psalms109:31
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Secret church
This was given to me by my mom from a friend of hers.
"The church was a mystery kept secret since the world began. The old testiment proclaimed the comming, the Messiah, but said nothing of the royal priesthood (1Pet 2:9)of those in Christ, the church: according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began(Rom 16:25): But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory(1 cor 2:7) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ(eph 3:9: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (eph 5:32).
But how could God, who had promissed Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servant the prophets(Amos 3:7), keep the church secret, hidden from those to whom He had promissed to reveal all that He would do? He predestined the Church which was kept secret since the world began before the foundation of the world. It is something He had done, not something He would do which would be revealed to the prophets. It is the church which is predestined, not who will be in it. Who will be in it will are those who accept Christ and endure in their faith to the end: he that endures to the end shall be saved (Matt 10:22).
When the Lord said that many are called, but few are choosen(Matt 22:14), He was telling us that most of the people called are not choosen. When Paul wrote whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified (Rom 8:30), he is speaking of the church: those who let him in when He knocks, who let Him live in them to conform them in His image to be justified and glorified. And when Paul wrote: I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway, he was telling us that his own salvation was not predestined but was depended on his enduring love to the end"
This was given to me by my mom from a friend of hers.
"The church was a mystery kept secret since the world began. The old testiment proclaimed the comming, the Messiah, but said nothing of the royal priesthood (1Pet 2:9)of those in Christ, the church: according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began(Rom 16:25): But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory(1 cor 2:7) And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ(eph 3:9: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church (eph 5:32).
But how could God, who had promissed Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servant the prophets(Amos 3:7), keep the church secret, hidden from those to whom He had promissed to reveal all that He would do? He predestined the Church which was kept secret since the world began before the foundation of the world. It is something He had done, not something He would do which would be revealed to the prophets. It is the church which is predestined, not who will be in it. Who will be in it will are those who accept Christ and endure in their faith to the end: he that endures to the end shall be saved (Matt 10:22).
When the Lord said that many are called, but few are choosen(Matt 22:14), He was telling us that most of the people called are not choosen. When Paul wrote whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified (Rom 8:30), he is speaking of the church: those who let him in when He knocks, who let Him live in them to conform them in His image to be justified and glorified. And when Paul wrote: I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway, he was telling us that his own salvation was not predestined but was depended on his enduring love to the end"
