The Disease of Organized Religion

 

One mans story. Is it not what he is saying true of the majority of “churches” in America today? I’ve  found to be true, that the institutional church, or “organized religion” consists of a false premise that has little or nothing to do with the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and instead is a sham or characture of what the Lord Jesus Christ paid for when He shed his Holy and sinless Blood on Calvary’s Cross.

While it may be true that many church goers have been led to believe “going to church, and not forsaking the assembling together” is what they are supposed to do, it’s because of the very fact, that they have been deceived into following man made doctrines and traditions of men that make the word of God ineffectual. This is the work of the enemy of our souls, Satan who is the master manipulator and perveyor of lies.

It is said that in Christianity, there are no victims. I believe that saying to be true, regardless of the mass deception presently evident in the churches. Lord Jesus said, “Make sure that the light you think you have is not actually darkness.” Luke 11:36 NLT

The Lord Jesus was in essense warning there is a type of self deception that can convince a Christian that they are holding to the truth of the gospel when in actuality, they are deceived and the truth they are holding to, is nothing more than self deception, for whatever reason, be it something in their own spiritual make up, and/or holding to a man made religious form, they have deviated from the truth.

If any man or woman is hungering and thirsting after God to the extent they will be satisfied with nothing else but Knowing the Truth, the Very God of Truth will meet them and lead and guide them to that Truth which is in Jesus Christ.

That said, it is clear to me that many Christians have come out from amongst them, only to fall into apostasy themselves. This is a great danger, possibly due to spiritual pride. There is no guarantee that having once coming out of the organized church is going to make anyone a better, holier or more righteous Christian in and of itself. It is only by obeying all Lord Jesus commandments, of taking up one’s own cross, denying the flesh.(self, ego), and following Jesus Christ on to embrace the  Truth of His Word in all it’s aspects including the suffering that goes along with it, can we truly hope to be His disciples indeed, and to know the truth that will set us free.

Lord Jesus said that He would build His Church, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. To be sure, there is a True Church/Ekklesia and Satan and his minions are not invited, nor will they be allowed entrance. When the Lord set in place the early primitive church, it was the model that the Lord desired to kept in place for His people. This body of believers, His Bride, bears no resemblance to the false church institutions of today, and it’s thousands of denominations.

 

Prophecy.

For before Me, says the Lord, before Me are people crying out to seek truth and power and strength. Before Me are people crying out to seek truth and strength! For they want to serve the Lord God. They have been entangled in the affairs of this earth in various religious forms which I never created, in various religious forms which have been tainted by the world and its thinking—in various religious forms.

These days are the days of the separation of the sheep and the goats. You will begin to see a sword of division. And I will begin to call My people from amongst the religious institutes, and they will come out in dazed and wounded form. For there are those in those religious institutes who will attack them and they shall be wounded in many forms—spiritually wounded. For they shall suffer as they leave those institutions. For those institutions shall be brought forward of the devil to be fully used in the attack on the true people whose hearts are dedicated unto Me, saith the Lord.

Listen and beware and know there is a great power out there that is not of Me. It is a religious spirit that has filled the churches and has taken over many of them, and it has totally imprisoned all of those who have gone there.

Now I call them out, saith the Lord, now I call them out!

Now is the time, now is the time for deliverance. As I have called them out I have raised up prophets, and I have raised up apostles, and I have raised up pastors to take these under their wing and show them the truth, and set them forth a true church unto the glory of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

2000 06 07.2

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“The Denomination Blues”

For what are you in love with, says the Lord? What are you in love with: your religion, your God? Have you fallen in love with your denomination? Or have you fallen in love with Jesus?

Look unto the gospels—where into He has serve you, that is, the Lamb of God—He has served you in faithfulness and holiness. Where in that time did He say create a denomination? Look and see if I created one! Look and see if I created one!! Look and see!!!

Follow My apostles in the Word. Follow the apostle Paul. Follow the apostle John. Follow any apostle you wish! Where did they create a denomination? What denomination was it?

For I did not create a denomination, and neither did they! For those things are of the world and they are of the spirit of the world. But I tell you I am of the Spirit of truth, says the Lord, and I want you of the Spirit of truth.

