TRUE CHURCH

                                                      DISCOURSE ON THE TRUE CHURCH

God Is Talking

By Jonas T  Suizo

When the teachings of the world’s religions are measured against the ten categories that reveal the true voice of God—law and commands, promise and blessing, warning and judgment, instruction and guidance, prophecy and revelation, rebuke and anger, covenant, comfort and assurance, dialogue and questioning, and mystery and divine secrets—it becomes obvious that most religious traditions today are running on fumes from written texts rather than the living Spirit that speaks, forms, rebukes, corrects, and perfects.

From Judaism’s Torah scholars to Christian pastors and priests, from imams and ayatollahs to gurus, lamas, shamans, sages, and “modern spiritual coaches,” nearly all rely on interpretations, rituals, philosophies, and systems that revolve around human reasoning or historical traditions rather than the Spirit that writes in the heart, pours understanding into the inward man, and makes a people walk in God’s ways.

Because of that, these religions may appear to carry divine authority, but spiritually they fall under the same umbrella: they speak about God but do not speak with the voice of God. They teach ethics, mysticism, enlightenment, morality, asceticism, or devotion, yet the words they utter do not fall into the patterns of divine speech manifested in Scripture—the goodness and severity of God, the covenant that writes the law in the heart, the rebuke that pours out the Spirit, or the comfort that equips a man to teach others.

Without the Spirit’s voice, their doctrines cannot create a new creature nor form a people after God’s image. And when weighed on this scale, most of the world’s religions and sects collapse into the same category: belief systems powered by human wisdom rather than divine revelation, functioning as cults, heresies, or pseudo-faiths that rely heavily on texts, traditions, rituals, and philosophies, but do not minister the Spirit as God intended.

This makes the TRUE CHURCH stand apart, for it insists on the living voice of God in the Spirit—speaking, forming, rebuking, cleansing, and perfecting His people—while others circle around the Scriptures without touching the fire that breathed them.