Harlot Church System: “Come out of her, My people”, The
Charles Elliott Newbold, Jr.
Number of quotes: 9
Book ID: 231 Page: 9
Section: 1A
This is the lie: We have been made to believe that this Thing we call church is of God and that our membership and participation in it is essential to our Christian walk when in fact it is an idolatrous substitute for Jesus and quite often a hindrance to our walk with Him.This Thing we call church, as we have come to experience it, is an idolatrous extension of our own Selves.
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We proclaim that this Thing we call church is the Kingdom of God when in fact it has nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. Rather, it is the modern-day Babylonian captivity of the elect of God.
Quote ID: 5810
Time Periods: 246
Book ID: 231 Page: 9
Section: 5D
We have confused our relationship with Christ by fusing it with this Thing we call church. We are led to believe that when we are in a proper relationship with it we are in a proper relationship with Christ: that we have to be a member of a church to be saved or to be a good Christian: that serving it is serving Christ; that loving it is loving Christ; that tithing to it is tithing to Christ.
Quote ID: 5811
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 231 Page: 10
Section: 5D
If it were true that going to church is synonymous with coming to Jesus, then we would have to ask: Which Jesus is it? Is it the Baptist Jesus? The Church of Christ Jesus? The Methodist Jesus? The Presbyterian Jesus? The Roman Catholic Jesus? The Orthodox Jesus? The Protestant Jesus? The Charismatic or Pentecostal Jesus? The Independent Jesus? There are so many to choose from. Unchurched people look at this mix of churches they are invited to join and wonder why anyone would want to be a part of that.
Quote ID: 5812
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 231 Page: 15
Section: 2E3
The earliest church buildings are believed to have been built after the pattern of the Roman basilica—architecture that was firmly rooted in the traditions of the Roman empire and has no basis in scripture. Church buildings became more elaborate with the Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic influences. The layout of these cathedrals often hid the monks and choirs from the people, advancing the idea of the separation of clergy from laity which is unfounded in scripture.
Quote ID: 5813
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 231 Page: 39
Section: 5D
A harlot is feminine in gender. I mean no disparagement against anyone who is sexually broken, but when the bride of Christ joins herself to the harlotry of Self, she is operating in the perverse spirit of spiritual lesbianism and practicing spiritual self-sex. We are more “in lust” with ourselves that we are in sacrificial relationship with our Bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is jealous of that.
Quote ID: 5814
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 231 Page: 59
Section: 2A4
“He was institutionalized. Been in here fifty years. This is all he knows. In here, he’s an important man. He’s an educated man. But outside he’s nothing. Just a used-up con with arthritis in both hands. Probably couldn’t get a library card if he tried… These walls are funny. At first you hate ‘em. Then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s institutionalized.” {13}
Quote ID: 5816
Time Periods: 4
Book ID: 231 Page: 61
Section: 5D
Bill Shipman notices this dependency principle when he worked at a developmental center for young offenders. Rather than encouraging them to become productive citizens, the authorities did things that made them inmates more dependent. If one of the inmates showed any individuality, they were prescribed more Valium. Those in charge wanted to conform them rather than reform them because they needed the inmates to be dependent upon them.On several occasions Bill tried to get some of the inmates out of institutional dependency but was undercut by other staff members. They used fear to keep their young men feeling inadequate about themselves. “You better not listen to Bill,” they would say. “You’ll get out there and it’ll just be a matter of time before you’re back in here again.”
“I saw things in this institution,” Bill related, “that looked just like what I’d seen in the church by heavy-handed leaders with selfish ambition. It’s okay when you’re bettering the institution or bettering their positions, but when you try to better the clients—the people in need—you’re booed down.”
Quote ID: 5817
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 231 Page: 63
Section: 1A,4B
Bob Hughey says, “What began as a movement in Israel became a philosophy in Greece, became an institution in Rome, became a culture in Europe, and became a big rich enterprise in America.”
Quote ID: 5818
Time Periods: 246
Book ID: 231 Page: 111
Section: 5D
The Elijah spirit is being released today in part to speak judgment against the Ahabs and Jezebels who teach and seduce God’s servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols. Rev. 2:20. How we give our affections, time, money, energies, children, and the like to these idolatrous church systems we are in!
Quote ID: 5819
Time Periods: ?
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