Many people have truly come to know Christ as Savior after having been sincere, religious “church members” for years. Though faithful supporters of some earthly church organization they had never experienced the truth of II Corinthians 5:17: “If any man be in Christ he is a new creation.” It is possible to be a member in good standing of some church organization, yet be outside of the one true Church of which the Bible speaks.
This is because the true Bible Church is
not an organization but a living organism, a spiritual body, with a living Head
and living members. Again and again St. Paul, by divine inspiration, calls the
Church, the Body of Christ. He says: “We being many, are one Body in Christ…”
(Romans 12:5). “Ye are the Body of Christ, and members in particular” (I
Corinthians 12:27). “We are members of His Body” (Ephesians 5:30).
How do we become members of this true
Bible Church, the Body of Christ? First, we must acknowledge ourselves to be
sinners in God’s sight, for Ephesians 2 relates how Christ died for sinful men
that He might “reconcile” them to God “in one Body” by the cross (Ver. 16).
Thus, when believing sinners are reconciled to God by faith in Christ, they are
regenerated, given a new life, by the Spirit, and by the Spirit are baptized
into the Church, the Body of Christ.
“Not by works of righteousness which we
have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5).
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body” (I Corinthians 12:13).
Every one of us should ask himself: “Have I been baptized by the Spirit
into the Body of Christ?” If not, trust Christ as your Savior and become a
member of the one true Bible Church. Then associate yourself with some local
assembly where Christ is honored and the Bible taught, “rightly divided.”
What is the Gospel?
Believing Christ died, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ died for YOUR sins and rose again,
that’s SALVATION.
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the
gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye
stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto
you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of
all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third
day according to the scriptures. 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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