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Originally Posted by YP0534
Maybe what y'all are saying is that in this period the annointing and the light wasn't what it was in even, say, 1980? I still tend to disagree based upon my experiences with the printed messages later on, but I concede that I wasn't there to know how things were before 1985....
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YP0534
I think I know where you are coming from. I don't remember your time frame in the LC. Mine was 1975-79 ish.
I came 'off the streets'...had a Catholic background but no Bible upbringing.
The messages were 'fresh'..certainly NEW, enlightening. I was a baby Christian, reading the Word, getting insight on the Power of the Name of Jesus..the Power of the Blood of Jesus..the process of Sanctification...and so many other truths of the Bible.
I was fellowshipping with saints for the first time in my life.
By the time I left, the messages were not only dry, dead and repetitious but Lee was being venerated. It was LEE and the church..no longer CHRIST and the church.
But what I want to point out is many people had already left the LC before I came in! There were people who really knew Lee personally & parted ways with him. They knew what he was all about but most of us did not.
Others who knew the LORD intimately and HIS WORD probably saw red flags way before I ever did and thus left too.
So I see it like this: For me, the messages were anointed to me for the season I was in the LC. For me to grow and mature in Christ Jesus, my LORD and KING and in my personal, intimate relationship with HIM, I needed to be there, under Lee's ministry.
A time came when as I look back, 'the anointing' not only lifted but left altogether. For those who left before me after having been there many years, the 'anointing' had left. They knew it and they had to leave.
For others who came after me, they may have needed to be there too.
Were all the messages 'anointed'? NO! But many were....
for me.
Genesis, the gospel of John, and Hebrews in particular were messages I cherish.
Still, I give THANKS and PRAISE to MY GOD I'm outta there!
