Being God's Temple!/Buy The Truth!

By Pastor Bill Taylor

A publication of My Father's House, inc. Volume 10/ Issue 1

Intro: In this world there are many temples to many false gods. Each temple defines and identifies the god who’s worshipped there. In order to distinguish Himself from the false gods, the true God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is also identified by His temple and to make a clear distinction between Him and the false gods He requires man should seek Him in His true temple. (De12:5) The true church composed of the saints who abide in Christ is that temple. If God were to answer prayers made in any other name but His or any other temple but His, He’d be giving credibility to the false gods and His presence and blessings could be erroneously attributed to them.

 Prophecy: Why would I give My own Spirit, My own power to one of My people except to demonstrate the difference between a true believer who’s a temple of God and a non-believer; to demonstrate that the true believer has the supernatural in him and with him and working on his behalf? Why would I give My people the Holy Spirit, then not have Him manifest? What is it with these so-called “christians” who think they have the Spirit when you can’t see the difference between them and the people who have no faith whatsoever? How could you possibly have My Spirit if there isn’t a notable difference between you and those who don’t have the Spirit? And that’s exactly why I give Him, to show there’s a discernable, notable, very great difference between those who know Me and those who don’t, saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”)

At that day you’ll know that I’m in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. (Jn14:20) At that day you’ll know you’re God’s temple when God really dwells in you. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? (1Co3:16) Jesus came to make us the temple of God and every verse relating to Christ being in us, is referring to templeship. He who has My commandments and keeps them is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I’ll love him and manifest Myself to him. (Jn14:21) Wouldn’t you expect the temple to be the foremost place where God manifests? If anyone loves Me, he’ll keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We’ll come to him and make Our home with him. (Jn14:23) It must be characteristic of us if we are truly God’s temples that in us you’ll find the actual presence of the indwelling God. And we can learn much about what it means to be God’s temple by looking at what Solomon prays during the dedication of his temple. Will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain You. How much less this temple which I’ve built! (1Ki8:27) God is far greater than anything He’s created. He’s the fullness of Him who fills all in all (Eph1:23) But He does desire to manifest a fullness of expression through His temple, who’s temple we are. That you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph3:19b)

O LORD my God, listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, “My name shall be there,” that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place. (1Ki8:28-29) The temple is the place where God dwells on earth; “His name is there.” Therefore prayers must be made toward His temple, or thru His temple, the people in whom God dwells, to be heard and God will only listen to prayers made toward or thru His temple. This means you must be in Christ’s church or at least be acknowledged by His church if He is to regard your prayer. In being acknowledged by His church we mean you must get someone who’s a member of His true church/temple to intercede for you! Jesus says, “Whatever you ask in My name, that I’ll do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I’ll do it.” (Jn14:13-14) If “My name shall be there” describes the temple, then the saints must bear His name to ask in His name. Then I looked, and behold, a Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. (Rev14:1) These represent the true church, Mount Zion, God’s first fruits. (v4) Then asking “in My name” means asking from the place where “My name” is. So asking from the temple where Jesus’ name resides means again you must be in His temple, bearing His name, or you must get someone who is in the temple/church – a true saint – to pray for you or with you. For God to hear our prayers, we must be His temple, or pray through His temple, the place where His name resides. The exception to this is God may answer a prayer prayed by someone outside the church but in conjunction with the answer He will lead the new comer to make contact with a member or members of His true church to attain the answer. Solomon is praying that anything we ask for in the temple, God will hear. Jesus says anything we ask for in His name God will hear. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know He hears us, whatever we ask, we know we have the petitions that we’ve asked of Him. (1Jn5:14-15) The saints, God’s true temple are those believers in Christ who only do God’s will. And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. (Jn10:4-5) For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. (Jn6:38) In God’s temple, any prayer made according to God’s will is heard and answered night or day. (1Ki8:28-29) God’s temple people therefore know His will and do it!

If any man sins against his neighbor, and comes and takes an oath before your altar in this house: Then hear in heaven, and act, and judge, condemning the wicked, and bringing his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness. (1Ki8:31-32) God’s temple is the place where He exercises judgment. Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life? (1Co6:2-3) Often He uses His temple people to do that. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. (1Co5:3)

When Your people are defeated before an enemy because they’ve sinned against You, and when they turn back to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication to You in this temple, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers. (1Ki8:33-34) The temple is where you come for forgiveness and today that temple is the body of true believers. Notice you must repent and turn back to God to be forgiven. And that must be done in the temple, among the true saints if you’re to be restored to the church. If you’re not restored to the church you can’t be saved! The church is Christ’s bride and you must be of and in His bride or you won’t enter His Kingdom. (Eph5:27)

If the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they’ve sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them, then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your servants that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on Your land which You’ve given to Your people as an inheritance. (1Ki8:35-36) After God forgives He removes their affliction and blesses them. But also in the temple, the gathering of His people, is where the believers who’ve been forgiven receive teaching and instruction in righteousness. When there’s famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men), that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. (1Ki8:37-40) In the temple/church there’s healing and deliverance but it isn’t given indiscriminately to just everyone who asks for it. It’s given according to what’s in each one’s heart. (For You know the hearts of all the sons of men.) This can be seen in the New Testament scriptures. And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she didn’t repent. Indeed I’ll cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. I’ll kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I’m He who searches the minds and hearts. And I’ll give to each one of you according to your works. (Rev2:21-23) God isn’t indiscriminate in the distribution of His blessings. People won’t be healed unless they repent, and their repentance must be acceptable to God and His church (temple) before He’ll give the healing. But there’s power to heal in the temple/church when people come in the right spirit and the right heart.

God will manifest in His temple/church in such ways that men may fear Him. That they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers. (1Ki8:40) So again God rewards according to your works. You do good, you’ll get good. You do bad, God will chasten you in such a way that it causes people to fear Him. Then Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.” Then immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carrying her out, buried her by her husband. So great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things. (Acts5:9-11)

Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who’s not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for Your name’s sake because they’ll hear of Your great name and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, when he comes and prays toward this temple, hear in heaven and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You. (1Ki8:41-43) Evangelism then is centered in the temple/church also. If a person not yet a baptized born again member of Christ’s body/temple seeks help from God he must seek it through the true temple/church. He must find a true believer to pray for or with him, or through His prayer be led to the true church! This is how God demonstrates Himself to the world in such a way they won’t confuse Him with the many false gods. Thus the world will know where they must go to find the true God – His church/temple/people – and be saved!

