Today,
the reply is on why the process for healing and help within the
church founded by Jesus Christ often appears distant, impersonal, and
unfeeling. Those who turn to GOD hoping to escape confusion,
hardship, and pain, will be shaken to find that life as the new
creation of Jesus Christ also is filled with challenge,
encounters with error, and various forms of opposition. Sinners who
approach the church having lives filled with anger, bitterness, fear,
and uncertainty demand a personal response from members of the body;
however, correctly understood, attention and focus for everyone must
be on the example of Jesus Christ, and the unseen things of GOD that
are being revealed. Rather than focus on his own comfort and
prosperity, Jesus centered on the fulfillment of promise and
prophecy; obedience to the spirit within sacred law and divine
principle; eternal purpose; and the sovereign will of the Father.
The needs for cleansing, nourishment, and new life are met more by
our acceptance of duty, humility, and the demands we make of
ourselves, than the demands we make of others. It is written:
Philippians 2: 5-13, King James Version (KJV): 5 Let this mind be
in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of
God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself
of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man,
he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of
the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given
him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things
in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that
every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father. 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 13 For it is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum on Religion & Spirituality (no profile data appears) posted
the following:
I
thought Jesus healed the brokenhearted and mad men. You go to todays
church for help and they just look at you like you're crazy.?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: The righteous cry, and the LORD
heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The LORD
is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such
as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of
them all. (Psalms 34: 17-19, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Good Works Have Priority? (11/28/2019); Why Do They
Sing? (11/14/2019); Taboo To Be “spiritual”? (10/07/2019); Divine
Fruit From Suffering? (12/19/2018); The Church Of Jesus (06/18/2018);
GOD’s Way Not Equal?
(07/17/2016); Can Someone Be Happy? (12/10/2013); Asked to Help?
(12/11/2013)
“Anonymous”,
every member of a church body usually is not instructed and prepared
to address the broad range of life experience as mentors, parents,
spouses, and professional therapists. More than this, genuine sacred
healing requires divine process and spirit substance that may not be
according to the frameworks of time and space. Here are some points
to consider when reflecting on our experiences entering the church as
a place of healing and safety apart from the world. Many become very
disappointed, and even discouraged, because they are looking for
solutions that are not truly aspects of the atonement, forgiveness,
and reconciliation established by Christ:
(1.)
The primary focus of the church has to be on redemption and
salvation that are sacred works performed using fresh endowments of
the Holy Spirit that are imparted from Jesus Christ to exist within
the hearts and minds of sinners who seek new life through the
Savior’s death, burial, and
resurrection.
(2.)
Sinners often approach divinity having a mix of emotional,
financial, physical, psychological, and spiritual problems that can
not be addressed by other persons like themselves. A new
relationship with the Creator must be established wherein they
receive substance from the makeup of GOD (for example, faith,
holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without sameness,
personhood, wisdom, wrath against sin). Immortal, incorruptible,
invisible GOD will use material, social, and visible tools that are
on the earth to respond to such persons and their needs.
(3.)
Developing believers are granted fellowship as members within
assemblies and communities of faith; however, much of their
development as new believers must be through self-directed operations
to build up their own inner content as seen with commitment,
discovery, gradual growth, learning, practice of sacraments (e.g.,
praise; prayer; unselfish service), private study of the holy
writings, suffering, and heartfelt worship.
(4.)
Those who become “born again” also must “grow up again;” and
all are to become mature and ripe for harvesting from the earth by
Jesus Christ at his appearing (we say, the Advent; the Rapture; the
Second Coming). The saved are to continue on the earth as vessels of
divine substance, the offspring of GOD, and the new creation. As
believers, they are to display the image of GOD, and are to resemble,
reflect, and reveal the character and likeness of Jesus Christ.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, hear a selection from the music ministry
of Steve Amerson: 5.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frx0hqWVqw.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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