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"description": "Every New Testament Epistle is full of acknowledgments1 of believers who were in different cities and those who were laboring hard in the Lord. The names of those who have had a part in this volume are too numerous to mention. To all those who labored in editing, revising, suggesting and offering your counsel we are indebted. Above every human help we recognize the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand in this volume from the start to finish. The messages in this book were birthed out of a genuine burden2 of the Lord and we pray this burden has been conveyed with as little interference from the human vessels3 as possible.",
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"scripture": "Matthew 16:18, Revelation 19:1, Revelation 18:4",
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"description": "There is only one house that will stand in the coming storm, and only one people who will not be swept away in a flood of last-day deception. There is only one temple that God will fill with His indescribable glory, and only one lighthouse that will forever shine as a pure testimony of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saving grace. There is only one kingdom that can never be shaken, and only one ark that will be spared in the sudden outpouring of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s righteous judgment. There is only one Bride for the Bridegroom; there is only one, called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.",
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"scripture": "Hebrews 1:2, Matthew 24:9, 2 Timothy 3:12",
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"description": "This volume has been developed out of a burden to see vital gatherings of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people established in these last days.13 The time of pressure and persecution that is coming worldwide will be such that it will demand the unity of the true body of Christ. For in the Gospel of Matthew it is declared by our Lord: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d14 This truth of persecution is Biblical and repeated often in the Scriptures.",
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"scripture": "Ephesians 1:1, James 4:4, 1 John 2:15",
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"description": "Greetings in the precious Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. To all who are reading this book, called to be saints and beloved of God, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. With such powerful modern movements of the Spirit such as the house Church Movement in China,20 the underground Church in North Korea, and the underground Church in Iran, we need to reevaluate the fruitfulness of the body of Christ in our countries.",
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"title": "05 Principle 1 - Solely Looking to the Person of Jesus Christ",
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"scripture": "Acts 2:44, Colossians 1:18, Colossians 1:28",
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"description": "We need the kind of humility that was expressed in the early Church as recorded in the Book of Acts. This kind of humility is today manifested in many underground and persecuted Churches across the world because they have dealt the death blow to pride and independence.39 These persecuted believers have become solely dependent on Jesus Christ as the Head to lead them and guide their meeting as Churches.40 A brother stated this truth, in another way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Christ should be the gathering center of His people. We should be drawn by His presence, not by a man. When believers see this and act upon it, the local Assembly need not be shaken by the departure of any man. An Assembly where Christians gather to Christ has strength, stability and solidarity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"title": "06 Principle 2 - Where 2 or 3 are Gathered Together",
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"scripture": "Matthew 18:20, Acts 2:46, 1 Corinthians 5:4",
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"description": "The genesis of a Church in Scripture is seen in this simple statement of our Lord: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For where two or three gather in My Name, there am I with them.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A gathering of believers where the Lord Jesus is present is the Church, even if there are only two or three believers there. When believers gather in smaller groups it allows the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people to meet more frequently during the week, even daily, as the early Church did.57 This provides the confidence and expectation to meet with other wholehearted disciples of Jesus Christ, to meet with the Lord Jesus who is in the midst, to receive direction from the Lord and to benefit from mutual encouragement58 and prayers.",
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"title": "07 Principle 3 - Gods People Scattered in Sects",
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"scripture": "1 Corinthians 1:10, Ephesians 4:14, John 17: 21",
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"description": "We see the beginning of a movement where God is waking up many of His sheep to hear His voice in the midst of the noise and rustle of the denominational confusion. God never intended His Church to be divided,72 confused and led back and forward with every wind of doctrine. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.",
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"title": "08 Principle 4 - God Directed Churches Needed",
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"scripture": "Psalm 127:1-2, 3 John 9, Philippians 2:21",
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"description": "We can take heed to the admonition given by the Psalmist: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d85 If we attempt to start a Church gathering without the calling of the Lord, the entire endeavor can be in vain. If the Church model is not built solely upon the Word of God then we can end up building our own church86 and not the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s. To have a desire to escape a religious atmosphere in order to have a less formal meeting where people are free to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust be themselves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwithout reverence for God or submission to authority\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis not the Church.",
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"title": "09 Principle 5 - The Book of Acts Our Example",
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"scripture": "1 John 3:13, 1 John 2:15-17, Acts 6:7",
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"description": "Almost every denomination and Christian movement has begun with a desire to get back to the model and example found in the Book of Acts.94 Those that are Biblically building the Church and being led of the Lord are invariably drawn back to this Apostolic example which God has preserved for us. We have heard many reasons why different Christian movements practice a specific doctrine and why they promote a certain teaching. Yet, when we carefully study the Book of Acts we find that many practices in modern evangelical churches are not found in this record of the apostolic Church.",
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"title": "10 Principle 6 - Not Depending On or Needing Buildings",
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"scripture": "Acts 5:12, Acts 19:9-10, Acts 2:46",
