The Servant Restoration

Mario Vega
To the unspeakable Glory from Jesus Christ
who is our high good and true life.
Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright
clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Zechariah 10:1 (KJV)
 Introduction

The history of the relationship God-man is full of ups and downs. Through ages
this perceive the most glorious crest of spiritual awaken as also the most darkest
valleys of sin and apostasy. During decadent period and coldness God sent prophets
always that putting the finger in the sore shudder whole kingdom. His message was
devoting do not so to predict event like exhort it of strongly way by impiety from
Gods people. The prophets embodied the Lords word at the historical moment of
spiritual depression.

The prophets had an overwhelming message, accusative and recent. They did not
take care of social ethic either used politeness with the sinner. For many people their
message resulted hurtful, too much strongly as to be beared; it was a sharp thorn
that to be in the way of transgressors sin. Accordingly, Prophets were
underprivileged person, despised, stricken, imprisoned and exiled. They were weak
in their flesh but strong in God. Ignorant about of world things but wises in God and
teachers of the humbles. Threatened but at the same time fearsome. Disregarded
but in spite of they had have very taken into account on the government decisions.

John the Baptist was the last one unusual and honorable descendant of prophets.
Why all prophets they prophesied to Juan. This period of the church the
prophecy changed of character in order to limit to the edification, exhortation and
comfort (1 Corinthians 14:3). However, the Servants restoration need is same as in
the past thus church have ongoing suffered spiritual ups and downs. In the Grace,
God has ongoing sent periodically the Servants restoration in order to shake the
sleeping churches such as the bases of Philippi Prison were shaken. All Servants
restoration without matter moment of historical that God used them, they had a same
burning spirit that consuming their bones without allowing them to shut up. Elijah,
James, Paul, Luther and others seem to be cast in the same mold. All of them
fervent, daring, unequivocal, full of faith, trouble makers of nations, and servants
restoration.

Nowadays, the church from Christ Jesus is facing the most darkness and sadness
time of his history. The church is defeated, divided and it has come to be an
embarrassment show before men and angels. In fact, the church has turned it into a
market place. From Jehovah Glory has gone years ago by the eastern temple door,
such as Ezekiel saw it in the past. Professionals of the platform had changed the
gold shields from the Gods Glory by the bronze shield. The presence and enjoy from
the Spirit with shouting, food, galloping music and enjoying jokes on the preaches
are mock. But, although the bronze is making to shine, ongoing be bronze. What is
born of the flesh, flesh is.
 The Christians have been contaminated and open doors to the world into the
church. The professing are not already church (call get out them of) but they are
called synagogue (mix of all ancestors).

Today, we need a Servants restoration. Today, what Ichabod of the church is

writing in the history pages, we need a Samuel who does know that there still is
prophet between us. We need an Ezra whose cry and clamour to force people to
leave all untruths. We need someone as Elijah who comes in order to ignite with
heaven fire the fallen and off altar. We need a preacher the truth as Noah who
always warns about coming judgment to this end generation. Nowadays, we need a
Calvin who shakes the evil from Geneva. Likewise, a Luther who shudders the
Catholic rules again and gives to the Christians high honors to be excommunicated
and convicted by Roman Catholics instead of ecumenist flirting abominable today.

Oh, Lords army. Allow me that these humbles words would be the instrument that
you use in order to ignite your servants restoration! What these words can save the
few faithful servants who are! In the name from Jesus

Santa Ana,
March, 26th 1983
 Content

1- Servants Restoration Qualities

2- Servants Restoration Work
3- Servants Restoration Simplicity
 Servants Restoration Qualities

There was a man sent by God.

John 1:16

The lack of men sent by God is a problem of the church nowadays. During the
Judges period, when Israel did not have king, every Israelite did what they thought.
So, in the same way, it is happened at church where servant sent by God are
shortage, everyone do what they think. Someone makes their own doctrines, others
are appointing as Pastors or Evangelist influenced by their emotions. Because of this
spiritual anarchy the sheep are walking without direction as deprived of their pastor.

