-Which is the one
true church today?
Matthew
7:24,25 "Therefore whosoever hears these sayings of mine and does them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And
the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon
that house and it fell not, for it was founded upon a rock."
The true church is comprised
of beings of
love, of which, on Earth they are generally
human beings.(sometimes
angels).becoming
stable
by believing and
doing the sayings of He who came to rescue
man from himself.(Ephesians
4:8), that is, the church is
a spiritual body comprised of those willing to express the
love of the Infinite One by living from a higher consciousness than
the
egos we all have developed and instead
following the example:.1Corinthians
10:4 "And did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of
that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ." John
6:68 "Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have the words of eternal life."
John
8:12 "Then spoke Emmanuel again unto them, saying, I am the light of
the world. The one that follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall
have the light of life."
The 'church'
is a group of
people gathered to do some service and is an embodiment
of those who are in
Christ, meaning
those willing to express the love
of the Infinite One, whether
they 'go to a church' in a building or not. God dwells in His church, the
people who want to be aligned with God: Acts
17:24,25. The church is the people, not a building somewhere.
It's good to be with others who also believe somewhat
as you do:.Hebrews
10:24,25. See the word 'church'.
Today many people get together
by being of the same mind.(Romans
12:16; 1Corinthians 1:10).
It depends not on whether there is two of them or more:.Matthew
18:19,20. If there is just you, know that there is never just you.
Many you love may have passed on, but they are still there. You can simply
talk with them and be with them in spirit, that is in your heart, in
your quiet times. They are there and here! They are real. You need
none other to connect you. Just you.
The church is also used in
a negative sense when it refers to a satanically influenced one:.Revelation
17:4,18.
And what are human beings
who have become believers? They are a collective body
of love, a body of believers
and doers,
not
a body of doctrines absorbed from tombs
of isolation.
A human being is a process,
a process of being what one is, which is
a process made up of systems, cell
regeneration, immune system,
nervous
systems, sexual system, digestive
system, elimination
system, temperature system,
etc., all contributing to what makes us the
oneness that is a human. All these together make us what we call human.
The true church today is
comprised of believers.(lively
stones).who
are writing
Christ's nature of love upon their hearts and expressing that nature
in loving works toward others by
prayer, study, meditation and by reaching
others, so they too can become stable in hope:.Hebrews
6:18.
What is the process of becoming
stable?.Ryle
Gospels:."When
a substance is brought into contact with some chemical compound, which
has greater affinity
for one of its elements
than the other element has, the old combination is dissolved and a new
and more stable one is formed."
Christ's glory was in manifesting
the Father-Creator to others, as He was sent to reveal
the Father.
Emmanuel,
the Great Shepherd.(John
10:11,14,15,17).likened
believers to a little flock of sheep He carefully watches over.(Luke
12:32).and
will
reward:.1Peter
5:4. Some so-called
'spiritual' persons are goats.
What did Paul
call those in the church?.Hebrews
12:23,24.
Original
Greek for word 'church' is 'those called out to' or 'assembled
ones'. And when did this happen? And,
what is the church anyhow?.Matthew
18:20.
Those called
by God, those awakened to Him.(born
again:.Hebrews
12:23), "the general assembly.(Hebrews
10:25; {on Matthew
18:20}).church
of the firstborn" and "spirits of
just men made perfect" assembled before
God, the angels and Emmanuel.
Called out from what? Called
out from the world. What's that? The world is the collective consciousness
of society that has made the age we live in what it is today, some good,
but mostly negative and selfish, often hateful, menacingly
hurtful and harassing.
The world today, in varying.degrees,
depending on location, holds people in a state of constant threat. And,
that is because of the egos of
all of us being subject to the general attitude of the time nad place;
the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation. But it
can be changed to
a higher consciousness so easily most miss it. Just ask God to lead
you into a better existence here and from now on and you'll come into the
state of being where you've moved from antagonizing
others with anger
and frustrations:.Romans
13:10.
Always apologize
to anyone you may have acted in a non loving manner to.
The church is something you're
part of when in
Christ, that is, of the same mind as He which is also the mind of the
Father:.John
14:9. It's the realm
of high consciousness.
