T#021 THE CORRECT & ACCURATE USE & UNDERSTANDING of THE WORDS “Church” & “ChurchES”

The word CHURCH

has reference to

• all of US who have been amnestied or 

• summarily forgiven of our sins for our individual unbelief

• in THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS

• by THE LORD JESUS THE CHRIST HIMSELF

• (>>Acts 2:36-38)

BUT not only us ---

• but also including all of them

• whom GOD has called out, ekklesia

• of the world's systems

--- [even if they have not
actually as yet
heeded HIS call]

• from DARKNESS into HIS marvelous LIGHT

• (>>1st Peter 2:9)

because we both are 

being saved
(>>Acts 2:47)

• --- while we invariably and characteristically consider ourselves

• merely as sojourners on earth & the internet

• --- as we always find ourselves unestablished in different situations in different places in our pursuits invariably for
• recognition, fame, fortune, influence & control, position, power , and sovereignty

• --- yet, are further chosen to-be overcomers (>>> T#027) to these worldly systems in organizations according to the foreknowledge of GOD

• (>>1st Peter 1:1-2).

THE CHURCH
ekklesia
is unmistakably

• the body of baptized and

• still to-be baptized

for the summary remission
of the sins

of already repentant BELIEVERS

• in THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS

that we all ought-to-be

(>>1st Corinthians 12:12-14)

• serving one another (>>1st Corinthians 12:25),

• as brothers' keepers one to another (Genesis 4:9)

• and edifying one another (>>Ephesians 4:16);

whether assembled or not
as in The Internet or The Digital World
 but always

• under the headship of

• and the DIRECT articulation by

• our REDEEMER ( in our SALVATION concerns),

• our CHIEF-PRIEST (in our spiritual concerns),

• our KING (in our secular concerns) and

• our JUDGE (in ALL our failings in all our concerns!)

• ---- THE LORD JESUS THE CHRIST

--- with no person nor
organization

• in-between HIS articulation & our OBEDIENCE

• (>>Ephesians 1:22-23, >>Colossians 1:18)

--- to interfere WITH US
and influence us!

THE RIGHT BASIS:

• for our meetings with one another

• as we live up to our life commitments to

• >>John 8:31 & >>Luke 14:26

• should be

our commitment

to THE WORD of GOD

>>> Rightly Dispensed
and/or Appropriated

>>2nd Timothy 2:15

• --- as THE AUTHORITY FOR US

--- and

THE GOAL TO BE
 ACCOMPLISHED
of our commitment is

• WHAT is to manifest from us COLLECTIVELY

as recorded in
>>Acts 2:41-47

• coming as natural result

--- as THE FRUIT
of THE SPIRIT

• (>>Galatians 5:22-23)

• manifesting in us

• individually!

The format
of our fellowships
(>>> T#011)
is SHARING

• because through the leading of THE HOLY SPIRIT

• (>>>T#030)

• under the collective guidance

• of the elders we are with.

• (>>>T#009) 

THE WHOLE WRITTEN
WORD

of GOD is

complete and enough

• for teaching

• for reproof

• for correction

• for training in righteousness

that we as men
& women of GOD

• may be adequately equipped

• for every good work

• (>>2nd Timothy 3:16-17).

We are to consider
SINNINGS
particularly those coming from
and because of the behaviors
and teachings

of SOME among us

(>>Revelation 2:6 then >>15)

THE New COVENANT
calls NICOLAITANS (>>>T#026)

• as THE CULPRITS

• if not the threats and dangers

• to the unity and the purity

• of our fellowships.

• (>>Acts 15:24, >>Acts 20:30).

as WE are to keep
ourselves responsible
preserving
at all times our:

      (1) SUBJECTION TO OUR HEAD,

      (2) GAINING  PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH OUR HEAD,

          (3) WORKING AS GLAD SERVICE FOR OUR HEAD, and

          (4) TAKING DIRECTION FROM OUR HEAD.