The two kind of bad workers it can be divided: those who had been changed their
Gods appointing by the intellectual preparation and also those who had changed by
a crazy emotivity. Between these I would not know to say which are the biggest
curse.

The biggest fallacy of all ages is the graduate servant. They are the biggest
mocked, and at the same time, they do mock. They are the biggest mocked because
they had been convinced to believe that a reliable called consist to pass the curricula
of subjects of some seminary. And they are the biggest mocked because the first
person who passes to the altar they say to them, they are saved, without knowing
the person; so, many people think that they are sons of God and think they can live
as they want.

These professionals of the platform think that with a deep mind, an impresses
eloquence and a little of personal influence could generate good Christian people. In
the bible, is that anything who comes from natural intellect can arise to any spiritual
dead; this miracle is keep to the devotion from God Most High.

Theological education could not determine if a man is a Gods servant. For who
has been called by God, it can be support to him, but it is not enough itself. Neither a
holy human ordering could not grant the ability and the right of minister the word of
God. Spurgeon said: without the pierced hands from God ordination, every human
ordination is just as empty hands on an empty head.

There are differences between a graduated minister and a man sent from God.
Smart and Oratory is the only power who has a graduate minister; beside, the power
of the Holy Spirit is upon the man sent from God. The graduated minister method
uses flattery and discretion in order to persuade their audience to improve their
habits; the one sent from God, his method is to point out the absolute perdition of the
sinner and his all perversion in the truth hope that the Spirit will arise the Lazarus
who God chose. The purpose of graduated minister is the rich, popularity, or
vainglory; the aim for man sent from God, is every moment of repentance for sinners
and the Glory from God. The man sent from God does not need homiletic classes
because he born being servant from God; in other hand, the graduated minister
needs to learn preaching due to they are not sent from God.

The church of Jesus Christ has many graduated ministers. Most of them do
not know about Jesus and it cannot be hope in them. Because they had not been
called by God and they are similar to canary whose golden beak to keep the people
amuse singing to the first person who throws to the minister a better canary seed.

Jesus Christs church, your main need is having men sent by God, servants
restoration who dare not rise to the pulpit without having an experience with Christ,
like Paul when he was going to Damascus. Before to preach it was necessary that
God takes away his human pride.

Beside, as before I mentioned, the replace of the heaven called by the natural
emotion of the preachers has been another plague who distort the Spiritual health of
the church.

These ministers of the emotions are the antitheses of the previous ministers who
discard all awareness, even biblical, they argue that their sermons come from God
but it is just fanaticism. Also, defend themselves in the promise of Jesus Settle it
therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer they rise to
the pulpit saying whatever thing that they are thinking. And the result is a series of
emptiness words that could make to laugh those that even have the superficial
knowledge of the scripture. But I worry about that men as Calvin and Zwingli could
take the whip of Jesus in order to send these ministers off the pulpit by the reason
that are ashamed of the Christian ministry.

For them is better to be ignorant and not been aware of anything either to
read than to have biblical knowledge that assure a positive result of spiritual
edification. It is known that a man sent by God do not speak about human wisdom,
nevertheless -Paul said - we speak the wisdom among them that perfect we
speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the word unto our glory. A man sent of God and servants
restoration does not vainglory him and their university degree if not, he vainglories in
the deep wisdom. As the scripture say, but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord. However, the bad workers, feel
bragged of reject all knowledge; do rejecting to Jesus which it him made us wisdom
as in him In whom are hid all the treasure of wisdom and knowledge. These kinds
of workers feel bragged to start their ministry even though they have three weeks of
being Christians. Is there something else that they can give? Everything they want,
they do it with gesticulations and shouts even though their sermon is so parched as
their brain.
 The harvest about that are weakness, and foolish Christian whom are like
winds that let deceitful people trick, by their false teaching, spiritual Pharisees and
seekers of pleasure in order of not been in the gospel. The ministers of the emotion
and the ignorance do using the cool and fanatical verbiage of a false faith just to
cover their spiritual laziness and their indolence at the moment to scrutinize the
scriptures. The silliness of our age that should be the right title to them like a way to
express a real admiration by their extraordinary ability for disregarding the truth of
eternal life.

