We’re debunking the many traditions and teachings that institutional churches continually give in order for them to sustain their power structure over other people. And one of those is the participatory aspect of the church where we are. In reading the 1 Corinthians 14:26, the apostle talks about an ecclesia gathering where everyone is participating in verse 26 says, Brethren, how is it when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, a revelation, interpretation. He again goes on to say, let all things be done unto edifying. Verse 20 says, Let the prophets speak two or three, and if they can reveal to somebody who is sitting by, and let the first hold his peace for you, all may prophesy one by one, all may learn, and all may be comforted. Prophesying in the New Testament is spoken of as in chapter 14. Their to prophecy, to speak unto men, to edification, exhortation and comfort. Paul says that you can all prophesy one by one. In that list there’s no preaching, there’s no choirs, there’s no performances, no professionals. We each received from Christ and we measure out that which we have received. Paul said these are the commmandment of the LORD. If you love me jesus said keep my commandments. Open participatory gatherings are the commandments of the LORD. The institutional churches don’t care of this at all. They love not the truth and have closed their ears . They love their antichrist religious system.
For many years, 1700 years. Those professing churches, have gone back to a form and ritual where a man is in the place of Jesus. Yeah, instead of Jesus. And the result is that now they have created this class of clergy, separating them from the ordinary folk. And it was by the second century, the Lord’s Supper had become a sacrifice. And so with a sacrifice, of course you need an altar, and with an altar you need a priest. So that’s how we got to the Roman Catholic idea of a priest the spirit of AntiChrist started to work in the early second century. They turned the memorial into a sacrifice, nullifying the one time sacrifice of Christ as we read in Hebrews 10: 10-14.
The LORD’s supper was a full meal, we read in 1 Corinthians 11. The protestants turned it into a cracker and shot glass and the Catholics turned it into a sacrifice. Instead of having open meetings where everybody can function according to Ephesians 4:16, that the body edifies itself according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, making increase of the body unto the edifying of itself.
Whatever God has given to you in your life, you can measure that out to others. We are individually to hear from Jesus Christ ourselves. there’s no mediation between God and man. Christ himself is both the mediator mediating the Father. Christ now, by virtue of the new creation inside of us, is speaking one to the other. And we receive Christ from one another what God has deposited your life. So instead of listening to one man, we listen to the spirit of Jesus Christ and one another. And we are to pray, prophesy, we are to come together and share the life of God that we have received with one another. Colossians, chapter three talks about that. Let the word of Christ dwell in you, richly teaching and admonishing one another in psalm and hymn, spiritual songs, in whatever you do in word or IN deed, do all in the name of our Lord Jesus, giving thanks unto the Father through him. So this is what we see in the New Testament. But universally around the world, this has been refused.
These institutions refuse to do this because of two things. First, the dotrophies kind of men that are preeminent over other people. And that’s the modern day pastor. He’s the gateway that stops you from spiritually growing up. The model of having a man over an assembly who keeps you silent, further perpetual spiritual infancy. You will always remain babes. The Hebrew writers talks about this. He says, you know, we have many things to say and hard to be uttered seeing you’ are dull of hearing. For when you ought to be teachers, you need again to be taught again the elementary principles of the Word of God. But those who are unskillful in the word of God are babes. We’re to grow up into him and all things. That’s what Hebrews 5 and , Ephesians 4:16 says.
