We are now in the Christmas
season 2004. Many Christians are trying
to keep Christ in Christmas. Some
Christians are trying to put nativity scenes in public places. Some think of Christmas as one of the holiest
holidays that Christians celebrate.
Many Christians are trying to
out do each other with the most lights and the most decorated houses. I fear that Christians are using such things
as alters of worship. Whatever
Christians may do to keep Christmas Christian it is a high place.
Many times in reading in one
of the books of Kings in the Bible you read, “But the high places were not taken
away.” In times of revival in
The Samaritan woman asked
Jesus “Our fathers worship on this mountain; but you say
Jesus told her that she had
five husbands; but now she was living in adultery. Have you had five husbands: apostles,
prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers?
Is the one you are living with now not your husband: television, movies,
games; beautiful houses, cars, clothes, and etc? Quit worshipping on the high places of
In Luke 14: 16-24 Jesus tells
a parable of a certain man that made a great supper; he sent out his servants
out to tell the invited guests to come.
The guests made excuses: one said, “I bought a piece of land and I must
go see it; another said, I bought five yoke of oxen and he must prove them;
another married a wife.
The land speaks of our own
body and he was busy seeing to it; five yoke of oxen speaks of the five fold
ministry; and the wife speaks of a pastor just getting a new church. Are you to busy with your life; your ministry;
or your church to hear the word that God is speaking in this hour?
Jesus said People (churches)
will be going here and there to find Christ but don’t go after them as His
coming will be like lightning flashing from the east to the west; he may have
been speaking of the second coming of Christ but we can make application for
now. People will tell you go to hear the
word at this place or from this person; but Christ is revealed as a flash of
lightning coming out of darkness and into brilliant light in your heart (east
to West): Spend time with Jesus early in the morning do not bow at anyone’s
alter.
God has a Word to teach you
now the only word that can prepare you for the coming trouble ahead; but He
will only teach people who don’t know the truth those who think they know will
be found wanting: the first will be last and the last will be first.
Is the right now Word going to
be preached to harlots, publicans, and sinners while you are cast into the
Great Tribulation unprepared? Oh! My
brother wake up time is slipping away.
In Matthew 8: 11-13 Jesus says
“Many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven; but the children of the Kingdom
shall be cast into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of
teeth. God’s people always go from the
east to the west; but the lost always go east.
My brother will you hear the
voice of God or will you need a great fire to get your attention? Whatever Jesus says, do it now with all your
might. Whatever Jesus says, believe it
with all your might.
What then is a high place and
what is
Many Christian leaders put
themselves in God’s place as the one to be obeyed: they have read how Paul told
the carnal and rebellious Christians to obey their leaders and they now want to
apply it to all members of their own church.
If you read Galatians chapters
1 and 2 you will see that the Apostle Paul did not even go to the Apostles of
Jesus but to Jesus Him self after he was saved; when your heart is after God
you go to Jesus only but when you live carnally you must be put under men for a
while.
Pastors who require all their
parishioners to come to them in everything are setting themselves to be
worshipped and will come under great judgment in the near future; they are also
teaching their parishioners idolatry.
If you go down through Jewish
history you see fathers sacrificing as priest of the family. Later sacrifices had to be made by Levitical
priests. God also accepted sacrifices on
an open alter; but later it had to be in the tabernacle and than at
These things illustrate that
God’s requirements are progressive; God’s revelation is also progressive. Over the years God has both accepted and
blessed our worshipping in our own way; but now God is going to require us to
come into full compliance to His requirements.
God is requiring you and I to
worship at all times only in Spirit and in Truth. We must spend much time with God early in the
morning that we might more and more come into the Spirit. In the morning continually surrender, confess
any sin, and seek His will, and what ever He tells you to do; do it through out
the day.
We must certainly know and
believe in Jesus’ birth. We must believe
He was born in a stable to a virgin and in a town called
A golden calf is a type of our
new birth experience. When the children
of
When Jeroboam took the ten
tribes that God gave him how soon he changed God’s order to his own order. He set up two golden calves for them to
worship. He set up his own times of
worship. He put in his own ministers
instead of God’s appointed ministers.
Can you not see the parallels
in the church today? The church today
thinks that it is the new birth that delivered them out of bondage; but only
God can deliver; God uses the new birth in the process; but be careful to
worship God not the new birth.
Why are there so many
denominations and doctrines in the church today? It is because that people are figuring out in
their own minds what God meant by what He said.
If all God’s people would all come before God in deep humility and
surrender with a determination to do all He says; God would give them the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation; then God’s people would be in perfect harmony.
We must cease to see Jesus or
God’s people after the flesh 11Corinthians
Do not spend much time on the
babe of
At age twelve Jesus had the
greatest mind on earth; but for the work He had to do He needed eighteen more
years of training under His parents. God
can not use great minds. Jesus had to
come to the place where He could do nothing but what He saw His Father do.
God certainly wants to use
you; but until you only do what you see Jesus do He can not do that great work
He wants to do through you.
When Jesus came to the
fullness of His natural life, it was not enough for the work God wanted to do
through Him; He had to bury His natural life in the river
Satan: the most powerful evil
spirit hell could produce did his very best to defeat Jesus; but He passed
every test. The next three to three and
one half years Satan continued to test Him.
Than in the
Had Jesus after His baptism in
For those who demonstrate the
same faithfulness Jesus has a place right next to Himself on His throne for
them to sit on.
Had Jesus not been faithful in
the little things, when He reached the cross He would have failed. Jesus told His disciples he that is faithful
in little things will receive the true riches.
When you were baptized you
symbolically said “I bury my past to live only in newness of life; most
Christians seldom follow through with that promise. Learn to be faithful in the little things and
reach for the bigger things.
Jesus went to the cross for to
deliver us from sin. We also need to
suffer for others. Jesus conquered death
on the cross. He made a way for us to
conquer death also; but until He has a people who will do what He says He will
not come back and this world will not change.
Mystery
Men have tried for thousands
of years to find out what God meant by “Mystery Babylon”. Mystery
In Revelation 17 it says that
it is both religious and governmental.
In Revelation 18 it says that it is commercial. Many things Revelation says about
The Roman Catholic Church is
certainly a type of Mystery Babylon as is also many other churches; but the
real Mystery Babylon is really a city in the heavens made of demons manifesting
through various organizations. We
wrestle not against flesh and blood; but against demons.