Church - Part 2

It's a simple thing. If you're not in covenant with God, He doesn't protect you, and so they just kill you. You can come and sit in a building and still get killed.

The building's not church. The body of Christ is church. It's living stones that make up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God and Jesus Christ.

They're a holy generation, a peculiar people that show forth praises unto Him and deliver them out of the darkness into the kingdom of His beloved Son. Now that's what the church is. They're living stones.

And by the way, that's what the evangelist prophet, prophet, apostle, pastor, teacher, lead the body to be the unity of the faith, to be the mature man. The mature man is complete man, pure heart. So you start out as children and you go and possess the land.

That's where you lead it. They believe you to be the same fullness of stature that was in Christ, and that's exactly the reason Jesus put the commandment there in John 15 12. This is my commandment.

You're going to love one another just as I've loved you. And that's how the true apostle, pastor, teacher gets in. They don't lord it over God's heritage.

They get in under and become example to the flock and encourage you. And you take these craftsmen and they become vessels, anointed vessels that God speaks through and works through that perfects you and leads you. So you'll hear God through them.

And you hear the voice of Jesus. They don't become lords over there if you hear their voice of Jesus through them. And you follow after Jesus.

Isn't that right? And that's where you got over there in Hebrews 5. And it says you go ahead and be the mature man. And you lay aside the elementary things like raising the dead. See, fleshly people like to see this thing, raising the dead, because they can boast in some man and his ministry.

And they see people fall over and shake, rattle, and roll and all these things. See, there's a power of God that can come on you. But every time it's the real things like gifts and manifestations, Satan has hidden.

There are people today who are not teaching this word of God. They're ministering in spiritism. They're calling fire right out of heaven and powers of darkness are doing things to impress people because they'll always look for the awkward things.

They're not dealing with holiness and righteousness. They're calling fire right out of heaven. They can tell you what your license number is, just like they do out there in spiritism in the world.

And people are impressed with men like that. They look, flesh likes to follow men. They don't want to go through the wilderness.