Today,
focus is on the content and process of the church founded by Jesus
Christ that now is to be continuing on the earth as a spiritual body,
rather than as a man-made institution fashioned to secure human
prosperity and well-being. All Christians are connected wherever
they are located within the frameworks of time and space. Because
the church has been fashioned to reflect the image of GOD and
properties of the Holy Spirit, the church is more than merely a local
organization. Those who now become saved also become celestial,
eternal, individual, indivisible, international, virtual congregants,
and those knowing Christ in the life through multiple denominations.
Even so, just as Jesus prophesied, as a Christian believer who
acknowledges an eternal connection to divinity through Jesus Christ,
my friendship, spiritual gifts, sacred knowledge, my
willingness to learn, my willingness to serve, my willingness to
share, my willingness to teach, and even my love have been unwelcome
among many other believers. Included have been fellow Americans,
family, former schoolmates, neighbors, and those in other nations.
To me having a commitment to Christ has not meant being a member in a
church community that has a rich and respected patriotic, racial, or
social history. Belonging to a local congregation, and becoming
prominent through my financial donations or serving in many important
and needed roles has not been meaningful for me. The spiritual
transformation sinners are to seek from GOD requires repentance and
permanent change of ones consciousness and self-will that result by
workings of divinity. Despite speaking of law and social justice,
often issues of our flesh and protests within the community where the
church is placed (i.e. the world) such as BLACK LIVES MATTER (BLM)
can be distractions and sources for error and spiritual confusion.
The challenge of Christ to me has been to operate as the Savior does
within the divine fullness (i.e., the Godhead; the Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit). While yet on the earth, I am to display the
consecrated spirit of oneness without sameness that is
inseparable from the other aspects of divine makeup that are imparted
to mankind as the breath of life. Included are balance, faith,
holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, personhood, wisdom, and
wrath against sin. In the holy writings, that one spirit is also
called the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of
Prophecy, a spirit of judgment and burning, and the Spirit of Truth.
It is written: Mark 6: 3-5: King James Version (KJV): 3 Is not
this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses,
and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And
they were offended at him. 4 But Jesus, said unto them, A prophet is
not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin,
and in his own house. 5 And he could there do no mighty work, save
that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: This then is the message which we have heard of him,
and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in
darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. (1st John 1: 5-8, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: He Commanded Our Fathers (08/09/2020); Pure Religion
And Undefiled (08/07/2020); The Sons Of GOD? (07/19/2020); Uniting In
The Struggle (06/17/2020); White People Becoming Atheists?
(10/03/2019); Catholic and Protestant Bibles? (10/11/2018);
Fulfillment of His Dream? (04/05/2017)
Endeavoring
to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, I responded to
a clergyman who had written on the Internet that he is a “white
Christian.” Using the technology that allows us to travel the
globe in moments, I replied to him that such thinking placed a gulf
between us: there are neither white nor black Christians, only
“Christian Christians”. Many of the same persons who will agree
that they have been created by one GOD also will argue their
independence and separation from every other person created by GOD.
Thus, I am impressed to say that commitment to share and work as a
follower of Jesus Christ requires the practice of discernment to
correctly acknowledge and respond to others who are authentic members
of the Savior’s church and
kingdom of GOD, rather than apostates, deceivers, heretics,
slanderers, or counterfeit and unclean spirits. Even among the
clergy, there now are many wolves in sheep-clothing. Believers are
to recognize one another by the operations of the Holy Spirit, even
where there are differences in age, ethnicity, formal education,
gender, language, nationality, political affiliation, race, the
practice of ceremonies, rituals, and sacraments as well as the
possession of property and wealth. The Holy Spirit who is manifest
in local COGIC (Church of God in Christ) congregations of Detroit
(Michigan, America) is the same that must appear in cathedral worship
at Protestant Canterbury (UK) and Catholic Sagrada Familia
(Barcelona, Spain). Surely, every believer having a fresh endowment
of the Spirit from GOD through Jesus Christ should find welcome
within the gatherings for guidance, instruction, praise, and
thanksgiving held among others naming Christ as their head. Most
obstacles to godly communication can be reduced and removed through
humility, meekness, and genuine reverence. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of Acapeldridge:
(1.)
Ephesians 4: 4-7, King James Version (KJV): 4 There is one
body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your
calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of
all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But
unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the
gift of Christ.
(2.)
Romans 8: 35-39, KJV: 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For
thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep
for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(3.)
Revelation 5: 9-10, KJV: 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou
art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou
wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us
unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzVaX3wwUyE.) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
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