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Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6)

Does it not strike you as significant, and very impressive, that when the veil was rent Israel was set aside? Israel had been called in to maintain a testimony in types. Christ had come and fulfilled all the types, and being the center of all the types, the veil, all that kept God shut off from man, was now dealt with, and the way was open. There was no need for types now. So the custodian of the types departs with the types. This is not the dispensation of the types: this is the dispensation of the reality, the dispensation of a heavenly union with a risen Lord, and of all that that means. Our danger is of bringing back types. The types have gone and that is the whole message of this letter to the Hebrews. Christ is everything. The outward order of the Old Testament is set aside, and now all that obtains is Christ Himself. He is the Priest; you no longer have priests on earth in the Old Testament sense. He is the Sacrifice; there is no need for any other s acrifices. He is the Tabernacle; He is the Temple; He is the Church.

What is the Church? It is Christ in living union with His own, that wheresoever two or three are gathered together in His name there He is in the midst. That is the Church. You do not build special buildings and call them "the Church." You do not have special organisations, religious institutions, which you call "the Church." Believers in living union with the risen Lord constitute the Church. This is the reality, not the figure. That is to say, His flesh, human limitation, is done away. Now in union with Christ risen all human limitations are transcended. This is one of the wonders of Christ risen as a living reality. We are brought into a realm of capacities which are more than human capacities, where, because of Christ in us, we can do what we never could do naturally. Our relationships are new relationships; they are with heaven. Our resources are new resources: they are in heaven. That is why the Apostle wrote to the Corinthians and said that God hath chosen the weak things, the foolish things. The things which are despised, and the things which are not, that He by them might bring to naught the wise, the mighty, the things which are. Why did God appoint it so? Because it is not by might, nor by power, but by His Spirit; and to show that there are powers, energies, abilities for His own which transcend all the greatest powers and abilities of this world....

Any man/woman that don't expresses/imparts Christ to others is false.
Its not just about prophecies or staging some demonstration.there must be an inward impartation to others.for instance.
Elijah would have been called a magician /false prophet assuming there was no rain after the great demostration on mount camel(1king36-39)because what the people actually needs was rain/water and not fire coming down from Heaven,and water typifies Life.and our Lord Jesus Christ is that very Life.

frosbel: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam and co are still kicking, does that make them also as valid as your mother church's faith ?

Read these books , it reveals the farce that your so called church is , a complete mockery of Christ and a haven for perverts and all sorts of hypocrites masquerading as men of GOD :

Fifty (50) Years in the Church of Rome The Conversion of a Priest [Abridged] [Paperback]
Charles Chiniquy (Author)

Confessions of a Nun. Or, The Reality of Roman Catholicism Revealed by Awful Disclosures of Convent Life in 1800s Canada [Paperback] - Maria Monk (Author)


There is also a good web site out there , setup by Ex-Catholics :
http://www.excatholicsforchrist.com/

http://www.formercatholic.com/2011/03/after-catholicism-now-what.html

Bro
You are doing a great job,they might not see it,because of there spiritual deficiency.

You have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire. (Hebrews 12:18)

How vast is this movement from that old economy to the bringing in of the New Economy. There is one thing only in your New Testament, introduced by Christ in the Gospels and followed out by the apostles; and in this letter to the Hebrews, the solid object of the whole letter is the transition from one economy to Another. Oh, read it again and glory in it. Read that letter again to the Hebrews. Glory in this: “My, what a thing we have been brought into.” Tabernacle? Yes, says the writer, there was a tabernacle on this earth, and for the time being... until the time. That is all gone, he says, and now we have come into the True Tabernacle not made with hands, which God has made, a Heavenly Tabernacle. See how wonderful the transition is! – the passing over from one economy to Another.

I must pause to ask, is this where Christendom has gone astray? – 

Is it still holding on to the old economy?
Is it still in the grave clothes?
Is it still that old Mosaic economy with its forms and ways?
Is it not emancipated into the Heavenlies?!
That is what the Lord wants to do with us here.