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"description": "One of the things you do not find in the Book of Acts is the reliance on church buildings. Yet in almost every Christian circle and denomination, there is an emphasis upon building the church, not that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the body of Christ may be built up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d112 but rather the building of an actual structure that we refer to commonly as the church. There is a great benefit at times in having a building where the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people can meet in and use for the ministry of the Gospel. Yet, when we look at the Book of Acts, we find no visible record that the Church built buildings. Though they met in some physical locations such as Solomon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Colonnade113 and the hall of Tyrannus for even two years!114 Yet, this was not the common practice of how saints met across the rest of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Churches. Even when looking carefully in Church history it is hard to find evidence of a building being used until 300 AD when pagan temples were being converted into churches under the reign of Constantine.",
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"title": "11 Principle 7 - The People of God Are the Church",
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"scripture": "Exodus 36, 2 Corinthians 3:6, Acts 7:48-51",
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"description": "Considering Church history and the moving of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spirit in many groups that stood for the truth, a house Church or small gathering of believers is not so radical. Rather, gathering in this way is a preferred Biblical approach, especially when the Church is under persecution. If it was important to have specific church buildings to represent God and spread the Gospel, would God not have commanded them in Scripture? Although we find detailed instructions for the tabernacle in the Old Testament122 we find quite a different emphasis in the New Testament.123 We see this truth prophetically spoken by Stephen just before he was martyred: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHeaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Says the Lord. Or where will My resting place be? Has not My hand made all these things?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are just like your ancestors: You always resist the Holy Spirit!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"chapter": "7"
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"title": "12 Principle 8 - Taking A Stand for the Testimony of the Church",
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"scripture": "2 Thessalonians 2:1-3, Matthew 24:12, John 10:14",
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"description": "\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the various crises that have occurred in the history of the church, men have come to the front who have manifested a holy recklessness that astonished their fellows. When Luther nailed his theses to the door of the cathedral at Wittenburg,135 cautious men were astonished at his audacity. When John Wesley ignored all church restrictions136 and religious propriety and preached in the fields and byways, men declared his reputation was ruined. So it has been in all ages. When the religious condition of the times called for men who were willing to sacrifice all for Christ, the demand created the supply, and there have always been found a few who have been willing to be regarded reckless for the Lord. An utter recklessness concerning men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s opinions and other consequences is the only attitude137 that can meet the exigencies of the present times.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"title": "13 Principle 9 - The Early Apostles Didn't Seek After Money",
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"scripture": "2 Corinthians 2:17, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24",
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"description": "Christianity is not about money, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about people. Sadly modern Christendom has been overwhelmed with the salesman who sells Christ as ware and treats the holy things as a way to profit financially.150 It does not take much discernment for the worldly person to see the counterfeit preacher on TV who makes money look like their god.151 Yet, sadly, believers who are asleep spiritually, and have not been seeking the Lord, are given over to this delusion which is coming upon them in masses.152 False teachers abound and the saints are sleeping. There needs to be a clarion cry across all nations that God is not for sale and is against those who love money and equate righteousness with financial gain and profit.",
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"title": "14 Principle 10 - Preaching the Good News",
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"scripture": "Galatians 6:14, Romans 6:6-7, Galatians 1:6-7",
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"description": "All Christian service is based on the finished work of Christ.176 The early Apostles did not go around preaching a Gospel of works177 or a message of believers needing to do so much178 to enter heaven but rather all godly living179 was out of appreciation of the mercy of God. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis is your true and proper worship.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"title": "15 Principle 11 - Leading Is Serving In Humility",
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"scripture": "Acts 6:2, Acts 6:4, Acts 20:28",
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"description": "Though there is leadership in the Book of Acts, the examples we find are of those who serve the body of Christ. A gathering of believers is still an Assembly even if there is no defined servant leader. As the fellowship grows in the Lord, the Spirit will gift certain men as shepherds.199 The 12 Apostles were servants to widows giving them bread daily for a season,200 until they realized they needed to fully devote themselves to studying the Scriptures and giving themselves to prayer.201 They delegated the function of physically serving the widows but expanded their service to the congregation to give them spiritual food.",
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"title": "16 Principle 12 - Jesus Christ The Head of the Church",
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"scripture": "Colossians 1:16-18, Ephesians 1:22-23, Romans 11:36",
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"description": "The Headship of Jesus Christ was not just a doctrine or an idea to the early Apostles but rather a present reality to them. The Lord was the active Head of the Church. They realized it was His Church and everything was done in His Name for Him and through Him.224 This apostolic dependency on the person of Jesus Christ allowed the Lord to be in control of each Assembly. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything for the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "11"
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"title": "17 Principle 13 - A Growing Vibrant Movement",
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"scripture": "Acts 12:24, Acts 2:47, Acts 8:4",
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"description": "The early Church was a growing movement of multiplying house Churches.240 God was adding to the number daily such as would be saved241 and there were many being saved through the preaching of the Gospel. Radical evangelism was not an option in the early Church but the only logical response to the great offer of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not just a few but all the disciples242 were gripped with the burden to reach the whole known world with this message of eternal life.",
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"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "8"
