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ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE -WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE ? [2]
Here, the Bible indicates where we are to go from here –
Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;
Coossians 1:28 Bible in Basic English
Him we preach, admonishing every one and instructing every one, with all possible wisdom, so that we may bring every one into God’s presence, made perfect through Christ.
Colossians 1:28 Weymouth Translation
The Bible then goes on to point to the only direction possible in which to proceed –
How much more will the blood of Christ, who, being without sin, made an offering of himself to God through the Holy Spirit, make your hearts clean from dead works to be servants of the living God?
Hebrews 9:14 Bible in Basic English
But through holy blood, like that of a clean and unmarked lamb, even the blood of Christ:
1Peter 1:19 Bible in Basic English
The Bible then explains some more –
Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:
Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;
For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
He is before all things, and in him all things have being.
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;
Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.
And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one
In the body of his flesh through death, so that you might be holy and without sin and free from all evil before him:
Colossians 1:12 – 22 Bible in Basic English
God the Father Himself chose our ultimate goal –
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:
Ephesians 1:3, 4 Bible in Basic English
Our ultimate destination, and purpose is explained in these scriptures from the Bible –
In place of brass, I will give gold, and for iron silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: and I will make Peace your judge, and Righteousness your overseer.
Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory.
Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.
The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.
Isaiah 60:17 -22 Bible in Basic English
What is our part in all this? What do have to do?
For we know that He who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will raise us also to be with Jesus, and will cause both us and you to stand in His own presence.
2 Corinthians 4:14 Weymouth Translation
For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.
2 Peter 3:14 Bible in Basic English
And He Himself appointed some to be Apostles, some to be Prophets, some to be evangelists, some to be pastors and teachers,
in order fully to equip His people for the work of serving–for the building up of Christ’s body–
till we all of us arrive at oneness in faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and at mature manhood and the stature of full-grown men in Christ.
So we shall no longer be babes nor shall we resemble mariners tossed on the waves and carried about with every changing wind of doctrine according to men’s cleverness and unscrupulous cunning, making use of every shifting device to mislead.
But we shall lovingly hold to the truth, and shall in all respects grow up into union with Him who is our Head, even Christ.
Dependent on Him, the whole body–its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another– grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.
Ephesians 4:11 – 16 Weymouth Translation
The only possible way to implement the 5-fold ministry advocated in Ephesians 4:11 – 16 and is by function, totally removing the idea of status.
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