Robbing God IN HIS House Of Prayer

THIS IS: The Church House, & This Is The Steeple…Open the door and here’s the people… A popular little finger game that folks play with their children… It teaches them of the Church House and that people gathered in it. BUT For ~WHAT~ do the people gather in? To serve: THE LORD IN HIS House ~OR~ *Themselves*?
(Psalm 100: 3-4).. *KNOW* ye ~THAT~ THE LORD, *HE* ~IS~ God: ~~IT IS~~ *HE* that hath Made ~us~ and *NOT* we ourselves; ~we~ are HIS people, & the sheep OF: HIS Pasture…. J <SO>J we are TO: “enter into HIS Gates //WITH// Thanksgiving, and into HIS Courts //WITH// Praise: BE Thankful and Bless HIS NAME”!!! BUT DO WE?
In this world of fast paced, motorized, appliance savvy, get work done quickly, ~save *OUR* time~ so that we got *More* Play Time… the fantasizem has sadly, but boldly spilled over into the meetings held in the Houses Set Aside for God’s people to gather to Worship The LORD in ~Truth & Honesty... in Song Praise, Giving of Thanks FOR HIS Blessings, AND TO: Hear the Written Word that HE Has Provided for us to Read, Learn, Discern, Share With a lost and dying world.. Ever stop and ~Consider~ the many ways that, we as a people who call ourselves after the Blessed Name of God’s OWN Son, Jesus Christ, disrespect, disobey, show ~NO~ Honorable Fear before God, Here where we gather in the guise of purpose to worship our Savior? IN other ~Words~ how many ways are we Robbing God ~IN~ HIS House?
This is not even an accidental, “Oh, I did not plan this It just happened offense”, but it was a well planned course of action… Folks, bring books of merchandise for sale into the meetings to pass around for others to look at and place orders in and then at the end of the service return them to the seller and their weeks work is done… or they have helped their child’s school project sales by doing this during meeting time, and saved *Themselves* a bundle of time, attended the meeting, and they are on ~TOP~ of everything… Right?
OR, sadly they are teaching their child to have a rebellious, attitude by encouraging them TO: bring their books into the meetings and quietly get their homework during the service, and then they can have more free time, TO play… Good Training? Well, at least they are in Church, but at what cost, when this child is grown and steps out into the world with both feet, instead of the one that you encouraged them to keep over the fence, then you scratch your head and wonder why? “I just cannot understand what happens to a child, when they reach a certain age they become rebellious”. WELL, IS That not what they have been taught from the cradle by the parent…? Go back and read: (Psalm 100)
Oh, we make many excuses for the things that we do…for example when we save a little of our after or before Church time by, tip toeing across the Sanctuary during ~prayer time~ to discuss with a friend something of importance about the meeting, what we are going to cook for the social, or taking this time for a bathroom trip, or just raising our head and opening our eyes to see what our neighbor is doing, minds not present in prayer, but wondering about. … None of this of course can be disrespectful, because, ~WE~ *ARE* Present and accounted for, we did not miss the meeting so we are under the protection of: What? Presence in the building?
How do the Church leaders, encourage *Robbery* by their appeasement plan to make folks feel good about themselves, fulfilled in the ways of the world. By honoring each ones fleshly birthday, anniversary, the troops of war, the nations many holidays? I have heard people walk into the Sanctuary and proudly announce today IS *MY* birthday, and I came here this morning to be sung to… OR today IS ~Mothers/Fathers~ *DAY* and we want to be recognized today for our accomplishments as: GOOD: Parents…. (Go Back and READ Psalm 100)
Another innocent act of teaching your child rebellion, from the cradle is playing [peek-a-boo] with a baby, during prayer time…sadly this is the beginning OF: Wrong training, because even in this early stage a child is beginning to realize that a parent IS teaching them that IT IS Okay to play during service, in that the parent IS playing with them. BUT! Then unjustly when a child is called down for acting up in a meeting, the first thing out of a parent’s mouth IS: “YOU Know better than to play in Church don’t you?”. I AM Strongly against the separating of children from the parents during Church Services, but believe that a child should remain with the parents and be trained rightly by them, not put into a child’s Church to play games… OR allowed as a group of children to sit together on a bench apart from their parents, where they can draw pictures, talk, play games, cell phone videos and learn nothing of proper behavior in God’s House of Worship, as well as purpose a distraction to the service for others…
I am also in great favor of properly teaching the parents respect, so that they can teach their children..
Another good excuse IS: This Building is not the temple of God so what we do there is not disrespectful, but what we do with, how we care for and present, our bodies… WELL? Bring out the ~mirror~ and show me the difference, whether we are present in a worship service and show a disobedient attitude, or walking down the street, are we not, as the embodied temple of God not present and responsible for our actions? IT IS ALL the same… BUT we have come together with other followers of Christ in a building to Worship the LORD, not praise each other, or have our accomplishments, that really aren’t even ours be praised….
