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IS JESUS IN THE HOUSE?

Pastor: John Neal

I Kings 8: 9-11; St. Mark 2:1

“Nothing was in the Ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.”

“And again He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house.”

Have you ever asked yourself, what is the reason for church? When we have church, we want to believe that Jesus is in the house. Too many times, He is not. If He is not, we are not having church we are only having a Social get together. If you want to make sure that Jesus is in the house, you had better take Him with you. Many churches go through their formal service, do all the usual things that we are programmed to do, but would we change anything if Jesus were to walk into the building? Is that not what we want to happen? Are churches so spiritual today that the glory of God, fires the house, so that they cannot minister for all of His glory. Do we allow the spirit of God to move in our services or our services so dull that he is muffled? Jesus lives in the mist of praises. Peter tells us in the book of Acts that the Holy Ghost came upon them with tongues and with fire but in this modern day of Christianity, the fire has been put out and the tongues have ceased. What has happened to the glory of God? How can God speak, if we keep him muzzled? How can churches have a Holy Ghost revival, if Jesus is left out of the house? If Jesus is there, so are the other tongues. They come as a set. They go together like Biscuits and butter or ham and eggs.

We are living in modern times now, the computer age, most people feel that we have outgrown these things, which we do not speak in other tongues as they did in Peter and Paul’s day, that was just for them. However, I have news for you, “Jesus said, I change not.” He is still the same today as he was in the days of Peter and Paul’s day. If Peter and Paul spoke in other tongues, then if Jesus is in the house you will speak in other tongues also. Is Jesus in the house? People are not taught or believe in speaking in other tongues, but that does not mean that they do not exist, if people get that feel good feeling when they are singing a song, that’s it, as for as they are concerned. However, Jesus is not in the house, unless that feel good feeling comes with other tongues as the spirit of God gives the utterance. People go to church every Sunday and would not miss, but the sad part is they leave Jesus out. I have heard many people tell me, they went to certain churches, but they did not feel anything. It was dry, it was dead, and that was because Jesus was left out of the house. Jesus does not dwell in a wooden frame building today, he dwell in a house not made by hands, if Jesus is in the house, he dwell inside of you. Therefore, the next time you go to church you will know that Jesus is in the house, because you bring him with you. Do not wait for your pastor, or someone else to light the pilot light, because the fire has gone out. Bring the fire with you.

Isa. 5:20 says:  "Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil, who put darkness for light, and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter."

   Now we know that every body is not going to be saved.  Everybody does not want to be saved.  Now they may not know it, but they are walking in darkness.  If we do not have Jesus in our lives, if we do not walk in the light of God's word, and worship him as the King of King's, and Lord of Lord's, if we do not live our lives for him each day, and thank him every morning, noon and night, for just giving us life, breathing air into our body.  If we do not set aside some times each day to pray, to read his word, to meditate on his mercy and his goodness.  Then we are walking in darkness for Jesus is the light of the world.  St. John 8:12  "Then spake Jesus again unto them saying, "I am the Light of the World.  He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."  We need to make a decision, do we call evil good, and good evil.  Do we call bitter sweet, and sweet bitter, or do we call it just like it is, sin is sin, whether it is in a pain of blue jeans or a three piece suit.  You could place "sin" in a box, and tie it with a beautiful ribbon, with a bow on top of it, but sin still lives in the box.  You might even camflody it as love, but unless it is as God ordained it in marriage, it still remains sin.  We are to walk in the light, as we come to the light, for sin lives in the darkness.  Things that are evil, unholy, and ungodly live in the darkness.  You may perfume it, bathe it, but it still stinks to the nostrils of God.  Psa. 119:105  "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path."  God's word show us where we are now standing with him, and a light shows us what steps to take next.  The world is living, and walking in darkness, but to them they say they are walking in the light, and you can't tell them any different.  They are as dead men walking, if they are not walking in Jesus, who is the "Light of the world."  What the world see's is artificial light, not the spiritual from God.   "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.  St. John 9:5  No one can hide their sins in the darkness, no matter how hard they try.

I Cor. 4:5  "Until the Lord come, who both will bring to light, the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsel of the heart."  God gives every man the right to choose, and I am sorry to say, most men choose sin, because they love the darkness.  In our home we feel safe, for there is light in our home.  Not the natural light, but the spiritual light, because we try to see to it that Jesus lives there with us and in us.  But once we go outside we step into a world of darkness, and the only light we have is the light we take with us inside, which is the Holy Ghost.  Satan is the Prince of this world, he is the Prince of darkness.  Isa. 59:9  "Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness over take us, we want for light, but behold obscurity, for brightness, but we walk in darkness."  Obscurity:  means, conceal, confuse, darken, gloomy, hard to make out.  We look outside, and we say it is daylight, the darkness of the night is over, but to some it is still dark.  Their minds are dark, they live in darkness, because their minds are evil, their desires are evil.  St. Matt. 6:23  "But if thine eye be evil, the whole body shall be full of darkness.  If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness."  Jesus was the Light of the world.  Even though he no longer walks the earth in human form, he walks it in his sons and daughters.  We are now the Light of the world.  So let your light shine that others may see Jesus Christ in us.  St. Matt. 5:16  "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorfy your father which is in heaven."  If we do not have Jesus, who is the light of the world, for our light comes from him, and if a person does not have Jesus in their lives, then how can they have any light.  Their light is only artificial light.  Artificial Christianity, or pretending to be the real light as the Pharesees.  The world cannot have the light, and leave Jesus out.    The Church world cannot have the light and leave Jesus out.  Everyone out there in the world that has Jesus Christ in their lives, let your light shine that some other soul may see the light and you may help them along life's way.  May God Bless.   

