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  • 4 types of response to correction

    Pastor John,

    I do not have a date for taking these notes but I saw them today & wanted to pass them along.

    1. Hear the correction & do nothing.
    2. Hear the correction & get mad at the person giving the correction and then leave without changing.
    3. Hear the correction and change but not love the person that gave the correction.
    4. Hear the correction and change. KNOW that the correction came from GOD and love the PERSON that spoke to you.

    When we respond as the 4th type, we will have a greater love for the person that corrected us because they want the same thing God wants for us.

    Jim G

  • The Law

    Hi Pastor John:

    Read some more in Leviticus before going to sleep and to me it looks as though God was giving them commandments and laws not only for that moment but He was prepping his people for Canaan’s land.

    God was telling them about laws for vineyards and houses in which they couldn’t have vineyards wondering in the desert and they lived in tents.

    God really was giving them instructions for living not only now as far as how to have a relationship with Him and others now but giving them instructions and laws for the promise land.

    Am I seeing this right?

    Billy
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    Hi Billy.

    Yes, that is correct.  Many of the commandments God gave Israel in the wilderness applied only to life in Canaan’s Land.

    Keep reading the law!  It came from God and teaches us much about how He thinks.

    Pastor John

  • Godless

    Pastor John,

    I read this after I got home from taking Jacob to practice.  I just sit here thanking Jesus for this life we get to live.  The effect the body has had on my children since we moved here has been more than I could have ever dreamed.  Oh to live this life!  It really does work.  On the way taking Jacob to practice, we stopped at the gas station.  Jacob went in to get some water.  When he got back in the car, he asked me to pull over to another car at the gas pumps.  There was an elderly man standing there pumping gas.  Jacob walked up to him.  He told the man he wanted to apologize for the way the young girl behind the counter treated him.  The man looked at Jacob in shock.  He told Jacob it was ok.  I was a little shocked myself.  When he got back in the car, he told me the young girl behind the counter was very rude to the man.  He was an old man and couldn’t remember his zip code, and the girl rolled her eyes at him.  Jacob said she finally ask the man for his drivers license and got the zip code, but her attitude was awful.  Jesus is giving our children right feelings!!  I love that and want to do my part!  Thank you for having a safe place for us and our children to grow!

    Love,

    Jammie 

    Godless

    A most frightening aspect of this culture’s rejection of Jesus is the effect that the absence of the gospel is having on the spirits of young people.  The gospel of Christ is of such power that it has a softening influence on the hearts of all who hear it, even on those who do not respond in faith, and everyone is blessed in a society where the gospel is preached, not just believers.  But in cultures where the gospel is suppressed, there is nothing to take its place, and young people are left to grow up without a godly conscience, and without a true sense of good and evil.

    We are seeing in some places now the awful effects of keeping children from the gospel.  This generation, with its pseudo-sophistication and pride, is beginning to pay the price for its foolish insistence that to deny children the gospel is the way to true freedom, and for striving to make this culture godless.  Nothing in human society strikes me as being quite as dreadful as the roving packs of young men in the streets now, with no conscience, attacking at random and without even the motivation of robbery.  The pain they inflict is just for kicks.  That is but one result of keeping the young from the influence of the saving gospel of Christ.

    To be godless is to be merciless, for God is merciful.  To be godless is to have no moral boundaries, for God is good.  To be godless is to be beastly, driven by the base appetites of the flesh, for God is holy in all His ways.  To be godless is to be perverse in judgment, because God is wise and just.  To be godless is to have no strength or will to resist and to overcome the dark spirits in this world, for God is full of power.

    Teach your children the stories that God has provided for us in the Bible!  Don’t make excuses.  Do it!  Are you too busy to save your own child?

    The whole world has benefited from the influence of the gospel of Jesus Christ because our forebears made sure the gospel was known, in their homes and beyond.  They understood the value of the gospel and yielded to the power of its influence.  They knew that the message of the gospel would restrain the baser aspects of human nature.  If we would be wise, we will not take that precious influence for granted.

    If parents fail to acquaint their children with the gospel, if they fail to walk in its light so that the young can become acquainted with the feelings and the wisdom of the gospel, what will keep the young from being godless?  And then, when those godless little children mature and begin living like animals, with no sense of shame and no fear of God, who will control them?”

     

  • Finished ch.10

    Hey Brother John,

    Just finished reading the Father and Son book (“God Had a Son before Mary Did”). I feel so blessed just for having the privilege of reading it.  As I sit here, remembering it, all I can do or think is just wow!  Wow!  Wow!

    Billy H.

  • The Only Holy Thing

    I love this message, John.  What this tells me is if I want God, I can have him, and nothing can come between him and me.  And the ones who are walking in the same spirit, if something interferes with that, then we have let something in.  God did not move.  He is still untouchable by anything that is corrupt

    Makes me want to stay on guard all the time, as Brother Paul said in a recent meeting, “stay at your post.”

    Stuart

     

    The Only Holy Thing that Can Be Destroyed

     I give thanks to my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making supplication for all of you with joy because of your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now.

    Philippians 1:3-5

     

    Neither Satan nor his angels, nor men, can corrupt or destroy God.  God is perfect and holy and pure, and with Him, “there is no shadow of turning.”  He cannot be changed by any power, anywhere.  Nor is there any power that can corrupt or destroy the Son of God, for the Son is “most blessed forever,” and he “will never be moved” (Ps. 21:6-7).  Nor can any power corrupt or destroy God’s holy Spirit; it is eternally pure.  The only holy thing that can be corrupted and destroyed is the fellowship of God’s children on earth.

