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His Invitation

he invitation o God to all o the world is to be a

Home together or the Father, Son and Holy Ghost

to be a Bride that has made hersel ready or the return o

her beautiul Groom, Jesus (John 13-15, Eph. 2-5, Rev. 19:7).

I you think about the picture in the Scriptures o how lie or

and with Christ culminateswhat is it?Its a courtshipand

a wedding supper!God is appealing to us, saying, I have this

condence about Mysel. I you will be with Me and take a

look at who I really am, there will be no other suitors who

compare. Tere is nothing else in the whole universe that will

win your heart like I canbecause I made you or Me. Other

things have distracted you, but i you will just take the time

and step up alongside Me, you will see what lie was meant

to be. And well have a wedding!

So, prepare yoursel, Bride.

Prepare yourself, Bride!


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From the beginning o time, this invitation has brought peopleto seek Him. Tats His invitation or us, too. Tats what its allabout. Tis is not some external doctrinal thing. Its a drawingand a wooing o whats inside o us. Its us looking at all that Heis and saying, I cant live without Him or what is precious andimportant to Him! I dont want to live without that! I would neverdream o living outside o His will or my lie or outside o His

purposes. I want to ollow the Lamb wherever He goes. WhateverHe wants or my lie, Hes got it! Hes the Bread o Lie, where allmy nourishment and ulllment are ound. Hes that picture oleadership and kindness and orgiveness and mercy that I cant livewithoutthat I dont ever want to live without! I want to see Himstrong. I want to see Him severe. I want to see Him kind. I want tosee Him loving and compassionate. I want to see Him wise beyondwords. AND, I WAN O BE WIH HIM! I want to hear everyword He has to say. I dont ever want to be more than a step awayrom Him the rest o my lie. I cannot turn my back on Him because

o my own selsh pride or laziness or hurt eelings. I cant turn myback on Him. Te temptation is there, but the loss is too great.

Jesus has all these qualities. He is perceptive in 1,000 dierent waysand wise beyond words. Tis is our Master. Tis is Jesus. Tis isntsome airy tale. Tis isnt some story out there about some godthat created the earth and sits on a big white throne. Tis is aboutthe person o Jesus and His Father who rule over us. I we will justlook, i we will take the time to encounter Him, there is absolutelyno way to resist Him any longer. Te problem has been a lack o

willingness to abandon ourselves into His very capable and lovinghands. His trustworthiness is beyond belie. But we dont alwaysget close enough to see it because we make ourselves a little toobusy, too selsh, too carelessand just wont take the time to bedazzled and wooed by Him.

Father knows that i we will take the time to be with Him in HisSon, then He will demonstrate His character to us in such a waythat He will be absolutely irresistible. Te qualities o His characterare staggering. Tere is something about being with Him that will

catapult you out o all the other things that you are encumbered

and dragged down by. Suddenly you are dazzled by somethingthat is outside o the realm o your normal ow o experience.Tats JESUS! And, He is inviting us to come walk with Him.He will dazzle you with all His qualities o kindness, mercy, andeverlasting orgiveness.

Youll see His smile and the gleam in His eye. Youll see how the

wind blows through His hair. Youll see and hear and experiencethings that take you to another realm, and time wont exist thereanymore (Rev. 1:12-18). You will see His leadership and Hisstrength. You will see how He has a resolve against sin. Youll seethat He has a ocus and a clear vision o what lie is supposed to be.And youll hear the depth o His laughter and eel the warmth oHis encouraging embrace.

Come ollow Him. Hell show you leadership. Hell show youstrength. Hell show you an immovable character and quality o

lie that will dazzle you, that will make you want to come with Himbecause its sae and secure where He is. Hell show you a kindnessand a sensitivity that will see right into your heart and lie. I youcome to Him and lay down your miserable lie ull o yoursel, thenHell wash you, and cleanse you, and put His Spirit inside o you.Ten, Hell draw out the diamonds and the rubies and the jewelsthat are there. Hell draw those things out. Hell make you a queen;Hell make you a king.

He wants to build an army o ollowers, but its not just some

theoretical, logical, doctrinal issueFollow Me, or youll go tohell. Well, that is true, but that has nothing to do with what Jesuscame to show the twelve. Do you think they ollowed Jesus allover the countryside because He was wagging His nger at themand telling them to ollow Him or they would go to Hell? Do youremember any scriptures like that? Is that what He did when Hewent and prayed to the Father all night? Did He say, Father, showMe what I should say, and then stand up and say, You twelve, youcome with Me or youre going to go to Hell? No. Tey wantedto be with Him because they saw something about Him that just

amazed them. Tey saw His wisdom, kindness and patience.


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Tey saw strong leadership and an unwavering character. Teysaw someone who could take the pummeling o lie and stand tallwith just a little corner o His mouth smiling in the ace o it, withcourage in His eyes. And they wanted to be like Himthey wantedto be with Him!Tey werent going anywhere because there wasnowhere else they wanted to be other than by His side (Matt. 4:19-22, John 6:68, Acts 5:20, Acts 3:19-20).

He didnt have to threaten them, and Hes not threatening us either.Hes inviting us to see Him or who He is and to see the amazingqualities and the amazing personality that He has...so that wewould want to be with Him, in this lie and the next. I want to belike Him when I grow up. I honestly do.

Beore very long, Jesus will come back or His Bride made ready.And, the will o the Father or us is not to attenda bride, but to be aBride...not to attenda house, but to be a House. I you go all the way

back into the Old estament, you see His desire has always beenor a House, not just or saved people or His possession. His desireis or a habitation, a place where He could live on this planet thatHe created. Jesus told us in Luke 17 that His Kingdom is neitherhere nor there, but it is withinpeople who have enlarged the placeo their heart, pushing out the things o the world, carnal desires,appetites and ambitions. We must be those who have made roomor Jesus in our hearts as Jesus taught in John 8. Tats the natureo the Ekklesia, His living Body and Church.

Jesus did not just come to orgive sins, as wonderul as that is,nor just to make us think about His teachings. Jesus came sothat we could experience the same lie with the Father that Heexperiencednot just live here, die, and then go to heaven. As theBible says, He came here so that we could live in the power o anindestructible lie to experience the same ellowship and lie andlove with the Father and His brothers that Jesus did.

Getting saved is FAR rom the end o the Story. As with Jesus Birth,our Birth is ONLY the Beginning o a very powerul Story Father

wants to tell in us (Col. 1:26-29, Gal. 4:19, John 7:38). His desire is

that Christ be ormed in us, and that we (His People, His Bride, HisHouse, His Ekklesia) would be the expression o the ull glory o Jesuso Nazareth on planet Earth in this present day. Gods desire is not

just or individuals to be reective o Jesus, but that OGEHER,corporately, we would become an exact representation o Jesus.

And, the working out o these unsearchable riches has everything

to do with how we live our lives together every day. Much o whatreligion and christianity have done or many years is teach us greatteachings aboutJesus and His Church. It is now time to move onrom learning teachings aboutthe church to beingthe church (Eph.3:10, Matt. 16:18).

We can only BE His church and live His Lie as we love each otherand exchange our lives with each other every day. We help each otherto know Jesus better by helping each other put away sin, loving oneanother more, and by caring or others needs more than we care or

our own. Tese are the teachings o Jesus. Tis is how He lived Hislie or us, and now He has called us to live this way or one another.Tis is how the Bride is made ready or the return o her Groom,Jesus. We become more and more beautiul as we learn how to trulylove each other more. As we put away our selshness and pridethat keep us separate rom each other, and as we willingly open ourhearts to be vulnerable with each other, then the Spirit o God, theGrace o God and the Love o God pour out on us...and we becomea beautiul Bride READY or the return o our Groom, Jesus.

Tis is a Churchto live this way every day, not attendingthe houseo God, but beingthe place where God Lives. Ten our homes,our workplace and our Church all become one. Tere are no morebarriers rom my heart to yours and no more barriers between myhome and yours. I put away selshness, pride, laziness and unbelie,and I love others as Jesus has loved me. When everyone does that,rom the least to the greatest, Jesus pours out His healing oil, andwe are a Church, a beautiul Bride. Jesus did not come to make ussmarter. He came to give usLife to the ullto experience His Liedaily in one another, not to say borrowed words and sing and pray

stained-glass religious words. LIFE!


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Jesus:

Builder and Designer

Building With Good MaterialsWhat is a Church and a Christian?Te Bible teaches that God does not dwell in houses built by menshands. Ephesians 2 and many other Bible passages say that weare thedwelling place or the habitation o God by the Spiritthe Church.