Then there IS a great danger in lifting our ~youth~ up in praise for their accomplishments, giving them a very false since of fleshly self fulfillment in their religious achievements and belief’s… that they not lift up their young heads in ~~vain pride~…
(Proverbs 8:13)… The ~fear~ of The LORD IS: to hate evil: *pride* & arrogancy…
(Proverbs 13:10).. Only by *Pride* cometh contention…(disagreements, arguments)
(Proverbs 16:18)… *PRIDE* goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
(I Timothy 3:6)..Not a novice, (a beginner, just learning) lest being lifted up with pride, (self satisfying) he fall into the condemnation of the devil…
AND OF Course, there are many more ways, including these listed, that we rob God in our walk through this life that HE granted to us in the beginning… Ever get red-faced ~Angry~ because someone used and took advantage of your hospitality, your good nature…. WELL, think about IT How do you suppose The LORD feels when we show such inconsiderate disrespect before HIM IN HIS House of Worship… That man set aside especially for the ~~PURPOSE~~ OF the children of God gathering together in HIS Name as One with the Father and the Son in a service of Exhortation, building up each other IN Faith in the LORD? What did God HAVE Written for HIS children ~ALL~ throughout the ages to follow??? Did Jesus approve of doing anything in the Temple but Using IT AS God Intended?
(John 2: 13-17)…Jesus went up to Jerusalem, (this was the Jews Passover, and they weren’t hunting eggs)… BUT….He found in the Temple those that sold…money changers… (NOW many say that this only applies to the buying and selling of beast to be sacrificed by the priest for the sins of the people, and that IS ALL That *IT* applies TO: BUT… IS NOT: *Buying & Selling*… Buying & Selling, exchanging money in the Temple, or gathering House of God’s people, or have I lived under a rock toooo long? ANY WAY… Jesus, made a scourge of small cords, and drove them out of the Temple, AND Jesus said: “Take these things hence; *Make NOT* My Father’s House a house of merchandise”…
Unless I am terribly blind and can’t read the encyclopedia’s The word Merchandise, means: TO trade in, buy, or sell, goods for profit…. AND IF you are buying OR selling: Avon, Stereo’s, Books, Products for school, in God’s House of Worship, IS IT NOT FOR Profit? AND IS IT NOT Being Done IN God’s House of Worship, During the Services Set Aside FOR? GO Back AND Read Psalm 100, again what part was missed?
(Isaiah 30:1 & 9)… God gave Isaiah Warning FOR Who?… Those that we lost in the world, OR FOR: HIS, “rebellious children”…. “Woe TO: the *rebellious children*,” saith THE LORD, “Those that take counsel, ~BUT~ *NOT* OF ME (THE LORD); and that cover with a covering, BUT NOT OF *MY* Spirit, that they may ~ADD~ sin to sin… This is a *rebellious* people ~~Lying children~ children that ~Will NOT~ hear the law of the LORD…
When we are sitting in a service where The Written Word of God IS being read and taught, prayer is being offered up, and praises sung to God, and we are involved in anything else, our full attention IS NOT focused on the LORD, but rather on what we are doing… We are not hearing the “Law of God: SO we are What?
(Ezekiel 12:2).. The LORD said to Ezekiel: “Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of: a *rebellious* house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not; FOR They ~ARE~ A *Rebellious House*……. IS This how we are today Also… God does not change, IN HIS Exactness, SO we can’t shun HIS Commands, OF Obedience to HIS Will and Way… AND THE opposite of ~Obedience~ IS What? What did Satan do in the garden? Obey and worship God, OR Rebel and Challenge God… ????
(Jeremiah 5: 21-24)…Hear this O ~Foolish~ people, & without understanding; which have eyes, and see not, ears, & hear not:… “Fear ye ME NOT? “ Saith, THE LORD: “Will ye ~NOT~ Tremble at MY Presence… BUT, this people hath a ~revolting and a rebellious ~heart~; they ~ARE~ revolted and gone…..”
How many ways do we ~rebel & challenge~ God, in HIS House of Prayer, where we gather, and then turn and ask HIS favors, HIS blessing for ourselves?
(Jeremiah 7:13-16)…saith THE LORD; “I spake unto you rising early and speaking, ~but~ ye heard ~NOT~ & *I* (THE LORD) called you, but ye answered NOT…. Therefore Will I do unto this House which IS called By MY NAME, & I Will Cast you out… Therefore pray ~NOT~ for this people, neither lift up a cry of prayer ~FOR~ them… *For* I Will Not Hear ~thee~… OH, this was before Jesus, some contend? BUT!
Can we get into a bad place by continually rebelling and not showing humble obedient fear of God, paying attention to HIS Word? Listening TO HIS Command, HIS Call…?
(Romans 1:21)… ~BECAUSE~ That, When they Knew God, (not the unlearned heathen, BUT the ones who Know God)… They glorified *HIM (God)* Not as *GOD*, neither were ~Thankful~; BUT became ~~Vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened… OH, this IS After Christ came, AND you know what, God has NOT changed.
Read IT ALL In The Bible & consider IT… Think God IS Happy with our indifferent attitudes in HIS House, when we gather to Worship HIM, BUT do everything on this earth of the flesh, but, & instead of: Worshiping our LORD In spirit & truth?