Jesus Christ is BUILDING His Church, the spiritual TEMPLE of which He is returning to! But many would like to ignore or absolutely REBEL against how Christ is building His Church!
"All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work."(2 Timothy 3:16-17 NKJV)
The instruction of the apostle was given to him by Christ through the Word of God. For the purpose that God's people may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work!
God first gave the apostle...."for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.(Ephesians 4:12-16)
Listen to how only those of God's true Church can understand the apostle's teaching!
"For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. "(1 Corinthian 2:11-14)
The ministry, that was raised up by Christ's apostle, must teach the same thing as the apostles! They were taught at Ambassador College! God's apostle taught them! Now, it is their job to HOLD FAST and to teach the members the same thing! If they are not, then you KNOW they are not ministers of Jesus Christ.
But many have the problem, in that they think their own instruction topples the apostle's instruction, or that some other minister's instruction topples the apostle's instruction.
Some will tell you that Herbert Armstrong is not the Bible.
They don't get it. BECAUSE God gave the Word of God, the Holy Bible, to His apostle FOR INSTRUCTION, FOR REPROOF, FOR CORRECTION, FOR DOCTRINES!
And since he is God's apostle, his instruction becomes IMPORTANT to those who have God's Holy Spirit! Because they know like the apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2, that what Mr.Armstrong preached was of God's Holy Spirit!
Those who reject that instruction, of God's apostle, they fall away because the spirit of God isn't working in them! They rejected Christ when they rejected His apostle and the apostle's words!!!(Matthew 10 & Luke 10) They can't see it, they don't understand what the big hubbug on holding fast to Herbert Armstrong and his instruction is all about!
But those in God's true Church do brethren. And this is why Satan is targeting all of God's Church, in trying to pull you away into other doctrines and other teachings, and other teachers, and other gospels, and other Jesus, all trying to get you to LET LOOSE of Herbert W Armstrong. But because Jesus Christ says to HOLD FAST we Hold Fast(Rev. 3:11, 3; 2 thes 2:15). We see Jesus Christ working through His apostle. And we see how important is his instruction!
"We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed."(2 Thes 1:3-10)
Yes those of God's people who believe God's apostle, shall be avenged by Jesus Christ for all the persecution and tribulation they suffered from this world, and they shall be standing with Christ when He returns!!! ALL BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE GOD'S APOSTLE! THEY ENDURED UNTIL THE END!
What about you? Do you believe God's apostle? Or do you find greater importance with the instructions of others who do not preach the same doctrine, and instruction as God's apostle?
Satan knows the importance of Holding Fast and staying faithful, and that is why he is trying to stop it at all costs! He knows he has a short time. So do we brethren. We have to QUALIFY for God's kingdom! And we don't qualify by rejecting God's apostle, and Christ's instruction through him.
The Spiritual Temple of God, the Worldwide Church of God, WILL BE BUILT! With us or without us, it is our decision!
The apostle is apart of the foundation. We, the Philadelphia Church, are to be the PILLARS that LIFT UP that foundation and HOLD IT THERE. (Hold Fast) If we aren't qualifying, by doing our job and part in God's Church, in holding fast, in overcoming apostasy, our sins, and human nature, Satan and his demons, and this world, then we won't be apart of that temple! We won't marry Christ!
SO WHAT DECISION HAVE YOU MADE?
Are you with God or against him?
If you are for God, then believe His apostle, and learn from Christ's instruction through him, for it is of the Holy Spirit and is there to make you complete.
This House of God WILL BE COMPLETED!
No comments:
Post a Comment