When you walk or drive down the road, you can usually identiya religious building because it looks like a religious building. But,since a true Church is made out o people, and is not a building,then what does it really look like? How would you recognize thedierence between a true Church and a alse one?

In the church o the Old estament, you became a memberbecause o who your parents were (Jews). I you basically believedthe right thing and your parents were part o this church, and youattended church regularly and tithed, then you were a member

o the church.In the New estament Church o Jesus, this is nottrueyou must give your heart to God. Te prophecy about theNew estament said that the Church God builds (Jer. 31, Heb. 8,Heb. 10) is the true Church, androm the least to the greatest ALLits members will know the Living God. Te Church can ONLY beunderstood in this way. Anything less may be well-meaning anddo-gooding and religious (with some Saved people involved), butit is NO the Church o Jesus Christ, a local Lampstand, i it is justpeople attending something scheduled on the calendar with nodaily intertwined Lie-together (1 Cor. 12).


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A true Church made o living stones that Jesus looks at and lovesmust be made o good materials. I any building is built out oaulty materials, you know that it will all. I the wood that holds upthe roo is rotten, it will all down. Bricks that are sot, improperlymade, or made rom the wrong materials cannot support weightand will all down. Likewise, i we try to build Gods house out oaulty materials, it too will all. I a person does not truly know

God, they cannot be a member o Jesus Church. I the House thatGod is making out o men and women is going to be able to stand,it must not have bad stones in it (1 Cor. 3-5).

Must the Church, or its individuals, then, be perect? O course thatis not possible (1 John 1). But according to the Word o God, whatIS required is this: One hundred percent o the members...love theLight and love the ruth and have genuinely experienced GodHimsel in a way that esh and blood has not revealed. YES, thisis required (Matt. 16:16-18, John 3:19-21, 1 John 1-3, Eze. 11:19,

Eze. 36:26, Jer. 31:34). Tats what Jesus said He would build HISChurch upon, i it was to be HIS Church. Anything else would belike building a house with sot brick or rotten wood. Te Housethat Jesus makes is the best house in the world, and Jesus will onlyuse true and good materials to build His House.

Once again, this does NO mean that every person is perect. But,it does mean that every person wants to love and obey Jesus anddoesnt despise help rom others who want to help them love andobey Jesus; they want that help. Good building material or Gods

House is when a person loves the light , according to Jesus Himsel.Bad building material, like rotten wood, is someone who does notwant that help. Tat person says, Dont judge me. Mind your ownbusiness. Tey say deensively, Get the log out o your own eye.Tat is bad building material, which God said is unacceptable inHis House. Jesus will not build His house that way. Tat is rottenwood and will be completely cut o rom among the people (Acts3:23, Matt. 18, 1 Cor. 5). In a rue church, a person who acts thatway is not welcome. It doesnt matter how much money they haveor how well they know their Bible. Tey might even be a leader,

but i they dont respond sotly to the teachings o Jesus, then they

cannot be a part o Jesus true Church that is made in the Spirit. Ithey resist love and pleading, wisdom, help and patience, then toallow them to continue amongst Gods People would be or us todey Jesus also by ignoring His commands.

I someone is saved, they WILL have the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:9, Gal.3, Eph. 1). And the PROOF that they have the Holy Spirit in them

(no matter how many times they tell you a great testimony andsay, Lord, Lord! Matthew 7) is that they love to obey. Tey arenew creations and now love the Light, and love the ruth (2 Tess.2:10), and like newborn babies they crave the Word o God tobe applied in their lives (1 Peter 2). I a person has the Holy Spirit,they will love the Light and love the ruth...and then their behaviorwill begin to change. Tey repent o how they treat their husbandor their wie, and they change. Tey repent o how they treat theircoworkers, or their children, or their neighbors, and they change.Tey repent o their past sins and wicked habits, and they change

and become more mature.

Te git o the Holy Spirit is the deposit that guarantees theirinheritance. Tis is the verdict, says Jesus, in John 3. Tis is whatseparates innocent rom guilty. Not that everyone is perect, butthe ones who have their sins orgiven ALL love the Light. Teyhave the git o the Spirit that they didnt have beore. Now, romdeep inside, their hearts o stone have become sot hearts o esh.From deep inside, God is causing them to keep His commandsand decrees. From deep inside, they care about Jesus words about

their behavior. Te sheep know the Shepherds voice because theyhave the Spirit o Jesus. Te sheep say, I want to ollow Jesus! Leadme that way. Te goats say, Leave me alone! I can do miracles! Ican give my money to the poor! I know things. Im better than you,and I dont care what you say.

A Christian, a partaker o the New Covenant, loves the ruth(2Tes. 2:10) and loves the Light (Jn. 3:19-21), and is now apartaker o the DIVINE nature (2Pet. 1:4, Rom. 6:1-14). Tatsthe proo that the Spirit lives in them or in any o us. We dont

have to just take everyones word or it just because they say, Lord!


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Lord! ONLY a person who has abandoned their self and life toJesus, and have thus been Touched by Heaven and Indwelt by

the Creator of the Galaxies is truly saved, and a member of

His local Church (Rom. 8:9-11, Lk. 9:57-62, Jn. 1:12-13, 3:16-21,1Jn. 3:8-10, 5:18-20).

A rue Lampstand, an authentic Church, is LIMIED O (as in100% o the members!) those who have had a revelation o theSon that esh and blood did not reveal, but the Father in HeavenHimsel revealed to them. Its not about proximity or knowledgeor commitment or upbringing. Its about a personal Encounterwith Father God, in the Person o His Son, where death producesGod kind o Lie,Zoe Lie, out o nothing ( Jn. 3:5-8, Jn. 12:24, Rom.6:1-14, Gal. 6:14-17). O course there are a ew who need specialmodesty and others who are deciding in their one more year(John 13:8-9, John 15, 1 John 2:19, Jude 11-25).

We either have SUPERnatural Lie with Him and with one another,or its NO Biblical Christianity and NO a legitimate Church.Surely there are some Saved people attending organizations thatare not truly Churches, though they call themselves churches.Tats a dierent topic. Were simply saying that we wont touchHis Trone (well only touch our psuche warm uzzy emotions)i we do not live together in daily ogether-ZOELiemomentby moment connected to the Head and one another! A serviceceremony that is done in His honor, or to learn acts about Him,or to call down emotion rom Heaven with our musichistorically,

these have changed very ew lives into the Image o the Son. We areeither sharing in the Substance o the GodHead together daily, or itis not Eternal Lie, nor a Lampstand and Church, as God means itto be. A little leaven leavens the WHOLE batch.

We must not be just babies who say the right things, but dontlive like Jesus. And, the Church is not a collection o countereitChristians who say the right things but dont have the Spirit oJesus living inside o them, as a Person. Jesus is a great Builder. Hewill not build with sot stones or rotten wood. He wants to build

a Glorious House to live inone thats tting or the King that

He is. So the building materials in Gods House must be o the bestquality. A true Church that is made by God, not by mans hands,is made out o living stonestrue Christiansas opposed to deadstones, bricks or straw. Jesus will only build with good buildingmaterials. I we have married Him in Covenant and Oath, turnedrom all other loves, been Born twice, have sot hearts, love Histeachings, truly want to change the things in our lives that need

to change, and turn our ace to Him in moments o adversity ordifculty, asking Him and our brothers and sisters to help us, thenwe are beautiul living stones or the House that Jesus dwells in.We can be and will be a glorious Bride or Jesus. Tis is the GoodNews o the Kingdom o God.

Building by His Pattern and DesignDaily Lie ogether

Now that we have dened what are good building materials orGods House...consider this: Suppose we take all the good stones,all the good wood, and all the good, suitable building materials thatJesus chooses or His House and heap all those good materials in apile. Guess what? We still dont have a house. Gods House requireseven more than just good building materials (true Christians). Justbecause you have all the materials or a house heaped in a pile doesnot mean you have a house to sleep in. Tat pile wont protect yourom the storm, no matter how good the materials may be.

In order to be a good House or Jesus to live in, Gods House mustbe built together using Hispattern anddesign. His House is madeo people, His living stones, andHe has a way we must buildour lives together. Scripture calls Jesus the Master Architect. We

should care deeply about His Blueprint, His Plan.

God has many wonderul people all over the world. What hashappened very oten in the last 2,000 years is that these people havebeen desiring to change their lives and please Him, but they havebeen rustrated. Tey have been unable to nd their ull potential

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and again. Te reason why they ail is because we have oten builtthe wrong way. We have not built according to the pattern, thedesign, that God has given us. When anyone attempts anything,but attempts to do it in totally the wrong way, they will seldom ndsuccess, no matter how sincere they may be.

