Morning!  I am feasting on what we proofread last night in the Father and Son book from the section “God’s Righteousness: No Rites and Rules.”  Here is what it says:

There are no rites or rules in heaven, and there never have been any.  God’s nature governs everything in His presence…

Shew!  That really hit me like it never has.  “There are no rites or rules in heaven [now] and there never have been [ever].  God’s nature governs everything!”  After we read that last night, the question then was, “What nature are you being governed by?”  The flesh is against everything that is in us from Jesus ––everything –– and the only way to be free from the flesh is for God’s nature to govern us.  If we have that nature in us and let it rule in our hearts, we can overcome the world! – really!  It’s not “rites and rules” that give us God’s nature but the love of God for us through His nature that rites and rules would obstruct.  There are no rites and rules in heaven, and there never have been.  I cannot stop thinking about this!  It is filling up my heart.  There was something in it that was quite liberating.

Me smiling…..

Amy B.

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John, I just completed reading your meeting notes 1&2 from the old meetings.  Wow.  I’m trying to describe how it made me feel.  Even though it was written on paper/email, there is a “sound” with this kind of truth.

When I hear a minister speak who has been influenced by the spirit of Christianity, there is a sound I can hear right away.  There’s something that comes with it the repels my Holy Ghost, and I have to turn it off before long.

When reading these notes and the pearls of wisdom in it, there’s also a sound that comes to the Spirit.  It’s the comforting and even challenging voice of my shepherd.  It cuts through.  I’ve been blessed many times to hear it from these old CDs, and over the years and even up until now, in the meetings and writings from you.  It’s such a blessing. I feel so touched when I hear this “sound”, and it really perked me up to read this and hear that.  Thanks for sending.

Gary

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I wish everybody on earth felt the truth that is in this simple message from long ago.  It is found at www.pioneertract.com, beneath the heading: HTML5 Audio MP3 Stream for Newer Browser.

Pastor John

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Good morning, John,

Thank you for sending these notes out.  That must’ve been a wonderful time in that little room with the power of God falling and revealing truthful things about Himself.  I feel it right now, all over me!  So thankful that when Jesus came knocking at my door, I let him in!

Thank you for all your hard work over the years to bring this truth into our hearts.  It’s priceless!!!

Jim K.

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This had to be one of the best meetings ever.  I wish I had been there and been in a condition to receive these things!  I was just a 19-year-old fool.

Whew.  God, we beg you to keep our lights burning!

Pastor John

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THIS was the most profound paragraph for me.  

I just LOVE it! . . .

“There’s not a thing that you believe that you can prove. You can only prove what you know.  There’s not anything that you believe that you know to be the truth.  You don’t believe anything that you know.  John said, ‘I write unto you, little children who

believe so that you may know.’  It’s the happy privilege of every child of God to know the things of God.”

I seem to recall a story where a man asked Uncle Joe if he believed in God and he replied, “No.  I used to believe, but now I KNOW there’s a God.”

It breaks my heart how many well-meaning souls are stuck in Xty …believing rather than receiving the blessing that would confirm their belief, therefore , never really knowing that God’s power is real.  

Ohhh how blessed we are to have had Preacher Clark’s anointed teaching–and yours, John!

Brad

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John,

I would like to make an additional comment about the meeting notes.  One thing that struck me is the story of your father meeting an old man who said he belonged to the Methodist Church.  It was too far for him to attend so he went to the Pentecostal Holiness Church instead, “since they quit hollering and hooping and chattering….”

God help us! That is a very sad story, but could become a reality with us if we don’t follow the Spirit. I am grateful for your father and those old saints who held on to the truth and passed it on to us. 

Thanks again for making these meeting notes available to us.

Tom 

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Pastor John,

What I came to appreciate by listening to the old meeting notes was just how much I heard old saints say, in some cases verbatim, what we say in our meetings to edify each other. Or perhaps I should say, I was encouraged to hear that we still remind each other and encourage each other in the same truth. I’m thankful that the truth is the same today as it was in Paul’s day and while Preacher Clark was preaching. I’m thankful that you and others like Brother Earl have held on to it and pass it on to us. I feel someone off the street could walk out of Preacher Clark’s meeting and into ours and know that we are one. 

Michael

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John, I love this!!  It is that simple.  What I love about it is that it is what God put in us, and to deny it, I would have to deny who I am.  In turn, I would be denying who he is. 

Stuart 

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Thank you John! These are so good!  I felt sad when I reached the end of Part 1, but I was happy that there was a Part 2 coming soon!  I feel such a close connection to those folks at Grandma’s house.  They are my ancestors, just as surely as Abraham, Moses, and David are!

Billy H.

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Hi, John.

In re-reading the opening paragraph of Wednesday night’s reading (7/3/2024), the phrase stating that Satan was “a stern and obedient servant” of God made me think of Paul (Saul) before his conversion on the road to Damascus.

Saul was a son of the Accuser during his persecution of followers of Jesus.  He obediently followed the orders of the priests and Pharisees who “believed themselves to be acting on God’s behalf.”

As you pointed out, “When tares occupy positions of authority over God’s people, they often reflect the merciless spirit of Satan.”  Young Paul was like that.  He also believed that God would not treat him the way he treated followers of Jesus.

As you point out in your new paragraph, a new birth is required to change.  The new birth is required to even have a chance to not be a tare.

Allison 

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By the time I got to page 10 in our reading from last week, I found myself praying for Jesus to totally convince me of the worthlessness of my flesh every day, like in the dream I had years ago.  I felt like only then I would know what to pray for, to be able to pray asking in his name.

Jimmy T.

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Amen, Jimmy!  That portion of the Father and Son book is very sobering.  God help us take it in!  And there is more of the same to come.

Pastor John

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Good morning,

I am sitting here reading in Genesis and feeling overwhelmed with what I am feeling.

Jacob said to Joseph as he was dying, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked is the God who has been my shepherd since I was born until this day”. 

I had to stop and cry at the thought that I can say just like Jacob, “God has been my shepherd since I was born until this day.”  The very same God that loved Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Hannah, David, Hezekiah, Josiah, Daniel, etc, and took such complete care of them through their good and hard times, is the same God that loves me!  He hasn’t changed. 

When I look up at the stars and talk to Jesus, I imagine when Abraham was doing the same.  He stood under the exact same stars and talked to my exact same Father.  But here’s the thing.  When faithful Abraham (whom God called His friend), was standing there having a wonderful conversation with his Father, he had no idea that his Father was hiding His dear Son and that Abraham would later “rejoice to see His day.”  (Whew!  I am rejoicing right now!)

When God told Abraham that night under the stars that his seed would be more than the number of stars in the sky, Genesis 15:6 says “Abraham believed Jehovah, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness.”  Abraham was as righteous as humanly possible, but he, just like everyone else, needed the kind of righteousness that only his Father’s dear Son could bring.  I’ve heard you say it so many times, “Everything depended on Jesus!”

So, here we are!  I can stand under those same stars and talk to my Father, but His dear Son is no longer hidden.  When I look up and think about being one of those stars, as I often do, I know who made that possible for me!  We don’t just get a taste of New Testament mercy, we are living under that New Testament mercy.  Mercy is dwelling inside of us, helping us, teaching us, loving us.  Can we even take that in? 

I am sacrificing my thankful heart to Jesus this morning!  So thankful to have this testimony, and most of all, to have someone I can tell it to!  Now, if I just had somebody I could hug right now!!:)

Lee Ann

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