In the Church of my youth I always felt the
Spirit and joy in worship and fellowship, which was good and God did not
condemn us for that. All denominations have a piece of the Lord; they just
reject one another's piece. That is what makes them a denomination or sect
or division; all of which Galatians calls a work of the flesh. But the
doctrine of my Church was leavened just as in all Churches that don't teach
and act on the pure Word. As it was with me then, you will need to outgrow
all that to be birthed to the next level. This is the way to the Bride.
She sits on the highest level of heavenly Jerusalem and includes the
man-child in her body. Those who don’t outgrow sects to be "one" with the
holy elect, as the Shulamite (Hebrew: perfect) Bride was called in
Song of Solomon, will never be in the Bride and instead will be relegated to
the queens, concubines and virgins.
{Sol. 6:8} There are threescore queens, and
fourscore concubines, And virgins without number. {9} My dove, my undefiled,
is [but] one; She is the only one of her
mother; She is the choice one of her that
bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; [Yea], the queens
and the concubines, and they praised her.
The Bride will be taken into the house of
the King on spiritual Mt. Zion. The queens, concubines and virgins will cry
to look again at that which was pleasing to the Lord, which before they had
not fully desired to be. {6:13} Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return,
that we may look upon thee. Why will ye look upon the Shulammite, As upon
the dance of Mahanaim?
The thing that causes us to outgrow the
immature churches is a respect for the Word above all else, including the
idolatry that Christians have with these false institutions. The Word has
to be respected above even dreams and visions which the religious spirits
are well able to perform with God's permission so that we may be tried.
Our protection from this deception is
always a love for truth and hatred for leaven of lies.
{2 Thes. 2:9} [even he], whose coming is
according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders, {10} and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might
be saved. {11} And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error,
that they should believe a lie: {12} that they all might be judged
who believed not the truth, but
had pleasure in unrighteousness.
The constant feeding on lies and false
spirits must be departed from before the seven years or one will miss the
bride who is chosen before the seven day/year marriage feast.
{Ex.12:15} Seven days shall ye eat
unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your
houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul
shall be cut off from
Israel.
When there is idolatry with the
institutions of men, which holds fellowship and submission to them higher
than fellowship and submission to the Word and the more righteous, we open
ourselves up to deception that comes from the Lord himself. The
denominations of Israel were deceived in this way and the Church has
followed the pattern.
{Eze.14:1} Then came certain of the elders
of Israel unto me, and sat before me. {2} And the word of Jehovah came unto
me, saying, {3} Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their
heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face:
should I be inquired of at all by them? {4} Therefore speak unto them, and
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of
Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will
answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols; {5} that I
may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are
all estranged from me through their idols.
{6} Therefore say unto the house of Israel,
Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your
idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations. {7} For
every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in
Israel, that separateth himself from me, and taketh his idols into his
heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face,
and cometh to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Jehovah will
answer him by myself: {8} and I will set my face against that man,
and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will
cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am
Jehovah. {9} And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah,
have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and
will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
With the scriptures above I only scratch
the surface of the problem but I have great hopes for you to outgrow
religion and "follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth."
God bless you dear friend. I will leave
you to your decision and pray for you. I hope you will be in the Bride.
Love from your servant in Christ,
David
