You know something. You are the Church, it is with in you.
So am I. That is the true ecclicia not some man made system that calls it self the church little c.
This is the Church that God will find with out spot or wrinkle.
Not some man made system that controls God's Word to their limited understanding. Reference to Jesus with the Samaritan women at the well. He knew that Jews did not often speak to Samaritans, but He said to her, "Please give me a drink." The woman saw from His looks and His dress that He was a Jew, and she said to Him, "How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, a Samaritan woman?" Jesus answered her, "If you know what God's free gift is, and if you knew who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would ask Him to give
you living water, and He would give it to you."
She said to Him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the
well is deep.
Where can you get that
living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who drank from this well?" "Whoever drinks of this water, " said Jesus,
"shall thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life." "Sir," said the woman, "give me some of this water of yours, so that I will not thirst any more nor come all the way to this well.
She saw that there was a man who knew what a stranger could not know. She felt that God had spoken to Him and she said, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet of God. Tell me whether our people or the Jews are right. Our fathers have worshipped on this mountain. The Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where men should
go to worship.
Now, which of these is the right place?"
Her concern, and the major issue of the moment for her, had to do with the specific proper location for worship. In this respect, this woman differed little from the multitudes in this hour who ask, "Where should we worship? What church should we attend? What ministry should we submit to?"
The Lord did not dodge her question. Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe ME, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth."
The time would come, said the Lord, when both "this mountain" and "Jerusalem", as well as any other geographical locality, or appointed structure, would be considered completely irrelevant as a condition to worship.
　
　
The Samaritans for generations had worshiped God in Mount Gerizim and the Jews had for generations worshiped in their temple in Jerusalem.
Each scorned the other's place of worship and Jesus is here speaking to the woman of Samaria and telling her than PLACES ARE OF NO CONSEQUENCE.
God is a spirit - and mountain worship will not be acceptable. Neither will temple worship in Jerusalem be acceptable to God. If man is to
worship God, then man must worship God AS HE IS, and not as man thinks He is or where man thinks He may be.
Carnality and the natural man attempt to bring God into a realm that will enable them to see God according to their belief. Therefore some worship idols or images of metal, wood, or stone.
Others worship the sun or the elements.
Some must go to a building to worship God and others must have all manner of rites and ceremonies.
Some must have a Jesus in a body of flesh, before they can worship God.
But Jesus said that God was seeking a people who would worship God in the realm and sphere in which God is -
in Spirit and Truth.
Worshiping a physical location is not spiritual worship.
Anyone who claims to be able to worship God at any time and in any place becomes a heretic to the organized religionists. For, if the places of worship were taken away, and men truly worshiped in spirit and in truth, the whole religious system would fall apart.
There would be no reason for it to continue. The whole religious system is builded upon have a "place" for people to come to so that the works of men may continue to be carried out.
Again, let me affirm that God does indeed gather His people together, but such gathering together is UNTO HIM, and the place and order becomes inconsequential. It is when the place becomes important, it is when preachers and organizations demand your attendance,
your submission, and your allegiance to them and their program, asserting that you cannot make it in to heaven, or the Kingdom, or sonship, or immortality apart from their teaching, their method, their order, their program - it is there that worship in spirit and in truth is usurped by worship in "this mountain" or in "Jerusalem."
God is so serious out his out called that is what the word church means. The out called or called out..
ecclesia Greek called out
God calls men not systems. The broad way that leads destruction is religion; men do not follow Christ they follow their Pastor/Priest or Pope, their denomination their system ; not Gods anointing. Church is a Greek Word ecclesia which simply means the called out. There is a true Church and a false Church; Baby lon is the false church; while the true Church is not a building, a system, denomination but Christ with in us, the hope of Glory.
Matt 7:13-15
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. KJV
Many years ago God called me out of religion and I have never turned back; there are many men I feel God has given an anointing to and I have I follow their ministry. Religion is shallow and limits God to what ever understanding. God has called thousands of people out of Baby lon and has given them this very message.
Heb. 13:13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach
Revelation 18:3For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Isaiah 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man,
saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let
us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Jeremiah 51:7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
God uses Baby lon as shown by the verse above; but there is so much more.
　
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the word ecclesia did not mean "called out ones" in the first century but rather held reference to a general assembly of believers who, most frequently, met together in homes...
Hebrews 12:23 - King James Bible
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
church means ecclesia and it is used in conjuction with general assembly
