After Adam was created, he chose to accept a lie that he is like God. He therefore chose the life of independence, thus de-touching himself from God. This meant, he was to produce his own knowledge, and apply it to come up with a way of doing things, which is what we call living. It is the same way by which he would relate with fellow human beings. According to that lie, what kind of life did he come up with? Satan the author of that lie knew very well that man has no power to produce knowledge and so, operating behind the curtain, he began to pump one lie after another, which the unsuspecting Adam would assume it is his own making, and so would apply as knowledge on all that he does for living. Job confirms this truth when he was inspired to say; “The earth is given into the hands of the wicked one; he covers the face of its judges-if it is not he, who then is it-Job.9:24?” Our Lord also through Paul cautions all those who would choose to live godly lives to be watchful lest, “……your thoughts be carried away by the serpent, from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ- 2Cor.11:3”. What is Satan, by deceiving man, driving at? And remember please before we get into detailed learning that, God is talking about you and me, not a mere story of Satan and Adam. God’s word is present, an everlasting witness to all generations- Isa.30:8. He is right now teaching us, what He taught Adam, warning us against the same serpent He warned Adam of. So please, let every reader be deep in their hearts to see whether one is already deceived or not-2 Cor.13:5.
So now, what is Satan’s aim behind the deception? Is he teaching man, a better way of life, which God doesn’t want man to discover and enjoy? We know God to be the creator of all things-Acts.17:25. So, He is the only, and I say, only one who can give, teach, and sustain life, yes-the only one who knows. This being the case, what does He tell us about Satan? “……He was a murderer from the beginning and has nothing to do with the truth——–he is a liar and father of lies-John.8:44”. With this information, we now are certain that, whatever Satan aims at is never, and will never be for our good (see details in our message, “It is Satan”, in our web please).
WHY THE MAN?
Yes, we ask; why would Satan deceive man? “ For God has not placed under angels, the world to come, of which we are preaching………what is man…..Heb.2:5-7”. All those who are learning to live godly lives do know from God,s word that we human beings were created to be inheritors and rulers of this earth, which right now is ruled by Satan and his fellow-fallen angels-Gen.1:26; Eph.6:12-13. But for us to rule, we must first learn and train to be like God in every way( see more about this in our eye-opener, “ why the physical bodies”). The physical life we have is for that “…divine training-1Tim.1:4”. There is only one eternal life, that of the only eternal God. If we will not successfully train and be crowned with it, God makes it very clear that, “…….we will surely die-Gen.2:17( for details, read our message, “ the two trees)”. Satan, in his all-time desire to be like God, and to retain his rulership knew the purpose of man, and how right now, he is a mortal being, subject to death. This is why he lied to man, that he may pull us from life-development, and have us die. He told Adam, and is telling you now; “ God has lied to you; you don’t die; you are already complete in the same way God is. You don’t need his guidance on how to live. Plan your own life and it will be as good as that of God-Gen.3:4-5(paraphrasing mine)”. This lie is what man received as knowledge on how to live, and has applied it since. Since God gave us the freedom to choose which life to lead, He also allowed man to go his chosen-way- Act.14:16. So now, what are the results of accepting and applying that lie?
SUPERIOR THAN OTHERS.
