IN the miraculous, majestic moment of Kingdom transition, Ezekiel recorded the scathing words of God as they pierced the languorous skies over God’s chosen people. The tenor of these words was of impending judgment and perilous calamity, “And God said… ‘NEITHER HAVE YE HEALED THAT WHICH WAS SICK. ‘“   Ezekiel 34:4

The obligations of leaders extend to caring for the sick and meeting the needs of those who cannot care for themselves.  The Church as God’s Kingdom representative in this earth embraces many responsibilities in association to its careful and deliberative charge of “go ye therefore and… make disciples.”  Matt. 28:19

In Luke 10, we find Jesus embroiled in another encounter with the educated theocracy of the day. A young man rises with a challenging question, “What is the key to the door of heaven?”  What followed was a dissertation on the two great commandments.  After Jesus' rebuttal, this young law student, in an apparent attempt to justify himself, asked another provocative question, “Who is my neighbor?”

This question was not posed to Jesus' to discover “who” we are to love, but he was asking about the “limit” to which we are to love!  He was asking, "How far do I have to love and to what limit."  Jesus uses this opportunity to explain the chasm between their head knowledge and their heart knowledge. The chasm was great. There was a great divide between what they professed with their lips and what they were doing with hands and feet.

The Church is designed to be a place of restoration, because restoration is a prelude to a manifested revival and revival is the change element of revolution – it’s the enginery by which the wheel becomes the middle of the wheel through apostolic order and apostolic government.

In the Book of Acts, we find these words: “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heavens must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.” - Acts 3:19-21