The crack­ing of fools in the church.

Des­e­cra­tion and pol­lu­tion of the altar — the crack­ing of fools in the church.

I said of laugher it is mad: and of mirth, what doeth it? Eccle­si­astes 2:2.

For as the crack­ling of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh­ter of the fool: this also is van­ity. Eccle­si­astes 7:6.

Nimes 11 – 9 –21

Note: use­less or vain peo­ple get them­selves involves with other vain peo­ple as well as in use­less or vain things and activ­i­ties. The total­ity of the king­dom of God is right­eous­ness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom 14:17), yet, the church is not, and should not be as an amuse­ment park for the crack­ing of fools where a mad man is mak­ing oth­ers mad with laugh­ter by being jovial or comic by his enter­tain­ing words and performances.

There is noth­ing laugh­able in the life we are saved and called to live for God in Christ Jesus for the race set that is set before us to heaven – the pil­grim jour­ney in the high­way of holi­ness – the spir­i­tual bat­tle we are called upon to engage, and to stand still, hav­ing done all to stand, to stand. To go about or go a-​head to mimic the life of an unbe­liever or to the labor of love and the works of faith of any brethren in the Lord as plea­sur­able and laugh­able sea­son of amuse­ment of happy hour in order to enter­tain or make peo­ple feel good in the church is clas­si­fied under the sin of unclean­ness such as for­ni­ca­tion or idol­a­try which bear the same mea­sure of pun­ish­ment — con­dem­na­tion: but for­ni­ca­tion, and all unclean­ness, or cov­etous­ness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints; nei­ther filth­i­ness, nor fool­ish talk­ing, nor jest­ing, which are not con­ve­nient: but rather giv­ing of thanks. For this ye know, that no whore­mon­ger, nor unclean per­son, nor cov­etous man, who is an idol­ater, hath any inher­i­tance in the king­dom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things comes the wrath of God upon the chil­dren of dis­obe­di­ence. Be not ye (don’t par­tic­i­pate to sit to laugh with mock­ers. Psalms 1:1) there­fore par­tak­ers with them. Eph­esians 4: 4 – 7.

Satan, like an angel of light coun­ter­feits the gifts of the Holy Spirit to deceive peo­ple of the world, but there exists peo­ple among us in the church today who are coun­ter­feit­ing or fal­si­fy­ing hilar­i­ous spirit into spir­i­tual gift or min­istry of a come­dian in the body of Christ. The crack­ing and laugh­ter of fools is noisy and showy, short-​lived — sin­ful plea­sure as good as the burn­ing of thorns under a pot, which makes a great noise and a great blaze, for a lit­tle while, but is gone presently, scat­ters its ashes, and con­tributes scarcely any­thing to the pro­duc­tion of a burn­ing heat which requires a con­stant fire.

There is noth­ing funny in our spir­i­tual life while the true gospel of Christ in the new­ness of life calls for sober mind­ed­ness and God’s mind­ed­ness in spir­i­tu­ally minded peo­ple with the tongue of the wise who are able to use knowl­edge rightly, not the crack­ing of a fool from the lips pour­ing out or utter­ing fool­ish things to make oth­ers laugh in the church. Prov.15:2.

It is a com­mon say­ing in the world that you should for­get your sor­row, dance and laugh (but even in laugh­ter, the bible says that the heart of man is sor­row­ful, but when the laugh­ter ends, the grief remains. Prov.14:13) to free your mind, but what else could pos­si­bly help the fools to remain in the per­fect peace of mind in Christ Jesus if they are not care­ful for noth­ing, cast­ing all their cares, wor­ries and anx­i­eties upun him that cares for them? So, what’s the use to bring in or to allow a mad fel­low in the church to crack jokes?

Mean­while, God has given us the rem­edy for our trou­bles and stress­ful or tumul­tuous life, sit­u­a­tions and chal­lenges in Christ Jesus when our Lord borne our grief and car­ried our sor­row by giv­ing us the gar­ment of praise for the spirit of heav­i­ness – a merry heart, mean­ing to rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice (Philip­pi­ans 4:4) do good like med­i­cine, but a bro­ken spirit dries the bone. Prov. 17:22.

