Review: North Boulevard Church of Christ What We Believe2

Musicians are Scoffers in the Last Day. Mercenaries silence the elders who are the only Christ-

Ordained Pastor-Teacher (Ephesians 4). Job-one is to remove the cunning craftsmen whom are LYING IN WAIT TO DECEIVE. The cunning are SOPHISTS who use Rhetoric, Music and Performance to disable the rational mind.

THE NEW COVENANT OR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT WAS LEFT BY GOD-APPOINTED APOSTLE-SCRIBES FOR HIS HEIRS.  THIS WAS THE PATTERN AFTER THE HEBREWS FELL INTO INSTRUMENTAL-TRINITARIAN-PERVERTED IDOLALTRY

Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
        because they knew him not,
        nor yet the voices of the prophets
        which are read READ  sabbath day,
        they have fulfilled them in condemning him

It is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever commanded a DAY for physical worship.

The Synagogue or Church in the wilderness met on REST DAYS.
Matt. 11:25 At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee,
        O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
        because thou hast hid these things from the WISE
               [Sophists: rhetoric, music, performance]
        and PRUDENT [Trained scholars, theologians]
        and hast revealed them unto babes.
            [1 Peter 3:21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us  
            (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
            but the answer of [Request for] a good conscience toward God,)
            by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
            [A holy spirit or A good conscience, conscience gives those taught by Jesus
            to be able to read BLACK text on BROWN paper.]

Matt. 11:26 Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Matt. 11:27 ALL THINGS are delivered unto me of my Father:
        and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father;
        neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son,
        and he to whomsoever the SON WILL REVEAL HIM
Matt. 11:28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,
        and I will give you rest.
Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, AND LEARN OF ME
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find REST unto your souls.
Matt. 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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Stop the:  Melōd-eō ,A. chant, sing, Ar.Av.226, 1381, Th.99:—Pass., to be chanted, “ta rhēthenta ē melōdēthentaPl.Lg.655d, cf. Chamael. ap. Ath. 14.620c; to be set to music, Cleanth. ap. Phld.Mus.p.98 K.; ta melōdoumena diastēmata used in music, Plu.2.1019a. II. chant, choral song, melôidias poiêtês, lullaby, generally, musispauō , Il.19.67, etc. ;

Stop the: lupas ōdais p. E.Med.197 (anap.), etc. ; p. toxon let the bow rest, Od.21.279
Stop the: 2. c. acc. pers. et gen. rei, hinder, keep back, or give one rest, from a thing, p. Hektora makhēs, ponoio Akhilēa, Thamurin aoidēs,
Stop the: of one singing or speaking, 17.359, Hdt.7.8.d : generally, Med. denotes willing, Pass. forced, cessation.

THEREFORE, IT IS BLASPHEMY TO CLAIM THAT A HOLY SPIRIT PERSON GUIDED ANYONE TO GO BEYOND THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN.

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It is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever commanded any action by the hands of men as worship.

1Cor. 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest;
        and so FALLING DOWN ON HIS FACE
        will WORSHIP God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Rev. 7:11 And all the angels stood round about the throne,
        and about the elders and the four beasts,
        and FELL before the throne on their faces,
        and WORSHIPPED God,
Rev. 11:16 And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats
 
        FELL UPON THEIR FACES and WORSHIPPED God,

It is a STRONG DELUSION to claim that Jesus died in vain unable to "supply all that applies to life and godliness."

2Pet. 1:1 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
        to them that have obtained like precious faith with us
        through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:
2Pet. 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you
        through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power
        hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
        through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
         that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
         having escaped the CORRUPTION that is in the WORLD through lust.


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Peter told everyone who was IN the world but not OF the world to SAVE THEMSELVES from those OF the World. The World or Kosmos is the Ecumenical or the "Kingdom of the Devil making War against the Invisible Kingdom of Christ."

The ancient Middle East
constituted an ecumene. The term ecumene comes from the Greek word oikoumene, which means the inhabited world

"The ancient Middle East made a place for homosexuality and bestiality in its myths and rites. In the Asherah cult the qedeshim priests had a reputation for homosexual practices, even as the qedeshot priestesses for prostitution. Israel eventually banned both the qedeshim and qedeshot, while in Ugarit the and kohanim were priestly guilds in equally good standing. Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. The biblical book of Leviticus (18:22--27) bans homosexuality and bestiality expressly because the Canaanite population had been practicing those rites, which the Hebrews rejected as abominations. Middle Eastern Religion

Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
        Repent, and be baptized every one of you
        in the name of Jesus Christ  [authority of Father, Son and Holy Spirit]
        for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be CONVERTED,
        THAT your sins may be blotted out,
        when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
Acts 3:20 And he shall send Jesus Christ,
        which before was preached unto you:

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children,
         and to all that are afar off,
        even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Acts 2:40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort,
        saying, SAVE YOURSELVES 
        from this untoward generation.

Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
        and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly
        in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship
,
        and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.


It is a STRONG DELUSION that God ever authorized
ANY FUNDING for any funded STAFF
to ride on the backs of widows. The Greek "parasite" defines anyone who eats at other's expense to perform any mediating office.

        Honor.God.with.Your.Wealth.David.Young.html

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It is a STRONG DELUSION to claim that God commanded SINGING with or without a Mechanical Device.

Word, Logos, Regulative Principle
4.speech,
delivered in court, assembly
VI. verbal expression or utterance, lego, lexis
      -Lexis A.speech, OPPOSITE ôidê

-ôidê, 1.art of song 5. = eppsdê, spell, incantation
4. text of an author,  OPPOSITE exegesis [Peter's private interpretation outlaws exegesis]Arist.En1142a26
2. common talk, report, tradition d. the talk one occasions, repute, mostly in good sense, good report, praise, honour,
3. discussion, debate, deliberation, c. dialogue, as a form of philosophical debate,
       
 The meaning of the sunagogue or syllogimos or syllogism
Logos is the  OPPOSITE  emmetra, ib.1450b15 (pl Id.Rh.1404a31

There is NO meter in the Bible: you could not "sing" it tunefully if your life depended on it: that is PREDESTINED.

John 3:34 For he whom God hath sent SPEAKETH the words of God: for God giveth NOT the Spirit by measure unto him.

-Metron II. metre, Ar.Nu.638, 641, etc.; opp. melos (music) and rhuthmos (time), Pl.Grg.502c, etc.; logous psilous eis metra tithentes putting into verse, Id.Lg.669d; “ta en metrō pepoiēmena epēX.Mem. 1.2.21.



BUT, JEFF WALLING, THE NACC AND ALL OF THOSE SPREADING HATE SAY THAT GOD APPROVED INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, DANCING, ETAL.

It is the DEFINITION of a CULT to operate a center of SANCTITY with command authority, controlling the member's life several days during the week.
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1Tim. 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved,
        and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

1 John 2: Jesus is the Paraclete or Holy Spirit (a state) Comforter.
1Tim. 2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1Tim. 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle,
        (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;)
Any person or church which pleads for for tithes and offerings and massive giving is an extortioness

2Cor. 9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
ăvārĭtĭa , ae, f. avarus,
I.  a greedy desire for possessions, greediness, avarice, covetousness
every kind of selfishness
of eagerness for food, gluttony:
avaritia gloriae, eager desire for renown or glory,

pleonexia     greediness, assumption, arrogance, wrong done to one's kin,

with a view to one's own advantage
gain derived from a thing,

Ther is no example of taking up a collection in Holy Scripture. The Corinthians had OFFERED to help the starving in Judea. A year later there had been no AT CHURCH collection.  Paul wanted them to keep their pleldge but:

I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 2 Corinthians 8:8

Log-eia , hê, collection of taxes or voluntary contributions, PHib.1.51.2 (iii B. C), PTeb.58.55 (ii B. C.), POxy.239.8 (i A. D.); collection for charity, 1 Ep.Cor.16.1, Hsch.; for religious purposes, GDI4156 (Lindos), PSI2.262.3 (i A. D.); perquisite, PPar.5xxvii 6 (ii B. C.).

"If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother; but you shall freely open your hand to him, and shall generously lend him sufficient for his need in whatever he lacks" (Deut. 15:7, 8-11).

Log-eia , hê, collection of taxes or voluntary contributions, charity

Revised 12.18.19 84 ATTACKS prophecy by the Spirit which means that God put His WORD into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and LASTLY the MAN Jesus.  Creation by Jesus means that He PURCHASED a tiny flock of Lost Spirits who -- uniquely -- can HEAR and REPEAT the Word and do not REWRITE and sell their OWN.

1Cor. 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained
        that they which preach THE
GOSPEL should live [FOOD] of the gospel.

Jesus said that those who speak their own words are sons of the Devil. Beyond truth

AND THE ABSOLUTE LAW TO WEED OUT FALSE PREACHERS:

Rom. 10:15 And how shall they preach, EXCEPT THEY BE SENT?
        as it is written, How beautiful are the feet
of them
        that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!



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-therap-ōn  henchman, attendant [1] Mousaōn [2] therapontes

[1]   Mousa music, song [3 below]  stu^ger-os , Mousa kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas
        II. mousa, as Appellat., music, song, “m. stugeraA.Eu.308   
        moisan pherein
     LADED BURDEN
       adokim-os
,
disreputable, discredited, reprobate,
     
kanakhan . . theias antiluron mousas 
   

S.Tr.643       
       
moisan pherein”\
        “adein adokimon m.Plat. Laws 775b

[2]  therapontes [preacher of]
kērux generally, public messenger, envoy,
k., Dios  aggeloi ēde kai andrōn1.334; theōn k., of [2]
        Zēus”,[preacher of] ploutou, Semitic Baalim, [preacher of]. Beelbōsōros, .[preacher of] Ōromasdēs, [preacher of] Dios astēr the planet Jupiter [preacher of]  Ploutōn A.Pluto, god of the nether world,rom ploutos) the wealth-giver, a name of Hades, Eur. Alc. 360, Soph. Ich. 273 [preacher as] kērukōn, hoi dēmioergoi [preacher of] Apollyon

a skilled workman, handicraftsman,
    peithous dēmiourgos rhētorikē
   
from presbeis, as being messengers between nations at war
   
used interchangeably with apostolos,
[preacher of]    2. crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc
1Cor. 9:15 But I have used none of these things:
        neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me:
        for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
1Cor. 9:16 For though I preach the gospel,
        I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me;
        yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
1Cor. 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward:
        but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
1Cor. 9:18 What is my reward then?
        Verily that, when I preach the gospel,
        I may make the gospel of Christ without charge,
        that I abuse not my power in the gospel.