There is not to be anybody,
neither attachment nor
circumstance in life
that ought-to-stand

between

us and our HEAD
>>Luke 14:26.

True to what
we ought-to-be

[to increase in number]

• THE New COVENANT cites

• THE CHURCH that our predecessors were

• --- as always a people

• (>>1st Corinthians 1:2)

• --- meeting in their homes

• --- for the breaking of the bread (>>>T#013), and

• their

• >>> devotional prayers, readings, singing, fellowships

• (>>Acts 2:46b)

• or in The Temple Courts

• of their previous religion

• (>>Acts 2:46a, >>5:20, >>25)

• --- where they taught THE WORD of GOD daily,   

• --- teaching and proclaiming THE GOOD NEWS

• --- resulting even to a large number of the Jewish priests themselves

• shifting and converted (>>Acts 6:7)

• from JUDAISM to, among others,

• but most importantly to 

• THE FAITH in THE UNIVERSAL PRIESTHOOD of  EVERY BELIEVER

• [>>>T#010]

• in THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS

• in this END TIMES or THE CHURCH AGE!

They [who used-to-be
THE CLERGY &
THE LAITY] then(!)

came
to their own company
ending that set-up 

• in their own homes (>>Acts 4:23, >>31) or 

even
as they gathered in
The Temple Courts

• (which by the way have ceased to be their own

• when they professed JESUS THE CHRIST

• as their LORD and THE CHRIST)

just to reach their fellow
Jews at their hour of prayer

(>>Acts 3:1).

• Yes, The Church then

• under THE ELDERSHIP (>>>T#009) of the apostles

• met where they choose and can [>>Acts 19:8-9]

• from occasion to occasion. 

They did away
in REPENTANCE
(>>> T#002)

• --- meeting together only in one specific, permanent or geographical place

• as their OLD religion required very strictly and consistently of them

• (in their synagogues and The Temple only)

• throughout ---- until their conversion from Judaism

• to THE LORDSHIP & THE CHRISTHOOD of JESUS.

JESUS our HEAD &
THINKER,

our CHIEF-PRIEST
HIMSELF

NOW(!) in our time

• told the Samaritan woman then

• before that Pentecost Day of A.D.33,

• specifically in the matter of WORSHIP

• --- “Woman, believe ME, a time is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem shall you worship The Father

• --- But the hour is coming, and now is,

• when the true worshippers shall worship The Father individually

• --- in their spirit and in accordance to THE TRUTH;

• --- for such people The Father seeks to be His worshippers.

GOD is Spirit and they who
worship HIM must worship

in their spirit and
in The Truth.”

(>>John 4:21, >>23-24).

• THE CHURCH that we are just a part of 

• ---- ought to meet and rendezvous

• where we chose and can

• ---- from meeting to meeting

• ---- even through The Internet

• for our GOD

• is already indwelling us individually

• since we GOT AMNESTIED

• (>>Acts 2:36-38, >>Romans 8:11), [>>>T#029].

The faithful that we
ought-to-be

• --- WORSHIP HIM

• --- adore HIM

• --- and sing praises to HIM

• and to one another

• --- anywhere and every where --- singly, collectively

• and

• SPONTANEOUSLY

• @ HIS prodding

• (>>>T#012)

--- without those
ceremonies and
rituals
anymore

that The Jews
as a nation
were told to do
then !!!

• --- from our individual homes as CENTER,

• --- we go to somebody else’s house,

• to even some places along the way,

• to cottage prayer meetings,

• to “church buildings”,

• to chapels,

• to temples, assemblies, halls, gospel centers,

• to mid-week and THE LORD’s Day fellowships &

• bible studies

• to bible-sharing sessions,

• to student centers!

CENTRIFUGAL FORCE

(from our homes

“as we go, even through
The Internet ... preach!!!” 

