House of God (Jeremiah 26: 11)

Jeremiah was a prophet and things that he said  people didn’t like it  and they were going to kill him right in the house of  the lord  and Jeremiah said if you kill me in the house of the lord  my blood is going be on your hands , make sure you can take the  consequence,  but what blew my mind is that   they were going to do  it in the house of  the lord, and many times  things have happened in the house of the lord  and people talk about church hurt.

There no church like  church hurt  and they wonder  why things happen  in the house of  the lord  and they are anointed, gifted people  who are sanctified, who love God, who don’t go to church no more  because they had an experience  in church that hurt them  that devastated them  and I really don’t understand  that,  because  people have experience at  grocery stores  but guess what  they  either  go to the  management and resolve the issue that happened in the grocery store.  but they don’t say  I ain’t never  going to the  grocery store again  and so it’s  same thing  with church.

Something may happen, you may be hurt  but work through with it there  or go somewhere else  but don’t stop going to  church  because you were  hurt  or because  you had an experience  in church  and so I ‘m inviting you today  to change  your  outlook  of what church is.

Maybe, see it as a hospital that sick people  are coming to  the hospital  and sometimes  the doctors and the nurses  even the staffs   they catch infections  and they bring  stuff into the hospital  but the goal of the  hospital is healing. People come there because  they are  serving  some type  of health challenge  and the church is a place of  healing.

 

Maybe, see it as a dressing room where people are taking things off and putting things on. They are taking off all ways of  being  and putting on new ways of  being, taking off old ways of seeing and putting on  new ways of seeing, taking off old ways of thinking and putting on new ways of thinking, taking off old ways of speaking and putting on new ways of  speaking, taking off  old  behaviors and putting on new behaviors so where people are in transition, they are making changes.

See it as a gas station where people are coming in empty to be filled  and people get various  levels of filling based upon their consciousness, some people get ¼ tank, some ½ tank , some people  get a full tank of gas. Amen. But it’s based upon where they are, it is a filling stage maybe they going to the restroom, maybe they need their windshield wipers  clean, maybe they need  some water  but they are  coming to the gas station  because of  they have  a need, I believe  if we change  our image  of how  we are looking at church  then we will have different experiences.