Americans are losing the desire to work in a local assembly of Worship
They are more interested in creature comforts from an idol of Mammon
Than working together as a church in a local place in worshipping God.
The local Church is not the building itself but the members Assembling
Inside It to Work for God as His Servants which Is Part Of Worshiping
Him In Spirit And In Truth Taught by Jesus Who Built The First Church.
A Sin of Loving Mammon More Than God Has Made Hearts Grow Cold
In assembling together to worship the treasure dwelling in the Heart
Antichrist Will Use Mark Of The Beast to Build An Old World Caliphate.
August 6, 2011
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John 4:23-26 – But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
[24] God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth. [25] The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. [26] Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
Luke 16:13 – No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Haggai 1:2-7 – Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built. [3] Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, [4] Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? [5] Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. [6] Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it in
to a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
After returning from Babylon captivity, where they were sent for failure to worship God according to his word, it had resulted in Solomon’s Temple being destroyed and the Spirit of God departing from it.
And his Spirit never again dwelt in the two temples built after they returned.
II Chronicles 7:1-3 – Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of
the Lord filled the house. [2] And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house. [3] And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the Lord upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
The Holy Spirit of God, that descended on the assembled Church Jesus built during his earthly ministry, has left many local churches which stopped worshipping him in Spirit and in truth down through the ages. Believers have a personal responsibility to determine which churches are still teaching God’s truth by studying the Word for themselves to make the determination.
The Israeli worshippers of God put their own mammon creature comforts ahead of working on and completing a temple to assemble and worship God. They had worked on, and put ceilings on their houses, but now they wanted a break, and lost interest in working for God. That is America’s problem today. They have put the god of Mammon before service in the house of the living God, which is the pillar and ground of the truth.
I Timothy 3:14,15 –These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: [15] But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
The first love of every member in a local Church should be worshiping God in the Spirit and truth the Head and Foundation of the Church, Jesus Christ, left us in his Word.
John 6:62,63 – What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? [63] It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Ephesians 2:22 – In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
If a Church stops teaching and practicing the words of truth Christ delivered, his Spirit will no longer accept it as one of his local churches.
Revelation 2:4,5 – Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. [5] Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.
The Reason our recession pockets have holes through which our mammon passes at high speed is because we have stopped assembling to worship God in Spirit and in truth. We have the same problem as the Israelites of Haggai’s day. We don’t put our money in bags today, but our money slides through our pockets as if there where huge holes in the bottoms.
Our Government accelerates printing money the holes in our pockets just keep getting larger.
We carry a wheelbarrow of money to the grocery store to buy a measure of wheat.
A penny when Revelation was written represented one day’s labor for common labor.
Our government balances are becoming more and more unbalanced. It takes the weight of a wheelbarrow of cash on one side to balance the weight of a big handful of wheat to make bread. Famine is growing in underdeveloped countries of the old world. Antichrist will use famine to bond the old world Islamic clay and iron toes of Daniel 2 together for war, and then to establish his old world caliphate by mark of the beast food rationing.
Matthew 20:2 – And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Revelation 6:5,6 – And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see.
And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Haggai 1:6,7 – Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. [7] Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
IT IS TIME FOR THIS AGE TO END – CONSIDER YOUR CHURCH WAYS!