We need to pray, "O Lord, be merciful to us. We need to return to the simplicity which is toward Christ (2 Cor. In the same way, we need to breathe in Christ moment by moment by calling on His name. Although I do not understand the air, I enjoy it every day by breathing it. I do not understand what air is, but I have been breathing it for many years. There are many things that we cannot understand. We care for taking the rich meat of the chicken into us. But if you were invited to a dinner and served chicken, would you ask about its bones or its tail? We do not care for the bones or the tail. Some of the saints have many questions concerning certain doctrinal things. I hope that all of us would have unveiled faces. He said, "Who are You, Lord?" At that time the Lord came into him, and there was no more religion with him. But on the way to Damascus, a light from the heavens shone upon him and he fell down. The most religious person was Saul of Tarsus. I hope that all the older ones among us would forget about being religious. It is somewhat easy for the young ones to say that they hate religion, because religion is a kind of bondage. We should care only for the satisfaction of God’s people, not for religious forms and regulations. It is better to eat something raw in a wild way than to go hungry. Forget about "the Sabbath." You have to take care of your hunger. We should forget about the religious regulations. You may come to a so-called church service nicely, quietly, and piously, but how do you feel within? Are you satisfied and filled up, or empty? When we come in a silent and dead way to the meetings, we have to admit that we are empty. Have you not read in the Scriptures that David and his followers went into the house of God and ate something illegally? How about that?" God does not care for the keeping of certain regulations. We could paraphrase what the Lord Jesus said to the Pharisees in this way: "You are supposed to know the Bible and do everything according to the Bible. ![]() But the Lord Jesus said, "Have you not read.? " (vv. Those Sabbath-day policemen thought they were very scriptural. Then the Sabbath-day policemen, the Pharisees, came to tell Jesus that His disciples were breaking the Sabbath (v. ![]() They ate in a "wild way" without cooking, without a dining table, and without dining utensils. His disciples became hungry and began to pick the ears of grain and eat them (v. ![]() Matthew 12 tells us that Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grainfields. The Jewish people were so much for keeping the Sabbath that they sent out some Sabbath-day policemen to arrest all the Sabbath-breakers. As long as we are in Christ, everything we do is right. But Paul said in verse 14 that "the veil is being done away with in Christ." In Christ, the veil is removed. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 3:15 concerning the Israelites, "Indeed unto this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart." When they read the Old Testament, they were still under the covering, the veiling, of their old concept. They are still under the covering of their old religious concept. Many are still under the veil of old religion. I am doing something, by His mercy, to help His people be rescued from the falsehood of religion. Coming to the meeting in a silent way is to come void of the Spirit. We all need to care for being nourished with Christ, not for any religious forms. Eventually, I found out that when I say, "Lord Jesus," I get nourished within. In Christianity we were taught to be quiet, but we gain nothing from this. Instead, suppose I come into the meeting saying, "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! Amen! Jesus! I love Jesus!" You may say I am crazy, but what is wrong with this? We should care not for being pious but for being nourished with Christ. We have the concept from Christianity that when we come to a so-called church service, we have to come in a nice, polite, religious, and pious way. Simply put, to be veiled is to be covered by your own religion. In 2 Corinthians 3 to be veiled means to be covered by old religious concepts, thoughts, teaching, and knowledge. I am concerned that we might still be veiled. Second Corinthians 3:18 says, "But we all with unveiled face, beholding and reflecting like a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord Spirit." I like the term unveiled.
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