THE CHURCH as should be differentiated from
The Denominations!
Matthew 22:29 ~ WE are ignorant because WE do not know the scriptures!
2ndTimothy 2:15 ~ So, WE should study so that WE will be able to rightly dispense, teach and get obeyed THE WORD of GOD without any reason to be ashamed, because WE are approved by God on that!
Genesis 1:11-12 ~ Any SEED will bear only the fruit of its kind!
Luke 8:11 ~ THE SEED spoken of by the Lord Jesus is THE WORD OF GOD (that which ALONE should be planted in the hearts of men to make us Christians!)
1stPeter 1:23 ~ WE are to be born again through the living & abiding WORD of GOD; not through any substitute thereof!
1stPeter 4:11 ~ WHOEVER SPEAKS, let him speak, as it were, THE UTTERANCES of GOD
Amos 3:3 ~ WE cannot expect to go together before Him if WE do not agree to be of THE SAME STAND to adopt NO NAME for ourselves and plant THE SAME SEED in our evangelization efforts!
THIS IS THE REASON WHY DENOMINATIONALISTS even more so among themselves ARE BEYOND UNITY no matter what they agree & do in all sincerity & determination!
Matthew 16:18 ~ MY Church, not Churches (only ONE!)
Matthew 18:15-17 ~ goes, tells, hears, gets more along and speaks!
Acts 5:11 ~ maybe seized with fear
Romans 16:5, 1stCorinthians16:19, Philemon2 ~ meets in homes
Acts 8:1 (1stCorinthians15:9) ~ persecuted against &scattered by Paul before he became a Christian!
Acts 12:5 ~ fervently prays
Galatians 1:22-23 ~ recognizes and hears
3rdJohn 9 ~ written to with letters
The Christ’s CHURCH is
THE CHRIST’s CHURCH ------- whether IMPORTANT or NOT!
Acts 20:28 ~ VERY IMPORTANT because she was purchased by the Christ’s own blood (LIFE)!
Ephesians 2:16 ~ VERY IMPORTANT because she was where & still to the present --- WHERE GOD IS continuing to reconcile the worst and longest standing of enemies the world ever had, the Jews & the Gentiles – and more easily unta FOR US ...... fellow-claimant Christians, meant to fellowship with each other! (see Treatise# 011)
1stTimothy 3:15 ~ VERY IMPORTANT because she is the very FAMILY of GOD we are to be a part of while still here on earth, living in brotherly love with each other!
Ephesians 5:23 ~ VERY IMPORTANT because WE have Jesus Himself WHOM we should not put to shame as our HEAD & SAVIOR!
Ephesians 5:25-30 ~ VERY IMPORTANT because WE as composing the Christ’s BODY here on earth – are to be moved and articulated by Him (ONLY) as our HEAD from heaven NOW --- depended upon by Him to reflect His thoughts & work before men particularly to THEM WHO ARE CAUGHT IN THE DENOMINATIONS, as we are to lead them to Revelation 3:14-22!!!
~VERY IMPORTANT because WE as the Christ’s scheduled bride, we are loved by the Christ to that point He even died the worst kind of death for us --- that He wants us cleansed with the washing of water by THE WORD that He might present us in glory – that we should be holy and without blemish!
- Those in mainstream Christianity now has this privilege to know The Lord Jesus in Revelation 3:14-22 telling them in verses 15-22 with how He sees them, what is wrong with them, what they should do to obey Him, and what The Lord Jesus promises them for eternity --- until their obedience, they --- are continuously being fooled by the devil to their impending perdition because: IT IS BEYOND FURTHER EMPHASIZING that all of us have to be part of THE ONE CHURCH as talked about in Ephesians 2:11-16.
- As fellow-claimant Christians alive & sinning ~~ we are being saved (Acts 2:47) and to find reconciliation with God by our mingling with each other (refer to Treatise # 010) as God commanded us more than 50 times and designed His Church for that role (Hebrews 10:24-31, Treatise #070)!
WHAT THE CHURCH IS! ought to be our further INCREASING CONCERN TO KNOW (refer to Treatise #s 025, 026, 027, 028, 030 & 079) because indeed, WE--- God’s people, are being destroyed for our lack of knowledge according to Hosea 4:6!
THE BIBLE says:
I. THE CHURCH we are to be a part of must be the one eternally-purposed by God!
Ephesians 1:4 ~
A. God the Father has chosen us IN THE CHRIST (Galatians 3:27) our Savior to be in due time holy and blameless in the Christ’s sight!
