Saturday 16 July 2011

A COMMUNITY OF SAINTS


Most religious people are of the misguided opinion that the church of God is a refuge for sinners.  They believe this opinion is valid, because Catholics and Protestants don’t excommunicate homosexuals, drunkards, adulterers, extortionists or heretics from their fellowship.  This same perverse opinion and indulgence is now shared and practised by every group that has been formed since the break up of the Worldwide Church of God in 1995.
In GCI, UCG, LCG, RCG, PCG, COG/Hulme  and all the other divided groups now operation in cog-land, there are heretics, extortionists, drunkards, adulterers and liars!  And since the leaders of these groups are all rogues, no one among them can take the moral high ground to condemn another’s behaviour, for by so doing he will be condemning himself.
However, in contrast to the wickedness in cog-land, the Chosen Vessel, in all his epistles to God’s elect, was always inspired to address the church members as saints thus: (Rom.1:7); (Eph. 1:1).  A saint is a person who has been sanctified by the Holy Spirit, unto obedience of the truth(1 Pet. 1:1-2), and whose life is devoted to the service of God.

The Second Temple

We know from scripture that God wanted Israel to build a second temple. The order to do so was given by Cyrus, the Persian.   The details ar...