Getting Christianity Out!

Hey Pastor John,

Last night I was listening to an Old Testament cd.*  You started talking about how Rob cleans up our music, layer by layer, and comparing that with getting the junk that Christianity has left behind in our hearts.  It was so good, you said:

“Christianity not only doesn’t take out the things that God doesn’t like, they make noise.  It interferes with the song God’s trying to get your heart to sing with Him.  It adds clutter; it tells them to forgive when God doesn’t say to forgive.  That’s clutter!  It confuses.  It can add so much to the heart that you don’t even hear the song of God anymore; you hear something different.  You can’t even tell what Jesus is singing about in your soul.  That’s why to know good and evil belongs to “those who are full of age” (Heb. 5).

“By reason of use,” it says, one layer then another layer is cleansed, as you pursue the righteousness of God.  Submitting to the hand of Jesus as he works the knobs, fading in this and fading out that, deleting this, taking care of that, smoothing that out, adding a little echo there –whatever!  To know good and evil belongs to “those who, by reason of use, have exercised their senses to discern good and evil.”  You have to exercise your spiritual senses.

When you try to tell one of God’s children some of your level of truth, and they’ve got all this other stuff in their system, not yet removed, it means that they haven’t used their senses in God enough.  They haven’t let Jesus readjust the volume.  You’re talking nonsense to them; they can’t get what you are saying.  “Hate Christianity?!? What are you talking about?”

I’m talking about down here, where Jesus is singing a song and you can hear the notes.  There are no squeaks on his heart- on my heart-they’ve been taken out!  Praise God!  I can hear Jesus singing a song of hating Christianity and asking people to dance with him!  Praise God!  When you dance with Jesus, the choir is singing a song about how glorious he is and how rotten Christianity is.  It’s on the record!  You have to use your senses in the spirit of God to pick up on it, though.  You have to submit to what is God, and turn away what is not God, in order to hear the music I’m hearing!  There is too much static on that level where Christianity is mixed in.  You cannot hear what I’m hearing living where that thing is; you can’t hear it.  Glory to God!  You can have ears and not hear, you can have eyes and not see!”

Whew… It left me asking Jesus to take the whistle out of my S’s!  I want to dance with Jesus in the clean simple truth!  Amen!

Michelle 

* https://goingtojesus.com/gtj_otcourse-1010.html

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“Wait for the Lord” Video

Hey Pastor John! 

Today I was watching the video, “Wait for the Lord” on The Spirit is the Witness. It was so good to me, so I took notes while watching it, and I wanted to pass them along for whoever wanted to read them. It was a longer video, so there are more notes than usual, but I think they are worth reading.

What’s even better though than reading the notes is watching the video! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9a7PnO7A8&list=PLE1oF7Jzp5RBgBy0qgJnPkX3QBWwoA89Q&index=31&t=1025s

I thought the video was very refreshing and good to me, and I hope others are blessed by it as well! 

Thank you! 

Samantha 

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Dear Samantha!

Thank you for sending this.  Barbara and I watched the video and were refreshed by it.  So good!  I am so glad this is what your mind is on.  There are blessings along the road you are on!  Keep going.

Much love in Christ,

Pastor John

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Things God Has Prepared for Us

Pastor John,

I read this the other night in 1 Corinthians 2:9 but as it is written, “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered the heart of man the things God has prepared for those who love Him.”

I tried to really take that in and just couldn’t.  We can’t even imagine what He has prepared for us.

Today, thinking of all the things we have to endure while here on this earth, sickness, pain, heartaches, my mind kept thinking back on this.  What God has prepared for us is the end of the matter.  Whatever we must endure while here will surely be worth it after a while.  Just to see our Jesus face to face.  Oh Lord, please keep us close until that day.

Found this on YouTube and it blessed me.

https://youtu.be/RQUdKxxj-0k

Love you,

Michelle

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Being Quiet

John,

Am I correct in saying that Jesus didn’t always give an answer when he knew the truth?

JWS

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Hi Wendell.

Funny you should ask that question.  Just yesterday, I was telling someone that Jesus stayed quiet a lot of times when he had people’s answer but his Father did not want him to speak.  At other times, he spoke up boldly with the truth.  To be led by the Spirit in everything is the only right way to live.  May God help us do that!

Pastor John

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The Iron Kingdom: Christmas

Hey!