When Your people go out to battle against their enemy…maintain their cause. (1Ki8:44-45) God has given the victory to Christ, which includes His body the church/temple. Believers can participate in that victory over their enemies through God’s help given in the temple/church, particularly thru the corporate prayers of the saints. “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.” (Mt18:19-20) That Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your servant and the supplication of Your people Israel, (in the temple) to listen to them whenever they call to You. (1Ki8:52) All that is true of Solomon’s temple must be true in an even better way concerning the New Covenant temple/church. For the law made nothing perfect; on the other hand, there is the bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God. (Heb7:19)

That they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. (Jn17:21) God in me, in you, in us, makes us His temple. If even a foreigner comes to the temple to pray, Solomon asked God to answer the prayer so the world may believe in the true God. (1Ki8:41-43) When Jesus says, “that the world may believe” He’s talking evangelistically that through the visible display of our faith, love and unity, others may learn to know our God and Savior. God manifests in us so that others may hear of Him! “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I’ve loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know  you’re My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Jn13:34-35) If you’re God’s temple/church you’ll have the one Spirit that makes you true brethren. You’ll be caring for, and loving one another visibly as brethren and demonstrating that one Spirit is in you; that the love of Jesus is in all of you. Anything that manifests Jesus in you makes you His temple. And the glory which You gave Me I’ve given them, (There must be glory in us/God’s temple or we aren’t His!) that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and the world may know You’ve sent Me, and have loved them as You’ve loved Me. (Jn17:22-23) The unity Jesus gives the people who are His temple comes from His gift of God’s glory to them. God’s glory has to do with His Spirit, His light, His truth, His will, His power, His ways, all being made apparent because of His magnificent presence. So unity Christ’s way comes from God’s glory in the church causing people to see the true ways and manifest presence of God. This is the proof of real templeship, of a real church, of real Christianity. They evidence a unity that comes from belonging to the same God, in one faith, and they follow only one true body of doctrine. There can’t be significant arguments between true Christians because they have one Head. How can they be arguing with Christ? The only place arguments can come in is where there’s another head. And that other head is antichrist. Because antichrist exalts himself in the temple of God, calling himself God, (2The2:4) antichrist argues with God in God’s own temple making excuses for why he thinks his way is right and God is wrong and believing he has the position and the power to do that. antichrist is flesh reigning in the temple that should belong to God. Flesh expresses itself in many different ways but it’s always anti-God. Entire “churches” today are antichrist. Flesh is running them and they stand against the things God says and fight against the things God does.

There’s a unity movement called ecumenism that wants all professing Christians to get together in an effort to fulfill the unity scriptures, but they do it in a carnal way instead of holding fast to the one Head. So they all just pretend to love and agree with one another. They pretend to be in unity when in truth they aren’t. Christians are commanded to be of one mind because they have one Head, one Spirit. I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. (Phil 4:2) But in this false unity, any time the issues they’re sweeping under the rug come out, you can see they aren’t of the same mind! For example, it’s not possible that a true Christian can be in unity with a baptist who believes the lie “once saved always saved.” The true Christian knows God in the Bible requires diligence of the believers if they’re to be saved. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you’ll never stumble. (2Pe1:10) Baptists on the other hand, preach you don’t need to worry about it. If you can’t lose your salvation diligence isn’t an issue. How can we ignore such differences when true Christians must preach diligence to the brethren so they can stay saved? How can people so opposite in faith walk together? It’s not possible for a baptist to walk with me or me to walk with him. Our doctrines are 180 degrees opposed to each other and I can’t pretend he’s okay. If I were to do that I’d be helping him seduce the ignorant into a fallacy that will cause them to be lost forever instead of becoming children who attain to God’s Kingdom. There’s no possible way a true Christian can walk in unity with people who promote such deceptions, lies and distortions of scriptural truth. To demonstrate the unity of the faith you must be in the faith in the first place. And that faith is in God’s Word as our foundation and God’s Spirit as our teacher and interpreter. God’s one Spirit of Truth will teach us all the same things concerning God’s Word, so there can’t be any significant disagreements among us. Disagreements come where there’s a lack of faith, a lack of the Spirit and when flesh reigns. Now the works of the flesh are…contentions, dissensions! (Gal 5:19-20)

Whenever we have to rebuke somebody, whenever somebody is off God’s path, they’re always in the flesh. Carnal people try to figure things out in their own head instead of talking to God. And the ideas people come up with on their own without the Spirit are poison. There’s a distinct difference between what comes from the flesh versus what’s of the Spirit, and we who are Spiritual can tell the difference. Concerning what went on with Ms. B. yesterday, one of our teenagers said, “I knew she had nothing.” Elie said, “I was just waiting for you to rebuke her.” The Spiritual people in the church can tell when someone’s not in the Spirit. I’m always patient to give someone every opportunity to demonstrate if they have something from God. But by the time I have to correct, the Spiritual people in the church already know the person’s off and needs to be rebuked! If a teenager can tell someone doesn’t have anything from God, why can’t you tell? What’s lacking in you? Something is seriously wrong when “believers” can’t tell the difference between what’s of the Spirit and what’s of the flesh. True Christians are temples of the Holy Spirit, temples of God. Why would people go to the temple to get information they could get from the library? What do you go to the temple for? To meet with God and receive the kind of help from Him you can’t get from secular sources. If it’s just common knowledge anybody can get virtually anywhere then you don’t need to go to God for it. The kind of knowledge anybody can pick up anywhere or find in a library book by studying it out; that’s what dead religions are made of. There’s no anointing on that, no revelation, no life! Now, if you’re a temple of God, something must be going on in you that not just anybody can duplicate. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit. (Jn3:8) You carry the mark of the supernatural God; things are manifesting in you that ordinary people can’t find or possess. These things come as a gift from God. (Mt6:6) Supernatural insight, light, revelation! But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all. And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you. (1Cor14:24-25) It can’t be just repeating what everybody already knows or digging up something anybody could have found out of secular sources and such. True believers aren’t “scholars.” (Ecc12:12) We’re spiritual people and we’re taught of God (Jn6:45) by divine revelation. We have communion with the Spirit of the living God who searches out the deep things of God. (1Co2:10) We don’t come to church bringing in worldly, secular or merely intellectual things; we come bringing what the Spirit gives us. One of the most important aspects of being a temple, is you must manifest evidences of God’s Spirit inhabiting you and He must be present in such a way as people will fall on their faces and say, “God is truly among you.” (1Cor14:25) If we’re truly God’s temple then God will demonstrate He’s in us. When God is in His temple He wants people to know He is, and He’s able to demonstrate He is. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. (Mt5:15) If you believe you’re a temple of the Holy Spirit you ought to be asking God to demonstrate He’s in you and you ought to be conscious He wants to demonstrate He’s in you and you ought to be looking for every opportunity to manifest the presence of God in you. If you’re really God’s temple you should be taking every opportunity to glorify God in His temple. (1Cor10:31) If God is in you and you’re truly His temple then He’ll surely give you guidance. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. (Jas1:5) God in you is always ready to show you what to do and where to go. Also you’re to be a person (because you are a temple) that others can come to and get godly instruction, help or encouragement from you. “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” (Jn7:38) When a fellow believer comes to you with a need, because God’s in you, you should be able to give them answers just as in the Old Covenant people could go to the temple and get what they needed from the priests. Indeed, if Christ is in you, you’re God’s temple for today. In you, people can meet God!