B. Before the earth was even created!
C. To be holy and blameless (individually distinctly unique & different from all others because, among others, to be individually forgiven of our sins through our individual obediences to the 4 do-or-die commands [refer to T#035] in the New Testament!)
Ephesians 5:26-27 ~
D. Made holy by cleansing us by the washing with water through The Word!
E. To be HIS OWN GIFT FOR HIMSELF! [not any denomination’s or person’s gift to Jesus!]
- All the denominations are guilty of making each and every member of theirs of uniform brand or creed of manifestations & behaviors and are all impatient at seeing them slowly achieve their goals despite their insistence they praise & worship together in one place; not knowing what to be holy & blameless means in the above scriptures!
II. THE CHURCH we are to be a part of should be the one prophesied as early as the days of Isaiah & Joel!
Isaiah 2:2-3 ~
A. “in the last days” ~ Acts 2:16 (Joel 2:28) ~ which started on the Day of Pentecost, A.D 33 ~~ when the Holy Spirit was first poured out on all flesh, when salvation by the saving work of Jesus in Calvary was first preached!
B. “the house of the Lord” [THE CHURCH] was established from a mountain (Jerusalem) exalted above other places WHERE all nations thereafter were to flow in all loftiness to its SAVING MESSAGE and gravitate upward to its SAVING POWER; in particular, Acts 2:14-47!
C. And many people thereafter have gone and invited others for THAT SALVATION MESSAGE first preached there, that all people be taught God’s ways, live and walk in His paths as we are to learn HOW TO from a study of The Law that came out from Zion in parallel with THE WORD that was preached first in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost, A.D. 33 as follows:
1. Acts 2:17-21 (Joel 2:28-32)
2. Luke 24:47-49
3. Acts 1:4-8 ~ (fulfillment after years of waiting since Joel’s time)
4. Acts 20:30-35 ~ Jesus SINCE THEN REIGNING IN HEAVEN after His DEATH, BURIAL & RESURRECTION, which we all have to believe AND until God the Father makes the enemies of Jesus His footstool; His last enemy He will vanquish will be death, and that will be at His coming a second time from heaven (1st Corinthians 15:24-26!)
5. Acts 2:36-37 ~ THE FAITH that ASKS WHAT TO DO IN OBEDIENCE in keeping with Romans 1:5 & 16:26 that will result to our PERSONAL SALVATION!
6. Acts 2:38 ~ THE COMMAND TO REPENT or PAGBINAG-O FOR US TO OBEY for the forgiveness of our sins!
7. Acts 2:38 ~ THE COMMANDED ONE BAPTISM FOR US TO OBEY for the forgiveness of our sins!
8. Acts 2:38 ~ BY WHICH FORGIVENESS OF our SINS, we are saved right at that particular instant; but because God knows we will thereafter still sin, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit as His SEAL for the day of our redemption (Ephesians 4:30)!
BAPTISTS in particular are extremely proud of their churches as having pre-dated THE CHURCH ESTABLISHED ON PENTECOST DAY, A.D. 33.
Some of the big-size / world-wide denominations we have around us together with their founding years are:
1521 – ANA BAPTISTS 1830 – MORMONS
1530 – LUTHERANS 1844 – 7th DAY ADVENTISTS
1536 – PRESBYTERIANS 1845 – SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
1609 – EPISCOPALIANS 1876 – SALVATION ARMY
1611 – FIRST BAPTISTS 1895 – NAZARENE CHURCH
1671 – 7TH DAY BAPTISTS 1914 – ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
1739 – METHODISTS 1914 – IGLESIA NI MANALO
1780 – FREE WILL BAPTISTS 1927 – 4SQUARE GOSPEL
1927 – JEHOVAH’s WITNESSES
All of MAINSTREAM CHRISTIANITY that we have in the Philippines --- Baptists, Pentecostals, Bapticostals & Evangelicals--- and all of their differing kinds in these 4 main groups PREACH, TEACH & APPLY “the door” to their members’ salvation ~~in violation to 1st Peter 1:23 & 4:11, Treatise #050 ~~ their own denomination’s adopted words: “BELIEVE ONLY & YOU ARE SAVED RIGHT NOW!” or “ACCEPT or RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST IN YOUR HEART & YOU ARE SAVED RIGHT NOW!”
- These denominationalist-claimant Christians have lost sight of the fact that it is sin that separates us from God and that sin has to be dealt with by REPENTING {for the forgiveness of our sins} and GETTING themselves BAPTIZED with the one commanded baptism for that same purpose {that our sins be forgiven!}
AND NOT JUST BY (THEIR PRESCRIBED) BELIEVING ONLY!
