everyone needs compassion not too long ago I was uh in between patients where we you know in in the
clinic where we work I was meditating on the Word of God and then I remember specifically the Holy
Spirit said you know what go back to the office and and write down things that I'm gonna that I'm
gonna tell you so I went back to the office and it started going back and meditating on
the Word of God and and I remember specifically that the Holy Spirit uh asked me to write some
things down and one of the things that I that I started just I just started running down things
like that that I was the Holy Spirit was speaking to my hardened and as I was writing things down
I remember that one of my questions was in a house church because we do we do belong to a
house church he was talking about mmm that you know Jesus wants his bride to be to be spotless
and then I was asking well how can how can the bride be spotless what is it exactly that we
have to do to be spotless would be considered to be spotless and then I remember the Spirit
was speaking to my heart saying you know what when I go back in and and receive my bride my
bride cannot be a mixture of different beliefs or different theologies or or even different customs
you know you need to go back to the way it was back in the day when Jesus was here whenever he
established his church and then you know reading in the book of Acts you you realize that first of
all the way we do church nowadays is not the way that it was back then especially in regards to
the way we assemble together we're now now that we are in a house church I mean there is no you
know quote-unquote pastor but the pastor is Jesus Christ he is he's through the Holy Spirit he's the
one that leads to our truth and understanding so knowing that already you know based on previous
revelations of that and of course reading the Bible I was testing the spirit I wrote down a few
things and amongst those things was for example in not to be collected money just for the sake of
collecting money and putting in the bank and and you know just you have reserves in the back the
way the spirit dealt with me was the money that you collect I mean the money that is moved within
the church it has to go directly to the need for example where we're assembling and somebody
somebody lets us know that they have a need well you know that money whatever money we collect
right there amongst us goes directly into that need not to me to be collected to be placed in
the bank account or anything like that you just go do it goes directly to the need and for for me it
was a revelation that that I sort of Cana I guess put in an alley or not an analogy but I big city
basically see money as being sort of for a lack of better word kind of like a dirty diaper that when
someone collects money and keeps money it becomes a dirty diaper if you don't handle it correctly
it can be very messy and I think that whenever monies are transferred within a in assembly it
has to be basically going directly into the need instead of being collected we have to trust in
the Lord that he is going to provide for all our needs and if those needs are to be known at that
time we need to just go and give the money where it belongs secondly we're sucking about I remember
specifically the word the pass to the cross you know and I was thinking well I mean where are
no pass so does that mean that we're gonna be calling ourselves you know you know the path to
the cross o pass to a church or I don't know what or ecclesia and then the Lord spoke to be further
and what what I gather what it was revealed to me was that every single assembly is the pass to the
cross we are gathered together to you know for the Holy Spirit to refine our hearts in make us make
his disciples and basically what is revealed to us as we're being disciple is that we are the path to
the cross as Jesus came and his path was if you go to the book of John where John says that that
he is there to pave the way for Jesus Christ and as you see the the pathway the Jesus took he led
him to the cross and it was very specific as far as the Holy Spirit to me that that is the path of
everybody that belongs in a church and in assembly necklace iya and what that means is that as you
being discipled you're are being trained to pass through the cross because the bible does say that
pick up your cross and follow me so as disciples we have a cross we are carrying a cross and that
cross will lead eventually to the cross for us to be crucified with Jesus Christ and with that
in mind we know that there's going to be a lot of turmoil there's going to be a lot of a lot of
hardships there's gonna be it's gonna be difficult basically you know to to continue as true
believers of Christ it's never going to be easy so that that's another that's another revelation
for me as far as in a house church let's see the other one was miracles for example when we talk
about you know evangelism or missionary work I remember specifically the Holy Spirit saying
that do not trust Mammon do not trust money it is not about collecting a huge amount of money
to go and dispersed among the poor we're not paying for the for people to come and and make
an audience for us I mean if you go with a with ten thousand dollars and a bunch of poor people
see you with a bunch of money of course they're gonna collect around you but the question is are