These are the two factors of the big tragedy of the current church that is not
allowed to be free of the undying condition of spiritual poverty. Just power of the Holy
Spirit through his servants restoration could remedy that mortal situation. So as in
Hoseas time came the word of the Lord by Hosea (Hosea 1:2), today we need
those men sent of God whom bring the restoration Word and give the first aid for
people of God that are dying.

but, What kind of men are sent by God?

First of all, a man sent by God start his ministry at the moment that has a
supernatural experience in which he met God and his flesh was deadly wounded,
talking in the spiritual way. Something similar to the Paul sudden experience. This
experience fulfills the role of revealing to the servant, not just his spiritual poverty,
but also, the poverty that live their fellows. Likewise, Isaiah when he saw the Glory of
God, he admitted: I am a man of undone lips, also he warned the downfall of his
nation: people of undone lips. Only when you have the personal experience with
God, is when you understand all moral corruption fullness that the church is found;
because do not judge according to human moral but according to divine holiness; not
anymore seen with human eyes covered by the sin, but with the eyes of God that
burns like flames of fire. Who receive that summit experience is full of the sadness of
God; due to God is sad by the sin of the world, however, He is sad even more with
the sin of his church. So, this meeting of personal experience the servant of God is
changed to be happy, careless and mediocre Christian to become a fervent servant
of God. As Lot when he lived in Sodom and he felt overwhelmed with the filthy
conversation of the wicked (for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing
and hearing, overwhelmed his righteous soul from day to day with their iniquitous
behavior). Many ministers judge Lot because he decided to leave Canaan land and
live in Sodom. However, How many ministers can feel overwhelmed and suffer by
hear and see the sin of their own cities as Lot did it?

The restoration servant sent by God wails by the sin that surrounds him, because
he knows and understand the unavoidable consequence and the end of the sinner
souls. We can talk about surprising statistics that there are thousands of lost people
without Jesus by each one that is saved, but all this data could not worry to anyone,
everyone may not be encouraged to preach. Being aware about the need of Jesus in
the world is not a call; neither the fluency encourage of a preacher; what really
matter is the will of God that goes directly to the heart.

(Hasta aqu) Only one coming vision of God may transform any carnal who believe
in Jesus by a fervent prophet or in an tireless apostle. It is said that, Martin Luther
was student, he was looking for some books in the library of his university, when he
found a strange book that caught his attention. It was a copy of the Bible in Latin. His
interest for the book was so great, that Luther said, he wished over all riches, a bible.
Later, he went into a Monastery of augustinian friar and the vicar general gave him a
bible that Luther studied carefully. Since then, through the scriptures, God shine in a
spiritual way and gave him the vision about of the real moral condition for romanism.
That was the moment in which an insignificant pagan friar became the restoration
servant who turned on the wick of return to the Scriptures and broke off the whole
humanity in two parts.

Nowaday we need a restoration servant sent of God with same spiritual vision as
Luther and come to incite the decadent church. It needs a man sent of God who
does not preach by self-benefit, but someone that had have a sudden conversion as
Luther. It needs a man that had speaking with God or at least listened the God voice.
For Prophet Samuel, one night was enough in order to heard the God voice. For
Moses a burning bush. For Ezekiel one vision near the Chebar River. For Elisha the
God coat that fallen off upon him. For Gideon the appearance from Lord angel. But
before these men were sent of God, they had a meet with Powerful God. Without the
God vision anyone would not understand that we have necessity of a personal
restoration. My God allow that the heavens will be open us as Ezekiel in order to
consider your Glory and to recognize what we are sinner! allow us see you at the
right hand of God and remind that all things are possible for You and Your mercy
always is with us! Allow us some minutes to see the sin as You see it, allow us put
away the sin, as You put away it, cry it as You cry it! Give us Your vision!

