THE CHURCH, PART ONE

The Life of the Church Acts 2 :41-47 Those who accepted his message were baptised, and about three thousand were added to their number that day. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 4 : 32-35 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need. Today, it is the direct contrary that is practiced. You will find in the same church people who are extremely rich and people who are extremely poor. People who feed satisfactorily and throw the rest of their food in the dustbins, and people who do not even have the crumbs to eat. People who have many cars stored in the parking and people who know how to drive but who walk each day on foot. People who have sumptuous villas, and people who do not even have where to sleep. You find still in the same assembly, sworn enemies. People who can neither greet each other, nor speak to each other; people who fight and detest each other; people who hate themselves and devour one another. They are all seated in the same assembly, all calling themselves children of god, and serving the same god. Fortunately they are serving their god, and not our God, the Father of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. You will also find demons called pastors, who jointly invest big fortunes in the purchase of lands and buildings,

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the things the first disciples sold instead. They are constructing satanic empires that the Lord will destroy in the few days ahead. A few years ago, a demon pastor in England bought a land worth 2.7 millions pound sterling, the equivalence in those days of 4.7 millions Euro, or the actual value of 5.1 millions US dollars, about the equivalence of 3 billions of CFA francs. This entire sum just for land, where as thousands of servants of God in poor countries lack even bicycles for evangelism, where as many Children of God in poor countries are languishing in misery. And what is surprising in this is that he is not the only one. That is the folly in which all of them have plunged themselves into, today. It has become a subject of glory to them. Another one told me recently in the USA that in less than one year of existence, they have bought a land of more than 2 million dollars. You also find demons called christians who spend time feeding animals meanwhile brethren lack what to eat. It is quite shocking and upsetting to see the abominable being called christians, together with what they call “servants of god”, rear dogs and cats, meanwhile many Children of God die of hunger in the world. There are even others who boast of their animals. When they begin to talk of their lovely pets you will have the impression that they are talking of men. And they spend enormous budgets on these animals, by despising men made in the image of the Living God. That is, beloved, what have become of the heritage which Peter and the other apostles left us. Oh! How they will be crying and deploring the situation by seeing that! If you believe that God is Just, let every one tighten his belt. For God will judge this abominable generation, God will certainly judge. Grace be upon you all who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ! Amen Contact and FREE Subscription: Christian Mission of Revival, PO Box 15029, London SE5 7ZN. E-mail: [email protected] http://members.aol.com/mcreveil http://mcreveil.free.fr

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JESUS CHRIST IS COMING BACK NEWS OF THE END TIMES

THE CHURCH, PART ONE This teaching is the 1st part of a series of three teachings. To benefit fully read the two others. Beloved in the Lord, the Peace of the Lord be with you! I strongly desire to give you this teaching about the Church, to help the Children of God who have escaped corrupt religious milieu not to fall into the same satanic practices that they had abandoned.

What is the Church ? The essentials having been said in the preceding teachings on the departure from the truth that the church experiences today, I will insist in this teachings on the notion of the Church just as the Lord teaches us and just as the true Children of God must live it. The Church is nothing but the totality of all the Christians, that is to say, the totality of all the Disciples of Christ. But the world has caused so much confusion in the things of God that people do no longer know who is a Christian and who is not. Thus, we have what is known today as catholic christian, protestant christian, baptist, pentecostal etc.. Know very well, that there is neither catholic christian, nor protestant christian, nor pentecostal christian, we simply have Christian. And a Christian is the one who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour and is baptised in water for the forgiveness of his sins. The Church is therefore the gathering of all those who have recognised Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour, and who have accepted Him by confessing their sins and being baptised in water. In the same way, there is neither the catholic church, nor the protestant church, nor the

evangelical church nor the pentecostal church, nor apostolic church. There is only one Church, the Church of Jesus Christ. Catholicism as well as all other religious institutions are nothing but satanic sects, in the light of the word of God. By the way, I remind you that according to the word of God, a sect refers to every religious group, whose doctrine does not conform to the sound doctrine, the doctrine of Jesus Christ just as it is written in the Bible.

Buildings One of the highest misconceptions of the religious groups of our days, is the notion of the church as a building. Many people still continue to believe that a church is a large building with a cross positioned on one of its summits. Even the so-called revived religious groups, who acknowledge that a church is not a building, demonstrate just the contrary in their daily practices. Instead of investing and spending for the thousands of Children of God who are still in need, fools so-called servants of God spend huge sums of money on buildings. What does the Bible say ? Lets examine the following passages together: Matthew 18 : 20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them. The Lord does not put any emphasis on the place here. It’s the notion of gathering and in the name of JESUS that matters. Acts 2 : 46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.

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The Bible tells us of the temple and houses. This is one of the passages that agents of satan use in order to seduce themselves and also seduce the Children of God. Because they see the word temple here, they say that the apostles and the first disciples were meeting in the temple; and they make it a reason to waste God’s money in the construction of sumptuous buildings that they call temples or churches.

You that are reading this teaching, if you believe that you are a Child of God, run away from those abominable places.

When other demons lack what to say so as to defend their follies, they say, in the Old Testament Solomon constructed a temple. And when I ask them who in the New Testament constructed a temple, they are unable to answer me. They instead find in that another reason for calumny and sabotage, telling those whom they are leading not to listen to my teachings, telling them that I neglect the Old Testament.

Acts 5 : 42 Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

I do not neglect the Old Testament beloved, you know yourself that if you want to live the Church according to the Lord, it will not be on the model of the Old Testament that you will be inspired. The Church of Jesus Christ that started with the apostles, with the help of the Holy Spirit, is the model that we need to follow, as long as we must talk in terms of the Church.

