Who is “The Church” ?
Teaching From Revelation Chapter 21
A Message Of Hope From The Book Of Revelations
Spiritual Tapestry> Breakdown
If we walk in the pages of scripture, the degeneration we are witnessing in the world today becomes completely discernible! There is increasingly becoming an utter breakdown of the spiritual tapestry amongst mankind that is not only appearing outside of the confines of the church, but also within its very ranks! The substratum of this destruction is dualistic in its nature; it requires only the deathly amalgamation of unbridled humanism (human merit/goodness) and satanism (tempting pride)! This deathly amalgamation leads ultimately to the absence of the Lord’s presence in the human heart (estrangement) and makes for a virtual certainty that death will appear in ways and places that we have not previously considered! One of the ways this can laconically be seen is, if we were to apply the aphoristic question, “Why do good people die young?”! This question is easily answered if we place it before the forensic lens of scripture! The scripture declares that, (All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;) and (All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;)! The issue of the Kingdom of God as it relates to this subject isn’t one of right or wrong (morality), good or bad (ethics), conscience or concupiscence (psychoanalysis), left or right (politics), nor yet agreement or dispute (polemics)! The issue of the Kingdom of God, as it relates to mankind is one of “Holy” or “Unholy”! The scripture is clear in principle that, “the wicked will be cut down in their youth”! We are witnessing sore tribulation in diverse manners and places due to a lack of Holiness throughout mankind! Our sinful nature nullifies our goodness and religious effort before an Absolute and Sovereign King like the God of the bible, thus requiring, that His Holiness be ultimately answered! This answering of God’s Holiness was accomplished in Jesus Christ and Him “alone”! The reception of salvation in Christ “alone” by mankind is our only exit from this crucible of destruction! (Another reflection from Theology Nation)
– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox
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Free thinking is the substratum (foundation/base) of critical thinking and critical thinking is the substratum of a revolutionary spirit which is absolutely paramount to bringing the necessary changes we seek in our world! The maladies we see and even at times experience in our world are not the consequence of a broken political system, contradistinctive ideologies, religious dogma, etc! They are a consequence of broken human spirits that are in a state of estrangement from their eternal source and Divine Godhead! This revolutionary spirit is what makes the word of the Lord true when King Jesus says to the leaders of His generation, “You are whitewashed tombs full of dead men’s bones. Outwardly you appear clean but inwardly you are ravening wolves”! This revolutionary spirit is also why the proverbs writer could state, “The righteous are as bold as lions”! In order to change our world and to extinguish the maladies we come across at times we must speak from the substratum of a revolutionary spirit laced with a righteous boldness that will effect change, not by how defiant and rude we can be, but by how concussive the righteous power flowing from our revolutionary spirits through our mouths can be! We need ontological (our being) revolution before we can experience world revolution! The succeeding generations are depending on us! <GIIYST>
– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox
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Why do the heathen [nations] rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? > The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, > Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.> He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. > Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. Psalms 2:1-5> For every politician, king, queen, president, leader, etc. in this world: Who Really Is In Control Here?
– Bishop Dr. Guy A. Cox
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