Jesus House is built byHis design, not ours. And His design isa hundred athers, mothers, brothers, and sisters. His design isthat we would coness our sins one to another and be healed. Hisdesign is that we would bear one anothers burdens and so ulllthe law o Christ . His design is that we would be one together, asHe and the Father are one. Gods desire is not or separate stonesthat come together on Sunday to attend a speech or ceremony,but His desire is a amily that is built together every day, intertwinedin all areas o daily lie, as Family.

Jesus has chosen or His House a design that looks the same in everycountry, no matter what the language or the culture. Te design isthat all o Gods people lay down their lives to love and serve eachother every single day, as a Family, together. Te true church oJesus, designed His way to be strong, must be a Family every day.Tey eat together rom house to house, they serve each other andhelp each other in many ways every day. Tey speak Gods wordto each other daily to help them become more like Jesus. Whenthey see sin, they go or a walk and talk about it together. Teydont wait or Sunday to hear someone preach a sermon aboutit. Gods Intent (Eph. 3:10, 1 Peter 2) is that we are all daily priests

and ambassadors o God to one another and the world as we riseup, sit down, and walk along the way.

We are all called to be priests or Jesus. We are all called to bear theword o God and help one another. Tis means that i you see yourneighbor being selsh or angry, or i you see drinking, or pride thatbreaks Jesus heart, then each o us will take responsibility to helpeach other change. Tis is or every day. It has nothing to do withSundays. Te true Church o Jesus is made o Living Stones, andthe design o the House is every-day Family. Its not something that

we attend, but it is something that we are every day.

Do you see how all this is connected? ONLY WIH DAILYRELAIONSHIPS can you ever know i anyone loves the Lightand the ruth, and is thereore a child o God. A ew meetings aweek will never allow anyone to know i someone loves the Lightand is just weak, or i they hate the Light and thereore are not yetSaved. Gods plan is a treasure in earthen vessels. Gods plan is apriesthood o believers. Gods plan is or His people to admonish

one another every day. As we truly live this out together, onebenet is that all o Gods true children become more and moremature. Another result o walking together as God intended isthat i someone doesnt love the Light, then they are exposed as apretender. I they are uncorrectable, i they dont care what Jesussays about these things, i they get angry and arrogant, then theyare exposed as being a countereit Christian. It becomes clear thatthey must not have ever really given their lie to Jesus because thetruth is one cannot have the Holy Spirit and not love the Light(John 3, 1 John 1, 3).

I we will build this waychanging our selsh or lazy lives, andtruly learning how to love each other like amily every single day,taking responsibility to serve and help each other with the word oGodthen it will be a House that Jesus can live in and can love. Itwill be a House o good design that will be easy or Jesus and or allo us to live in and make our home in.

Jesus said that when we put His word into practice, when thestorms come (and they will), then the house will stand. It will stand

because it is built on the rock o putting His word into practice,not just on thinking or singing about His word. I we only singabout it, pray about it and talk about it and dont change the waywe live to obey His word with one another, then when the stormscome, no matter how pretty the house may look, it will be attenedand destroyed. Tis is what Jesus promised in Matthew 7. So, besure to build His way and DO something about His ruths. Obeythem, and then the storms will not harm you.

In the same way a little bird or little rabbit hides underneath a rock

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i you will build the way He calls you to. Te storms will shake thetrees and move heavy things. Tey will crash and the lightning willstrike. But i you will build Jesus way and turn your ace towardsHim when they come, you will be held sae in the shelter o Hiswings. Te violent storms will pass and the sun will shine. Tebirds will begin to sing again, and lie will be resh and new. It willbe a very, very strong House o good Design. When the storms

come and batter on the House, it will stand because it has onlygood materials, and because the design is good. Tere will be verylittle damage to this wonderul House, and we will all be sae. Justas Father was very specic about what materials and design Noahshould use to build the Ark, so also Jesus has a plan or materials anddesign o His House. And His Plan is not, in the New Agreement,a holy man giving a speech to an attendance based organizationo disconnected people. It is NOW a hundred mothers, brothers,sistersdeep, daily, intertwined, intimate, rom the least to thegreatest relationships o Light-lovers.

Tis is the good news o the Kingdom o Jesus. He said, My Fatherhas much zeal or the house being built. Te Father stronglydesires that we build His House His way. In many countries andcities very seldom is the house built the way Jesus wants it built.In almost every church in almost every country, there are peoplewho come together with rituals and traditions and then go theirseparate ways living their lives however they please. Maybe theysin reely, or maybe they try not to. But its not a house becausethey are not a Family, every day, together.

It is only when all the stones are stuck together, by the glue opractical love and vulnerability, and built by Gods design, thatit becomes a place that He can call home. Even i you are a prettygood living stone and try to live a holy lie, you are still just onestone. I I put that stone on the ground, it still would not be a homeor Jesus. He doesnt want just individual good stones to sit outin a eld. We must make ourselves, even orce ourselves, to sticktogether to other stones. Every day we must demand o ourselvesthat we be stuck together with the other stones, daily in Gods

design or a House... as we rise up, as we sit down, as we walk

along the road together. Washing the clothes together, and goingto market together. As we work in the elds, make the bricks, cutrewood, or x meals, let us do it togetherso that we will be oneFamily instead o many individuals or many amilies. It is in thesetrivial issues o daily lie that we bond our Faith, Hope, and Lovetogether. Tese daily tasks, lived out together as a Family, are thewindows o the soul that allow us to truly wash each other in

the water o the Word, rather than the make-believe religion oattending religious ceremonies and sing-alongs and holy manspeeches. Jesus is not building anything but amily.

Jesus said i you truly obey My will, you will have a hundredathers, mothers, brothers, sistersnot a hundred neighbors,but a hundred very close amily members. Tis is the will o God.Tese are the teachings o Jesus Christthat He builds His housewith good materials. Bad materials are not welcome i they wontchange when they hear Jesus words.

Building to Be StrongCourage to ChangeAter ten years o being a Christian, most people in clergy-controlled, attendance-based religion are not very much strongerthan they were ater their rst year. Tis is not good. I our one-

year-old children grew to be ten but they were still not any strongeror wiser than when they were one, that would be very sad. I you

had a ten-year-old child in your amily who was still as weak asa one-year-old, and still couldnt walk or talk much better than aone-year-oldas a ather or mother that would break your heart,wouldnt it?

How do you think our Father in heaven eels when all o His Peopleshould be strong and wise and ull o the Holy Ghost and ull owisdom, and ought to be teachers by now no longer inants,doing the work o God... yet many o us are still no stronger thanone-year-olds? Tis is true around the world, and it breaks Gods

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to change that, because we have not been building Gods way inGods House.

God has designed His House to be built so that sin can be redeemedand crushed. Gods way to have church allows relationships to behealed and sin and weakness to be removed. Tis is Gods heartor His people around the world. We want to tell you how goodpeople can reach their potential now. We can allow the gits inthe Body o Christ to be built together into a habitation o God,lled with Gods glory. Tere is a way God wants us to be built sowe can see sins power broken in real lie and no longer be slavesto all o our weaknesses. Gods plan is to build relationships, notto have problems all the time. God has a wonderul way to buildHis House with wonderul people. Until now, religion in the worldhas usually built Gods House wrong, with men as bosses and holymen, and attending meetings as their denition o church. Wehave not known how to build, but now we must learnhow to build.

God said we must be very careul how we build. Tere are specialtruths that have always been in your Bible that will change your lieand change the way Church is expressed, in order to more highlyexalt our King Jesus and see His Dream ullled!

God wants to build His House so we can all be stronger together.He wants to build His House so the gates o hell cannot prevailany longer. He wants to build His House so relationships can behealed. He wants to build His House so that He will be ree to healour bodies, our minds, and our souls. He wants to build His House

so we can be strong and wise, and the Good News o Jesus can goorth, stronger than ever beore.

Do you have the courage to hear these things? Will you obey theWord o God as you hear these things? Will you change your livesregardless o the cost? I you have the courage to obey and to risk,then please read on.

Jesus:Leader and Head

Jesus LeadershipIn All o His People

False christendom has or many years pushed people down. It hastaken a ew people and pushed them up making some leadersrich and amous and powerul, while pushing most people down.In the United States, India, Poland, Romania, Brazil, and all aroundthe world, there are hero Christians and low Christians. Tisis very wrong. Jesus said to the twelve apostles in Matthew 23 toCall no man teacher, call no man ather, call no man leader, callno man master, call no man rabbi, call no man pastor, call noman reverendor you are all brothers with one Father! Tereare no heroes in rue Christianity except or Jesus. Tere mustbe no ofcial bosses who control the decisions, the money, andthe peopleexcept Jesus in and through His People together byHis Spirit.

