Alan Gross
Well-Known Member
A HOLY Temple.
“Now, therefore, you are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints,
and of the household of God,
“and are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the Chief Corner Stone;
“in Whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a Holy Temple in the Lord:
“in Whom you also are built together for an Habitation of God through the Spirit”
[Ephesians 2:19-22].
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Paul was writing to the church at Ephesus and he reveals here the glorious fact that a True New Testament churches are a Holy Temple in the Lord, and that was the One Purpose for which the Lord Built His church at Ephesus, and we believe, every other true New Testament church, is that Built by Jesus Christ by The Guidance of GOD THE HOLY SPIRITso that God in the Spirit might Dwell therein.
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Can anyone believe that God, having Chosen to Manifest His Presence in a Special Way in the churches of the Lord Jesus, allowed His Purposes to be frustrated, so that for centuries He had no such Habitation on Earth?'
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But Catholics and Protestants do so declare, and countless ‘Baptists’, ignorant of, or indifferent to their Blood-Bought Heritage, who are deceived by, or are silent in the face of, this monstrous lie!
“Now, therefore, you are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints,
and of the household of God,
“and are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the Chief Corner Stone;
“in Whom all the building fitly framed together grows to a Holy Temple in the Lord:
“in Whom you also are built together for an Habitation of God through the Spirit”
[Ephesians 2:19-22].
***
Paul was writing to the church at Ephesus and he reveals here the glorious fact that a True New Testament churches are a Holy Temple in the Lord, and that was the One Purpose for which the Lord Built His church at Ephesus, and we believe, every other true New Testament church, is that Built by Jesus Christ by The Guidance of GOD THE HOLY SPIRITso that God in the Spirit might Dwell therein.
…
Can anyone believe that God, having Chosen to Manifest His Presence in a Special Way in the churches of the Lord Jesus, allowed His Purposes to be frustrated, so that for centuries He had no such Habitation on Earth?'
…
But Catholics and Protestants do so declare, and countless ‘Baptists’, ignorant of, or indifferent to their Blood-Bought Heritage, who are deceived by, or are silent in the face of, this monstrous lie!