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"title": "18 Principle 14 - Making Disciples Not Just Converts",
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"scripture": "Matthew 28:16-20, Romans 10:9-10, Luke 9:23",
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"description": "Many evangelicals in our day simply believe that to have someone confess Christ with their lips is fulfilling the great commission.257 There are great campaigns to simply have people say a quick prayer and make confession. Though salvation begins with this confession that Jesus Christ is Lord258 yet it is not enough for someone to only be converted, for each convert should be a disciple who follows the Lord daily. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then He said to them all: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWhoever wants to be My disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "28"
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"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "10"
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"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "9"
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"title": "19 Principle 15 - Not Pleasing Men But God Alone",
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"scripture": "Romans 14:7-8, Acts 2:43, Acts 9:31",
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"description": "We must always in our walks with Jesus Christ keep our eyes on the Lord and seek to please Him alone. The fact is that we belong to Jesus Christ. He has redeemed us with His precious blood and therefore we are not our own.272 This is a liberating truth if we can realize that all we do is in the clear view of God and therefore seek His approval alone. The early Church walked in the fear of the Lord273 and did not seek the accolades and esteem of men. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then the Church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"chapter": "14"
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"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "2"
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"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "9"
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"title": "20 Principle 16 - The Church Was Birthed In Prayer",
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"scripture": "Acts 4:24-30, Acts 1:24-25, Acts 3:6",
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"description": "Prayer is not just one of the functions added to an Assembly meeting, it needs to be the life and atmosphere of a New Covenant gathering under the Headship of Christ. The Church was birthed in prayer. It was sustained in prayer. When they were persecuted they called a prayer meeting.285 Prayer was the beginning of the great commission. The disciples prayed for a successor after Judas died.286 Peter prayed for the lame man at the temple gate.287 Stephen prayed for his persecutors when he was being martyred.288 Prayer was the main activity of the Church. Ananias was praying when God directed him to anoint one of the early key leaders of the Church.289 Peter the Apostle was praying when God directed him to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles.",
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"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "1"
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"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "3"
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"title": "21 Principle 17 - The Spirit Is Essential",
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"scripture": "Acts 1:8, 1 Corinthians 1:27-28, Luke 9:53-56",
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"description": "Christianity was birthed in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit309 and will only continue as we have this empowering from above. When we look at Church history the only truly significant stories of men that influenced and built the kingdom of God were men who were filled with the Holy Spirit. This anointing is something that not only signifies leadership in the Church but also usability before God for His work.\r\nChristianity in this way is quite simple, it is a work of the Spirit of God.",
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"description": "Denominations, being splintered by slight shades of truth, are not pleasing to God, but rather grieve Him, though like a precious diamond we can see something good in every denomination.404 There is always some truth that one specific denomination knows, believes and preaches that is noteworthy and admirable for us to learn from. Yet overall it is not God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perfect will for His body to be divided.",
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"description": "The Lord is crystal clear in the priority and importance He puts on our love one for another. This is not an option but a reality that will manifest when true believers are together.447 If love is lacking there should be a sense of alarm that something is wrong in the body life.448 The law of love says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d449 Our Lord not only commanded the early disciples to love one another but said that it would be a fruit that would show the world that God has assembled a Church on the earth. Every believer should consider reading through 1 Corinthians chapter 13 on a regular basis to keep the right priority in Christian discipleship.",
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"description": "In this age of technology when we get hurt it is easy to go to Facebook, or other social media to voice our feelings. For many of us having mercy or asking: Am I correct in feeling this way? can become an afterthought. Scripture reminds us to examine ourselves first. Judging, criticizing, maligning character, slandering and speaking to tear down another is probably one of the easiest things to do. Sadly, in the Christianity of our day such unedifying practices are applauded as righteous and discerning. Tearing down has become a ministry preoccupation with many in the blogosphere and Internet in general.",
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"description": "In many of the Epistles, the Apostles began with the wonderful phrase: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Grace and mercy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d486 If God began writing many of His holy Letters to us in this manner, then we should do also in our own correspondence with others in the body of Christ. In the beginning of the Book of Jude we read, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d487 Do we find it easy to wish mercy on others in abundance or are we quick to condemn? One that finds it easy to judge others has lost the perspective that he was shown much mercy from God. For it is by grace and mercy we have been saved by the blood of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Son. In the Book of Titus it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"description": "For many Christians in countries with no persecution, having a Bible\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe full Scriptures495\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis often not appreciated. We do not realize that the Bible is our greatest physical treasure in this world. In persecuted nations our sisters and brothers weep over the Word of God and often only have parts of the New Testament or literally scraps of paper with copied Scripture verses on them. Yet for some in the body of Christ there is great abundant access to full Bibles in literally hundreds of translations.",
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"description": "One of the hidden jewels of the Church is godly discipline. There has been a great lack of teaching and encouragement in modern evangelicalism towards the godly disciplines of: Fasting, waiting on God, early rising, head coverings, prevailing prayer, systematic Bible reading, Bible memorization, kneeling in prayer, and many other godly traditions in Church history.",
