文字稿 What Does it Mean to "Not Forsake the Assembly"?

 

What Does it Mean to "Not Forsake the Assembly"?

Well, praise Jesus today, everyone. I wanted to speak about this idea that the Christians talk about a lot, which is don't forsake the assembly of ourselves together or don't forsake the fellowship. You have probably heard this before because it's a very popular verse for Christians to quote, especially for church attending Christians. They will always say, if you're not going to church on Sunday, then you're forsaking the fellowship and you're breaking the commandment of God because it's written in Hebrews 10 that, you know, if you're not going to church on Sunday, then you're forsaking the fellowship. Now the Bible doesn't really say exactly that, guys. 

And a big question would come down to what is an assembly? Because we can say all day long, don't give up the fellowship. But what fellowship are we speaking about? What assembly? Because that is key to what we're talking about.  If we don't, assess what an assembly is, you could call an assembly whatever you want and you could manipulate people to come to your assembly saying, “thus says the Lord”. And we know that that is just not the truth. So what is an assembly and what isn't it? So I want to read the verse first from Hebrews chapter 10. Let's just read the verse that all the Christians quote to try to make you feel guilty to go to their church, which is Hebrews 10:25. 

It says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another so much more as ye see the day approaching. Already you can tell that we're like in the middle of a sentence, in the middle of a paragraph. We haven't even understood what we're talking about. But a lot of Christians that are trying to secure the walls of their church, don't care about context, because what they care about is manipulating you to feel bad about not going to their church. So they will just say, look, the Bible says you're forsaking the, the getting together with other Christians if you're not going to church.  So what church are we talking about? There's no clarity in that. What group are we talking about or what, you know, what assembly? They forget to define what that is. They just say you can't give it up.  So let's talk about what does it mean to assemble. So if we just read a few more verses in this same chapter of Hebrews chapter 10, it will clarify it a little bit better. So let's back up to say for example verse 22 instead of just starting in verse 25.

 It says, Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for He is faithful that promised He meaning Jesus and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works.  Okay. So far we're starting to define what this sort of fellowship should be. It should be fellowship with Jesus, people that have a pure heart. If you look at verse 21, it says, having a high priest over the house of God. We know that's Jesus Christ.  So if we're not giving up a fellowship, this fellowship should be people that are pure, holding each other to love and to good works, and having fellowship with this high priest, meaning Jesus Christ. So we're starting to get the context a little bit more just by reading like 3 verses before.

And then if you read the first after, this is verse 26, it says, for if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, therefore remained no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries. They don't quote that in church because that would scare away the Christians from paying tithe. See, it is key what we're talking about when we're talking about an assembly.  What assembly saves us, guys? Is it going to Catholic mass? No. Is it going to a Baptist church? No.  Is it going to an assembly of people that all like the Raiders or the 49ers or the Lakers? Of course not. So what assembly are we talking about? We're talking about a group of people that has in common the love of Jesus Christ. So what assembly do we not wanna give up first and foremost?  It is the fellowship of Jesus Christ. That is what we're looking at.

Now most churches and gatherings of today, they are what are called 501c3 or tax exempt, and it all revolves around the economy, politics. It all revolves around popularity, pastors who have a well standing in their community. It revolves around the politics in groups and clubs of men.  But it doesn't have to do with the spiritual kingdom of Jesus Christ. So again, if we're talking about a true assembly, are we talking about the true assembly of children that belong to Jesus? Or are we talking about an assembly of men who have designed a club that has been associated with a 501c3, a government organization? Are we talking about groups that belong to men? Because depending on which you're talking about could totally change the whole entire topic. 

So what the Christians have done today if is they've turned the Bible and Hebrews, into something that is trying to sanctify ungodly religion, and that is a problem. They're trying to manipulate and fleece the flock, which basically just means take your money and expedite the process of taking away your faith so that you can just have faith in pastors, in your church organization, that you can have faith in this corporation, and then you don't really have to be part of the true household of faith, which is spiritual. Just believe and pay tithes and go to church on Sunday and just know that by doing that, you're not giving up the fellowship. Obviously, if our eyes are open to the truth, guys, we know that this is false.