>>> Matthew 28:19-20)

• ought-to-be the distinguishing feature of THE CHURCH

• IN EXACT OPPOSITE to the ways of Judaism

• wrongly copied and carried insistently to

• THIS New COVENANT days of ours

• by those DENOMINATIONALISTS

• --- [they who adopt names for their groups]

• --- around and with us

• which is

CENTRIPETAL FORCE

(TO our TEMPLE
building

and synagogues
ONLY,

come & hear!).

• ALL THESE ADVOCATES of oneness

but only in their respective
places of worship

• have failed, are miserably failing, and will continue to FAIL

• THEIR HEAD

• in THE ONENESS of HIS CHURCH

• because they refuse THE UNITY

• so clearly and unmistakably pronounced in

• >>Romans 15:5-6, >>Hebrews 8:1-13

• based on the rightly dispensing instructions of

• >>2ndTimothy 2:15 

They further IGNORE their
ALLEGED HEAD’s PRAYER

• for EXPRESSION OF THAT UNITY

• to REALIZATION

• IN OUR MIDST as expressed particularly

• in >>John 17:19-21

• (>>>T#045).

They continue to claim

• --- because they refuse to repent (>>2nd Timothy 2:25) ---

from their stand that
THE New TESTAMENT
does not have these to guide them

• so they mention a few scriptures from The Old Covenant

• and patch up with voluminous words entirely their own,

• preaching them as their genuine basis for oneness among themselves

• in blatant violation to >>1st Peter 4:11 quoted herein in part as follows:

• “Whoever speaks, let him speak as oracles of GOD

• (that means, quote the very scriptures of pertinence!) 

• … that in all things GOD may be glorified through JESUS THE CHRIST, to WHOM belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”

And they do not realize

the big insult and defiance

• to the completeness of THE WHOLE SCRIPTURE

• (>>2nd Timothy 3:16-17) for our dependence upon

• ---- by their insistence using their own words of argument and justification!

• The word “churches” (plural) which appears in THE New COVENANT a little more than 30 times

• was never intended for use to refer to and designate different kinds of organizations, denominations, institutions, assemblies, fellowships; more so, cults. NEVER!

Where we hear spoken
and see in print

the plural for
the singular word

church,

reference is made to

THE ONE CHURCH

whose parts, portions or
components of its totality

are located and found
scattered
in such places,

whose finding way into
mention in

THE New COVENANT

were thru the epistles

for the following purposes:

1.    to get those changes, additions, subtractions, and innovations

• from fellow-believers (>>Acts 20:30, >>15:24)

• to THE New COVENANT way of living

• as espoused by the apostles

....... CAREFULLY OVERCOME

• (>>>T#027) BY US;

• that is, subtly put to reduced adverse effect

• as specifically instructed of us

• through those MESSENGERS

• in Revelation Chapters 2 & 3!

• (>>>blogBOOK 5)

2.    to get those contradictions to THE New COVENANT Way of Living

• coming largely from non-believers (>>Acts 20:29)

• corrected, as the 7 epistles written by Paul

• sought them to be OUTRIGHT REJECTED by US,

• in our own respective personal living

• ---- even if we have not associated with such people

• gathered there in those places then,

• have never been there,

• and have not even heard of such places

• in our whole life.

  
3.    to inform us all

• that corruptions in THE CHURCH NOW(!)

• come from both

• unbelievers or outsiders of THE CHURCH (>>Acts 20:29)

• as well as from 

"those LEADERS who
REQUIRE THEIR MEMBERS

TO ASSEMBLE
among themselves only"

• (>>>T#026) (>>Acts 20:30),

• particularly them who insist that the authority of THE CHRIST

• was allegedly vested in THE CHURCH,

particularly ON THEM

 – as LEADERS therein

• as Roman CATHOLICS and ALL Baptists

in full strength INSIST ON!

• --- missing the point that HIS written COVENANT

• is THE AUTHORITY for all of us

• including them ....... and that

--- they ought to shift
to ELDERSHIP
(>>>T#009)

• --- as THE WAY (>>Acts 18:26) THE CHURCH ought to relate with one another 

--- instead of LEADERSHIP
that they insist on

• because they do not want to give up

• their ministry/profession, positions, titles, special salutations, livelihood, privileges and accolades

• that goes by their members’ submissions.