When Jesus goes to the temple what do you see Him doing? First, at twelve years old, He goes for instruction. (Lk2:46) He’s learning to know His Father. So in the temple you get to know God, and you should find godly instruction and learning. But the next time you see Jesus in the temple, He’s carrying a whip. (Jn2:15-16) The temple must be clean! How can people come to get help from God if the temple is full of thieves trying to cheat them? If the churches and the Christians today are covetous instead of helping people who come to them trying to find God, they’ll take advantage of them. So the temple must be cleansed of all things that could be harmful to the visitors if it’s to be a glory to God and a help to the elect. Therefore the first thing Jesus does when He begins His adult ministry is, He goes into the temple to chase out the thieves. Likewise if you want to be a temple useful to God you must make sure there are no thieves in you, no ulterior motives. You must be cleansed of all flesh and selfishness. (Gal 5:24) You must be able to minister solely for your neighbor’s good, in love, without any expectation of being personally benefited by anything he possesses. (Lk14:13-14) Your temple must be clean so you can give the elect God’s Word and show them God’s ways without any distortions towards some selfish purpose of your own. That’s templeship! You can’t be a guide to others if you’re not led by the Spirit yourself. To be a temple to the Holy Spirit, you must be filled with and led by the Spirit. The temple is the place where God’s guidance is found. It’s absolutely essential that you’re receiving that guidance yourself, continually seeking the Lord and having faith to be led by His Spirit. (Ro8:14)

It must be an everyday thing to be led by the Spirit; and you must be led in very little things as well as in more important things. Every day I work on Glory of His Grace manuscripts and every day there’s supernatural guidance in how to put those manuscripts together. Every day I have a bible study with the boys and there are things that take place in every bible study that demonstrate God in our midst. He’s there! And the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there! (Ezek48:35) Every day the Lord gives me the message to bring in to “My Father’s House.” Always, I’m being led by the Spirit. Led in the preparations and led in the doing! Every day there are necessities that must be taken care of, and in my life those necessities are ordered by the Spirit. Everything you do is blessed if you’re led by the Spirit. If you go through a time when it looks like you’re not being blessed don’t agree with it. That’s not being the temple of God. One of the most important things that must always be in the temple is faith! (Heb11:6) The temple is the place where faith works. You’ll always find faith in Christ’s true temple and you’ll be blessed if you stay in faith and think the way Christ thinks about things. Don’t let circumstances cause you to think, “I’ve wasted my time!” I’ve been delivered from wasting my time! I’ve been delivered from a vain and useless life! (1Pe4:4;Ro8:20-21;Jn15:5) If the Spirit has led me somewhere there’s a reason for it! And if the Spirit is leading me there’s a blessing in it. You must always hold on to faith in your heart and mind that the Lord doesn’t lead you to curse you. He leads you to bless you! Demonstrating templeship is demonstrating the faith that we’re being led into blessings and victories by the Spirit. (2Co2:14) Are you being led by the Spirit? The only reason you might think you’re not being led by the Spirit is you have no faith for it, or you’ve violated God’s Word or His peace (Spirit) in some way. (Col 3:15) If you’re in unbelief you need to repent. (Ro14:23) If you’ve violated God’s peace, then you’ve gone in a wrong direction and you need to get back to where the peace is. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. (Col 3:15)

After Jesus cleansed the temple what else did He do? He did miracles in the temple. Remember Jesus is the real Temple of God. Wherever He is the presence of God is. When the men had come to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, saying, ‘Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?’” And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight. Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Lk7:20-23) The temple is a place where God’s power manifests. And God’s power ought to be manifesting in your temple. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. (Jn14:12) Even Solomon’s prayer showed people could come to the temple for healing. (1Ki8:37-40) What else? Jesus taught in the temple. (Jn7:14) He taught and He taught. (8:2) If Jesus was in the temple, he was teaching. (8:20) The main thing is teaching people to know God. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. (Jn17:3) So from these things can you understand if you’re really God’s temple what should be going on in you? The foremost manifestation of the presence of God in you is to be led by Him. You can’t lead anyone else, you can’t teach anyone else unless you’re led by the Spirit. Being led by God is the number one thing. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. (Ro8:14) Then you’re able to help others because God shows you how and leads you to where you can help others. And in helping others, you must be able to teach others to know God. And you must be able to demonstrate God’s glory and manifest the things that help others to have a real faith in God. (1Co2:5)

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (1Cor12:7-10) God gives every member of the body (the temple) something to share that will bless the others. The sharing of these things fulfills the scriptures concerning “every joint supplying it’s part.” From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. (Eph4:16) So the body is built up in love through the presence and working of the Spirit of God in every member; each one being an individual temple and coming together to become an even greater temple, a glorious corporate temple in the Lord! And if you ask in faith God will give you everything you need to do your part to glorify Him and to grow up into a glorious temple unto Him. How do you glorify Him unless you’re glorified yourself? He wants His temple to be a glorious temple because it’s His temple. If the wife is the glory of the husband, (1Cor11:7) then the husband doesn’t dress his wife in rags does he? You’re the bride of Christ. What should the world see when they see Christ’s bride? They’re to see a glorious church, well adorned with wonderful things; gifts of the Spirit, supernatural works of God, extraordinary revelations, great lights; such things as cause people to fall on their face and say, “This is where God is! If you want to meet God, that’s the place to go!” Have faith for Christ to be in you that way, and have faith for Him to be in your church in that way, then exercise your faith. You must see manifestations of God. Every new manifestation becomes a testimony to the glory of God! So your sharing services should be filled with God’s glory especially as expressed in testimonies. Plus we should also have abundant gifts of the Spirit, the immediate workings of God; so we don’t just hear about what He does elsewhere but we see Him do it here. (1Co2:5) And these are things God must bring forth in us if we’re to truly be His temple, or have the right to call ourselves His! 

Prophecy: When My Son walked the earth incarnate He said, “Destroy this temple and I’ll raise it up in three days.” He knew He was My temple. He knew I dwelt in Him in the fullness of the Godhead bodily and He demonstrated templeship. People could go to Herod’s temple at the time Jesus was on the earth or they could go to Jesus; but which temple had Me in it? Herod’s temple only had Me in it when Jesus was in it. They could go to Jesus and they could get healing they couldn’t get in the temple made with stone. They could go to Jesus and they could get instruction and guidance they couldn’t get in the temple made with stone. They could go to Jesus and get forgiveness, “Your sins are forgiven!” that they couldn’t get from the Pharisees who brought Him the woman caught in adultery. The temple of stone doesn’t have forgiveness nor do those like the Pharisees who’s hearts are stone. Jesus demonstrated perfect templeship in everything He did. Always He showed I was in Him. Now today, I call you, the church of Jesus Christ, to be My temple, to demonstrate My Spirit and presence is in you in all that you do, that all may see and know “The Lord is there,” thus saith the Lord. (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”)

Another part of templeship is understanding the evening and the morning sacrifice. There’s a continual sacrifice going on in the temple. It never stops. The flesh is being burnt all day and all night long as a sweet savor to God. What does that tell you about being a temple? In God’s temple the flesh never gets off the altar. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (Gal 5:24) The most distinctive thing about Solomon’s prayer for wisdom is he wasn’t praying for himself. He was praying God would give him wisdom so he could do a good job of ruling God’s people. Solomon’s heart was towards God’s glory. He wanted to fulfill God’s call upon him to lead God’s people well. And that was very pleasing to God. God has called us to be His temple. Shouldn’t we also pray for grace to fulfill God’s call upon us to the glory of God?

Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he’s committed sins, he’ll be forgiven. (Jas5:14-15) When there’s famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men.) (1Ki8:37-39) There’s a similarity between James’ and Solomon’s prayer? Both cases consider someone may have committed sin and become sick. To be healed they need to get back to God. So they must go to the temple to be forgiven and healed. In the New Covenant, in this situation, they can’t go to the temple “within themselves” for healing because God isn’t in it! That temple has been defiled by their sin. They have to go to the greater temple where Christ’s Spirit still abides, meaning the corporate church and the elders of the church. The sinner can be cleansed and healed there so his personal temple can be restored, and the prayer of faith will save him. As an elder in Christ’s greater temple I’d like to pray now concerning this.

