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The Five-Fold Podcast
Five-Fold ministry for today. In this podcast we will attempt to determine biblical timelines as they correlate with current events. We will examine the offices of the Five-Fold ministry and gain biblical direction for the world today.
The Five-Fold Podcast
Upholding Holiness in the Face of Cultural Dissonance
How would Jesus navigate the complexities of our era, where faith often collides with a rapidly shifting cultural landscape? Join me, Michael Weedman, as we contemplate this profound question, emphasizing the urgency for genuine holiness in a world brimming with pressures and superficial godliness. Amid my own health tribulations, I've discovered resilience in faith, and I'm eager to share these personal tales of perseverance. We'll confront the stark differences between outward religiousness and the inward revolution spurred by divine grace, considering what it means to be true citizens of God's kingdom while residing in our nations.
The spiritual battlefield is intensifying, especially for those of us within the Fivefold ministry. I'll reveal my encounters with spiritual warfare and discuss the recent onslaught against fellow leaders. It's a time for gratitude and strength as we acknowledge your unwavering support and delve into the vital roles that apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists play in today's church. As we journey together through these weekly conversations, we're not just seeking answers—we're fortifying each other, embracing the changes God mandates, and uplifting the core principles of the Fivefold ministry.
What is up everybody? Welcome to tonight's episode of the Fivefold Podcast. I'm your host, michael Weidman. I'm excited for tonight. Let me ask you a question what do you think Jesus would do in our society today? How do you think he would be represented in our society today? Don't go anywhere. Let's answer these questions here in a minute. Hey, good evening and welcome to this episode of the Five Fold Podcast. I'm your host, michael Weidman, and I would like to say thank you for taking the time and joining us tonight on the podcast.
Speaker 1:The Fivefold Podcast focuses on the fivefold ministry and the importance of that ministry in today's society. We believe that there is still a need for apostles, for prophets, for pastors, for teachers, for evangelists. They haven't ceased. There's still an operation today and necessary for the success of today's church. So join with us as we dive into this episode of the Five Fold Podcast. And welcome back to tonight's episode. I'm your host, michael Weidman, and I'm excited for tonight.
Speaker 1:I want to first apologize. Last week I did not release an episode. I was actually in the hospital going through some stuff the last few weeks and I did not get the opportunity to sit here and to release the episodes that I had already recorded. I didn't have access to my computer, obviously, being there in the hospital in Nashville. The Lord is good, he's healing me. I have complete faith that God is doing a work in me right now.
Speaker 1:I really want to ask you this question. I've come across a few videos and I'm going to share the videos with you, and I want us to kind of talk about this tonight. Let's take a minute. Let's look at the culture that we are in today. Now the scripture tells us that we are in this world but we're not of this world. Now I believe that 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that God may have placed us in this world, but I am not of this world. I'm a citizen. I'm glad. I am glad tonight to live in a country where I have freedoms right Most of the time. Most of the time I have the freedom to worship God in any way I see fit. I have the freedom to live my life in the way that God wants me to live my life. I don't have somebody holding a gun to my head tonight telling me I can't live for Jesus, telling me that I need to choose between the world, and I need to choose Jesus or the world. I don't have anybody tonight holding a knife up to my throat telling me that I need to make a choice right now, whether I'm going to choose God or not. I'm not saying that doesn't happen. It does happen Many countries across this world today.
Speaker 1:The societies of those countries are occupied and ruled by members of groups that do not believe in Jesus and want to dictate what everybody else in their country believe. Thankful to not be part of those societies. However, I may be in the United States of America and I'm very grateful for that Greatest country on the earth I still believe it. Regardless of who's sitting in the White House right now, regardless of my disappointments and disagreements with them, I still believe that we belong to the greatest country in the world. However, I am not a citizen of the United States of America alone. I am a citizen of the kingdom of God and as a citizen of the kingdom of God, I represent His kingdom, his authority, his grace, his mercy, everything that he is. That's what I should be representing to the people around me.
Speaker 1:A society today is a lot different, and I believe that we belong to a time that Paul spoke about when he said perilous times shall come, when he talked about men being lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God, when he talked about men being hateful, men being boasters, men being proud. Even when he wrote in Romans chapter one, he talked about men being fornicators, being overwhelmed by fornication and all these things of the world. The works of the flesh Society has come to a point today where that is what we are overwhelmed and overrun by. But we as a church, we as the people of God, are not confined to the society of this world, and I want us to understand that tonight. We may be in this world, but we are not of this world. God has called us.