The crack­ing of fools for the laugh­ter of fools is like reliev­ing pain med­ica­tion with­out deal­ing with the cause of the con­di­tion, which does not deal with the root of the prob­lem to remove it. It is the char­ac­ter of a fool that his heart is in the house of mirth – under the crack­ing of fools, merry and jovial in merry sto­ries, merry songs, and merry com­pany: this is his folly – where his heart is found helps to make him more and more fool­ish. Eccle­si­astes 7:4.

Except for heal­ing and deliv­er­ance for his well­ness, God will not open the door or give his plat­form for any mad­man – joke cracker to per­form or dra­ma­tize his mad­ness in his holy tem­ple, much more that King Achish of the Philistines will not for a sec­ond tol­er­ate the pres­ence of David before him when he feigned mad­ness to pro­tect him­self in their land: then said Achish unto his ser­vants, lo, ye see the man is mad: where­fore then have ye brought him to me? Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fel­low to play the mad man in my pres­ence? Shall this fel­low come into my house? 1 Sam. 21:14 – 15.

Christ is the chief cor­ner stone of his church, while the early apos­tles and dis­ci­ples’ are the foun­da­tion of the house we must fol­low after in the con­tin­u­a­tion of build­ing any­thing in the king­dom of God. Could it be found any­where writ­ten in the scrip­ture that the Lord gave some to be come­di­ans or humorists? Not even the min­istry or gift of exhor­ta­tion come close to the false gift and call­ing which some peo­ple seems to be exer­cis­ing to pol­lute and des­e­crate the altar of God and the church of Christ today, whose pres­ence and accep­tance in some churches reveals the spirit work­ing in such min­istries, and the type of pas­tors such are who over the flock of God. 1 Cor. 2:12.

Believer’s word should be filled with grace and sea­soned with salt to answer oth­ers – speak­ing and admon­ish­ing one another in psalms and hymns, not by crack­ing of fools that are defil­ing oth­ers with their silly talks and funny sto­ries while stand­ing on God’s holy altar to defile and pol­lute it with their pile of idle words which they shall be account­able for on the day of judg­ment if they don’t stop and repent now – and I myself also am per­suaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of good­ness, filled with all knowl­edge, able also to admon­ish (not to crack jokes) one another. Romans 14:15.

God has never and he will never endue or empower any­one in the body of Christ with the gift to be funny to pro­voke laugh­ter. The indwelling spirit of God with wis­dom and knowl­edge enables us to give or speak sea­son­able word to him that is weary — right words used the right way at the right time to lift up the down­heart­ed­ness — a word fitly spo­ken (not the bab­bling of fools) is like apples of gold in pic­tures of sil­ver. Isa­iah 50:4. Prov. 25:11.

What­ever is writ­ten in the scrip­ture were writ­ten for our learn­ing, that through patience and through com­fort of the scrip­tures we might have hope (Rom.15:4): there is noth­ing laugh­able or funny in the scrip­tures given to make us wise unto eter­nal life. Where is the rev­er­ence and godly fear of God in his holy tem­ple when peo­ple gather together for the crack­ing of fools? God is love, but he’s not funny, nei­ther is there any­thing laugh­able in his chil­dren, though they are made as spec­ta­cle unto the world, and to angels, and to men? 1 Cor.4:9. Psalms 22:7.

Spir­i­tual peo­ple can some­times look out­wardly funny, being made as the filth of the world, the scum or trash of the uni­verse (1 Cor.4:13), but there is noth­ing funny or trash about them: but if you make fun or trash of them, you might end up your life like the forty and two chil­dren which made fun of Elisha and were destroyed for their funny, but not laugh­able expres­sion a bald-​headed man – a cause cause­less shall not come. Prov. 26:2.

Where ever you read from the bible that God laughed (he that sits in the havens shall laugh them — the wicked plots against the just, and gnashes upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is com­ing. Psa. 2:4: Psa. 37:13) is show­ing con­temp­tu­ous­ness for the acts of the wicked, and the folly of the fool­ish for their insen­si­tiv­ity and unaware­ness to his grandeur and com­ing vengeance against their fool­ish doings. Psalms: 2:4.

What do these mad peo­ple in the church made of God and other human beings – believ­ers and unbe­liev­ers alike when their so called gift is to recon­struct things or events and other people’s life just to sat­isfy the mad­ness of their fool­ish lis­ten­ers? As a mad man who casts fire­brands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceives his neigh­bor, and says, am not I in sport? Proverbs 26:18 – 19.

