Today,
thoughts are shared on whether the church created by Jesus Christ can
survive despite current problems made visible by the lust and sin of
some that include high-ranking clergy. Christians are to understand
that as a permanent part of the flesh and an aspect of our personhood
that can not always be suppressed by relying on human self-will
(i.e., willpower), sexuality has great power that can appear as
godly, irresistible, magical, and supernatural. Appetite and sexual
desire are not contrary to human makeup and substance, and are
acknowledged as natural, normal, and necessary to full human
adulthood. Thoughts of sexual activity may still control, influence,
and defile spirit substance within most of us who are now being
claimed by Jesus Christ. Sexual sins that include adultery,
fornication, prostitution and statutory rape threaten to bring only
condemnation and ruin that separate the Savior and the saved; yet,
they will be used by divinity along with apostasy, heresy, unselfish
service, and the demands of personal sacrifice within the church to
uncover otherwise disguised and hidden opposition to the headship of
Christ. Prophecy to alert, comfort, edify, and exhort the church
clearly proclaims that the church will be shaken in the End Times as
part of its preparation to receive Jesus at the harvest (we say, his
appearing; the Advent; the Rapture; the Second Coming). It is
written: Hebrews 12: 25-29, King James Version (KJV): 25 See that
ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused
him that spake on earth, much more shall
not we escape,
if we turn away from him that speaketh
from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath
promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also
heaven. 27 And this word,
Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be
shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot
be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with
reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is
a consuming fire. The challenges and consequences from sin may
continue within ones family inheritance for as much as four
generations (160 years). Bitterness; generational curses; ignorance
and lack of compassion to the burdens and struggles parents may have
endured; exaggerated pride; and lingering rage against ones own
parents—even those who are deceased that should be memorialized and
given a new name by their heir(s)—are only overcome where believers
will embrace divine forgiveness, empathy, integrity, and maturity.
Similarly, the process of GOD through the church has to be one of
uninterrupted change, discovery, gradual growth, as well as learning
with shared concern and disclosure. Men on the earth can not be
about godliness and truth without the endowments, guidance, and
spirit substance provided from the makeup of GOD. Because the divine
law is to be acknowledged as a true expression of the divine will,
much of the public indignation, outcries for punishment, and outrage
displayed by social media often can be seen as counterfeit human
expressions that mimic divine wrath against sin. In Christ, genuine
wrath against wrongdoing is more completely and correctly
demonstrated through such sacred elements as forgiveness, holy
boldness, humility, longsuffering, obedience, respect, restraint, and
reverence to true righteousness. A
fighter in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum on Religion and
Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no profile is shared)
posted the following:
Can
The Catholic church survive with its current problems?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD
toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house
that I have built for thy name: Then hear thou in heaven their
prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. If they sin
against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth not,) and thou
be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry
them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or near; Yet
if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were
carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the
land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and
have done perversely, we have committed wickedness; And so
return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in
the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto
thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the
city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy
name: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven
thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause, And forgive thy people
that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein
they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before
them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
(1st Kings 8: 44-50, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Appetite and Human Sexuality? (10/19/2018); Applying
The Divine Standards (10/02/2018); Christ Is The Head (07/12/2018);
The Church Of Jesus (06/18/2018); Duties of a Christian?
(03/13/2018); Flesh As Divine Vessels? (01/14/2018); Cast the First
Stone? (01/12/2017); Gender, Sex and Christian Beliefs? (05/18/2016);
Temptations, Tests and Trials? (05/12/2015)
“Anonymous”,
mature Christian believers are not to loose sight of the essential
truth that the church founded by Jesus Christ is to be received as
more than a finite institution, or social organization for
distributing and sharing financial and material resources needed for
human survival on the earth. As a spiritual body that must acquire,
apply, and rely on divine prerogative, sacred law, and the sovereign
will of GOD, the church will always be a life-focus and process
determined by the communication, exchange and interaction of
inseparable aspects of divine fullness (we also say, divinity; the
Godhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit). Included are faith,
forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
personhood, oneness without sameness, wisdom, and wrath
against sin.
Correctly
understood, atonement, displaying Christ-likeness, eternal life,
redemption, salvation, transformation, and the gathering of believers
to GOD through Jesus Christ are the primary themes of the church,
rather than making “search and destroy” attacks against the many
specific errors, sins and short-comings of the flesh. Sin continues
to be an enigma for mankind that has not been created, or put forth
by divinity. Sin may dominate consciousness and self-will within
created beings and living creatures. Even so, sin has no finite
material form; and the operations of sin display direction, effect,
and presence. Sin can not be eliminated or removed by any
simple act of divine destruction, “do-over”, and violence. Sin
favors and promotes self-destruction through the return to conditions
of chaos, confusion and flux that were in place as preexistence
before the founding of heaven and earth. Sin opposes the continued
existence of sacred law, the Lawgiver, and divine order throughout
the universe.
Many
within the church are presently very vocal expressing wrath against
sin. GOD, who is Creator has also revealed himself to be a god of
judgment. While divine law commands obedience, simple obedience does
not fulfill all the requirements of the law. Therefore, addressing
the church, we speak of divine principles, eternal purpose, and
commitments by divinity that display the righteousness of GOD, and
are immutable and unchanging. With this in view, the demands for
judgment and justice within the church will not always be the same as
those within the local communities served by the church. Consider
again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1:
Exodus 34: 4-8, King James Version (KJV): 4 And he hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the
morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD
had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. 5
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood
with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6 And the LORD passed by before him, and
proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD
God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness
and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the
children’s children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation. 8 And Moses made haste, and
bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
2.
Galatians 5: 16-23, KJV: 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,
and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh
lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the
things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are
these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife,
seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit
the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law.
3.
Ezekiel 18: 20-23, KJV: 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die.
The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the
father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the
righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall
be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that
he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is
lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 22 All his
transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned
unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. 23
Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Romans 3:
19-23, KJV: 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be
stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified
in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. 21 But now
the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being
witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 Even the righteousness of
God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe: for there is no difference: 23 For all have sinned, and
come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time
his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.) Even so, I trust this fragment
will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE
BLACK PHOENIX
Washington,
DC
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