“Dearest Lord, many of Your people will soon be coming to Your temple here to be forgiven, cleansed, healed and restored. We must be able to pray the prayer of faith for them because their condition is such their own faith has been damaged by sin. Precious Lord, please give us Your grace to pray in true faith for Your people so we can be a glorious temple unto You and Your people can get all the help they need. Lord, please grant us Your faith to rebuke every sickness and to call forth such things as will cause Your people to be benefited and blessed, that Your mighty name be glorified in the salvation, healing and restoration of Your people. We thank You our loving Lord for hearing our prayer and answering swiftly according to Your great grace and power, In Jesus’ holy name, Amen.”

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who’s in you, whom you have from God, and you’re not your own? (1Co6:19) Herein, we’ve shown you many things concerning the blessings that are available when people come in faith and humility to seek help from God in His temple. Now the pertinent question is, “Are you really God’s temple – are these blessings found in you?” Do you have the true saving faith that makes you a habitation for God in the Spirit – that God has actually made His home with you? (Jn14:23) If not, then you aren’t really “saved.” Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His! (Ro8:9)

Prophecy: I won’t have any do-nothing pew sitters in My church. For I tell you, everyone who’s truly in My church is a living stone, and if you’re just a spectator, when I come for My church as a spectator you’ll see My people leave while you’ll be left behind for destruction. For My church is built up of priests who offer up holy sacrifices in My temple, who are offering up their lives to Me continually. And I’m showing that even in this place, in “My Father’s House,” where I’m building you up a Spiritual house to be My temple, and I’m making you holy priests unto Me. So no do-nothing pew sitters will be tolerated in My church, but My church is built of living stones who’ll work together to bring forth My will and My way and My glory in this age and in this time, thus saith the Lord.

Prophecy: What a glorious testimony you’ve heard this morning in the man who saw who he was and what he wasn’t, and loathed himself and came to Me and repented and turned from his sin. I say to you, as you heard his testimony come forth, how your hearts rejoiced to see a sinner turn from the error of his ways and be brought to light, brought to truth. But what is also glorifying to Me and what makes My heart rejoice is here I have a vessel, a temple I can use, filled with My Spirit; one who gave himself to Me a living sacrifice; who crucified his flesh and laid down his life to tell that sinner what he was; to tell him the truth about himself. And you heard what he replied, it was a hard word; but the sinner knew deep down inside it was true. And My Spirit could work mightily to convict this man; for one, because I had a son who would stand up and even risk his life to speak the truth to this sinner and not hold back but tell him like it was. And this is what glorifies Me, My people. And yes, it’s a glorious testimony that this sinner received and believed the word that was spoken. And I tell you, some will believe and some will not. But now I can use this man in a mighty and awesome way because he received the truth about himself. When My servant spoke and I convicted him of his sins, he took the word and he believed it, and he believed it with thanksgiving and he thanked Me for correcting him. And now you see the fruit a repentant “sinner” is bearing that he’s bringing forth for My glory. Everywhere he goes he lays his life down for Me; the fruit is glorious because he received the truth about himself and about Me. And I say to you, I’m raising every one of you up as vessels for My glory, as temples to manifest My Spirit. But you also must first receive the truth about yourself and you’ll receive it through your pastor and your brethren and My Word. But you also must turn to Me with thanksgiving, and cry out as this sinner did and bring forth the fruit I’m looking for. Only when you’ve done that are you fit to be vessels and temples of Mine to show others the truth about themselves. And this is the work I do because this sinner wouldn’t be saved unless I had a saint who would stand up and show him the truth. That’s what the people need to see; they don’t need a pat on the back but they need truth to be brought right before their faces. And what is bringing forth fruit is My Spirit working in My people to bring forth the saving conviction that causes a sinner to turn and loathe himself and hate his life and cry out to Me, the only One who can help him be changed and saved. And this is a picture of what I’m doing, and I’m doing it now in you, My people. I say to you, receive all I have for you with thanksgiving and let Me change you and work in you that you may bring forth good fruit. Thus you’ll be a glory to Me as every real saint is a glory to Me. And I’ll use you as I’ve used the saints of old, as I’ve used your pastor, as I’ve used brother Dave; I will use you as My temples in the same way, saith the Lord. (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”)

Buy The Truth!

 Prophecy: A banner shows who you belong to. I’ve placed a banner over My Father’s House. I’ve called this church and I’ve shown you belong to Me. From you My Truth is going forth in mighty ways, for here I’ve spoken Words that show you’re My church and I’ve sent you. And those who believe any one can be a church and anyone can name themselves Mine are trembling even now. For they see My banner isn’t over them. But My banner over you is love, for I’ve shown who you belong to and I’ve bestowed My love upon you by showing forth My Truth through you in awesome brightness so you can show and bring home the righteous – all who’ll enter into My Truth. I’m establishing you as Zion. I’m establishing you as My mountain that My people will come to and they’ll find My Truth and they’ll see that the banner here is love, and it’s victory, and it’s joy. All these things I’ve bestowed upon you, because I’ve called you to be My house unto My glory, and to be My church, thus says the Lord.  (Prophecy delivered at “My Father’s House”)

 Buy the Truth, and don’t sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding. (Pr23:23) Truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding must be purchased. There is a price to pay if you’re to gain them. The fact that Truth can be sold means you can lose it if you begin to value something else more highly than Truth!  Who may abide in Your tabernacle? (Ps15:1a) He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the Truth in his heart; (Ps15:2) God’s Word never passes away. Salvation under the New Covenant still requires us to walk uprightly, do righteousness and speak Truth – in other words to “abide in Christ.” (see Ro2:5-10;Eph4:25) Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your Truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day. (Ps25:4,5) The Psalmist asks God to lead him in Truth. Of course God gives this as a pattern prayer for us also. And He answers this prayer in Christ. For this cause I have come into this world that I should bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who’s of the Truth hears My voice. (Jn18:37) And the Holy Spirit will guide you into all Truth. (Jn16:13) The elect are born of the Truth. Only Truth can save! (1Pe1:23) You must have a love of the Truth to be saved. (2The2:10) And Truth must be so important that you’ll not sell it at any price! To buy the Truth means you must pay whatever is necessary, including what Jesus says “forsaking all,” (Lk14:33) to take hold of the Truth and once you take possession of it never let it go. That the elect buy the Truth and won’t sell it is a mark of their election. The non-elect sell the Truth. They sell out cheap! It’s because the elect don’t sell out, that they’re elect. (Mt24:13)

Salvation has everything to do with Truth. Without Truth you can’t be saved. Only those who keep the Truth will remain “saved.”(1Jn2:24) Those who sell the Truth will be damned! To be “saved” you must understand salvation in its relationship to Truth. Without Truth there’s no salvation. There’s no salvation in the heretical theologies of the false churches. They seem to think Truth is indefinable, unknowable, esoteric; some kind of generality, that can be talked about but never really known. They can’t see how very specific the Bible is concerning Truth and how important it is you hold onto the exact specifics concerning Truth. In both the Old Testament and the New, Truth is essential to salvation. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and Truth. (Ps25:10a) Your loving kindness is before my eyes, and I’ve walked in Your Truth. (Ps26:3) We must walk in God’s Truth to be saved, What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your Truth? (Ps30:9) The reasoning of the psalmist is God’s Truth must be “declared” and that “work” can only be done by the living. This also indicates that declaring God’s Truth is the work of His saints. So what good can I do you if I’m dead? This also relates to being Spiritually dead. But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. (1Ti5:6) So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. (Rev3:16) The Spiritually dead can’t declare God’s Truth. Jesus told His brothers, “Your time is any time!” (Jn7:6) Why should God keep you alive if you don’t bear fruit? But if you’re a fruit bearer, doing a good job of declaring God’s Truth, God has good reason to protect you as He’d protect and keep a very fruitful tree. So it’s integral to your salvation to be fruitful. If you’re fruitful, God will even prune you so you’ll bear more fruit.(Jn15:2) He won’t cut the fruitful off.