you paying for their audience well you shouldn't be paying for the audience because really the God
called us to go out to leave our sects of silver and gold and just to go follow him you know don't
take don't bring anything with with me Jesus told the disciples when he was in the Last Supper ASUS
did did you are you know as I as he ordered the disciples as he called him out he says do
not bring your silver or gold she just come as you are teach you like anything the disciple says they
said no we do not like anything so that was being revealed to me that when you go and do ministry
when you go do evangelism or missionary work just go pick up your Bible and go don't sell the Word
of God yes I know there's a lot of need there's a lot of poor people and they do they do need a lot
of a lot of I don't know a lot of everything of course so yes go out there and help the poor but
don't pay the port to come and assemble and give you an audience just because you're bringing food
go and just get up and start preaching the Word of God and if it so be it that the that are you
out of the the place where you're at preaching will that that what that's what's gonna happen
that's what happened to the disciples I don't remember ever reading any parts of the Bible
where it says that that Paul went and took a bunch of a bunch of bread and started a dispersing their
months amongst the poor so they can listen to him he just stood out there and started speaking and
some people received him well and some people do not the same thing happened to - to Peter and same
thing happened to James so what I'm trying to say is not that I'm not saying that it is bad
or or evil to go and bring good tidings into the poor but what I'm saying is that we are so used to
nowadays they we don't have $10,000 in our pocket we don't feel comfortable doing missionary work
which is not the way it was back in the days the early days of Christianity we should be bold we
should be we should have strengthened the Lord trust in the Holy Spirit that he will provide
everything for us and when we get to the place that he sends us we should be there with nothing
except ourselves in the Bible and sometimes you're not even gonna bring even a Bible sometimes you're
gonna be basically in the middle of nowhere where you're speaking the truth through the Holy Spirit
but the point is that we should be bold we should trust in the Holy Spirit not a madman not another
friend or in or in a big church organization that is backing you up with $100,000 for you go to
Africa just go and move and do it be both for for the cost so another thing that was revealed to me
that within the ecclesia in the house that we should be pure in always and you know one of my
questions was how how can you be pure in all ways and and of course we already went through - we
already went through the missionary issue and then now the hierarchy that we normally see even among
some house churches where you know a professional clergyman has to be brought in to be teaching the
you know the congregates or the the other brothers and sisters but the truth of the matter is that
the one that who teaches is the Holy Spirit is not one man or one woman or one group it is the
Holy Spirit and the very thing that was revealed to me you go back into the book of Acts and you do
verify that you know Luke is talking about is it what why is that every time we meet every single
one of you brings a different him a different song a different teaching so in other words everybody
brings something into the ecclesia everybody within the week has gone ready for that that
day or those days where you do meet you always contribute something lifting each other up not one
man lifting everybody up but each other lifting everybody up and the land well of course the Lord
once ever wants everybody's involvement within the church not not just one man or one group now
of course we know that there's order within the church we know we understand that there are some
brothers and some sisters that you know for the most part they they have they have the experience
the training they have a spirituality to to know more about the Word of God which you know you know
as far as man they're you know we're called elders but of course you know we know that eldership is
not an authoritative neither position nor an authoritative type of leadership but it is more
of a leadership that has to do with an example you know you people see you as an example they
follow you because you are a good example they don't follow you because you are authoritative
so basically you teach as a disciple to make other disciples and then you release you don't keep the
disciples forever you release them into you know into other churches into into other homes it is
not about making disciples in keeping disciples it is about making disciples having the Holy Spirit
lead you to all truth and understanding and then once there they are ready to release him in into
their own to their own ministries because that is the Great Commission the Commission is not to
horde disciples the Great Commission it is to make disciples and release them so that was yet another
another aspect that was that was a revelation to me and coming from the mainstream church from a
