CLUBHOUSE OR FATHER’S HOUSE?
I cannot understand the whole world of misconception and dilution of the understanding of allegiance in the Kingdom of God. Membership so called they created is it biblical or just mere action to governance the tradition of flesh without knowing that they the one who vested the interest to guard the sacristy of God law had corrupt it instead.
It is why when Jesus Christ those days two thousand years ago went to the temple of Pharisee those day saw many of those merchandise that being displayed at the corner and the floor of the temple of the Holy Place that drive Jesus to react in the wrath of God to detest such and abominable act of sinful men tainted the Father ‘s house.
16And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house a house of merchandise.17And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
John 2:16-17 (King James Version)
Truly indeed how do Jesus Christ felt when he enter the gate of shock to find that the Father House supposed to be a place of worship and prayer but was instead transformed to a place of merchandise. A place of orientation of commercial gain in flesh to satisfy the iniquity of men rather than a sanctuary of worship and communion with the Maker. A church or a father’s house supposed to be open sanctuary to worship but nowadays this present generation it was turn, evolve and portrait as a place of social gathering and interaction. This is tantamount to substitute of the clubhouse or a membership club. What our church trying to emulate? The way of the world and placing it value in justification to God holy place or should I said it as vice versa towards the activity of what the unbeliever favors?
Think about it? Is church a place of redemption and sanctuary from God or a place for interaction and commercial value in application, meeting to solicit for business activity, rather a place of social place to ease our boredom in our home? Or a place to bring out our quietness and loneliness to whisper, gossip and find acceptance? Is it a place where spiritual activity being pronounced or is it a place of valued similar with unbeliever for the intended children and adult activity and meeting purpose for social and commercial venture. The house of prayer that Jesus Christ lauded has become a place of division in membership. The church has full membership, associate membership and junior membership and the list goes on and on. Don’t they find what his disciples remembered that it was written those days, “The zeal of thine house has eaten me up…”
6Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel. 7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face. 8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children. 9For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
Psalm 69:6-9 (King James Version)
Indeed, the brother and sister mother and father that I have worship together and experience relationship together in the Father’s house have become a stranger and alien to me because of this “membership values”. The captivity of the flesh has torn away the spiritual essence, family nucleus activity and corrupts God’s worship place as a sanity and open gate to worldly affairs. Children of God have now being view and taint as merchandise and comodity prevented from going into Father’s house for the sake of “conviction of membership”. What a dread to those saints and heir to God’s inheritance which can overcome dead but unable to overcome the membership value of those in tradition of men? Woe unto those tradition of men for they have robbed of the relationship in both amongst men and “God’s liberty and freedom” to those who is faithfully serving the Lord Kingdom and vested their relationship and being dis-associated to come to Father’s house. Isn’t the church is a Father’s house or a Pharisee’s house?
The decision is for us as Jesus Christ loyalist to stand up and defend the corruption of this world from slipping it into the house of the father and make it as a den of thief. Creping in slowly and began to steal the peace, joy, happiness and closeness relationship of the assembly of God in communion. In witness amongst us as a saints and God himself as the Father in Heaven.
For the tradition of men by the order of the flesh to satisfy it own intended value but the laws of God is adverse again the worldly flesh affair and tradition of men. Apart from that the value of different membership thus has create adverse condition against the biblical truth of viewing us as the children of God same in the kingdom of God in measuring to our faith.
13For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:13-14 (King James Version)
The question why are we being baptized into one body, there is still division of membership? For a start, a member or not a member? Why there are categories of membership? Full member, associate member or junior member? Is there a different category of Spirit level to have different type of membership hierarchy? I believe the bible above does specify that we be all made to drink and acquaint into a single membership and one Spirit in Jesus Christ body?
9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. 10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. 13Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?
1 Corinthians 1:9-13 (King James Version)
Similarly, it is the same things that the present generation of churches is addressing, which church you are from? This pastor is good? That pastor is marvelous? That one is better preacher? And so on forth. Have you being baptized in the name of that preacher? No there is never such a mockery of God Kingdom vesting the universal membership vis to vis towards local body membership. There is only one Body and Spirit of universal and local body of Jesus Christ. Therefore the witness of God through that participant of God Kingdom is much more greater than the witness in the traditional of men. Therefore the membership within the temple of our Holy Spirit redemption and conviction is much more greater that those that have been acceptance by traditional of membership body. For it the world traditional church membership is accepted into God Kingdom rather than acceptance of the witnesses of God in Trinity. Then we have made God a liar through our ignition and evoking of church membership for the indirect and contention purpose of division. Therefore our record in us is bias and of worldly influences.
9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
1 John 5:9-10 (King James Version)
