THE TRUE CHURCH, TRUE DOCTRINE, TRUE GOSPEL: IN PART

THE HALLMARK OF A TRUE CHURCH, A TRUE DOCTRINE, AND A TRUE GOSPEL:

    The biblical experience is rife with lessons for everyone to be inspired of: into becoming like the Men of God; yea, for doctrine, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that a man may become perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works. The true church is perfect called Philadelphia in the book of the Revelation of John. 
    Yea, the experiences written therein are what king Solomon called vanities and vexation of the spirit. The experiences are never pleasant to a natural man because it is about a man being changed into a new man whose mind is renewed into a spiritual being. 

    Simply put, one of the many hallmarks of a true church is its doctrine. The verses below will give us a glimpse of the mind of the Apostle Paul on the doctrine:

             a)  The doctrine is according to Godliness which foundation stands sure having the seal of a man departing from iniquity as he calls on the name of the Lord Jesus;

             b)  Gains in the temporal and the material is never a measure of Godliness which, on the contrary, most of the churches teach nowadays: being in such, they have misled many into piercing themselves with many sorrows having bound themselves with the cares, and pleasures, and riches that can never bring the fruit of the spirit unto perfection.

 1 Timothy 6:3-8

3If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

^{2 Cor 11:4}For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

6But godliness with contentment is great gain.

7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

·      Therefore, man must be able to move from faith, to fear of the Lord, to hope, to confidence, and to Life seeing him who is invisible having followed Peace with all men and holiness.

^{Hebrews 11:27}By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible

^{Hebrews 12:14}Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

·      Now, the true church teaches of Perfection and Holiness: both the Old and the New Testaments in the Holy Bible put forward the importance of perfection and holiness.  It has emphasized the fruit of the spirit which is unto holiness

Romans 6:19-22… even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness… but now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life.

·      Now the perfection is the perfection of the fruit of the spirit which is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.  It is no wonder the perfect and upright Job was accounted as perfect by God because it was on the fruit which he exudes, professes and manifests.          Moreover, be not deceive, a perfect man is a man filled with the fear of the Lord, he is not even at rest, nor even in quiet, and in safety.  This is the description of a perfect man in the book of Job. Yea, he eschews evil, too.

^{Job 1:1}There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feareth God, and escheweth evil.

^{Job 3:25-26}For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

·        Further, the founding doctrine on godliness is couched in a sure foundation having the seal of departing from iniquity.  Now, many churches and denominations bank on the idea or on their own knowledge scarily, saying, believe on his name: and you shall be saved and thy household.  While it is written that such things are, as read, this is only in part and not the whole truth.  The Spirit of Truth says, all scriptures are given by inspiration and not just a part of it. 

·      What is wanting in the world is the Spirit of God which giveth the spirit of wisdom and understanding and the spirit of Love and Power and the Sound mind.  Obviously, the world did not and will never receive the Spirit of Truth.  They may speak the word or use the word of God in their teachings but in power, that is, to say having the spirit, void of it. The Spirit of God, which is to say,  His word is mighty to them that hear him.

·      The Ministers of the Last days church are  ministers of the spirit and not of the letters.  They are stewards of the mystery.  Now, the whole world fight and strive on what is written: they debate and contend thinking that they are doing service to God by doing such.  Fool! God is never being understood nor perceived in letters.  No wonder, it is written that these men are ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of truth.  Not all who read the scriptures are endowed with the spirit of wisdom and understanding nor given an eye to see what is written of Him when he comes down.
·      Now, God is a Spirit and he will come to a man to dwell in him who is clean and free from the filth and corruption of the world.  Why is this very teaching lost nowadays? Well, the reason is everyone is gone walking in his own interpretation of the scriptures.  They fail to know the scriptures and the power of God in his testimonies, prophecies, spiritual experiences of the people of God.  If they compare their spiritual experience with the spiritual it will only condemn them.
·      In both the Old and the New Testaments, God has emphasized that he is angry with sin: no whoremonger, fornicator, coward, murderer, liar, drunkard, idolaters, or those who do the works of the flesh (Galatians 5:19 / 1 Corinthians 3:3/ Revelations 21:8). In the Old Testament he told stories of nations spewed out by the land because of their abominable customs, evil imaginations, and the like 

Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

Leviticus 18:26-28, 30 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you: (for all these abominations   have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;) That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.³⁰Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:22-23 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land , whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. ²³And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.  
·      Clearly, the world can never teach the whole of the scriptures as written, and so, they chose only words that fit to their own interpretation.  They can never reconcile into one whole truth the words written in the scriptures.  They teach heresies, saying, just believe in Jesus and you will be saved.  Foolish as they are, they missed the truth that life in the spirit is never static, or  simply put, a man can never remain as a babe in Christ!  Receiving Him as the saviour and Lord is only a part of the truth. There are stages in Christian life.
·      The Old Testament, tells us that king Saul who received the spirit of the Lord ended up being abandoned by the prophet Samuel and the spirit of God left him.  King Solomon who was a son of God became the cause for the division of the whole kingdom of Israel. All these are in the name of disobedience. 
There is no point of discussion  using the word of God if, in the first place, a man does not believe in the scriptures.  What makes a man believe in God and the scriptures true is his experience in obeying the command of God and not only by knowing the scriptures.
Many among these people who know only the letters in the scriptures and do not have the Spirit are the ones who think they are Jews but are not.  These are the very synagogue of Satan whom God made them to be: as part of His power. Therefore, fear God for even the synagogue of Satan is one of the churches of God as we see this in the church of Smyrna.  And again, the name of Jesus is the other name of Satan (2 Corinthians 11:4).  This is a hard saying! 

Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Revelation 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

Now, if you cannot understand this truth you must accept that the Serpent which is the Devil is even a creature of God, meaning, God is the God of the Devil.  Understand, also, that Eden became defiled because of Adam and Eve and they have to be expelled from there making themselves the Synagogue of Satan.  They lived a cursed life all their days outside of Eden.  

The caveat is do not just rush into believing that a church is the Philadelphia Church when its works and doctrine and fruit is not of holiness and perfect.  

The true church is taking out people from this world to become a peculiar people, a holy nation , and a royal priesthood for them to serve God and to offer themselves as a living sacrifice to Him: holy and acceptable to Him. 

Some churches minister questions and not the Spirit.  Some churches minister the word but not the spirit. The ture church minister the spirit.  Unless a man become clean by the ways of God which is to say by his commands these cannot be made holy and perfect.  Unless the wisdom of the church is rooted on the commands and law of God this is not the true one.

The true church is the church where God the Spirit will come down and manifest to declare things that are right for broad is the way of His commandments.  The true church has a prophet besides the lawgiver: and all these are joined to the Lord to fulfil His will.

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Now, we know the false churches for their witness do not agree together, meaning, their doctrines and teachings do not agree together. Moreover, their words do not agree unto the free spirit and fail to teach the everlasting gospel of God.

1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.