The God Of The House

Apostle Grace Lubega

Genesis 28:17-19; 35:7(KJV); And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel… And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

Denominations have no place in Christ.

In Him there is neither Jew nor Greek, male or female, slave nor free, Catholic or Pentecostal, Baptist or Methodist, Anglican or Protestant (Galatians 3:28).

But the sad reality is that the body of Christ is heavily denominated, majorly along doctrinal lines.

There is a tendency for men to worship affiliations above the person of Christ; Christ is no longer sacred but what the affiliation regards as truth is what is sacred.

This is attachment to “the House of God.” It is hinging your faith on your church and how it does what it does; it is what the denomination believes and not what the Bible teaches as truth.

In our theme scripture, God takes Jacob from the experience of ‘Bethel’ translated to mean the House of God to El-Bethel, translated to mean the God of the house.

God was interested in Jacob getting to know Him as God and not merely the “House.”

God expects the church of Christ to grow past attachments to religious assemblies or an association to the knowledge of Him.

He calls us to understand His nature, desires, thoughts, and purposes.

His name be praised!

FURTHER STUDY: Ephesians 4:13-15, John 17:3

GOLDEN NUGGET:

God expects the church of Christ to grow past attachments to religions of men to the knowledge of His person in the face of Jesus Christ.

PRAYER: Father, thank you for this Word. I receive it in humility and with understanding. My heart is ready and pants after a deeper experience with you. I choose to lay aside what I think I know and launch out into deeper waters of the knowledge of you. May knowing you be my daily experience. In Jesus’ name. Amen.