On second one, the restoration servant has only one vocation, and this vocation is
he must surrender to the God works. When a man sent of God is busy on the lost
salvation, he feels good about it. Unfortunately, nowaday many preachers would see
not difference between to exercise his ministry and to focus selling clothe, address a
cafeteria, or planting potatoes. They do not value the Lords ministry! Beside, a man
sent of God would die with just to think on stop his work, he will exclaiming as Paul:
woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!. The man sent of God borned for being a
sent of God. Who born predestined he is never pleased with others things than to do
the gospel work. John the Baptist, even he was within his mothers womb, he had
leaping of rejoice to the feel the Holy Spirit from Marys womb; indeed he was in the
universe to this: for a intimate relationship with God.
 If all they feel double vocation they resigned of the work and stay the men who
prefer the suicide of other work, we would have in few weeks the greatest revival in
the history of the church.

I knew a baptist minister that exercised the pastorate with the objective of pay his
university study and he had intention clear about renounce to the ministry as soon as
achieve to graduate. With Which authority could minister a dishonest man like him?,
Is it not happen the same case with ministers generality?, Where are the today
Jeremiah that have a burning fire within their bones and who can not endure it even
though to have a try? Holy Lord, you give to your church, men who have only
vocation to do your work!

On third one, the sent of GOd is a fervent man. The great show to world, the
angels, and men is see a man sent of God preaching the gospel of life or death.
Perhaps show is so surprising that come to be as the Horeb bush, in Which the bush
lived on the desert, the bush burning was not consumed, shone in the darkness, it
was used like a pulpit to God, and dominated of Moses attention, who, even though
Moses was old, he felt within his heart infinite desires of fight to get the freedom of
God people. Due to, Agustin has affirmed one the things that he would like to see, it
was to Paul Apostle, preaching.

For there is a fervent life also it will need a fervent behavior. If a man is lack of
a passionate heart he never would be eloquent. The fervor is not learned, either do
imitates; a man born with fervor and the fervor live inside him. It means that, the
preacher is born to be preacher, he becomes not preacher. Without this quality is
possible give a values instruction, preaching what someone will call amazing
sermon; but there will not have resurrection without Holy Spirit of God injuring the
soul of minister. No one can move others if himself is not moved and without the
burning fire within of preacher bones as Jeremiah, it will not have movement in the
dry bones of the valley.

God wants to use men that just not they announce His Words but also, they
announce His feeling.The childbirth pains of Paul is only one guarantee of a true
spiritual breeding. Unfortunately, the tears and sweat are forgotten experiences by
the modern ministers. Today it is speaking of the redeeming blood and Eternal
Damnation with humor and sarcasm that sinners think that the ministers are kidding.

It said that any place in German even it keeps a split desk in two parts that
while Luther was preaching he snapped from a punch. However, the modern pulpit,
of mahogany delicate has an excellent barniz finish that it never has been damaged
for any punch, neither tears and neither drop of sweat; they are as the epitaph of the
church where the Gods judging finger will write: Barren.
 Where are the servant of old that with tears in their eyes begged to the people
repentance?, where are the great Souls that lost the hungry, the dream, and the
health in order to claim on fervent prayer for whole nations to God?, What happened
with the great men of God that when speaking they made to shake kings over their
throne? Oh Lord, by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, we hanged our harps
upon the willows in the midst there and even we cried remembering about the things
that You made with our Parents

The servant of restoration is fervent because he knows what the message

who have to communicate is so important. No one can speaking dispassionately
about salvation and eternal damnation. It has to have deep feeling together such a
proclamation, on the contrary, it is not know what do speak.

