Going to Jesus

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  07-01 Making Jesus Lord 07-02 Exceeding the Righteousness of the Pharisees 07-03 You Will Not Die 07-04 "Taking the �Woe' Off" 07-05 The Most Essential Thing 07-06 "Which No Man Could Gainsay" 07-07 The Strong Delusion 07-08 Wasted Zeal 07-09 Empty Vines 07-10 If Christianity is Not the Family of God, Then What is It? 07-11 Tithes and Offerings, Part One - Tipping God 07-12 Tithes and Offerings, Part Two - Thievery 07-13 Tithes and Offerings, Part Three - The Difference Between Tithes and Offerings 07-14 Tithes and Offerings, Part Four - Where to Bring God's Tithes 07-15 Tithes and Offerings, Part Five - Part of a Holy Life 07-16 Tithes and Offerings, Part Six - "Here, men that die receive them" 07-17 Tithes and Offerings, Part Seven - Two Evils 07-18 Tithes and Offerings, Part Eight - Giving 07-19 Tithes and Offerings, Part Nine - Final Thoughts 07-20 The Attitude of a Servant, Part One 07-21 The Attitude of a Servant, Part Two 07-22 Two Choices 07-23 How Jesus Looked 07-24 Knowing God vs. Knowing the Bible 07-25 Was Having Slaves Sin? 07-26 Your Greatest Trouble 07-27 Voting 07-28 The Only Difference 07-29 Pleasing Everybody 07-30 Liberty 07-31 Hidden with Christ in God

 

Thought for Today
Jul. 10

IF CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE FAMILY OF GOD, THEN WHAT IS IT?

The family of God is comprised only of people who have received the baptism of the holy Ghost. Every person who truly belongs to God has been baptized with the holy Ghost (with the evidence of speaking in tongues) because that is the only way for anyone to become a member of God's family. We are "baptized into Christ" (Rom. 6:3; 1Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27); no one has ever "joined into Christ". God's family on earth is a people that could not exist except that Jesus suffered and died to make the holy Ghost available. God's family is not a religious organization formed and maintained by the wisdom and will of men; it is a people created by the power of God and maintained by the same.

Christianity is a religion that men invented and then labeled "the church". As with all other religions on earth, Christianity, or "the church", is a religion that can be joined. No religion that can be joined is of God. (If you think about it, we all know that Jesus did not suffer and die to create a club!) The baptism of the holy Ghost that Jesus gives has nothing whatsoever to do with the religion of Christianity, nor does he have anything to do with any other of the world's great religions. Except for using the name "Jesus" as if it were of him, Christianity is a nothing more than a ceremonial religion that could exist and operate even if Jesus had never come to earth. It is a religion of talk and ceremonies, but the religion of God is a religion of power, truth, and purity.

But the point of all this is simply to ask a question. Please take a moment and try to answer this question. Try to think of an answer that you can write on paper, or speak out loud. Make your thoughts verbal, if you can. Here is the question that I ask you to answer:

IF CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE FAMILY OF GOD,
THEN WHAT IS IT?