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BREAKING RANK.


Our God is a God of order, he does everything orderly. Its easy to think that as Christians we are walking orderly until God begins to show us ourselves, then we will be amazed at how disorderly our lives have been.
Christians are expected to be good Soldiers, stand in battle formation, keep rank and march on to victory, but a Christian will not be able to stand if he cannot keep rank. Keeping rank in the army does not come naturally, a lot of hard work and discipline is required to mold a Soldier that would be able to keep rank in battle. For Christians to keep rank we must not be fainthearted or be of double heart (1 Chronicles 12:33), because it is the Lord who fights our battles and wins the war, but when we fail to keep rank we give the enemy a foothold in our lives. As a church we also give the enemy a foothold because just one man breaking rank and deserting his duty post can be disastrous to the whole operation.
When our lives are out of order we break rank and give the enemy a foothold in our lives. These are some ways we can break rank when we are not walking orderly.
 2 Thessalonians 3: 11-13 states that we should withdraw from anyone who doesn’t walk orderly, an idle and jobless person is termed disorderly, because God didn’t make us to be idle people, we are to be busy with the work of our hands. Anytime we move or have shifted from Gods initial plan and purpose for our lives then we are walking disorderly, remember demons are angels that are out of order.
Ephesians 4;29 In our speech we are to be orderly we should not let corrupt words come out of our mouth but that which is good for necessary edification that it may impart grace to the hearers. Sometimes we joke about sacred things  that we shouldn’t  be joking about and even if we are not the ones saying the joke we laugh at these jokes. 
Ephesians 4;1-3 We must be determined to place others above ourselves, our mindset should be in this order. We are to walk worthy of the calling which we were called with all lowliness and gentleness with longsuffering. When we are proud and not walking in humility we are out of order because our Father is humble.
God has given each one of us gifts, how have we been faithful with the gifts he has given to us?  are we using those gifts for our own selfish gains or are we using it to enrich lives? when we do not use our gifts for the purpose for which God gave us or not even using them at all we are out of order.
Prov 6;17 We are to speak the truth in love, do we tell each other the truth no matter how hurtful it is? if we speak the truth in love it will be bearable, but nowadays no one speaks the truth whether it is in love or not. And when there is no truth there is strife, confusion and disorderliness. When we pass compliments that we know is false we are also in this category. For example, saying to your friend “wow you look gorgeous!” but you know she looks like she didn’t even look at the mirror before leaving her house”
Mark 11:25 Do we fail to forgive one another? if we do not forgive others, God will also not forgive us our sins. And if God doesn’t forgive us our sins that will be a major problem because we need him to forgive us daily.
Ephesians 4:28 instead of always taking from people we are to work hard so that we can share with others. Our God is not a God who takes all the time, he is a generous God he is always giving if we are not like our Father in heaven who is always giving we are out of order.
Wives are to show respect and reverence to their husbands and the husband are to love their wives and give them honour so that their prayers will not be hindered. When husbands don’t love their wives they are walking disorderly and if wives don’t reverence their husbands they are also walking disorderly.
We must also put our homes in order, if our children are obedient to their parents they will live long. (Ephesians 6:2) It is important to teach our children to fear God, when our children have a vibrant relationship with God it sets their life in order for life.  If they can be obedient to their parents they will be obedient to God
2 Samuel 6; 1-23. When Uzzah touched the ark of God because he was trying to steady it he died instantly. They had gotten too familiar with the ark that they forgot instructions that God had given regarding carrying the ark and the appointed duties for handling the holy things. In the house of God it is important to stay at our duty post doing what God has assigned us to do and not what God has assigned someone else to do, if we are not doing what God has assigned us to do by disobeying leadership we are out of order, and  we are just like a Solder who is breaking rank.
Many soldiers of Jesus Christ are breaking rank, they are sitting on the side-line when they should be waging war, some of them are wounded in battle some have been hit by friendly fire because they are out of formation. We the church must be faithful in our assigned roles, not of a double heart so that we can be unified and have total victory.


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