The true fellowship means fellowship of Jesus Christ first, and if your faith really is in Jesus first and if you run into another brother or sister in the Lord, then you have fellowship with them as well.  Now we know throughout the scriptures where 2 or 3 are gathered together, God is with them, whether that is in discipline, righteousness, deciding anything, where 2 or 3 are gathered together. And if they're on the side of the Holy Spirit, they are the true body of Christ. They are the church. And we're not to give up fellowship with first the Holy Spirit, with Jesus, with our father in heaven, and then with those who God has put in our life. Most likely, it is your wife if you're married, your children if you have a family, it is the people that are immediately in your life.  They are the true church and they are the ones that you shouldn't be giving up the fellowship with if you are a family or if you are married. Now if you are a unmarried person, there are still other people in your life that are significant, maybe that look up to you. No matter if you're single or married, either way, there is people that you will be influencing. And as the body of Christ, you need to be upholding what it means to first and foremost have fellowship with Jesus. This does not mean that you validate yourself as a Christian by going to a 501c3 church or paying tithes to a club, an organization of men.  This is a distinction that is very important to make because Jesus never talked about his church being a physical brick and mortar church.

But the church of today, the churches across America, across the United States, you know, across the world, have turned what Jesus meant spiritually into a physical brick and mortar and, you know, stone and wood church. And they say, unless you're going to the physical church down the road and paying your tithe physically, then you're giving up the fellowship. And that is a big fat lie from Satan.

God's true church is spiritual.  That's why Jesus says that you have to worship him. That is the true worshipers must worship God in spirit and in truth. It's not about finding a church on this mountain or on that hill, in this town or in that city, but it's about learning how to worship God in spirit and in truth. The kingdom of God does not come with signs to be observed such as man observe them. But the kingdom of God is in our midst.  That's what Jesus said. So Jesus made it very clear that following him and being part of his church was not about physical church attendance, saying that you have fellowship because you go to the synagogue, or because you go to the temple, or because you go to a Catholic mass or because you go to a Baptist church or because you call yourself Pentecostal or whatever your cup of tea is, that is not the kind of fellowship we're talking about.

True fellowship with God happens spiritually, and the true church is a spiritual entity. And the way you enter it is not by paying physical amount American dollars or whatever economy you're a part of, but it's when you pray and say, “Lord, please cleanse me of my sin. Wash me, baptize me, let me be washed clean so that I can become part of your spiritual kingdom”.  And when you become part of the spiritual kingdom, then you become part of the assembly of believers that are all across this entire earth. I am part of the true church, but I don't belong to any, organization of men. I don't belong to a Baptist church anymore. I don't pay my tithes to any organization. I know that is a big hoax.  We need, as Christians, to belong to the spiritual kingdom that your physical eyes can't see. It's not about going to your local church body or doing corporate, worship or corporate prayer as they like to say, but the true spiritual kingdom and this assembly gets together in spirit and in truth, and it happens, wherever the Spirit of God is working. So the question is, are you giving up the assembly spiritually? Or are you connected to the Spirit of God because you're denying yourself daily, you're picking up your cross daily even if you're alone, even if you're a single guy? Are you choosing to be part of this spiritual kingdom and connected in the spiritual realm to the king and his church that is all across the world?

Everything Jesus says, guys, is spiritual.  When Jesus was, talking about his kingdom come, his will be done, he was not meaning that or alluding to that you have to just get into a physical church, get your tithes into a physical church, start building up churches of men. That's why Jesus again and again said things like, not one of these stones will be standing upon another. Not one will, not be, you know, all of them will be torn down, in other words. And all the disciples marveled at that. They thought, well, when will this happen, Lord?  And over and over again, he explained that his kingdom was spiritual, and if people wanted to enter it, it had to happen in the spirit realm. This is the church that we belong to. It is, cut out without physical hands. All the kingdoms of the earth are physical, and because our eyes see physical things and our ears hear physical things, it's very easy to put all our assets in this physical realm. But what did Jesus say?  Do not store up for yourself things on this earth where moth and rust destroy, where thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart is also. So where is our heart? Where is our treasure? Is our treasure, in the physical church?  Is it in the stock market? Is it in gold? I am learning just how unstable the economy is. I'm learning just how unstable the American dollar is, the stock market. All the things that we can put our security in in this world are not very secure.  And even if they do stay secure for a time, even if the economy's doing well, you can all of a sudden get cancer. You can get into a car accident. You can run into tribulations with your marriage, with your family. There's an unlimited amount of problems that we face in this world. And so what I'm saying is we need to make sure that our assembly, that our faith, and that our fortress really is in this kingdom with Jesus Christ, not in the fortresses that are made of men, whether it's the economy, or a physical church or a physical assembly. 

So don't let this idea, that Christians always speak of, of don't give up the assembly, don't let that confuse you into thinking or guilt you into thinking that you need to be part of a local church body. This is what the Christians that are religious always are trying to press, and always they come back to this one verse in Hebrews, Hebrews 10:25. But the crazy thing is, guys, they're taking one verse that's not even a complete sentence. All they're saying is not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together. They literally stop there.  They don't read one verse before it or one verse after to see what in the world is happening with Hebrews chapter 10. But Jesus is always speaking about a spiritual assembly, a spiritual kingdom, and in fact, we are told again and again to the scriptures not to participate in the assembly of the ungodly or, or what fellowship does, Satan have or, a Christian have with the devil?