The church is not something
you go to. 'Church' is fellowship with others who believe similarly
in what is good. The church
is something you may go to, BUT spiritually speaking, Who you belong to
is not the church. You may go to a church, a building or somewhere else
where others thinking similarly you meet. But you belong to God first and
foremost:.2Corinthians
4:7 "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency
of the power may be of God and not of us." Matthew
22:37 "Emmanuel said unto him Thou shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.".And
why wouldn't you want to when God has made
possible everything for us? We just have to learn how to receive it!
It is better to attend church
ofttimes.(frequently,
repeatedly).and
at least
fellowship
with, hopefully, a few others there who may be 'truth seekers' and
to approach all that is said by the minister or anyone for that matter,
as the Bereans did:.Acts
17:10,11. At least here you have an opportunity to add to your
reward:.Hebrews
10:24,25 "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and
to good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the
manner of some is, but exhorting one another and so much the more as you
see the day approaching.(today,
what
is this?).".They
were sure back then that Christ's return was imminent
and if you have heard of the 'lost 100 years', you will know why some are
still expecting His return today..(*)
The word "forsaking" in Hebrews
10:25 in the original denotes
"a fixed position in place or time" and implies
to "utterly forsake" and to "totally abandon" and to "completely leave
behind".
One who loves others, prays
for them, loves the truth of what Creator-God is all about, loves God with
all that means and reads and studies his Bible, is not forsaking
the assembling together with others, even though it may appear so to those
not realizing that perhaps the person just prefers to be around those more
mature in spiritual love, as opposed to any present company who may
be
somewhat.hypocritical,
position climbing and generally
Pharisaically
minded. Both Emmanuel and Paul went to be alone:.Mark
1:11-13; Galatians 1:15-18.
We are called to believe.(John
6:29).and
belong
to others and to be a good example:.1Timothy
4:12;
1Peter 2:21.
The Creator looks on the
heart.(1Samuel
16:7; Acts 1:24); Psalms
7:9), not the superficial
affiliation, nor the ego generated motivations that alter
how we present ourselves with each person we encounter.."If
you come to the next community hour, please don't come unprepared. Come
prepared. Prepare for everything, do it, not outwardly; the clothes don't
matter. If you come in work clothes or from working in the coal celler,
it doesn't matter. I don't pay attention to outer appearances, but rather
I look at the heart and I also look into it. I don't look at the outside,
no, I look into every human being; whether and to what extent he still
has a good core. This is what I look at."....Bruno
Gröning..And
what
if one's core is rotten?
Psychologists
have said that we have about six different personas,
each side having variations.
Depending on whom we may be interacting with at the moment, they may be
seeing one of those sides or perhaps a composite
of a few of them. One has difficulty being what his or her real self is
when at the ordinary consciousness level.
We have our work persona,
our 'buddy' persona when sitting in a bar with friends, our parent persona,
our respect persona in the doctor's office or at meet the teacher time
and so on. And we think this confused set of emotions is all there is to
us. Where is the real self from
which our personas emanate
from and where does the real self come from? What
does this invisible life consist
of?
The heart goes deep:.Ephesians
3:10,18,19. Emmanuel
taught about the heart.
We probably never will completely
see eye to eye on all things, even related to love, till
we are in the Kingdom of God
within us and maybe not even then, because we are always learning and
growing in love, knowledge and expression.
The mental state of love
without ego impulses exemplifies
God, but the important thing here is that
love
for one another is far above differences of doctrines
and church affiliations.(Ephesians
4:13), but
not for some.
We are the Creator's temple:.1Corinthians
3:17 "If any man defile the temple.(how?).of
God, he's on the road to destruction where God destroys.(how?),
for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are." Ephesians
2:22 "In whom you also are builded together for an habitation of God
through the Spirit."
And the temple is growing
in size the more persons select love as their raison
d'être..(*)
Righteousness.(righteousness
is
not you working your rear end off to be as religious and holy as you
possibly can, it's simply a
gift one can accept and like any gift, can also be refused).plays
a large part in being awakened
to the spiritual life Emmanuel was a living exampole of, thus being in
the true church:.1Corinthians
15:34.
-Are those who have killed
in war guilty of murder and go to hell?
The Old Testament command
'thou shalt not kill'.(Exodus
20:13).meant
to commit no murder, to not kill out of malice,
greed or hate toward a particular person and to not assassinate.(premeditated
1st degree murder).others
in
any way. People are to live free of hindrances
and in peace.
