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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
Open letter to the Reverend Doctor Robert
Rayburn. Dear Rob,
How grateful I am
to our Lord Jesus for all the time you are taking in your busy schedule to read
and write to me about ÒThe New Manifesto of the Followers of Jesus.Ó Thank you
also for promptly answering my last letter the question of, What precisely I
want you to know about the content of ÒThe ManifestoÓ, in order for you to help
me to condense it as to market it for our generation.
Okay, here we go,
let me shoot from the hip, and while we are there, let me make this letter an
open letter as to go ahead and answer possible question that may come from
other brothers. I remain thankful in Jesus.
There is a problem on earth that is keeping Jesus
from returning for us. ÒThe Prayer of
faith that takes Jesus at his word, in agreement with God in the mind of Jesus,
according GodÕs will as stated in Scripture, is absent from the church.Ó Unless we accept
the diagnosis of Jesus that the church is not a house of prayer, we will
live in denial, powerless lives in disagreement with God and unable to pray
with all our hearts and clear conscience ÒYour Kingdom come.Ó
I am
pleading in tears with great fear to be misunderstood by the church in my attempt
to convince the body in the urgent need to reform our view and practice of
prayer. The one thing we
know for sure is, the will of God for the church in order to be healthy is
stated in the following verse. ÒRejoice always, pray continually, give
thanks in all your circumstances, for this is the will of God for you in Christ
JesusÓ I Tess 5:16. ÒIt is the will
of God for us to prayÓ
Only a life of prayer
can see the answer to prayer, and have a reason to rejoice always. If you
rejoice without reason then you are only tickling yourself under the armpits,
or the plant of your feet. He who discovers
through prayer, who? He is in God through Jesus, is the only one that has the
desire to pray continuously to the point that prayer becomes a state of mind as
normal as breathing; in the same way as the work of the mind is uninterrupted
as breathing, equally unconscious of that work. No one
consciously monitors the mind to think, or the lung to breath consciously. Therefore
in collective prayer, one actually stops breathing and is
self-consciousness pray more for public consumption than GodÕs consumption. I know that,
because I have been there, and so will admit my sincere friends with
conscience. A person, in
whose life the answer to prayer is a constant reality, is one who is not only
alive but has Life. This person will give thanks in all circumstances, because
he knows that even his adverse circumstances are part of God's answer to prayer
by making all wrongs right working together for the greater good according to
God's will and word. The source of
faith and trust of this person is the prophesied life of Jesus and his own
predestined life. This person will take the doctrine of the Sovereignty of God
with great ease that whatsoever it comes to pass is according the will of God. To such a man the
prayer that seeks God to agree with him will sound increasingly estrange.
The joy of agreeing with the will of God and not his own will, will down in his
life like bright mourning Sun to never darken again. His heart will have no
room but to be thankfully busting in prayer as a child burst in laughter and
joy. Then from the abundance of his heart, his mouth will give in all
circumstances. Prayer
awakens man to the reality of who he is to God and Jesus.
The
oneness of this man with God in Jesus, it's not something like a slice of pie
in the sky when you die; but a taste of heaven on earth that sets him apart
from all. Much joy may deprive him of speech as he finds essay to understand
but hard to communicate to others without GodÕs help. Thus God place a man of
his choice in the seldom-trafficked road reserved for his remnant.
To him
indeed death is gain and all fear is gone but the fear of the Lord. The
inheritance of a thankful man of prayer is not only the peace of God, but the
God of peace himself at the cool of the day every day just like before the fall
in the garden.
A man of
prayer it's not aloof but looks aloof, because small things that make others
bend out of shape no longer affects him. He is different,
not because he wants to be different, but because he indeed is different, even
to himself, to his family and friends. Prayer for this man is not works or
bondage that he has to do, but the most joyful hanging out with God in Jesus.
What is most beautiful is that it is obtainable to everyone who takes our
principal stated in the equation F=PW2, where faith is equal to prayer under
the will of God according to Scripture.
Faith
is taking Jesus at his word without editing his words in a child like
manner. Prayer is agreement with God in thought, word and deed
according the will of God in oneness and unity in the mind of Jesus as stated
in Scripture. The will of God is the only thing that prevails on earth as in Heaven. It should not be
accepted grudgingly or even resentfully when it comes like a bulldozer to
prepare the landscape for the future residential development. The will and
obedience must go at all times as hand and glove as in heavenly working
harmony. The Word of God must be taken as the constant standard more reliable that the speed of
light. The word obeyed must work the same results anywhere, any time under the
same circumstances with the same results. The prayer
equation, faithfully applied, is guaranteed to work with infallible results. If this principle fails, I am willing to be stoned to death for
foolishly speaking as the false prophets of old. Lastly the New
Manifesto of the Followers of Jesus it's just that, Òa Manifesto.Ó Let's call things
by its name; there is Radical Prayerlessness in the Church today that is not
acceptable. The manifesto of
Marx and Engels of 1848 was an outcry to change the order of the establishment
of Germany, Europe and the world by calling, ÒWorkers of all Lands UniteÓ.