God is above all, greater than all, and all possessive, for all things are his. This is what everybody who doesn’t obey God believes in, about him/herself. Being eternal and superior like God, these men don’t seek for eternal life nor imperishable bodies (our message, “seek for honor”, will inform more). According to that deception, they already have these two. So, theirs is to sustain and defend the self, in the same way God sustains and defends life. What has this design brought to man’s life? It has left all of us striving to make this lie a truth. If it is possessions, we wish, if possible, to own the whole world; to have everything, fellowmen included, under our feet, being subject to us; if leadership, everyone is striving to be seen as above all; if strength, the most powerful; yes, in every aspect of life, everyone is striving to show one’s self as the best, in the same way God is. God tells us about this when he says about those who are physically termed, as above others. “This is how the above-others behaves. ‘He will take your sons………; to plough his ground and reap his harvest……..He will take your daughters……..He will take the best of your fields, and produce…….He shall tax every of your income……You shall be his slaves….You shall cry…….1 sam.8:11-18”. Why all these oppressive treatments from one who should be treating the other with that desire to benefit him/her, the same way God does, and yet, one is assuming to be like God? Man was, and up to now is deceived concerning what it takes to be like God. He must be created to that level. He cannot create himself, in the same way a house can’t build itself. God confirms this when He says, “The ways of a man are not in himself . It is not in man who walks to direct his steps-Jerem.10:22”. So, seeing that we are not yet what God wants to make us, and that we cant create ourselves, but we were, by accepting this lie, detouched from the only one who can create us to his likeness, we remained the helpless, yet, unsuspecting beings we are, and so we live in that ignorance. When Christ came, He reminded us that, “…apart from God, we can do nothing-John.15:5”, for, “…if we have rejected the law of God( the very guidelines to right living), what wisdom have we-Jerem.8:8-9?” “…claiming to be wise, we have become fools-Rom.1:22”.
THE GRETEST DECEPTION
Based on that lie, man has gone ahead and imagined, spiritual status that of being a spirit being who is living in a physical body, and who is all knowing. In this imagination, one can only teach others, not one’s self. One can only be followed, accepted, submitted to, with every other person living the way one says. Therefore, whoever doesn’t agree with him/her is rejected, suppressed, fought, isolated, and ever campaigned against, for it is either one agrees with him, or, he/she is wrong. But on the contrary, Our Lord tells us that, “… nothing good dwells in our physical bodies”. “They can’t submit to life”- Rom.7:18; 8:7. It is God who created us that way in these physical bodies, for the purpose of training in discipline, which enables for character development, for, acting against the physical enables us to obey God and develop righteousness, thus having his mind and character by which, we can now live like him ( please get details of this from our message, “ why the physical bodies”). It also takes God’s spirit at work in one’s heart to make this discipline possible, which spirit, one can receive, only after freely choosing to live like God, for, our maker continues to tell us, “ ..not by power, nor by might, but by my spirit- Zech.4:6”. Remembering what we began to say concerning this lie, that Satan wants to kill all of us if possible, and he has succeeded to convince man to do so. Since according to the lie, everyone is like God, and has to maintain that position, then, everyone also is against his/her neighbour, and ever fighting him/her, to keep one down there, while he /she remains up, and above. Today, we see husband killing wife; son, his father, presidents, their subjects. No one agrees with the other except only when, the one accepts to submit to the other, which is always a pretended submission. For anytime the one submitting gets a chance, one rushly assumes the top position thus bringing the other down. To keep human beings in this destructive course, Satan has caused each man to ever be suspicious of the other, to never trust anything the other suggests, even when the other is sincerely placing a good idea. This way, he keeps men fighting, ever on defence, disagreeing, hating, and killing, proving that their lives are not like that of God. But because we are blind, instead of accepting this reality, we go ahead and blame every failure to achieve our imaginations, on the other person, thus excusing our ignorance. Friends, this suspicion is the greatest deception, by which Satan holds human beings against each other.
