The Ministry of the Word of God That Leads to Real Maturity
Intellectualism has always created a major hinderance in the growth of God’s people in spiritual understanding. It is futile to use the mind to understand scripture. Efforts arising out of intellectualism lead to the pursuit of knowing God devoid of the Hold Spirit. This effort created the practice of religion in the church. Today, as all sorts of ideas about God formed through the intellectual pursuit of God pour in, significantly impure ideas have been allowed to mix in severely distort man’s understanding of God.
Paul constantly had to warn the churches about the perils of intellectualism as it relates to one’s spiritual growth in God. Isn’t is interesting that this was exactly the same situation that caused the Jews to miss the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
The process of maturing of true disciples in the early church was centered around building a culture. This culture focused on fellowship with God, not with one another. This concept is almost completely alien in the modern church of Western Christianity.
A churchianity culture has been developed that fails to recognize that the Word says that we must receive the baptism of the Spirit before we can become an active part of the church. Until that happens, one is under observation and cannot be entrusted with the work of the ministry of the Lord. There is nothing scriptural about a “Seeker Friendly” church.
Our conformity to the culture of God’s household is not optional. When we decide to enter into the culture of God’s household, his church, we are not at liberty to bring in our own culture. It is God’s expectation that we willfully dispose of our old culture and the norms and ideals associated with it and learn of and practice his family culture. Immanuel Sun expounds on these truths in today’s meeting.
Foundational Teachings Meeting – April 29, 2018
Kingdom Age
www.kingdomage.org
Port Angeles, WA
Olympic Peninsula
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Visions Seen in this Meeting
Ben: Sees a person pushing against a rubber band.
Nicole: Sees two visions: 1. A highway lined with pine trees traveled upon by a station wagon with the Pinson family traveling in it and driven by Tim. 2. Also saw a lion’s face with its mouth open. Creation knew that it was supposed to enter the lion’s mouth.
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