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A True Christian Church is Not Like a Club
Hey, praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to
share a few thoughts that have been on my heart and mind the last couple of
days, and maybe this should be three different videos, I'm not sure, but I'm
going to just share some of the things that have been on my heart. But the main
idea that I wanted to address is why the Christian church should not be or act
like a club. Now, of course, the Christian church of today is exactly like a
club. If you've ever been part of a club, maybe you've been part of 4-H, or
you've done something with animals, or been part of a golf club, a jeep club,
some kind of soccer club, if you've been part of any of those organizations,
you get accepted in by the leadership, by the president of that club, praise
Jesus, everyone. But how clubs work on earth is there is a president, there’s
the leadership of the group, and then they accept you in, you pay your dues, you show up to the annual meetings and the
weekly meetings or the monthly, and then you go out and you do things with your
club. Now, the Christian church has become a lot like any other club. And they
basically have their weekly or their monthly dues, they call that their tithe,
they have their president, which is their pastor, they have their set of
leadership, which is their elders and deacons. So they basically look exactly
like a golf club or a soccer club or a jeep club or any kind of club that you
could name on the whole planet or in the United States. So I want to tell you
why a true Christian and the true church should never be like an earthly,
worldly club.
The reason for that is because the leader of the
true church is Jesus Christ. It is God, not a pastor on this earth. See clubs
on this earth are run and operated by men and men accept you into their club and
then men kick you out of their club. And that is also how churches work today. If
you join their club and you give your membership to them, then you've put your
allegiance before the man in that church and you're part of that organization, you're
paying your tithe to them and they have authority over you. So you have been
paying your tithes and your offerings and your dues to this group and they've
accepted you and likely they've been telling you that you're once saved, always
saved and you're part of the church because you have come into their membership
and their leadership. But truth be told, the true church cannot be like a club
because God Himself is the leader and God decides who is part of His true
church and who is not. No pastor is God. No pastor can decide who is part of
God's church and who is not. And that is the end. God is the end of that.
So if a pastor is claiming that you are part of
the church because you pay tithe to his church, that is where he is dead wrong.
There are a lot of Christians who pay tithe. They go to a church. They're good
members of a church. But that does not mean they're accepted into God's
spiritual kingdom, His true church. See God's true church is a spiritual club,
if you will, and God is the king or He is the president of that club, not a
pastor or the leader of some organization. So many churches have went wrong on
this because they literally think that they are Jesus, that they are God. That
they decide who is part of the church. And who is not. And that's absolutely
wrong, guys. The only one who decides if you're part of His body or you're
excluded is God Himself. Jesus knows who His body is and who is not. There are
some people that are part of the true church, that is, they are part of the body
of Christ and they may be attending a church, a localized church body. They may
be part of a club. But most of those members if not all of the members of the
localized Church bodies across your town or your city or America are all false.
They're all apostate. They don't have anything to do with the kingdom of God. How
can they possibly think that they are the ones that ordain who goes to heaven
and who goes to hell, how people should understand the Bible, and if they're
part of the true church or Not? Jesus said that God is seeking worshippers who
will worship Him in spirit and in truth. And the true church does not worship
in the physicality, in the physical things that you can see and hear and
understand in the brick and mortar churches.
That is all a deception. There may be some
brothers and sisters there that do love the Lord and who are entering into
God's eternal kingdom that are part of his true church, but it's also likely
that there is not anyone there that belongs to God's true church. Just because
the name Christian is on a building doesn't mean that it has anything to do
with the Christian church, because the true church is spiritual. The kingdom of
God does not come with signs to be observed, such as man observed them, but it
is inside of you. It is in your midst. That's what Jesus said. So we have to
get away from this idea that we just do church on Sunday, and if we pay tithes
and we join this church, then we're part of the church, and we're going to
heaven, we're accepted in the God's kingdom. That's absolutely false. Since
when did men decide who goes to heaven and who goes to hell? It is Jesus who
decides your destiny. He decides if you go to heaven and hell, and he knows if
you're part of his true church or not. So that's one thing that's been on my
mind to share with you.
