We are gathered together in God’s House of Worship…Why? Let us search our thoughts, our hearts, our minds, and most of all, let us search the scriptures, found written in God’s Holy Book the Bible…It will teach us what God expects of us….It will teach us of God the Father, HIS Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost…..It will teach us how to worship in spirit and truth….as the Spirit guides…as the Father Commands…as the Son taught…that we should….
(Romans 4:20)…He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in
faith, giving glory to God;…. Do we do this in Church?
(I Corinthians 2:5).. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power
of God…. Do we realize that God is more powerful than the nation in which we live, as we lift up the flag and salute and pledge our loyalty to it before God in HIS House? IS This NOT The same as pushing THE: *ENSIGN* (flag) OF God’s Kingdom, HIS OWN Son, Jesus Christ, (Isaiah 11:10-!2).. aside for a show of ~~PRIDE~~ in an earthly nation? DO we ever ~STOP~ & ~THINK~ of what we are doing, why, and how *IT* affects our very ~~Testimony~~ of ~Sincere~ *Faith? AND What comes of ~This ~~PRIDE~~?
(I John 2:16)..”The ~Pride~ of life, IS NOT OF the Father, BUT IS OF The world… (Mark 7:20-23)..Jesus, lists ~Pride~ as an evil that comes from within and defileth ~~ALL~~ men along with deceit, blasphemy, foolishness.. (Proverbs 16:18).. ~~Pride~~ goeth before destruction….
(Exodus 34:14).. “thou shalt ~Worship~ *NO* other God: FOR THE LORD, whose NAME IS Jealous, ~IS A Jealous God”….
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When we are giving these praises to the flag and to the nation and to men are we growing in the faith of God by hearing HIS Word, or are we showing our faith to be in men?
(John 12:39-44)….HE hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts…why? ..because they
loved the praise of men more than the praise of God…..Jesus cried and said.. “he that believeth on Me, believeth not on Me, but on HIM that sent Me.”
What does God Command be done in HIS House of Worship? Consider This!
(Psalm 100:3-5)… “Know ye that the LORD *HE* IS GOD:” Know Who and What? “It Is HE that hath made us and not we ourselves;” Who made us that we should lift ~ourselves~ up? “we are HIS people and the sheep of HIS Pasture” …Whose people are we? Our own person to do as we please or a ~Great earthly Nation~? “Enter into HIS Gates with thanksgiving,” Enter into our gates & courts or HIS? “and into HIS Courts with Praise: be thankful unto HIM,” Who do we owe thanks to in HIS House? The Church officials, the Pastors, our friends? “and Bless HIS Name” …Whose IS HIM? Whose Name do we lift up in Praise? . “For the LORD IS Good;” Why? “HIS mercy is everlasting; and HIS Truth endureth to all generations” …How far does this passage stand through TIME? those that lived in the days of King David? Peter and Paul? The Roman days? Or To ALL Generations? …. When ~DID~ God *Change*, so that we ~NO LONGER~ are required to ~Honor~ HIM? WHEN DID GOD make THE ~~NEW~~ Commandment that now HIS children, The Sheep of HIS Pasture, could give their ~Praise~ to each other, an earthly nation, a nationally proclaimed celebration, include pagan cultural traditions in the services carried out where HIS people come to gather to Worship God in the building set aside for ~THIS Purpose~….??? OR IS IT Today, as IT Was with the Israelites of old, They have mingled with the heathen nations until the “Temples” set aside for True Worship, have been defiled, because of fleshly minds” … (I Corinthians 3: 17)
(Mark 7:6b-7)..”people honoureth ME with their lips, but their heart is far from ME.. IN vain do they ~~Worship~~ ME.. teaching for ~Doctrines the commandments of men~~.”
Does the Written Accounts of Jesus Birth, or Crucifixion, penned by men that walked with Jesus give record, OF: men bring gifts and honoring each other, before God, or singing songs of praise to the nations in which these events took place, OR praising each other because they were born on this earth during this day and lived on this earth to see these events happen? Folks back up a step or two and take a more extended arms length ~~LOOK~~ AT What we do, what we show, how we worship before the world that is seeking leadership from: The people that claim to be God’s disciples, ministers, children….
