Pastor John
There were so many things to digest today from last night. During the day, talking with Bob and Ellen, I recalled the fact that when we first came to North Carolina in May 2002 we attended our one and only “live” Old Testament class. And it was the night you went over the Tabernacle! I didn’t know that that was the class you had told students that they really had to attend. God knew and brought us here for it! Somewhere I still have the photo I took of the drawing you made on the whiteboard. As you talked about the “point” of it there were people shouting and praising God but I didn’t do any of that. I felt more pinned in my seat, struck with the awe and wonder of it.
We have been given things for God’s people that no one else has. These are things that will help people break free and stay free of Babylon when God touches their hearts. These are things that reassure and strengthen and say that it is OK. Things that say “this is the way, walk in it”.
While staying in your house that first trip I somewhere found a copy of Spiritual Light. Somehow in 15 months I had not come across it. I remember spending a quiet afternoon while getting some rest, reading it for the first time. What wonderful feelings! And either that trip or possibly the visit for Thanksgiving later in the year, Token had left the Hebrews teaching series in the bedroom and I listened to that as well. God used those times to give me an education in all of these wonderful things.
God’s people need what we have. I cannot believe anything else. Sister Betty was right. It is about God’s people. And only when my heart is fully turned over to that am I happy. This world is lurching around like a drunk. This country is in such a miserable state. This work God is doing and the love He has for His people here and elsewhere is the only thing I can see that is holding this country up. Let’s use the time we have.
There was a “step-up” call last night. A rebuke and then a wonderful reminder of just what God has given to us and who it came through. While you preached, things were happening. I watched Josiah be touched and moved by the Spirit of truth. Tonight, Sarah was telling us how she couldn’t read her book because there were so many exciting things being said. She was so excited telling us how she knew what pastor John was going to say happened when Jesus went in to the Father. “The Holy Ghost came!” During the meeting she hugged her mother and held on to her as you preached and then she wanted to be out where you were praying.
And then there were the feelings kneeling beside Aaron, thanking God and praying that He do His work in him and preserve him. That was what I was praying in bed this morning. How precious are these clean spirits, never sullied by Christianity and the world. What a wonderful blessing these young people, whose lives are entirely outside Christianity, can be to God’s children!
Damien