Conspiracy in God’s church.

In the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John the four books of the Holy Bible that detailed the life of Jesus we see how far certain church leaders would go to have their own way. We must never forget that Jesus Christ the righteous Son of God was not betrayed by heathen; he was not denied by infidels; he was not conspired upon by members of the Gentiles community and his rejection did not come at the hands of members of an opposing nation with whom Israel was at war.  But Jesus’ suffering and final demised came at the hands of the leadership of the Church, his Church. Mathew 26:3-4, 27:1, then the chief priest, the Scribe, and the elders of the people got together at the palace of the high priest Caiaphas, and consulted how they can kidnap Jesus and secretly kill him. Here we have the leaders of the church who were to be the conscience of the community, plotting to spill innocence blood, plotting to murder Jesus.

 

These “religious leader” went into the community to solicit the paid service of the communities’ members; who were enticed to break God’s law (to bear false witness) to destroy the very God they loved and served daily; the very God they were responsible for teaching the nation to love also: Jesus Christ.

 

Eventually their conspiracy worked and the leaders of religion were successful in causing a miscarriage of Justice. With the use of fabricated evidence, they caused the eventual conviction and execution (crucifixion) of Jesus Christ; even though they knew they were wrong and Jesus was innocent of the charges. Even after all they did, instead of repenting and confessing their wrongs, they thicken the plot by offering bribes to the soldiers to lie about Jesus’ resurrection.

 

Because of rough “spiritual leaders”, who put their own selfish ambition above the spiritual needs of Yahweh’s people and the will of the almighty God, an entire nation was led to defiled their souls with the unjust spilling of Jesus’ holy blood. This was manifested when the “Religious Leaders” convinced and had the bulk of the population voted to pardon and spare the life of a convicted murderer: Barabbas and demanded the execution of Jesus Christ. Here we see the so-call men of God conspired to have Jesus arrested, they conspired to have Jesus killed, they conspired to keep Jesus dead, and they conspired to keep his resurrection a secret.

 

Unfortunately, today there still exist men and women among us, working in the ministry to save souls that have the mentality of the religious priest, the scribes and the elders of the people who conspired to secure the suffering and the death of our Lord and Savior: Jesus Christ. In Matthew 7:15, Jesus himself warned his people to “beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves”. (Wolf in sheep’s clothing) and in verse 16, of Matthew 7: Jesus further warns that you should know them by their fruits.

 

Paul also saw the danger and he said in his letter: Philippians 1:15, He said some preach Christ out of envy and strife. And verse 16 he went on to say, the former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambitions. We must never forget that our leaders will lead us somewhere, they may lead us to the cross of Jesus Christ and eventually into heaven or they may lead us away from Christ’s cross and eventually into everlasting fire.

 

Thos cost of your soul is too high, for grown men and women who were blessed with the wisdom and intelligence of Jesus Christ to take their salvation for granted, to sit idly and blindly follow the dangerous direction of a leader who is  moved by personal ambition and not by the spirit of the Holy God.