4.    to completely guide us individually

• through the 7 epistles written by Paul 

• what in ourselves we ought-to-get-corrected of,

• what we ought-to-teach others to correct of themselves

• ---- and eventually make those others teach to correct

• more others (>>2nd Timothy 2:2),

• WHICH IS THE VERY PURPOSE of THIS continuing RESEARCH VENTURE  umpg.blogspot.com

• awaiting your inputs also

so as to undo
the sum total of
the corruptions

brought unto us by
unbelievers
around us.  

5.    to most purposely be convinced

• that the 7 epistles by John

• in THE BOOK of REVELATION

• are to be taken:

FIRST: in terms of the time and chronology 

• ----“what must swiftly take place” (>>Revelation 1:1) and

• ----“the things which you have seen, and the things which are,

• ---- and the things which are about to take place after these things” (>>Revelation 1:19)

and

SECOND: in terms of the meanings and symbolisms

• even in the way THE CHURCH is

• called or mentioned therein

• ---- that this revelation in symbolisms

• is sent care of HIS messengers (angels in some versions)

• to be made known to & understood by HIS BOND SERVANTS

• ---- (not to born servants,

• not to ordinary servants;

• nay, more so not to salaried "servant-leaders"

• as some are)

• ---- as The Holy Spirit found fit

• to use and get printed for all consequently

• “to read and heed” (>>Revelation 1:3, >>22:7).

6.    to convince all claimant Christians 

• --- THE ONE CHURCH scattered in all the different places throughout the world

• --- have to behave the way of THE CHURCH IN “BROTHERLY LOVE” 

• (as the word “Philadelphia” means to any Greek before we are to consider as a place)

• --- just like “Tulay” to a Mandauehanon was first even before the construction of the first Mandaue-Mactan bridge “a jump-off point for linking to other places across the seas” before it became and now is an accepted place by many even just to cross from Mandaue (to the nearby islands even Mactan which has already become our gateway to the world by virtue of our international airport there!), to all peoples from all the places on earth --- even if they don’t know, have never been and will not cross the seas to all the continents from such a place in Mandaue City!

7.    to put on record for all to reckon with

• --- that if we believe THE WORD of GOD,

• --- particularly by what it says of what happens to

• THE ONE CHURCH

• after all the apostles will have died already

• --- when corruptions from outsiders

• and from our fellow-believers will go proliferating

• --- we cannot be waylaid by the devil to believing THE TRUTH obtaining, that:

THE OPPOSITION TO
THE CHURCH thereafter
and where we are now(!)

>>> REVELATION Chapters 2:18-3:22

ARE HARDLY DETECTABLE

BECAUSE
THESE NICOLAITANS
ARE WELL-ENTRENCHED

IN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS,
SUCCESSIONS, TRADITIONS,
INFLUENCE, POSITIONS,
TITLES, LOYAL MEMBERS
even by their members’
GREETINGS,

the way they are addressed,
and the accolades
they are receiving

from the general public and
the various governments around

aided by SOCIAL MEDIA!

• THESE UNABATED CORRUPTIONS

• IN THE CHURCH

• they are held responsible for 

• --- because they do not subscribe

to our UNIVERSAL
PRIESTHOOD together

• making ALL THESE CORRUPTIONS

• for our OVERCOMING

• by all of us who know JESUS as HE is in heaven NOW(!)

• .... as HE wants us to behold HIM NOW(!)

• .... as HE pictured HIMSELF

• in selfie-style 

• .... and talking/instructing for

• our UNDERSTANDING

• and RESPONSE

as our CHIEF-PRIEST
- JUDGE

before
these corrupted
 churches-denominations
under them

• we find ourselves among NOW!!!

~~~#~~~


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