Job;
I also visited your website and I enjoyed perusing your postings – some great stuff! God bless your effort!
I saw on your site - you wrote a poem:
“Oh! Sleeping Soldier of Christ” I truly wish you would share it with the rest of the folks here at CU – in the poetry and prose section. It is wonderfully written!!
I also read through much of the posting of the book excerpts “The Voice of My Beloved”. I really connect with what you have written.
You wrote:
In the midst of the apostates, false prophets, false teachers, etc. who throttle the churches of God from within, and in the midst of selfish shepherds who virtually thrive at the cost of their flocks, there are a small number of dedicated and selfless God’s people who are in fact the flock of the Lord. If you want to be in the presence of God, you have to trace this flock. This people are known for their sacrificial love toward one another and they love all saints and all churches without distinction. This people are but in one flock, following the footsteps of their divine Shepherd. Though they are members of certain local churches, they throw to wind the petty doctrinal differences, or denominational affiliations, which cause divisions in the Body of Christ. Neither are they bound by the false doctrines being propagated in their churches. They are able to discern distinctly the voice of the thief because they “are members of His Body, of His flesh, and of His bones” (Eph.5: 30).
Amen, Brother!
You wrote:
Do not jump to the conclusion that pastors of other churches than yours are false prophets or false teachers simply because they refuse to subscribe to certain Bible-doctrines. You may overemphasize such doctrines. Or you might have built your church upon these doctrines rather than upon Christ Himself, the Chief Corner Stone. Yet, you must accept them so long as they believe in the creation and the salvation plan of God, the virgin birth of Christ, the incarnation of God (manifestation of God in flesh), the recorded life, death, resurrection and ascension of Christ, the eternal life and the redemption through Christ Jesus, the ministry and the Person of the Holy Spirit, the invisible and universal Body of Christ, the Bodily return of Jesus in glory and power (second advent), the resurrection of the dead, the judgment, the hell, the eternal Kingdom of God.
Amen again!!!
You wrote:
Do not divide the holy Body of Christ by means of petty doctrinal differences.
Another Amen!
You also wrote:
Spiritually speaking, the world in which we live is the valleys. It is the valley of sin and death, the valley of tears and sorrows, the valley of trials and temptations, the valley of persecutions, the valley of despair. So long as you live in this world, you are in the valleys rather than on hilltop. Though at times God allows you to enjoy His presence by mountain-top experiences like visions and revelations as enjoyed by the disciples of Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, you have to inevitably pass through the valleys most of the time as you sojourn on this earth.
Excellently put!
Thank you for sharing...
I will pray for your ministry –
Jim
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