I AM JEALOUS (part 3): God’s Jealousy for His Glory 🌋

Do you know why it’s not mainly about us?

Do you know why it is that it’s not mainly about us? What a glorious God who would include (adopt) us into such profound glory and mystery

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Is this acceptable?

Choose your favourite Christian missionary agency, go to the “about us” section of their website and you’ll find their “statement of faith” along with a set of their subjective values.

Whether, as in this example, it’s Operation Mobilisation (OM) or the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES), how can they truly be submitted to the exclusive Word of God AND committed to “unity within diversity”? They claim both; is this acceptable?

Statements of faith and “values” of missionary organisations?

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When Lamps Burn Low in the Church

Whenever lamps burn low in the Church, and love waxes cold, and watchers slumber while the Bridegroom tarries, the Restorer and Sustainer of His people is always standing at the door. He can create fresh witnesses to Himself in the most unlikely quarters, even as He raised up Paul from among the Pharisees, and Luther from among the Mendicants. The Gospel of the grace of God has been disproved a great number of times – it has been assailed and wounded and beaten down and left for dead – but it survives by the power of an endless life. Amid fightings within and fears without the modern Church can still say, I know that my Redeemer liveth. Who can guess what swift, incalculable revival Christ has in store for His desponding people?’

JOHN HUTTON (1926)

I AM JEALOUS (intro)

I AM JEALOUS (Intro) 🌋

PRESENTING AN EIGHT-PART TEACHING SERIES DIAGNOSING THE WHOREDOM OF THE CHURCH AND THE URGENT WARNING OF CHRIST TO HIS BRIDE

Apologies for the poor sound in these videos; we experienced multiple problems with equipment

This video series very nearly didn’t happen because of significant limitations in resource, circumstance and demonic opposition. Nonetheless, I believe with all my heart that this word of warning to the Church is precisely what the coming Lord Jesus is saying to His covenant people — He is going to erupt and the house will burn.

SERIES INTRO

Week 1: Intro
Week 2: Why jealousy?
Week 3: God’s jealousy for His Own glory
Week 4: God’s jealousy for the faithfulness of His Own people (OT)
Week 5: God’s jealousy for the faithfulness of His Own people (NT)
Week 6: Godly human jealousy (OT)
Week 7: Godly human jealousy (NT)
Week 8: Implications for the Church

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The Great Day of His Wrath

This video is for those who are overwhelmed with the unfaithfulness of the Church, the pressures and forces afoot that will ultimately separate those who are true — the hot —from those who will grow horribly cold (Matthew 24:12).

Overwhelmed by the unfaithful Church?

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When National “Prophecy” Proves False

With reference to the pastoral words of Jesus in John 10, Nick briefly discusses the frightening reality being revealed in the Church, (on this first day of campaigning for a new general election in British politics), when national “prophecies” and “prophets” are demonstrably being proven false, (or, at the very least, in error). But will they stop, repent and humble themselves?

“The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out…” (Jesus Christ / John 10:3)

When National Prophecy Proves False

A very important update

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Dear Church,

As some of you will know, over the last nine months Mairi and I have been living amidst the discomfort of temporary accommodation with our uprooted lives “on hold” and our earthly belongings in storage. 

Despite the daily struggle, it has been an immense privilege to have recognised early in this process that the LORD was revealing His Word to me. This Word of the LORD has been foolishly counterfeited in recent months by various ministries in Great Britain and it will be rejected by many when it is proclaimed authentically.

As a videographer, and, more importantly, as a man of God with no pulpit, I had originally wanted to bring His Word as a series of films, produced to the best of my ability, to honour the preciousness of what the LORD has given to me. But as a result of bewildering health difficulties for us both, (please also see here), not having assistance where we are located and having been repeatedly cancelled by other outfits, I am now persuaded that He wants me to bring what I have prepared over these months as simply as possible. 

He has brought me to my Cherith, to my knees, and it is in this posture that I will speak what He has commanded. 

Consequently, I will not be producing these films with b-roll, dramatic locations, props, animation or specialist equipment; I will be publishing eight basic videos over the course of the next eight weeks that will straightforwardly facilitate speaking what He has given me to speak. You will find the videos here.

The Church at large do not want to listen but God’s living Word will speak; we will each remain accountable. The pastoral leaderships of churches in the United Kingdom, (and historic umbrella organisations), are not called and gifted to speak this Word; they are being called to listen to it, to humble themselves and to repent for having not. As a symptom of the root problem within the Church, when they attempt to act outside of their calling they only compound the problem, further harming the Body of Christ. They have refused to be trained by anguish and, as such, they are not qualified or empowered to speak. The institutionalised professionalism and arrogance of their half-baked commentary is rebuke-worthy.

I will publish the first video, Lord willing, in the next few days and, henceforth, seven more over consecutive weeks. 

Can I please ask that all who have ears to hear prepare themselves in prayer before then for what I will be bringing — not merely to listen but to respond faithfully?

In Christ,

MARANATHA

Nick Franks