Things have gone away, gone wrong, got out of God’s way, and God is returning to where they went wrong. God usually does that with us. And so what is God’s beginning? It is His Son before the foundation of the world. Right back in the eternal counsels His Son was made the beginning, God’s starting place. Men have all gone astray, because of history, “all of us like sheep have gone astray.” God gets back to His beginning, His Son. Christendom has gone astray, and the only way of saving Christendom is to get back to God’s beginning, a true and right apprehension of His Son.

Matthew10:1
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them POWER against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Matthew
10:5 these twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying,*GO* not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

6 But *GO*rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

7 And as ye *GO* preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Its not enough to be called and chosen we must wait to be filled with power,heed to His specific instructions.
A brother called and chosen by God might attend a bible/pastoral school and after his graduation won't wait to be filled with power and given specific instructions on when and where he shold GO.
That's one of our major problem.

And i,brethren,when I came to you,came NOT with excellency of speech or wisdom,declaring unto you the testimony of GOD.
For I determined NOT to know any thing among you,save Jesus Christ,and Him Crucified..1Cor2:1-2.

Segeggs: i am doing my Father's business unlike your ministers that fleece the sheeps.

So your Father is a poor and wretched God abi?

am the true vine. (John 15:1)

The true vine is that which fulfills the one and only purpose of its existence. So Jesus brings this illustration over to Himself and His Church, and it is perfectly clear what is the nature of the Lord Jesus. He is reaching out to all men, embracing the whole world. He asks ALL the nations into His heart. ALL men are His concern and not any one nation. He said to His disciples: "Go ye therefore, and make disciples of ALL THE NATIONS" (Matthew 28:19). It is the very nature of Jesus to do that. It is quite foreign to Him to be exclusive, small and narrow and self-occupied.... But it is all very well to think of this objectively. It has to come down to every one of us. What is the proof that Christ is in you and in me? How can it be known that Christ is in us? Only in one way – that others are receiving Life through us, that we minister the Life of Christ to others, that when hungry and needy people come into touch with us they feel the touch of Life. They may express it in different ways, but it amounts to this: 'That man, that woman, has something that I have not got and it is something that I need. There is something about them that I feel, and it is what I really need.' That should be true of every Christian because Christ is in us, expanding Himself through us and ministering His Life through us.

Oh, do pray, dear friends, every day as you get up: 'Lord, make me a channel of Life to someone today. Lord, minister Your own Life through me to someone today. May I bring Life wherever I am.' The Lord has no other purpose for you and for me. We may try to do a lot of things, but if we belong to the Vine we are no good for anything but to bear fruit; and that is to bring Life to others.

dorox: Any thinking person with a reasonable level of comprehension can easily see that the context in which Jesus applied the word drinking in the scripture i quoted is talking about an intoxicating liquor. Like i said before, Jesus drew a sharp contrast between the ascetic lifestyle of John, who denied himself of the pleasures of food and wine hence the accusation that he was a mad man or demon possessed by the people, compared to Jesus feasted and drank with friends. Don't tell me that you think it was water they were drinking in those feasts?
If Jesus has abstained from alcohol like John, he would not have been accused of being a drunkard. The fact that he drank at all though in moderation, his enemies seized that opportunity to accuse him of been a drunkard.

Dude
Christ never said He drank alcohol,that was what people were accusing Him of.

Pastor Kun: As I said earlier, that is your own twisted logic as the bible never suggested christians should not drink. As I said earlier even our high priest(Jesus christ) used to drink how much less us. Also Paul advised timothy to take wine for his stomach ailments. On the contrary you would never find a single instruction for christians not to drink in the bible so I suggest you stop adding your opinion to the word of God.

Bro
Where is it written that Jesus Christ drank alcohol?
In Timothy's case are you now suggesting that all chriatain have stomach ailment or better still cancer of the stomach that will warrant them taking alumo/ogogoro to sterilise the ailments abi!

Pastor Kun: Still your own twisted logic cos priests were allowed to drink in the biblical times and there is no instruction to the contrary. Even our high priest used to drink regularly when he was on earth you may wish to read Luke 7:33-34 to confirm this. Asides I don't need to remind you of the Lord's last supper.