The Purpose Driven Church follows a deliberate pattern.

INFILTRATES
INTIMIDATES
CONFISCATES
LEGISLATES
DOMINATES
+FORE ORDAINED (Jude warning of the Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted Idolatry at Mount Sinai.
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ANY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE INDUCES UNLAWFUL TITHES, OFFERINGS OR CONFISCATION

THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT DID NOT AUTHORIZE ANY CLERGY:

THE PATTERN OF LEVITES (SINGERS) RESULT FROM A DOMINANT PERSON (APOSTLE) REPLACING ELDERS.

KINGS, RULERS, BUILDINGS, SACRIFICES CAUSED BECAUSE OF PEOPLES' SINS

THERE CAN BE NO MERCHANTS ON THE REST DAY WHICH IS PAUO IN GREEK.

THE NEW COVENANT CONCERNING WORSHIP CENTERS

HOLY SCRIPTURE OUTLAWS SINGING WITH OR WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS WHO ARE DEFACTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.


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Therefore, you worship the
BEAST if you pay for Rhetoric, Singing, Playing an instrument, hearing opinion, hear experiences or PAY TO PLAY. 

The Babylon Mother of Harlots uses lusted after clergy as singers, instrument players, any religious craftsperson clearly defined as a PARASITE. The first BEAST depended on lying about and slandering the Biblical Regulative Principle.  When so few congregations could be seduced, music and the effeminate was called to the trenches.

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REASONABLE OR RATIONAL WORSHIP IS A SCHOOL OF THE WORD OR SPIRIT; Your Church is not Christian because it does not CONTINUE IN HIS WORD.


The Campbells knew the Pattern and restored it until the Merchant Class took over.
Acts 15:21 For Moses of old time
        hath in every city them that PREACH him,
        being READ in the synagogues
        every sabbath day. [once each REST day]
Paul uses synagogue  for gathering, assewmblying or coming together
THE OBEDIENT EXAMPLE OF JESUS and DEVFINED MANY TIMES

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Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth,
        where he had been brought up: [educated]
        and, as his custom was,  [Commanded Pattern]
        he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day,
        and stood up for to READ.


Eph. 2:20 And are built upon [Educated by] the foundation
        of the apostles and prophets
        Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
Paul commanded that his letters be READ: He gave no money or authority to fabricate their own]
Jesus is the head or chief (only Teacher until He returns)
Baptism Saves BECAUSE We Request A good conscience or consciousness. Jesus personally teaches Hiis tiny flock of lost spirits by letting them read BLACK text on BROWN paper (2 Cor 3).

Eph. 3:5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men,
        as it is now revealed unto his holy APOSTLES and PROPHETS by the Spirit;
The SPIRIT doesn't inform your preacher unless Christ appears to you and lets you hear His Voice.

Jesus in His Glorified State of Holy Spirit reveals the will of God by reading "that which is written for our learning
."
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth; 
        the flesh profiteth nothing:      [so stop paying!]
        the WORDS that I speak unto you,
        they are SPIRIT, and they are LIFE
Logos  computation, reckoning 2. statement of a theory, argument, ouk emeu alla tou l. akousantas prob. in Heraclit.50; logon ēde noēma amphis alētheiēs discourse and reflection on reality,
IV. inward debate of the soul, reflection, deliberation
Regulative and formative forces, derived from the intelligible and operative in the sensible universe,

Opposite to epithumia
 A. desire, yearning, longing after a thing, desire of or for it, Theaomai :--gaze at, behold, mostly with a sense of wonder3. view as spectators
Opposite Pathos  A. that which happens to a person or thing, incident, accident,  Moralizing Rhetoric
Opposite Poiein to excite passion, Arist.Rh.1418a12; V. Rhet., emotional style or treatment,
Opposite Enthousi-astikos , ē, on, A. inspired,phusisPl.Ti.71e; esp. by music,
Prose
 OPPOSITE -poiêsis, Id.R.390a;
OPPOSITE -poiêtikê, D.H.Comp.6; OPPOSITE poiêmata, onomatopoeic word
OPPOSITE  emmetra Modus   2. The measure of tones, measure, rhythm, melody, harmony, time; in poetry, measure, metre, mode: Mūsĭcus a, um, adj., = mousikos.
X. the Word or Wisdom of God, personified as his agent in creation and world-government,

Theologians are doomed to call God a liar or INCOMPETENT.  If God had wanted any kind of music in the tuneful sense He was INTELLIGIBLE But denied by C. Leonard Allen.

mousikos kai melōn poētēs
2. generally, votary of the Muses,  The Muses were the LOCUSTS unleashed with Apollon their "musical worship leaders." The Greek and Latin literature identifies them as dirty adulteresses

http://www.piney.com/DocHesTheog.html
[25] the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: “Shepherds of the wilderness,
        wretched things of shame, mere bellies,
        we know how to speak many false things as though they were true;
        but we know, when we will, to utter true things.”
            ...and they bade me sing of the race of the blessed gods that are eternally,
                but ever to sing of themselves both first and last.
pharma^kon 3. enchanted potion, philtre: hence, charm, spell, Od.4.220 sq., Ar.Pl.302, [Circe, Church, Corinth mother of harlots]  Theoc.2.15

The singers [Muses], instrument players and craftsmen as sorcerers in Revelation 18.

The RULERS were dangerous Blind leading the Blind into a PIT

Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,
        because they knew him not,
        nor yet t
he VOICES  of the PROPHETS
        which are READ every sabbath day,
        they have fulfilled them in condemning him

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST DEFINED BY THE CAMPBELLS WAS LITERATE AND HONORABLE.

CHURCH: Is A School Of Christ (the meaning of REST)
WORSHIP: is READING and MUSING the Word only.

Thuc. 8.1 with the soothsayers [Miriam, Levites], and prophets, and all who by the influence of religion had at the time inspired them with the belief that they would conquer Sicily khrēsmologois te kai mantesi

Jesus said that He and His Disciples were FROM ABOVE: The Jewish Clergy were from BENEATH or Tartarus.

Terra or dust " tera natives of the soil, aborigines
, autochthones" The Earth as goddess used by feminists:  Personified, Terra, the Earth, as a goddess; “usu. called Tellus, Magna Mater, Ceres, Cybele, etc
T
he infernal regions, Prop. 3, 5

Tera natives of the soil, aborigines, autochthones" The Earth as goddess used by feminists:  Personified, Terra, the Earth, as a goddess; “usu. called Tellus, Magna Mater, Ceres, Cybele, etc
T
he infernal regions, Prop. 3, 5

Mater, i. e. Cybele, the mother of all the gods: “matris magnae sacerdos,Cic. Sest. 26; cf. absol.: matris quate cymbala circum, Verg. G. 4, 64; id. A. 9, 108  Of the earth, as the mother of all: “
săcerdos   Dianae Ephesiae,Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 73: “maximus (Syracusanorum),
the priestesses of the Bona Dea),Cic. Sest. 30,
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The BEAST from the EARTH exerciseth all the POWER of the first BEAST before him,
        and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein
        to worship the first BEAST, whose deadly wound was healed.
Rev. 13:12
1Cor. 15:45 And so it is written,
        The first man Adam was made a living soul;
        the last Adam was made a QUICKENING SPIRIT
        but that which is natural;
        and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Cor. 15:47 The first man is OF the EARTH, earthy:
        the second man is the Lord from heaven.

1Cor. 15:50 Now this I say, brethren,
        that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
        neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Literal Worship means bow or Fall on your Face in Reverence and Godly Fear.
Jesus ordained that we worship IN THE SPIRIT as a place. Reasonable worship is quiet devotion to the Word or Regulative Principle.
POWER of the BEAST:

Exous-ia Power to win praise. autō e. ēn saphōs eidenai”  poieō
anything you make, compose or perform, 4. after Hom., of Poets, compose, write, p. dithurambon, epea, Hdt.1.23, 4.14; “p. theogoniēn HellēsiId.2.53; p. Phaidran, Saturous, Ar.Th.153, 157; p. kōmōdian, tragōdian,
epea, 1. song or lay accompanied by music, 8.91,17.519. IV. in pl., epic poetry, opp. melē (lyric poetry), iambeia, dithuramboi, etc., “rhaptōn epeōn aoidoi” “epea te poiein pros luran t' aeidein
 3. Lit. Crit., e. poiētikē poetic licence, Str.1.2.17, Jul.Or.1.10b.

Strab. 1.2.17
If any thing does not correspond, [To Customs or Laws]
        it should be attributed to change,
        or to misconception,
        or to poetical licence,
               which is made up of [a] history, [b] rhetoric, and  [c] fiction.
                      