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"description": "One of the most important areas of godliness in the life of a believer is the area of submission. If one is not submissive but rebellious in spirit, there is a great danger of pride and sin. Many warnings are given in Scripture towards that state of rebellion and un-submissiveness in a believer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life. We must recognize God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sovereignty and rule over all creation, our lives and the Church. We must submit our minds to the authority of Scripture as we submit to God in our spirits; He owns us now.",
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"description": "In Christendom there have been huge divisions over the doctrine of Baptism. Yet this practice is not something to be ignored for it is Biblical and needs to be exhibited in the life of the Church. Baptism is something that is reserved only for believers who have come \u00e2\u20ac\u0153out of darkness into his wonderful light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d538 Many true believers became martyrs to defend and stand upon the truth of believer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Baptism.",
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"description": "According to the Chinese rural underground Church witnessing, evangelizing and making new disciples is the number one task of the Church. Their cry to go and make new disciples is backed up with their very lives. In many cases if they speak to the wrong person about Jesus, they face prison, torture and even death. The task of sharing the Gospel is for every Christian, even if they give their life as a martyr. Chinese Christians teach us that when their seed (their life) has gone into the ground and died it will multiply and produce much more fruit.544 With their blood new growth is coming. The seed, their body that died now produces 100 fold, 1000 fold or even more.",
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"description": "The Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supper is clearly a New Testament practice that the early disciples kept, as its significance is tied into the end of the age. The Scripture says that as we remember the Lord we are proclaiming His death until He comes back.555 This death is important because by the death of Christ, He took upon Himself our sins and absolved the wrath of God on our behalf.556 What a glorious Good News to celebrate that this is a finished work557 and we do not have to suffer the wrath of God for our sins if we are in Jesus Christ and walking in a life of true discipleship with Him.",
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"description": "In The Book of Acts the Church was birthed, led, sustained and grew in the power of the Holy Spirit. For many there is a hesitancy to speak much of depending radically on the moving of the Holy Spirit. Today for many sincere Bible believing Christians this terminology brings to mind many excesses of the worst kind\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the selfish seeking after the Spirit of God for a feeling,569 an anointing to enjoy for ourselves,570 some sort of extravagant healing such as gold in the teeth or other blatant extra-biblical manifestations that grieve the heart of God. The Devil our enemy always makes a pseudo571 of the genuine in attempts to deceive572 some and deter others. Some in these charismatic circles claim the Chinese Church is experiencing the same manifestations, but this is not true.",
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"description": "The Chinese believers see the Gospel of Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 death and resurrection in all their activities. Out of a great love for this Savior they speak to Him and of Him often to everyone they meet. The simplicity of the message of the cross of Christ581 has gripped them and persecution has allowed the Church as a whole to keep this as their main message. In every meeting of the underground Church, Jesus Christ is given the rightful place as Head582 of the meeting and He is recognized in the midst.",
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"description": "As the underground Church in China has been baptized in a fire of intensely severe persecution this has produced a theology of suffering with Christ.598 They have realized that all suffering is because of Christ and for Christ.599 It was clearly told to Paul the Apostle, that he was persecuting Jesus Christ directly when he was persecuting the early Church believers.600 There is a willingness in the Church in China to suffer for Christ as the normal cost of being a believer. It is accepted as the will of God at times to suffer601 and to even expect severe persecution. This type of suffering produces a joy602 and sense of privilege that they are willing to identify with their precious Lord who has saved them.",
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"description": "With many in the Church prayer is treated as the last thing we do before God. We use prayer to ask Him to fulfill\u00e2\u20ac\u201din many cases\u00e2\u20ac\u201dour own carnal plans. With thousands of books written on prayer many of us have still not placed prayer as the most important Christian activity we do, corporately619 or privately.620 We have special times for prayer once in a while, expecting that God should hear us and then go back to our normal lives without an intense reliance on God through prayer.",
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"description": "Many times we are preoccupied with the idea that the building where we worship is the Church. Yet in the early Church and Biblical record, God calls the people themselves the Church.629\r\nOne of the main desires in church planting in North America is the constructing of a church building after a group of believers is established. This is not always helpful. The true work of God is not dependent on money and resources to grow but rather on hearts that have been affected by the Gospel of our Lord. If we focus on building structures and churches, we can subtly deceive the people to depend on such structures630 and not the living Lord.",
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"description": "The burden these dear brethren have is for over 100,000 missionaries to be sent out from the underground house Churches. This is not even the direct number they are aiming for because their goal is the total evangelization of many closed countries between China and Jerusalem until the Lord Jesus Christ comes back. So the burden they have is to not stop this mission until the second coming of the Lord!",
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"description": "The closing Words of Jesus Christ to His early disciples for their mission of making disciples of the nations has also become the mission of the Church in China.648 Even the newest converts in the underground Church get the immediate burden to tell everyone of the great Savior of China and the world. [Every Christian is encouraged to witness daily and do the work of an evangelist.649] Therefore they do not just rely on a special few as missionaries but the entire underground Church of China is a throbbing missionary movement spreading the glorious Gospel of our Lord.",
