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.
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