    The fellowship we have together in Christ is a most precious possession that must be guarded in order to keep it.  John told the saints that if they would walk together in the light, then they would be cleansed from all sin (1Jn. 1:7).  John knew that those saints had already been forgiven and washed from their sins when they received God’s Spirit, but he also knew that there is a deeper cleansing from sin available to the saints who walk together in fellowship.

    The things which destroy that fellowship are the things that wise saints hate the most.  Guard your heart.  Keep yourself pure.  Stay alert.  Never forget that the fellowship we have in Christ can be corrupted and destroyed.  Strive for fellowship in the light because through fellowship alone will the body of Christ ever be as clean as it can be.”

  • Fellowship in the spirit

    Hi Pastor John,

    I have been feasting on the gatherings we had this past weekend.  I did not realize how lost I was in the things of God. Being with everyone and talking about how good Brother Gary’s song was about fellowship, my whole body was consumed with how good that felt to my soul. From the first time he sang it, setting around the fire Friday morning, to the gathering that night.

    When I went to work today, I could not function.  Everything seemed so foreign to me!  I felt so far away from all that was going on at work.  My mind and thoughts were so far from what was happening on this planet!  I had people looking at me, asking questions, and I could not give them any answers. The more they would ask me, the more I felt drunk.  I have never felt that way before at work.

    I loved that feeling and did not care what else was going on.  I am so thankful that we can live in such heavenly places and feel the power of God that strong in us. Fellowship is what makes what we feel so wonderful!!!  Being one in the spirit!  God, help us get this out to your people!  What a wonderful day that will be, when all of God’s chosen are one in fellowship.  I am looking forward to that day.

    Stuart

  • Healing

    Pastor John

    Last night as everyone was testifying about healing it felt so good.  I kept thinking of all Jesus had done for me–healing in my body, my heart and soul. When I stood up I felt a burden for my children.  I asked the Lord to heal their hearts.  So when I walked up and you lay hands on me all I could do was pray for them.  I prayed Jesus would heal them from the world and all the bad spirits and wrong ideas they have in their head and heart.  Then the spirit said, “Give this to your Pastor, he will help you with this burden.”

    I looked up and I saw you in front of me and when you reached down I felt all this grief just come out.  You put your hands on my head and I felt this warmth go from the top of my head all the way through my body.  Then you started singing.  It was the most peaceful feeling.

    I thank God for the sweet feelings He gives us.  For the peace that only He can bring.  I thank God for a Pastor that I can bring my hurts and happiness too!

    This truly is a wonderful life!

    Michelle

  • “Where’s that cat?” – GCC

     
    When we drink of the Spirit, we’re just doing what Preacher Clark exhorted the saints to do!  I remember him preaching this.
    Thanks for the clip, Julie!
     
    Pastor John
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    John,
    This is great! Heard this on way to work this morning.
     
    Julie A

  • Wisdom from an old CD

    Pastor John,

    I heard these things on a CD of a meeting from a few years ago and thought I’d like to pass them on.

    From your sermon:

    (1)  When a person is truly delivered from something , that person has a testimony. If there’s not a testimony ,  there has been no deliverance; that person has just quit doing something temporarily.  The sin is not gone; it’s just on vacation!  A real testimony is a real confession of Christ.  A real testimony is not in the words that are spoken; it is the experience with God.  When you give a real testimony, you are sharing something that has been done by God; that is a real testimony, and that is what overcomes the world.”

    (2) Now, the scriptures say ‘Confess your faults one to another, that you might be healed.’ If you confess your faults but don’t want to be healed, you are just bragging about how bad you’ve been.”

    From Lou’s testimony:

    (1)  The flesh feels like it is always right, and if you are in the flesh and I’m in the flesh, then we both feel like we are right, but we are both wrong.”

    (2)  “When you love the things of God, it is only because you are teachable.”

    Amanda F

  • Your religion

    Hello sir.

    I recently met a woman and now she is a close friend.  She told me about her beliefs, and I was very confused at first, but then I became more intrigued.  She told me about her deeper connection with God and about you, I was just wanting to receive a better understanding of your religion.  I am not a Christian, but I do believe in God, I feel that I have a deep connection with God in my own way,  I pray every night and try to read the Bible as much as I can.  I have read a lot already about this, and it seems like I have the same way of thinking.  I would just like a better understanding.  Thank you for listening even though it was probably confusing.

    Justin C

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    Hi Justin.

    Thank you for writing.  I encourage you to continue to seek to know the Lord.  As long as we live, we will be learning from Him, if we stay humble.

    I am not a Christian either (by the grace of God), but I do serve Christ.  I have learned from the Lord Jesus to love the righteousness of God and to stay away from Church religion.  We are not rebels against anything or anybody; we just know that the religious system of Christianity is not of God, and that it never has been.  So, we stay away from it and live in the peace and joy of the Spirit, which pleases our heavenly Father because it honors His Son.
     
    Jesus suffered and died in order for us to have God’s kind of life.  If you continue to trust in Jesus, he will fill you with God’s life (the holy spirit) and make you a child of God, a member of the body of Christ (1Cor. 12:13).  Then, in the Final Judgment, if you “walk in the spirit” now, you will be judged worthy to live forever in perfect peace with God and His Son.  The gospel is just that simple.
     
    Let me know if you have any specific questions, and I will try to answer them.
     
    God bless,
    Pastor John

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