I love the truth that Jesus chooses and picks according to standards that are very different than the world’s standards. I can’t help but think of the true prophets in Israel of the Old Testament and both Jesus and his disciples in the first century. It was their words that got them killed. There was a passion and boldness to speak the words of God, and they had no concern for approval, power, influence, popularity, or control. Their very words got them killed by religious people.

But what do we see today in 501c3 Churchianity? We see the opposite of those that God picked in the Bible. We see a strong love for money, influence, prestige, popularity, and more. You are “successful” if you can make a religious business career out of pimping out the Bible.

But Jesus chooses very differently.

For those who operate in the prophetic today, much like the prophets in the Old and New Testament, there is a radical hatred and ugliness towards these. There is definitely no successful religious business career to be had. It can only be a compromising fake lover of the world – who says the popular things that people want to hear – who makes it in 501c3 Churchianity. Hatred and being shunned is obviously avoided by those who want a religious business career or power within 501c3 Churchianity.

A true Christian’s example is looking at Jesus and his disciples in the first century. How did things get so twisted around, so that we now have popular teachers who become successful by tickling people’s ears?

This is the very nature of 501c3 Churchianity that’s in bed with Washington DC. It’s not the Christianity of the New Testament.

True Christians will be hated, looked down upon, despised, and rejected for what they have to say that goes against the flow of the massive false Christianity in the US.

I’m 100% sure that Jesus loves choosing and picking what the world considers scum. The world has a distinct flow to it. For somebody who is baptized with the Holy Spirit by God, the flow of the world does not match a walk in the Holy Spirit. Yet, there are successful pop-pastors, teachers, and influencers who totally flow with the world.

There’s much that can be said about power and authority under the headship of Jesus as a true child of God. What we see in 501c3 Churchianity is not about power and authority under the headship of Jesus. It’s a fraud. It’s a performance. It’s an outward show of things. It’s the temptation and want of somebody desiring to build something big. It’s control. It’s dead.

Jesus and his first century disciples were not about popularity and numbers. Quite the opposite. Jesus’ disciples in the first century were not about establishing a brand in order to draw numbers and money towards their brand, like we see everywhere today.

What we see today is shameful! But, I have no doubt that Jesus has his true disciples right where he needs them to be, doing the tough work that needs to be done. With Jesus, it’s not about numbers, fame, influence, popularity, or career. It’s about speaking what he desires to be spoken. It’s his power and influence that carries the words in an invisible spiritual dimension where big stuff happens. Jesus doesn’t need pop-pastor pulpit pimps! Jesus uses the scum.

People do well to understand that, generally speaking, men love power. And 501c3 Churchianity feeds this love.

But Jesus’ power is totally different. It’s not about a program, code, formula, system, and establishment that man put together.

These pop-pastors, teachers, and influencers today are bumming! Their reward is now! They better soak up all the fame, popularity, influence, control, and money they can while they’re here! The cost of this fame is one’s soul!

Luke 4:5-7, “5 And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it. 7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.”

Matthew 16:24-26, “24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. 25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. 26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”