Another thing that has been on my mind is this
whole idea that you have to be educated in order to share anything on the
internet, including things about God, as if you have to have went to seminary
to speak about God. The truth is, to speak about God and to be genuine about Him,
you have had to have an experience with Him. It doesn't matter if you went to
seminary. It doesn't matter if you're educated or uneducated. It doesn't matter
how good of a speaker you are. After all, I make a lot of blunders, guys. I say
things incorrectly. I may put a new conjugation on a verb that you've never
heard before or just totally mess up on what I'm saying. But that doesn't mean
that I haven't had an experience with God. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't
be speaking about Jesus. And you are qualified and should be speaking about
Jesus if you love Jesus and if you've had an experience with Him. Maybe you
have been delivered from sin. Maybe you've been delivered from a sickness. Maybe
you were as the guy that had a legion of demons and Jesus set you free. And
then He is telling you to go and share your testimony, the word of God in your
town and in your city so people repent. The 12 disciples were ordinary men.
People realized that they were not highly educated like the Pharisees, but they
had walked with God. They had been with Jesus. And even though they were ordinary
Galileans and they probably slurred their speech and they didn't sound as smart
as other people because they were ordinary. They had walked with God. They had
seen miracles and they had understanding because they had walked with the Spirit
that brought life. And so don't let Satan tell you you have no business sharing
about Jesus. You're uneducated. You don't know the Bible. You don't even know
how to speak English that well. Don't let any of that stuff distract you from
preaching Jesus, because at the end of the day, what matters is your
relationship to the Lord and if you're doing his will. What Jesus wants from
you is to be separate from the world, to be living holy and to be making
disciples, even if that's just people in your own household.
So this is something else, guys, that's been on my
heart because a lot of people are discouraged. A lot of people are beaten down
by the devil. They think, well, I can't talk about God because I don't know as
much as the preacher. It doesn't matter if as much as the preacher or if you
haven't researched as much as brother so-and-so. What matters is if you're
praying, hearing from the Holy Spirit and walking with the Lord. If you know the
right thing to do, you better share it with your brother or your sister,
someone in your family. Go and tell someone about the gospel because that's
what Jesus wants us doing in this life.
So those are two of the things I wanted to share.
Let's see what the last one was. Okay, here's the other thing I wanted to
share. A lot of people these days are leaving church. There's talk about the
church exodus, people leaving the churches, and people are asked why they're
leaving church. A lot of the young generation doesn't go to church anymore.
They're not evangelical. They're not Protestant. I think maybe 10, 20 years
ago, 70, 80 percent of the United States, considered themselves Christian in
some shape or fashion. But now if you do some research on the statistics or the
demographics of how many people are Christians in America, you might find a
number as low as 30 percent, 35 percent of people even claim to be Christian.
So why is that? A lot of people, if you ask them why they're leaving the
church, they will say because they feel that Christians in church judge them
because of their sin, and they don't want to be judged because of their sin.
And so that's why they left church, because Christians are judgmental. They're
always telling you you're sinning, you're a sinner, you're going to hell. And a
lot of the younger generation doesn't want to be told they're going to hell,
and that is the reason why they left church.
So is that a good reason to leave church or not?