III. THE CHURCH we are to be a part of must be the one persecuted by Paul before he became a Christian!
1st Corinthians 15:9 (Acts 8:1)
WE are to find ourselves THIS REALIZATION; we too were persecuting THE CHURCH while we were still in THE WORLD OF RELIGIONS – among any of those denominations:
A. when we were just converted from one religion to another
B. when we were transferring our membership from one church to another
C. yes, even from that religion/church we were so zealous defending because it was already the one we were born with!
Oh, by what countless names have they referred to us in THE CHURCH in brotherly love as “walay claro”, “lost command”, “nanglawgaw lang”, “kulang sa pansin”, “walay gi-graduetan nga bible school ”, “dis-organized”, “unstructured”, etc.!
The churches we were once members of prior to our knowledge of these methodologies & teachings of our Lord Jesus the Christ were summarily NOT THE uncorrupted CHURCH Jesus the Christ built because among others, THE CHURCH Jesus the Christ built that we have to be a part of & not a member thereof is THE PERSECUTED and not the persecutor!
IV. THE CHURCH we are to be a part of ought to be named after her crucified Savior-Husband!
1st Corinthians 1:10-13
No right thinking man earlier committed to be the husband to a woman in this world can maintain his status as right-thinking, if he does not jealously expect his wife-to-be to reverence other names outside of his name! This leaves us with no option whatsoever after we have been betrothed to Jesus WHO IS A JEALOUS GOD (Exodus 34:14)!
WE ARE NOT TO TAKE LIGHTLY BUT AS SIN --- THE SIN OF DENOMINATIONALISM as it is continuously dividing Christendom today with THEIR DIFFERENT NAMES & DOCTRINES and the Nicolaitans (Refer to Treatise #026) responsible for them have to realize THEY are GOD’s CURRENT WORKERS referred to in Treatise #037!
Under their insistence, their organization’s names are invariably:
1. Of their CELEBRITIES calling themselves Baptists, Lutherans, Wesleyans, Calvinists, etc…
2. Of DAYS calling themselves in particular as Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists, etc…
3. Of SET-Ups calling themselves as Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, etc…
4. Of NAMES their individual members cannot reflect rightly by their behaviors & teachings:
a. because when asked, instead of the name Christian for their answer –they claim for themselves Living Word, Bread of Life, Living Bread, (how can they ever be?) etc…
b. because when asked, they claim themselves as Baptists yet have never even baptized one in their whole lifetime! (Yet, all Christians are called to baptize!)
V. TO ENTER THE CHURCH we are to be a part of is not by believing only in Jesus as our Lord & Savior
John 10:1-29 ~
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold {THE CHURCH} by the door {The Resurrected JESUS}, but climbs up some other way {anything else outside of the specific message preached by Peter [Acts 2:14-38] on Pentecost Day, A.D.33}, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door {also the same Resurrected JESUS as preached by Paul in 1stCorinthians 15:3-4 as the gospel or good news of prime importance} is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens {like the blind man earlier in Chapter 9 earlier as you refer to Menu #087}, and the sheep hear HIS voice {the New Testament commands}; and HE calls HIS own sheep by name and HE leads them out {as doorkeeper, JESUS is there to instruct those who are entering as well as those leaving the sheepfold to be with the denominations for a time!}. And when HE brings out of the world of denominations & even to them who have no religion HIS own sheep to those who answer His call for OVERCOMERS therefrom, HE goes before them; and the sheep follow HIM [
ETERNAL SECURITY is nowhere to be read in THE BIBLE! To preach it is sin as it is both unscriptural & anti-scriptural, contrary to 1st Peter 4:11 and the divine intent as summarized in Treatise #048!
ETERNAL SECURITY is found in the bible though, in verses specifically 27-29 in particular; but the {*} words above are clear beyond misunderstanding IT DOES NOT AS YET APPLY to their pastors preaching & members listening!
THE GOOD NEWS IS: The Word of God is not short of what it takes for all the different denominations, ALL the individual denominationalists TO BE part of THE CHURCH! Without engaging an argument or debate with any leader therein, all they’ve got to do is answer THE CALL for OVERCOMERS (Treatise #027) by Jesus in The Church in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22!
Claimant Christians are enjoined to be slow to speak, quick to listen and slow to anger (James 1:19) as we by His grace, read, hear and keep those things written in Revelation Chapters 1-3 as discussed in Treatise #023-28.
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