I didn't say priest were not allowed to drink in the OT,the only condition for there abstinence is when going into the terbanacle,and its an establish Law,as long as they are in or arround the terbanacle there must be complete abstinence of drink,now that the same terbanacle dwelleth in us who are Priest of even a higer order of those in the OT,how can we even think of drinking when the terbanacle is in us continually

@dorox
Let me ask you a personal question.
Have you ever had a personal encounter with an Entity called Bacchus?or do you know anyone who have had that experience?

dorox: Jesus said of himself that he ate and he drank in contrast with John that neither ate nor drank. This wasn't some random statement about him by someone else.

Did He said He ate and drank alcohol?

dorox: In Matt.11:18,19 There Jesus said he ate and drank while john did neither. You might ask that if john did not eat and drink, did he starve and go thirsty? My answer to that will show that Jesus indeed took alcohol.
When we eat food, especially a well made food we derive pleasure from it as well as nourishment for our body. Jesus had both for we are told in the bible that he feasted regularly with friends and attended wedding ceremonies where meals are served. While john ate only to satisfy his nutritional needs and not for the pleasure of eating hence his feeding on locust.
John was instructed before birth not to take wine or strong drink. Luke.1:15 He did not drink for the pleasure of drinking, hence no alcohol but surely he must have had water and honey to nourish his body. While Jesus said that he drank what John was told not to drink (wine or strong drink) and it was for that reason some people falsely accused him of being a drunkard

dorox: In Matt.11:18,19 There Jesus said he ate and drank while john did neither. You might ask that if john did not eat and drink, did he starve and go thirsty? My answer to that will show that Jesus indeed took alcohol.
When we eat food, especially a well made food we derive pleasure from it as well as nourishment for our body. Jesus had both for we are told in the bible that he feasted regularly with friends and attended wedding ceremonies where meals are served. While john ate only to satisfy his nutritional needs and not for the pleasure of eating hence his feeding on locust.
John was instructed before birth not to take wine or strong drink. Luke.1:15 He did not drink for the pleasure of drinking, hence no alcohol but surely he must have had water and honey to nourish his body. While Jesus said that he drank what John was told not to drink (wine or strong drink) and it was for that reason some people falsely accused him of being a drunkard

Where is it written that our Lord Jesus said He drank alcohol?
Stop quoting what people think or accuse Him of and show me where He actually drank alcohol Period!

dorox: The bible is used in your church.

frosbel: Brother , please stop twisting scriptures.

Do not say what God did not say to bring his people under bondage, this is why Jesus was angry with the Pharisees, they were experts in laying burdens on God's people.

If you guys can't quote where our Lord Jesus Christ said He drank alcohol in the bible you should just let it be.
Nobi by force to be filled with the Holy Spirit.and to stay filled.

dorox: How do you then explain that part of the bible where Jesus claimed he drank alcohol going by this logic?

Bro
Which bible are you talking about?

Pastor Kun: This is your own ill logic and found nowhere in scripture, i hope you know it is a grievous sin to add to or subtract from the word of God.

Bro
Where is the addtion/subtraction in the scriptures I quoted?
How is my post ill logically?
Are you not a Royal priest?(not just an ordinary priest)
Do you carry the Temple of God in you?
If your answer is yes then,you are not surppose to drink.

Leviticus10:8-9
And the Lord spoke onto Aaron,saying
"You and your descendants must never drink wine or any other alcoholic drink before going into the Tabernacle. If you do, you will die. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation

Ezekiel 44:21 No priest is to drink wine when he enters the inner court.

1Peter2:9
But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;


1 Corinthians 6:19
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within
you, whom you have from God? You are not your own ...
1 Corinthians 3:16-17
16Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives ind you? 17God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

In the OT Priest abstain from drinking inorder to enter the terbanacle of God,in the NT We(Christains) are priest and we don't go to the terbanacle because its already in us!!
We can only drink on the condition that we drop the terbanacle/Holy Spirit in us.if that is possible.

@Enigma
Great write-up bro!!

