Christian Living

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God Has Been Patient
Bring God's Glory Back To His House

Ephesians 2:19-22, so then ye are no more stranger and sojourners, but ye are fellow citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God, being built upon the foundation of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in Spirit.

II Peter 2:5, ye also as living stones are built up a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

What kind of sacrifice do you bring to God's House? We make God lose it with our disobedience and disrespect shown in his house. People can't come to our houses any kind of way. God has been patient but He will no longer be patient with our disrespect for His House, the Sanctuary. We sit in sanctuaries that is suppose to be holy with saved believers, a place of refuge and we partake of everything imaginable.

God is long suffering but will you be caught up in your own stand regarding the rule for the Church? It is in our patience that we possess our souls. WE live in a time of tribulation, that works our patience. We have to declare God's love in the Spirit. It should be the desire of every believer that everyone living be filled with the knowledge of God and what his Will is in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. If we fail in one area, we fail in all.

We are not walking worthy of the lord, nor pleasing Him with our attained knowledge of who we think He is and what He wants. We need to be strengthened with all might according to the glorious power of God. We are to be knitted together with the Word of God and God's Spirit and stop getting people hung up on the things in the earth. Even the Earth complains to God about the inhabitants He put in it. The earth is prevailing against its inhabitants. We have caused people to be put back in the bondage Jesus delivered us out of. We have slowly lost our freedom of expression to the peer pressures coming from pulpits all across America. You may say how is that so! The Church tells people that if they don't have certain attained items in their possession they are not blessed. It's time out Churches, we are bringing the wrath of God down upon us.

We give God the right hand of fellowship and this is more than a hand in a hand but it's a symbol of power and strength. It also was an indication of friendship. We should be honored that Jesus Christ allows us to speak, teach, or render service in His behalf. We have taken advantage of the little authority God has given us. Jesus rendered the Devil helpless and hopeless, why have we allowed the Devil to come before God to accuse us? He chooses to use us, it's nothing we do ourselves. Christ stands on the right hand of God and has all authority over the Church.

The Church is a collective body of Christians. These believers has been called out to be separate from the world. The entire body of saved believers, the church is failing miserably in getting God's work done in the earth. The soul count is down. It's like the water rose above the levee and then the levee was forgotten about. Saints we have forgotten what's important to God. God is not pleased with the way the Church of Jesus Christ is conducting itself. The Church is sleeping while the world is going to Hell. We are our brothers keeper.

Jesus said to Peter in answer to the revelation of who Jesus was in Matthew 16:18, and I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. What makes us saved is coming to know Jesus as He is and accepting that He is and living like He is. Jesus came to redeem man and put all things under his feet, and God gave him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Jesus is the head of the body, the Church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence. Jesus said now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which is the Church. Jesus did everything for us and we won't just simply pull on someone else's soul to be saved.

Jesus taught us how we are to behave in his house, the House of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. We implore the saved today to have another seat filled with a soul. God will judge us all and to the spirits of just men made perfect when we are enrolled in the general assembly in heaven. We are to be moved by the Spirit of God, know what His Will is and what the Word says concerning us. Saints we are sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be Saints with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place. Jesus left man here in the earth to set things in order as He did. This is what we are to do, set things that is wanting in order.

The Kingdom of God is wanting. The excess of leaven is found therein in the Kingdom God has set in the earth. Leaven is a substance which causes dough to ferment and rise. It was forbidden in all offerings made by fire to the Lord although is was used in offerings to be consumed by man. Leaven is a convenient symbol for any unseen influence, thereby it is used of corrupt doctrine and for wickedness of the heart. The kingdom of heaven is also compared to leaven. The leaven is the reasoning with and persuading men to come to Christ. We have been delivered by Christ out of the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

Jesus is the head over all things to the Church. The Church is the House of God; some things ought not be done in the Church. So many come into God's house and totally disrespect the household. We are bold with it too! God set forth in His Word how we are to behave when we come to His House. Many do not consider that the church is the Temple of God; a Spiritual Building.

Ecclesiastes 5:1-2, keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; and be more ready to hear, than give the sacrifices of fools; for they consider not that they do evil, be not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thous upon earth; therefore let thy Words be few.

What kind of sacrifice are we bringing to God? There is a way that seem right to man but he end thereof is the way of death. We should hear the conclusion of the whole matter. When we worship God we come before him with reverential awe. Keep God's commandments is the whole duty of man. God tells us that he shall bring our works into judgment, with every secret thing also whether it be good or evil.

We are to come into God's house to worship him. How is that? The respect we show to God in his house determines whether or not we represent Him. Worship is adoration, praise, and prayer that is acceptable to God. We have worship and praise service but is it acceptable to God? Question rather or not your own praise is noteworthy. Our attitude in conforming to God's Word will bring us down to our knees in repentance.

We are to keep our feet when we go to God's house. Stop walking around talking and laughing when you come in. When we learn how to be quiet and still and ready for worship, then God will do something for us. One little bit of ugliness will stop God flow of power moving on our behalf. We can have church and God has nothing to do with it. Come in more ready to hear than talk. Saints we need to be sensitive to the Spirit of God. We should have read our Word and prayed before we get to the house of God. This brings us in humble and not full of pride like nothing can happen unless we do it. We bring in the sacrifices of fools to God's house every Sunday morning and never think that it is evil. Some people have to feel important. Some wants recognition, some wants to be seen. Talking to much before services cuts God's Spirit. The Sanctuary is a Holy Place. Our mouths cause us to sin when we be hasty to speak what is in our hearts.

Everybody comes for something, the question is what do you come for?

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