There is no work that God does that is not by or for faith. Any work that is by popularity, or by fame or by popular acceptance is not the work of God but is the work of man. God requires faith and to have this faith, the gospel, its truths, faith must be present. Anything other than that is not of God and not of his gospel, which is the basis of calling something another gospel.

God does not gain faith through popularity, exciting things, fanfare, celebrities, neither does he entice anyone toward him through or by any of those things. For God to use those things means that God is a god of fanfare, or popularity, celebrity show or any of these kind of things.

The first commandment should have made that clear to people, but sad to say that people are still believing that all those things are part of God’s Church, gospel or his doctrines. I speak in a general application to the communities of Christians, not specifically to this Church.

The first commandment is to worship God with all your heart, mind and soul. This is a sacrifice of oneself to God. The idea that God promotes his doctrine, his gospel through the presence of celebrities or any type of fanfare or excitement is a false idea born of men, it is of the flesh. God does not use these things to draw people toward him because then he does not have their heart, mind and soul, he has their pride, which is vanity, the appeasement of the carnal mind, which God does not want. Faith makes no pretense that it wants anything of this world, it wants only the spiritual things, that being a sacrifice of the heart, mind and soul.

It is very unfortunate to see some other Christian churches use popularity, celebrity visits, etc as a means to draw a crowd just so the preacher can hold a filled worship session or to encourage more membership attendance. Even using popular or celebrity persons as a speaker of God’s word, sort of like a late-night talk show, then the preacher ends up surprised at the outcome of the talk, where false doctrines were promoted. In one case that I experienced, the preacher got caught into false doctrine because the celebrity he invited promoted it and the preacher could not speak against the false doctrine because it was he that invited the celebrity who was a famous a book author.

Essentially, from this, God does not encourage faith through the things of popularity or fame. To believe that God promoted some person to write a book or open a ministry that brings it to worldly fame, or notoriety, popularity or any kind of fanfare, such is not of God and was not promoted by God, irrespective of any claims that people are at different levels of spiritual progression. What needs to be understood is that God takes his truth and doctrines seriously and will not undermine his truth and doctrine in any way, not even for people at different spiritual levels of progression. Faith is faith, God does not do anything that takes a person away from faith and any popularity, fame or fanfare. Neither will God allow his faith, the one we are to abide in, made popular or part of a celebrity status, for those are vain things and God does not work through anything vain.

For those members who are enticed by these fanfares, celebrity type religious shows or presentations, remember those things are not of God, neither can they ever be. For the carnal mind is an enmity of God and shall always be and since God is not a respecter of persons, neither is he then a respecter of personal vain things of he world, no matter how a person calls it of God.

Faith is an act of humbleness, not fanfare. it is promoted by self-sacrifice, which is what the first commandment dictates. See the things of true faith, one of humbleness and sincerity, self-sacrifice and free will desire which removes itself from fanfare and popularity. Then you shall have the faith of God. Know well that God works through faith and works in things that promote faith and all things that make up faith. This is why God tells us in the scriptures that he will raise the lowly of the world to overcome the world. That is God’s true work.

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