Bible Study Modern "Transfiguration"

[Soul man]

Look at an important issue with the Father, Mark 9:2-8, and how He worked it out in a beautiful way. One day, He had Jesus take Peter,James and John up to the Mount of Transfiguration.
There He miraculously had Moses, Elijah and Jesus appear all together. The first reaction of the three preachers when they saw this great sight was to want to build a tabernacle for each of them.
The Father knew that there was a very carnal strain in human beings that would take a glorious moment and want to institutionalize it by building buildings.
Then the Father brought a cloud that swallowed up Moses and Elijah, and they saw Jesus only. His purpose in the whole event was to break that carnal thing in them that made something they could do a spiritual act.
You see, this is what is happening in our day. Buildings have become images of spirituality. Most every successful preacher I know has a building in his plans. But the message of God is that wanting to do some thing for God must give way to seeing no one but Jesus.
Now, we must get it out of our minds that buildings are the true Church. As we see bigger and bigger buildings being built, they become nothing but warehouses for believers, and the preacher, instead of being one who would lay down his life for his sheep, is simply a warehouse manager.
This is a far cry from the true Gospel, and hungry believers everywhere are rebelling.
The Church is the Body of Christ. Whether it is two thousand or two or three individuals present, in Christ that is the Church. Numbers do not make the Body of Christ in any place more important.
Numbers may accelerate the growth of the purpose of that body, but quantity never replaces quality in Christ.

 

[for_his_glory]

It's like the tower of Babel built on the plain of Shinar in ancient Babylon. The structure was built to satisfy the peoples vanity as they wanted to make a name for themselves, Genesis 11. Same today with modern day Babylonians.

 

[Soul man]

It's like the tower of Babel built on the plain of Shinar in ancient Babylon. The structure was built to satisfy the peoples vanity as they wanted to make a name for themselves, Genesis 11. Same today with modern day Babylonians.

Ill try and trust what you say but I know you Pennsylvania girls pretty good, I'm married to one from Wilkes Barre.
Personally I have a hard time comparing OT stories with what we have today.
To be honest that has not always been the case.
I lived in the OT for years and knew very little about the NT, apart from death, burial, and resurrection. I found most of my messages there, and the types and shadows was a thrill for me to study out to the teeth.
I crossreferenced everything, went into the Hebrew, Greek and studied out meanings.
Coming to see Christ as life, in time, changed all that.
I could see now the real had come, and it led me into more and more of the in Christ message, just in case you haven't noticed.
Someone said too me "you need to be more balanced," you can't do that with a God truth. You can't mix a little of this and a little of that, even if they are God truths. The In Christ truth stands completely alone.
If you think I'm bad wait until Paul gets ahold of you.
You'll be done, a heritic, religion will have nothing to do with you.
It will be the greatest thing to ever happen to you, other than your salvation.

 

[th1b.taylor]

Ill try and trust what you say but I know you Pennsylvania girls pretty good, I'm married to one from Wilkes Barre.
Personally I have a hard time comparing OT stories with what we have today.
To be honest that has not always been the case.
I lived in the OT for years and knew very little about the NT, apart from death, burial, and resurrection. I found most of my messages there, and the types and shadows was a thrill for me to study out to the teeth.
I crossreferenced everything, went into the Hebrew, Greek and studied out meanings.
Coming to see Christ as life, in time, changed all that.
I could see now the real had come, and it led me into more and more of the in Christ message, just in case you haven't noticed.
Someone said too me "you need to be more balanced," you can't do that with a God truth. You can't mix a little of this and a little of that, even if they are God truths. The In Christ truth stands completely alone.
If you think I'm bad wait until Paul gets ahold of you.
You'll be done, a heritic, religion will have nothing to do with you.
It will be the greatest thing to ever happen to you, other than your salvation.

I am moved to remorse to hear that. Without the first thirty-nine book, the following 27 have foundation. In truth nothing explained or commented on in the last 27 books misnamed the New Testament is of the same context as the previous 39 but Jesus and the Disciples that wrote the 27 Life Application Commentaries on 6the first 39

 

[for_his_glory]

Ill try and trust what you say but I know you Pennsylvania girls pretty good, I'm married to one from Wilkes Barre.
Personally I have a hard time comparing OT stories with what we have today.
To be honest that has not always been the case.
I lived in the OT for years and knew very little about the NT, apart from death, burial, and resurrection. I found most of my messages there, and the types and shadows was a thrill for me to study out to the teeth.
I crossreferenced everything, went into the Hebrew, Greek and studied out meanings.
Coming to see Christ as life, in time, changed all that.
I could see now the real had come, and it led me into more and more of the in Christ message, just in case you haven't noticed.
Someone said too me "you need to be more balanced," you can't do that with a God truth. You can't mix a little of this and a little of that, even if they are God truths. The In Christ truth stands completely alone.
If you think I'm bad wait until Paul gets ahold of you.
You'll be done, a heritic, religion will have nothing to do with you.
It will be the greatest thing to ever happen to you, other than your salvation.

There's many fences here in NW PA and I use to sit on them until truth knocked me off of them. Like Paul, I wrestled with religion and religion lost

 

[Chopper]

I agree with your thread remarks Soul man. That's why, after preaching in "church buildings" for 35 years, in the last years of being a Shepherd of God's flock, I taught the whole counsel of God from my home and other homes as the Lord Jesus led. I must say, there was more spiritual evidence in those house fellowships than any other church building, as you have noted.

 

[Soul man]

There's many fences here in NW PA and I use to sit on them until truth knocked me off of them. Like Paul, I wrestled with religion and religion lost

Seems in the day we live in religion is on every hand, I suppose every generation has had to handle certain things as well.
We have a hope that keeps us, and where it looks to be spinning out of control our Father is working.
Like one brother said "the end is near" and it probably is, but this world will keep rocking along untill He is through with it.

 

[Soul man]

We have been meeting in different places for the last 15 years, mostly in living rooms.
Freedom to speak, to teach and preach can not be hindered.
I have been through that as well, if you don't say everything the denomination believes and their creed, you're out.
I've pastored, evangelized every situation you can think of, never again.
The meeting we have there is nothing to join, nothing to quit, just a fellowship.