Reading through some of the IK info about Christianity, I feel like, “Wow, this stuff is crazy!’  And so many of us just went with it ourselves when in Christianity for so many years before learning the truth about ceremonies vs being lead by the spirit. I know I was a kid but still I remember some things such as being told if I were baptized in the lake I could ride in that canoe–and then it was too stormy & they never held up their end of the deal! What empty promises. 

This book in the Iron Kingdom Series will either help hurting and confused souls or stir up a lot of hatred.  As you’ve said through the years, it’s a matter of the heart!  I love how you plainly state so many things.

Amanda

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Hi, Amanda.

It may stir up anger, I know, but it is all public information.  I am just pointing it out.  But that is how this world and devout Christians are, and have always been.  I am thankful I am not one of them; if I was one of them, I might get upset, too.

Thank you for the response.

Pastor John

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Iron Kingdom Excerpt on Baptism

Hey Pastor John,

I’ve finished reading the section on Baptism in the new Iron Kingdom book.  It is good. 

In the Section on “The Essential Rite”, it was a new thought to me that the baptism of Apollos foreshadowed Christian Baptism.  Neither of them is the same as the baptism of John.  John the Baptist was a messenger sent to Israel.  And his message was about the one coming after him who would baptize with the holy Ghost and fire.  There would have been no point of him baptizing the Israelites in water if he did not tell them about their Messiah and his baptism of Spirit.  (What would he be baptizing them to?)  I have heard you teach many times about John the Baptist’s baptism including a message, which I understood, but somehow reading this section made that clearer, and that the water baptism that Christians practice is not the same.

And then you said, “Baptism in water became the essential rite of the Apostates’ religion, replacing the baptism of the Spirit as the means of new birth into the body of Christ.”  Wow.

It stuck out to me how concerned the Apostates were with the preciseness of their ritual, more so than about Jesus or anything from him.  The ritual replaced the baptism of the Spirit, like you said.

The Section on “Cyril’s Late Entry in the Contest” made me feel sad for people who might have gone through that ceremony, thinking it was doing something good for their souls, but it was empty.

Thank you for sending this.

Lyn

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“Jesus Is the Only Hero.”

Pastor John,

I go to bed and wake up so thankful for the life that Jesus has given to me.  Sometimes, I’m so overwhelmed I just fall to my knees and cry.

This morning, I watched “Jesus is the only hero”* on Vince’s YouTube channel (thespiritisthewitness).  It made me think of my journey. 

When I received the holy Ghost, it was wonderful!  But I was in Christianity, and without even knowing it, that abomination was dumping so much on my spirit that any love or freedom that I did feel when I received the holy Ghost was smothered!  After only a year or so after receiving the holy Ghost, I was so weighed down and confused!  That religion was so hard! Nothing I was hearing matched what I was feeling in my heart.  I finally just gave up.  I stopped praying, I stopped reading my Bible, and I stopped speaking in tongues.

Then one day I was given your book, “Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism”.**  There was so much love in what I was reading, I began to feel something flicker in my soul.  Then Jesus brought me here, after years of feeling defeated, abused, and nearly dead, I felt Jesus breathe life back into me!  That alone is worth everything! 

Over these past 12 years, Jesus has dusted, swept, and mopped my heart of the poison that Christianity left.  He has been teaching me who he and his Father really are!  He is not the God of Christianity.  His ways are not hard; his ways bring peace and contentment.  He is a tender, loving God, and I know that if you really want to know who He is, He will show you.  Every time I stop and think of what Jesus has done for me, I hear Bro Earl singing, “Wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now”.  That is the truth Pastor John!  I wouldn’t take nothing for my journey now!

This morning, after watching, “Jesus is our only hero”, I was left praying for all of God’s children.  I wish that everyone of His children who are still in Christianity could know what waits for them outside that abomination.  I wish that every child of God could really know their Father!  He is a good God.  His precious Son gave his life and sent back his Spirit so that we could all be together.  The life that he gives is more valuable than gold.  

Jesus gave me an anointed man of God to teach me.  Jesus gave me a heart to love him and a desire to serve him.  Jesus is teaching me how to serve him.  Jesus has given me a family that I love with all my heart.  Jesus is my comforter, my healer, my encourager; he is my everything, and I am nothing without him!  He is my hero!

Michelle

*Search You Tube for John D. Clark, Sr., Jesus is the only hero.