The first disciples met in the temple so as to win some Children of God who still thought that the temple was the house of God, and they met in houses, to render true worship. They broke bread but in houses, they lived the real fraternal love but in houses.

Understand very well that here the Lord talks of a temple and not temples; He tells us of several houses and not one house. There was a temple that the people of old used in their own manner to render service to God. The apostles went into this temple, to win all who were found there. But the true Children of God met in houses, and their services took place in houses. Acts 20 : 20 You know that I have not hesitated to preach anything that would be helpful to you but have taught you publicly and from house to house.

Do not imitate the agents of satan, who in order to go astray further, create in the Church the external pavilion, the holy place and the most holy place on the pretext that the Old Testament needs not be neglected.

We always make effort to meet at times in public places, with the goal of reaching out to the crowd, but true Children of God meet in houses, so as to examine the word of God.

To completely lead astray the people of God, these same demons have created what they call choir group, praise group and adoration group, and it is with these that they have won the hearts of those who were finding it painful to break links with the world. As these people were finding it difficult to separate with their formal nightclubs, day clubs have rapidly been created for them. And to sustain their folly, they tell you that in the Old Testament there were singers. Ask them to tell you what was found in the New Testament.

Romans 16 : 5 Greet also the church that meets at their house.

Retain this, beloved, that when we want to talk of the Church, we cannot get inspiration from the Old Covenant, because men were the ones doing everything for themselves, of course with the help of the Lord, whereas in the New Covenant the Lord granted the Church a precious assistant, the Holy Spirit, who manages everything for us. I insist on this aspect because it is one of the points that agents of satan exploit so as to deceive ignorant Children of God. Each time that agents of satan are rebuked on the false doctrine that they teach in the churches today, they justify themselves by citing some examples from the Old Testament.

1 Corinthians 16 : 19 The churches in the province of Asia send you greetings. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house. Colossians 4 : 15 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea, and to Nympha and the church in her house. Philemon 1 & 2 Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our dear friend and fellow-worker, to Apphia our sister, to Archippus our fellow-soldier and to the church that meets in your home: Retain this beloved, that true Children of God meet in houses, they make their services in houses, they worship God in houses. So, it happens that we go from time to time into big buildings or big halls or large temples, to preach the word of God to the crowd. But we teach the Children of God in houses.

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Go through all the New Testament and you will realise that Jesus did not construct any temple, the apostles did not construct any temple the disciples after them did not construct any. They all understood that we ourselves have become the temple of God, and that our houses suffice us for worship. Each time I give this teaching, these religious, who know nothing again concerning the things of God, say it is my vision and that every one has his vision. In order to harden themselves, most agents of Satan, say that if I have the vision of house churches, they have the vision of bigger churches. I wish to at this level, warn you against satanic inspired expressions: The term “house church” is an expression void of sense, without any significance. A Church according to the word of God is neither a place, nor a corner, nor a building of any sort; a Church is a group of two or more Children of God who gather in the name of Jesus Christ, to seek the face of God. It is therefore useless talking about house churches. It makes no sense at all. The Lord led me one day to a country, to a group of brethren who were meeting under a mango tree, to study the word of God. All the time that I spent with these brethren, it was under this mango tree that we worshipped our Lord. What expression will fools use this time? I suppose very well that they will talk of “the mango tree church” or the “under mango tree church”. Escape abomination and come back to reasoning before it is too late. Jesus did not ask His servants to spend the ministry’s money in constructing or buying useless buildings, He asks us to put the houses that he has placed at our disposal, for His work. Other agents of satan will tell you that if the first disciples were gathering in houses, it was because they were persecuted, and so they had to hide in houses in order to escape persecution. Know very well, before persecution began, brethren were already gathering in houses. Still others will tell you that if the first disciples succeeded in houses, it was because things were not the same in their days as in ours. Another way of telling you that God is overtaken by events, He that told His Children to meet in houses to praise Him, had a short run vision so much that He did not expect a change in our days. Beloved, if you hold on to your salvation, escape seduction. There are still some ignorant brethren who say that according to my teaching, one has the impression that the Church most not grow. I often tell these brethren that the Church must grow, but buildings need not expand.

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The Lord did not make any mistake by giving us many houses. If we become more numerous than a house can contain us, we divide ourselves into many Churches according to the quarters or regions where brethren live. This is what the Lord expects from us. There need to be in each quarter, a house or a place where brethren of that locality meet. The will of the Lord for the Church, is that the brethren of a given locality meet there every day to worship. It is not the will of God that brethren should travel or move kilometres to go and worship.

What animates the agents of satan to construct or buy big lands today, are greediness and pride. Since they are making business, they need many customers. For that reason, they need to put in place all necessary structure to contain as many customers as possible. Because of greediness, many people need to be gathered, so as to collect much tithes and offerings. If they put the teaching of the Lord into practice by meeting in houses, they will find it difficult to shout at faithful every Sunday to give tithes and offerings, they will also find it difficult to supervise and control the circulation of tithes and offerings. Because of pride, they need to gather everybody in a very large hall, and count them, so as to glorify themselves at the size of their enterprises. That is how many of these demons that are blindly called great men of God, measure themselves according to the number of blind people they have in their temples of folly and seduction. These sorcerers are so numerous in USA, Great Britain and other great countries. And in smaller countries, apprenticeship sorcerers imitate them as their models. One of these big sorcerers, a renowned demon has as slogan “the fastest growing church…” Each year the number increases by 1000 people, that is to say, 1000 new candidates for hell register themselves each year. They are so numerous that when this demon eats some faithful in witchcraft, others do not even realise. For you, Children of God, who are still in this type of madmen cage that the ignorant call churches, I advise you to come out from there rapidly if you cherish on to your salvation.

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