Dear Pastor

Dear Pastor,
SURELY you see that there are SO MANY meanings.... layers... so much DEPTH in the Bible and in the revelation of God's Word to us.

I am confused. I want someone to explore these with. Would you help me?

I want to go back to your church, but I am afraid of "ruffling people's feathers". I'm afraid of using the authority that God gave me in the past (was it God?)! I'm afraid that my questions and pointing out difficult things will dismantle people's faith. I'm afraid of scaring them off the path. Is this because I think that I have so much power? Perhaps I'll just be looked at as a kook and perhaps that is good. I want to be hated by those of this world, but only because I am following Jesus, not because I have made myself hated on my own power.

Do you see what I see in the Bible? Do you see that we must endure until the end and that those who are in Christ Jesus do not sin? Do you see that the Holy Spirit teaches us everything we need to know? Do you see that there are no RULES, but that we must lay down our lives - die to our SELF (selfish desires, pride, greed, etc.), and take up our CROSS - our exposure to death - that which will actually help us die. We want to die. We must die to live. We can't want to conform to the world! We shouldn't confer with flesh and blood when God makes the call for us.

We don't know a thing.
We have a beam in our eye.
We can't say that THIS is THIS and THAT is THAT. How do you know? Are you IN CHRIST? Do you have the MIND of CHRIST? If so, what does it all mean? How are you BAPTIZED into Christ? What is a NAME? Who is the Father? What is the Spirit of Wisdom that existed before the world? Who are the two anointed ones? What was the "fruit" in the garden of Eden? Why was Esau, who was obedient to his father, the one punished? What does it all mean? The Bible tells us if we are in the Bible and not in the world.

Are you in the world?
Are you running a worldly system? Is the church you "run" a counterfeit of the Spiritual Temple that Jesus Christ is the High Priest of?

How can you stand up and say "such and such" is the truth and not know the whole picture?
Help me understand.
I want to understand.
I want to help.
I LOVE our church.
I LOVE our friends.
I want people to come to Christ - but is the only way through going to church?
I should not love the world or the things of this world. The church that we are talking about is OF THIS WORLD. It teaches people to be complacent. Yes, it can also lure them into worshipping (but they don't know what they are worshiping). You can encourage them to get into their Bibles, but without the Light, they don't understand.

Help me. I want to help you. I want to help God- but I can't, can I? I can't do anything but adore, worship, praise, thank, seek, and LOVE God (because He first loved me). I can love others because of the grace that is imparted unto me... it doesn't come from me. Only God can change me.

Jesus Christ is the mediator.
He is the High Priest.
He is the Messiah and Redeemer who died to atone for my sins.

We are all united in Christ.
Who is Christ? The Anointing? The Holy Oil? Who existed before the world began? What is the Spirit of Christ? Jesus is THE Christ. Has he always been? Just as I have always been an heir- but I have been called, justified, sanctified.... or I am in the process of all that?

Am I already born again because I have the earnest of the Holy Spirit in me? Am I born into Christ? If so, then I doth not sin, right? What if I do? There is no sacrifice to cover my sins?

How do I endure until the end?

Ack!! I have to go to work... but PASTOR, please explain all this to me. Do you see it and just pretend not to? Do you talk about it with others? Do you talk about it with God? Aren't ALL the facts important? Much of (all of?) the Bible is a parable... there are hidden meanings for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Do you see and hear? Are you preaching on the story/parable or the truth below it?

How are we not teaching people to PRETEND worship?
We are so prideful.
I am so prideful.

GOD help me. Only He can. He is my Pastor.
Lord, guide and teach me the Truth. May I worship you in Spirit and in Truth. Who are you? How can I serve you?

Listen and obey.

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