The Church Must Pastor The Whole City

The Church Must Pastor

The Whole City

1. During their Diaspora the Jews prayed for Jerusalem but God told them to pray for the redemption of Babylon the sinful city where He had brought them. (Jer. 29:7)

2. Yeshua cried and sighed for the sins of Jerusalem until the city would say; “Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord!” Soon the temple was destroyed but the city was saturated with house churches and became the City of Shalom. (Luke 13:31-35; Acts 5:28)

3. God commanded His angels of death to go and slay all the people of the Jerusalem city starting at the sanctuary, sparing only those who cry and sigh for their city. (Eze. 9:3-6)

4. God does not have a Baptist, a Lutheran or a Pentecostal Bride. He has only one Bride. God said that a city is blessed by the blessings of the righteous and destroyed by those who criticize and curse her. (Prov. 11:11) 

5. Abraham pleaded with God for the sin polluted cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and God assured him that if there are ten righteous people in the city, then He would not destroy it. Sadly the cities were destroyed for lack of ten righteous people. (Gen. 18:24-33)

6. Paul wants everyone to go everywhere and raise holy hands and pray for those who have rule and authority. Jonah prayer walked throughout Nineveh calling the Gentile city to repentance. The word reached the king who proclaimed a fast and God saved that city. (1Tim.2: 8; Jonah 3:1-10)

7. Every day Yeshua went to villages and towns, where he healed the sick, cast out demons and preached the gospel. He instructed us to go two by two, bind the strongman, release his captives, find “persons of shalom” and plant a church in their house. (Heb 3:13; Luke 4:18, 8:1; 9:49,50; 10:1-9; Matt. 12:29)

8. Yeshua came to go, commissioning us to go to the ends of the earth. He came to destroy the works of the devil and to seek and to save that which was lost. He said that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety nine righteous worshipping in the church on Sundays.(Mark 1:38, Luke 4:43;19:10; 15:7,10; 1John 3: 8; Matt.18:12,13; 28:19)

9. No one has the right to hear the gospel twice when ninety nine percent of the people of the city have not heard the gospel even once. The church must shoulder its responsibility of converting their sin polluted, idolatrous and dirty city into a Garden of Eden. (Rom. 15:20; Heb. 5:12-14; Isa. 9:6,7; 32:13-18)

10. Abraham, Job and David sat at the city gate and observing all comings and goings. Christians must get out of their religious islands. Rhetoric from the pulpit must translate into action plans to replace the secular, Godless, Babylonian system into a nation with kingdom values.

11. The church must not remain myopic and stay inside the box but rather work unfettered for a Christ centered city and anticipate miraculous accelerations because God hates heathen ruling over us. He is waiting for you to dislodge demonic power and replace it with his kingdom. (Rev. 5:10,1:6; Daniel 7:18,27; 1Peter 2:9; Joel 2:17)