I wanna read to you one example of that, which is found in 2nd Corinthians. This is chapter 2. So it says, be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers, for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?  And what communion have light with darkness? So right there, you could say the church system and the idea that you have to go to church is false because there are a lot of Christians there that are joined in with unbelievers, people that hate Jesus. They only care about money. They are wolves in sheep's clothing, and they don't want people to come to the truth of Jesus because then their little economy crashes. So what fellowship have righteousness with unrighteousness?  Obviously, none. What communions have light with dark with darkness? Obviously, none. What concord have Christ with Belial? Or what part have he that believeth with an infidel?  And what agreement have the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God.

So again, the temple is not brick and mortar. It's not the church. It's not the Catholic church. It's not the Baptist church. You are the church, and we know this, guys. God has said, I will dwell in them, not a physical church, but in you. Even if you are alone in your room or in a prison cell and you can never ever go to a physical church again in your life. You still are the temple of God. You are the church. It's crazy how Satan is, manipulating people to think that people are not the church even though Christians say you are the church over and over again. This is crazy, guys. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. This is the assembly.

And so what assembly should we not be a part of? Well look, verse 17 of Corinthians chapter 6, wherefore come out from among them, which is false churches, false believers, false assemblies, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. What is the unclean thing? The unclean thing is dead religion, apostate churches. Those organizations that are Baptists and Catholic that are claiming to be the children of God yet are connected with the infidel, the false believer, and darkness. Come out from among them, be separate. Touch nothing unclean and I will receive you and I will be a father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty. This is the truth guys. It's right in front of our noses. We have known these things since we were little children if we've been Christians. So how is it that Satan has stolen away from us true faith, the real assembly which is, the assembling of ourselves with Jesus and those people in our life that really matter? You know, your wife, your brother, your children, your grandchildren, people that really matter in your life. Satan has stolen away from many Christians the reality of what the assembly is.

The crazy thing is a lot of pastors have forsaken the true assembly with their wife, their children, and they think that the assembly is with that group that are paying tithe. And so they spend countless hours trying to mentor their congregation, trying to get tithe to build a physical building from their congregation, raising a $1,000,000 to build a new building across the street, and meanwhile their own physical son, their own blood is, committing suicide. This happens time and time again. The pastor's son is fornicating. The pastor's son is suicidal, or just becoming atheist. And the pastor and the people in the congregation are wondering why in the world, if our pastor is such a godly man, why does his family struggle with depression, hatred, murder, lust, pornography? The reason why is because that church has forsaken the assembly of themselves together. Even though they get to church, they get to church on time every Sunday, they have forsaken the true natural family of God, which is themselves with Jesus and their own natural families. Those very natural principles that God has set up, which is the family, your own relationship with God, they have totally rejected for this false image of Jesus, this false image of a church that they have called an assembly, which actually is just a 501c3. It's an organization. It is a club of man.

Satan has been very clever to take verses like this out of the scripture, out of Hebrews 10:25 and other verses, and turn it on its head to say, you're giving up the fellowship, brother, if you're not going to church and paying tithe. The other crazy thing with this is these same churches that say you shouldn't give up the fellowship, you have to pay tithe, They're the same churches that love to, out of the other side of their mouth, say, well, we're saved by grace, not by works. We are New Testament believers. We don't believe in the works of the law. So how can they be saying that they, live in the New Testament and by grace in the blood of Jesus when they're preaching from the Old Testament ideas like tithe and church attendance and all these things? Tithing is a principle from the Old Testament, not the New Testament. Jesus never talked about tithing to be saved. In fact, Jesus talked about complete denial, taking up your cross, which means giving your whole life to God, not 10%. But these Christians like to say, oh, we don't believe in the old covenant covenant. We believe in the new. Yet then to force their members to feel guilty to pay tithe, to pay their bills to their church, they pull out these verses from the Old Testament. It's blatant hypocrisy.

If we want to be part of the true assembly and not be deceived by those fleecing the flock and these false shepherds that are hirelings, as Jesus calls them, then we need to come out and be separate and join the true assembly that worships God in spirit and in truth. I hope this makes sense to someone that has ears to hear. I have a bunch of videos on this topic if you wanna look into more of it, if it gives you any clarity. If you go to my channel, I have, some playlists on my channel specifically on the church deception, on fellowship tithing deceptions. Just go look through my playlists and you will see, that I have, like dozens of videos on this topic, but it's well addressing again and again because so many Christians think that they have to be part of a physical church in order to be true Christians, and it's simply not true.

