January 2020

My dear friend,

Recently, many professing Christians argued on Facebook that the church is not God’s house!

Since when has the church stopped being God’s house?

I guess when modern Christians started declaring Christianity is not a religion, then they started declaring the church is not God’s house.

So, if the church is not a religious institution (because Christianity is not a religion), then why is it tax exempt?

And why do ministers demand we pay tithes? They bully us by threatening us that if we don’t pay tithes, offerings, special offerings, and other church taxes, then we are robbing God.

If the church is not God’s house, then what is it?

It’s the synagogue of Satan.

It is the mission of the devil’s disciples to create doubt and confusion about Scripture. Like Satan, they quote Scripture and pervert its true meaning to justify irreverence and other rebellion against God and His Word.

For example, when I argued on Facebook that we must show reverence in God’s house by wearing proper clothes (in the good old days, we called it our Sunday best), here is one rebellious response…

When my children come to visit me, I want them to be comfortable. God the Father wants us to be comfortable when we come to church.

What a blasphemous response!

This man is not God – and his children are not coming to worship him!

And the same man wrote…

There is no such thing as God’s house. He dwells in a house not built with stones. 1 Peter 2:5.

Doesn’t this sound like Satan’s diabolical dialogue with Eve in the Garden of Eden? Satan was the first theologian because his mission was to create doubt and confusion about God’s Word.

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of the tree of every tree of the garden? Genesis 3:1

This man, like Satan, is trying to create doubt and confusion about God’s house. And that is the mission of the devil’s disciples – theologians and other false Christians; they create doubt and confusion about God's commands.

The Bible warns us not to argue with theologians and other heretics. So, I replied…

“But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.” 2 Tim. 2:16 True born-again Spirit-filled Christians know the Truth about reverence in God’s house.

No, I was not going to waste my time dialoging with the devil’s disciples.

Of course, getting those of the Old Church Order to engage in dialogue is one of the devil’s strategies to bully us into submission to the New Church Order. They try to engage us in dialogue, dialectics, theology, and other devilish tactics to try to beat us down emotionally, intellectually, mentally, and spiritually. They try to make us feel alienated. Their devilish mission is to get us to submit to the New Church Order or to drive us out of the church.

But they are not going to bully me!

And they are not going to bully me into saying the church is not God's house!

And they are not going to bully me into dressing irreverently to worship in God's house!

Yes...

Years ago, Christians showed reverence for God's house by wearing our Sunday best...
 

Notice that Psalm 122:1 says, "Let us go into the house of the Lord."

Matthew Henry comments:

(1.) It is the will of God that we should worship him in concert, that many should join together to wait upon him in public ordinances. We ought to worship God in our own houses, but that is not enough; we must go into the house of the Lord, to pay our homage to him there, and not forsake the assembling of ourselves together. (2.) We should not only agree with one another, but excite and stir up one another, to go to worship God in public. Let us go; not, "Do you go and pray for us, and we will stay at home;’’ but, We will go also, Zec. 8:21 . Not, "Do you go before, and we will follow at our leisure;’’ or, "We will go first, and you shall come after us;’’ but, "Let us go together, for the honour of God and for our mutual edification and encouragement.’’ We ourselves are slow and backward, and others are so too, and therefore we should thus quicken and sharpen one another to that which is good, as iron sharpens iron.

Dear friend...

Today – both young and old – dress disrespectfully to attend church because they argue it's not God's house!