Pastor John

I received the following email from a man I contacted a while ago.  He feels and sees many right things but other of his writings I receive show him to be harsh at times due to ignorance I believe.  Retaining that first love while telling the truth is a problem for many of the people I have found who see the things this man writes about.  He often talks about people being Christian but not having a relationship with Jesus but he does not understand that that is very often the case because the people do not have the Spirit. There is a problem with government too, which shows in this list here and there but there is a lot that is right here.

God, help your people!

Damien

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Thanks, Damien.

You are right.  This friend does see some important truth.  I really enjoyed reading through this.  May God continue to lead this man into all truth by the Spirit, just as Jesus promised he would do, and just as he is doing for us.

Pastor John

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The gospel of “church” is directly opposed to Jesus Christ.  The church is Antichrist in it’s total being diverting believers into submission to itself and guides them onto the broad way to destruction. Church requires a covenant relationship with itself rather than with Jesus Christ.

These are but a few of the differences between the gospel of church and the gospel of Christ:

Come to church – Come to Jesus
Obey the leadership – Obey Christ
Build the church – Build the kingdom of God
Study the scriptures – Be guided by the Holy Spirit
Believe in the Bible – Believe in Jesus
Trust the scriptures and your own understanding – Trust in Jesus with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding
Have fellowship with church members – Have fellowship with Jesus
Be tolerant to sin – Be holy
Serve the church – Serve Jesus Christ
Love the church members – Love all men especially the followers of Christ
Be friends with everybody – Friendship with the world is enmity with God
Love the world – Love not the world or the things of the world
We are all sinners – He who sins is a slave of sin
Everybody will be saved – Strive hard to enter the straight gate, few will find it.
Only believe to be saved – Not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but He who does the will of My Father.
God will make you prosperous – Do not gather for yourself treasures on earth
God understands your weakness – If your eye makes you stumble pluck it out. It is better for you to go through life maimed than to end up in hell.
Don’t fear God, God is love – Fear Him, who after He has killed has power to cast into hell.
Come sit in the pews –  Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you;
This is why the Kingdom of God is suffering. The church has deceived the believers into paralysis and unfruitfulness.
The gospel of Jesus Christ leads us into an intimate relationship with Jesus under the guidance of the Holy Spirit every moment of our lives. We cannot serve two masters, we will love the one and hate the other. Come out from church and her deceptions. Obey Christ and be part of His body, the true church.

Jesus bless you
jan

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Hi Pastor John,

I couldn’t help but send this to you.  It’s one of those “what in the world can they be thinking” statements.  I found it on a pentecostal website, TRYING to teach about salvation.  It was two different statements on their same site.
 
“The act of being baptized washes away all your sins making your soul spotless. But baptism isn’t just being sprinkled with water, it is the full immersion of a person underwater.”  AND, then… “When a person receives the Holy Ghost, God literally comes and lives in that person. This is an important step of salvation, and without it a person is not truly saved.  To be filled with the Holy Ghost a person must have asked Jesus for forgiveness(and some people must be baptized) then they must ask Jesus for the Holy Ghost.”
 
Do you read what I am reading?  Crazy confusion!  You know, they may be just trying to fit in a desperate answer of someone getting the holy Ghost before their water baptism (washes their sins).  They just can’t explain it!  Makes you feel so bad for them, because we know the simple answer to their confusion.

Melissa

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Hi Melissa.

Solomon said something to the effect that with much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases in knowledge increases in sorrow.  What we feel when we read such nonsense is the increased sorrow for God’s people that comes with understanding.  May God help them, just as He has graciously helped us.

Pastor John

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You are so right.  It’s hard sometimes.  So many times all you can do is cry, when thinking about it.  I know I do.  I can begin thinking about it all, and the Spirit just takes over and I cry.  It’s really not me crying though, its just floods of tears in the Spirit.

Melissa

Pastor John

What a wonderful weekend!  How good God has been to us!  Fellowship in light and truth, wonderful music that touched the heart.  There is so much to be thankful for.  We are truly in a land running with milk and honey!  We don’t want to forget God who has been so good to us.

I was just standing behind my seat before we started on Saturday night and there was such a sweet feeling in the room and as I stood there enjoying it those feelings just became stronger.  Wonderful!  I really enjoyed going through Colossians the way you did.  One thing that really struck me was how you brought out that false teachers would say much of what Paul would say.  I guess at times false teachers have worked by directly taking away from the truth but most of the time I think they did it by adding to the truth, and in that way eventually everything good and true was lost.  Addition [to God’s word] brings about a complete subtraction!

I got to wondering how those false teachers got past Paul as they mislead those children of God into ignoring his teaching.  One thought I had was maybe they used Paul’s own example of withstanding Peter at Antioch.  That could be twisted into an excuse or precedent for correcting Paul (though they didn’t do it to his face.)  However they did it, it was evil, and here we are 1900 years later being blessed among the mess that God’s people are in.

At 3 to 4 am Saturday morning I woke up and started praying.  I found myself praying for God’s people just as we did that night.  When we were praying, it was hard for me to know what my feelings were.  Sadness, sorrow.  Was there a desperation or a helplessness about ourselves for God’s people in our prayer?  I don’t have words, but it was a strong feeling that reached down into me.  Unless God does something we cannot help them yet.  The food we ate and enjoyed so much this weekend would kill so many of God’s poor children.  It’s like a man I knew when I was young who was a prisoner at Changi in Singapore during WWII.  Even 25 years later he had to eat several small meals each day.  He couldn’t take any more than that as his system was so damaged.  God’s people have been treated just like that.

