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Dave in Tenn:
I can't tell you how many times I have wished there was a 'yes' answer to your questions. Use to be nearly continuously, now it's just down to a few times a day. ;)
But, no...the only thing that would appeal to me in that list is casual fellowship...yet I know that would be tense and interrupted if they found out what a 'heretic' I was, and ultimately empty.
If you think about it (and believe me, I have) no local fellowship that DID believe and practice according to the truth would be large enough to buy a building, even if they wanted to. ;D You don't build megachurches with this gospel.
No...for most of us this is our time in the wilderness. We can pray for different, but His will be done.
AK4:
I believe most churches teach you the milk of the word along with some corrupt doctrines. In other words the they teach some truth and mix in a lot lies with it. Its a very clever way the devil decieves people (and that isnt just in churches either).
Think about it. Almost all of us came out of a babylon with some truth, the baby milk of the Word, but here are being fed the steak and potatoes with Rays teachings inspired by God.
We all came here with some truth. We all built our house on the sand in some sort of church. You shouldnt feel the need to go back to any of those churches because you already drank the milk they teach. This reminds me of my most favorite thing Ray has wrote...
Lake of Fire series part 14
LET ME KNOW
Are you beginning to SEE IT? Is God giving you understanding? Do you see the grand and marvelous wisdom of it all? Drop me an email—let me know. I want to know how many out there in computerland are beginning to have ears to hear and eyes to see.
THANK GOD, that I (L. Ray Smith) had fallen away, left my first love, looked back, forsook the Lord, and watched my house upon the sand come crashing down! Only then was I able to stand upon the sand of the sea, and see the beast within, the man of sin, the son of perdition, and Satan the devil who DECEIVED ME!
But NOW, "I am crucified WITH Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ lives IN ME: and the life which I now life in the flesh I live by the faith OF the Son of God, who loved ME [and YOU], and gave Himself for ME [and YOU]" (Gal. 2:20).
In conclusion:
"I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard BEHIND me a great voice, as of a trumpet… And I turned to see the voice that spoke with ME. And being TURNED, I saw seven gold candlesticks; [the complete church of God in all generations, with MY sins outlined in each and every one of them] And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; [PURGING all who look upon Him] And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned [refined] in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters. And he had in His right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was as the SUN SHINING IN HIS STRENGTH [no longer a physical body with HOLES in it].
And when I saw Him [in my SPIRIT] I fell at His feet as DEAD. And He laid His right hand upon ME [as He will upon YOU], saying unto ME [and unto YOU],
FEAR NOT" (Rev. 1:10-17).
Truly: "We have seen the enemy and he is US."
Richard D:
Hi Douglas.
Say, you know, I felt the same way too. About finding a church as well, where one can fellowship. When I show up at a church I ask what happens to people that don’t except Christ on this side.
Answer, they go to hell and suffer forever.
Then I ask do people have a free will to do as they wish.
Answer, yes they do.
It seems to me if any religion teaches these two beliefs, then all other teachings they teach have to evolve around these teachings.
So where is the truth? Since I started reading Ray’s papers and seeing the scriptures Ray uses to prove his point I ‘am fully confident that God is indeed working through Ray.
Why would one want to go from Christ teachings to the Pharisees teachings or go from Ray’s teaching which is truth back to the church teachings which are false?
When I went to church I walk out the same man I was when I walk in. I never change and I always had fears of not being saved.
Now that I have been reading Ray’s papers and spending time on this forum I’m changing and I’m no longer afraid of not being saved.
There is something inside of me that won’t let me go back to church again and that’s the truth I now have which is exposing the great deception the church has been involved with for hundreds of years leading people astray.
I hope this helps you with your understanding. Just walk away. God wants you to come out of the great harlot.
It’s why you’re here and why I’m here and why we are all here.
Your brother and friend in Christ. Richard.
Beloved:
Dave I would just make one small point in your last sentence
No...for most of us this is our time in the wilderness. We can pray for different, but His will be done.
We are no longer in the wilderness....they are in the wilderness, just like the nation of Israel who wandered 40 yrs , because of their unbelief.
Remember there were no commas in Greek or Hebrew, Read the words
(Luk 3:4) as it is written in the book of the discourses of Isaiah the prophet: A voice of one crying aloud! In the desert, prepare ye the way of the Lord, straight, be making his paths;
John the Baptist resided in the physical desert, and he drew them there so they could see where they were spiritually.
beloved
Richard D:
John the Baptist resided in the physical desert, and he drew them there so they could see where they were spiritually.
Beloved
That’s and awesome point. I never thought of it like that. Thank you. :)
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