True reformation will always have as its goal to get back to the original state of being. Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints Jude 3. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. I Cor 3:11 -13. Many works are built upon “a teacher,” “a truth” or “truths” but we are called to only build upon “Him” who is “The Way," "The Truth" and "The Life.” We must be diligently examining each and every teaching and practice of fellowship we hold in the light of His word. There can be no compromise!
"Unto each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ. This is why it says: when He ascended on high He…gave gifts unto men…He is the head, and on Him the whole body depends. Because it is from Him that we are made strong, by that which every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, the whole body grows unto the building up of itself in love" Eph. 4. "He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell…and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power… from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God." Col 1:18- 2:10, The choice is ours; do we want to just play church, or to function as the body of Christ? God has given unto us every spiritual blessing in Christ, but they become manifest in our experience only as we exalt Him to His rightful place as the one and only head over all things to the assembly! "It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure." Phil 2:13
"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure." I John 3:1-3 "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." II Cor 3:17-18 "Until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Eph. 4:13 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever and ever Rom 11:36 |
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