The Word of the Lord is right, and all His work is done in Truth. (Ps33:4) God has blessed many of My Father’s House members with inspiration to write Spiritual poems and songs. (Col 3:16) Now if you’re writing a Spiritual poem or song “all His works are done in Truth,” (Ps33:4) means you can’t bend the Truth to make a rhyme. Every word has to be Truth. In any work you’re doing for God that work must be done in Truth. No twisting the scriptures or making things seem easier than they are to attract “converts.” So many of the false churches have diluted and polluted the Word of God in an attempt to make it more attractive to unbelievers. All their works aren’t done in Truth! 

“What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your Truth? (Ps30:9) We must LIVE to declare God’s Truth. And this means we must be Spiritually alive! “Because you’re lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I’ll vomit you out of My mouth. (Rev3:16) Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” (Eph5:14) But God, who’s rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (Eph2:4-6)The very purpose of our being alive and raised with Christ is that we may be witnesses to God’s Truth. “You are My witnesses,” says the LORD, “And My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the LORD, and besides Me there is no savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you; therefore you are My witnesses,” says the LORD, “that I am God.” (Is43:10-12) “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Act1:8) Often the elect who are just beginning to see God’s Truths by the Holy Spirit, are getting beat up terribly by false brethren who oppose everything the Spirit is saying. Until these new believers receive a confirmation of what the Spirit is saying it’s as if they’re standing alone. But when we get God’s Truth to them as He’s shared it with us then their heart is encouraged to know the things they’re hearing are truly of God. They’re greatly strengthened to take hold of the victory. So how needful it is that we share what God gives us for the elect’s sake! Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. (2Ti2:10) I haven’t hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I haven’t concealed Your loving kindness and Your Truth from the great assembly. (Ps40:10) In other words, the Psalmist is saying, I haven’t buried God’s talent! (Mt25:25) If Jesus is in you He isn’t hiding! Jesus has come to bear witness to the Truth. Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I’m a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I’ve come into the world, that I should bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who’s of the Truth hears My voice.” (Jn18:37) Every believer who truly has Jesus in him will also be bearing witness to the Truth.

Don’t withhold Your tender mercies from me let Your loving kindness and Your Truth continually preserve me. (Ps40:11)If God’s Truth is to preserve you, you can’t sell it. You must continually keep it. Oh, send out Your light and Your Truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle. (Ps43:3) Salvation is a journey. “We walk the road of hope through steps of faith.” (See our previous Glory of His Grace publication “Gospel Hope”) Gospel hope is founded in God’s Truth. And our greatest goal is that we may attain to the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our Lord Jesus, which is also called the first resurrection, or the resurrection of life. (Rev20:6;Jn5:28-29) This is where the righteous will be raised. This is what Paul presses to attain to. If, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. (Phil 3:11-12) Now this resurrection is a “hope.” You can’t believe you receive it now because it isn’t yet given. The way we’ll attain to it is by walking in faith, continually following the Lord, staying in the light, allowing the Lord to perfect us and make us fit so when we arrive at the destination we’ll be blameless, without spot, worthy and able to hear Him call us into the resurrection of life. Only at that time when the archangel shouts and the last trumpet sounds can we “believe we receive” and our hope become faith concerning the resurrection. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1Cor15:52) So our present salvation is a journey in which the Lord perfects and prepares us for that day of final salvation. The journey is walked in hope because we know the promise is there for us if we’re faithful to follow Jesus. Faith keeps us obedient to Jesus, letting Him work in us the virtues of His Spirit that we may have an abundant entrance into Christ’s Kingdom. (2Pe1:5-11)

During my experience with the “Faith movement,” I learned they didn’t have any understanding of “hope,” and they couldn’t even define it scripturally. They were so blinded by their perverted “faith gospel” that they thought hope was a sin because it wasn’t “Faith!” I knew hope wasn’t something the Bible considered a sin. Since they were wrong about that they had to be wrong about many other things so I discerned quickly they weren’t of God! But at that time I prayed and asked God to show me what “Bible Hope” really was and the Spirit showed me there are many things, promises of God, that when you start, you must believe they are available to you in the future after, and only after, you meet the conditions. So you can’t have faith to believe you receive such a promise until you know you’ve met God’s conditions for the promise. But you can have a sure and certain hope that if you call upon the Lord to help you He’ll lead you in such a way as you’ll eventually meet His conditions and attain to His promises. Bible hope keeps you on the road that leads to the faith to believe you receive. You may, for example, be hoping to receive a healing, but in order to believe you receive, you may first have to repent and get out of sin, be baptized or something of that nature. To receive a healing from God, you need to be cleansed to where your conscience doesn’t condemn you. (1Jn3:20-22) So you’re hoping for the healing. And it’s hope that causes you to take the action to meet the conditions that will set your conscience free to believe you receive that healing. Then you’re hope can become faith. Bible hope leads you to faith, because a real hope inspires you to know you can attain what you’re hoping for and your labor won’t be in vain. If you were in a “hopeless” situation you’d do nothing because if it’s “hopeless” there’s nothing you can do. But because there is hope you know there are effectual things to do, so you’ll take the steps to obey God and accomplish what needs to be done to turn your hope into faith.

Bible hope guides us towards “the resurrection of life” but it also works in effectually attaining the everyday   necessities of the Spirit-led life. Hope is an energizer! People with hope “strive” to attain the things they hope for! You have a financial problem? What does the Bible say, “give and it will be given unto you?” So you can pray and ask God to solve the financial problem, but you may have to “give” before you can “believe you receive.” As a new believer, I had a serious financial problem and when I prayed for God to help me, He told me to give away all my savings; all the money I had! He told me to empty my bank account in the face of a severe financial crisis and I did it. God answered my prayer for help but His condition was, give and it shall be given unto you. (Lk6:38) What God did when I asked for His help was He showed me the condition that needed to be met if I was to receive what I needed! And for me that was a “Hearing of Faith.” (Gal 3:2) I heard what He said and obeyed Him. In those days I didn’t know a lot of what I know today about the very bad churches where everyone is screaming for money all the time. But God led me to give to a little known ministry that wasn’t asking anyone for the money but evidently had a dire need known only to God. When they received the offering, I got a letter back from them that was a fulfillment of For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God, while, through the proof of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal sharing with them and all men and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you. (2Co9:12-14) God knew these brethren were in dire financial straights when he told me to empty my bank account and send it to them – thousands of dollars. But what I needed was more than twice as much as what I’d given. I’d been hit with a very large tax bill on my business and I didn’t have enough money to pay it by the required date. So God told me to take my entire savings and send it to this ministry. Afterwards they wrote me a very thankful letter that let me know my offering money reached them at just the right time. They were praising God because God answered their prayers concerning an urgent need no one but God knew about. Then concerning my need, now that I was totally broke things “seemed” even more desperate. But I’d obeyed God! To help stay in faith I prayed and fasted for the next two weeks. My tax bill was due on an upcoming Monday. But that Friday a new customer came to my business; someone I’d never dealt with before. By the time he’d left, he’d made a cash purchase that equaled my tax bill plus five dollars more! From that point on something spiritual broke through in my finances and money began to pour in from every direction. The devil had been bound and his house spoiled. 

