Tuesday, November 10, 2020

* One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all. (Eph. 4)


Where do you go to church? 

We are the church.


At the end of this world, Jesus sends His angels and gathers all and separates the sheep from the goats.


Matthew 25:32-34
   When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall HE sit upon the throne of His glory:  And before Him shall be gathered all nations: and HE shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:  And HE shall set the sheep on HIS right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on HIS right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

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Today, one says, "I'm Baptist."  another says, "I'm Methodist." 

Paul says:  

I Corinthians 3-6 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?  Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

Jesus came to earth in the form of a human and was crucified and died and was resurrected by God from the dead the third day and Jesus set up HIS church and gave ministers to HIS church.

Ephesians 4:11-12   And HE  gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Ephesians 4

4 There is one body
 (one church), 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.

Romans 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

John 10

4 And when HE putteth forth His own sheep, HE goeth before them, and the sheep follow Him: for they know His voice.

5  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

27  My sheep hear MY voice, and I know them, and they follow ME:


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I John 4

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.


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God dwells in us at all times, day and night, by HIS Spirit:  We are never alone.  The Spirit of Jesus is in us to teach us and guide us constantly.

I Corinthians 3:16   Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

I Corinthians 6:19  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

II Corinthians 13:5  Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?


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The Spirit of God who lives in each of the children who belong to God teaches us, guides us into all truth, reminds us of all that Jesus has said, and shows us things to come.

John 14:26  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.


John 16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

We hear HIM and we will not follow the voice of strangers.

The devil comes to steal, to kill and to destroy.  

The voice of Jesus directs us to a more abundant life.  We follow HIM.


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