Without Me, you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

The Cross simply says that an order, though it be religious, well-motivated, or good-intentioned, but nevertheless proceeding from man in his natural state (not necessarily in defiance of God or in conscious rebellion against Him, but just the expression of man's natural state as he is), the Cross says that this entire order is set aside. God has judicially judged it and put a ban upon it. In the Cross of the Lord Jesus God has said finally: 'You in your natural state cannot serve Me, and cannot bear any fruit to My glory! It is possible to go out and work, labor, and die of the strain of trying to serve Me and yet it still remains true that you cannot, out from yourself, by any natural resources whatever, bear fruit unto Me.' The only thing that can ever get through to God's end, and that can be in Life – eternal, Divine, heavenly Life – is that which proceeds from the Holy Spirit.

How sweeping that is! How that analyzes and dissects everything! Of the things we say, for example, it continually presents the interrogation: 'Was that spoken in the Holy Spirit?' It is not enough to ask ourselves: 'Did I mean it well? Did I intend it for the Lord?' but: 'Was it said, was it done, in the Holy Spirit, or did I do it?' It is not a question of motive or of intention, but of the source from which we did it. We have daily to recognize that our lives must be subject to the Holy Spirit, and when we are aware that there has been something of our own will, we have to be faithful before God about it...

Walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith. (Colossians 2:7)

Abraham in the land... yet the very promises given him of God seeming to be denied. Was Abraham mistaken? Are we not sometimes bewildered with the Lord, and are not His ways past finding out? It all looks such a muddle, but as faith holds on, one day we shall praise Him, as we see the reason for it all afterwards; "the path of the just... shineth more and more unto the perfect day" – Prov. 4:18. Note "PATH" not things! These mysteries of the way contain some secret mystery of God; and are they not another opportunity to show forth His wisdom and power? When all seems gone, the conflict so great, the experience so strange and there is no key to the situation; we are tempted to question whether the promises were even of God; everything is so contrary to what we expected, we begin to wonder if we are all wrong! Just then, is the time for us to stand fast in the Lord and maintain that stand in faith.

After all, our experiences are very much alike. There is perplexity, there is apparent contradiction, there is conflict; the forms of experience may vary, but it comes to all of us in some way or another – still "He abideth faithful." How does this establish us? By the very helplessness of the situation, and ourselves, which causes us to cast ourselves upon Him, and it is then we prove Him. You are coming to the place where you know the mystery of God, and it is a glorious opportunity for Him to show His wisdom and so you are established. It is all a matter of endurance...

chukwudi44: Did God not make a promise to David?How was this prophesy fulfilled?why don't you quote the right scripture?

Dude,
I know where you are heading and its false.
Mark2:22..James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.(His Flesh was new,same as His Spirit)His Flesh never came from Davids lineage.
He came in the Likeness of human form..Phlns2:7,Romns8:3.
He's the New creation.the descendant of David was part of the Old creation.and the two can never mix..Mk2:22.

chukwudi44: One of the greatest prophesies foretold in the OT was that the messiah would be a descendant of David.This prophesy was fulfilled as romans 1:3 tells us "he is a descendant of David according to the flesh"

Where did Jesus get this flesh from?

Which flesh are you reffering to?
was the First Adams flesh gotten from any descendant? If not why would the Last Adams(Christ)be from Davids lineage?
Stop quoting scriptures out of context.

Jhn11:21;Martha said,Lord,if you hadst been here,my brother had not died.our Lord replied Her saying;I am THE RESURRECTION and THE LIFE, (jhn11:25).meaning it's not a matter of time,whether,it's too early or too late ,it's a matter of HIM.if HE came five or three days eariler it would have been the same.now that HE's a few days late,it's still the same.

Here our Lord Jesus Christ reveals to His disciples and the world @large who HE actually IS.he's not limited by our Time and space,He's always on Time.whosoever Believes in Him,is no longer limited.

me to Me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28 NLT)

What did He mean? The burden of the law was upon the people, indeed, it was a heavy burden for them. The Pharisees gave more than two thousand interpretations to the law of Moses, and said: "The law of Moses does not mean that you have only to keep ten commandments; it means that you have to keep two thousand." There was not a point in all their human life where this law was not applied and made their lives difficult. And all this was gathered up into the Sabbath: "You must not make your bed on the Sabbath! You must not carry your bed on the Sabbath! You must not poke your fire on the Sabbath! You must do nothing on the Sabbath – you may not even walk more than three miles." Two thousand regulations for their lives! The one thing that they were meeting every day, and especially on the Sabbath, was "You may not."

"Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28). What has happened? Jesus has appropriated the Sabbath to Himself. It is no longer a day of the week – it is a divine Person. (If the Seventh Day Adventists saw that, the whole of their system would go in five minutes!) No, Jesus is God's Sabbath. He is the end of God's works, and in Him God has entered into His rest. This is the "rest which remaineth for the children of God" – not a day of the week or on the calendar, but a divine Person, the Son of God. In Him we come to rest, and that which was our bondage is now our servant. In Him, that against which we were always struggling is now our victory. Oh yes, Jesus is the Sabbath, and if we live in Him we shall not spoil the Sabbath. Every day should be a day of rest to our souls. Oh, this is a mighty thing that the Lord Jesus has done...

chukwudi44: Mary was not just a vessel,that analogy does not hold water.Jesus took is flesh from her.His humanity was generated from Mary

Dude speak English joor.
John1:14 says that the Word became flesh.that is God became Flesh in her womb,no mixture,she was never Holy that's the reason of the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit upon her,so that her Adamic sinful nature she inherited from her parents won't mix with the HOLY ONE in womb(Luke1:35)

Hebrew4:4
Somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day as follows: "On the seventh day God rested from all his actions,"
Genesis2:3
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he RESTED from all his work of creation.
Matthew11:28 "... Come
to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you REST. ...

Adam's first day on this earth was a Sabbath day. God created man on the sixth day, and the first complete day that man had was the Sabbath, and that Sabbath day becomes the first day for man. Carried over to the New Testament, where God finishes and perfects His new creation work in the Lord Jesus, and enters into His rest, it is God's Sabbath, and there we begin. That is our first day - God's rest.

We begin in something that is already perfect. This is the ground of "the everlasting covenant". To grasp the significance of that is to see what the "eternal covenant" is, to come right in on a perfect ground and start there. It is not how we regard ourselves or how we feel about it, but it is God's place for us. The fact is, beloved, that in Jesus Christ you and I will never be more perfect than we are now. Those perfections may be wrought into us progressively, but, so far as the ground of our acceptance is concerned, we are "accepted in the Beloved One", and He wholly satisfies the Father; the Father has come to rest in Him. The work is perfect.

Our acceptance is always on the ground of God's end reached. Till that is settled, we have no steadying thing when God begins to work in us. Do not forget that. If, when God begins to deal with us in discipline and chastening, in training and moulding and formation, we begin at any moment to say, This is all because I am so bad, so wicked, and the Lord has got to do something with me in order that I may be acceptable, we have given our ground away. We shall never be more acceptable, however much the Lord does in us. We have been accepted, not on the ground of what we are, however bad or good that may be, but on the ground of The Beloved. "Accepted in the Beloved One".

His perfections are the measure of our own acceptance. That is where we start. Blessed be God, that is the ground of confidence, and when the Lord begins to take us in hand and we begin to feel what wretched creatures we are, that never implies for a single moment that we are not accepted. The eternal covenant means here, in the first place, that we are accepted on the ground of God's satisfaction with His Son. If we were accepted on our own ground, where we stand in ourselves, there would be no eternal covenant, no ground of security at all. It would be a matter of how we might be tomorrow. But no, it is not a matter of how we are or shall be. The ground is settled in Christ. Now, God is only getting to work to make good in us what is true in His Son, but it does not change the ground. Do not let us give our ground away....