Te Bible says in Ephesians 4 that when Jesus went to Heaven andsent His Spirit, He took parts o Himsel and spread them out overthe Body o Christ, the Church. Jesus took all the gits that He had


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(and Jesus had many spiritual gits, didnt He?), and He gave themto His people as a whole. He didnt take all the gits that He hadand deposit them on the pastor or on one man o God. TeScriptures say He took all o His gits and gave them to His wholebody. Te Bible says the Spirit is deposited and given as a Git, asthe Spirit wills, over the whole Church. I you are truly a Christian,i you have truly orsaken your very lie or Jesus, then the Holy

Spirit givesyou a very special git.

And, your git is part o Jesus. Tere are many kinds o gits listedin the Bible. Te Holy Spirit, or example, gives mercy as a git. Tegit o mercy is part o Jesus that He gave to some people. It is asupernatural git. All o us should have mercy, shouldnt we? Butthere is supernatural mercy that is a git o the Holy Spirit. Andsince all authority belongs to Jesus and every git that each o ushas is a part o Jesus , then we submit to the gits that are in each ous because it is Jesus who deposited them.

In this way, leadership is in all o Gods people. Te Bible calls us aKingdom o priests. Te Bible does not say a Kingdom with priests,but a Kingdom o priests. Tere is not just a special group likethe Levite priests o the Old estament. In the New Covenant, allo Gods people are supposed to be priests to one another. Godsintent is not one special holy man who can give sermons. Te Biblesays that Jesus ascended on high and gave His gits to allo Hispeople. He made aKingdom o priests. He put part o Himsel ineach o His people who are truly converted, young or old. Tats

why we need each others gits. We need allo Jesus gits! Tereare hundreds o gits because ALL o Jesus was poured out on HisFamily. Tis is why Jesus said we are all to be brothers amongstbrothers. We dont need one man and one git standing in ronto us anymore. We must not permit that anymore. All o His trulyconverted and Indwelt, living in consecrated daily Lie with oneanother and observably His (Heb. 3:12-14)ALL are Priests!

Tere is not some special authority that is in one man o God andeveryone else just sits and watches. Because o the way men havebuilt the church over the last 1800+ years, we have acted as i there

is only one gitthe git o pastor. (Or perhaps everyone else isallowed to have the git o giving money!) But pastor/shepherd isonly one git! I we build wrongly, we all lose. I one man is pushedto the ront to be the pastor and everyone else just sits and listensall the time, then no one gets to share your git. Tey only get thepastors gits. Tat is too small and corruptible! I we want to seethe greatness o God, and i we want to see all o our lives change

and our childrens lives change, we need ALL o Jesus. Te gitsthat each o the sisters and brothers have are part o Jesus. Eventhe children have gits that are part o Jesus. We need all o thosegits in our lives. We are all brothers. Gods heart is that the git

you have would be given to me and the git I have would be givento you. We must not settle or just part o Jesus. Amen?

Do you see why we said you must have courage? Tings mustchange! You cant keep doing what you have been doing. You aregoing to have to decide to use your gits more and welcome others

to do so also. You are going to have to decide to be obedient andto have courage. I you keep sitting in your chair or on the oor allthe time and dont use your gits more than you have been, yourgits will continue to dwindle away. He who has been given a trustor git must prove aithul. Do you remember what happenedto the man who buried his talent? Jesus said, You wicked, lazyservant. Tats what Jesus says to us when we dont do what we aresupposed to do. I I dont use my git or i you dont use your git,we are wicked and lazy.

What i you were an Olympic runner lying in a bed and someonetook a rope and tied it around you? Even though you might be achampion athlete, i you were there tied to the bed your muscleswould shrivel, and you would eventually die. All your potentialwould be lost because you have been roped to a bed or monthsor years. Do you see how the traditions o men steal and rob theWord o God? Te way we have built or over 1800 years in GodsHouse has roped most o Gods people to the bed! Tey have notbeen able to get up and run and ulll their destiny because humanshave built wrongly, not ollowing the Word o God. I we build or

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quenches others gits, we are criminals in the Heavenly Courtsbecause o the damage and loss many will suer because o leavenin the batch and un-used Gits!

Its not usually because people are bad that we have been buildingwrongly. Mostly its because we just didnt know how to build GodsHouse by Gods Design. For 1800 years, the Christian world hasconused the issues o who is a Christian... who is a leader... whatdaily lie is supposed to look like... and what meetings are supposedto look like. Our Father wants to restore these things to you in yourlives now. Just as the Word o God had been neglected in KingJosiahs day, and ruth was ound buried in the rubble o menskingdoms and traditions, so today Gods ruths, so long ignored(but always in the Bible) can set men ree. God will change your liemiraculously and change everyone around you as a result. Teseare very powerul and precious truths. Whether there are ew ormany in your city or village, God is not hindered to save by manyor by ew as Jonathan, Davids close riend, once said. He who isgiven a trust must prove aithul. We must have the courage to dosomething about ruth we have ignored or disobeyed in the past.And He Himsel will be your Shepherd, your Fortress, and yourRear Guard as you live boldly or Him.

Jesus LeadershipSamuel vs. Saul

O course, there are Gits and leadership o various kinds in the Bodyo Christ (Eph. 4; Rom. 12; 1Cor. 12; 1im. 3; it. 1). Ephesians 4not only talks about the maturity and depth o relationship possiblein the Body o Christ , it also mentions the tools necessary to reachthose ends:

And He, Himsel, gave some to be apostles, some prophets, someevangelists, and some pastors and teachers, or the equipping othe saints or the work o service, or the ediying o the body oChrist, till we all come to the unity o the aith and the knowledgeo the Son o God, to a perect man, to the measure o the stature

o the ullness o Christ; that we should no longer be children,tossed to and ro and carried about with every wind o doctrine,by the trickery o men, in the cunning cratiness by which they liein wait to deceive, but, speaking the truth in love, we might growup in all things into Him who is the headChristrom whom thewhole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies,according to the eective working by which every part does its

share, causes growth o the body or the building up o itsel in love(Ephesians 4:11-16).

Without this Gited leadership (apostles, prophets, evangelists,pastors and teachers), we will continue to be tossed to and ro,and we will never ully experience true joined and knittedness.Tats very dierent, though, rom what happens in the normalchurch-world thang. An ofcial this or that is NO Gods Way.And YES, it MATTERS! itles are orbidden by Jesus Himsel.Tis, in itsel, is one test o the authenticity o Gods kind oleadership versus mans kind o leadership.

In countries all over the world, we have all made a very bigmistake about leadership in the Church. In many places theperson who studies the Bible in seminary or bible schools, or agood businessman or speaker, gets to be the leader or the pastor.We have seen in India and other countries, many times, that theperson with a bicycle who can also read is chosen to be the leader.Tis is not Gods way! Gods leadership is not based on who canread, or who knows the most, or who can speak the best, or whohas the best business experience, or who has wealth or educationor charm or good looks or a bicycle.

Let me describe to you two very dierent kinds o leaders. Oneis a leader rom the heart, out o a current relationship with God.Another is a leader by position who may have a title and may be theofcial head person, the ofcial boss. Jesus said that a leader byposition must not be so. Te leaders o the Church are those whoare walking most closely with God ODAY. I a brother or sister isnot walking closely with God today, he may not be considered verymuch o a leader. I a person last week perhaps was not so close to


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God but has repented o the sin in his lie and now is better able tohear God, he is more o a leader this week than he was last week.Being a leader comes out o relationship with God and Godspeople. It is not out o an ofce or a title. We have many leaders inthe city where I live, but we have no ofcers. A leader this weekmay not be a leader next week. Jesus said all authority in heaven andon earth belongs to HIM. Tis is still true. So, as much as we canhear Jesus, who has all authority, thats how much authority a manhasonly as much as he can hear Jesus. Tats all. ALL authorityin Heaven and on earth belongs to Jesus, He said. A person whodoes not know or obey Jesus can only be a gurehead. Such aperson may need to be obeyed as ar as conscience allows, i theyhave a position, but they are only a leader in as ar as they know,love, and obey the Head, Jesus.