[a]  and Truth is the aim of the historical portion,..
A lively interest is the end ,
        [b]
the rhetorical as when he points to us the combat;
        [c]  and of the fiction, pleasure and astonishment...
HE bids us not to judge poems by the standard of intellect,
         nor yet look to them for history.
Poi-ētikos  p. kai mousikoi  the art of poetry mousi^kos , ē, on, Dor. mōsikos , ta mousika music, II. of persons, skilled in music, musical, X.l.c., etc.; “poiētikoi. andresPl.Lg.802b; “kuknos kai alla zōa m.Id.R.620a; “peri aulous -ōtatoiAth.4.176e; LYRIC poet, OPPOSITE. EPIC, Pl.Phdr.243a   mousikos kai melōn poētēs
mole  melōn There is no music or lyric material in Scripture.
B.
esp. musical member, phrase: hence, song, strain,
en melei poieein to write in lyric strain
2. music to which a song is set, tune, Arist.Po.1450a14

kat-auleô   A. charm by flute-playing, tinos Pl.Lg.790e, cf. R.411a; tina Alciphr.2.1: metaph., se . . -êsô phobôi I will flute to you on a ghastly flute, E.HF871 (troch.):--Pass., of persons, methuôn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains of the flute, Pl.R.561c; k. pros chelônidos psophon to be played to on the flute with lyre accompaniment, Posidon.10 J., cf. Call.Fr.10.3 P., Phld.Mus.p.49 K.
God is not ignorant, as Theologians claim. If He had intended musical melody He would not have used PSALLO
CONTRARY AND ANTITHETICAL to the worship of God, THE WORSHIP OF THE BEAST is--

Thera^p-euō   II.   do service to the gods, athanatous, theous th., Hes.Op.135, Hdt.2.37, X.Mem.1.4.13, etc.; daimonaPi.P.3.109; Dionuson, Mousas, E.Ba.82 (lyr.), IT1105(lyr.); th. Phoibou [
Apollon”] naous serve them, Id.Ion111 (anap.): abs., worship, Lys.6.51; do service or honour to one's parents, E.Ion183 (lyr.), Pl.R.467a, Men.91a; serve, wait upon a master, Id.Euthphr.13d, cf. Ar.Eq.59, 1261, etc.; th. tas thēkas reverence men's graves, Pl.R.469a.
APOLLYON- Phoebus , i, m., = Phoibos (the radiant), I. a poetical appellation of Apollon as the god of light: “quae mihi Phoebus Apollon, Val. Fl. 1, 228: “Circe,” [CHURCH AS WORSHIP CENTER] daughter of Sol, Petr. 135.—
 

Plutarch Life of Antony
Defines the Theirons or BEASTS in Revelation meaning "A new style of music and Satyric [Pan, Capella] drama. Watch the PERSONA of "worship teams" SINGING which can make the Holy Spirit come

Madison Church of Christ: Holy.Spirit.Apollyon.Come.Invade.us. Now  A Double Entendre because all worship performance is led by the spirit of Abaddon or Apollyon.
There was one song about the "kingdom" and "the Holy Spirit": "Build Your kingdom here, we pray ... Holy Spirit, come invade us now."

Homemade Worship by Handmade People
.  Visible Worship marks the ANDROGYNOUS: hand made may be an double entendre since the common view among the superstitious is that "the Spirit will not come without lots of music."

Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your Church [that's a lie; a burnable offense]
We need Your Power
In us”
2Cor. 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
        not walking in craftiness,  [sophistry: Rhetoric, Singing, Playing Instruments]
        nor handling the word of God deceitfully; [use as a DECOY, entrap]
        but by manifestation of THE truth
        commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
2Cor. 4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
2Cor. 4:4 In whom the god of this WORLD hath blinded the minds of
        them which believe not,  [Apistos: those who believeth CANNOT be baptized TO BE SAVED]
        lest the light of the glorious GOSPEL of Christ,
        who is the IMAGE of God, should shine unto them.
2Cor. 4:5 For we preach NOT ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord;
        and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake

COMING REVIEW.

Ephesians 5:18-22 David M. Young TAMPERS
"And don't get Drunk on Alcohol, which LEADS to decadence;
instead, be filled with the [Holy] Spirit BY speaking to one another
with psalms, hymns and Spiritual songs,
singing and MAKING MUSIC WITH your heart to the Lord,
always giving thanks to God the Father for Everything,
in the name opf our Lord Jesus Christ.

BUT, later:
"Be filled with the SPIRIT BY SINGING."

Then, God is TEMPTED by promising that a very terrible NOT the Word will cause The Holy Spirit to come INTO them.

But, for a later post.


Plutarch Life of Antony
At any rate, when Antony made his entry into EPHESUS,
        women arrayed like Bacchanals,
        and men  p189 and boys like Satyrs and Pans, led the way before him,
        and the city was full of ivy and thyrsus-wands [Shaken Reeds: John was not SOFT or a Catamite[
        and harps and pipes and flutes,
the people hailing him as Dionysus Giver of Joy and Beneficent.  [in 58bc]
        For he was such, undoubtedly, to some; but to the greater part
        he was Dionysus Carnivorous and Savage.

Thyrus.Maenad.Beast.gif
For he took their property from well-born men
        and bestowed it on flatterers and scoundrels [All religious functions are PARASITIC]
From many, too, who were actually alive,
        men got their property by asking him for it on the plea that the owners were dead.

The house of a man of Magnesia he gave to a cook,
        who, as we are told, had won reputation by a single supper. 
But finally, when he was imposing a second contribution on the cities,  [None Christian]
        Hybreas, speaking in behalf of Asia, plucked up courage to say this:
        "If thou canst take a contribution TWICE in one year,  [Tithing by these REpurposed owners 1/10 of 2/7 to Clergy]
        thou hast power also to make summer for us twice, and harvest-time twice."
These words were rhetorical, it is true, and agreeable to Antony's taste;
        but the speaker added in plain and bold words that Asia had given him two hundred thousand talents;
                "If," said he, "thou hast not received this money,
                 demand it from those who took it;
                 but if thou didst receive it, and hast it not, we are undone." 
This speech made a powerful impression upon Antony; for he was ignorant of most that was going on,
         not so much because he was of an easy disposition,
         as because he was simple enough to trust those about him.

BEFORE ISRAEL'S FALL FROM REDEMPTION: Anathema is dedicating yourself or some thing to ENHANCE God's work, you cannot be redeemed and must be burned.  In Exodus 18 Moses defined the assemblies TAUGHT by a non-mercinary leader. Isolated clusters as small as 10 families could for a synagogue.  This CHURCH had a One-Piece Pattern and not MONEY.

Exodus.18.Synagogue.Church.of.Christ

Ex. 19:6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
        These are the WORDS which thou shalt SPEAK unto the children of Israel.

THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT DID NOT AUTHORIZE ANY CLERGY:

http://www.pineycom.com/The.Book.of.The.Covenant.html

THE PATTERN OF LEVITES (SINGERS) RESULT FROM A DOMINANT PERSON (APOSTLE) REPLACING ELDERS.

The Book of The Law of Moses was BECAUSE of Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted "worship services.  All of Scripture MARKS Believers by the SPEAK or READ Words.  Rhetoric, Singing, Playing instruments identified the Feminists or Effeminists people OF the World for which Jesus did not pray.

Hos 13:9 O Israel, thou hast DESTROYED thyself; but in me is thine help.
Hos 13:10 I will be thy king:
        where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities?
        and thy judges of whom thou saidst, Give me a king and princes?
Hos 13:11 I gave thee a king in mine ANGER, and took him away in my WRATH.

1Sam. 8:7 And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.

1Sam. 8:12 And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.
1Sam. 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
1Sam. 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
1Sam. 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
1Sam. 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
1Sam. 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.
1Sam. 8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
1Sam. 8:19 Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;
KINGS, RULERS, BUILDINGS, SACRIFICES CAUSED BECAUSE OF PEOPLES' SINS

Neh. 9:34 NEITHER have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law,
        nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies,
        wherewith thou didst testify against them.
Neh. 9:35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom,
        and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them,
        and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them,
        neither turned they from their wicked works.
Neh. 9:36 Behold, we are servants this day,
        and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof,
        BEHOLD WE ARE SERVANTS IN IT
Neh. 9:37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the KINGS
        whom thou hast set over us BECAUSE OF OUR SINS
        also they have dominion over our bodies,
        and over our cattle, at their pleasure,
        and we are in great distress.

THERE CAN BE NO MERCHANTS ON THE REST DAY WHICH IS PAUO IN GREEK.

Jesus limits Holy Scripture to the PROPHETS and other prophecies CONCERNING ME. ALL of the Prophets repudiate the King, Kingdom, Priests, Levites, Animal Slaughter or weekly Tithes and offerings.

Neh. 9:38 And because of all this WE make a sure COVENANT,
         and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
Neh. 10:31 And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell,
        that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath,
        or on the holy day:
        and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

THE NEW COVENANT CONCERNING WORSHIP CENTERS

Neh. 10:32  Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God;

In terms of today's money, what would be the value of the biblical half shekel?

Maimonides writes (Laws of Shekalim 1:5) that the half shekel mentioned in the Torah – the annual contribution every Jew was required to give to the Temple coffers – is equal to 160 grains of barley, which, in modern measurements, would be approximately eight grams of silver.

It is impossible to know silver's value in biblical times. At today's rate of approximately 17 US dollars per ounce, 8 grams of silver is around five dollars. 

There is a custom to give a half shekel to charity on the Fast of Esther (click here for more info on this tradition). This is symbolic, a commemoration of the biblical mitzvah, and therefore it is only necessary to give one half (or some give three halves) of the local currency—e.g. a half a dollar.

Neh. 10:33 For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

The Levites were still Civil Servants with no free food-producing lands. This Tithe was RENT.

Neh. 10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites,
        when the Levites take tithes:
        and the Levites shall bring up
        the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God,
        to the chambers, into the treasure house.
Other offerings for the Priests and Levites who each served about 2 weeks and could NOT leave the temple and must be fed.

JESUS DECLARED THAT CHILDREN OF KINGS DO NOT PAY TEMPLE TAXES.
Matt. 17:24  And when they were come to Capernaum,
        they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said,
        Doth not your master pay tribute?
1323.  idrachmon, did´-rakh-mon; from 1364 and 1406; a double drachma (didrachm): — tribute.
1406. dracmh/ drachme, drakh-may´; from 1405; a drachma or (silver) coin (as handled): — piece (of silver).

that the daily half-drachma of a juror is just enough for the daily subsistence of a family of three.
Matt. 17:25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house,
        Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou,
        Simon? of whom do the kings of the EARTH take custom or tribute?
        of their own children, or of strangers?
Matt. 17:26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him,
        Then are the CHILDREN FREE
Matt. 17:27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them,
        go thou to the sea, and cast an hook,
        and take up the fish that first cometh up;
        and when thou hast opened his mouth,
        thou shalt find a piece of money [
USD5.35]: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
HOLY SCRIPTURE OUTLAWS SINGING WITH OR WITHOUT INSTRUMENTS WHO ARE DEFACTO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
 

EPHESIANS 5:17-20KJV
COLOSSIANS 3:16-17

Wherefore be ye not unwise,
     BUT understanding what the WILL of the Lord is. Eph 5:17



AND
be not drunk with wine,

      ĭn-ēbrĭo Saturate, full of TALK


kat-auleō , A. charm by flute-playing, methuōn kai katauloumenos drinking wine to the strains of the flute katauloumenon subdued by a flute accompaniment, metaph., to be piped down, ridiculed, gelōmenoi kai -oumenoimētrōa melēMetroos the worship of Cybele, b. Mētrōa, Mother goddess: music played in her honour, Mele Melos 3. melody of an instrument, “phormigx d' [mark of Apollo]  au phtheggoith' hieron m. ēde kai aulos


WHEREIN is excess;  (Greek: vanity)

The results of being drunk on wine


luxŭrĭa Of style: “in qua (oratione), ut
Ov. Fast. 1  dederis in carmina  [singing-playing]
   luxŭrĭo , wanton, revel, sport, skip, bound, frisk: Deliciis that which allures, flatters the senses], delight, pleasure, charm, allurement; deliciousness, luxuriousness, voluptuousness, curiosities of art;  , to make spor .