I counsel you to buy from Me... salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. (Revelation 3:18 ESV)

We have to test everything we think we see and know by its effect in our lives. You and I may have an enormous amount of what we think to be spiritual knowledge; we have all the doctrines, all the truths. We can box the compass of evangelical doctrine; and what is the effect? It is not seeing, beloved, in a true spiritual sense, if we are not changed. Yes, seeing is to be changed, and it is not seeing if it does not bring that about. It would be far better for us to be stripped of all that and to be brought right down to the point where we really do see just a little that makes a difference. We must be very honest with God about this. would we not sooner have just a very little indeed that was a hundred percent effective, than a whole mountain of knowledge, ninety percent of which counted for nothing? We must ask the Lord to save us from advancing beyond spiritual Life, advancing, I mean, with knowledge, a kind of knowledge, presuming to know. You know what I mean. Real seeing, Paul says, is being changed, and being changed is a matter of seeing as by the Lord the Spirit. So we will pray to see....

It is never too late to get spiritual sight, however blind we may have been, and for however long, if we really mean business with the Lord. But do not forget that this is a matter of being honest with God. The Lord Jesus said a wonderful thing to Nathanael. Nathanael was perilously near that double blindness. At the moment when he allowed himself to give expression to a popular prejudice, he was very near the danger zone. He said, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" That is a popular prejudice. A popular prejudice has robbed many a man and woman of knowing God’s fuller thoughts. Prejudices may take many forms. Let us be careful.... If you are in danger through your prejudice, beware; forsake your prejudice, be open-hearted. Be an Israelite in whom there is no Jacob, no guile, open-hearted to the Lord, and you will see.

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]wow a xtian wished me! Thank You so very much Goshen and my fellow Nairalanders!

xtian/muslim/ali, etc., I make it clear that I only hate you people only on the grounds of religion, but trust me, you are tribespeople and fellow countrymen of mine and I truly with all my heart love you at that and this love outweighs everything else.

[size=16pt]The Gods bless you all[/size]. [/quote]Not Gods,but our Lord Jesus Christ.
Happybirth day sha and may God vist and blesss and protect you as in the case of Jacob(Gen28:13-15) in Jesus name Amen

That you... may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:18,19)

The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ is becoming greater and greater as time goes on. The effect of the Holy Spirit's work in us is to bring us to the shore of a mighty ocean which reaches far, far beyond our range, and concerning which we feel -the depths, the fullness, of Christ! If we live as long as ever man lived, we shall still be only on the fringe of this vast fullness that Christ is. 

Now, that at once becomes a challenge to us before we go any further. These are not just words. This is not just rhetoric; this is Truth. Let us ask our hearts at once, Is this true in our case? Is this the kind of life that we know? Are we coming to despair on this matter? That is to say, that we are glimpsing so much as signified by Christ that we know we are beaten, that we are out of our depth, and will never range all this. It is beyond us, far beyond us, and yet we are drawn on and ever on. Is that true in your experience? That is the mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit. Christ becomes greater and greater as we go on. If that is true, well, that is the way of Life. If ever you and I should come to a place where we think we know, we have it all, we have attained, and from that point things become static, we may take it that the Holy Spirit has ceased operations and that life has become stultified....

Ubenedictus: hehehe, u accuse me of not "obeying" God's word now e dey pinch u 4 body. Jacobs bones were moved around.

Was moved arround for what?
Was it mummified to be worship?
Why can't you guys accept that those practice was done out of ignorance and move on.

Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations. (Haggai 2:6,7)

It seems a terrible thing, even to think, but as we have touched so very much of what is called 'Christianity' we are bound to believe that, because vast numbers who call themselves Christian are in an utterly false position, and the system itself has become so largely an earthly, traditional, formal, and unspiritual thing, this worldwide shaking is quite necessary and will be eventually justified. If we were writing a treatise, we could show that what is called 'Christianity' is really the greatest enemy of Christ.

It will be seen that it is not a matter of substituting another and better system for an old and poor or bad one. Some people seem to think that it is all, or largely, a matter of the order, technique, and form, and if we returned to the "New Testament" form or order of churches, all would be well. The fact is that, while certain things characterized the New Testament churches, the New Testament does not give us a complete pattern according to which churches are to be set up or formed! There is no blue-print for churches in the New Testament, and to try to form New Testament churches is only to create another system which may be as legal, sectarian and dead as others. Churches, like the Church, are organisms which spring out of Life, which Life itself springs out of the Cross of Christ wrought into the very being of believers. Unless believers are crucified people, there can be no true expression of the Church...