TODAY’S GOD’S CHURCH HELD IN IT
Have we ever known that this is the same tactic by which Satan has succeeded in dividing the present Church of God into so many factions, making it Leodicea? Get it if you can please, and let the repentant wake up and come back to their senses. With everybody being a god, all his/her plans are based on selfish agendas. Unlike God and his ways( see Psalm.55:22 please) which are on selfless basis, and who does things, not for himself but for his creation, man will only go for what is in-bringing, not out-taking. So, whenever dealing with each other, everyone is secretly, trying to trick the other person, to win him/her to himself. So, no one will take the other person serious, and this was introduced by Satan, for the sake of turning man against each other. Since God wants to create man to completion, and here is man trapped in this destructive lie in which, as we are daily witnessing, life is worsening at a very speedy rate, how will God complete his work and come up with the man he wanted from the beginning? Nearly two thousand years ago, our loving creator did sent his messenger, Christ, “..to open men’s eyes, that they may part from darkness to light, from prison to freedom….Isa.42:6-7; acts.26:18”. What message did Christ bring to mankind? Please, this is where we now get more attentive in self-examination, yes, in heart-searching. Lets see whether we truly believed and accepted this message, and if it is our right-now knowledge which we apply to live our lives. So now, what message did Christ convey to us from our creator, which, if obeyed will open our eyes from this current deception? He began by telling us why we were created, as written in Gen.1:26. Then he continued to show us how the life we are living now is not the one lived in that kingdom for which we were created, demanding a turning for those who will heed. Listen please. “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe the gospel-Mark.1:14-15”. Is this what we believed in, and are up to now upholding? How can we be sure? Listen please if you have ears to hear. Otherwards put, Christ is saying that, you and I were created for the kingdom of God. But the life we are living now is not that of the kingdom. So, if we will truly enter, we must turn from this life (repent), and accept and live the one He is teaching (the gospel). Have we done that? Search yourself according to this message please, compared to your daily behaviours. Our Lord, continued to say; “if anyone will come after me, the first step is to deny self-Mat.16:24”. Why? What is wrong with it? May be we have not known that God created this body with attributes which opposes his way of life-Rom.8:7; Gal.5:17(for details, please remember to read the message, “why the physical bodies”). This is for training, for character development, for choice-making. It is by opposing this body, which Satan uses, and doing what Christ’s gospel says, that we prove to God that, we truly want to be like him-2 Cor.10:3-5; Rom.5:3-4. So we must first accept what we are, against what Satan deceived us to be? What?
CREATURES IN THE MAKING.
Against Satan’s lie that, we are spirit beings in physical bodies (as houses), Christ’s message says, you and I are- “…mere dust”; short-lived; perishable; without any knowledge-Psalm.103:14; Job.14:2-3; Gal.6:3; 1 Cor.3:18”. Is this what we believe? If yes, then it follows that, all the former manner of our lives has no place in, the one we live in Christ now. Which are the former ones? We are not as yet, like God. So we are not anything one can fight for or uphold (see our message, “seek for honor”). We are still in the hands of our creator, and unless He completes us, no one can create him/herself, or his fellow human being. That, because God shows no partiality, He is not creating anybody in a special way from the other. We are all equally being created, and it is not anything of anybody’s doing, for, “ not because of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship-Eph.2:8-9”. Brethren, this admission is totally impossible to anybody who still harbours the carnal mind. It was by believing this, and beginning to train in it that we became the Church of God; a people who have moved from the lie of Eden to God’s true life; yes, from traditions of men, springing from imagined thoughts, to God’s word-the only explanation of life. By so doing, we allowed the father and the son to come into our hearts-John.14:23, and by so doing, he made us his temple, thus, kick-starting the creation process from where he left it when Adam was deceived, “For it is God at work( not you, nor any man) in you both to will and to do for his own good pleasure- Phil.2:13”. It is Christ in us through His spirit who also made our union with one another possible, for we all shared his one mind, becoming, “….united in the same mind, same judgement”, and also, “…one with the father and the son”-1 Cor.1:10; John.17:21. This brought the philadelpian era of the church, which was completely one, strictly “… built on the foundation of the apostles( not men’s arrangements) and the prophets( God’s word)-Eph.2:20”. There was also great love for one another-john.13:35. If any member missed a single Sabbath, the rest would sincerely try to reach him/her to know if anything could be wrong. There wasn’t anything like, gossip, grumbling or complains among members. I would see a brother approaching a brother freely, and discussing an issue one may think the other is not doing it right, and no one used to get offended but rather, they would happily allow the guidance of the word, and arrive at a consensus. Where is that Church today? What brought the change we are seeing today?
