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“They don’t do this right. They don’t do that.” They’re looking for the perfect church, and if they
ever found it, when they joined it, they’d mess it up.
Churches are made up of people. You’re not going to find a church where nobody ever makes a
mistake. Besides that, that’s not how you’re supposed to be led—by judging churches to see if
you’re going to put your stamp of approval on them. The Head of the Church will direct you to
get into one, and there will be some things you like, and there may be some things you don’t like.
But if He is your Lord, you are to endure even hardness as a good soldier and show up at your
post, do your duty, and serve your Lord.
There are a lot of weak, unfaithful, uncommitted people in the body of Christ today, and they just
hop from one thing to another. They never stick with anything, and they never see anything
through, so they are babies now, even after 40 years of being born again. They will never grow
up like this. You have to stick and stay where you’re assigned, and you have to be faithful. You
have to know and do what you’re supposed to do and what you are anointed to do. Go where
you’re sent, and stay where you’re stationed.
He said in verse 6 that the Spirit of God has been shed abroad in our hearts, the love of God and
the Holy Spirit, the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, “Abba. Father.” Then, in verse 7, he says
that we are no longer just servants. “Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a
son, then an heir of God through Christ.” You are not just a servant; you are a son of God.
Jesus is my Lord, but He is also my Brother. I don’t know if we know how big that is. We have
Friends in high places. We know Someone. I’ve had people look at me and say, “You
know
Someone?”
I said, “Yes. I
know
Someone.”
They think I’m talking about a human behind a desk somewhere. I’m talking about Someone
seated at the right hand of Majesty on High. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He’s
everything, and He’s my Brother. He’s your Brother.
Do you remember reading in the Gospel accounts how people got upset with Jesus when He
referred to God as His Father? They said, “You are a Man, and You’re making Yourself equal
with God because You call Him Your Father?” Oh, it made them mad.
Religion disputes this, and religion keeps God way up here and you way down there. It says you
are a little ignorant worm and God is Almighty and too glorious to touch you. That’s why all of
these religions have all these works, and many of them will tell you that you can’t even go to
God directly, that you have to find some other people to go through. But it’s a lie. The Bible
says, “There is one God and there is One,” not two or three or four, “One Mediator between God
and men, it is the Man Christ Jesus.” (1Timothy 2:5) There is only One Person you have to go
through to get to God, and He’s your Brother. He calls you brother.
When Jesus was raised from the dead, what did He tell them? Some of the women saw Him at
the tomb, right after He came out, before He had gone anywhere. His body had been lying in