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"description": "A group of Christians was discovered in North Korea. They had worshiped God and His Son Jesus. Their children were with them. The adults were told by those who had captured them: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you do not acknowledge our Dear leader as god and if you do not renounce Christ, your children will be hanged.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d One of the children looked up at her mother. What would she do? Earlier that morning, twenty-eight other Christians had been bound and taken before a screaming crowd of North Koreans. The guards made it clear: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny your Christ you will die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The mother thought of her child but she could not deny her Lord. The other Christians quietly made the same decision. Their God was real.",
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"description": "nilA witness of the North Korean army who later became a Christian reported the following: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The team had been sent to widen a highway. When they demolished a vacated house they found a Bible and a small notebook with 25 names, one identified as pastor, two as assistant pastors, two as elders, and 20 other names, apparently participants in a Christian group. The Military Police Unit investigated and picked up the 25 persons without formal arrest. The 25 were brought to the road construction site. Four rows of spectators were assembled.",
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"description": "A young woman was washing clothes in a North Korean river. When gathering her clothes, a small Bible or Christian book fell to the ground. Another woman reported the girl to the police. The young woman and her father\u00e2\u20ac\u201dabout sixty years old\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwere arrested and held by the local police for about three months. During that time, the woman and her father were investigated and interrogated. They were taken to a market area in town and accused of trafficking. A brief public show trial, was held which consisted of the charges. They were found guilty of a capital offense.",
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"description": "Here is an example of how this can be accomplished. Recently, we heard of a pastor of a church in America who felt led of the Lord to appoint 12 pastors in his Church who would oversee 12 separate home Churches on Wednesday nights. They all still meet together on Sunday mornings to hear the main pastor teach, but these small groups also act as functioning Churches. These pastors of the small groups are perhaps not as well-trained or capable from a human perspective but this servant leader saw the heart of God to raise up brothers and sisters, to encourage and lead the body of Christ.",
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"description": "In an underground Church in China in one area the people wake up at 4:30 to come together for two hours to pray and worship, they do this every day. There are Churches that meet in the only place they are safe, a cave! There are Churches that meet on farms far away from prying eyes.",
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"description": "God is no respecter of persons. Each person has a value more than the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s riches and Jesus died for each person. The lesson that we learn in North Korea is that Christians lay down their lives and become martyrs, be they an apostle, or pastor, or a believer. We are rewarded and judged each based on our own works in relation to the gifts God has given us. As believers in Jesus Christ we are all disciples, and all have the same standing, yet leaders have a greater accountability before God.",
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"description": "Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in Scripture and it is devoted to exclaiming the wonders of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Word and Law. It would be a worthy practice for us to read this chapter over and over to allow God to build in us an admiration and love for His Scriptures again. Would you forfeit all the riches you possess, to simply have in your possession a copy of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holy Word? The Psalmist might have for he proclaimed: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of silver and gold.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d May we emulate our North Korean brothers and sisters by treating God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Word as the most precious possession we have.",
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"description": "When we start reading the Bible based on our human wisdom we deny the faith and accuracy of Scripture. Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit men have been making up entire systems of beliefs with theological words that are used blasphemously and do not represent the truth nor the heart of God. We are then misled to believe that such humanistic doctrines carry \u00e2\u20ac\u0153life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Life is not found in a theological system or interpretation; Life is found in Christ Jesus, surrendering to Him and allowing Him to live His Life through us. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what it means to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153born again\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153born of the Spirit.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"description": "Paul the Apostle shares with the young Timothy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d727 It is possible for others to see your growth in the Lord. Thus gathering in homes and in more intimate meetings\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnot just once a week\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwill allow us to encourage each other to grow authentically in our walks with the Lord and not remain hid in the back of a large public church meeting.",
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"description": "All churches have been bulldozed in North Korea except for a few show churches in the main capital of North Korea. Christians practice their faith in secrecy and constant danger. Religious prisoners are often subjected to harsher treatment and given the most dangerous tasks, all to force them to renounce their faith. When they refuse, they have often been tortured to death. Likewise their children are sentenced to hard labor and starved to death.",
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"description": "Christians in North Korea are expected to be servant leaders and Spirit filled, to share the Word, pray, and preach the Gospel. One of the reasons for the continued existence and growth of the underground Church in North Korea is that they have not been dependent on a few highly esteemed leaders in the Church but have rather emphasized the raising up of all to be servant leaders who are able to edify and build the Church. At the same time the Church in North Korea recognizes whom God has specifically gifted as shepherds. Such servant leaders are esteemed but not idolized.",
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"title": "58 Principle 54- Remembering the Poor",
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"scripture": "Matthew 19:21, Galatians 2:10, Matthew 26:11",
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"description": "During the greatest part of the North Korean famine an estimated two million North Koreans starved to death. This happened during the years of 1995-1998. The famine has continued in reduced measure and North Koreans have still been unable to feed themselves. The World Food Program annually still needs to feed 6 to 8 million of North Korea\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 24 million people.",
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"title": "59 Principle 55- Witnessing and Missions Work By Faith",
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"scripture": "Philippians 1:29, Philippians 2:17-18, Luke 12:22",
