The Tabernacle in the Wilderness

So brothers, I just have a real positive word: come and give your offering to the Lord, the good offering.

The mirror is the exposing. Oh boy, church life, if it does nothing else, it is going to be a mirror to you, and in that mirror, you are going to be washed. Listen, we, everyone, loves to project a spiritual image. Oh, the Lord’s going to take it away from you, Brother.

Brother, everything about you, you really want brothers and sisters to really think that you’re spiritual. Brother, don’t feel bad, we all do, this is our nature.  We come into the meeting. Oh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. and then you just begin to get built up, and you just get built up a little bit more, and the mirror is going to be in front of you; there is some brother you cannot get along with, and you, sister, you are going to learn so much about Brother… you think he is a real saint wait until the… You are going to really find out that that brother is nothing, and you’re going to learn out about your sister too. We have all got to be exposed in the church. Just praise God for the exposure; it takes the religion out of the church. It is so easy to be a pastor, a preacher. You’re up here and they’re down there. And it is so easy to be a pew member. You’re down here and he’s up there. And you can run home and hide, but in the church, in the real experience of the church, every one of us is exposed, and from the exposing we are washed. You now have to get into the real building of the church; first is the exposure.

You always begin by thinking, praise God, the Lord has begun to build. And then you find out, no. I thought that was building. Brothers and sisters, you are going to be exposed; boy, are you ever going to be exposed.