I said of laugher it is mad: and of mirth, what doeth it? Eccle­si­astes 2:2. These so called Chris­t­ian come­di­ans are vain talk­ers, the hyp­o­crit­i­cal mock­ers in our feast in the house of our God (Psalms 35:16): is the house of God now a the­atri­cal place of amuse­ment and jokes, instead of a house of prayer, a place which should be given in atten­dance to read­ing, to exhor­ta­tion, to doc­trine? 1 Tim.4:13.

We also have some come­dian pas­tors who think that by mak­ing their hear­ers happy, they can win them over. You blind and self deceived shep­herds, there is noth­ing laugh­able or funny from the sound doc­trine of the sharp two– edged sword you are called upon to wield in preach­ing, except you are a flat­terer, men’s pleasers and sweet talker which are part of the signs of false teach­ers of itch­ing ear believ­ers. Titus 1:2.

The church audi­to­rium, pul­pit, podium or altar is a holy plat­form to con­duct preach­ing, teach­ing, doc­trines of Christ, com­mu­nion, wed­ding, wor­ships and praise songs with the giv­ing of tes­ti­monies to the good­ness and faith­ful­ness of God before his peo­ple. Are believer’s not called to pro­voke one another unto love and unto good works? But these Chris­tians humorists, per­form­ers or the so called Chris­t­ian come­di­ans are crack­ing jokes before oth­ers in the church so as to pro­voke laugh­ter for the hap­pi­ness and appease­ment of the onlook­ers and hear­ers. Whose inter­est, plea­sure and will are they ful­fill­ing? Satan of course, as the enemy is mak­ing a joker of the church inside the church in an open con­for­mity to the world, seated as the amuse­ment god of this world to share the altar con­se­crated for ser­vice and glory of the thrice God.

While the ungodly peo­ple in the world pur­chase ticket to sit under the fool­ish talker’s show in an orga­nize place to make them­selves happy and laugh for plea­sure in their leisure; sadly enough, the car­nal and sen­sual pas­tor invites and paid the fool­ish talker in the name of Chris­t­ian come­dian to come and make peo­ple to laugh and happy in the church. Is this where the joy of the Lord could be found? Cer­tainly not! The joy of the Lord is a per­sonal thing from the fruit of the Spirit in a believer. It is the oper­a­tion and man­i­fes­ta­tion of the indwelling Spirit of God in his daily life and walk accord­ing to his growth in the cul­ti­va­tion of joy whose fruit is sweeten by his increas­ing sub­mis­sion and obe­di­ent to the word and will of God through the wit­ness of the Spirit of God with his human spirit that he is right stand­ing with God and there’s noth­ing con­demn­ing him – this is where the true joy of the Lord is always found, not from the fool­ish talker or jester who is oper­at­ing under the con­dem­na­tion of God along­side those whose are facil­i­tat­ing their oper­a­tion in the church in talk and show which is not becom­ing saint.

Why should peo­ple in the church indulge them­selves in what the bible describes as mad­ness by jest­ing which is not con­ve­nience, upon whom the wrath of God is com­ing upon the chil­dren of dis­obe­di­ent? Note: spir­i­tu­ally bro­ken men in the Lord are filled with the spirit of prayer and sup­pli­ca­tion, though the Lord will do great things for them and their mouth shall be filled with laugh­ter (Psalms 126:2), but not the laugher from the crack­ing of fools — the out­burst of laugh­ter from the vain mirth and ungodly sen­sual plea­sure min­is­tra­tion of the crack­ing of fools., but of the good­ness of the Lord in the land of the liv­ing in all mod­er­a­tion and tem­per­ance of spirit known and seen by all men.

Is this not another form of a strange fire on the altar set up by the come­di­ans and cracker jok­ers, cour­tesy of the fool­ish shep­herd who seeks to be at ease in Zion? Have any for­got­ten what God did in the wilder­ness in the past against such that set up strange fire on the altar, even the two sons of Aaron? What­ever is for­bid­den in the scrip­ture but is put to use or prac­tice in the church is a form of a strange fire before God. Some­one asked, so where are Chris­t­ian come­di­ans going to per­form, if not to make us happy in the church? Poor soul, your joy is not in the jest­ing or fool­ish talk­ing which is not con­ve­nience, but in keep­ing the word of God and walk­ing in the fruit of the spirit. Well, to answer the sim­ple ques­tion, if we can find call­ing and com­i­cal gift in the bible, then should their place of oper­a­tion not dif­fi­cult to find, if they truly belongs to the head — Christ whom the whole body fitly joint together and com­pacted by that which every joint sup­plies, accord­ing to the effec­tual work­ing in the mea­sure of every part, to make increase of the body unto the edi­fy­ing of itself in love. Eph­esians 4:16.