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"description": "Witnessing in North Korea is generally very secretive. Christians in North Korea do not pursue the open sharing of the Gospel as it leads to immediate incarceration, beatings, torture and possible martyrdom. There are two added factors that cause Christians to act in secrecy. They do not mind to lose their own lives but if they are discovered in their faith they will give a death sentence to three generations of their families\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtheir fathers and mothers, their grandparents, their uncles and aunts and their children.",
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"scripture": "1 John 2:18, Acts 6:7, 2 Peter 3:9",
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"description": "For readers to understand the environment Christians face in Iran it is necessary to give a brief summary of the Iranian and Islamic global agenda. Iran is a totalitarian government, a dictatorship, which exercises suppression, persecution and, at times, the death penalty for those of other faiths. The Islamic Republic and its leaders, operate under a great desire for Islamic world dominion with a religious fervor that does not permit faiths other than Islam.",
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"title": "61 Principle 57- Sharing the Faith Constantly in all Situations",
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"scripture": "Matthew 6:26, Matthew 5:13, Acts 8:26-29",
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"description": "Another Christian Pastor Farshid Fathi has been detained in prison since December 2010. He was charged with possessing religious propaganda. The evidence presented by the regime was that Pastor Fathi had Bibles printed in Farsi, that he had unlawfully distributed Bibles, and that he possessed Christian literature. The regime argued that his Christian activities were equivalent to actions against national security. Pastor Fathi is presently serving a 6-year sentence in Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s notorious Evin prison. His crime is being a Christian and freely exercising his faith. Pastor Fathi has a wife Leila and two children, Rosana and Bardia. They suffer with him.",
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"book": "Acts",
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"title": "62 Principle 58- New Converts Every Church Meeting",
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"scripture": "Acts 2:47, Matthew 1:21, Matthew 12:11",
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"description": "It is now a normal thing to see many new converts in Iranian House Churches. Iranian believers expect to see new people coming in repentance to Jesus every week. This is very much like the account of the Book of Acts where it says the Church was: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d771 In some cases, when they have meetings where there are no stories of a conversion they examine what they have done wrong to hinder the Lord working. Such growth has happened in the last 30 years to where many say conservative estimates put the size of the Iranian house Churches at over one million people.",
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"title": "63 Principle 59- Networking Small Groups of Believers",
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"scripture": "Acts 5:42, Acts 20:20, Luke 22:7-12",
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"description": "As persecution intensifies in certain areas, believers will move to different cities and start home fellowships there also, so that the spreading of these gatherings is something that is continually happening. The Iranians believe that Jesus Christ is with them in their small gatherings and therefore there is a confidence that they are meeting as a Church even if there are just a few believers present. They count it a necessity to network with others and consider themselves all part of one Church. There is no choice to try to find a different church for doctrinal preference or worship style; all believers are content to meet simply with each other.",
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"scripture": "Mark 8:35, Genesis 4, Revelation 20",
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"description": "The thought of any believer in Christ being martyred is something hard to bear. Yet from an eternal perspective the Iranian believers hold in high regard those who have laid down their lives for the cause of Christ. The stories of the martyrs in Iran are many. These are just a few:\r\nOn January 19, 1994, Haik disappeared from the streets of Tehran. The authorities reported his death to his family on January 30; he was stabbed 26 times in his chest: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Indeed, Haik gave his heart to Christ twice. Once when he invited Christ to his life as his Savior, and second, when his heart was torn apart for his faith in Christ.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d783",
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"book": "Genesis",
"chapter": "4"
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"book": "Revelation",
"chapter": "20"
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"title": "65 Epilogue - The Call to Gather as Fellowships",
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"scripture": "Colossians 1:18, 1 Peter 5:3, Revelation 2:7",
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"description": "This book has been prepared to encourage believers to gather in small gatherings under the Headship of Jesus Christ.795 Thus no man is head over the fellowships as a whole that gather in this way. Though servant leaders are submitted to, there is no one brother over all fellowships controlling them. True submission to authority in the Church should not be because of someone who was voted in or hired but because of their spiritual walk with the Lord. Thus people submit to them willingly seeing Christ formed in them and desiring to emulate their walk with the Lord.",
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"title": "66 Preparing for a Persecution; To Be a Christian (brother Edgar)",
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"scripture": "John 15:20, 2 Timothy 3:12, Luke 24:49",
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"description": "The greatest failure of the Church in many nations is the lack of preparing Christians for persecution. Persecution is certain. It is told to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, Himself. In the Gospel of John it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Remember what I told you: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcA servant is not greater than his Master.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you also.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d815 We can believe what Jesus says and we can rely on it. Also in the United States of America and Canada, persecution is certain. In the second Epistle to Timothy it says: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
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"title": "67 The Coming Tsunami of Persecution (brother Greg)",
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"scripture": "Matthew 24:9-10, 1 John 3:13, Luke 21:17",
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"description": "\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of Me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d845\r\nOur Lord spoke these sobering words to us, as found in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 24. Something in us does not want to accept the idea that in the end times all nations will hate and persecute Christians. This seems like a non-reality to us and something that could never happen because we live in such religiously tolerant countries such as Canada, United Kingdom and United States. We would like to edit our Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Words and abbreviate them with a softer less harsh reality. Yet, this will not change the truth our Lord said would happen.",