BACK TO FLESH
Brethren, this is where we are presently, and where each needs to understand themselves clearly. We have called ourselves, God worshippers, and believed to be so for many years. If this be true, it means that God has been creating us all that time we have professed to be in him. Why then are we not changed? Why we are not advanced, or, advancing in being like him? Why is God not manifesting Himself in us if truly, he lives in us, as we live according to His instructions (his word)? Why are our behaviours and talks not a display of his word if it truly is, “……our wisdom and understanding-Deut.4:6?” Men, we are once again blinded and trapped by Satan unawares. No wonder we have confidence in the flesh-Phillip.3:3, for we are saying, “…..i am rich, I am prospered, and need nothing-Rev.3:17”. How did we arrive there, a people who had denied self, allowed Christ and the father to live their lives in us-Gal.2:20; 2 Cor.5:15, and understanding ourselves as buildings on construction? How come now, we are self-independent, and have no need of any help? Has God completed His creation work in us? If not, what is happening then? God began His Church, which comprised of those who discovered their real selves as explained in His word, and he began to further his creation in them. He also had to use the Church as His television/radio, to show all human beings what he created them to be, and how to become it. This is why Christ tell us, “ you are the light of the world”. And again, “ you are a letter, written by Christ for all men to read- Mat.5:14; 2 Cor.2:3”. Yes, through the Church, “…all men are to know the mysteries hidden in God since ages began-Eph.3:9-10”. How is the Church going to show this? Here we are brethren. Is this what we are doing? How will the Church show the world what it doesn’t know about God, and the life it was meant to live? We saw how Satan deceived men, divided, and put them against each other. When Christ began the Church, He taught us that we are His witnesses, as we have seen above. How? Listen please. “ Let them be one, even as you father and I are one; that they also be one in us( what for?), that the world may know that you have sent me-John.17:21”. Is this what we are as a Church today? If not, why are we claiming to be doing God’s work? By being one, we are to show the world, against its divisions, that God created all human beings to be his one family. Am I therefore wrong when I say the Church has become blind, and turned to the flesh, thus returning to what it had repented from, and so, has become exactly like the world? Christ added to His plan on how his Church will be a witness to the world. “Love one another, even as I have loved you. By this, all men(the world) will know that you are my disciples-John.13:35”. Let’s be frank please. Is this what we are right now among ourselves as a Church?
IN CAPTIVITY
If anyone is given to understand, then let them know this to be the voice of Christ, reminding us of what he had warned since the beginning concerning, “….ravenous wolves…men arising from among us, whose desire and effort will be to amass followers to themselves( not to teach God’s purpose)-Acts.20:28-31”. I am right now in facebook, seeing the so called Churches of God employing what Tkach senior, being used by Satan introduced to the Church, by which also, he succeeded in taking it back to self, which it had denied to become the Church. What? Church members began to be careless with the written word of God, imagining things into scriptures, thus adding to, or subtracting from them. And then Tkatch encouraged that saying, “ respect each other’s opinion”; “ the way I see it( not the way God sees, from whom we are learning)”. Is this not what we brethren are employing, shying from the truth, inorder to be at peace with a friend in a different group, and so assume a pretended love and oneness which practically is not there? If we truly love and are one in mind, why are we not together? Why are we disagreeing? And why the pretence to be agreeing? Christ is clearly telling anyone in this set up that, “…..you are blind, naked, and poor-Rev.3:17last part”. We have abandoned the work God gave us, and have gone back to the world, throwing Christ out of our hearts-Rev.3:20. And because it is Christ in everyone of us who makes us agree and be one by sharing his one mind, after throwing him out, everyone has revived and turned to the selfish flesh, thus beginning to serve self, and assuming to do what is impossible. What? A building constructing itself, not remembering what our Lord says, “ Unless the Lord builds a house, the weary builder toils in vain-Psalm.127:1”. With this, Satan has also revived, the lie of Eden with which also comes, the skeptical mind. Therefore, instead of depending on God through his word “…to guard one’s ways and protect one from the evil one-Psalm.119:9”, everyone is now a god to himself, and is using self-carefulness (blindness) to keep themselves. The shepherds likewise have begun to play the king, the carnal ruler we saw in 1 sam.8:11-18, and so, “are saying, ‘my master is delayed….and have begun to beat… the servants, engaging in eating and drinking-Luke.12:45”. Being like god, they have also began to demand loyalty from the followers, taking a position which is Christ’s alone. So, suspecting every other shepherd to be doing the same, they don’t welcome anyone who approaches them with the truth, because, like god, they are the only ones who know, and so, from whom any truth should come, forgetting that they are dust, being moulded by God. Brethren, this is the present Satan’s greatest deception by which he has divided the Church, and which he is applying through unsuspecting minds to keep the brethren apart, making them to suspiciously reject each other. All this because, they are brainwashed by their so called leaders, “…scoffers who follow their own ungodly passions; who set up divisions, because they are of the world, and without the unifying spirit of God-Jude.18-19”. Through Facebook, I have tried to put this kind of message to as many as I can reach. A great majority do agree with it. But instead of remembering that God is using this truth to build us into those finished spirit beings, and, instead of believing as they did when they first heard it, they start asking me of who ordained me, how many congregations do I have; yes, how they are already in another group and would not want to be at odds with their ministers-yes, so many such statements. Why? They have forgotten the very foundation on which they are build, and so, “…everyone is going according to what one thinks, what their stubborn evil hearts are dictating-Jerem.18:12”; 2Tim.4:3-4. Who is there among us, whose heart is still thirsting for the truth, and is ready to go back to that foundation which no one else can build except Christ?
