and this is the concept that God is not a genie in the bottle he doesn't exist to serve your desires to provide everything that you want when you want it how you wanted no God runs a kingdom we refer to this Kingdom as the kingdom of heaven or as the Kingdom of Light this Kingdom has

0:48 structure order and an agenda we are all birth to be in existence and to be members of this Kingdom and because of this we have assignments okay we have a purpose and a mission an objective specifically to advance the agenda of this Kingdom and that is why we're here we're here to evolve to learn to be transformed into the image of Christ and also to do our part in his saving plan for the entire world and we have a problem in Christianity where we don't understand ourselves to be warriors with a purpose and an assignment instead we understand ourselves to be people who exist exist for our own purposes for our

1:33 own desires our own wants and we develop a relationship with God to receive those things which we desire and this is a very dangerous road to go down as a Christian because whether or not you are aware that we are in the midst of a war the war rages on and so it's extremely important for us to understand this spiritual truth and to grasp it and hold it near and dear to our heart now I want to read one verse but there are so many verses that cover the topic of spiritual warfare in the body if you read the scripture and the New Testament specifically it doesn't speak to the Christian as an individual who operates to receive all of the language in the New Testament speaks to the Christian as a warrior take up your cross put on your

2:18 armor there is language that is used to describe that the nature of the Christian by by default of accepting Christ you are submitting yourself as a warrior in a battalion in Ephesians 6: 11-13 it says put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the authorities and the cosmic Powers over this present Darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly places therefore take on the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm this is what Paul is speaking to us in the new New Testament about our plight as Christians we are warriors and

3:05 that means that there is an obligation of us to God which is to submit ourselves to his Battalion and the reason why ego-driven Christianity is so diabolical is that it completely neglects this fact of scripture we are not existing for ourselves for our own desires for our own personal advancements and achievements that which we want to achieve and receive in this world World We Exist within the context of God's divine plan we don't go to God and ask him God what can you do for me no we need to be going to God and ask him Lord I know that I'm a warrior in your army what is my assignment what is my purpose what is my mission how are you going to bring forth your agenda through my life and in the midst of

3:52 doing that we then receive all of these blessings and additions into our life that we would have wanted anyway that why it says seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things will be added unto you this is a spiritual principle if you submit yourself to the Battalion of the Lord as an addition to your submission you get all the other things that you would have been asking for so long as they in alignment with God's Will and we know that God desires for us to have Abundant Life that means Abundant Health abundance in your Enterprises that is the ones that God has ordained you to operate in right abundance in your Rel relationships all of these good things that we desire as people of God they are accessible in our submission in fact

4:39 they come as a byproduct of our submission so while we are seeking these things out driven by ego we are actually neglecting the means through which we are going to receive them which is by submitting to our Lord Jesus Christ as a warrior in his Battalion and there's a reason why he has this order established what we need to understand is the kingdom of darkness is very organized okay they there are levels of authority as described in Ephesians 6: 11-13 and these levels of authority have varying levels of Supernatural power and assignments that they executing to bring about Satan's will in the world and if you know anybody who engages in a cultic activity anyone who is a member of the

5:25 kingdom of darkness you will know that they are dedicated dedicated to the work that they do they will spend long hours doing rituals long hours doing incantation long hours doing demonic prayers they will offer sacrifices of all kinds fast for how many days and nights they will sleep in forests for days naked they will engage in all kinds of rituals to submit themselves to the agenda of darkness and as a result they wield much Supernatural power but what does the average Christian do can we even pray for up to 10 minutes 30 minutes do we fast some Christians don't even fast we can't even fast for a whole day we can't even pray for up to 30 minutes okay we don't even have an altar comparable in the slightest to the altar

6:12 of the members of the kingdom of darkness who engage in so much sacrifice to be able to wield Supernatural power yet we want to see God's saving plan manifest through us it's not going to happen the reality is that our ego-driven Christianity is stripping us of the foundations of our faith which is that we are warriors and warriors have a mission and we need to align ourselves with that mission through prayer and fasting building our spiritual altar to God so that we can then receive the supernatural power necessary to access that which God has for us to access the assignment and complete it to the glory of the lord's name as he ordains so we really need to take this seriously we need to repent of our laxidasical

6:59 of our laziness of our ignorance about what we are actually here for and what God would have us do and we need to submit to the Lord's dealings with us by praying and fasting intensely so that we can realign ourselves with God's purposes and so that we can now execute an assignment that God has for all of us individually and guess what as a result of that all the other things you desired so long as there was within God's will they will be added unto you and that's the beauty of this all so thank you for watching this video today subscribe to the channel for more teaching of this sort I love you all God bless bye