The Two Trees Within by Ross Shultz - HTML preview

Building Sand Castles

Who-so-ever builds his house upon the sand, when the rains come, will wash it away. But who-so-ever builds a house upon the Rock, no flood can move it, even an iota, for it is built on the things not seen with the human eye. For eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has stored for us. That is: that REST in Him. Jesus is the Bread of Life, and we were told that we must eat His flesh, and to drink His Blood, and therefore have that Communion with Him, so how then do we associate with the organization that draws attention to herself?

Christianity was not meant to be a religion, for it has not a certain method and cannot be restrained by the mentalities of carnal man. Walking in and with Christ is a way of life, and is given to each as a free gift, with the changes coming from within, to those that no longer see the appeal of this world and the things therein. Those that seek Christ, praise and worship the God of all, the invisible God that lives in the Tree of Life, and not the image that can be seen with the natural eye.

Jesus came to heal and deliver the blind, deaf and lame, that is, all that look through the flesh eyes, hear through the flesh ears, and those that walk where they want to walk. For he said; I AM the good Shepherd, and My sheep follow me where-so-ever I go. I AM the only Door, and who-so-ever enters by another door is a thief and a robber. I AM the resurrection, He spoke, and he raised Lazarus from the dead, and told those close by to remove his grave clothes. That’s all that was still binding him to this earth.

When our eyes are not on the things of this world, then what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?Says the Lord.

The Sanhedrin, the religious group of Pharisees and Sadducees, wanted to kill Jesus, and therefore put out a hit on Him. Lazarus also was on that hit-list. We also, that don’t follow this worlds’ ways and seek a walk with the Shepherd Christ Jesus, will be as different as Lazarus was to the world. Our Life will not have to be flaunted, but the world, and those that choose it, will see God’s people as different, strange. We will be as different to the world as the citizens of Sodom were to the Angels.

Many that gather, do so to appease their soul, or should say their soulish nature, thinking that it is pleasing to the Father with their comings and goings, it is not. God’s desire is to commune with those that seek His heart and follow His Son Jesus where-so-ever He goes. In the book if Isaiah, chapter one, verse ten we read, and this certainly applies to us for God is a never changing God. “Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah: To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me? Says the Lord. I have enough burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. When you come to appear before Me. Who has required this from your hand, to trample My court, (assemblies). Bring no more futile sacrifices; …I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting…They are a trouble to Me. I AM weary of bearing them, when you spread out your hands, I will hide MY eyes from you. Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.”

Think not that I am making this up, for God and His Christ have a long track record of coming against these so-called assemblies, and all that the natural man can do or invent. Religion always has a king, and different denominations call them different titles, but there is but one King that man was designed to follow, all others are an abomination. The facçde of mans’ creations, is just that, a veneer of the work of his head, hands and feet, the same things that Christ allowed to be nailed on the cross. So each flavor of religion has placed their own king, and created absolutes for man to follow. There is but one King, and He is absolute. The dysfunctional ‘church’ system, if it were to work, would be working by this time, and ‘it’ is not. For Christ, when he spoke to Peter about the Rock said; I,( not you), shall build My Church. God created man, but since Constantine, man has been trying to create God.

Do we, human society, continue to build these castles in the sand, or do we turn our back, face God and His Christ, and run toward the Rock?

Jesus said; I leave you in Peace. I also hope that this book and all that was said in it, will leave you with Peace. It will, to all that are willing to come out from among her, for now we can see that all can worship and please the Father, just where we are. No more playing dressy-up.

We are saved, as by fire.

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