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"book": "1 John",
"chapter": "3"
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"title": "68 A Plain Vision for Coming Persecution (brother Brian)",
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"scripture": "Habakkuk 2:1-3, Habakkuk 1:1, Habakkuk 1:12-13",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "God is merciful and He is so patient. He has shown me more mercy than anybody I know. I will never give up on the mercy of God, but I will tell you this: He will not always strive with man and there is a judgment coming to the house of God. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church and He must have the preeminence in all. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s His Church, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s His body, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s His Bride\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I tell you, that any Assembly where Jesus Christ is not truly the Head is sliding rapidly to the judgment of God. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to make the vision plain; we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to make it personal: do I honor Him as the Head of the house? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not enough for us to memorize Scripture that says that Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church.",
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"chapter": "2"
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"book": "Habakkuk",
"chapter": "1"
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"title": "69 Chinese House Churches Interview (by brother Denny)",
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"scripture": "James 4:9, Revelation 3:20, Mark 4:35-41",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "This interview was conducted by brother Denny with two brothers who worked and are involved with the rural Chinese underground house Churches where God is doing a vibrant work. He has been building a pure pristine Book of Acts fellowship in House Church networks all over rural China. There is a simplicity to the move of God yet such fervency, love, and desire born in the hearts of these believers. We need to break out of the simple 1 hour church meeting patterns, and start to serve the Lord with full commitment like many of these precious brothers and sisters in the Lord. For many of us the questions and truths that are revealed are very important for us to hear as we gather under the Headship of Jesus Christ in local areas.",
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"book": "James",
"chapter": "4"
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{
"book": "Revelation",
"chapter": "3"
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{
"book": "Mark",
"chapter": "4"
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"title": "70 God's New Thing (brother David)",
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"scripture": "Isaiah 43:16-21, Habakkuk 1:5, John 5:17",
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"description": "This message927 was preached at a SermonIndex Revival Conference event in Wales in the Moriah Chapel church where the famous Welsh revival began in 1904. This message given by David Legge in that historic pulpit calls for a glorious new work of the Spirit of God in our day. Such a work will glorify the Lord Jesus Christ as the true Head of the Church and Lord of all creation. May we be challenged afresh to accept and look forward to God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work in these last days.",
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"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "43"
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{
"book": "Habakkuk",
"chapter": "1"
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"book": "John",
"chapter": "5"
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"title": "71 Submission and Leadership (brother Zac)",
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"scripture": "1 Timothy 3:6, Isaiah 55:8-9, 1 Peter 5:5",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "As you gather together under the Headship of Jesus Christ may you be open to the Lord, by His Spirit, to see godly leaders raised up that are humble and serve the body of Christ. Not leaders that seek their own honor or use believers to exalt themselves. Rather, servant leaders who emulate Jesus Christ and desire others in the body to come to full maturity in the Lord. Hence, in the end, leaders raise up other leaders, for that is the goal; true servanthood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aim is for others. To submit to such leaders who share in the character of the early Apostles and the Lord will be of great benefit and blessing to gatherings. Un-submission leads to carnality and is the first sin of the devil950 who did not submit to God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s authority over him.",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
"_scripture": [
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"book": "1 Timothy",
"chapter": "3"
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{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "55"
},
{
"book": "1 Peter",
"chapter": "5"
}
]
},
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"title": "72 Baptism of the Holy Spirit (brother Denny)",
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"format": "mp3",
"scripture": "Matthew 3:11, Mark 1:8, Luke 3:16",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "In our day, the importance of experiencing the true Spirit Baptism is paramount. Because of satanic counterfeits, the true body of Christ has been alarmed and made hesitant to call out to the Lord for a fresh infusion of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Spirit in a public meeting or private prayer time. We believe that as believers gather it is essential to pray for endowments of the Holy Spirit. If the presence of God is not with the Church, She will never further the purpose of God in the earth.",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
"_scripture": [
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"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "3"
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{
"book": "Mark",
"chapter": "1"
},
{
"book": "Luke",
"chapter": "3"
}
]
},
{
"title": "73 Without the Holy Spirit of God (brother Chadwick)",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID25418",
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"scripture": "1 Corinthians 6:20, Isaiah 51:17, Acts 19:2",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "Christianity was birthed in the Holy Spirit. Jesus our Lord taught it was essential to rely and wait for the power of the Spirit. We sadly see many abuses of Spirit-led living in modern Christendom but this should make us all the more hungry for the true manifestation. We are impotent without the infilling power of the Spirit. When we have God in the midst everything changes. We will not be able to stay quiet, we will speak boldly for our Lord that bought us with such a great price.1003 The underground Church in China chooses their leadership from those who are the hungriest after God. Are you hungry for the living God? For His power displayed in your life?",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
"_scripture": [
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"book": "1 Corinthians",
"chapter": "6"
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{
"book": "Isaiah",
"chapter": "51"
},
{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "19"
}
]
},
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"title": "74 Loving Your Brothers and Sisters (brother Edgar)",