OPEN YOUR HEART’S DOOR
Do we want to heed to Christ’s voice, and open our hearts for him? It cant be possible before we freely accept what he is telling us, that right now, we are blind and in spiritual captivity. I am speaking boldly and at the top of my voice, because the one who has sent me assured me of this one thing; that, “my sheep knows my voice-John.10:27”. So, I am rest assured that, wherever my fellow brethren are, who are given to understand this voice like me, when they hear it, it will draw them back to Christ and there, we will meet. David, harbouring the same conviction said, “…..i may learn thy commandments. And those who fear thee shall see me and rejoice. Let those who fear thee turn to me, that they may know thy testimonies-psalm.119:73-74,79”. Brethren, my boast is that, I am very sure that this is not my word. So, I am conveying what I was given to bring to you. Its up to you to confirm like me, for you have the word which shines like a light in the dark, which should be our standard of judgement-2 Pet.1:19; Psalm.119:105. Based on it, after accepting we are blind, being nothing and also with nothing-Gal.6:3, let everyone of us sincerely repent of all that we have harboured since we went to Laodicea until now. This voice is a re-calling from Babylon back to Zion. Brethren, if we will succeed in allowing Christ to do his work in us. Let everyone forget whatever each has been calling him/herself, and allow God to name us anew. We must also accept that, he is “ the creator, who teaches us to profit, and who(through his word) is leading us in the way we should go-Isa.48:17”. If you are ready to do that, lets continue. From here, let each accept that, we are God’s building which if, He doesn’t build, will remain where it is because it cant build itself. A good example is Adam and all of us, his descendants. After he rejected God, he not only remained the physical being he was, but, in an assumption to build himself( which is impossible), he destroyed himself from a lifespan of nearly a thousand years, to the right now one of seventy, and below. So, if we will accept that, we are Christ’s building, we will totally stop, “…doing according to what we think, but instead, refer to our maker in everything, however easy it may seem-prov.3:5”. This way, we will give Christ room to further His creation for us.
