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Recapturing The Vocabulary Of The
HOLY SPIRIT
[Section 3]
HOLY SPIRIT
[Section 3]
It is not needful that we deal with the Greek language to detect the errors of King James and his scholars. Here is how they translated Acts 7:38, “This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness.”
The modern church says she did not exist prior to the death and ascension of our Lord. But here we have a church under Moses. This cannot be adequately explained without admitting that King James and his scholars made a deliberate mistake, at the command of King James, of course. Another example is Hebrews 2:12. In this passage, King James has a church under the reign of David.
Following the King’s blunders, namely his mistranslation of the Greek ekklesia, “Churchitis” fell upon the redeemed community in a fatal way in that she splintered into a diversity of divisive factions. That fatal disease still lingers today.
No tossing of the coin will alleviate the apostate church of these dilemmas. She ought to confess that Jesus did not author a church—any church. Should she confess that Jesus did not found a church, the conclusion follows that churches are sects or religious parties. And I assure you Jesus is not the founder of sects or religious parties. He founded the one body of believers, as per Ephesians 4:4, but that one body is splintered into sects and factions too numerous to bother counting.
The modern church says she did not exist prior to the death and ascension of our Lord. But here we have a church under Moses. This cannot be adequately explained without admitting that King James and his scholars made a deliberate mistake, at the command of King James, of course. Another example is Hebrews 2:12. In this passage, King James has a church under the reign of David.
Following the King’s blunders, namely his mistranslation of the Greek ekklesia, “Churchitis” fell upon the redeemed community in a fatal way in that she splintered into a diversity of divisive factions. That fatal disease still lingers today.
No tossing of the coin will alleviate the apostate church of these dilemmas. She ought to confess that Jesus did not author a church—any church. Should she confess that Jesus did not found a church, the conclusion follows that churches are sects or religious parties. And I assure you Jesus is not the founder of sects or religious parties. He founded the one body of believers, as per Ephesians 4:4, but that one body is splintered into sects and factions too numerous to bother counting.
What, then, is the solution? Dismantle and dismiss all of our factional creations and march together under the banner of Jesus the Messiah! If our flag bears anything other than the blood of our Lord, it is an apostate flag.
The only flag I will ever fly again, and the only label I will ever wear again, will portray Jesus the Messiah. All other flags and labels are bogus. To wave any other flag, whether Baptist, the a cappella Church of Christ (my “mentor” church), Church of God, Assembly of God, Methodist, or Catholic would compromise my relationship with my Lord and jeopardize my allegiance to Him. I will have no part of it.
Like all divisive entities, the apostate church contains many beautiful people whose only wish is to follow their King and Shepherd in all areas of the Christian walk. I do not entreat them to leave the ones they love and start a “loyal church”—whatever that is. I entreat them to bid farewell to the sectarian party spirit and launch a ministry of reformation within the confines of their own church environment.
As long as the separatist spirit lingers within the contemporary church, she will never be able to apply a healing balm to “mad church disease.” Freedom in Jesus will always escape those who parrot this mindset and exhibit a cliquish spirit. It is indeed a rarity to find freedom in the contemporary church. The reason is that the party line must be parroted, her precepts supported, her traditions preserved, and the “church system” idolized. If we veer a little to the right or lean a little to the left, we will soon be verbally disciplined and told to shape up or ship out—or worse.
It is not necessary, of course, that reformed believers leave behind the ones they love to surrender the party spirit, for the sectarian spirit is a separatist attitude. They may choose to remain where they are and work for change. Many believers who are entangled in partisan religion would happily abandon the party spirit in favor of reformation and freedom if someone were available to lead and teach them. May God send harvesters to harvest them.
The only flag I will ever fly again, and the only label I will ever wear again, will portray Jesus the Messiah. All other flags and labels are bogus. To wave any other flag, whether Baptist, the a cappella Church of Christ (my “mentor” church), Church of God, Assembly of God, Methodist, or Catholic would compromise my relationship with my Lord and jeopardize my allegiance to Him. I will have no part of it.
Like all divisive entities, the apostate church contains many beautiful people whose only wish is to follow their King and Shepherd in all areas of the Christian walk. I do not entreat them to leave the ones they love and start a “loyal church”—whatever that is. I entreat them to bid farewell to the sectarian party spirit and launch a ministry of reformation within the confines of their own church environment.
As long as the separatist spirit lingers within the contemporary church, she will never be able to apply a healing balm to “mad church disease.” Freedom in Jesus will always escape those who parrot this mindset and exhibit a cliquish spirit. It is indeed a rarity to find freedom in the contemporary church. The reason is that the party line must be parroted, her precepts supported, her traditions preserved, and the “church system” idolized. If we veer a little to the right or lean a little to the left, we will soon be verbally disciplined and told to shape up or ship out—or worse.
It is not necessary, of course, that reformed believers leave behind the ones they love to surrender the party spirit, for the sectarian spirit is a separatist attitude. They may choose to remain where they are and work for change. Many believers who are entangled in partisan religion would happily abandon the party spirit in favor of reformation and freedom if someone were available to lead and teach them. May God send harvesters to harvest them.
[Look for Part 4 soon]