big church how a big building Church I think we've all discussed how our our journey me my wives
journey as is I think pretty much everybody's journey how we were in this big church and we
were never fed I mean we will go on Sundays and believing with more questions than answers and
that's because that is not the way it was back in the day of the early church a church is supposed
to be a group of people they come together that for all practical purposes they become a family
and they become a family into into Christ we we share thoughts we share experiences we share
our troubles and sometimes we share you know good tidings to each other in a way of monetary tithing
or I mean giving money to those who need money are giving food giving clothing or whatever you
know becoming more equal in what what we have what we possess which is really the basis of the early
church where everybody brought you know money and things into the feet of the disciples and it
was basically because there was a big disparity between there were very rich and they were very
poor and it was more of equalizing the and sharing you know the what he call it the the money's the
the wealth and so on and so forth so that is our Altima goal when we meet together there's somebody
that is that we know that it's poor very poor doesn't have doesn't have nice clothing needs
food or whatever we obviously we try our goal is for them to have that so we have it we shared we
give it and so therefore we are helping them be more like us and us be more like them what
else in the list did I remember so basically in a nutshell the thesis of all this would be this that
the Lord is making his church his building his church not on one man but on himself where Christ
is the headship of the church not a man called a pastor which in essence it is not a title but
more than anything is a gift and amongst ourselves we all share the gifts whoever the Holy Spirit has
called us upon to have those gifts for example if they can be three or four people there they
have the gift of pastorship and and they start operating this start you know preaching to others
and that's awesome but then again they're not the ones that are the leaders the leader is Christ the
leaders the Holy Spirit it's not a man and then we also have other people like Laura you know Laura
has a gift of laying on hands and and you know her I know that one thing that she shares with
us is that she feels the Holy Spirit her hands get really warm and and then the spirit leads
her to pray for a specific need for a specific person and it's always the case where she goes
and she lays hands on that person he sure enough that's exactly the need that that that person has
and it was revealed to her by the Holy Spirit and then she she amongst amongst a lot of us you know
we get together we Lee Hanson and and this person gets delivered or for example in our church praise
the Lord there was a person that had cancer and he was he was delivered from that and I can tell
you myself coming from a medical background so his Laura and we're medical professionals and I
can tell you that this person he went to the to the specialist in San Antonio and he was told
that he no longer had the cancer so we've seen miracles we've seen conversions from you know from
wretched old people who we are without the Lord to becoming these soft-spoken beautiful people that
the Lord has changed I mean and it's all through the Holy Spirit it's not through us we're here to
just share all we know about God and for them to become as we have become through the Holy Spirit
which is disciples and we baptized you know in in here at home too we had a the same man that
was care from cancer he was baptized then he went from a Catholic background into E and of course
into into Christ into a Christian background so in a nutshell I think that Christ is even shaping the
ecclesia at home and one thing that we need to take into heart is that we need to let the Lord
be the preeminence be let him be the one teaching let the Holy Spirit a spare be the one guiding and
let the Holy Spirit be the one changing people we're not to be doing that that is we are here
to teach to guide as as elders and that's about it we're not here to tell them what to do not
even within the spirit the Holy Spirit is the one the guides to all truth and all all understanding
he's the one that comforts us in trouble time so as a church I would like for everybody to
know that our path is being that we live in in El Paso one of the biggest revelations to me is
that we are in the into the cross so our path should be always to strive of course with the
guidance of the Holy Spirit to reach a point that we are crucified with Christ that it is a journey
to the cross it is not a journey to wealth it is not a journey to all understanding because
our brains didn't we do not have the capacity to have all understanding but we you know God does
reveal things to us he does reveal the church to us he doesn't reveal the way to us we will never
stop learning and even until we get to heaven with the Lord but know that when you join a necklace--
at home your path is going to be to become a disciple your path is going to be to be released
and your path is going to be to go straight to the cross and and I hope that that helps some people
everyone needs compassion love that's never failing let mercy fall on me