Lenin in Russia took Marx and Engels at their word and launched his October
Revolution. Manifestos, seeking for unity, are as old as history. Since Babel,
men in unity build cities to make a name for themselves, to control other and
their circumstances for which ÒUnityÓ is a key word, build the cities. Unity is not the
issue, but under whose name is unit to be? The call to unity by Marx and Engel
is not unity for the sake of unity, but unity around an ideology and that was
The Dialectical Materialism of Marx and Engels. Ideas run the world, not
people. I am not afraid
of the red bottom of the nuclear arsenal of any super power. What I am afraid
if I chose to be afraid is of the idea in the mind of the person whose finger
rests on the trigger. Everyone knows
even by instinct that the Ideology of the classroom in one generation will be
the Ideology of the Government in the next generation. The real battleground of
all political movement is the mind. As a man thinks so is he. Prayer is the
occupation of the mind, therefore prayer for the believer is crucially
important. It is in the mind we win or we lose. Marxists know
this very well. They say that Politics is war without shedding of blood and war
is politics with the shedding of the blood. They do not believe that the
classes that hold the power will ever hand over power by peaceful means. Therefore the
revolutionary movements offer a succinct and clear rationale that is easily
understood and easily communicable to others. Thus they conquer easily the
minds of young people who by nature are restless and eager to change the world
with new ideas worth dying for. As Jean Paul Sartre said: ÒWhen a man
finds a reason to die for, then he is happy. Who can defeat a life that has
found a cause worth dying? That is the
reason why even today the Radical Islam movement is exploiting the idealism of
the young people who otherwise will end life filling less important than an
inchworm. The Manifesto
clearly understood is as effective weapon for World Change. When a young mind
who is already predisposed to hate because he has identify a villain in his mind,
he no longer needs a deep concept to master. But a clear
ideology that he can verbalize to his pear that generates in them the
self-confidence for the heroic. When his peers
equally understand the ideology communicated, it becomes a self-propelled
movement with a chain reaction effect that normal people will not understand
but radically judge and reacts to only gain the name of Reactionaries. That sense of
collective security is also a factor that fuels the ego with the same syndrome
that the Kamikazes of Japan in World War II were armed that gave no option to
the allies but to use the Atomic bomb.
In a way,
such was the nature of JesusÕ revolution; it was simple, clear, transparent and
easy to understand and easy to communicate. The effects by the power of the
Holy Spirit were more than encouraging as the church grew. Jesus asked a small
obedience to make disciples of two or three friends in covenantal
relationship. To pray together knowing that Jesus is in the midst
of two or three gathered together in his name. Then some
Theological Vandals came to muddy the waters of the Gospel that we can no
longer see bottom. We see less and less clear that the disciples of Jesus at
first. In obscurity no one finds easy to die for what he cannot quite understand. It is like Albert
Einstein said, ÒIf you cannot explain it in few words, you probably don't
understand it yourselfÓ. The option of the church is to go back to taken Jesus
at his word and in child likeness agree with God and his will without editing
his word and follow the example of Jesus as stated in Scripture. GodÕs little
children are tiptoeing at the waters edge afraid to drowned in the dark depths
of the so-called Òsecularized wisdomÓ that is like toothless lions. While it is clear
from scriptures that the Father is please to placed the cookie jar of his
truths in the lower shelves, at the reachable of children and the child like so
they may feed themselves the freshly baked cookies at their hearts
satisfaction, less by claiming to the upper shelves may fall and hurt
themselves. The task of the
high and mighty it to show some humility by bending their knees after looking
left and right like Nicodemus who came to Jesus at night for some cookies. Come
in humility to eat along with the little ones, who by the way are ÒThe Land
Lords of The Kingdom of GodÓ. For Jesus said about the little children
ÒTo such as these belong the kingdom of GodÓ. Jesus also said that it was to
GodÕs pleasure to hide those things from the wise and understanding a reveal it
to the little childrenÓ.
Our Manifesto
requires that we take Jesus at his word and be like little children, not
childish but like little children, otherwise will never enter the kingdom of
God. Until then,
ÒRejoice always, pray continually and give thanks in all circumstances, for
this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.Ó I Tess. 5:16. Now we have no
excuses, we know the express will of God. Prayer will make you Rejoice. Prayer
will make you pray continuously and prayer will make you thankful. That is the
heart precisely of the New Manifest of the Followers of JesusÓ. ÒBelievers of all
Lands, Unite in Prayer. In the name, the example, power and
authority of JesusÓ. Let us accelerate
the coming of the Kingdom by Praying together with Jesus and in unison, for it
is the express desire of the Lord to want to return soon. Let us agree. ÒYou Kingdome
comeÓ. Gerry Gutierrez.
(Joseph Stephen) Declaring an open Ideological war to Karl Marx. 
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