He Wasn’t Leading Me Away From That Which Was Broken Down, He Raised Me Up To Be The Repairer Of That Which Was Broken Down

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod. -Mark 8:15

One of the things that I learned first and foremost in the life of Christ is that what I desired others to be for me (A Paul to a Timothy) is, in fact, what the Lord was and is training me up to be for others.

Though this has been difficult, the good news is that the Lord has bestowed upon me through regeneration (John 3:3; Titus 3:5) and empowerment by the same Holy Ghost that both Timothy and Paul received from the Lord (Acts 1:4), the ability to be a repairer of the breach.

Let me give you some examples of what I mean to convey here.

When I first made an entrance into the Church as a baby Christian, I noticed that what I was studying in the Bible and what I was seeing in the Church were 180 degrees diametrically opposed – complete polar opposites.

One day, and in all sincerity, I had asked the pastor of a church as to why he was doing what he was doing in contrast to the Word of God.   Without hesitation, he responded, “We don’t do things like this anymore.”  There’s the problem.

This was not at all what I wanted to hear nor was it what I expected from those that were deemed as the Church. I expected a place of love toward God and towards one another (Matthew 22:37), a place of holiness, goodness and truth (In living for Him who died for us; 2 Corinthians 5:15) as diligent soldiers of the cross.

Of course, and as I have previously stated, what I observed was not at all what I read in the Word of God.  What I found, especially as a baby Christian, was a major disappointment in their biblical contradictions and illiteracy.

No wonder there is so much immorality, iniquity, confusion and disarray going on inside of what is called the church of today, it has clearly taken on the commandments of men in blatant disregard for the Word of God.

Jesus warned of this in Mark 7:18.  He rebuked the Pharisees for prioritizing man-made traditions over God's commandments.  Therefore, the result will be what man can produce – more confusion and disarray (Daniel 9:7).

In Mark 8:15, in the first half of this Scripture reference, Jesus warns His disciples to watch out and beware of the leaven (wicked doctrines) of the Pharisees - the religious hypocrites.

One of the facets that the ministry has on its belt per se, is broadcasting a national radio program 6 days a week. In the first 13 years of ministry, I was led to broadcast on AM 980 KKMS (Romans 8:14).  During the end of this time, a new manager came onto the scene and asked me to move from Christian radio to AM 1280 The Patriot (political/conservative) radio because he said that no one spoke as I spoke.  Okay.

This brought me into the world of politics where I now had to study and know the US Constitution to give the people the answers that they claimed they so desired.

In this process, we were asked to do speaking engagements across the country only to find a level of constitutional illiteracy, which explained the state of the country.  I found that these said conservatives had exchanged their obligation before God and man, in handing their country over to their favorite political idols (Acts 12:22).  This only happens when people feed on a narrative that does not even constitutionally exist, and this is what they were doing.

In Mark 8:15, Jesus did not warn of just “the leaven” (wicked doctrines of the religious hypocrites), but He also warned us of the leaven of Herod (wicked doctrines of political corruption).

By the way, this passage isn't speaking of literal bread, but a metaphorical warning against the corrupting influences of religious and political hypocrisy.  The Pharisees are known for their strict adherence to the law (while straining at the gnat and swallowing the camel), as well as their hypocrisy, while Herod represents secular power and corruption.

Now, what is needed, when taking from my own experiences, is that the Lord did not turn me away from the issues, He was raising me up and bringing me directly into the Church and the government to show me how I can be a part of repairing the breaches.

Afterall, how could I, within myself, understand what needed to be repaired, rebuilt, raised up, etc. until He first brought me through the process of seeing what was breached and broken?  This is the road that the Lord leads His children down in bringing the answers to the world that it so desperately needs.

“And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.” -Isaiah 58:12