Tere is actually an example in the Bible o these two very dierentkinds o leaders. Samuel and Saul were both leaders o Godspeople, Israel. Samuel was a man o God who had inuence in thenation because he knew God. Samuel had many o the qualitieso a king in Israelbut Samuel wasnt a king! However, Saul wascalled a king. Israel wanted to have a kingthey wanted to haveone man be the boss. Tey wanted someone to replace Samuel,and they wanted a king like the nations around them. In someways the leadership might look similar, but Samuel did not have aposition o authority. Samuel unctioned out o his relationshipwith God, and Saul unctioned out o his position/ofce. Samuelhad no ofce, secretary, nor salary. He was not in a sta position

as king. Samuel was just a man o God who was respected as muchas a king, but he had no ofce or position. He was not a king. Hewas not a pastor. He just loved God with all his heart. And becausehe could hear God, he had inuence. He had no position...he hadinfuence. I a man truly knows God, he will help Gods people. Ihe is called by God, he will be helping people. I will say it again: atrue man o God has no position... he has inuence. Job, chapter29, is a description o a man respected by God and men, and earedand hated by satan. Such a man needs no ofce or title or salary. I

you are like Jesus, you will need no power.

As or Elders and Deacons, you will notice in the Scriptural Recordthat: 1) Te qualications are seldom met in our day and age(See 1im. 3 and it. 1), and never should a man be considereda shepherd/overseer/elder or a deacon/servant without meetingBiblically-mandated qualications, o course. 2) Elders were neverput in place by a congregation or vote, at any time in the Bible.3) Elders were never put in place in any congregation at the earlystages o a churchs Lie together, but only ater men had proventhemselves to be already unctioning as shepherds and teachersand athers (1Jn 2:13) amongst Gods Family. Paul would leavea new group o Believers without overseers and come back andappoint those who were alreadybeingshepherds, out o love, gitand maturity. Tere were no elders in Jerusalem or probably adecade ater the church had begun there. In the Scriptures, elders/shepherds/overseers and servants/deacons are not a churchinstitutional ofce, as they are oten done today.

As an example, i I am a carpenter, I build things with wood. Imake a chair, a table, or a door out o wood i Im a carpenter. IIm a mason, then I make things with bricks. Something I madeout o bricks is the proo that Im a mason. Something I madeout o wood is the proo that I am a carpenter. Well, in the Biblethis word pastor (a poor translation, actually) reers to a gitoshepherd, unctioning daily amongst Gods people alongsideo other gitsnot a boss or talking head at a meeting. Whereis the proo that Im a pastor/shepherd? Te proo is that I loveGods people! I help them day and night. I dont need an ofce

to do that. I dont need a title. I dont need to be boss. I just lovepeople with the git that I have, and I help them. Te proo thatIm a carpenter is the chair Ive made. Te proo that Im a pastor/shepherd is that I eed Gods people every day, and they are closerto Jesus because o me. I I see that one o Gods people is hungry,it breaks my heart. I I see that one o Gods people is in troubleor in danger, the shepherds heart inside o me runs ater themto protect them. Tats the proo that Im anointed o God to bea pastor. I dont need a nametag. I dont need a certicate on thewall and a diploma rom a bible college. I need a heart to love and


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to do Gods work, and will thereore bear supernatural ruit in anyarea in which He may have gited me.

So, youre a carpenter? Ten make chairs. You have the git oshepherd? Ten love peopleeeding them, protecting them, andhelping them. Tis is true or any git! Te proo o any git is in the

ruitthat it bears.

Te opposite o all this is also true, o course. Its an amazing act thatpagans in science and medicine and industry actually demand thatthose with opinions and critiques and sel-proclaimed expertisehave something to show, some ruit in their own lives, to demonstratethat they have a right to ponticate or lecture or condemn others. Inthe religious world, amazingly, there is ar less integrity than even thepagans demonstrate. In religion, however, people are oten ar moreblind and prejudiced. Criticism, expertise, judgments, and evenrelationship sabotage and slander ow easily rom those with terribleruit in their lives, amilies, and assemblies. Utterly amazing, but true,i you watch mans religion careully and honestly. A person whodoes such things as lie or slander or act like an expert in engineering,or medicine, or business can actually be imprisoned. But, in religionthey easily can gather an audience amongst the earul or naive orthose who can be coerced, blackmailed, or attered into submissionto the unruitul machine and experts. Weird, but true. It happensall the time, because thats how aulty empires keep their numbers.Fear and attery, gossip, innuendo, slander, or emotional blackmail.No wonder Jesus didnt do well in the accepted religious world oHis day. But, we can learn rom Him and embrace the Scripture,and look or Fruit, not hear-say with agendas and hidden skeletons,budgets, and egos to protect.

Well, you get the idea. :)

Jesus LeadershipIn Meetings

Another thing we must have the courage to change is to havemeetings like the Bible describes in 1 Corinthians 14: When youcome together, brothers, and the whole Church is together, leteverything be done or the building up o the Body. Every one o

you has a word o instruction, a song, a revelation. When we live

that way, even the unbeliever alls on his ace and cries out, Godis among you!

Tere is no boss except Jesus! Call no man leader, master, teacher,or pastor. You are all brothers. You all have Jesus and He is equal ineach o us. Certainly there will be maturity dierences, and somegits are more public, while other gits are more quiet or less

visible in public settings. But, all are available and have opportunity.Sometimes we need the mercy o Jesus and sometimes we needthe teaching o Jesus. Sometimes we need the songs o Jesus and

sometimes we need the help o Jesus to solve problems. But its allequally Jesus. Please do read 1 Corinthians 14:26-40. Tere is noone in charge except or Jesus Himsel.

We gather together having considered how we can spur eachother on toward love and good works (Heb. 10:24-26). We mustgive thought and prayer about how we can help each other whenwe do come together, and each o us takes responsibility to bea bearer o the Word o God and the Love o God. No specialperson is automatically expected to do anythingexcept listen

and respond to God like everyone else.

I someone brings a teaching rom Jesus and others come with aword o instruction or song or revelation; i this brother or sister issharing something that Jesus showed them and revelation comes toa second person, the rst one sits downi we are responding toGods command, rather than the traditions o men. Te Bible hasalways said, When revelation comes to the second person, LEHE FIRS ONE SI DOWN! Tats what it says in 1 Corinthians14. Tis is not popular with those who love to be rst and love to


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be in charge and viewed as the most spiritual and take the moneyo the saints. We have inherited a heavy load o traditions rom theroman catholics and rom our protestant and denominationaland pagan oreathers. Te priest or pastor or MC or CEO isup ront, talking to the lesser laityall the poor people, all theaudiencejust sitting and listening. Tis is likely the practiceand doctrine that Jesus said He hatedthat o the Nicolaitans(translated as those who conquer His People). But GOD has saidall o that must change, or His sake and ours.

From a practical standpoint, I want to suggest to you that i wereally want to honor the gits that are in each o us, and draw outthe gits that are in all o Gods People, then we need to changemany things. As silly as it sounds, one o those things may be howwe sit when we are gathered together. When Jesus was here, Hehad a circle o people around Him. o those seated in the circlearound Himthese are my mothers, my brothers, my sisters(Mark 3). Seated in a circle around Him! Isnt that the most naturalthing to do, when we are gathered to hear HIM, and not a mereman with limited gits? Tis may sound very simple to you, andit may not even sound very important, but I assure you it is. Iveheard that the words or pulpit and esh are pronounced thesame way in French.

When we sit with everyone acing the ront, it brings all the attentionto one man. We are not equals amongst equals any longer. I amsubservient to whoever has taken the throne in ront o me as mymaster, or the conductor or acilitator or trafc cop or expert othe class or service. When we set the chairs in rows instead o acircle seated around Jesus, its like turning a spotlight on one man.Everyone else is just an audience and one mere man is the attraction.Tat is very wrong because there are many gits amongst us, andthey are all parts o Jesus. I we put everyone looking toward theront, we are exalting only one git. How proud a man would have tobe to allow himsel always the chie seat or the spotlight.

In this model pictured above, typical o the religious models ininstitutions and house churches, there is some mere man ofciallyin charge through whom everything must pass. He ofciallystarts, ofcially ends, ofcially teaches or assigns the teachingor worshipping. He makes the decisions, answers the questions,and controls the ow. Tis is unBiblical (1Cor. 14:26) and ar lessthan Fruitul. Leaven in the batch, quenched Gits, and Jesus lostLordship are all but guaranteed in this model. Also, such a methodis never ound in the Bible. Tat should be quite convicting.