The work of a surgeon on a delicate operation of open heart is like a play of

children compared to the work of a minister. The surgeon works with bodies, that is
same powder; and the minister works with eternal souls. The resulted of surgeon
works is temporary, the resulted of minister works is eternal. A successful doctor will
regard reputation before men, but a faithful minister will regard reputation before
God. If the doctor fails, it most he will be judged by a human court; If minister fails,
he will be judged before judgment seat of Christ.

All minister that is aware of the eminent work he will give all his strength, his
mind, all his ability, all his love to do the work who has been sent. Minister will not
doing his work in indolent and agonizing way; he will do in abnegation, willingness,
denied himself, do take up his cross and dying everyday.

Preachers Brothers, we go to the altar sacrifice and turn on our souls with the
fire of God, we do working in fervor without neglect any detail of the ministry neither
our life; we learn the art of fervent pray and we preach in fervent heart that the
heaven confirm us with thunders and rain as Samuel; and our life will be an endless
groan that even though tire out our body, we will be full of the Divine Omnipotence.

On four one, the servant of restoration is saint. One reason of the success of
John the Baptist is that he lived in holiness so there was no alternative that believe
what he spoke. The most evangelistic eloquent sermon is a saint life. As Zwinglio
said: Be christian is not talk much about Jesus, but to walk as Jesus walked.
Preach about Jesus it is not talk much about Him, but to live as Jesus lived.

The bible gives many details about John message how his lifestyle. This is for
complementing each other and to man sent of God his life is not more than the
continuation of the sermon and the sermon is not more than the continuation of his
life.
 Only who has experienced it dearly and also they living recognizing their
baseness before Gods eyes. For a man going to live alone in the desert, wearing
with a camels hair and to feed insect in honey, it seems that any mental disorder
had happened. This was case in the John the Baptist life when God be apparently
him, and made instruct him that he only was a nasty sinner. This was reason in
which his flesh strength was transformed and starting from, Johns life was new.
Instead of boast, repeat times he said: the latchet of His shoes I am not worthy to
unloose, when a servant of God injures his pride and in this way hit his body, living
the repentance that he preach, the result will be the same: The penitent crowd will
come and ask: What will we do?.

The minimum requirement for gospel preacher must be holiness of life and
character. No one minister could have successfull in his labor if only speak about
Jesus but live for Devil. The actions are more strong than the words, and the real
power for preaching consist on live what it talks. No one can speak of eloquent way
about Gods Love than who has experimented to be rescue of die in the hell. For
speaking in assurance about faith it needs had made it power. Only when it has
prayed it will achieves to talk with deeds about the pray.

Unfortunately, on this Laodiceans era, the holiness has let to be the standard
of battle from many ministers. The need souls can not hear with attention the
sermons for letting distract them the leprosy of Uzziah on forehead from the pastors.
Thus, The sermon most eloquent and salutary are not remained simply for only a
silly will believe a man who living inappropriate way is talking seriously. As Emerson
said: What you do cause so noice that I can not hear what you say.

Whether modern ministers might talking about their life for sure that they
would run out the preaching resources. But, in spite of everything, it would better
their mutely than they continue causing even one follower to sin. A pastor who is in
sin there are two ways to go ahead without be a shameless: one, do pluck out of
desire from ministry and resing right now or do pluck out the eyes and the hand what
are cause to sin.

It must live as John lived in order to have consistency at moment to talk; it

must deeps as John deeded in order to be success. Preachers life must be in
harmony with what he lives. Minister should be as Paul who can said with
consistency: Be ye followers of,.

On five one, servant of God lives fully devoted to his work. To become a
servant of restoration is need to have true will to work. Christian minister is the most
busy person; his work does not finish but with death; he does not schedule work
either holydays term; twenty-four hours are not enough for him in order to serve
properly his work. Time is so worth than gold to man sent of God; does not allow
that minutes is drained between his lazy fingers but he makes of most get of time
with diligence. As Watchman Nee said: Has we knew any useful christian servant
that was lazy? No, they are diligent and vigilant to make of most get time and
energies always. They do not seek an opportunity to rest, but seek to make of each
opportunity to serve to the Lord.