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"scripture": "John 17:21, John 15:12-13, Acts 6:1",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "The Lord Jesus put special emphasis on loving our brothers and sisters. Jesus prayed in the garden to His Father; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d1037 Jesus gives the purpose for love in the body of Christ: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That the world might believe!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jesus gave a very specific commandment in John 15: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life for one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d1038 In John 13, Jesus said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
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"book": "John",
"chapter": "17"
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{
"book": "John",
"chapter": "15"
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{
"book": "Acts",
"chapter": "6"
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"title": "75 Statement of Faith for Gospel Fellowships",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID25420",
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"scripture": "2 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 1:1, 1 Peter 1:10",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "After the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear leading to use the name Gospel Fellowships there was a word search preformed on the internet and this statement of faith from one of the larger Chinese house Church networks called: China Gospel Fellowship was found. This was a surprise and great blessing for before we were never aware of this underground house Church name. After reading their statement of faith, there was an immediate burden to make this statement of faith available to Gospel Fellowships and to any other house Churches or groups that would like to identify with the statement. We believe it is a tremendous way for believers to be in unity worldwide with precious brothers and sisters in China who are experiencing a great expansion of the Church and revival.",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
"_scripture": [
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"book": "2 Timothy",
"chapter": "3"
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{
"book": "Hebrews",
"chapter": "1"
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{
"book": "1 Peter",
"chapter": "1"
}
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},
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"title": "76 Chronological Bible Reading of Scriptures",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID25421",
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"scripture": "1 Corinthians 2:13, James 1:22, Psalm 119:11",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "There is a great need in the body of Christ for consistent reading of the Holy Scriptures in their entirety, book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse. In this case we are encouraging a chronological reading of the Scriptures. Most of the confusion is created when certain teachers, groups, or denominations take singular verses out of context and compare them with others. Though it is a good spiritual principle to compare spiritual truths with spiritual truths,1139 yet this must all be done in the larger context of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Word. Therefore we are encouraging all of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s saints to have a consistent discipline of reading through the whole Scriptures once a year as a supplemental reading plan.",
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"book": "1 Corinthians",
"chapter": "2"
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{
"book": "James",
"chapter": "1"
},
{
"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "119"
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"title": "77 Guidelines for Gathering",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID25422",
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"scripture": "Philemon 1:2, Colossians 4:15, Matthew 18:20",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "Dear brothers and sisters we are writing these practical guidelines on how to gather as a fellowship under the Headship of Jesus Christ not as rules but rather helpful ways forward for some. Any 2-3 brothers or sisters can meet in this way and start to allow the Lord to mature their gathering. We must have the simplicity of faith that our Gathering is unto Him and not for ourselves. Early Christians met together with a great joy at times because they were gathering with others who have been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ Himself was the center of their unity. These simple guidelines combine many of the Principles found in the Principles for the Gathering of Believers volume.",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
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"book": "Philemon",
"chapter": "1"
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{
"book": "Colossians",
"chapter": "4"
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{
"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "18"
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]
},
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"title": "78 Gospel Fellowships Hymnal (Intro)",
"url": "http:\/\/api.sermonindex.net\/SID25423",
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"scripture": "Psalm 111:1-2, 1 Peter 1:17, 1 Peter 2:11",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "For many believers there has been a lack of good resources to help them worship the Lord in private devotion or in public gatherings of the Lord\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s people. Many hymns and choruses that could be sung by memory and without instruments have been laid aside for more contemporary songs that have much musical accompaniment. The argument is not over styles of music or what is permissible in a worship setting but rather that a very powerful weapon of the Church has been lost. This occurs when we do not have many hymns and choruses that we can sing without instruments with a whole heart towards the Lord. Thus the burden here is to simply supply a resource of many old hymns, choruses and spiritual songs for reading, meditation and singing privately and corporately.",
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"speaker_name": "Principles For The Gathering of Believers",
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"book": "Psalms",
"chapter": "111"
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{
"book": "1 Peter",
"chapter": "1"
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{
"book": "1 Peter",
"chapter": "2"
}
]
},
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"title": "79 Gospel Fellowships Readings (Intro)",
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"scripture": "Matthew 7:15, Romans 12:14, Romans 12:2",
"topic": "Audio Books",
"description": "The importance of liturgy in the history of the Christian Church over the 2000 years cannot be underestimated. Some of the earliest hymns in the Church were chants or Scriptural truths read aloud in unison. To verbally proclaim in unison holy truths of God will have a great affect spiritually on the Assembly of believers to strengthen and unify them in the faith once delivered to the saints.1148\r\nWe are commended in the Scriptures to verbally proclaim our allegiance to the Son of God, confessing truths that we believe in our heart.1149 Though modern day evangelicalism is mostly non-liturgical this was not so in the early days of Christianity.",
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"_scripture": [
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"book": "Matthew",
"chapter": "7"
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{
"book": "Romans",
"chapter": "12"
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