Ephesians 4:24 And that ye put on [endusasthai  the new man,
       which after God is created in righteousness
       and true holiness. [
endusasthai]
Gal. 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ
          have PUT ON [
enedusasthe] Christ.
           
            John 6:63 the WORDS that I [CHRIST] speak unto you,
            they
are
SPIRIT, and they are LIFE.

Eph 5:18.  BUT, be FILLED with the SPIRIT;
                                      Means----------

Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, SEEK those things which are ABOVE, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Colossians 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the EARTH; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry

Phĭlŏsŏphĭadoctores săpĭentĭa sermons, interpret, sects Cic.Off.2.2.5 Wisdom, = sophia


Sophia , A. cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, poetry, divination

interprĕtor , ātus (in tmesi interpres, to explain, expound, interpret, give expression to, translate; to understand, conclude, infer. A. To decide, determine
12, 29: “haec ex Graeco carmine interpretata recitavit,Liv. 23, 11, 4; 45, 29, 3.
Carmen, I. In gen., a tune, song, air, lay, strain, note, sound, both vocal and instrumentalbarbaricum,id. M. 11, 163.—With allusion to playing on the cithara

Rom 8[13] For if you live after the FLESH, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.


pathos emotion, to create passion, drama MY experiences Sophia cleverness or skill in handicraft and art, in music and singing, tekhnē kai s, poetry, in divination pleonexia assumption, one's own advantage. Financial gain

Colossians 3:10 And have put on  [endusamenoi]
    the NEW MAN
nova creatura
    which is RENEWED in KNOWLEDGE
    after the image of him that created him:



Be Filled with the Word, Logos, Regulative Principle

Colossians 3:16 Let the WORD of CHRIST dwell in you richly in all wisdom;

SPEAKING to yourselves.                    EXTERNAL AS THE WAY TO
      in psalms and hymns                                   
      and spiritual songs, [All Scripture]
TEACHING and admonishing one another
      in psalms and hymns
      and spiritual songs, [All Scripture]
singing and making melody
      IN
your heart                                   INTERNAL
               TO the Lord;                             Not to an Audience
singing with grace
     
IN your hearts   INTERNAL TO MAKE TEACHING POSSIBLE
           
TO the Lord.
always giving thanks
     to God the Father for everything,
     in the NAME of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And whatsoever ye do in WORD or deed, do all
    In the
NAME of the Lord Jesus,
    giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

In Machiavelli's famous "The Prince", he wrote: "It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
        than to take the lead in the
introduction of a new order [DAY]of things.
        Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

This coolness arises partly from the fear of the opponents, who have the LAWS on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them." He was right!

It was necessary that Cyrus should find the Persians discontented with the government of the Medes, and the Medes soft and effeminate through their long peace. Theseus could not have shown his ability had he not found the Athenians dispersed. These opportunities, therefore, made those men fortunate, and their high ability enabled them to recognize the opportunity whereby their country was ennobled and made famous

"Those who by valorous ways become, like these men, acquire a principality with difficulty, but they it with ease (Those who recognize the opportunity KAIROS)

"The difficulties they have in acquiring it arise in part from the NEW rules and methods which they are forced to introduce to establish their government and its security.

Heredotus notes of the advice to Cyrus about a Second Incarnation for the UTTERLY DEFEATED:

"Grant, then, forgiveness to the Lydians, and to make sure of their never rebelling against thee, or alarming thee more,
        send and
forbid them to keep any weapons of war,
        command them
to wear tunics under their cloaks, and to put buskins upon their legs,
and make them
bring up their sons to cithern-playing (Kitharizein), singing (psallein), and shop-keeping (Hucksterism).
So wilt thou soon see them
become women instead of men,
and there will be no more fear of their revolting from thee."

Rubel Shelly: If your company is experiencing an extended decline,
        somebody is going to have to think
outside the box
        and challenge the
institutional group-think that says, "
                But we've always done it this way." 
                Aand the same thing is true about your family, church, or personal well-being.

If things haven't been going well for some time now,

somebody must undertake the difficult -- but critical and life-saving task -- of putting some new ideas on the table.
Opening windows to
fresh breezes. Getting creative.

The irony is that many entities sincerely

believe they are preserving their integrity by resisting change,
but they are actually committing suicide.


The Madison Church of Christ Vision 2000 and the Timeline and CREED

See Signs of Cults

National Shepherding Movement - Discipleship Movement - Promise Keepers Warning:

Feminists Theology of Abilene Christian University in

Other Signs of Cults

NACC.Transitioning.Jeff.Walling.to.Instrumental.html
Jeff Walling was called in to assist North Boulevard. He smirks when asked hot to RePurpose a Church of Christ.

Jeff Walling The Christian Church Today FED by Pepperdine.
Jeremiah 6 and the Old Paths MARKING those who get you to INVEST and then claim to Cast A Vision telling you that "we always had a secret agenda."

Christian.Standard.Interview.With.Rich.Atchley

The.Christian.Standard.and.Instrumental.Music.in.Worship

A hundred years ago the Women working for The Christian Standard vowed to "Take Tennessee for the organ and society party within five years."  They never get up.  Shame on anyone who conspires against their own group.

Sectarian.Instrumental.Music.Worship.Timeline

The Well-documented plan to Infiltrate and Divert your congregation is to spread hatred against your godly ancestors.

The elders and "leader" makes the following accusations intending, as they boast, to infiltrate and divert your congregation to their own wicked purposes.

Rubel Shelly The Machiavelli FAX of Life Resisting Chang WHY BOILING YOU FROGS TAKE SO LONG
Lynn Anderson Neo-Pagan views in the church: Change Agents Methods, Mind Control, Zoe Group and Witchcraft
Rubel Shelly Re-Visioning the Church with new "peep stones.""
Mormons use John Mark Hicks to support God as "three separate centers of consciousness"

Niccolo Machiavelli
Statesman and Political Philosopher
 
1469 - 1527
 
No enterprise is more likely to succeed
than one concealed from the enemy
until it is ripe for execution.
INTIMIDATE If your congregation is this evil YOU will not dare "question God's anointed/"

David Young assaults those who feed him by claiming that "we" are all of the OTHER churches of Christ are:

  1. Legalistic 2 times:
  2. Just our Tradition or Traditional 20 Times.
            [This is a lie: vocal and instrumental rejoicing was outlawed for the Church of Christ in the Wilderness.
  3. Style or Styles  of WORSHIP 16 Times
    Jesus said that the kingdom does not come with religious observations: the School of Christ is the antithesis of the always-pagan worship rituals.  Jesus named self-speakers, singers and instrument players hypocrites.
  4. Method or Methods 9 Times [Elders as THE pastor-teachers are commanded to TEACH that which HAS BEEN TAUGHT.
  5. Customs 2 [Not using instruments is a Direct Command known by all bible students]
  6. A NEW Language 7 Times [They claim that the Bible is to be interpreted by a NEW REVELATIONS: the 20/20 vision CASTING is a witchcraft or sorcery word]
  7. Just our Heritage 2 [That's a lie]
  8. Freedom 22 Times--is something WE OFFER YOU. [Christ freed us from laded burden and burden laders: performance musicians a a TAX not in time of war.
  9. Just our Opinions 11 Times [That's a lie]
  10. Pharisee 2 [Jesus called preachers for hire, singers and instrument players PHARISEES]
  11. Continuity with the Past 2 [He means WE will OFFER both vocal and instrumental]
  12. Judgment 8 [Judgment is the Purpose Driven Cults Infiltrate and Divert your newly financed property]
  13. Not using INSTRUMENTS HINDERS the Work of God
  14. Because this is DISCORDING WE will move slowly. [Frogs might jump out of the Collection plate vat]

CONFISCATES: The The.Ekklesia.A.Church.of.Christ  And Contradicts the words of Christ.

LEGISLATE BY IMPOSING A POST-BIBLICAL "PATTERN" WITH MORE "PIECES" AND MONEY


THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH CREED: They reject the Word, Logos, Regulative principle outlaws any personal opinions, personal experiences, rhetoric, singing, playing instruments, acting or Tithes and Offerings.

Church Creed: Scriptures

We believe in the God of the Scriptures, a just and loving God who LIVES in the PERSONS of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God created all things and He loves His creation. God wants everyone to be in a relationship with Him.

Jesus through Paul wants BOTH Male and female to be SILENT so that WE might ALL come to a knowledge of THE TRUTH. This is the Word, Logos or Regulative Principle which FORBIDS anything beyond READING or SPEAK "that which is WRITTEN for our LEARNING. You cannot be a Christian, Disciple or STUDENT of the World unless Jesus accepts you as HIS student when you REQUEST that He give you A holy spirit or A good conscience, consciousness or a CO-perception of THE TRUTH.

That was to MARK anyone you makes any claim made by human opinion, PRIVATE PRIVATE INTERPRETATION which is FURTHER EXPOUNDING.  If David Young had been able to READ the Word he might have been allowed to know that:

1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;


IGNORANCE because the Scripture is filled with the MAN Jesus listening to or praying to THE ONE GOD THE FATHER.
BLASPHEMY because Jesus told the Jewish Clergy that He claimed to be the SON of God with no power of His own.
ANTICHRIST because inspiration says that Jesus the Christ CAME IN THE flesh and not GOD.

Leonard Allen and the LU Theology says that GOD came in the FLESH.


2Cor. 4:4 In whom the god of this world [messianic age]
        hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,  [Apistos]
        lest the LIGHT of the glorious gospel of CHRIST,
        who is the IMAGE of God, should shine unto them
B or Believe Not contradicts Jesus "He that Believes AND is baptized SHALL BE saved."
The FORM of God is not God but His IMAGE.

