Matthew 16: 18 says Christ was going to build His Church upon the Son of God.(Christ) and that the gate of hell will not overcome it. The Church that will focus on the love of going to the kingdom of God is the Church of Christ. The Church that preach Christ and His teaching. The Church that is God’s household. 1st Timothy 3 : 14-15 “Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these instructions so that, if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. »
God bought His Church with His blood. Acts of Apostles 20 : 28 “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flocks of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the Church of God which He bought with His own blood.” 2nd Timothy 4:3–4 says the time will come when men will not put up with sound teaching. Christ is the Head of the Church of which He is the Savior not man. Ephesians 5 : 23 – 24 “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. “Jesus said His family members are those who do the Father’s will. Ephesians 2: 19 – 20 “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone. “A Church of Christ should be the children of God that do good. 1st John 3:10 “This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are. Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”
God planned for us to be adopted as His son. Ephesians 1: 4 –5 “For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with His pleasure and will.” Ephesians 2:19 “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.”
An inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade. 1st Peter 1: 3- 4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade, kept in heaven for you.” Romans 8:1, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” Romans 8: 37–39 “No in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord”
Do not accept a teaching simply because some person say it. Accept only the Scripture. Acts 17:11, “Now the Bereans were mere of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true”
PRAYER POINTS.
1. Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
2. When Moses had doubts, God reasoned with him in his way. Exodus 4: 11- 12 “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or make him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go, I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
Acts: 17:28 says that «For in Him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, »We are his offspring »
GOD’S HOUSEHOLD. According to 1st Timothy 3 : 15 “If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.” Here the word “Church” does not mean just any religious group nor does it mean a building. In Scripture, the word for “Church” means an assembled group especially the group in Christ. 1st Corinthians 1 : 2, “To the Church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.”
Ephesians 5:23 –27, “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”
(To be continued)
God bought His Church with His blood. Acts of Apostles 20 : 28 “Keep watch over yourselves and all the flocks of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the Church of God which He bought with His own blood.” 2nd Timothy 4:3–4 says the time will come when men will not put up with sound teaching. Christ is the Head of the Church of which He is the Savior not man. Ephesians 5 : 23 – 24 “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. “Jesus said His family members are those who do the Father’s will. Ephesians 2: 19 – 20 “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone. “A Church of Christ should be the children of God that do good. 1st John 3:10 “This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are. Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.”
God planned for us to be adopted as His son. Ephesians 1: 4 –5 “For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with His pleasure and will.” Ephesians 2:19 “Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.”
An inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade. 1st Peter 1: 3- 4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade, kept in heaven for you.” Romans 8:1, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” Romans 8: 37–39 “No in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is Christ Jesus our Lord”
Do not accept a teaching simply because some person say it. Accept only the Scripture. Acts 17:11, “Now the Bereans were mere of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true”
PRAYER POINTS.
1. Every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
2. When Moses had doubts, God reasoned with him in his way. Exodus 4: 11- 12 “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or make him blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now go, I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”
Acts: 17:28 says that «For in Him we live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, »We are his offspring »
GOD’S HOUSEHOLD. According to 1st Timothy 3 : 15 “If I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.” Here the word “Church” does not mean just any religious group nor does it mean a building. In Scripture, the word for “Church” means an assembled group especially the group in Christ. 1st Corinthians 1 : 2, “To the Church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.”
Ephesians 5:23 –27, “For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, His body, of which He is the Savior. Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands love your wives just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant Church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”
(To be continued)