The Subject:                                                 There is a battle going on.

    In the book of James, we find he is talking to the church, not to the world.  The people of the world, he already has in the palm of his hands, if Satan already has you then there is no need for a fight.  He's happy, but it's God children he wants, so there is a battle going on. There are two kinds of battles.  There is the natural battle like they are having over in Israel and there is the spiritual battles we go through.  We could say we are in a war zone.  If we resist Satan we are in a battle and if we submit ourselves to God there is a battle going on.  For as soon as we resist Satan, war has been declared.   If we submit ourselves to  Jesus war has been declared.    James tells us here in the 4th chapter of the book of James to submit ourselves to Jesus, and resist Satan.  So war is inevitable, and the Battle has begun.   From the way the world is going it seems like most people would rather resist Jesus, and submit themselves to Satan.  That way they would not have to have all the war fare that goes on in our everyday life. But think about it....What would we have instead ?   Spiritual Death.   Do people find it easier to submit to Satan than to Jesus?   Yes, I know, I used that name. In this warfare we are going through we have to make decisions everyday, which, sometimes we don't like to make.  It's so much easier to give in, and give up, than to fight. Paul said, " the good fight of faith."   I wonder sometimes if we ever stop in our busy life style to think on these two words, Submit and resist?  I think sometimes we just read over them on our way to something else more interesting.  The Def. of submit is: Surrender, compel, Give in, yield.  The Def. for Resist is: Resist, fight, oppose, withstand, hold off, and stand up against. It seem sometimes that people are doing just the oppose.  They seem to be submitting to Satan and resisting God.  There is an old gospel song titled: " I surrender all "   But do we ?  and if so, then to whom do we surrender?  The Def. for all is: Total, entire, everything, complete. In other words nothing else left to surrender.  Not just what we want to give up, but give it all over to Jesus.  All means All.  I think that most people think we are saved, that we are alright. No need to worry, we have it made.  But our souls cry out, I haven't made it yet.  I'm still in need. The Apostle Paul, one of the greatest apostles said, "I haven't it yet." In reality, do we surrender all?  Or are we too much an adult to humble ourselves before God?  Are we too rich, too well educated, too worldly, to place our trust in a God whom we cannot see or touch.  Do we think we are too smart to fall for a line like that?  Is the "Christian", or Being, "Spiritual," a state or condition of the mind of man, or a state or condition of the soul of man?  Which one guides our very existence?   How many people do you know that would own up-to submitting themselves to the devil, and resisting Jesus?  Not many if any.  When a person kills another human being they are killing one of God's creation.  Tell me then who are they submitting to, Jesus or Satan?  Those same people who say that they would never serve the devil, are doing so by doing his will. Do we really submit ourselves to Jesus, totally and completely?  Do we believe that something is too small for Jesus to know about, or too large to perform?  Many say " I want Jesus will to be done in my life."  But, yet they still refuse to let his will be done in their lives.  Do we really yield to him?  Do we surrender to his will, or " our will be done?"  Do we really resist Satan?  The Bible tells us to resist Satan, but how hard, how often, do we oppose him, stand up to him, fight him, or do we wilt like a flower in a drought.  Maybe we are afraid of making him mad.  The only thing worse than a mad devil is a mad God, which one are we trying to please?  Most people find it easier to give in than to resist him.  Could the answer lie within the nature of mankind?  We were born with that Adams nature.  Paul said,"  In my flesh dwells no good thing."  It seems that man wants to hang onto that scripture, as an excuse to keep resisting Jesus and submitting themselves to Satan.  This body of ours can indeed be a body of death, but only if we allow it to be.   Remember, Jesus came to save us from our sins, not in our sins, and for him to do his work in our lives, we must submit ourselves to him, and then resist the devil. Before anyone can ever hope to resist the devil, we have to submit our lives, our mind, our heart, our body, and soul to God.  It is Jesus that will fight our battles for us.  God did not promise us a rose garden.  Just what are we to submit to Jesus?  First, our minds, our thought, or spiritual heart.  For he who controls the mind, also controls the rest of the body, for our minds, our brains, our intellect, controls our thoughts, our actions, our desires, our members.  The Bible tells us that our mind has to be transformed or renewed.  What enters into our mind?  Everything, and anything, all things.  Our minds is a waste station.  Our minds try to come up with the right solutions, what is right and what is wrong. Genesis 6:5  "and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually."  And this was only in the sixth chapter of Genesis, it didn't take long for the war to start, did it?  Def:  of Imagination; fantasy, Illusion, dream world.  This is a royal battle, that we are in for our souls.  We are in the middle of a tug of war, between the Lord pulling one way, and Satan pulling the other, between the good and evil, both sides wants us, and our soul hangs in the balance, which way are we going to decide?  Our souls are the Trophy for either God or Satan.  Who are we going to submit ourselves to?  Def: for Soul:  is the seat of our affections. Desires, emotions, and the will of man.  On one side there is light, and hope, on the other side there is only darkness, and despire.  On one side there is eternal life with Jesus, on the other side, only death.  The Bible tells us, "The wages of sin is death."  The battle is not over, we are in it every day, whether we realize it or not.  It is our choice to make which one we want.  For God will not force anyone to serve him.  

