Featured Any church whose origin was in Medieval or modern times is not the church that Christ set up

According to you having 'liked' this quote, you don't care who The Rock is.

He knows that.

Don't play games.

 

Church Discipline protects the right Jesus and right Gospel in His churches from those not serious about God's Word or His Business.

 

Here, Jesus is Speaking to 'her', His Divinely Organized church body, made from the 'material' of having been believers baptized by John The Baptist.

The"keys" to the Kingdom is the Gospel, Given to His church(es) as a Divine Institution.

His church(es) are self-governing.

19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Jesus' self-governing churches are where God's tithe belongs and nowhere else.

21 They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.

That includes 'conventions' or groups.

Membership to a fellowship or convention or association does not negate a church's self-governing, depending upon whether that other bunch 'says yes they do' and the church body agrees to their usurpation.

 

THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISM

A. The Subject: Only a believer (born again).

B. The Mode: Only by immersion.

C. The Design: Only to symbolize the burial and resurrection of Christ.

D. The Authority: Only a church of Jesus Christ.


Only One Baptism
In a literal sense the Bible teaches only one baptism, that is, one kind of baptism, as a New Testament ordinance. This is immersion in water of a born-again believer by the ministry of a New Testament church for the purpose of providing a symbol or figure of the faith professed. Other literal immersions, bathings, or washings are mentioned in the New Testament, but the Greek uses a different noun from the one used for New Testament baptism.



Jesus spoke of His sufferings as a baptism, but of course this is figurative language. John said that Jesus would baptize in the Holy Spirit and in fire, but this too is figurative, as baptism is properly a dipping in water. The first Baptist church in Jerusalem was once for all figuratively baptized by Jesus in the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, thus receiving for all time divine certification that this is the kind of church in which God dwells on earth.


It remains true that for New Testament purposes there is literally only one baptism (Ephesians 4:5), and therefore our text (Colossians 2:12) refers to it literally as "the baptism." The definite article is used also in Romans 6:4, "we were buried with him through the baptism with reference to the death."

Authorized Administration
Certainly the only ultimate and absolute Authority is God Himself, and certainly all Christians will agree in theory that baptism, as well as every other act of Christian service, must be in submission to His authority to be acceptable in His sight. Differences arise, however, with regard to subordinate authority in administration.



John the Baptist was a man sent from God with authority to baptize (John 1:6, 33), and the first disciples of Jesus got their authority directly from Him (John 4:1, 2). When Jesus went back to heaven did He commit administrative authority to anyone in particular, or did He leave it to be assumed by anyone in general?


Subordinate authority may be explicit, implicit, or assumed. Both explicitly and implicitly Jesus committed to His church the responsibility of making disciples, baptizing them, and teaching them to observe all His commandments. (Matt. 28:18-20.) Attempts by other persons to exercise this authority are assumption based on presumption.


Practically all Christendom has substantially agreed for over 19 centuries that Jesus committed to His church the administrative authority for carrying on His work. For the identification of this church, see chapters on "Christ's Church" and "Baptist Perpetuity."


In recent years, the most destructive attacks upon church authority have been made by advocates of the universal invisible church theory, according to which all saved persons are members of this imaginary church. But if Jesus commissioned disciples merely as disciples to administer baptism, then sprinklers, pourers, and Campbellites, not to mention Catholics (or at least genuine disciples among them), have equal authority with Baptists, since there are almost certainly some saved people in all these groups.


On the other hand, if by some feat of mental acrobatics the Baptist apologist for alien immersion insists that only the authority is unimportant, while the scriptural form, subject, and motive of baptism must be maintained, it need only be said that both subject and motive are unscriptural where divine authority is flouted. In alien immersion, nothing remains but an empty form.

 

Mathew 23:23; "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites!

You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin.

But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness.

You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former."

 

You don't see The Lord's new testament church as self-governing?

CHURCH CHARACTERISTICS.
Was the First Church a Baptist Church?

14. The First Church at Jerusalem Was Complete in Itself With Christ as the Only Head. There was no Pope, or Bishop, or Presbytery, or Conference there or elsewhere, to which it gave the least heed, or to which or whom it owed the least allegiance.

In Acts 1:14, we see they attended to their own business in their own way.

Peter could only suggest the business, and others could only nominate the proper persons for the office.

The whole church, directed by the Lord (verse 24), decided the matter.

That is just the way Baptist churches do today, and they only.

15. There Was No One Man in Authority (Matthew 20:20-26 ; Mark 10:35-45; Luke 22:24-27; Eph. 1:22).

16. There Were No Elect Few, Called Presbytery, Ruling Elders, etc., known in that day, and all who are thus ruled are not churches of Jesus Christ, for in them no one rules, but "all are brethren" Acts 20:28: Romans 12:8; 1 Timothy 5: 17; Hebrews 13:7-17, etc., are Episcopal colorings.

 

Yes, Lexicon can change and have items added.

That is why they are not the rule of Faith and Practice.

Jesus used a word that had usage and understanding, then; not 1800 years later.

 

Jesus is The Law-Giver.

Jesus Gave The Law for The New Testament.

The Pharisees were clearly breaking The Command of God.

 

Rosco Brong Sermon, Baptist Perpetuity

 

I showed you and JonC, Jesus, and answered your questions, by Him.

His churches are The Apple of His Eye.

His Bride.

The Song of Solomon refers to His Old Testament Faithful and His New Testament Faithful.

So does The 144,000.

Unfaithful is another subject.

They are The Kingdom of God and The General Assembly in Heaven, vs The Church of The Firstborn (those who have Faithfully Assembled and Followed God's Commands to Bring Him Glory in Worship, as Recorded in His Word).