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HOW TO BECOME A HOUSE OF GOD (THE CHURCH) ?
It is the 168th message.
All those who are veritably thirsty and who want to save their souls should no longer live in the seduction. If the Lord Jesus lives or dwells in us like the Eternal dwells in him, therefore we constitute a house (church) of God. For, the Eternal God lives in the Son in order to reconcile the people with him. God is therefore in his house which is Jesus Christ, the Church, and if Jesus Christ is in us, we then become a veritable house of God.
To become a house of God (the Church), you must die in the fleshly life, thought and feeling in order to have the thought and the feeling of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5/15; Colossians 3/3). The Lord Jesus Christ says: “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me?...” (John 14/10). If we are in the Son and that the Son dwells in us, we become a house of God as it is said: “but Christ is faithful over God’s house as Son. And we are his house…” (Hebrews 3/6).
Jesus Christ is the only and unique gospel which was to be taught in all the places or houses of prayer; what makes that we were to have the same teaching (life, thought, feeling) in all the churches because there would be one and only one person teaching. It is even said: “For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends” (2 Corinthians 10/18). But how many are those who have been commended by the Lord to preach his life? And how many are those who are not commended by the Lord? For there are even some people who have been commended by Christ to do his work, but these ones have rather preferred the glory and money to the Lord Jesus Christ, which means they have prostrated in front vanities (the devil).
Up to today, the world confuses the assembly (the church) of men to that of God. For the men think that to be assembled somewhere without Jesus Christ preached and lived is to be in the assembly of God. Do they know God? They ignore that the teaching on the gospel that they receive in these places of prayer will never permit them to be in the Church of God. That is why for them, instead of recognising the Church of God through the life, they rather recognise it through the building or the appellation. That is then what raises the challenge, jealousy, ingratitude among the people in these houses of prayer. In these churches, you will see or listen to the blinds glorifying themselves to be the founder of their church. But they do not know that the Church of God (house of God) is founded in the preaching of the unique gospel which must be received and practiced. For all the assemblies of God are taught by the same Spirit known as Jesus Christ. That is why it is said: “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6/63).
Today, all these men of customs, the flatters and seducers in these assemblies of men do not want that the man of truth should come nearer to the place where they receive money and the glory for fear of losing their gain. They proclaim themselves to be founders of the church; but of which church, the church of God or that of man? Do they not know that Jesus Christ is the head and the body of the church and that he is the chief of the church? (Colossians 1/18; Colossians 1/24). For, it is the chief who gives the order and we do everything according to his will. But these appellations or places of prayer are only enterprises where the chief (the manager or founder) dictates what has to be done. Sometimes, if it is not the manager who does it, it is his wife who gives orders. Meanwhile Jesus Christ is the supreme chief of the Church which is his body; therefore, everything is done according to his will (Ephesians 1/22-23).
The world is full of seducers and the men of customs who always say that they have God. Meanwhile all their teaching rest on persuasive words of man’s language. Therefore, how can there be the deliverance when we know that this one (the deliverance) is not only found in the demonstration of the Spirit of Christ, but also in the attachment to the life of this Spirit (the Spirit of the Lord)? That is why he who attaches himself to this life has the same spirit with the Lord, and the Lord is Spirit, and where his Spirit is, there is freedom (1 Corinthians 6/17; 2 Corinthians 3/17). We are edified in Jesus Christ to become a dwelling place for God in Spirit (Ephesians 2/22). And it is said: “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it” (1 Corinthians 12/27).
If all the churches of the world were of Christ, how would there be war, mockeries and the challenge? How in the same body the ears do not love the hands and the legs do not love the mouth? But understand that it is the spirit of the eternal torment (the spirit of division) which is lived in these churches and not the Spirit of the kingdom of heaven. It is said: “so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another” (Romans 12/5). It is equally said: “For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Ephesians 4/12).
For apostle Paul knew that the deliverance, the resurrection and the eternal life neither comes from the prayers nor the imposition of hands or the gospel of the men, but from the gospel of Jesus Christ in spirit and in truth. That is why he says: “Let the one who is taught the word share all good things with one who teaches” (Galatians 6/6). Only the Lord Jesus Christ remains the Chief of the Church (house of God) for the eternity.
CHAMPI Apostle not behalf of man, nor by a man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father. God’s power is the knowledge. To know, avoid sin and to be free from the eternal death. (John 8/32)