Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
John 4:23-24 Jesus says: 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.
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If you think to be worshipping God, and you attend a church where their doctrine is not correct, according to Bible. Jesus says you worship in vain.
Matthew 15:9 in vain they do worship ME, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
And Jesus told them:
Matthew 15:12 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
And Jesus told them:
Matthew 15:12 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
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Eating crackers and drinking grape juice while calling this "The Lord's Supper."
The Lord's supper is eating and drinking the Word of God.
There is power when something is of God. There is power when we hear a word from the Holy Spirit. There is no power in crackers/grape juice.
When we eat Jesus, The Word, there is power and we live in HIM by eating HIS Word and by doing that Word in an appropriate manner.
John 6
35 And Jesus said unto them, I (the Word) am the bread of life: he that cometh to ME shall never hunger; and he that believeth on ME shall never thirst.
John 1
1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made. In Him (the Word) was life; and the life was the light of men.
9-14 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. HE came unto His own, and His own received him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave HE power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
33 And I knew HIM not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, the same is HE which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
John 6
The bread of God is Jesus, The Word.
When we eat and drink the Word properly, appropriately applying that Word to our lives, we partake correctly of the Lord's Supper. If we fail to apply that Word appropriately, we eat and drink damnation to ourselves. (I Corinthians 11)
35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to ME (the Word) shall never hunger; and he that believeth on ME (the Word) shall never thirst.
And this is the Father's will which hath sent ME, that of all which HE hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one which seeth the Son (the Word), and believeth on Him (the Word), may have everlasting life: and I will raise Him up at the last day.
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When you think of Jesus, what comes into your mind? A physical body, an image created of a man by a worldly artist?
It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of (by) God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto ME.
(When God teaches us we come to the Word ... the truth ... the doctrine of God... then we see the Bible through spiritual eyes, not through fleshly eyes of men.)
Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on ME (the Word) hath everlasting life.
I (the Word) am that bread of life.
51 I (the Word) am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread (the Word), he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
For MY flesh is meat indeed, and MY blood is drink indeed.
(The Word is flesh for us to sustain us and cause us to be nourished and to grow in things of God. And HIS blood, the blood of the Word, quenches our thirst forever.)
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in ME, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent ME, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth ME, even he shall live by ME.
(In all this, Jesus speaks of eating and drinking the Word of God. The Word is our life. The Word is Jesus.)
63-65 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray Him.
And He said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto ME, except it were given unto him of my Father.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray Him.
And He said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto ME, except it were given unto him of my Father.
There are many today who betray HIM, betray the Word, setting up false doctrines, turning away from Bible.
There are many antichrists in today's churches. Antichrist are they who fall away from scripture and set up other doctrines contrary to scripture.
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* God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
There are other traditions set up in church groups where men have viewed scripture by natural eyes and have set up doctrines for the church and generations of families follow that tradition of man at their church services. They teach their church group their doctrine which they added by fleshly thinking and that tradition is put into their churches and they follow that tradition of man for many decades.
For example: The Catholics required their church members to eat fish, and no meat, on Fridays.
The Bible says:
I Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
The protestant churches also do things at their services which are tradition of men rather than commandments of God.
At the Church of Christ they have some strange doctrines, one of which is they do not call their ministers pastor or evangelist (and they have completely eliminated all ideas of apostles and prophets in the church.) They call their pastors "minister" instead.
But if a man has the call of God on his life as a pastor, we call him pastor. It honors God not man for God is the one who did the work in the man, putting him in the church as a gift to the church as a pastor.
Paul was put into the church as an apostle/teacher. When Paul wrote to the church he identified himself as an apostle/teacher. This is the work done in Paul's life by God. It does not honor Paul in a fleshly way. It tells the church what to expect from Paul for the work of apostle is very different from the work of prophet or evangelist, pastor, or teacher. Paul didn't learn to be an apostle. God appointed Paul to this work. Therefore it glorifies God and not Paul since God did the work in Paul.
But if a man has the call of God on his life as a pastor, we call him pastor. It honors God not man for God is the one who did the work in the man, putting him in the church as a gift to the church as a pastor.
Paul was put into the church as an apostle/teacher. When Paul wrote to the church he identified himself as an apostle/teacher. This is the work done in Paul's life by God. It does not honor Paul in a fleshly way. It tells the church what to expect from Paul for the work of apostle is very different from the work of prophet or evangelist, pastor, or teacher. Paul didn't learn to be an apostle. God appointed Paul to this work. Therefore it glorifies God and not Paul since God did the work in Paul.
Ephesians 4:11-12 (after Jesus arose, HE gave gifts to the church) And HE gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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I've seen many other church groups also that set up traditions and follow their traditions which are not in the Bible.
Jesus says:
Matthew 15:6 Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
... 11-12 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Then understood they how that HE bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
... 11-12 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Then understood they how that HE bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
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We have the Holy Spirit and the Bible. If we are willing to see the truth of doctrine, we can call on God and depend on HIM to show us. Then we must take appropriate action, removing ourselves from traditions of men.
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In July, 2018, a man told me of a small church he enjoyed. It sounded good to me. I decided to call the pastor and talk with him. Perhaps this is a church group I could gather with.
I found the phone number on Internet and called.
There was a recorded message telling the hours they gather:
The message said: 9 a.m. The Lord's Supper
I hung up the phone, knowing they were gathering for crackers and grape juice.
I believe God has shown me eating crackers and grape juice and calling it "The Lord's Supper" is a vain tradition of men set up generations ago by fleshly men who did not see the spiritual truth of the Lord's Supper being the eating and drinking of the Word of God.
I knew I could not gather with that church group.
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