Speaker 1:Our first calling before anything else, before I ever stand behind a pulpit and call myself a pastor, before I ever stand up and I call myself a musician, before I ever stand up and call myself a Christian, my first calling is to come out from among them and be ye separate. My first calling is to be separate from the world, to be separated. Do you know what holiness is? Holiness is so much more than just the outward appearance. Holiness is so much more than just what I wear on a day-to-day basis. Holiness is a separation from the world to God. We turn from the world to God.
Speaker 1:The Bible says to be holy because he is holy. Holiness is so much more than just the way I present myself in appearance, but it is also the way I present myself in attitude. It's also the way I present myself in my deeds and what I do Now. The scripture says that to be holy in all manner of conversation. Paul said be holy. Be holy in all manner of conversation. That word conversation in the Greek means behavior, everything I do, and that includes my mouth, the way I present myself with my words, how I speak to people, how I present myself in my job, how I present myself in my day-to-day life.
Speaker 1:I have to strive, push for holiness. I press towards the mark of the prize, of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. I press for it. I'm separated, but there is a form of godliness that denies the power thereof. That's what Paul said. Right, they have a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof. There is a form of what God wants for His church. There's a form of what God desires for His people that many have perverted the image of what God wants for His church. And I say that tonight with love. I really do. I say that with love, but I also say it with a little bit of irritation, because we should be fighting mad at what the enemy is doing. We should be fighting mad at how the enemy is portraying the people of God. We should be fighting mad, fighting mad at the enemy.
Speaker 1:Today I want to talk to you about that society and about how are we? I'm sorry I'm looking over this way. I'm trying to find the scriptures that I wanted to point out. Paul said this in Romans 1,. Paul says that God turned them over to a reprobate mind. Man was filled with unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, full of murder, debate, deceit, malignant. They are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, disrespectful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable and unmerciful, and if that doesn't describe today's society, then I really don't know what does. See, there is a sect of Christianity and I use air quotes to those of you who aren't watching on the video Christianity that's not really Christian.
Speaker 1:We talked when we were talking about Revelation. We talked about the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. Now, that doctrine of the Nicolaitans was the doctrine that you could just pray a prayer, right, just say that you are a Christian. Just say just confess that you believe, just pray a prayer, right. Just say that you are a Christian. Just say just confess that you believe in Christ and you can go out and you can live however you want to live, no change on your part, but because you believe in God, you're okay.
Speaker 1:You can commit fornication, you can live unrighteously, you can live wickedness, you can live maliciously. You can live full of anger, full of hatred, full of bitterness, full of debate, deceit, malignant. You can be whispers. You can be backbiters, haters of God. You can be despiteful, proud boasters, inventors of evil things. You can do all these things you want to do and you're still fine because you believe in Jesus, because you've confessed with your mouth. That's the doctrine in Nicolaitans. That is a doctrine that God himself hates. Jesus said twice which thing I do hate God. Let's just say this If Jesus walked into 2024, like he walked into the world back in 2024, like he walked into the world back in 2,000 years ago when he walked this earth as a man If Jesus walked this earth today, there are many people today that think he would just get along with society, that he would just do everything that society says that there'd be no change, there'd be no difference. He would do all these things. But I want you to know something he would not. He would not. Let me, let me do Y'all.
Speaker 1:Listen to Christian music, right? I'm pretty sure if you're listening to this, you listen to Christian music. Some of you might not listen to Christian rap or Christian crap or whatever you want to call it. Some of you might not listen to Christian rap. There is an artist who is a Christian right Christian artist named Lecrae. I rap, but there is an artist who is a Christian right Christian artist named Lecrae. I'm sure you've probably heard of him. I want to share to you a video of an interview that he had. Just a short video, real quick, okay, just watch.
Speaker 3:You know, a lot of people would say, man, Jesus never changed. Well, a lot of us forget that Jesus was a product of the culture as well. Like he came in as a near Eastern Palestinian Jew, he spoke Aramaic, he literally embodied the culture. He became the culture to reach the culture. Like it's crazy to think that you know, he changed the culture, and I get it, he did change the culture, but he also became a part of the culture. You know, a lot of people would say all right, all right, all right, all right.