Te almost universal (to allworld religions, including culturalchristianity) clergy/laity caste system and pre-planned interactiveshow is not in the Bible, nor in Gods Heart and Mind. Jesusspoke out with clarity and orceulness, and even name-calling,against a system lled with traditions and hirelings and those whoelevate themselves over Gods People. Even the welve Apostleso the Lamb were to be just brothers amongst brothers in themidst o the Saints, not over them, according to Jesus Himsel.God desires Samuel leadership, in the midst o Lie, without titleor position, but only love and git, as needed. Otherwise, we arerejecting God by allowing and desiring a Saul type o leadership

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model, according to Gods declaration to Samuel, and to His People.O course, this is all a radical call compared to the traditions omen that most have been brain-dirtied by or their entire lietimes.But, until we re-evaluate our ways by the Scriptures, we can onlycontinue to get very lukewarm, leaven-lled results, as moderncultural religion always does.

Here is the essence o one issue we must reconsider: Are our timestogether about Jesus or FROM Jesus? Obedience and humilityand liberty or ALL the Saints make all the dierence! From Himand through Him and to Him are ALL HINGS!Te man-mademodel o attendance and holy man christianity guaranteesIMMENSE loss. Jesus does NO get HIS Way in you, or through

you, or to you as HE pleases when men controlwith theircreativity and power plays. Te ear-based, or sel-promotion,way is nancially protable and ego elevating or the clergy-caste.No wonder there is so much energy and name-calling when thesethings are presented to many o them. It is the Stone the BUILDERSrejected that has become the Chie Cornerstone. Te buildersare the ones with something to lose. Or at least they HINK theyhave something to lose, because they have not sufciently trustedJesus or His People.

Nevertheless, it is absolutely certain that Jesus orbids (Mat.23, etc)such man-made pyramid structures and ALL the religious titles thatare so common today. It is shameul and a great loss because HisGits are wasted, and His Voice is not heard. And this is true even ithe sermon was good or Biblical, or the music was Inspiring.Well spare you the statistics o the bad ruit relating to modernchristianity, in spite o good sermons and inspiring music. Teattendance-based, clergy-controlled religion is notrom Him, eveni it is or Him. It makes all the dierence as to whether the gateso Hell prevail or whether they are OVERCOME by His daily Lie(1Cor. 12, Acts 2:42-47, Heb. 3:12-14). He wants to be HEAD oHis Church, not the topic o those gathered in His Name.

So, what i instead all the gits have an equal place? Perhaps thereis someone with the git o shepherd sitting in the circle. Maybesomeone with a git o teacher is sitting here and a git o mercysitting there. Te git o help may sit here and one with a git oprophecy may sit here. All o the gits have equal place because

they are all Jesus!

As we already discussed, Paul in 1 Cor.14 clearly describes atime when the whole church is together. He describes theinvolvement o all o the Saints who have Jesus living inside.Christians, as described a ew moments earlier in the letter(Ch.12), who are living daily together under His Lordship shouldcontinue to live as Priests when the church is together in oneplace. All have opportunity to respond to Jesus and His currentHeadship, as true Priests, whenever the church is together. Tere

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delivering a pre-rehearsed canned speech or song show. Tismodel o when revelation comes to the second, let the rst oneSI DOWN is in keeping with the ONLY Picture in the Newestament o Jesus Headship in a Meeting in His Kingdom oPriests. All o the Gits poured out upon the Body o Christ,the Church, can FUNCION at ANY given moment. WhenRevelation comes to the second, let the rst one SI DOWN!saith the Lord. Tere is no place or controlling who or what mayhappen, choreographed in advance or oratorical or music, orentertainment, or control purposes.

In a Church where Jesus is presumed currently active, involved, andAlive, rather than a historic relic to be appreciated and veneratedand taught about, there is Liberty. Everyone with Jesus livingwithin and unctioning as such daily amongst the Believers, has aresponsibility to oer their Gits unto the edication o the Body.ALL o Jesus is poured out upon His Body, in ALL o His Gitsandany Git may be needed at any given time. I a young man opensup about difculties in the workplace, or a sister admits she hasdifculty with the children, Gits o eacher, or Encouragement, orShepherd, or Helps may all spring up, as Revelation comes to thesecond! Tis is the only Picture o a time when the whole churchis ogether in the Bible. And in this picture Jesus is allowed tobe a LIVING Head o His own church, rather than a man-madeorganization, controlled by mere men.

Each person indwelt by the Living Christ must be Free to be movedand used by Jesus in response to what is currently happening.HA alone is the Body o Christ. Meetings must then be theoverow o what is already happening every day in daily house tohouse ogether-Lie in Jesus. Tere must be a place or JESUS torule and lead through His PEOPLE and His Gits A ALL IMES,in homes and so-called meetings. Men will try to mimic this bythrowing in a token ministry timewhatever that isbut stayingin control themselves. Dont accept any gimmicks when JESUS caninstead live through all o His Gits and People.

HIS heart o a Kingdom o Priestswith Jesus truly and practicallyas Head o His Bodyis our topic here. And, o course, this discussionis not about some childish and unBiblical version o amateur hourand everyone taking turns and the pooling o ignorance andopinion, or everyone is supposed to say something and i youspoke more than 5 minutes last week then you cant talk this week,blah blah. Certainly His Church is not a democracy. His Churchis to be a Teocracy where ANOINING and GIFS and HISCURREN HOUGH Rule over our interactions in surprisingand ever-changing, unplanned ways. At times (unplanned) oneperson may be responding to God out loud or a long period otime. But he is not expected to this time or ever.


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However, the issue isnt mandatory spontaneity (though Jesusdid in Mat.10:20 place value on trusting Father to provide out othe overfow, rather than anything premeditated AND canned(notice the word and! :) ). By canned I mean unresponsiveto a LIVING God. Still, in the context o Heb.10:25there isHeb.10:24! CONSIDER how to spur others on when the Saintsare to be together. In 1Cor.14, clearly everyone has a song or wordo instruction available in the overfow o their hearts and lives.Everyone is exible enough to adjust to what is CURRENLYhappening when the Saints are together and things are Happening,both in timing o when to say it, and content o exactly whatneeds to be Said. So, preparation is a GOOD thing, while exibilityo what or when or who or whetherto say anything is still mandatory,i Jesus is Head. When saints gather they need to be FLEXIBLE,not so much mandatory spontaneity. Whether uesday or Fridayor anytime, in a living room or coliseum, whether that time wasplanned and decided upon ve days beore or 20 minutes beore ithappens, i we are prepared in LIFE, the reality o what Jesus wantsto say or do IS our primary preparation or ANY time were togetherwith other Saints, whether on the tennis court or basketball court orduring a cricket test. :) And, this is also true or times when all theSaints have a little warning that they will all be getting together.So! Te issue isnt spontaneity as much as it is OVERFLOW owhat God is doing in us, rather than preparing a lesson so we canshare it. Now in overow mode we may certainly jot down somenotes and Scriptures i that helps us proclaim it clearly as we ought(as Paul said). But, preparing a message to share (especially i

WERE the person expected to do so, thus robbing the Priesthoodo responsibility and opportunity) is dierent undamentally andin motive rom preparing our lives and sharing rom somethingREAL that Hes doing in us when prompted by REAL situations thatcome up right in ront o us when were together in a living room orwhile gardening or shopping with Saints. Make sense? I you gathertogether because a particular person has something specic theywant to talk about with everyone, that isnt a problem as long as itsexible in topic, and timing, and alteration o pathin response towhat Jesus would surprise you with at the ime. :)

Tere is liberty and obedience to His Ways in 1Cor. 14. But, keepin mind that Paul also addressed in this chapter possible abuses bypeople ignoring headship, or taking advantage o their liberty dueto ambition or emotion or lack o wisdom. Again, remember thatthe entire context or 1Cor. 14 includes chapters 10-13, whereGods Heart is that His People live as one Loa discerning theBody and DAILY living out their lives intertwined just as the handis intertwined to the ngers and wrist. In this context o Biblical

LIFEin the church, 1Cor.14 can also be obeyed. When revelationcomes to the second, let the rst one SI DOWN. No show andno holy man running the show. He is the same yesterday, today,and orever! Fear, greed, power, and ambition o a ew cannot bepermitted to rob His People o their Inheritance. Jesus is ALIVEand SPEAKING through His Gits as He wills when we are trulyHis Body, rather than acting out a ceremony on a holy day.