Oh, send out Your light and Your Truth! Let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle. (Ps.43:3) It’s a terrible lie to believe you’ve already arrived just because you’re professing Jesus. The Truth is you’re in the process of being saved and because you’ve come to faith in Jesus, He can lead you to the final destination; the Kingdom of God or the New Jerusalem. Thus you’re in the process of being perfected, and as long as you’re obedient to Jesus you’re under grace, which means if you were to die, you wouldn’t die in your sins but would be saved! However if you turn away from following Christ you fall from grace. You’ve become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you’ve fallen from grace. (Gal 5:4) To stay in grace you must stay in Christ, following the Lord while being perfected by His Truth. If you’re really “saved” you’re on a journey in which God’s light and Truth are leading you to His Holy Hill. If you get separated from that Truth, you’ll lose your way. The Galatians became separated when they started to believe a lie. This persuasion didn’t come from Him who called you. (Gal 5:8) They’ve listened to a liar, a trickster. Someone has come in cunning craftiness with demons of deception to destroy them and if they don’t repent and come back to the Truth they’ll lose every thing. I am afraid for you, lest I’ve labored for you in vain. (Gal 4:11) If Paul has labored in vain, they’ve lost the salvation he’s worked so hard to give them. To arrive at the resurrection of life we must be led by the Truth. To be led by the Truth we must love the Truth so much that even when the Truth hurts we’ll hold on to the Truth in preference to a “comfortable” or “easy” lie. “Buy the Truth and do not sell it.” (Pr23:23)

And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of Truth, humility and righteousness… (Ps45:4) If you don’t keep Truth you’ll not ride prosperously. You can only ride prosperously if you keep the Truth But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we’ve said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed. (Gal 1:8-9) When God speaks something twice, it’s absolutely certain. And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. (Gen41:32) So the Holy Spirit through Paul says twice you’ll be cursed if you preach any other gospel than the real gospel. This curse on preaching the false gospel is absolutely certain and established. Today many false churches preach a different gospel. They believe they’re saved by Christ when they’re not showing themselves to be crucified with Him and aren’t living a Christ like life. I’ve been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (Gal 2:20) Because of their “false gospel” they’re accursed; separated from God and His grace. (Gal 5:4) Members of such “churches” can’t be prosperous if they don’t have the Truth, (Ps45:4) nor can they arrive at God’s Holy Hill without the Truth. (Ps43:3) Because the “faith movement” for example doesn’t have the Truth, though they covet prosperity they can never attain to it. Prosperity is for those who not only love the Truth, but also humility and righteousness. True believers attain to prosperity because of Truth, humility, and righteousness.(Ps45:4)

 You desire Truth in the inward parts! (Ps51:6) This is very much related to worshiping in Spirit and Truth. (Jn4:23) It stands in contrast to hypocritical and ritualistic religion in which fleshly deceits can be very subtly hidden in the pomp and ceremony. The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it? (Jer17:9) The heart has almost incredible abilities to deceive itself and others. It usually does this in order to do or get something to pleasure itself while it disguises its real motives, even pretending to be doing good for the love of God. Flesh often tries to appear outwardly good when in fact the motivation is inwardly selfish. What God uses to most effectually expose that perverse motivation and deceitfulness of flesh is the cross. The person who truly loves will give up his life to help others. He’ll do good even though it hurts him to do it. And many times God will allow the true believer to be hurt in such ways that you know there can be no profit in it for him. To do good or to help another, a real saint will voluntarily suffer such losses as there can be no ability to recover from or profit from in this world. And that’s what the cross does in the true saint. It allows him to do good without selfishly seeking temporal rewards. It distinguishes the real love motivation of the true saint from the hypocrite’s self-interested motivation, which God won’t accept because He desires Truth in the inward parts. God sees everything. He can discern  the very foundations of what motivates you, and if it’s not Godly or if it’s not love, don’t expect God to bless. To be blessed of God you must have a heart that’s pure so that it’s evident what’s motivating you is a true love for God and for your brother; that what you’re doing isn’t something for your own benefit.

God will repay my enemies for their evil. Cut them off in Your Truth. (Ps54:5) The Truth is God will reward you according to your works. (Ro2:6) So if you’re doing evil or hurting others, it will come back upon you. What you sow you’ll reap. (Gal 6:7) It’s a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you! (2The1:6) Those are all truths in which God will cut our enemies off. In the New Covenant God says those who are led by His Spirit are the sons of God. (Ro8:14) To be led by the Spirit of course is to be led by God. But those who don’t seek the Lord for leading or counsel are wicked and will be cut off! God calls those who don’t seek to be led by Him “rebellious” “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord, “Who take counsel, but not of Me and who devise plans, but not of My Spirit. That they may add sin to sin; Who walk to go down to Egypt, and have not asked My advice, (Is30:1-2a) The problem with most people isn’t so much that they don’t hear God when He speaks, the problem is God doesn’t speak unless you ask, and the wicked don’t ask. They don’t ask God for advice, but they are quick to run to the world or to the flesh for counsel. Remember the story of the Gibeonites? Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions; but they did not ask counsel of the Lord. (Josh9:14) The Lord won’t just interrupt you because something is going wrong. The Gibeonites were deceiving God’s people. They were asking God’s people to make a covenant God had forbidden them to make. But God didn’t say “Wait a minute Joshua, talk to me about it.” God usually won’t interrupt you!  He may let you make dreadful mistakes if you don’t remember to ask Him for advice. This is much related to “seeking the Lord.” And what you’re supposed to be learning in trusting the Lord is to do nothing without first receiving His counsel. The Lord is teaching us the way of Truth. One fact concerning the way of Truth is don’t expect God to intervene on your behalf unless you’re asking for His help. Don’t expect Him to give you counsel unless you’re asking Him for counsel. Jesus says every one who asks receives. He commanded you to ask, seek, and knock! (Mt7:7)

Oh, send out Your light and Your Truth! Let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle. (Ps43:3) You can see the Psalmist here is pleading with God to be led in the way of Truth. If you want to be led by the Spirit, ask God to lead you and don’t do anything presumptuously on your own, or by trusting in your own understanding. (Pr3:5) Joshua and his people by looking at false evidences provided by the Gibeonites came to a wrong conclusion. And God didn’t interfere. Joshua didn’t ask for God’s advice, and he didn’t get it. Also God didn’t punish the Gibeonites for their deception. He let their treaty stand. The Jews swore an oath and now they have to live by it. This is a profound illustration of how important it is to God that when you make a vow you keep it. God enforced this treaty even in the reign of David where a famine came upon Israel because Saul broke the treaty by killing some Gibeonites. Hundreds of years later that treaty was still in effect in God’s eyes. (2Sa21:1-14) Now get a hold of this God and the Truth about Him!

Most people think you can wink at all kinds of sin and change your word at will, and do virtually whatever you want without regard to God’s word and God will still forgive you and bless you. The Truth is our God is a perfectionist! He wants things exactly the way He says. He’ll demand that you make things right before He’ll forgive you! God does strain at gnats but He doesn’t swallow a camel either. God wants complete obedience! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! (Mt23:23-24) Now the end has come upon you, and I will send My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways, My eye will not spare you, nor will I have pity; But I will repay your ways, now upon you I will soon pour out My fury, and spend My anger upon you. (Ezek7:3,4,8) Because their ways aren’t God’s ways, God will destroy them.