"Famine In The Land"

                                                                        By: Michael Neal., D.D.

When we talk of Famine we think of a great shortage of food, we read in the word of God about great Famine in the land (Luke 4:25) But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land. Even in today’s times we hear of Famine in the countries around the world, and even in the USA we have shortages of food. Famine is a great problem, for with out food we will perish from hunger. But it is not this kind of Famine or hunger I am speaking of, I am referring to a great hunger and famine for the word of God! (Amos 8:11) Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: (Amos 8:12) And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it. There are many speaking OF the word of God but ask your self’s’ what are they really saying? The True word of God the word spoken with Power and with the spirit (The Holy Ghost) is going to be very, very rare! Jesus him self said in (Luke 4:4) And Jesus answered him, saying, it is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.   If the words that are spoken do not have Power and the spirit then they can not and will not be filling for the soul of Man kind. With out the True word of god the Inter-Man (The Spirit) will get weak and Die, not having the food it needs to survive. For anyone who has fasted (Gone without food & Water for the word of God) knows how week the body can get when it goes without food and water for a time. The Inter-Man can not be seen or touched but it is very real, it can not endure without the Spiritual food that God gives unto his chosen ones (Children). The world is at a state today that the word of God has spoken of, that Right will become wrong, & wrong will become Right, The true word of God is so hard to find being taught & Preached. Preachers have become just “Public Speakers” and not the Lights and Sheppard’s of the Flock of God. Letting Fornication, Lying, Homosexuality, freely go on in their Churches’ (The Buildings). These souls need to be told that what they are doing is Totally against the word of God and not just padded on the back and told “What every you feel like doing do it” God will understand. I am here to tell you “It is NOT! All right with God!” (2 Timothy 4:3)For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; Not Enduring Sound Doctrine is a Great Famine!

There are People that will go from church to church trying to find a Teacher & Preacher that will tell them that what they are doing is Ok, they do not realize that they are pushing the “Full Plate of Food” From God away for an “Empty Plate”.

The Famine is all around us; we see and hear it daily some will go all day and not even think of God, not until something happens in their life’s then they will say “Help me God” the Lord has to be on our mind “All time” not just part time, or as needed!. (2 John 1:9) Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. (2 John 1:10) If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:(2 John 1:11) For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

We can not continue in this Famine, pushing the Doctrine of Christ the word of God away. The Apostle Paul said it best in (Galatians 1:8) But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:9) As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:10) For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

If you will notice that Paul felt it so Impotent that he even repeated him self, even in those early days of the Church, and went on to say “If I Yet Pleased Men, I (We) Should NOT! Be the Servant of Christ”! We can not Please God when we Push him away, and say things like, God understands, or that does not apply for today’s world. God and his word have not and will not change. (Malachi 3:6) For I am the LORD, I change not; when God put on this body of Flesh he “Nailed” all the excuses to the cross. But as bad as the world has become the word of God tells us that it will get worse, and the Famine even greater, (2 Timothy 3:1) This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. This world has even changed the meaning of some of the words we used to use into something to fit today’s world. And yes even changing the very word of God so it does not talk so much in a “Male” Gender. If we speak against “Gays” (The Homosexual meaning of the word) we are, or will be accused of a “Hate” crime, even though the word of God speaks against it in many ways. 

 We see the Famine coming closer and closer every day, ask your self if the Bibles were to be taken away, or get to the point where they do not even have the wording that we still know today, do you have enough of the word of God in you to keep the “Plate Full” to feed the Inward man?

Jesus told us that he is the “Bread of Life” (John 6:35) and Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. Would it be nice to have enough food in our houses to never have to go to the store again? and to eat what we wanted when we wanted it? If you Find the word of God and Keep the word of God in you then you will have all the “Spiritual Food” you will need to feed the Inward Man in the Days of the Famine. If we have the “True” word of God in us when the evil days come we will not be fooled! (Mark 13:22) For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. Do Not! Be with out the “Bread of Life” and be sure to find and get the

Right food, eating spoiled food does not taste good; neither does the wrong teaching and preaching of the word of God. Only when we “Seek” & “Find” the Lord Jesus will we have the Proper Food (Jeremiah 29:13) and ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. The Cry is going out “There is a Famine” coming, Please do not be caught with out your “Plate Full” and be in “Hunger”!