Speaker 1:So let's just address this for one second. Okay, let's talk about this for one second, because this is your Christian artist, right? The one who's singing and giving music to your children, right, the people in your house that's supposed to be Christian. And here he is saying that Jesus embodied the culture that he was in. Okay, just because Jesus was an Aramaic right, he was a Jewish man, spoke Aramaic that doesn't mean he was Aramaic, he wasn't Muslim. Jesus wasn't a good old Muslim like the Muslims want you to believe.
Speaker 1:Just because Jesus was a Middle Eastern man, a Jewish man living in Israel at the time, doesn't mean that he embodied the culture he called for people to change. He called his whole ministry was not stay as you are, it is come as you are and change, be changed. Every single miracle he did. What did he say Go and sin no more. He forgave sin and he said go and sin no more. The first time he meets Peter, the first time he comes up to Simon on that boat, he says follow me and I will make you a fisher of men. I'm going to change your whole life. That's what Jesus did to seek and to save that which was lost, not to keep it lost he didn't become the culture. And if Jesus was alive today if he is alive, but if Jesus was walking this earth today as he did, then he would not become the culture. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but that's not Jesus. That's not Jesus.
Speaker 1:And now let me show you another video that hopefully none of you guys watch this stupid show because it's full of idiocracy, but anyways, this is from the View and this is something that. Hold on one second. Let me get this pulled up. This is something that she shared on the View. Let's just listen for a minute.
Speaker 2:I am so angry about this because they are misrepresenting the message of Jesus.
Speaker 3:They are misrepresenting Catholicism.
Speaker 2:Christianity Trans community is 1.6% of our community and if you know anything about Jesus, you know that he welcomed lepers, he welcomed prostitutes, he welcomed the least desirables among us in the society. Our entire homily at St Charles Borromeo here in Harlem was about Jesus and about how he got up because of us and for us and gave his life for us and so for them. To be so hypocritical in the name of Jesus is blasphemy, all right.
Speaker 1:So here's what this you know person woman is saying. She's so mad, she's so upset because you know Jesus. They're misrepresenting Jesus. Now, this is after Easter, right. When President Biden said that Easter, on Easter Sunday, that it was Transvisibility Day, and there was an uproar? Obviously there was an uproar.
Speaker 1:Why are you going to take one of Christianity's holy days right Now? I firmly believe in celebrating Passover, not just Easter, but anyways. Why would you make a day celebrating visibility of a group of people who are in direct violation of God's law on a day when you're? It's because there's an evil agenda in this society. Jesus welcomed lepers. Jesus welcomed prostitutes. Jesus welcomed sinners. Sure, he welcomed them, but he called them to change. Jesus welcomed sinners. Sure, he welcomed them, but he called them to change. He did not and I repeat this, did not accept anybody with their sin to keep their sin. He accepted them and he cleaned them. He washed away their sins.
Speaker 1:The reason Jesus died, the reason Jesus rose again, was to conquer sin and conquer the grave. Not so you and I can go back and live our sinful lusts of the flesh and not change, but Jesus called us to repentance. He calls every man to repentance. Jesus would not become part of the society today. Jesus would not welcome the society today. Jesus would turn some tables, crack some whips and call us to repentance. And I'm calling on every one of you right now, as men and women of God, to start standing firm on the word of God, on the law of God, and do what God has called you to do Preach repentance, the death, the burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Speaker 1:Preach the gospel to this world, calling all men to repentance. That repentance and remission would be preached in my name, starting at Jerusalem, is what Jesus said. The gospel is all about change. The gospel is all about death to self, death to culture, and about change. Now we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but we wrestle against principalities and powers, rulers of darkness in high places. That's society. We wrestle against these things.
Speaker 1:There is a spiritual battle going on right now and I know I'm releasing this a little bit later, but I don't know if you guys realized the last month or so how many attacks have been on men and women of God, how many spiritual attacks have come, myself included. It's time to fight. We have to fight against the spirit of this culture. We have to. We absolutely have to, because God calls us to change. Hey, I want to say thank you for joining us tonight on the Five-Fold Podcast. I pray that you've been blessed and that you have enjoyed what you have heard. Join us every week as we release new content concerning the Five Fold ministry and their place in today's church. You don't want to miss this the Five Fold Podcast. God bless, oh yeah.
