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The Secret Place

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Today, almost everyone is talking about God's secret place. I hope we all know where it is. Most Christians know the procedures on how to be a member of a local church, know the policies and doctrines of their denominations, but they don't know God's secret place--the secret place. It's secret but it's clearly specified in Scriptures. To be sure, you cannot claim to go to the secret place if you're not deeply grounded in the Word. I hear lots of church goers claim they know God's secret place and yet have no deep love for the Word. A secret road leads to the secret place, and that road is narrow--only a few choose it because the majority opts for the wide road to destruction. I see people who have lackadaisical spiritual lives talking about their "experience" in God's secret place.  The secret place is not a playground where anyone can go and be entertained. Some claim that you just have to worship expressively--shout and cry--to be ab

Sitting in Moses' Seat

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The Pharisees and Law teachers sat on Moses' seat, said Jesus. They must be obeyed, though they didn't live out God's Word. The Pharisees could trace their leadership authority to Moses and the Law, and Jesus acknowledged that. They indeed sat in Moses' seat. The only problem with them was that they were hypocrites, snakes, and vipers.  But I don't know where denominations can trace their authority. They cannot claim to sit on Paul's or Peter's seat. Paul and Peter never taught about having denominations with separate doctrines, each often going against the other. At least, the Pharisees and Law teachers were strictly clinging to Moses' teachings--they overdid it, in fact, and became too religious for Jesus. Denominations today do not overdo the New Testament--they're doing completely different things from what Jesus and the Acts church did. For one, most of them are not headed by genuine apostles and prophets. They are run by chairmen and p

Gaining Everything

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I will never forget the day when God told me to lose all. God's Spirit talks to your spirit during quiet times and Word meditations with him, and that day he told me to "lose all." He said it's the secret to possessing everything, just like how Jesus possessed everything after losing all.  Photo by ali barzegarahmadi on Unsplash . Jesus made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, [Philippians 2] Possessing everything does not mean getting rich and having lots of money and material possessions but possessing God's spiritual possessions. Let me put it this way: A man of God was once invited to speak in a mountainous venue and when night came the place was full of mosquitoes. The camp