When we are calling folks to stand in the front of the Church and lifting them up in songs of praise because they had a fleshly birthday this day, or because they have lived in fleshly marriage for a year or more, or for some work that they may have done in the Church what are we doing? Who are we honoring in God’s Gates and Courts?
This seems to be a good thing to do, it makes people feel special, so it is understandable from a fleshly point of view. But! It would seem that if anything be done in God’s House of this nature it would be better to remember and give thanks unto the LORD for the day that HE saved our miserable souls. The day that HE saw fit to forgive us, by convicting us of our sins and short comings, and laying that burden upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit, and drawing us to HIM, God the Father, by HIS Son, Jesus Christ….Once again, WHY do we enter into HIS Gates??
(Proverbs 14:12)...there is a way which seemeth right unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death....
(Romans 3:31)….Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we
establish the law…. Because we think ourselves saved does that exempt us from following the Commandments of God? Does this give us the liberty to decide for ourselves what is righteous in our worship, what we want to do?
(Romans 1:28)...And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them
over to a reprobate mind… When we assume that we know, in our finite minds, right and wrong and see no need to consult the Written Word of Commandment that God gave us to obey, that teaches us HIS Will and Way for us, what will happen? What has happened to God’s children down through the ages when they decided to do what pleased men, themselves, instead of following God’s Own Will and Way?
These scriptures are written plain enough to understand without explanation, one must sincerely read them AND comply.
(I John 4:1)…Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world….
(Job 22:23) …. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away
iniquity far from thy tabernacles….
Ever wonder if we the people that claim to be followers of and claim the Name of God’s Son Jesus Christ, would cleanse HIS House of Worship and return to pure worship in HIS Gates & Courts what a great blessing could be brought to the Church??? Why do we doggedly stand on men’s tradition’s and claim pride in the ways of the world, instead of humbling ourselves to read study and obey God’s Will and Way? Where does judgment begin? What belongs to God?
We walk ~Proudly~ into the doors and pray for God to cure our diseases of flesh: cancer, aids, all the terrible things that befall us….We circulate letters asking folks to pray that man, scientist, doctors ~WILL~ find a cure for these things… TO Stand up and fight to keep God on Caesars money, Keep God in the court systems and schools… make man stop killing, but help man to kill by supporting soldiers of war, keep this nation free, but don‘t tell us what to do… Confusing? WELL, God IS NOT A yo-yo, or an object that we the people can ~Put~ Somewhere, OR ~Take~ out of something…as we see fit… We finites fail to realize THE HE IS: The Cure of all these things… HE IS: the Power that Retrieves, Relieves, and Retains, HIS children that seek to do HIS Will and Walk in HIS Way, THAT humbly bow down before HIS Throne IN obedient, respectful fear of HIS Might… IN Pure Love …IT IS IN THIS POWER, THIS LOVE That we MUST build up ~~HOPE~~ strengthen our ~~Faith~~ Establish our Trust and Allegiance… NOT IN the ~Pride~ of nations, people, of things of the world led by Satan…. (Man does ~NOT~ live by bread alone… BUT ~~BY~~ Every WORD OF God…Luke 4:4) &(4:8).. IT IS WRITTEN: “Thou shalt Worship THE LORD thy God, AND HIM Only shalt thou ~Serve~” … &&& (4:12)… “Thou shalt ~NOT~ Temp THE LORD thy God” … How many times and in how many ways are we tempting God to reach down in punishment for the transgressions, Because, we turn our faces to the world… God did not send HIS Son to be propitiation of our sins that we can run rampant ~~With~~ the world… BUTTT:
(I John 2: 1- 7) we have an ~~Advocate~~ with the Father, Christ Jesus, the ~righteous~.. He IS The ~~Propitiation~~ for our sins, and not for ours only but for the world he that saith “I know Him” and keepeth not His Commandments IS A liar, and the truth IS not in him… I write NO New Commandment, BUT and old commandment from the beginning…. AND This brings us right back TO: (John 2:15-16)… “Love ~~NOT~~ the world, neither the things in IT, IF any man love the world, the love of the Father IS NOT IN him… FOR the *PRIDE* of Life IS NOT of ~~The Father~~…… Romans 10:17)… So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God....
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