Yes, there may be overseers who serve and help acilitate. And,yes, there will be times or proclamation to unBelievers in publicas Paul did in certain instances recorded in the book o Acts.Still, unlike today, even in the times o proclamation there wasdialogue (the Greek word o what happened in roas) notuninterruptible monologue. And this proclamation typeo situation with unBelievers in Ephesus or Athens shouldntbe conused with times when the whole church is together.(Certainly, though, unBelievers will oten be present when theFamily o God is together1Cor. 14.) imes when the local Bodyo Christ is enjoying one another all in the same place is clearlydierent than when one is street preaching to a collected masso unBelievers. As one example, Paul used a pagan school orthe purpose o speaking to unBelievers about Jesus (Acts 19:8-10),spreading Gods Word to everyone in the Province o Asia. Tis,o course, is dierent than when the church, the Redeemed andIndwelt, are meeting together as in 1Cor. 12-14 or Acts 20 wherePaul dialogued (as mentioned the Greek word) with his Familyuntil dawn in an inormal environment.

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Disciples. He wants US together to become a habitation orHimdaily, intertwined joined and knit together, and contendingas One Man or the Faith. And in this daily intimacy o mother,brother, sister Quality o Lie Jesus has authored, HEN all o HisPeople (rom the overow o daily totally intertwined lives, Acts2:42-47, 1Cor. 12-13) MAY be used by the Spirit o Christ, at anygiven time. Its simple really. :) JUS as when He was here with us inthe physical body, JESUS gets the say. When we are not quenchingHis Spirit with man-made plans and hierarchies and liturgies andtraditions and showmanship, and independent worldly lives, He isree to express Himsel and His Gits, just as when He was here inthe physical body. His current Tought and Anointing, whether ora moment or until dawnthat is our passion. When Revelationcomes to the second, let the rst one sit down...!

Jesus Leadership

In LieHaving said all that, its essential to say again that NONE o this reallymatters much i there is no Quality o daily Lie as is described in1Cor. 12-13 as the prerequisite or chapter 14. In act, without thatdaily Lie this is somewhat dangerous. We cant simply talk aboutmeetings without missing something very crucial. Te opic ismuch larger. Tis is about the Dynamic o Jesus Lie in His People!And worldly, disConnected, sel-centered living by religious peopleis why the pre-arranged show by a holy man became an obvioussaeguard rom strange, wild-eyed, sinul men using reedom asa platorm or their ambitions. Quality o daily lie, 1 Cor. 12-13, is aprerequisite and assumption or the Freedom in 1 Cor. 14.

We must combine these previous pictures regarding the timeswhen Saints are together en-masse as a Priesthood rather thanaudience, with the Intended (Eph. 3:10) daily Lie o Acts 2:42-47, 1Cor. 12, Heb. 3:12-14, and a HUNDRED mothers, brothers,and sisters. Jesus said this IS the Plan. It is Quality of Life He hascalled His People to live out Together that is at stake here, not

meeting format! He desires an Inheritance, not a meeting or

knowledge transerence or emotional singing. His Heart is or aCorporate Man, Luke 9:23-27, 57-62true Christianity, rom theleast to the greatest clothed with HIS Spirit.

It is not about being a little more relaxed and exible in having ourplanned or unplanned meetings, and labeling that as led by the Spirit.Just because we dont know in advance what were going to do doesnot mean that things will then be Spirit-led. Hardly. It is NOHINGlike that. Although like Jannes and Jambres, the countereits, viewedrom earthly perspective, seem similar to Real things.

Te dierence between simply reorming denominational religion,versus living in the reality o the risen, living Jesus ...is staggering.Creatively modiying meetings and structure (in a religiousacility, or in a house) isnt really all that important, comparedto the Opportunity He places beore us today. Hes not callingus to a new and improved structure. He is calling us into dailyrelationship eating together rom the ree o Lie, with the AnointedOne! Oh, YES, that will change our meetingsbut that is theFruit, not the goal. Just switching to new and improved doctrines,techniques, meeting dynamics , how close people live together, theunBiblical common purse, or any number o new olkways andmores is meaningless, in reality. What we are really ater (i wedesire what He Desires!) is a Habitat where JESUS can dwell andcirculate (Rev. 1-2) unhindered, as Living, Reigning KING. Tisalone is the ZOE LIFE (as Jesus called it). SUPERnatural, HeavenlyLie, o Indestructible and Eternal nature, all-encompassing Realityo an unseen Realm o Power and ruth and Love and Lie. Jesusbrought this Lie to the ull, Rivers o Alive Water Lie to HisPeople rom another dimension, a Universe that cannot be seenwith human eyes and in earthly light requencies.

Lie in Christ ogether is not about how to have meetings. WhatJesus brought to Earth with the Herald o the Angels could neverbe so shallow and external as all o that. Meetingswhere morepeople get to participateis HA what Jesus died or? NOWAY! Jesus didnt come to this earth to bring us a new way to havemeetings or have church or some movement. Tat is so lame


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compared to His Intentions, now through the Church! (Eph.3:10). He wants to publicly annihilate, decimate, and humiliate theenemyand transorm lie ater lie ater lie, into the character andLie and Wisdom and Strength o the Son. He is bringing many sonsto Glorynot simply to Salvation. He is building His CHURCH,which the gates o Hell CANNO prevail against. By the Grace oJesus Christ and on His Authority, were taking back our sons andour daughters and amilies and neighbors rom the seduction andslavery o satan. Lives are changing. He brought us an entirely newRealm to inhabit by His sidenew air to breathe, new eyes to see,new ears to hear, and a new heart to eel and love. Tis dierenceaects everything in lie, including meetings!

Can you see that this takes courage? Can you see that this takes aithand obedience? Can you see that this will change your lie i youbegin to live in these things? You will no longer be roped to the bed!We are a Kingdom o Priests every day. And, meetings are just extra,really. Ninety percent o our growth comes rom living together, andmaybe only ten percent comes rom meetings. Tat means you haveto get out o your house and into other peoples homes. You bringwater, or ood, or clothing to their house. When you see they areangry with a child, you may need to pull them aside to talk withthem and walk with them. When you see pride in their lie, youput your arm around them and ask them not to have pride. When

you see selshness in a brothers lie, you put your arm around himand say, Please dont be selsh anymore. We dont just close oureyes until the next meeting. We live in the middle o each otherslives every day as priests doing the work o God, and as a hundredmothers, brothers, and sisters. Tis, too, is an absolute commandrom God in Hebrews 3, and many, many other scriptures.

Hebrews 3:12-14: Be careul then, dear riends. Make sure thatyour own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you awayrom the living God. You must warn, encourage, admonish, bealongside each other every day, as long as it is called oday, so thatnone o you will be deceived by sin and hardened against God. Fori we are aithul to the end, trusting God just as rmly as when werst believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.

Notice what this Scripture saysthis is rom God. Almighty Godsays to you and me that we must every day warn each other and helpeach other. We must be alongside each other every day. Te HolySpirit chose to say every day. He didnt say every Sunday. He didntsay every Sunday and Wednesday. He didnt even say in meetings.He said get involved on a ruth level in each others lives every day. Iothers are available or could be, and you do not get involved becauseo liestyle, or pride, or selshness, or choice o living situation, Godsaid you will become harder and unable to eel what He eels. Youwill be deceived into thinking that you know what is right when youdo not. Tat is what Scripture specically says! He didnt just say todo it. He said i you dontdo this, it will hurt you greatly. I I donthave brothers talking to me every day about my lieevery dayIwill become hard. I will become deceived. You may say, But I readmy Bible every day! But I pray every day! My wie is a Christianand I see her every day! Tats not what God said. You can read

your Bible and pray every day, but i you wont be involved in eachothers lives every day, you will become more and more hard, andmore and more deceived. God says this in Hebrews 3:12-14. Do youbelieve the Bible? Do you believe God?

Who wrote the Bible? God! God said that we have to be involvedin each others lives every day. I you see me being selsh, you needto come to me and say, Brother, dont be selsh. Tat makes Jesussad. I you see me being proud, please help me and remind methat God opposes the proud. I dont want God to oppose me! Youhave to help me, because I cant see it all the time. No one can.Admonish one another daily so that none o you are hardenedand deceived. Tis is an important (and almost totally disobeyedworldwide) part o our daily lie together. Tis is one key way youare a priest using your gits, and an ambassador o Christ, as iGod were making His appeal through you.

I you put into practice these truths that have always been in yourBibles, you will be amazed at how much closer to Jesus you will betwo years rom now. Admonish one another daily. Be involvedwith each others children and marriages and workplaces everyday. Go there! You must get out o your comort zone and go


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there when you would not have done so beore! Yes, I mean YOU!:) Please, or Jesus! Speak the Word as o God into each otherslives, in a practical, loving, wise way, every day. When you cometogether, brothers, everyone has a word o instruction, a song, arevelation. When revelation comes to the second, let the rst onesit down. As you walk this out, you may nd that some whom youthought were Christians dont love Jesus as much as you alwaysthought they did. You also may nd some whom you thought tobe very weak are becoming stronger and wiser than you could everimagine. Gods ways expose rauds and countereits, and make theweak very strong. Glory to God!