Umāgo , a representation, likeness (usu. of a person), statue, bust, picture
A.  In gen., an image or likeness of a thing formed in the mind, a conception, thought, imagination, idea:
eikōn , metaph., living image, representation, “ei. zōsa tou Dios

Phil. 2:6 Who, being in the FORM of God, thought it not robbery to be equal [(through the idea of seeming); similar (in amount and kind)] with God:  6 hos en morphē theou huparkhōn oukh harpagmon hēgēsato to einai isa theō,

Paul did not say that Jesus WAS GOD from all eternity past: Godhead means "divine nature" and not being filled with the infinite Almighty.

Forma  contour, figure, shape, appearance (In poet. circumlocution with gen.: astra tenent caeleste solum formaeque deorum, the forms of gods, for gods, Ov. M. 1, 73: “formae ferarum,id. ib. 2, 78: “ursi ac formae magnorum luporum,Verg. A. 7, 18: “formae ingentis leo,
2. An outline, plan, design (of an architect, etc.): “cum formam videro, quale aedificium futurum sit, scire possum,Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1:
3. A model after which any thing is made, a pattern, stamp, last (of a shoemaker),
4. A mould which gives form to something:
Jesus was neither LORD nor CHRIST until after He became the First Begotten from the Dead.

Rom. 14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived,
        THAT he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
BLASPHEMERS: We believe that Jesus Christ is God who became human to save us from our sins.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves,
        and to all the flock, over the which 
        the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers,
        to feed the church of God,
        which he hath purchased with his own blood.

OR The blood of His OWN.

Eph. 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off
        are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Eph. 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace
        according to the measure of the GIFT OF CHRIST

JESUS SAID THAT THOSE WHO SPEAK ON THEIR OWN ARE THE SONS OF THE DEVIL.

Heb. 9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats,
and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
 
       sanctifieth [Made Holy] to the purifying of the flesh
1Pet. 3:21 The like figure whereunto
         even baptism doth also now save us

not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,
Heb. 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
       
purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Baptism Saves:

but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)
906. perotema, inquiry 905 eperotao Ask, see, demand, desire
by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:


Heb. 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns
        of things in the heavens should be purified with these;
        but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Heb. 9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands,        
         which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself,
        now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Heb. 9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often,
        as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Heb. 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many;
        and unto them that look for him shall
        he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
ALL HUMAN MEDIATORS IN SERMON AND SONG ARE SILENCED SO THAT WE CAN LEARN THE WORD:

1Tim. 2:5 For there is one God,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;


Leonard Allen and the LU Theology says that GOD came in the FLESH.
1John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is THE CHRIST?
        He is ANTICHRIST, that denieth the FATHER and the SON.
2John 7 For many deceivers are entered into the world,
        who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the FLESH.
        This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
The ancient and modern Pharisees claimed that Jesus made Himself God.
Jesus said you BLASPHEME because I always claimed to be the SON of God.
In the original rejection of pagan trinities, Theophilus and Tertullian said that the WORD of God is His SON.

1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus
Demanding SPEAKING the WORD in UNISON.
Rom. 15:6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth
        glorify GOD [Theos]
        even the Father
        of our Lord [Kurios] Jesus Christ

1Cor. 8:5 For though there be that are called gods,
        whether in heaven or in earth,
        as there be gods many, and lords many,)

1Cor. 8:6
 But to US there is but ONE GOD, the Father, [Jesus was a MAN and not THE GOD]
         OF whom are all things, and we in him;
and ONE LORD Jesus Christ,
          BY whom are all things, and we by him.
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:
        whatsoever I SPEAK therefore,
        even as the FATHER said unto me, so I
SPEAK.
Acts 3:22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers,
        A PROPHET shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren,
        like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel,
        A PROPHET shall the Lord your God raise up unto you
        OF YOUR BRETHREN, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 
BLASPHEMERS:   We believe that Jesus Christ is God who became human to save us from our sins.  
John 10:24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him,
        How long dost thou make us to doubt?
        If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. [God-Anointed: not a god word]
John 10:25 Jesus answered them,
        I told you, and ye believed not:
        the WORKS that I do in my Father’s name,
        they bear witness of me.
John 10:26 But ye believe not,
        because ye are NOT of my sheep, as I said unto you.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were BAPTIZED:
        and the same day there were added unto them [Church of Christ] about three thousand souls

John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
        neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
Col. 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you,
        And to desire that ye might be FILLED with the knowledge of his will
        In all wisdom and SPIRITUAL UNDERSTAND;

Col. 1:12 Giving thanks unto the FATHER,
        which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Col. 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness,
         and hath TRANSLATED us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Heb. 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,  [Church of Christ]
        which are written in heaven,
        and to God the Judge of all,
        and to the SPIRITS of just men made PERFECT,
John 10:29 MY FATHER [the only God] which GAVE them me,
        is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them
        out of my Father’s hand.

John 10:30 I and my Father are one.

UNUM 1. Adverbial expressions.
a. Ad unum, all together, unanimously, to a man, without exception:
b. In unum, into one, to one place, together:
2. Of that which is common to several persons or things, one and the same.
with one voice, all together, unanimously:
 
unius modi,id. Univ. 7.—Esp., uno ore, with one voice, all together, unanimousl

John 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
John 10:32 Jesus answered them,
        Many good works have I shewed you FROM MY FATHER
        for which of those works do ye stone me?
John 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not;
        but for BLASPHEMY and because that thou,
        BEING A MAN, makest thyself God.

Elohim is a generic GOD.  A ruler or authority is an ELOHIM.  However, Jehovah [YHWH] is the only Almighty God [Elohim]

John 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?
John 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
The rulers were ignorant because they didn't hear the Scriptures READ in the Synagogue.  Therefore, they didn't and still cant grasp the insult.
Psa. 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; [Elohim not YHWHand all of you are children of the most High.
Psa. 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

John 10:36 Say ye of him,
        whom the Father hath SANCTIFIED, [accepted as a Son AFTER He was baptized]
        and sent into the world,
        Thou BLASPHEMEST; because I said, I am the THE SON OF GOD?

God did not become a man.   Jesus said that God is SPIRIT which does not have Flesh and Blood as you see ME HAVE.

Num. 23:19 God is NOT A MAN, that he should lie;
        neither the SON OF MAN that he should repent:
hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

John 10:37 If I do not the WORKS of my FATHER, believe me not.
John 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me,
        BELIEVE the works: that ye may know, and believe,
        that the Father is IN me, and I in him.

g1722. e en, en; a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between 1519 and 1537) [not inside of]

Church Creed:
The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is God who PERSONALLY dwells in believers
         for the sake of transforming us into Jesus’ likeness.

Scripture is always the Spirit OF God.  Of is a preposition.  Spirit is almost always consistent with the definition.  The spirit of ANGER is not another person.

When you despise the WORD God sends you strong delusions and you just cannot read BLACK text on BROWN PAPER.


Luke 11:52 Woe unto you, lawyers!
        for ye have taken away the key of knowledge:
                ye entered not in yourselves,
                and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees (writers and preachers of their own sermons), pharisees: In Isaiah 29 and Ezekiel 33 they are performance preachers for hire, singers and instrument players. THESE are always the mark of those who will NOT teach that which is written.

They boast that they have a right to CONFISCATE your property "cause we gonna save more souls.  They always say that they are guided by a Spirit. Apollyon is the SPIRITUS of the singers and instrument players: LOCUSTS or Muses.

Angels are SPIRITS but no PERSON or God has been named SPIRIT which could mean windy or flatulence.
   
KAIROS
is the demon or spirit son of Zeus.  Jesus defined SPIRIT as a STATE in contrast to Flesh and Bones.
SPIRITUS in Latin is used of Apollon who is the leader of the Locusts or Muses.  His musical worship team were filthy prostitutes and knew how to tell the truth or tell a lie in order to TURN A TRICK

John 14:15 IF ye love me, keep MY commandments.
John 14:16 And I will pray the Father,
        and HE shall give you another Comforter,  [PARACLETE]
                [Jesus in a different STATE as Holy Spirit]

        that he may abide with you for ever;

John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Jesus received the PROMISE of the Holy Spirit which means the OFFICE or WORK IN the STATE of holy or wholly Spirit.  It was Jesus in this state Who guided Paul and not "another" god.  As. promised, Jesus returned to the Upper Room and Poured Out what you see and hear. SPIRIT produces WORDS but not to modern preachers.
1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
        And if any man sin, we have an advocate 
[PARACLETE] with the Father,
        Jesus Christ the righteous:

Timothy silences both male and female as mediators in song or sermon:
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
        and one mediator [reconciler, intercessor]]
        between God and men,
        THE MAN Christ Jesus;

1John 2:2 And JESUS is the propitiation for our sins:
        and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know
         him, IF we keep his commandments.
1John 2:4 He that saith, I know him,
        and keepeth not his commandments,
        is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his WORD, [Logos,
         in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1John 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
NOT A SPIRIT GOD PERSON.  Spirit means "mental disposition."  OF is a preposition so Jesus in the flesh Was the visible-audible Spirit, Word, Light

John 14:17 Even the SPIRIT OF truth;
        whom the WORLD cannot receive,
                because it SEETH him not,
                neither KNOWETH him:
        but ye know him;
                for he DWELLETH with you,    [When Jesus spoke His WORDS were SPIRIT]
                AND SHALL BE IN YOU .

God put His WORDS into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and LASTLY into the Mouth of Jesus. SPIRIT is always figurative or a parable word to explain.  Jesus said that HE was the SPIRIT OF TRUTH.  God's WORD or SPIRIT is without MEASURE which is METRON or Musical Meter.
Num. 23:19 God is NOT A MAN , that he should lie; neither the SON OF MAN  that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the SON OF MAN [visible-aubible Word, Spirit, Light]
        ascend up where he was before?

