#1: THE CHURCH THAT JESUS BUILT IS THE GREATEST INSTITUTION IN THE UNIVERSE.

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The Greatest Organization​

(Glory in the Church)​

by Pastor Keenan Witcher
Heritage Baptist Church
P. O. Box 6004
Roswell, NM 88202
(505)623-2326
The Greatest Organization (Glory in the Church)​

Time and time again the Bible clearly teaches that the greatest organization
of both time and eternity is the church that Jesus built during His personal ministry.

Jesus not only came into the world to die upon the cross of Calvary,
but He also came for the Purpose of Calling Out, Establishing,
Building, Teaching, and Equipping His church(es)
in order that she and she alone would carry out His Kingdom Business in this World.

Before Jesus ever Ascended into Heaven
He had completely Established His church.

And that was before the Day of Pentecost!

I. THE CHURCH THAT JESUS BUILT
IS THE GREATEST INSTITUTION IN THE UNIVERSE

BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION
THROUGH WHICH GOD GETS GLORY.

Eph 3:21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

“Unto Him be glory . . .
” WHERE? “. . .
IN THE CHURCH . . .

” “Unto Him be glory . .
.” IN WHAT? “ . . .
IN THE CHURCH . . .”

God appointed His church(es) as the only medium through which He was to get the Glory.

The inspired, the infallible, the pure, the unchangeable, the perfect, the eternal, the authoritative Word of God says that God gets His Glory in one organization and one organization only and that organization is the Glorious church that Jesus Christ Personally Established during His Sojourn upon this Earth.

In this verse we find one of God's great eternal principles taught. When the Bible specifies one thing it automatically eliminates everything else. This principle applies both to Doctrine and Practice.

When the Bible says that salvation is by Grace that automatically eliminates all other ways.

When the Lord said that the Ark of the Covenant was to be carried with staves on the shoulders of the Israelites that eliminated all other methods of moving it. That eliminated ox carts. But the Israelite leaders thought that they had found a better way, a new method, an easier way, a faster way, a modern way, a more convenient system and that new idea that they came up with caused the death of a man.

So when someone comes up with a religious organization other than the one that is specified in the Bible you had better get away from it before you get hurt. Avoid it like the plague.

Do God's work God's way or don't do it at all.

Do His work according to the Scriptures.

Serve God in and through the Church that Jesus built. Isaiah 55:8,9:
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD,

For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

When the Bible says that God is to get His Glory in the church that eliminates all other organizations.

When the Bible says that He is to get His glory in the church by Christ Jesus that eliminates all other men.

The Lord has never had any problem explaining Himself or making Himself understood. The Lord said what He meant and He meant exactly what He said when He said,
“Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus . . .”

He did not say unto Him be glory in the denomination:,

He did not say unto Him be Glory in the missionary committee meeting;

He did not say unto him be glory in the convention or the association.

He didn't say unto him be Glory in the Christian research center or in the Mission society.

But He said,

“Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus
throughout all ages, world without end.”

All of these organizations which have been invented by men are no better and no more scriptural than the ox cart that the Israelites used in moving the ark of the covenant.

Notice the text verse again. “Unto Him be glory in the church . . .”

You spell His glorious organization C-H-U-R-C-H.

It is not spelled SBC; it is not spelled ABA;
it is not spelled BMA; it is not spelled NABA;
it is not spelled YMCA or YWCA.

Neither is it spelled CBS nor TBN nor PTL.

There is only one religious organization in the New Testament
that had God's approval and that organization is the CHURCH THAT JESUS BUILT.