The Replacements

When satan and his cohorts were evicted from heaven, which actually evicted the praise and worship team, God already had a plan for replacements. His plan was to raise up a generation of worshippers who would worship Him in spirit and in truth. He would never have to evict the worshippers from heaven again, because these would be there because they chose to be there.

With this truth available to us in the church, it seems that we wouldn’t argue or make a big deal about the one thing that means the most to God—worship!!! He loves worship. It is the one thing that attracts Him to our gathering s more than anything else. I heard a preacher say once that when God wanted to hear a song early in the first century, He invaded a Philippian jail to hear two beaten preachers croak it out. He got so excited He patted His foot and triggered a massive earthquake!

With that being said, if God wants to hear a song today, He comes to church. We can’t allow the dissension and disorder that removed worship from heaven to remove worship from our churches. So whenever division and disorder become the order of the church, we know it is satanically driven. The enemy will do anything he can to distract us from our true purpose which is to worship, and worship together.

Much of the division between denominations and churches today exists solely because of worship practices. We must rise to the place where we see this as a ploy of the enemy to keep us separated, because he knows that his kingdom is under greater attack when we are together. Think of the progress we are making for the advance of the kingdom of God today, and we are divided. Imagine how much more powerful we would be if we were united.

We have a mandate from God as replacements not to make the same mistakes that caused the ones we replaced to be removed from their place of worship. In Revelation 2:5 Jesus warned the church of Ephesus to remember from where they had fallen (which sounds like a reference to the fall of satan and his cohorts) and repent or else He would remove their candlestick. By removing the candlestick, you are removing the light, and without light there is no illumination, and with no illumination there is no revelation, and with no revelation, there is no relevancy.

Also it was the oil in the lamp that kept the candlestick lit. The oil is symbolic of the anointing. According to Psalm 133 the power of unity is compared with the anointing. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments. In other words, there is no true anointing where there is no unity. Unity is accomplished when all parties remove any carnal agendas or flesh motives. Notice the oil flowed from his beard to his garments. The priestly garments came up to the neck, meaning that the oil never touched his flesh. The anointing is present where flesh is absent. We are The Replacements