Tese riches are entrusted to you. Put them into practice or Jesussake. You must dene what a Christian really is by what Jesus said.You must understand leadership and what it is really supposedto be. Live your lives every day, together, encouraging each other,building one another up. Help each other to grow and love Jesusmore throughout your aternoons and evenings. Come and meettogether around King Jesus.

Te Bible is 100% true all the way through. It is about Jesus andHis ollowers. Tese are Stories o how they hurt and how theylearned in their experiences with God. We can denitely learnrom their stories, but we can also learn the same way they did:by acing God together in our daily lives. In that sense, we too areliving letters. All the reading in the world could never change usthe way the together-experience o Lie can change us. Deep thingswe want to know never get all the way down into our hearts whentheyre just read rom paper. As we work things out together everyday, Jesus teaches us the deep lessons o lie that we could neverlearn rom all the Bible study in the world, though these truthsare in everyones Bible. Te pillar and oundation o ruth is theekklesiathe church. Te LIFE becomes the Light o men.

Lie was not meant to be like a grammar school where we learnideas and then believe a certain list or creed o things. Instead,God has called us to become the same men and women o Godas those who went beore usconnected to the same God that

they weredeeply in love with the same Jesus that they were.In order to do that, we not only need to know what they knew,but we need to eel what they elt. In order to eel what they elt,God has to take us on a Journey similar to theirs. So we take that

journey in applying the Word o God together to our lives. Wetake that journey with tears in our eyes, with our weaknesses andour strengths, loving each other, and helping one anotherin thebad times and the good timeswith our eyes on our Hope, ourMessiah. We are always moving orward, trusting that God will beour provider, helping us as we stay together.

I you love Jesus and build the right way, the gates o hell willno longer prevail. Sin will be crushed. Weakness and sicknesswill be healed. Sins will be orgiven. Kindness will lead many torepentance. Relationships will be built or restored, beyond what

you could imagine in your wonderul dreams. You will shine likestars in the universe, displaying the goodness o God. And theBride, the Church, will make hersel ready and be ready whenthe Groom returns!! Amen?

Gods Intent...NOW!I was watching a documentary once about Albert Einstein. In theintroduction there was a phrase that said something like, Everyonce in a long, long, long while a man comes along that perceivesthe universe through dierent eyes and changes the universe that helives in. We want to put that challenge in ront o you. Be the kind

o person that Sees the universe, not through the natural eye, butthrough the Spiritual eye. Be challenged to be one o those peoplethat Hebrews 11 talks about. See Gods vision o a habitation o Godby the spirit with ever-increasing glory. See a picture in your mindseye, like it says that the believers in the book o Hebrews chapter11 saw. Tey saw the City whose Builder and Maker was God, andthereore they werent satised with anything else. Tey werentwilling to return to the old city. Tey saw the Heavenly Plan aaro, and even i they couldnt apprehend it with their own hands,even i they couldnt yet live in that City that God had destined or


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them, they were not willing to go back. Tereore, God was notashamed to be called their God and them His people.

Tat same challenge is beore you, and me. Look around at the worldthat youre in, the universe youre in, and especially the churchthat youre in and have zeal or the Fathers House consume you.Let His Zeal consume you in such a way that you would be willingto risk everything in your lie in order to see that ullled in yourenvironment. Youd risk your lie. Youd risk your amily (Psalm69:8-9). Youd risk your job. Youd risk anything or the sake oGod and His purposes. Tat has to be where were coming rom.Biblically speaking thats really the only kind o Christianity thereis. Tats not a popular thought or idea, but in Romans 4 it says,Tose with the aith o Abraham are sons o Abraham.

So, whatever situation or church that youre in, and wherever youmay be (whatever country or habitation you may have and callhome right now), you need to be very, very careul that you dontaccept something that God doesnt accept. Dont accept it out olaziness, ignorance o the Word o God, or out o lack o vision orsin in your own personal lie that has so blinded you or maimed

you that you eel inadequate. Dont allow others who are content inLaodicea to blackmail or mock you into lukewarmness.

Maybe youve been sold the act that youre just laity and you havenothing to oer. Maybe you think your opinion doesnt really matterbecause there are so many wise and learned men out there so...Whatcould you know? I just want to encourage you that whoever youare, you have something to oer. I youve really called on the nameo the Lord and have asked Him to take control o your lie, youhave something to oer. I you have asked Him to wash away yoursins, you have something to oer. His desire is rom the least to thegreatest that every man would know Him, live in His counsel andellowship with Him, the Godhead, on a daily basis.

Every once in a great, great long while, a man comes along or apeople come along who are willing to question the universe thatthey live in and make a dierence in the world around them. Tats

what Hebrews 11 is about. Tats what God has called each ous to be i we have the courage and the willingness and were incommunion with the head. Abiding in Him, there will be muchruit to show or it. You can be a person who makes a dierence inthe world that youre in.

I hope we have cleared up at least one misunderstanding that haspermeated Christian society. Tat is that becoming a Christian isthe end o the story. And then attending the church o your choiceon Sunday is maintenance until Jesus comes back and you go toa mansion just over the hilltop. I want to just totally eradicate thatthought because that is notGods thought. God calls that conceptalse religion and Laodicea, which upsets His stomach.

Gods intent is that now, through the church, the maniold wisdomo God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in theheavenly realms.... Ephesians 3:10

Tis is Gods intent RIGH NOW. His will is to make knownHis maniold wisdom through the Church. Not just throughindividuals that are saved, and not through some impotent societyo people who listen to speeches on a particular day o the week insuit and ties...but through the abric o lie, through a communityo believers who are joined and knit together by every supportingligament, by people whose gits are so intertwined theyremembers o one another. Compacted, one heart, one mind,o one accord, and one purpose. Fight or that vision in Acts obelievers not possessive o possessions, joined togetherdevotedto the apostles teaching, breaking o bread, ellowship, prayer, anddaily in public and rom house to house. Envision Gods Peopleas an organismunied, having a abric o lie together that thegates o hell could not prevail against . Attendance-based religionis okay or the Hindus and Muslims, but it is not what Jesus beganand ordained.

His intent is now, through the Ekklesia, through an Organismthats real and not just a bunch o people that attend something,but lives that are intertwinedconessing sins one to another,


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bearing burdens one to another and loving one another. Tat isthe kind o lie that men can see. Tat is the kind o lie that Jesustalked about when He said it is by our love or one another thatall men will know this is rom heaven (John 13). He said thatwould humiliate the principalities and powers. Gods intent isnowthrough the Churchto bring public humiliation to satan andall the principalities and powers. And His intent, according to thescriptures, is NOWthrough the church to make His enemies Hisootstoolsnot just at His second coming and the Eternal ultimateKingdom, the nished work o God, but NOW.

And, o course, we are not speaking o utopia. Were not talkingabout social activism, not a post-millennial sort o thing, notdominion theology. Not exing muscles, but a cross... We aretalking about People expressing a Lie together the same way Jesusexpressed His lie, as the King o all the kings. He was born anillegitimate child in a manger, riding on a borrowed donkey, andhaving really no possessions o His ownno power, no education,no political soap box, no beauty or majesty that anyone would bedrawn to Him. We are talking about being a grass roots lover omen that can see into mens hearts and bring them to the cross.Were talking about showing men the scandal o His existence andHis lie, and calling them to become shers o men. o become parto His House, His habitation. o become living stones. Once nota people, to become a people. Tats Gods heart.

Receive Jesus o Nazareth, with a Kingdom not o this world, notas a conqueror o Rome or o whatever country we live in, or thechurch system. Receive Him simply as the Carpenter King wholoved, and orgave, and laid down His lie... and who was willing toturn over the temple tables and make a whip i necessary or thelove o His Father and or His Fathers House.

Jesus was willing to question the universe that He lived in andthereby Change it, and He has called us to be that same kind operson. Tis isnt inormation transmission. Tis is a call to holinessand consecration to Gods purposes, and a call to lit up His visionin your hearts and in your lives. Get on your knees and pray. Tis

is a call not only to change the seen world universe, but also tochange the unseen world universe. His intent is now through theChurch to make known His wisdom, the maniold wisdom o God,to the principalities and the powers and to all o the people...

So, let the burning coal cleanse your lips and heart, look to God,and cry out Here am I, send me!

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