THESE THINGS 'MUST COME,' IN ORDER TO BUILD OUR FAITH AND TEACH US HOW TO RELY UPON THE LOVE OF GOD. ( JAMES 4: 16ff ) .    WE NEED THE PERSEVERANCE THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL BUILD IN OUR LIVES, IN ORDER TO FACE THE TRYING TIMES AHEAD.  WE WILL NOT FIND OUR HOPE IN A MAN, OR A MINISTRY, OR IN ANY OF 'OUR WISDOM,' OR ABILITIES, BUT ONLY IN THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.   IT IS IN THESE TIMES, NOW, THAT WE NEED TO PRESS IN AS NEVER BEFORE, TO SEEK HIS FACE AND CALL UPON HIS NAME, TO KNOW HIS HEART AND TO WALK IN HIS COMMANDMENTS...... 

IT IS TRULY A 'RACE,' THAT WE MUST RUN ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS,NOT THAT WE CANNOT GAIN ENCOURAGEMENT ALONG THE WAY, FROM THOSE WHO HAVE A HEART THAT KNOW THE TESTINGS THAT ARE ALLOWED TO COME,   AND, THE DEALINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND THEREFORE, CAN MINISTER TO US, THE GIFT/S   OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS HE SO LEADS THEM FOR OUR PARTICULAR SITUATION IN OUR JOURNEY.     THESE GIFTS THAT ARE ADMINISTERED THROUGH THE BODY OF BELIEVERS, BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, ARE GIVEN TO REFRESH, AND EDIFY, AND BUILD UP THE BODY, SO THERE WOULD BE NO SPIRITUAL LACK AMONG US.

  THIS IS NOT TO BE "THE SOURCE," ALONE, FOR THEN WE WOULD BE INCLINED TO ALWAYS DEPEND UPON MEN FOR WHAT WE NEED,RATHER THAN LEARN IN THE 'SCHOOL OF CHRIST,' THE REVELATION OF HIM, THAT WE CAN ONLY GET THROUGH UNION WITH HIM.    ONCE THE 'INDIVIDUAL' UNION IS ESTABLISHED IN THE LIFE OF THE BELIEVER, THEN CORPORATE SPIRITUAL UNITY, AND THE 'ONENESS,'  ( THAT IS BEING ONE MIND AND ONE ACCORD ), THAT JESUS HAS PLANNED FOR US, AND PAUL PREACHED SO MUCH ABOUT AS WELL, WILL BEGIN TO BE A REALITY IN OUR GATHERINGS.

  WE MUST NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE THAT SO MANY IN THE CHURCH HAVE ALREADY MADE, AND COMPARE ONENESS, TO 'SAMENESS.'   THERE IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE HERE. SAMENESS, IS A BONDAGE FROM HELL ITSELF, IN THE FORM OF "RELIGION."    IT LEADS IT'S VICTIMS TO ALL BE JUST ALIKE, TO THINK IN THEIR DIVIDED HEARTS, THAT THEIR NEIGHBOR IN THE NEXT PEW, OR IN THE CHOIR LOFT, OR ACROSS THE STREET, SHOULD THINK AND ACT AS THEY DO, LOOK LIKE THEY DO, MINISTER THE SAME AS THEY DO.    "SAMENESS," IS A DEADLY DISEASE, THAT HAS INFECTED THE GREATER PORTION OF WHAT WE CALL CHURCH.  THIS RELIGIOUS, JEZEBEL SPIRIT, FINDS IT'S ROOT, AS  ALL RELIGIOUS THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS DO, IN THE WOMB OF "PRIDE". 

  OUR 'STANDARD IS NOT HOW THE CHURCH DOWN THE STREET DOES IT, OR TO LOOK AND ACT AND DRESS LIKE OUR TRADITION HAS TAUGHT US, OR OUR DENOMINATION, OR CHURCH AFFILIATION, OR TO GO BY CERTAIN CREEDS AND LAMENTS, AND OTHER NON-SCRIPTURAL   BEHAVIOR.

  SIMPLY, OUR STANDARD IS THE SAME IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN........ " THE WORD OF GOD."

  "IF IT IS NOT IN THE WORD, WE DO NOT NEED IT!"

TODAY WE HAVE THOSE WHO WOULD TEACH US, THAT WE NEED TO "KEEP UP WITH THE TIMES," THIS WILL BRING PEOPLE INTO OUR ASSEMBLIES THEY SAY.  YET, WE DO NOT SEE ANY SUCH ACTION FROM JESUS, OR THE APOSTLES, OR PROPHETS, OR DISCIPLES. THEY NEVER USED  THE "MODERN METHODS,'' OF THEIR DAY,  OF THE FLESH, TO 'BRING IN THE CROWDS.' NO, IT WAS BY THE MOVING OF THE POWER OF THE 'LIVING WORD.'   TODAY, IT IS TAUGHT, THAT WE NEED BIGGER CHOIRS, LOUDER MUSIC, CHOREOGRAPHED DANCING, PUPPETS, ENTERTAINERS, TO BRING PEOPLE, AND KEEP PEOPLE. 