Well, for me, I left church partially, possibly due to the exact opposite
reason that most of these younger generation people are leaving. I left church not
because people were judging me for sin or because I saw all the hypocrisy, but
the reason why I left is because of the sin inside of church, not because
people were saying you're a sinner, if you smoke pot or if you do this, you're
going to hell. But I left church because I knew that there was a lot of sin in
church, that was trying to also convince me that sin was okay. And for my own
purification and to keep myself pure, I knew that I had to be separate from certain
family members, certain friends, certain areas. Otherwise, I just knew that I
was going to fall into sexual temptation, fall into just doing things that were
unproductive for the kingdom of God. So that's part of the reason that I left
church is because of the sin there. The biggest reason I actually left church,
however, is because I had revelation after revelation from Jesus to get out of
church because church is as a whorehouse. I had this message in dreams,
visions. The Lord spoke this so many times to me that to me, it became
redundant enough that I was asking the Lord, why am I still having these dreams
that church is like a whorehouse? I think I already know this, but I
continually had dreams and visions where Jesus showed me that the Christian
church of today is like a whorehouse because as a man who is seeking sexual
love goes to a prostitute for love that's not real and he has to pay money for
it, His children or people in the world are going to this prostitute church, paying
tithe, giving their offering, giving their time for love from this false church
that is not genuine. So God wants his true people out of the harlot church
system, out of this Babylon system, so they're not falling to prostitution. The
church of today is like a prostitute to God. And if you continue to pay tithes
to the church, it's like you're giving your money to a prostitute. If you go in
and you sleep with a prostitute, does that prostitute really love you? Of
course not. She's just fulfilling her duty. And the church today is just
fulfilling her duty to have you come and sit in the pews and preach to you, to
love you. They're just fulfilling their duties and giving you the desires of your
flesh or the sensations that you desire so that you will feel good, and those
sensations will be tickled. The same way a prostitute is giving a man those
sensations, the same sensations that are sexual perversion and not what his
wife would be giving him in the holy matrimony of his own marriage bed. So this
is what the Lord showed me over and over and over again, guys.
And it's very important to understand that with
Jesus, His true church are spiritual people that come into His spiritual
church, that spiritually speaking, eat His flesh and drink His blood, and
they're separate from the world. So do we belong to this true church that God
has set us apart to be? Are we part of this peculiar people that are different
from the world that God Himself has set apart and called His children? Have we
been called the body of Christ by the Lord or have we just been called a member
of the church because we pay our tithes to an organization as a man paves his
dues to a prostitute so that she will sleep with him? This is a very profound
and stunning analogy. It was very vulgar to me and visually a scary thing to
understand how God sees it when I was first coming out of church. But this is
how God sees the whorehouse church of today. If you want to know more about
Babylon the Great, the great whore, look what it says, prophetic and Revelation
chapter 17 and 18, because that is talking about the Christian church of today.
And America is included with that, making herself great, coming out with all these
prophets, looking like we're a Christian nation to the rest of the world, but
living in complete idolatry and hatred of God, living in sexual sin, living in
perversion, but acting like we are not blind, poor, and naked in misery. We
need to come out of the harlot church system, wherever we're at, and come into
the spiritual kingdom of God that we can eat His flesh, drink His blood, and
have everlasting life.
So I hope this message reaches you. I hope this
message reaches the ears of someone who needs to hear it. Maybe you're
wondering, where do I go? How can I be spiritually fed? I want to be a
Christian. I want to be a disciple of Jesus, but where do I start? Well, it
doesn't start with the American church. It doesn't start with going to a home
church. It doesn't start with getting into a Bible study. It starts on your
knees in prayer, saying, “Lord Jesus, please open the ears, my spiritual ears,
of my heart so I can hear you. Open my spiritual eyes so I can see you.
Manifest yourself to me in a way that makes sense to me and give me a heart
that beats so I can hear you, and see you, and feel you, and know that you're
real, and be shaped to your image that I may be well-pleasing to you.” You need
to come into the fold of God, be accepted into His spiritual kingdom, which is
spiritually called the New Jerusalem, or the New Covenant, or the Kingdom of
God, or Zion. All of these things are analogies of the New Covenant, which God
gave to us. He shed His blood on the cross. He poured out his blood so that you
could be cleaned, and from your sins, if
you accept His blood, and that He died on the cross, and that He resurrected in
three days, and that if you believe in Him, you will be set free from your
sins, and you will have everlasting life. But you have to believe in him with
your actions. Not just your belief, not just with your mind, but prove it with
your feet. Do you love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and are you
entering into His kingdom?
“Lord Jesus, I pray for those who are entering your
kingdom. I pray for those who want spiritual ears to hear and eyes to see. I
pray that the chains of deception can be broken, that your children may truly
hear your voice and be set free from dead religion, from the false whorehouse
church, from all the things that appear to be godly, which lead to death in the
end. I pray that we can truly hear your voice and live on you, eating your
flesh and drinking your blood, how you call us to do, Lord Jesus. So I pray for
my fellow brothers and sisters in your name, that they may be led by your Holy
Spirit, and not by men who deceive. In your name I pray, amen.”
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