John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I SPEAK unto you,
        they are
SPIRIT, and they are LIFE. 
We believe that the Spirit  
       
empowers us to be like Christ,
        supplies US with spiritual gifts,
        and LEADS us in the WILL OF GOD

Phil. 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in TRUTH,
        Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
Phil. 1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer,
        and the supply of the SPIRIT OF Jesus Christ,

1Cor. 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard,
         neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
1Cor. 2:10 But God hath REVEALED them unto us by HIS SPIRIT:
         for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
1Cor. 2:11
For what man KNOWETH the things of a man,
        save the spirit of man which is in him?
even so the things of God knoweth no man,
        but the Spirit of God.
1Cor. 2:12 Now we have received,
        not the spirit of the world,
        but the SPIRIT which is of God;
         that we might KNOW
         the things that are freely given to us of God. [A Good conscience or A holy spirit AFTER bap;tism]
1Cor. 2:13 Which things also we speak,
        not in the words which man’s WISDOM teacheth,
        but which the Holy SPIRIT teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

p. 74 Logos is incommunicable to itself--as its referential instability precludes stable meaning. Plato accounts for this instability by suggesting
        this is the result of willfully deceitful and manipulative rhetors
        who use language to lead audiences away from the truth.
        Plato theorizes that sophists uses of language
        have the purpose of flattering and deceiving hearers
        and obfuscating the truth,

Sophis-tēs , master of one's craft, adept, expert, of diviners, musicians, “sophistēs . . parapaiōn khelun” with modal words added, “hoi s. tōn hierōn melōn
Melody in a Holy Place Sophist, i.e. one who gave lessons in grammar, rhetoric, politics, mathematics, for money Apollōnidē sophistē 

KAIROS is the demon or spirit of ZEUS.  Kairos is "the right time to mount an attack." All prophecy pointed to around the year 2,000.

As the usual ANTITHESIS God Who IS holy or wholly Spirit as a STATE uses words which CANNOT speak of a person or a god.
SPIRIT is figurative or a PARABLE intended to HIDE from the Wise, Sophists as Speakers, Singers, Instrument players or Actors.

In ALL of the Scripture the only God the Father puts His WORDS directly into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets who defined the Church of Christ and LAST OF ALL into the mouth of the MAN Jesus of nazareth.
SPIRIT in Hebrew. Holy just means WHOLLY with no flesh, bones, or blood.
SPIRIT in Greek.  Spirit can never define a PERSON but only the Mental Disposition or MIND OF That person
H7306 rûach roo'-akh  A primitive root;
        properly to blow, that is, BREATHE;
        only (literally) to smell or
        (by implication perceive
        (figuratively to anticipate, enjoy):—
        accept, smell, X touch,
        make OF quick understanding.

nephesh From H5314 ; properly a BREATHING creature, that is, animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental): MIND
G5594 psuchō psoo'-kho A primary verb; to BREATHE (voluntarily but gently; thus differing on the one hand from G4154 , which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of G109 , which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), that is, (by implication of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively):—wax cold.

G5590 psuchē psoo-khay' From G5594 ; BREATH, that is, (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from G4151, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from G2222 , which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew [ H5315 ], [ H7307 ] and [ H2416 ]:—heart life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
H7307 rûach roo'-akh From H7306 ;
wind;
by resemblance BREATH,
that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation;
figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality;
by extension a region of the sky;
by resemblance spirit,
        but only OF a rational being
                (including its expression and functions
):—
air, anger, blast, BREATHE, X cool, courage, mind,
tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).
G4151 pneuma pnyoo'-mah From G4154 ;
        a current of air,
       that is, BREATH (blast) or a breeze;
        by analogy or figuratively a spirit,
                that is, (human) the rational soul,
       
(by implication) vital principle,
       mental disposition
,
        or (superhuman) an angel, daemon, or   
        (divine) God,  [God IS Spirit or Mind]
        Christ’s spirit, the Holy spirit:—ghost, life,
            spirit (-ual, -ually), mind. Compare G5590

G4154 pneō pneh'-o  A primary word; to BREATHE hard,
        that is, breeze:—blow. Compare G5594
The Spirit OF Christ BREATHED or INSpirited the Prophets

The Prophets radically repudiated the Civil-Military-Clergy complex as robbers and Parasites (PARASITE defines religious instrument noise makers such as Miriam and the Levites. And those who do NOT speak that which HAS been taught.

Christ in the prophets warned about the mercinary prophets who stole words from workshops and told lies.
God made Jesus TO BE both Lord and Christ so that He said My WORDS are SPIRIT. He made the prophecies more certain and the inspired writers left us a memory or THEIR PART.

Peter said this eye-- and ear-- witnessed record is NOT subject to private interpretation or further expounding.

Peter said that the MARK of a false teacher is one who does not speak that which is written for our LEARNING.


We believe that the Spirit  
        EMPOWERS
us to be like Christ,
        supplies US with spiritual gifts,
        and LEADS us in the WILL OF GOD


YOU DON'T NEED TO READ CALVIN TO BE A CALVINIST.

The Word IS Spirit so that SPIRIT comes along with the WORD.

1. The temper and error of the Libertines, who take to themselves the name of spiritual, briefly described. Their refutation.

(a). The Apostles and all true Christians have embraced the written Word. This confirmed by a passage in Isaiah; also by the example and words of Paul.
(b). The Spirit OF Christ seals the doctrine of the written Word on the minds of the godly.

(2) Refutation continued.

a) The impositions of Satan cannot be detected without the aid of the written Word. First Objection. The Answer to it.

3. Second Objection from the words of Paul as to the letter and spirit. The Answer, with an explanation of Paul's meaning. How the Spirit and the written Word are indissolubly connected.

1.The fanatics wrongly appeal to the Holy Spirit

Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness. For certain giddy men have lately appeared, who, while they make a great display of the superiority of the Spirit,

reject all reading of the Scriptures themselves, and deride the simplicity of those who only delight in what they call the dead and deadly letter. But I wish they would tell me what spirit it is whose inspiration raises them to such a sublime height that they dare despise the doctrine of Scripture as mean and childish.

If they answer that it is the Spirit of Christ, their confidence is exceedingly ridiculous;

since they will, I presume, admit that the apostles and other believers in the primitive Church were not illuminated by any other Spirit. None of these thereby learned to despise the word of God, but every one was imbued with greater reverence for it, as their writings most clearly testify.

And, indeed, it had been so foretold by the mouth of Isaiah. For when he says,

"My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever,"

he does not tie down the ancient Church to external doctrine, as he were a mere teacher of elements; he rather shows that,

under the reign of Christ, the true and full felicity of the new Church will consist in their being ruled not less by the Word than by the Spirit of God.

Hence we infer that these miscreants are guilty of fearful sacrilege in tearing asunder what the prophet joins in indissoluble union.

Add to this, that Paul, though carried up even to the third heaven, ceased not to profit by the doctrine of the law and the prophets, while, in like manner, he exhorts Timothy, a teacher of singular excellence, to give attention to reading, (1 Tim. 4: 13.)

This is Paul's unique word for worship in Spirit and in Truth: give attention or give heed. This is the same word in Hebrew used by David when he "worshiped" and sang songs upon his bed and meditated in his heart.

And the eulogium which he pronounces on Scripture well deserves to be remembered, viz., that

"it is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect," (2 Tim. 3: 16.)

What an infatuation of the devil, therefore, to fancy that Scripture, which conducts the sons of God to the final goal, is of transient and temporary use?

Again, I should like those people to tell me whether they have imbibed any other Spirit than that which Christ promised to his disciples. Though their madness is extreme, it will scarcely carry them the length of making this their boast.

But what kind of Spirit did our Saviour promise to send? One who should not speak of himself, (John 16: 13,)

but suggest and instil the truths which he himself had delivered through the word.
Hence the office of the Spirit promised to us, is not to form new and unheard-of revelations, or to coin a new form of doctrine, by which we may be led away from the received doctrine of the gospel, but to seal on our minds the very doctrine which the gospel recommends.
Jesus said that the SPIRIT had been WITH the Apostles and would be IN them.  That is because SPIRIT produces WORDS but not o modern pretend Apostles.
John 6:62 What and if ye shall see the SON OF MAN up where he was before?
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that QUICKENETH
        the FLESH profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I SPEAK unto you, they are
SPIRIT, and they are life.
Rom. 10:13 For whosoever shall CALL upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou?
        arise, and
        be baptized, and wash away thy sins,
        calling on the name of the Lord.

Rom. 10:14 How then shall they CALL on him
        in whom they have not BELIEVETH?
        and how shall they BELIEVE in him of whom they have not HEARD?
        and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Rom. 10:15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent?
        as it is written, How beautiful are the FEET
        of them that preach the gospel of peace,
        and BRING glad tidings of good things!
Rom. 10:16 But they have not all OBEYED the gospel.
         For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath BELIEVED our report?
Rom. 10:17 So then faith COMES BY HEARING,
        and hearing by the WORD of God
John 6:63 It is the SPIRIT that quickeneth;
        the flesh profiteth nothing:
        the WORDS that I SPEAK unto you,
        they are
SPIRIT, and they are LIFE
Rom. 16:25 Now to him that is of power to stablish
        you 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,
g165 aion Messianic Age
Rom. 16:26 But now is made MANIFEST,
        and by the SCRIPTURES of the PROPHETS,
        according to the commandment of the everlasting God,
        made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
Rom. 16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.



We believe we are to be FILLED with the SPIRIT.


All words such as baptize, poured, fell, filled produces WORDS.
rē^-plĕo  “populos sermone,Verg. A. 4, 189: “Pontum rumore,Ov. P. 4, 4, 19: auris   adhibere,to be attentive, to listen to,
eruditione varia repletus est,” INSTRUCTION  : replere aliquem spiritu intellegentiae,
       eloqui UTERANCE ēlŏquĭum  declaration, communication

"Since being filled with the Spirit and letting the Word of Christ dwell within both produce the same results, a spirit-filled Christian is one in whom the Word of Christ dwells. A Spirit-filled Christian is a Christ-conscious Christian. A Spirit-filled Christian is consumed with learning everything he or she can about Jesus and obeying everything that Jesus said. That is what it means to 'let the word of Christ richly dwell within you.' To be filled with the Spirit is to be totally and richly involved in all there is to know about Jesus Christ." (MacArthur, John, Charismatic Chaos, p. 259, Zondervan).

"When we think of filling, we usually picture a container into which something is poured or shoveled until it is full. That is not what Paul had in mind here. Paul was not speaking of being filled up; he had in mind the idea of being filled out through, or permeated by the Holy Spirit's influence.