IT IS TO YOU
Every time God speaks, it is to individuals, not to multitudes. I know we are used to behaving according to that lie of Eden, in which, everyone things of him/herself as better and above the other. But now, we must repent of that. God is talking to you, not that other person. So, let everyone think of one’s self only, for you can’t hear, nor behave on behalf of somebody else. You preachers. Let’s stop studying the bible to prepare messages for those members. Let’s study the bible to know the will of God so that we may do it. This I say because, no one is called to prepare others. We are all called to be created to the fullness of the likeness of Christ, and since one can only understand his mind, then you can only know for yourself. Actually, I am hereby challenging all of you who profess to be shepherds of the flock. How come, when it is Friday, or whatever day of one’s choice, you take the bible; a pen and a paper to prepare what you will go to teach the brethren? What does this mean? Is that what Christ who is our example used to do? Is it what the apostles, or the prophets on whom we are being build used to do? Listen if you can please. “the things which Christ used to do, and teach-acts.1:1”. What does this mean? He used to speak from his heart, what he used to live and, I believe, it is why He says that those who will dwell in God’s kingdom are those who speak from the heart- Psalm.15:2, not from a book, and so they show that, the law has become their wisdom and understanding, yes, their daily way of life-Deut.4:6. If you ask any worldly person how they live, or why they speak the way they do, do they go preparing a sermon to come and answer you? Not at all. It is in their hearts. They simply explain. A further confirmation is found with the apostles. Hear what Paul has to say please. “…what we say by letters when absent, we do when present- 2Cor.10:11”. Remember peter, Stephen, James, John, and even Paul himself. They used to be caught unawares on the streets, and instantly challenged to explain what they are talking about. Here, no time to prepare a sermon. But all of them, each would straightaway give God’s purpose for life as explained from Genesis to the time they lived, and further to the future. This are our fathers if, we are truly in Christ. Whose example then, are we following? Every practice by them clearly shows that their preaching was an explanation of their daily lives, just in the same way the world will explain its life instantly at question. Anyway, the point here is, so many of us who purport to preach don’t live the life they talk about, otherwise it will be in our hearts, like our forefathers. Therefore, we must each, preachers included, be busy, striving to train in living the life Christ taught in the gospel. No one was called for the purpose of, leading, or supervising his fellow-called ones. Everyone is called to be created by God, through the word, by which, “ each one’s mind is being renewed, and are being created in the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness-Eph.4:23-24”. Here, our focus must change from self and people awareness to God and his word awareness. If we do that, where will myself, that person, my leader, my church come in ? There will remain only God, and the life He is creating in our minds through Christ our Lord. Does these make us forget each other?( Our message, “ God’s work”, will explain more. Read please from our page, www.endtimecog.org).
CHRIST, THE ONLY BUILDER OF HIS CHURCH
Are we together brethren. Christ clearly told us that, God’s work is, “…to believe in him whom God has sent-John.6:28-29”. So, the work is, to believe; not to go preaching, or just paying tithes, and helping the poor. These things comes rightly, and become acceptable to God, only after our obedience is in place. Before then, they become that unacceptable polluted sacrifice, and they are used by hypocrites for an outward show. What does it take to believe? If you read Heb.3:17-18, you will agree with me that believing is obeying and vice versa. So, to do God’s work is to obey Christ. For the will of God is that, “…..those who believe(obey) in Christ should have eternal life-John.6:40”. Are we there brethren? The work God is doing in everyone who believes is, to develop such-a-one’s mind by which, He will develop his righteous behaviours. This is done by one, “…..purifying one’s soul by one’s obedience to the truth(word-John.17:17)…1 Pet.1:22”. By so doing, we are begotten of the imperishable seed, “…..through the living and abiding word of God-1Pet.1:23”. Here, God is not talking about a minister, or a lay man. He is talking about everyone who comes to Christ. With this in mind, lets go back to point please. It is Christ in us who does his works. Those who have come to Christ are a people who, “….no longer live for themselves, but for Christ who for their sake died and was raised-2Cor.5:15”. You preacher, Shepherd, layman, name any member of the church. Where is my, my, my…….? Yes, if it is Christ living his life in us, where is this striving to be a leader; to own a group, to be recognized or recommended? How will those things develop righteous character in you? In the first place; if we are dead, how come we are aware of ourselves? Yes, if we be dead, and it is Christ living in us, who is this striving for this selfish things in us? There can be no one else other than you, having revived and gone back to the lie of Eden whereby, you have begun to claim supremacy, like the devil. Self-denial, which is the beginning point of becoming a follower of Christ, means, self-forgetting. It is after this that Christ takes over His building (you), and continues with His creation work. From this moment hence, one’s eyes shifts from one’s self, the people around him/her(whether brethren or the world), and the things one has or sees wherever one lives, and are “…set on Christ, and the things in where Christ is-Heb.3:1,6,14; Col.3:1-3;Phillip.3:20”(read please). Paul, our good example says, “When I came to you brethren, I sought to know nothing among you except Christ-1Cor.2:2”. The point am driving home is that, everyone is busy striving to develop godliness, and so our carefulness is with God and his word. This has to remain so until when we either die, or Christ comes and we are joined with him in the millennium rule. This is what it takes for one to have “…fellowship with the father and his son, Jesus Christ-1John.1:1:3”. Look at it please. Where is that desire to rule your brethren here, I mean to be a leader? Where is that desire to own a group? Where are you who have died, to think of yourselves in this manner? Yes, where are your fellow brethren to have them in mind? Listen to what our example has to say please. “How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God-John.5:44?” Christ never did it Himself, even when people voluntarily wanted to extend it to him, for, “….Many believed in him……but Jesus did not trust himself to them, because he knew what was in them-John.2:23-24”. Those who afterwards learned from him also have this to say. “….we must obey God rather than man-Acts.5:29”. And again; “Am I seeking the favour of men, or of God? Or, am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ-Gal.1:10”. Why all these quotes? Am I saying we get careless with each other and live in one’s own world? God forbid. The point is simple. Those who have understood this calling, are busy studying the bible to understand the will of God. They are busy praying to God to be given the power to comprehend. They are striving to live that which has been revealed to them, “putting off the old selfish nature, as they put the new one-Eph.4:22-24”. And because they know this to be possible only by God’s help, then they have nothing to fetch from fellow man. No one can develop you even an inch. Also, no one can stop Christ from developing you. So, since they have resolved to pursue righteousness, they are restricted to where they can get it. At this point, neither you, your money, nor any human being is of help.