Again and again throughout the scripture, Jesus emphasized the fact that the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom that you don't see with your physical eyes. And again and again, Jesus emphasizes that what he says is spirit. It's spiritual. And if you want to enter his church and this true assembly, it has to happen by entering his kingdom through prayer, in spirit, and in truth.  Anyways, I wanna pray for those of you that wanna be able to hear the truth. I wanna pray for those of you that wanna be part of the true body as those in Acts were part of the true body of Christ and had everything in common. I want to read to you, from Acts chapter 2 what it says about the true church. It says, they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayer. Our fellowship, of course, has to be with Jesus. And when we speak and meet with other people that have fellowship with Jesus, we can break bread with them, we can eat together, we pray together. But it's not about religion. It's not about starting a big church or a 501c3 or a group or a club. It's about individually us meeting Jesus personally and then individually 1 on 1 sharing our testimonies with other people. And as we're seeking the kingdom of God first in our life, the Lord adds to our number each and every day.

So it says, And the fear came upon every soul and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together and had all things common and sold their possessions and goods and parted them out to all men as every man had need. And they continued and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple and the breaking of bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people and the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

So this is how we wanna be. We can't be the 1st century church, guys. We can't say that the government should take responsibility of this. There are some Christians that think that, the government should make, communal living situations. It just won't work. When the government tries to do this, they end up stealing money from rich people, giving it to poor, and they make lazy people more lazy, and they heavily tax the rich, which is basically stealing. It ends up being totally crazy and wrong. But for this to work truly, as it worked in the 1st century, it has to be out of individuals' goodness of their heart because they love Jesus first. And if as an individual, you as a Christian love the Lord and you have a little bit extra money, then you help out another brother who's in need. Maybe one day you're praying and you realize, oh, this other brother needs a ride. So you give him a ride, or you give him food, or you help out somebody. But this should never happen out of manipulation or out of the government manipulating you or forcing more taxes. Any economy that's tried to force, this kind of doctrine has always failed. It's never worked well.

 But for the children of God, individually, if they put their faith in Jesus, then it works because out of the goodness of your heart, you love your brother, you love your wife, you love your children, you love your neighbor as yourself, and you allow them to borrow your lawnmower or you allow them to, you know, have a place to live or whatever the case is. You help one another out, and that's what the church should do. So we need to figure out how to become part of this spiritual kingdom that, that honors God with everything that we have and serve him not out of manipulation, not because a pastor is saying, you have to give 10% or you have to give 50% of your income. No. That's not what it's about. But it's about you having fellowship with God first, and then because you love the Lord, you're loving your neighbor, you're loving your brother as yourself. Then you're part of the spiritual body of Christ, and you're not giving up the fellowship. So let's pray for eyes to see, ears to hear, and people to come into the true body of Christ, that they can be led along by the gift of the Holy Spirit, by Jesus, and that they won't fall prey to false religion or manipulative spirits that are trying to manipulate people to give money to their organizations or to their group. Let's pray that people really come into the spiritual kingdom that knows Jesus and gives their time and their worship to Jesus Christ and just honors God.

“So, Lord Jesus, I pray for your true church, that true assembly that worships you in spirit and in truth. We know that it's not about worshiping you, in a corporation or in a 501c3 or a government approved situation. We know that to come into your presence happens when we are part of you spiritually, and that when we are spiritually reborn, you come into our hearts and we become the temple. We become the sanctuary. It's not about a physical meeting place, but we know that it is about worshiping you in spirit and in truth. So I pray that you can take, the shackles off people that have been bound by religion. I pray that you can take the blindfolds off of the people's eyes and the blindness that have been over people's eyes to keep them bound up in religion and in deception and all the lies of the lying shepherds. I pray their eyes could be open to the truth in these end times that we're living in, that they could come into your kingdom, that they could come into worshiping you worshiping you and knowing the true freedom there is in you, Lord Jesus. So I pray for your true church.  I pray for your true fellowship and, your true assembly. I pray they can be washed clean in your blood, filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. I pray for more people to speak in their new tongues and to demonstrate the fruit that comes from your Holy Spirit and that they could have dreams and visions that come from God, that they could have interpretations that truly come from God, not from men, and that we would just have the fruit of your Holy Spirit and your gifts in our life, that we could practice our talents that you have given us, and that we could go out and grow spiritually as men and as women, and that you would add to our number. In your name, I pray, Lord Jesus. Amen.”

 We'll continue to grow in the faith. Don't be deceived by religion. Don't be deceived by the church of today, but come into the spiritual kingdom that worships the Lord Jesus in spirit and in truth.