"We often speak of being filled with anger or filled with joy. We mean that they are totally under the control of those things. That is what Paul had in mind, we are to be utterly controlled by the Holy Spirit." (MacArthur, John, Charismatic Chaos, p. 259, Zondervan).

"'Be filled' (plerosthe) is present imperative, not aorist, and means 'continue to be filled.' It challenges Christians to continue to persevere, in a present reality.'" (Is the Holy Spirit for Me, Harvey Floyd, p. 86)

"In all types of Gnosticism the highest goal of the spiritual life is the obtaining of divine substance for oneself. The Christian faith distinguishes itself from this seemingly devout but actually selfish piety by locating the focus of Christian life not in the accumulating of spirituality or spirit for oneself, but more mundanely, in giving oneself to the neighbor. In Gnosticism the goal of spiritual life is the emptying of oneself in order to be filled with divine substance--it is vertical; in the Christian faith the goal is the emptying of oneself for the human neighbor--it is horizontal. This difference of directions in energy determines the difference in types of evidence. Special 'spiritual experience' (gnosis 'puffs up,' but Christian love 'builds up' (1 Cor. 8:1b)." (Bruner, p. 275)


Eph. 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise,
       
BUT understanding what the WILL OF THE LORD IS
Eph. 5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess;
        BUT be FILLED with the SPIRIT;
Eph. 5:19 [
BUT] SPEAKING to yourselves
        in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
[BUT] singing and making melody IN your heart to the Lord;
Col. 3:16 Let the WORD OF CHRIST DWELL in you richly in all wisdom;
        TEACHING and admonishing ONE another i
        in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
       
[BUT] singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Col. 3:17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed,
        do all in the name of the Lord [Kurios] Jesus,
        giving thanks to God [Theos] and the Father by him.

God the Father is the OF everything but Jesus is the BY.
1Tim. 2:5 For there is ONE GOD,
        and one mediator between God and men,
        the MAN Christ Jesus;

ALL PUBLIC SPEAKING IS DEFINED BY DIRECT COMMANDS.

1Pet. 4:11 If any man SPEAK,
         let him speak as the ORACLE of God;
         if any man minister [Deacon], let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:
                 that God in all things may be glorified THROUGH Jesus Christ,
                 to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.


PAGAN 
oracles  oracle is a person or agency considered to provide wise and insightful counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination.

The most important oracles of Greek antiquity were Pythia (priestess to Apollo at Delphi), and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona in Epirus. Other oracles of Apollo were located at Didyma and Mallus on the coast of Anatolia, at Corinth and Bassae in the Peloponnese, and at the islands of Delos and Aegina in the Aegean Sea.

The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in frenzied states.

The term logia (Greek: λόγια), plural of logion (Greek: λόγιον), is used variously in ancient writings and modern scholarship in reference to communications of divine origin. In pagan contexts, the principal meaning was "oracles", while Jewish and Christian writings used logia in reference especially to "the divinely inspired Scriptures".

Additionally,
        we are always trusting and relying
        on the presence of the Holy Spirit
.

There is no THE Holy Spirit.  If Holy Spirit was a Third God person it would be an insult to use an article.  Holy Spirit is Divine Mine or Mental Disposition.  God puts His MIND into the MOUTH of A Moses, the Prophets and Lastly Jesus of Nazareth. SPIRIT is a PARABLE to fool the foolish and to help the Lost Sheep avoid spirits as Witches or Sorcerers such as the singer and instrument players in Revelation 18.




Is. 11:1 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse,
        and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Is. 11:2 And the spirit OF the LORD shall rest upon him,
        the spirit of [1] wisdom
        and
[1] understanding, the
        spirit of
[1] counsel
        and
[1] might,
        the spirit of k
[1] nowledge
        and of the
[1] fear of the LORD;
Is. 11:3 And shall make him of
[1] quick understanding in the fear of the LORD:
        and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
Is. 11:4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Matt. 12:18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen;
        my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased:
        I will put my spirit UPON him,
        and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

Matt. 12:21 And in his name shall the Gentiles TRUST

Eph. 1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
Phil. 2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,
        that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.
Phil. 2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
1Tim. 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach,
        because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Heb. 2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me.

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
        neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

God put His SPIRIT into WORDS which were left by men like Peter for OUR memory.  A written document claiming to be a revelation was always written. That was the only way for people like sorcerers who Cast Visions and think that their own imagination is a god.

Arnobius, Heresies IV May it not happen, may it not come to pass, although you craftily conceal it, that the one should take the other's place, deluding, mocking, deceiving, and presenting the appearance of the deity invoked?

If the magi, who ares much akin to soothsayers [Levites], relate that, in their incantations, pretended gods steal in frequently instead of those invoked;  that some of these, moreover, are spirits of grosser substance, who pretend that they are gods, and delude the ignorant by their lies and deceit,-  why should we not similarly believe that here, too, others substitute themselves for those who are not, that they may both strengthen your superstitious beliefs, and rejoice that victims are slain in sacrifice to them under names not their own?

33. Your gods, it is recorded, dine on celestial couches, and in golden chambers, drink,
        and are at last soothed by the music of the lyre, and singing .
        You fit them with ears not easily wearied;
        and do not think it unseemly to assign to the gods
        the pleasures by which earthly bodies are supported,
        and which are sought after by ears enervated by the frivolity of an unmanly spirit.

"Nay, rather, to speak out more truly, the augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain, have devised these fables;

for they, fearing that their own arts be brought to nought,
and that they may
extort but scanty contributions from the devotees, now few and infrequent,
whenever they have
found you to be willing
       
that their craft should come into disrepute,
        cry aloud, the Gods are neglected,
        and in the temples there is now a very thin attendance.

For ceremonies are exposed to derision,
        and the time-honoured rites of institutions once sacred
        have sunk before the superstitions of new religions.

And men--a senseless race--being unable, from their inborn blindness, to see even that which is placed in open light,

dare to assert in their frenzy what you in your sane mind do not blush to believes." (Arnobius, Against the Heathen, Ante-Nicene Fathers, VI, p. 418).


Church Creed: The Scriptures
We believe that the sixty-six books of the Bible are inspired of God, infallible, and perfect. We believe that God expects us to be obedient to the Scriptures, and that He will bless us when we obey Scriptures, even if popular culture might contradict Scripture.

JESUS DEFINED HOLY SCRIPTURE as the Prophets and other prophecies CONCERNING ME.  David was not inspired.

Acts 1:16 Men and brethren,
        this scripture must needs have been fulfilled,
        which the Holy SPIRIT by the MOUTH of David spake before concerning
        udas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
Rom. 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his PROPHETS in the holy SCRIPTURES,)
2Tim. 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
        which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

THE ASSEMBLY OF CHRIST IS DEFINED INCLUSIVELY AND EXCLUSIVELY IN THE PROPHETS.

2Pet. 1:3 According as his divine power hath given unto us
        all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
        through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
2Pet. 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
        that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature,
         having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
2Pet. 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent
        to put you always in remembrance of these things,
        though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
2Pet. 1:13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

2Pet. 1:15 Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able
        after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
2Pet. 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables,
        when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
        but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2Pet. 1:17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory,
        when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory,
        This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
2Pet. 1:18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard,
        when we were with him in the holy mount.
2Pet. 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy;
        whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
        until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
2Pet. 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
2Pet. 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man:
        but holy men of God SPAKE as they were MOVED by the Holy SPIRIT.
2Pet. 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people,
         even as there shall be false teachers among you,
        who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
        even denying the Lord that bought them,
        and bring upon themselves swift destruction.


Church Creed:
Sin, Salvation, and Faith

We believe that all humans have sinned and that our sins separate us from God and bring God’s judgment upon us.
        We believe that only God’s GRACE  can REDEEM us from being lost,
        and that salvation comes to us THROUGH FAITH in Jesus as both Savior and Lord.

1Pet. 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not
        REDEEMED with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
        from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
1Pet. 1:19 But [
REDEEMED]with the precious BLOOD of Christ,
        as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1Pet. 1:21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory;
        that your faith and hope might be in God.
1Pet. 1:22 Seeing ye have purified [g48 made HOLY]
        your souls in OEYING the
         TRUTH through the SPIRIT [Spirit or BREATHE is never a person: it produces WORDS.]
        unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1Pet. 1:23 Being BORN again,
        not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible,
        by the WORD of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
Word or Logos is God's Regulative Principle: it outlaws rhetoric, singing, playing instruments]

Titus 2:14 Who gave HIMSELF for us, that he
        might redeem us from all iniquity,
        and PURIFY [A holy spirit] unto himself a peculiar people,
        zealous of good works.
Periousi-os especial, peculiar, “laosLXX Ex.19.5,
laos the common men, Opposite their leaders, 2.365, 13.108;
akouete leō hear O people!—the usual way of beginning proclamations at Athens, like our Oyez!
4. in LXX, of the people, as Opposite priests and Levites, 1 Es.5.46; .,


Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their RULERS,  because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day,  they have fulfilled them in condemning him

Titus 2:14 Who gave HIMSELF for us,
        THAT he might REDEEM us from all iniquity,

        and PURIFY unto himself a PECULIAR people,
              zealous of good works.
Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked,
         that ye WERE the servants of sin,
         but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine 
         [baptism] which was delivered you.
Rom. 6:18 Being THEN made free from sin,
            ye BECAME the servants of righteousness.

Like the WORD of God, Grace has appeared:

Titus 2:11 For the [1] grace of God that bringeth salvation hath APPEARED to all men
John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Not all sinners are saved by Grace alone:

Titus 2:12
[2] Teaching us that, 
Acts 2:14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
[3] denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,

Grace, Like Word, just teaches HOW to be saved that
Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
[4] we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Acts 2:37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Titus 2:14
[5] Who GAVE himself for us,
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them Repent,
[6] that he might REDEEM us from all iniquity, [Lawlesness]
      Lutron REDEEM, Luo lavo , cleanse or wash, bathe,
      lave. louô, PURIFY, tina ek tôn hamartiôn  
Col. 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood,
and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
FOR the remission of sins,  
Redemption or Remission happens ONLY after BAPTISM
even the forgiveness of sins:
[7] and PURIFY unto himself a peculiar people,
                zealous of good works.
and ye SHALL receive the gift of A holy spirit
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness [benignitatem per se gratam]. GRACE as a LIVING BEING
        and love of God
        our Saviour toward man APPEARED,
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
        but according to his mercy he SAVED US,
             BY the WASHING OF regeneration,
             AND renewing of the Holy Ghost;

WASHING: g3067. loutron, loo-tron´; from 3068 [verb; to bathe the whole person]; a bath,), baptism: — washing.