He’ll repay my enemies for their evil. Cut them off in Your Truth! (Ps54:5) And God will cut them off in His Truth as He’s said. “He’ll render to each one according to his deeds.” (Ro2:6) But you can see if I’m led by God’s Truth, (Ps43:3) He won’t have to punish me according to my ways or cut me off in His Truth. Because if I walk in God’s ways there’s nothing wrong in what I do that would cause God to punish. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Ro8:1) Jerusalem is punished because God is judging them according to their ways and their ways aren’t His ways. They’re cut off because God will cut them off in His Truth. (Ps54:5) God’s ways are Truth and Truth requires Him to cut them off. There are ways God has said He won’t put up with and that’s His Truth. And He’s said those who do such things will be cut off. He won’t put up with the insolent ways of the rebellious peoples any longer because their ways deserve to be judged and punished.

He shall send from heaven and save me; He reproaches the one who would swallow me up. God shall send forth His mercy and His Truth. (Ps57:3) God’s mercy and Truth will save the righteous and bring down the one who reproaches the righteous. You’ve given a banner to those who fear You, that it may be displayed because of the Truth. (Ps60:4) He shall abide before God forever. Oh, prepare mercy and Truth, which may preserve him! (Ps61:7) A banner identifies you. “His banner over me is love.” (Song2:4) Truth and love are God’s banner. How does that relate to “Speak the Truth in love?” (Eph4:15) Banners are the same as flags. They identify nations, states, armies, etc. God has given a banner to his people so everyone may know they’re His people; to identify them as His. And what is that banner? It isn’t money or numbers or success in that way. Dictators and very wicked men can have money and numbers. That kind of success isn’t God’s banner of blessing. What nobody, no matter how rich or powerful can have – what their money and power can’t buy is God’s presence. And His presence is made known by His Truth and love manifesting where His true people are. No one can imitate this. At “My Father’s House,” God has given us the Glory of His Grace to be a banner of His Truth and love over us that marks us as His people. No one else in the world – no matter how much money a large “church” or denomination has – they can’t publish anything that has the Truth like the Glory of His Grace, because they can’t buy that Truth with money. It has to be purchased from God. And God has given it to us as a banner of His love over us. The Glory of His Grace marks and identifies us as a special people who belong to God. 

In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; God will appoint salvation for walls and bulwarks. Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the Truth may enter in. (Is26:1-2) In Israel the strong city was Jerusalem. Where the king lives is the safest place the people can come for protection and such. Who’s permitted to enter this great place of safety? Who’ll be permitted to reside in the strong city? Only the righteous nation who keeps the Truth. This passage is prophetic of the New Testament age and who will be allowed to enter the New Jerusalem. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “ Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. And He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” (Rev21:2-4) Only the obedient will enter in. Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (Rev22:14) Those who do His commandments, the righteous nation who keeps the Truth, gain entrance to the Holy City. But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. (Rev22:15) Now outside doesn’t mean there’s some other “country” they can live in besides the New Jerusalem. Outside is hell. In fact the word outside in the Greek is “EX” meaning they’re no more, dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers, and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie, (Rev22:15) these have been “EX’ed.” They no longer have any existence in God’s blessed creation. Those Jesus speaks of in “You’re of your father the devil, he was a liar from the beginning and there’s no Truth in him.” (Jn8:44) They love lies. But the Saints are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, (1Pe2:9) a righteous nation that keeps the Truth. So to be saved you must be of a people who love the Truth, keep the Truth, practice the Truth, stand for the Truth, display the Truth, speak the Truth; for only the nation who loves the Truth can enter in. If you let go of the Truth, if you “sell the Truth” you won’t get in. So how important is the Truth to you? The one who keeps the Truth is the one who’ll be “saved.” You can’t let go of the Truth at any cost if you’re to enter into God’s eternal Kingdom. Buy the Truth and don’t sell it at any price.  

For you yourself know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “peace and safety!” (a lie) then sudden destruction comes upon them and they shall not escape. But you, brethren, aren’t   in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You’re all sons of light and sons of the day. We’re not of the night nor of darkness.(1The5:2-5) Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (v6-9) Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day won’t come unless the falling away (apostasy) comes first. And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. (2The2:3) You won’t have a wicked politician taking over the world until the people admire wickedness. Until they think wickedness is a virtue, they’ll reject the antichrist!

We’ve already experienced a taste of this when our nation accepted the wickedness of Clinton and the debauchery that went on in his White House. How many excused his sins, saying “It’s how he does his job that’s important, not his personal life!” That’s a lie! Clinton brought great shame to our nation! He’s in a position of leadership where he serves as an example to others. Right now our prisons are overflowing with young people. Governments are trying to raise taxes to build more prisons.  And that prison over crowding is due in part to the fact that when young people look up to their presidents and leaders they don’t see examples of righteousness. Instead they often see hypocrisy, greed, and licentiousness. So the carnal mind thinks, why should I be righteous when righteousness isn’t rewarded? What’s rewarded is sin and wickedness. So we’re already entering into the antichrist age where we see the people are accepting sin in their leadership and they don’t like a righteous leader. They want someone who makes them feel acceptable in their sin. “If the president is a sinner like me, yet he’s respected, I must be alright.” The Greek gods were some of the worst sinners you’ll ever see. They cannibalized their children, murdered their spouses, had indiscriminate sex with mortals even while transforming themselves into animals. What do you think the people are like who worship gods like that? How do you think such people feel about righteousness? “If my god can do it why can’t I?” 

Now do you understand what it means to have a holy God? God by His holiness is setting a standard for His people. But when a society turns away from holiness to sin, they don’t want a holy God convicting them. They want to get that holy God out of the way. They want to be free to enjoy their sin. (Is30:11) They don’t want righteous leaders who’ll show them how they ought to behave. They want wicked leaders who by example and word are telling them “You’re alright in your sin!” Clinton was a baptist. He readily forgave all his own sins. He went to a church that would tickle his ears and tell him he was forgiven then he’d go back and do it again. Can you see the baptists are preparing their people for antichrist? Their doctrine is making antichrist behavior “acceptable” to the people. The coming of the lawless one requires first of all that the society itself falls into great wickedness. And that’s what it means The falling away must come first. (2The2:3) Gross darkness will cover the people. (Is60:2)  The wicked don’t know what makes them stumble. (Pr4:19) They’re blinded by sin. But the glory of God is rising upon us, His true people, and it’s already visible. We’re already seeing extraordinary truths. There’s already a visible banner over us of love and Truth; the Glory of His Grace!

And the (antichrist) calls himself god and sits as God, in the temple of God showing himself he is god. (2The2:4b) It’s the devil in God’s temple when the flesh is operating within a person who claims to be a Christian. It’s like the baptist Clinton, who says he’s a “believer” in whom Christ should dwell but what’s really inside of him is fornication and filthiness. Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. (1Co6:18) How much does Clinton love lies? How often did he resort to lies over just that one issue? Why does he trust in lies? He doesn’t trust in Truth. He doesn’t love Truth. Just concerning Monica Lewinsky he told dozens of lies. Who knows how many other lies he’s told over how many other things? Such a man trusts in lies to solve his problems. Obviously he doesn’t trust in Truth. If he trusted in Truth he’d tell the Truth. Now what is the person who trusts in lies doing? He uses lies to cover up sin so he won’t suffer the consequences of his sins. The lie is his shield, his protection. He loves the lie because it saves him not from sin, but from sin’s consequences. By lies he avoids punishment and preserves his job, or position. So sinners use lies to avoid the consequential effects of their sins. Lies are an indispensable tool to sinners. Without lies they couldn’t continue in their sins without being discovered and cut off. They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.” (Jn8:39) “You’re of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (Jn8:44)