The purpose of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, is to perfect the saints for the work of ministry and for the edifying of the body. But the very opposite has happened and is happening. And that is they don’t edify unto fullness. You do not grow into the full stature of Jesus by virtue of these men. These men are the ones who hold sway over you like a diorophies. Jesus Christ is the head of his body and functionally he is to mediate himself through the body without any human intervention, any human agency, one to the other, as the body of Christ. So this is how we are to function. This is His design. So the body of Christ or the ekklesia of God, are the called out ones to deliberate amongst themselves with Jesus in the midst. As a result of him being in our midst, now, spiritually speaking, we can hear directly the voice of the Spirit together. The leaders are not there to lord it over. They’re not there to make themselves preeminent like the diotrophies. And this diatropphes is more of a principality. It’s more of a spiritual principality that has blinded the mind of millions of people around the world to bring them into a continual, perpetual spiritual infancy whereby their priesthood has been nullified. Instead of them ministering one to another. We have one man, the diorophies over the assembly called a priest or a pastor. They are the gateways. They are the ones who are restricting and limiting and nullifying the Holy Spirit’s ministry in an assembly. This has been going on for a long time. And in this century, in this day, God is awakening the sleeping body to bring them back to the centrality of the preeminence of Jesus Christ over his people, whereby each are to minister according to the things that they have received. Each of them are royal priests. Instead of having their priesthood nullified, sitting and having fellowship with the head of the man in front of them, instead of listening to, watching the performance, listening to the preaching and merely being a hearer, they are now growing up, transforming their lives as they participate, exercise their spiritual gifting and walk as a company of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. And this is must change, and it needs to be undone if we will ever grow into fullness. We need the royal priesthood spoken of in 1 Peter 2:9 to be restored. We need the spiritual house which we all are part of to experience the manifestation of God in our midst. Simulation worship , worshipping the worship they simulate God’s presence, you see it everywhere in their services. You know they’re just singing and you know they’re performing. They’ve practiced their songs waiting for something to happen. God’s waiting on you, he’s waiting on you to worship him in spirit and in truth. He’s waiting for you to wake up that you have been hoodwinked, you’ve been brought into a place of spiritual infancy, perpetuating your decline, and that nothing else will ever develop other than the milk of God’s word. You’ll never go onto the full statue of Jesus Christ.
So this is a time of reflection, a time of reading and Praying a time of reexamining, what we call church. And as a result we can begin to function and seek the Lord to bring about the change that’s needed. Just like David. When David first came into the house of Saul he was used mightily, because of his his defeat of Goliath and Saul saw him as indispensable. But as soon as he became a threat, he wanted to get rid of him. And unfortunately, in the system called Christianity, anybody who actually is like David, who has a spirit of God to speak the truth in love, they are seen as a threat. They’re seen as a threat to their religious business that’s registered with the government. And as result of being registered with the government, they get tax write offs. As a result of the tax write offs, they perpetuate this business model. So these churches are really nothing more than religious businesses. And they claim to be the servants of God. They claim to be the men of God. When they bring you into captivity, leave you in spiritual captivity, they bind you and resist the spirit of God working in our midst sovereignly
. So they restrict the very spirit of God working in the congregations, in the assembly. As a result, you remain a spiritual babe. I doubt anybody even listening to this has come to understand. Even if you’ve been a Christian for 10 years, you’ve never even understood what are the six foundations of your faith because you are kept as spiritual babes, infants. Only a child is spoon fed. An infant will learn to feed themselves. But in these congregations you’ll never feed others They’re never, ever allowed liberty. Second. Corinthians 3:17 says, where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all with an open face beholding as in a glass, the Spirit of the Lord our changed from glory to glory, from faith to faith. So the restoration needed is to identify these things that have happened, that are happening to challenge and to address the issues, to make the changes. Come out from the house of Saul, as I’ve said in many times in my life to others and to find David in the wilderness. In the wilderness, that is where you will find your faith strengthened, where you will grow into the mighty man that David had and by exiting the religious system. Come out from her, my people. As the Bible says in Revelation 18. Come out from her, my people. This is the harlot system called Christianity. So as we look to Jesus Christ praying and asking for his direction where we can maneuver and get to a place whereby we can be restored to Jesus himself our head and as collectively listen to the Spirit, moving in the Spirit. May God’s Holy Spirit manifest his glory and once again visit his people. May there be such a reviving that many, many, many will come to faith in Jesus Christ.