CAN YOU IMAGINE MIRIAM, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RED SEA, GETTING ALL THE SISTERS TOGETHER, AND PRACTICING THEIR DANCE ROUTINE, TO CELEBRATE THEIR DELIVERANCE FROM THE CHARIOTS OF HELL THAT FOLLOWED THEM, BUT WERE DESTROYED BY THE POWER OF GOD!

  WHEN WE LACK THE PRESENCE AND THE TRUE POWER OF GOD, THIS IS WHEN THE CHURCH HAS BEGAN TO "MANUFACTURE HER OWN."  THAT IS "ONE" REASON, THERE IS A FAMINE OF THE HEARING OF THE WORDS OF THE LORD IN THE LAND AT THIS HOUR WE ARE IN.   IF JESUS, AND THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING, ARE NO LONGER ENOUGH.... THEN WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY LOST SIGHT OF THE WORKING OF THE WORD OF GOD, AND ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF HOLY GHOST SPECTACLES, SO WE MAY ONCE AGAIN, OR PERHAPS IN SOME CASES, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, "SEE," THE WORKINGS OF GODS WORD, THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, IN VESSELS OF HONOR.

  IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW LOUD SOME WILL SCREAM, THAT WE NEED ALL THESE INVENTIONS OF MAN IN THE CHURCH TO EVANGELIZE OR TO BRING THE BODY TO A PLACE OF TRUE BIBLICAL ONENESS. THE FACT REMAINS, OUR DIRECTIONS ARE WRITTEN DOWN FOR US IN THE PAGES OF GOD'S WORD, AND WHEN WE GET OFF THAT LINE, WE ARE BUILDING FOR OURSELVES A KINGDOM OF FLESHLY DISSATISFIED, STILL HUNGRY, YET DECEIVED PEOPLE.   THEN,  WE HAVE TO KEEP  INVENTING MORE AND MORE WAYS, AND SPENDING MORE AND MORE TIME AND ENERGY, AND MONEY, TO DO WHAT ONLY GOD CAN DO ONLY BY HIS SPIRIT..... AND THAT, THROUGH HIS WORD!

  ONENESS, AS JESUS, AND PAUL, PRAY THE CHURCH WILL BE, IS SIMPLY THIS. THAT WE ALL ARE IN ONE MIND, AND ONE ACCORD, IN THE SAME MIND, TOGETHER, AS THE WORD PUTS IT.   THAT IS, THAT THE TRUE REMNANT OF GOD, WILL HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST THROUGH THEIR INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM, AND SO VERY MUCH LONG FOR HIS HEART, AND HIS WILL, AND FOR HIM TO BE GLORIFIED, THAT WHEN WE COME TOGETHER, THIS IS WHAT WE SEEK.   WE ARE NOT THERE TO BE ENTERTAINED BY SOME REHEARSED ACT, OR BY SOME COMFORTABLE, OR AMUSING ANTIDOTES, BUT WE ARE COMING TOGETHER, TO BRING GLORY TO GOD, IN SINCERITY AND TRUTH, BY OUR WORSHIP, WITH A PURE HEART BEFORE HIM, ALL LONGING FOR THE SAME THING, THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD COME, AND BE WHO HE IS ... GOD!

  THAT WE WANT NOTHING BUT THE PURE WORD, AND THE DESIRE TO SEE AND HAVE THE WILL OF GOD DONE NOT ONLY IN THE GATHERING, BUT IN THE EARTH AS WELL. TO BE IN THAT ONE MIND AND ONE ACCORD, IS TO COME TOGETHER, AND DESIRE NOTHING BUT ONLY WHAT GOD WILL PRODUCE, AND TO ABSOLUTELY REJECT THAT WHICH IS FLESH, KNOWING THAT FLESH  WILL QUENCH THE TRUE MOVE OF GOD IN OUR MIDST... THAT WE ALL COME WITH THE DESIRE THAT CHRIST ALONE BE GLORIFIED! NOT OUR PASTOR, OUR SERVICE, OUR CHURCH BUILDING, OUR CLEVERNESS, OR OUR WELL KNOWN  ENTERTAINERS... "BUT CHRIST AND HIM ALONE!"

WHEN WE SIMPLY GET BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD... GOD WILL GET BACK TO US!

  THAT IS TO SAY, HIS TRUE PRESENCE, NOTHING ARTIFICIAL, BUT THE TRUE , GENUINE, MOVING OF THE   LORD, THE TRUE GRACE OF GOD, THAT TIMOTHY SAYS BRINGS SALVATION, ( HEALING , DELIVERANCE, FREEDOM, ), THIS WILL WORK IN OUR MIDST TO CAUSE US TO BE THE 'PURE BRIDE,' THAT JESUS IS COMING BACK FOR.

  CHURCH, PREPARE YOURSELVES, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH JUST BELIEVING THE WORD OF GOD AND DOING IT.  IT HAS WORKED FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR THOSE WHO, WOULD NOT "MIX IT," WITH THE CLEVERNESS OF THE FLESH.  

TO ALL THAT TOOK GOD AT HIS WORD, AND WALKED IN HUMILITY, AND FOUND NO PRIDE OR BOAST IN THEMSELVES, GOD DID MIGHTY THINGS AMONG THEM, AND THEY WERE CALLED HIS PEOPLE, AND HE WAS CALLED THEIR GOD.   STAY WITH THE WORD OF GOD!     

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