₦airaland Forum

/The Most High does not live in
houses made by men. (Acts 7:48 NIV)/
Christianity has become a
tremendous buildup of things which
were not
at the beginning. The Christianity
which we know today is a very
complicated thing. The hands of men
have come upon the things of God,
and men have tried to build this great
thing according to their own
judgment. And so we have all the
confusion, all the divisions, and all
the complications. It is really hard
going in Christianity.
Christianity has become its own great
hindrance.... You will go about
this country, you will go about this
city, and you will see these
great religious buildings with a cross
at the top. And when people
enter those buildings, they bow
themselves; they look very reverent.
And they think that this is a sacred
building. If you interfere with
anything there, it is called sacrilege. To
God that is all nonsense.
It does not mean anything at all. The
only thing that matters to God
is not the wonderful building and all
the wonderful things inside the
building, and not even the cross on
the top. The one thing that
matters to God is whether He is there.
Is God Himself present in this
place?
But what about ourselves, we hear
Christians who come into a meeting
like this speaking about coming into
the house of God. Perhaps they
say when they are going to this
meeting place, "I am going to the
house of God." And when they pray,
they say, "We are very glad to be
in the house of God this morning; it is
a good thing to be in the
Lord's house." What makes any place
the house of God? What makes this
place sacred? If it is sacred at all, what
makes it sacred? It is not
the building, this is not a sacred
building. It is not a congregation
gathered here. The only thing that
makes it sacred is that the Lord is
present. The Lord is not interested in
our places or in our
congregations; He is only concerned
that He may find a place for
Himself where He may be present in
pleasure. I wonder where the
tabernacle in the wilderness is now? I
expect it is buried
somewhere
deep under the earth. I wonder where
the great temple of Solomon is
now?! I think you would be wasting
your time to try and find it. You
see, God had buried those things....
Everything that is not of Christ
is going to be dissolved. Make no
mistake. This whole structure of
Christianity is going to be tested
according to Christ. Christianity
is just going to be tested as to how far
it was the work of the Holy
Spirit of God according to Christ.

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