UNITED IN CHRIST
Devoid of this uncompromising stand, and also, being very much in ourselves, a great majority are striving to unite the brethren but in vain. Those who somehow succeed, only come up with groups which are packed with all sorts of carnality; finger pointing, grumbling, gossiping, silent hatred and disagreements, anger, and they only abide for a short while before they split again. Why? Because they are doing the wrong work. What you are reading here brethren is Christ’s voice calling his own to himself. So now, Where is He that we go to him? “ One whom God has sent speaks the word of God”. And, “ he who is of God hears the word of God”-John.3:34; 8:47”. Brethren, this is where Christ is- in his word( our message, “ The spiritual protection”, has more please). Those who will forget themselves, their groups, and those who may seem to be of value to them, and sincerely turn to Christ, will also stop entertaining their sensual minds, and “….in everything, refer to God, in his rightly-divided-word-Prov.3:5”. Once we do that, we will have began our walk with Christ individually. We will entertain no single carefulness on ourselves; what will happen or the like, after we have obeyed Christ- See examples of those before us- Heb.11:27. All that will fill our hearts and minds is the word( it is written), as our thoughts, knowledge, and doing. Once we do this, we will become conversant with Christ’s voice. It will now be easy to understand another point which He is placing right before us. “that, up to now, Christ comes in the flesh-2John.1:7”. First, right here, everyone of us is conversant with the word of God. So, when one hears it, He knows it. And here is Christ coming in the flesh through His sent-servants, for He says, “ He who receives anyone I sent receives me, and he who receives me receives the God who sent me-john.13:20”. Brethren, this is how Christ is gathering and rebuilding his Church right now, and this is why we showed two sides of the way, i.e, “ a servant speaking the word, and the hearer understanding, thus, the two being bound in it”. What I am saying here is, Christ has his prepared servants, in whom, He has placed his name which will be confirmed by His word, not any man. For, “…. He has appointed(not men) some( among those who have denied themselves to this level of allowing Christ to use them,not them using themselves)……….for the equipment of the saints….for the building up the body of Christ….till we all attain to that unity of, and of the knowledge of the son of God…to mature manhood….to the fullness of Christ-Eph.4:11-14”. Brethren, this is how Christ is rebuilding his Church, and it will comprise of those who knows His voice. These are a people who have nothing to argue about, and who are in total agreement bound by great love that springs from sharing the one spirit, even the mind of the one Christ. They always see and hear Christ in each other, and do love one another dearly. Remember, “Where( Christ) the carcass is, there the vultures are gathered-Mat.24:28”. Does this voice sound familiar? Could it be the one you are looking for? If yes, join the club and, like a mighty army, let’s prove to the world that Christ is the Lord, and that his way of life is the one which all men were created to live by. He who has ears, let him/her hear what Christ is telling Leodicea. To as many as are of this mind, grace be multiplied to you, even to the Israel of God.
It is his voice coming to you through His servants,
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