Now tell me who is Clinton’s father? His father is the devil. He lives by lies. He loves lies. Lies are among his favorite tools. Truth? When does Clinton tell the Truth about anything? Only when he thinks the Truth will help him in his selfish purposes! “Speak the Truth in love?” Clinton and those like him can only speak the Truth in selfishness! The spirit in him isn’t Jesus. It’s the spirit of antichrist pretending to be god. As a “Christian” he’s supposed to be a temple to God. Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? (1Co6:19) But what’s in Clinton’s temple is the devil. Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” (1Co6:16) The harlot is in Clinton’s temple, the devil is in Clinton’s temple. The liar is in Clinton’s temple. Clinton trusts in lies to protect his position and cover his guilt. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan with all power, signs, and lying wonders. (2The2:9) What was the coming of Clinton according to?  Power? Signs? Lies? So in him you see the character antichrist, whom The Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth, and destroy him with the brightness of His coming. (2The2:8b) The breath of His mouth means “words.” Brightness means light. But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. (Eph5:13) Right now Jesus is destroying the antichrist in the baptist church with the breath of His mouth in me, and the brightness of His coming in me by the Glory of His Grace ministry. What’s the breath of my mouth doing? Speaking the Truth in love so the light in the Glory of His Grace can destroy the antichrist baptist lies and save God’s elect! Ultimately Jesus will do that on a complete and final scale, so all those who’ve loved and trusted lies will be destroyed with the Antichrist. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the Truth, that they might be saved. (2The2:9,10) And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who didn’t believe the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2The2:11-12)

 Sometimes when the Truth comes it hurts! When Truth convicts, it hurts! It can bring tears to your eyes when you’re deeply convicted. Nobody likes to be hurt. But people who love the Truth, when Truth shows them their sin and it hurts, they want to get rid of the hurt, so what they do is get rid of the sin. When they turn away from the sin, when they repent, when they ask God to forgive them and plead the blood of Jesus, then the hurt is removed. And such are the people who love and hold on to the Truth. But the devil’s children love sin and so they love lies, and when Truth comes to them and convicts them of their sins and hurts them, they won’t turn away from their sins because they love their sins too much. So in order to stop the hurt they turn away from the Truth. They must do away with either the Truth or the sin to stop the hurt, and they won’t do away with the sin. “They love the pleasures of unrighteousness.” So they must do away with the Truth to escape from the hurt of conviction. The people who love the Truth know it’s the sin that causes the hurt not the Truth. So we get rid of the sin and we hold on to the Truth. But the wicked get rid of the Truth and hold on to the sin. Wicked or righteous, you have to get rid of the hurt. But there are two ways to stop the hurt. Get rid of the sin is Jesus’ way! Get rid of the Truth is the antichrist’s way! Now I’m telling you the Truth in Christ. Verily, Verily, I say unto you, everything about the baptist church was designed by satan to get rid of the Truth in their people so they won’t feel condemned while they continue in sin. Every doctrine in baptist theology, everything that pertains to the way the baptists operate is intended to make sinners feel “saved” while they continue to sin! They do this by rejecting the Truth and following lies, like the “once saved always saved” lie and the lie that believers are just sinners and can’t be anything else. The truth is: Whoever abides in Him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Whoever has been born of God doesn’t sin, for His seed remains in him; and he can’t sin, because he has been born of God. (1Jn3:6,9) All the lies of the baptist church are purposed to get rid of the Truth so their people won’t be convicted by the Truth. You have no idea how evil The baptist church is. God has shown me they are virulent enemies to His Truth. They’re completely antichrist. God’s church gets rid of the sin. That’s how real Christians get rid of the hurt sin causes. Baptists get rid of the Truth and that’s how they try to get rid of the hurt sin causes. The baptists and those like them are of synagogues of satan. (Rev3:9) Their father is the devil. (Jn8:44) Their spirit is “I don’t want to get rid of the pleasures of sin or I don’t believe I can overcome sin, but I don’t want to suffer the punishment for sin or even conviction either! So what do I get rid of? Truth!”

One of our new “My Father’s House” members wrote a letter showing the Bible Truth to her baptist mother. When her mother read that letter she ran away from home for three days because she was so convicted. But during that three days she didn’t get rid of her sin! She ran away for three days to get away from the Truth, so she could feel alright again. She ran away to her baptist “brethren” who all helped her get rid of and forget the Truth. They told her lies to comfort her. “Truth has fallen to the ground” (Is59:14) in that wicked church. But the pertinent question is when Truth comes and hurts you how do you deal with the pain? Our election as true Christians is proven by the fact that it doesn’t matter how much it hurts, the elect never let go of the Truth. To buy the Truth is to pay the price for it. To pay the price includes enduring the pain that’s required to get a secure hold on the Truth. If I’m elect I’ll never sell the Truth. I’ll get rid of the sin that hurts me, but the Truth is not something I’ll ever let go of. And that is what makes us true Christians, elect. And that’s what makes the baptists and those like them damned. Because the damned will sell the Truth for the comfort of the lie but the elect buy the Truth and won’t sell it at any price.

 Prophecy: Truth is more valuable than all gold and silver. To enter My Kingdom you must be of the righteous nation which keeps the Truth. But I tell you My people, contrary to the delusion of most around you, Truth is not just knowledge. Truth is not merely an understanding of one or two things. Truth is a Way of life. Truth is an understanding of all things. Truth is My Spirit! Truth is My Son. Truth is My Word. Truth is even My true church, for she’s the pillar and ground of the Truth. And when you buy the Truth you don’t buy it with a few years of seminary. You don’t buy it by reading one or two books. But you buy Truth by giving Me your all, by laying down your life for Me, by giving up your life for the Truth. In turn the Truth saves your life. Truth brings you into the Kingdom of Truth. I tell you My people it’s clear that only those who spend their lives for Me can gain My Truth, gain My revelation, even in every day situations. Only those who pay the price to come to My table daily can receive My daily revelations of Truth. You must come to Me and give up your way, your understanding to buy My Truth. And you must keep My Truth every day until you attain to My Kingdom. My elect know this: you gain Truth by eating My Word; My Word is Truth. But you also receive Truth by hearing My Spirit of Truth. And again you can find Truth by asking, seeking, knocking, by finding, entering and never letting go of My true church. For it is My true church which has My Spirit of Truth in this earth and speaks My Words. Now you must give your whole life for Truth, but in doing so I’ll bring you into the Kingdom of My life and Truth, saith the Lord.              

 Prophecy: There’s a scripture that speaks of the simplicity of Christ, and I now speak to you the simplicity of Truth. This is how simple Truth is. Truth is right. It’s always right. It’s never wrong. When something’s wrong it’s not Truth. When it’s right it’s Truth. Everything that’s wrong isn’t Truth. You who have Christ in you have an anointing and you know all things and you know what’s true, because the very Spirit of Truth is in you to witness to what’s right. Buying the Truth doesn’t just mean knowing it. It means doing it. The simplicity you’re being called to in Christ is to know what’s right and to do what’s right and to do that is what it means to “buy the Truth and don’t sell it.” My Word is Truth, and My Spirit of Truth will always lead you to understand My Word in a way that’s right so you can see what’s right and do what’s right, and by that means you’ll arrive at the destination, at the Holy Hill of Zion, at the resurrection of life, because you’ll be led by and kept by the simplicity of My Truth, saith the Lord.   (Prophecies delivered at “My Father’s House”)

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