Damien

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Thanks, Damien,

When I think about Paul living among those people, in Ephesus, Corinth, etc., sometimes for over a year at a time, and yet, later, they were still deceived and led away into a false way, I marvel that we still are rejoicing in the truth.  May God continue to have mercy on us, so that we can continue to do this good work for His precious people.

Pastor John

Pastor John

I just wanted to thank you for the Revelation classes.  I’ve never heard anyone teach the word of God like you.  It was funny this morning I was looking over the papers and I was reading about the third seal.  I was so excited because I read it and could not understand it.  I thought, “Oh good!  Now I’m gonna find out what this means.”  When you read it and said, “Now what does this mean? …. I don’t know!”, I had to laugh!
 
I’ve been enjoying listening to you preach on love and keeping our first love.  The Lord has been bringing to my remembrance things that I was feeling after first receiving the Holy Ghost.  I can’t explain what comfort it is to know that it still holds true.  That the love that drew me has kept me all these years.  Even when my eyes were not on Him, He was still with me and watching over me.  What a dear Saviour!

I thought about what you said this morning, that everything we are, more than dirt, is a gift from the Lord.  How true!  That has stuck with me all day.  I pray that I keep that with me and that the rest of my days, He will help me to serve Him with humility, honesty, and with His love abiding in my heart.  I pray that He will help me to not only be a worthy servant, but that I can be a good sister to my brothers and sisters in Christ.

I’m thankful once again that He put you in my path, that I may hear the truth and take it one day at a time.

God Bless,
Michelle

Pastor John

It is good to remember what Jesus has done for us, by showing us the Father’s truth.  I had many different thoughts from Jesus while visiting Brother Benny Hinn in Nashville that reminded me of how thankful I should be.  Being among God’s people that are still under bondage in Christianity let me know that we can get so comfortable after being in the safety of the truth for years and forget what it is like inside that prison that is dividing God’s people.  Jesus said two things to me.  “Never forget my children who are in bondage”, and “Never forget that you are not in bondage.”  That gave me so much more desire to remember that Jesus did not bring me out of Christianity and place me in the truth for me.  He did it for the ones that are still there.  Oh God help us help your people!

Terrance and Mary

http://pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/prisoners-to-freedom.html

Hey John,

In response to your new blog, “Prisoners to Freedom”. . . .

I believe that is why we were born with a free will.  When I think about that, it isn’t because HE wants us to go awry but allows us the choice to do what is in our heart and mind.  HIS [preference for us] is to allow us to live life more abundantly in HIM.  So, each day we must choose whom we’ll serve.

I want to say I am so very thankful that the Master has thus far given me the heart and mind that wants to do right in HIM, even though at times I feel totally confused as to how.  Many days, I feel as if I will never belong anywhere with anyone.  In those times, I feel HIS love for me and that allows me to know it isn’t over between Jesus and me.  I remember a dream I had several years ago, and I was in deep water and I was sure I wouldn’t make it to the place where I could be rescued, but I did and was saved.  I have been trying very hard to see my worth in the Master’s eyes.  If I have a request, it is to be in your prayers and, foremost, that Jesus will allow me to see what needs to be done in me.
Very good blog.

Marcella

hi pastor john, I believe i heard god speak to me lastnight while i was reading scripture. I know when we recieve the holyghost,that we enter into the rest.or the sabbath  so to speak, there is alot of  debate over sabbath days.i believe what you teach and  i believe god comfirmed it lastnight.  have you ever just been reading in your bible and out of nowhere,god ask you a question,and as you hear the question it was like you got complete total understanding,just from being asked a question.lastnight i was reading in colossians ch2 when i got to verse 16,it was like i heard god himself ask me this question.(rob when everyone is in heaven what day is the sabbth)my insides quivered just thinking about this.  I mean emediatly my mind flooded so fast with thought about heaven like (no sun, no moon, no cycle of days,children of the day,glory will be so brite no need for the sun,will on earth as in heaven,ect…) instantly i new with out a doubt being in his presence is the sabbath,on earth as it is in heaven. this all happened in what you would call nano seconds.just wanted to share it with you,i was so excited about it.    thanks   r

Hey – I wanted to share a poem the Lord gave me tonight during the meeting.  I was feeling that there were some who wanted to feel the joy and peace and liberty that others were feeling.  After putting some of that into expression 😎 , I was standing there and I started to hear these words “I wanna”.  I said them out loud over and over and again.  It sounded kind of funny, but I just couldn’t help it.  I was overwhelmed with someone’s prayer.  It sounded and felt like a little child saying “I wanna do that” in a childlike nature, very sweet.  I, then could hear Jesus answer back and say, “I wanna too!”.  So, I sat down tonight and started to write down what I heard and here is what came out!

“I wanna”

I wanna be happy
 and sing and dance too.
I wanna be free
 and be just like you!

Help me do it Jesus
 Help me loose this fear.
Help me learn to trust you
 and keep you oh so near.

I love to see your blessings
 on others as they shine
But help me dearest Jesus
 know when it’s time for mine.
            
Give me strength and wisdom
 to be willing to obey
All your humble pleas
 as they come to me and say….

I wanna love you too
 be willing for my touch
I wanna give you everything
 I wanna very much

When you hear me calling
 and feel me tugging at your heart
It’s me that’s trying to help you
 that’s the first place you must start.

Don’t be afraid to trust me
 I’m here to see you through
Don’t look past your feelings
 Mine are enough for you.

Come on and live forever
 that’s my offer kind and true
I wanna give you everything
 I wanna . . . . ‘cause I love you!