From the abun­dance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The so-​called Chris­t­ian or church come­di­ans only have filthy talks and jest filled up in the heart — the crack­ing of fools to impact, trans­fer or trans­mit into the spir­its of their sen­sual and fool­ish hear­ers – be ye not par­tak­ers with them. Can any­one tell us two or three instances from the scrip­ture where the apos­tle and high priest of our faith once laughed, though he might prob­a­bly smiled for joy or glad­ness of heart? Psalms 92:4. Should we not walk in his steps, though we laugh, but not from the crack­ing of fools, but to laugh as Sarah once laughed because she was baf­fled and unpre­pared for the announce­ment and renewal of God’s promise of a son in her old age?

Believer is promised laugher of vic­tory — cel­e­bra­tion over the wicked. Job8:21. The right­eous shall smile or laugh at the calamity com­ing shortly on the wicked and the proud doers as he observes their sit­u­a­tion and the vengeance of God against them. Psalms 52:6.

God promised to make his chil­dren laugh (light is sown for the right­eous, and glad­ness for the upright in heart. Psalms 97:11), not by the inter­me­di­ary of the false min­istry of the crack­ing of fools we have in some churches today. Believ­ers will have the last laugh in their future eter­nal state, though they are walk­ing mourn­fully — humbly before him, and the proud is called happy (Malachi 3:14 – 15): blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh — woe unto you that laugh now, for you shall weep. Luke 6:21 – 25.

God promised the rejoic­ing of his chil­dren for the sat­is­fac­tion of his pro­tec­tion over them when they shall see how they are well secured by him from all evil – at destruc­tion and famine, you shall laugh, and nei­ther shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. Job 5:22. Does the scrip­ture not say that sor­row is bet­ter than laugher: for by the sad­ness of coun­te­nance the heart is made bet­ter? Eccle­si­astes 7:3.

What­so­ever is good for the soul by which our heart can be made bet­ter to be in a good dis­po­si­tion or place­ment of spirit before God should we seek after. Though it is dis­agree­able to sense, but the heart is made bet­ter by the sad­ness that appears in the coun­te­nance. Sad­ness is often a happy means of seri­ous­ness which makes the mind hum­ble, meek and loose from the world, pen­i­tent or bro­ken for sin, and care­ful of duty. Men and women who sigh, moan or groan (a long, deep audi­ble exha­la­tion express­ing sad­ness, relief, tired­ness, or sim­i­lar.) before our God (and the Lord said unto him, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the fore­heads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abom­i­na­tions that be done in the midst thereof. And to the oth­ers he said in mine hear­ing, go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eyes spare nei­ther have ye pity. Ezekiel 9:4 – 5) every day and night for mercy in judg­ment against the wicked­ness, evil and sin­ful­ness in the world are self– afflicted men of sor­row like their Lord – be afflicted and mourn, let your joy be turned into morn­ing and your joy into heav­i­ness. James 4:9.

It is the folly of sin – mad­ness of laugh­ter to think that we can find sat­is­fac­tory joy and hap­pi­ness by enter­tain­ment with merry humour, merry sto­ries and jests and pleas­antry fit to be laughed over, and all the bulls, and blun­ders, and fool­ish things we could hear of, fit to be ridiculed and laughed at – it is sen­su­al­ity, car­nal­ity and world­li­ness upon which the wrath of God is com­ing upon the dis­obe­di­ence chil­dren, be ye not par­tak­ers with them. Jest­ing is not con­ve­nience for the saints and the crack­ing of fools is not pure for the heav­enly bound soul, there­fore think on what is pure and get seri­ous with your spir­i­tual life and ways as to walk and live as those who are called to inherit life to keep your mouth from coarse jok­ing, fool­ish talk­ing, mock­ery and every idle words.