OF REGENERATION:  g3824. paliggenesia, pal-ing-ghen-es-ee´-ah; from 3825 and 1078; (spiritual) rebirth (the state or the act), i.e. (figuratively) spiritual renovation; specially, Messianic restoration: — regeneration.

We are RENEWED to our ORIGINAL STATE before WE made OUR spirit to become UNHOLY
Titus 3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Mandaeands Sabians Iraq Christians

"Sabian" is a word derived from the Aramaic-Mandic verb "Saba" which means "baptised" or "dyed", "immersed in water". "dMandaeans" is derived from "menda" which means in the mandiac language "knowledge". Thus, "Mandaean Sabians" means those who are baptised and who know the religion of God.

Alexander Campbell Regeneration: Hence it came to pass, that all the ancients (as fully proved in our first Extra on Remission) used the word REGENERATION as synonymous in signification with IMMERSION. In addition to the numerous quotations made in our Essay on Remission, from the creeds and liturgies of Protestant churches,



Neither God nor the Spirit OF Christ needs to be RENEWED g3824. paliggenesi÷a paliggenesia, pal-ing-ghen-es-ee´-ah; from 3825 and 1078; (spiritual) rebirth (the state or the act), i.e. (figuratively) spiritual renovation; regeneration.


1Pet. 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that
        ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold,
        from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;


Church Creed:
We believe in salvation by GRACE through
FAITH.
        We believe that saving faith demonstrates itself in obedience to the will of God.


Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent,
        AND be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
        for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them,
        Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth AND is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

James 2:24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

Church Creed:
Baptism

We believe that water baptism by immersion serves as the point at which 
        we die to our lost selves, are buried, and are raised to a resurrected life in Christ.
        We believe that in baptism sins are washed away
        through faith and because of grace
.
We believe that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord NEEDS to be baptized into Christ Jesus.
Rom. 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as
        were baptized into Jesus Christ
        were baptized into his death?

You cannot refuse to be CONFORMED to Death of Jesus Christ and be a Christian!

Rom. 6:4 Therefore we are buried WITH him by baptism into death:
        that LIKE as Christ was RAISED up from the dead by the glory of the Father,
        even so we also should walk in newness of life.
g4916. sunthapto, soon-thap´-to; from 4862 and 2290; to inter in company with, i.e. (figuratively) to assimilate spiritually (to Christ by a sepulture as to sin): — bury with.

Raised g1453 egeiro waken, rise again

Col. 2:12 Buried with him in baptism,
        wherein also ye are risen with him through
         THE FAITH of the operation of God,
         who hath raised him from the dead.
Rom. 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death,
        we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Rom. 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him,
        THAT the BODY of sin might be destroyed,
        
THAT henceforth we should not serve sin.
Rom. 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
Rom. 6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ,
         we believe that we shall also live with him:
Rom. 6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
         death hath no more dominion over him
Rom. 6:10 For in that he died,
        he died unto sin once:
        but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God

Rom. 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you:
        or ye are not under the law,
        but under grace.
Rom. 6:15 What then? shall we sin,
        because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Rom. 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye YIELD yourselves servants to OBEY,
        his servants ye are to whom ye
OBEY;
                whether of sin unto death,
                or of obedience unto righteousness?
Rom. 6:17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin,
        but ye have
OBEYED from the heart
        that FORM of doctrine which was delivered you.
G5219 Hupakouo to heed or conform to a command or authority: — hearken, be obedient to, obey.

g5179. tupos, specially, a sampler (“type”), i.e. a MODEL (for IMITATION) or instance (for warning): — en-(ex-)ample, fashion, figure, form, manner, pattern, print
Rom. 6:18 Being THEN MADE FREE FROM SIN
        ye became the servants of righteousness
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Church Creed: The Second Coming

We believe that Jesus Christ will return to gather His people at the end of time,
        raising all of humanity from the dead.
We believe that those who have
        put their FAITH in Christ will be raised to eternal life
,
        but those who have refused to BELIEVE in Him
        will be raised to ETERNAL death.
        We believe in living prepared for Jesus’ second coming.


Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world,
        and preach the GOSPEL to every creature. [Not just the Calvinists]
Mark 16:16 He that BELIEVETH (Pistis includes to Comply)
        AND is baptized SHALL BE saved;
but he that believeth not [Apistos marks treachery of anyone calling Jesus a liar]
        shall be DAMNED.

Luke 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans
        Justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God
        against themselves, being not baptized of him.


John 3:17 For God sent not his Son INTO the world to condemn the world;
        but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:18 He that BELIEVETH on him is NOT condemned:
        but he that BELIEVETH NOT
[Apistos marks treachery of anyone calling Jesus a liar]      
        is condemned already,
        because he hath not believed
        in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

The Believeth Nots demand that Jesus was GOD IN THE FLESH.
They cannot confess that "Jesus is the Christ the SON of the Living God."
AntiChrists confess and publish that God was in the FLESH.


John 3:19 And this is the condemnation,
        that LIGHT is come into the world,  [Kosmos, Ecumenical, kingdom of the Devil]
        and men loved darkness rather than
LIGHT,
        because their deeds were evil.


John 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews:
        for the Jews had agreed already,
        That if any man did confess that he was Christ,
        he should be put out of the synagogue.

John 12:39 Therefore they could not believe,
        because that Esaias said again,
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart;
         that they should not
        see with their eyes,
        nor understand with their heart,
        and be converted,  [parallel to baptism]
        and I should heal them. [Re Generation of THEIR spirit]
John 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
John 12:42 Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him;
         but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him,
         lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
Luke 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Twisting Scripture is calling God a liar.
Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
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Is. 29:9  Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: ob-stupēscō  terror
       
ad-mīror  thaumazein; [Lying wonder] “acc. to Pythagoras  mŏdus
        Melody
spectacula
they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
        fluctŭo   rise in waves, undulate, are driven about by the waves, to be restless, unquiet
       
văcillo be untrustworthy, to vacillate, wavering in fidelity
       
mŏvĕo   et fila sonantia movit, struck, Ov. M. 10, 89:
            citharam cum voce,id. ib. 5, 112: “tympana,id. H. 4, 48; to disturb

cantus  the production of melodious sound, a musical utterance or expression, either with voice or instrument; hence, song, singing, playing, music B. An incantation, charm, magic song, etc.: cantusque artesque magorum.  magici

magici   artes,Verg. A. 4, 493: or belonging to magic, magic, magical (poet. and in post-Aug. prose):    superstitiones   di magici, that were invoked by incantations (as Pluto, Hecate, Proserpine), but lingua,skilled in incantations. magicae resonant ubi Memnone chordae,mysterious, id. 15, 5.

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Is. 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit  OF deep sleepkata-nuxis
        and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.


Paul denies that HE is  Mad or Insane: so he SPEAKS TRUTH

--mainomairage, be furious, in Il. freq. of martial rage, “mainesthai easomen oulon Arēa5.717, cf to be mad with wine, Od. 18.406, 21.298; of Bacchic frenzy, “mainomenos DiōnusosIl.6.132; [“Thuiades mainomenaiS.Ant. 1152 (lyr.); “Dionusō mainesthaiPaus.2.7.5; “epi D.Alex.223; hupo tou theou m.to be inspired by . . , driven mad by . . , Hdt.4.79, cf. mantis; to mainesthai madness, S.OC1537; plein ē mainomai I am beside myself with joy, Ar.Ra.103, 751 orgizomai, mainomenos hoti .
-org-izō , X.Eq.9.2 : or WRATH
A.ōrgisaAr. and Pl. (v. infr.): (orgē II):— make angry, provoke to anger, irritate, tina Ar.V.223,404, Pl.Phdr. 267c ; opp. eunoun poiēsai, Arist.Rh.1415a35.
-phēmi ,   command, order,  say, affirm, assert, write of an author, Verb  Legō
b. since what one says commonly expresses a belief or opinion, think, deem, suppose
2. joined with a synon. Verb, ephē legōn, ephēse legōn, 3. in repeating dialogues IV. command, order,




Rev. 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
        called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
        he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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Rev. 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,
        Now is come salvation, and strength,
        and the kingdom of our God,
        and the power of his Christ:
        for the accuser of our brethren is cast down,
        which accused them before our God day and night.
g2725. kategoros, kat-ay´-gor-os; from 2596 and 58; against one in the assembly, i.e. a complainant at law; specially, Satan: — accuser.

g58. agora, ag-or-ah´; from ajgei÷rw ageiro (to gather; probably akin to 1453); properly, the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication, a market or thoroughfare: — market(-place), street.

Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Rev. 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short KAIROS.


Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his WORD were BAPTIZED:
         and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Simple reading ability would never say: "But He did NOT say that those who did NOT receive His Word and were baptized WERE NOT ADDED by Christ to Hiis School of His Word.

If you ARM WRESTLE with Jesus about following His example and CONDITION then you cannot HEAR the WORD of God which is God's SPIRIT or BREATH articulated by Jesus. The Word or Logos WILL NOT PERMIT you to express personal experiences or personal opinions. The MARKS of those who HEAR are the words READ or SPEAK without trying to make Jesus into a liar.

2Th. 1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God,
        that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
2Th. 1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
2Th. 1:7 And to you who are troubled REST with us,
        when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
2Th. 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them
        That know not God,
        and that OBEY NOT the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
2Th. 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction
         from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
2Th. 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints,
        and to be admired in all them that believe
        (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth (complies) and is baptized shall be saved;
        but he that believeth not (does not comply) shall be damned.
1Pet. 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, (A Christian is a believer who has been baptized)
        let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pet. 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God:
        and if it first begin at us,
        what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The house of God is the Church of Christ: He adds the baptized to His church after they are saved by baptism.
Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them,
        Repent, and be baptized every one of you
        in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins,
        and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized:
        and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people.
        And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved
1Pet. 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
        where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pet. 4:19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God
        commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

 


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