Dear
fellow member of the Church, the Body of Christ, of which all of us
believers are members under the Headship of our Lord Jesus Christ!
This is indeed a time when we need to thank God for leaders who
acknowledge Him, and for whom we can confidently pray!!
As
we reflect on what the Holy Spirit said to the believers at Philippi
via the apostle Paul about disunity and consider how minimal it was
in comparison to the sectarianism that exists today, how much more we
need to apply what the apostle Paul says to confused Christendom
today!
The
apostle Paul says: "And this I pray: that your love may abound
still more and more in perfect knowledge and all discernment, unto
the end that you may prove the things differing, that you may be
sincere and without offense unto the day of Christ, having been
filled with the fruit of righteousness that is through Jesus Christ,
unto the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1:9-11).
Paul's
answer to the disunity at Philippi was that the love of the Spirit
might increasingly control their thinking and mutual relations. He
uses the plural form of the Greek pronoun you to indicate that all
were to love each other in the Spirit.
Spirit-produced
love (Gal. 5:22) will be in accordance and alignment with perfect
knowledge and all discernment. Paul is apparently describing the love
of the Mystery aspect of the Gospel of Grace. Growing in the love of
the Spirit is a prerequisite to acquiring a full knowledge and
perceptive understanding, which is imperative for proving and testing
the things that differ in the Bible!
As
we believers distinguish between the different ways God has and does
and will! relate to His people, then, we are no longer a part of
confused Christendom. For example, we recognize that for some
fourteen hundred years, God's relation to His people Israel was via
the Mosaic Law. Following the Mosaic Law, the prophesied Messianic
Kingdom was taught and offered to Israel, but rejected by Israel's
leaders. Following the rejection of the Messianic Kingdom, God has
related to His people via the Church.
The
failure of most professed Christians to distinguish between the
Mosaic Law economy, the Kingdom Law economy, and the Church Grace
economy is one of the primary reasons for the multiplied sectarianism
today!
(A 10 Minute Video)
How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
(A 10 Minute Video)
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