** Going to Jesus.com – Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism

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The Spirit

Pastor John,

I went to a little birthday party this past weekend with Eden. There was a little girl in her class, and I found out in passing that her grandfather is the Assembly of God pastor where Eden goes to school. He and his wife showed up later at this party. I was introduced to him. He seemed like a nice man. We were small talking about the school and the wonderful things they are doing there.  It was really just small talk.

He then asked me where we attended church. I told him we attend a home prayer meeting full of folks that have the spirit. I ask him if they believed in the New Birth experience with the evidence of speaking in tongues. He hung his head sideways and started talking very low. His response was they believed in it, but in an orderly fashion. I asked him, “How do you put the Spirit in order? It’s what puts us in order!” He really didn’t want to talk to me much after that comment.

I know we talk about Christianity and how it works, a lot, but to see it first-hand … there are so many feelings involved! I left there, and driving home I was thanking God for the truth, thanking God for you, John, and all you have taught us!! We have been taught so well!! It’s amazing to me!!

Love,

Jammie

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Romans 8:28

Pastor John,

As I was reading the Baptism and Communion section of the Iron Kingdom book, and I had the sweetest thought.  I was thanking Jesus for your intellect and all your hard work, putting all this together.  It hit me, what a blessing it really is for all of us and for any heart Jesus touches.  I was thinking about how I don’t have that kind of brain.  Then I thought of your heart for God.  When I did, I remembered you telling about God putting it in your heart years ago to search out scriptures and seek Him for answers.

God put that in you to do this work.  God put that in you for all of us.  That’s your testimony but it’s our testimony too.  All things work together for our good.

I just loved it too much not to enjoy it with you.  What a loving God we have, and what a sweet, sweet life we share!  I love that we share that testimony.  Woven together! 

I am enjoying reading everything you have been working on, and I am LOVING the feelings!

Beth D.

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Modern Religion and Timelines

Evening,

I hope you and yours are well. 

I had an interesting thought that came from an observation I had in listening and watching conservative news shows and commentaries recently. 

The observation is that I hear even people who say they are religious (thus believe in a god who created in some way, shape or form) say when referencing the beginning of time, or a human trait that’s been passed down from long ago, that it occurred hundreds of thousands of years ago.  And some even say millions of years ago.  This made me wonder, regardless of what they say they are, are they truly believers in a higher power, one who can create from nothing and one who did so not as long ago as they believe?  How can one be a Christian, a believer, or Jew and not believe the entire story of God? 

This puzzles me.  I’ve heard this several times recently, which makes me wonder how truly they really believe in God.  God’s truth is not a partial truth.  His reality must be ours; not the other way around.  I do not understand how people can openly stand for God, but not believe his timeline too.  I know people often pick and choose what part of the Bible to believe in, but this evolutionary creation and salvation story is a new one for me.  If we extrapolate this, it’s as if they believe God created the earth millions of years ago with a Big Bang, then evolution took place, and then God created humans.  This doesn’t make any sense to me. 

Am I missing something? What are your thoughts or observations regarding this?

Much obliged,
Jonathan S.

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Hi Jonathan.

The demon of evolution has been around a long time now, and it has infiltrated just about every aspect of modern culture, including biblical studies.  Most of the “experts” in any field are full of it.

What is missing among people is an experience with the power of God.  I remember the first time the power of God overshadowed me; it was like a warm quilt of joy and great power.  That experience with God’s power created understanding in me that nothing else can do.  I believed before, but I knew then that the story of the Flood, for instance, was no exaggeration or myth.  God did not break a sweat destroying the world with a flood and remaking it.  God did not work hard to created this universe; in fact, He held Himself back to stretch it out over six days.  There is NOTHING that compares with the power of God; the strongest things on this planet are just a vapor to Him.  We can believe all that, but nothing can make us to know it but an experience with the power of God.

An experience with the power of God will save us from the influence of man’s great theories, such as evolution.  God’s power alone exposes such things as foolishness to our hearts.  Pray for experiences, Jonathan.  As Darren Prater’s song says, “There’s got to be an experience!”  Experience with the holy Ghost trumps everything –– our ideas, our preferences, our doctrines, and whatever else is of earth.  May God have mercy on our souls and give us all experiences!  That is, in fact, our only hope of ever coming to know Him and seeing His face.

Thank you for writing.  You can see the demon of evolution at work even in the minds of those who claim to believe in God, and you know that what that demon says through them is contrary to the truth.  Pray for experiences which will establish you forever in what you are feeling and seeing.

Pastor John

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