Summary:

Today, God is gathering His people together. He is looking for a relationship with them. We can simply relate to Him, have that fellowship with Him through His family, and know that He loves us. There are no high or low positions in His family, but we all just sit at His feet to learn from Him. This is how His family functions in this day of His kingdom.

Show Notes:

• I think God is looking for a relationship. A relationship in knowing that He loves you, that you can relate to Him; and can have that fellowship with Him.

• When we are relating in a simplistic honesty in what we are saying and there is no offense in it, that is an ineradicable place to be.

• The church has never been able to really be honest about how this relationship really works which is how the Christ in each of us relates to one another.
• Those who try to Lord it over others and try to hold a position of influence find that the Spirit of Christ resist them.
• God has scattered His people throughout the World. He has broken up man's organizations that have hemmed His people in. Now He will gather them together as His many-membered body on the earth.
• Get these plaques out of religion and into reality in our lives.

Quotes:

• The kingdom of God is relationships, which means people, which means God's trying to dwell in us. He's trying to bring Himself in us and through us to one another. And that is the kingdom.
• The more we are relating like this, we are getting the religion out of our relating
• .We've heard the grounds all level at the cross. And it's a great saying, but it really is the truth that there's no, we're all just sitting at His feet; learning.
• If you are honest by the Spirit, the purpose is to deliver, not to put anyone down.

Scriptural References:

Jeremiah 23:3 And I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring then again to their folds, and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

Psalms 127:1 Except the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman watches but in vain.

I Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Take Away:

We have entered into His rest. He is directing and guiding us. We are listening to the voice of the Lord. We are truly functioning, becoming what God called us to be.