Seek the Word and the things of the Word. Seek the Word. Seek the glory of the Lord. And as you do this, I shall seek you to lead you into the fullness of truth, and the fullness of the glory, and the fullness of heaven to come.

How to Be an Effective Slave to Your Pastor

Don’t YOU wash your pastor’s car?

Don’t you have your wife clean your pastor’s house, cause his wife is too busy?

Don’t you have your wife do the pastor’s laundry, and iron his shirts?

Don’t you have your wife watch his kids, so the pastor and his wife can have a date night out?

Don’t you wash your pastor’s car?

Don’t you mow the pastor’s grass?

Don’t you shine your pastor’s shoes?

Don’t you buy special gifts for your pastor’s birthday, pastor appreciation day, wedding anniversary, at Christmas time, Valentines Day, Father’s Day, Kwanza, Lent and Ramadan? You know how pastor likes to be eccumenical.

Don’t you pay all the tithes to the church to support the pastor so he and his family can live their best life now? Would a man rob God?

Aren’t you an armor bearer for the pastor, so that he can withstand the attacks of the enemy?

Hey, just what kind of a Christian are you anyway?

Denominations~God Cannot Use a Divided Church in These Last Days

 

Thomas Gibson – Prophetic Word

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2001 04 05.1

As I closed my eyes during prayer this morning I could see a mass of people coming toward me, more than I could count. I was above their heads as they came. As I watched they raised their hands in praise to God I knew in my spirit the praise was for delivering them from the world and the ways of the world.

In the distance I could see from where they had come. They were coming out of many different churches. As I watched I understood in my spirit they were leaving because they had been pushed out.

Now thus says the Lord. These are My people called by My Name. In every church and in every denomination I have placed My people, called by My Name, serving Me in truth, serving Me in humility, and serving Me in holiness.

There is coming a time when they shall not compromise the Word. And there will come a division between those of My people who will not compromise the Word––the Word of God––and those of the world which fill the churches having placed themselves in positions of power, and positions of control, and have made the churches power of none effect.

For the church power is My power, says the Lord, and none of it is being put forward in these churches because of the control of the people of the world over the people of God.

There is coming a great war within the church, a non-compromising people, some of which will leave of their own free will but most will be pushed out in this war, a great spiritual war, which will see many people pushed out of the church. And they will come out dazed and not understanding that it is My will for them to come out.

For you see there is a great compromise within the churches: a compromise of My Word, a compromise of My will. And as I bring out My people they shall become united like the first century church and they shall go forth in the power of the Holy Spirit and the church shall return; and the church, the true church, the people, shall be united in great strength on the streets, and in the cities, and in towns, and wherever you go. They shall be united. And they will become the church.

Yes, there will still be divisions, denominations here and denominations there, but they will not be of Me! For either the denomination will repent and bow its knee and serve Me and just become the church and not a denomination, or I will reject the denomination and bring My people out. For I will not have a divided church in the last days. I cannot have a divided church in the last days. I need My power to flow through these people. I need unity, not division. I need humility, not arguments over differences of doctrine. And I need My people to flow in the strength. For in these last days there must come a great harvest of souls into the church and without this unity it can never come.

For I am not in favour of this war, but I must bring it to pass to bring the unity again. I must create a division between those who compromise and those who serve. I must bring a division between those who are of the world and are in control, and those who in humility want to serve Me. And they must be in unity with Me. Those in humility––they must be in unity.

This will come to pass. You are seeing a little bit now, as a few people are called out of the denominations. But many of My people are still there. Many of My people still want to be there. And I am telling them now, there is coming a time I will bring them out.

Don’t rush out, and don’t rush to stay in. Heed My Spirit and when it comes, follow the Spirit of the Lord. Be in unity one with another. Do not argue differences of doctrine, but rather join in ranks in the power of the Holy Spirit, and be a sign unto the world, and be a witness unto the world, and be a power of the Holy Spirit. And this will bring in the great last day harvest of souls of which I will bring in hundreds of thousands throughout the world into the gospel way. So says the Lord!