When it says that minister is most busy person, it means, that is most busy
person in the christian work, do not on others things. For I had heard to talk about of
a person who managed a real state company, studied in the university, he gave
some classes and furthermore he was a pastor of a church. A busy person what food
he could prepare to the sheeps? Busy pastor must limit to two things, as written: we
will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the minister of the word (Act, 6:4).
Prayer and biblical reading; blessing Works that form many years that will invest
them, never we could say: I did finish! These two needs are the life and born of all
christian minister. While do invest more time in them, more fruits will be harvest.
Servant of restoration sent from God could not let to pass either only day of this final
generation without does invest the most time as possible to pray and to biblical
reading. Due to, always minister is overdue and hurry well anyone can pray or do
read the bible too much. Always it can be pray and read a little bit more.

The verse that I take it, it mention before the prayer than the biblical reading.
In the same way, the prayer must be first worry of the minister what he will have to
devote his better efforts. Prayer must not be an extra busy of the preacher but it
must be the busy of all preacher.

The prayer is so important for ministry than other things. Do visit to the
brothers, preaching, sing and do manage the service at church are important things,
but these have not any values if before the preacher has not prayed. We remind the
instruction words of Luther in a dawn of his active time: Today I have many things to
do that I will devote the first three hours of the day to prayer. Have we usually do
what contrary?; it means that Have we been not reading the newspaper the first
hours of the morning? and Have our pray time these last minutes of an active day
when we are sleepy and tired, we lazily murmur some pray words while we wearing
before to sleep?, and thus, have we daring to talk about revival?

Leonard Ravenhill talked with judge when he said: I had said you that to the
history light a gospel minister who devote not two hours to pray he is not worthless.
If the Lord makes too much with few that we pray, what he would not do if we pray
properly? we need to back to the biblical pattern of prayer. We need that pulpit
ministers are forget of the vanity and fleshes entertainment to have develop the
number one labor of their existence.

- Which are the secret of revival?

- An evangelist was asked.
 - There are not any secret - answered
The revival come as answer to the prayer.

Where are lack of a real God is for there are lack of real prayer. All revival in
the history biblical started with prayer. The most biggest advances in the reform time
is achieved through of truth fight of prayer. I said that Luther could get whatever thing
from God if only let him pray. Queen of Scotland, Mary said: I fear more the prayer
of Juan Knox than an army of ten-thousand men. Preacher brothers, how we need
back to pray so that like apostle of calvinism our prayer has be an obstacle for sin!
we reserve a specific time for praying and, daily we effort to use it in effectiveness.
Do not matter if some day we take hours in prayer without have opportunity to
prepare the sermon. Prayers most profitable are not the prayers that are polish in
the work, if not what are brewing in prayer. Agustin said: Having prayer well is to
have worked well. We doubt not that better sermon is what do prepare in prayer.
Some make contrast between who do pray and who do work; but they forget that for
history church who has made good work has been who are pray; Prayer men has
been without exception who has made the most glorious part of the history.

For can express the outstanding that it should give to the prayer for life
preacher, I could not find words more wise than the words of remarkable missionary
Adoniram Judson: do tidy up your business, if it is possible, so you are quite spend
two or three hours each day not only to worship exercise, if not to secret prayer and
to the secret with God. Be strong seven time a day in order to refuse about worldly
worries and people who around you to raise your soul in secret to God. You start a
day to get up at midnight and in the darkness to this holy work spend time being
silent.
So, in that moment the dawn could find you working, getting other again at
nine oclock, at twelve oclock, at three oclock, at six oclock and at nine oclock in
the evening. You will have a resolution to his cause. You get all possible efforts to
hold it. You should consider that your time is short and must not allow other affairs
and business separate you from your God.