Going to Jesus

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  03-01 “I Will Answer ALL Your Questions.” 03-02 The Will of the Flesh and the Will of Man 03-03 Self-will and Strong Will 03-04 The Danger of Liberty 03-05 A Chastened Man 03-06 Reconciled 03-07 “Reconciled” Response 03-08 “Reconciled” Response 03-09 One Way 03-10 “One Way” Response 03-11 A Checklist For Staying Free 03-12 Everything Jesus Is 03-13 Becoming An Unbeliever 03-14 We Cannot Even Love God 03-15 Seeing The Father 03-16 “You Are Still A Proud People” 03-17 'You Are Still A Proud People: Response 03-18 No More Church 03-19 “Church” 03-20 Because God Did Not Reveal The Truth 03-21 The Death Penalty 03-22 False Teachers 03-23 Leave The Saving To God 03-24 “That They Might Be Damned” 03-25 “A New And Living Way” 03-26 “Hard To Understand”? 03-27 Saving Love 03-28 With What God Is 03-29 Loving The Feelings 03-30 True Fasting 03-31 God Is Humbler Than Man

 

Thought for the Morning
3-18

No More Church

That is so good about God recognizing another sincerely humble soul. There is peace in that. He knows us and He loves us! I have been trying to take in what you said the other Sunday morning about how we are not in church anymore. Wow.

I am not in church at Pastor John’s house.

I do not go to church.

We do not get up and get dressed in our nice clothes to go to church.

MY, MY, MY! I keep saying those things over and over again.

We are just going to meet with our family to praise God. It’s our FAMILY, not our CHURCH. We are free from church religion. We are free from sitting in pews, or chairs, and smiling at each other. We are free to speak our hearts and to love the holy Spirit on our bodies. We are free to give someone a hug at any time the Lord leads us. I have not fully taken that into my heart. There is so much pride in saying, “I belong to the so-and-so church.” Or even by saying, “I am in the church. I am a church member.”

Jesus must be trying to help us not be a proud people by allowing us to see that we don’t have any part in the church. But I still sometimes sit in my chair when my spirit wants to be praying on my knees or standing or hugging someone. I know others sometimes do the same thing.

But I believe that if we can really take it in that we are not in church, then God can use us much more effectively. What liberty there is in not going to church! I love my family.

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