THE EKKLESIA THE CHURCH

THE CHURCH, WHAT A WONDERFUL CREATION OF GOD.

FIRST LET US MAKE CLEAR WHAT THE CHURCH IS NOT.

THE CHURCH IS NOT:- THIS BUILDING, OR ANY OTHER PHYSICAL STRUCTURE BUILT BY MAN, NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS!

A DENOMINATION OR ORGANIZATION COMPILED BY MAN, NO MATTER HOW GOOD THEY ARE!

A GATHERING OF PEOPLE FOR ANY KIND OF RELIGIOUS

SERVICE OR MEETING CONSTRUED BY MAN!

THE CHURCH IS NOT:- A CONSTITUTION OR LEGAL DOCUMENT DEFINING A CHURCH OR RELIGIOUS BODY!

A MONEY MAKING BUSINESS VENTURE, NO MATTER HOW SMART THE PEOPLE ARE LEADING IT!

A SOCIAL CLUB WHERE PEOPLE GATHER TO BE SOCIAL, NO MATTER HOW MUCH FUN IS DERIVED FROM IT!

IT IS NOT A SECRET SOCIETY THAT IDENTIFY THEMSELVES THROUGH SECRET SIGNS AND PRACTICES, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY USE THE BIBLE AND GOD.

N0NE OF THE ABOVE PROPERLY DEFINE THE CHURCH.

SOME MAY HAVE A RESEMBLANCE TO THE CHURCH, BUT THEY ARE NOT THE CHURCH, SO WHAT IS IT?

THE TERM OR WORD USED IN THE BIBLE FOR CHURCH IS

EKKLESIA, [PRONOUNCE EKK-LAH- SEE-ER.]

THIS WORD LITTERALLY MEANS “CALLED OUT ONES”

IT MEANS ALL THOSE THAT HAVE HEARD THE CALL OF GOD, AND RESPONDED TO IT BY COMING TO GOD.

WHEN YOU RESPOND TO GOD YOU COME OUT OF THE

WORLD, NOT PHYSICALLY- YET, BUT SPIRITUALLY!

WE ARE NO LONGER CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRITS AND SYSTEMS OF THIS WORLD. LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS SAID, JOHN 15:18,19 “IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, YOU KNOW THAT IT HATED ME BEFORE IT HATED YOU. IF YOU WERE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD WOULD LOVE HIS OWN: BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE NO LONGER OF THE WORLD, FOR I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, THEREFORE THE WORLD WILL HATE YOU.” WHILE THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DESIRE, IT GOES WITH THE TERRITORY! IT ACTUALLY IS A SIGN OR TOKEN OF OUR SALVATION. WE DO NOT AND WILL NOT GET ALONG WITH ALL THAT IS OF THE WORLD.

THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE TO REFLECT AND BE A SHADOW OF THE FUTURE CHURCH AGE, SO LOOK WHAT GOD SAID TO THEM IN EXODUS 19:5 & 6 “NOW THEREFORE IF YOU WILL OBEY MY VOICE INDEED, AND KEEP MY COVENANT, THEN YOU SHALL BE A PECULIAR TREASURE UNTO ME ABOVE ALL PEOPLE, FOR ALL THE EARTH IS MINE: AND YOU SHALL BE UNTO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS AND A HOLY NATION.....” SOUND FAMILIAR? YOU WILL SEE SHORTLY. LOOK AT DEUTERONOMY 14:2 “FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND THE LORD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE A PECULIAR PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF, ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS.....”

DEUTERONOMY 26:18,19

“AND THE LORD HAS SPOKEN FOR YOU THIS DAY TO BE HIS PECULIAR PEOPLE, AS HE HAS PROMISED YOU, AND THAT YOU WOULD KEEP ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS; AND TO MAKE YOU HIGH ABOVE ALL NATIONS....”

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE THINGS WRITTEN ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE SHADOWS OF WHAT WE HAVE COME INTO? LOOK AT WHAT PETER SAID, 1 PETER 2:9,10

“BUT YOU ARE A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, AN HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE, THAT YOU SHOULD SHOW FORTH THE PRAISES OF HIM

WHO HAS CALLED YOU OUT OF DARKNESS INTO HIS MARVELLOUS LIGHT: WHICH IN TIME PAST WERE NOT A PEOPLE, BUT ARE NOW THE PEOPLE OF GOD: WHICH HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY, BUT NOW HAVE OBTAINED MERCY.”

WE HAVE BEEN CALLED OUT BY GOD UNTO HIMSELF.

THE CHURCH IS ALL THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED OUT BY GOD UNTO HIMSELF, REGARDLESS OF DENOMINATION, ETHNICITY, CULTURAL DIFFERENCES,

SOCIAL CLASS OR STATURE. THIS IS THE CHURCH.

THE CHURCH HAS A STRUCTURE, VERY SIMILAR TO OUR BODIES. PAUL DEMONSTRATES THIS TRUTH IN FIRST CORINTHIANS 12:12-31 PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO VERSES 18 AND 27 “NOW GOD HAS SET THE MEMBERS, EVERYONE OF THEM IN THE BODY AS IT HAS PLEASED HIM” “NOW YOU ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR” GOD HAS DESIGNED THE BODY AND PLACED EACH MEMBER WHERE HE DESIRES. THE HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH IS JESUS CHRIST. THERE IS A WONDERFUL SCRIPTURE THAT DEMONSTRATES THIS TRUTH, EPHESIANS 1:22 & 23

“AND HAS PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE HIM TO BE THE HEAD OVER ALL TO THE CHURCH, WHICH IS HIS BODY, THE FULLNESS OF HIM THAT FILLS ALL IN ALL.”

THIS CLEARLY DEFINES JESUS TO BE HEAD OF THE BODY WHICH IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE CHURCH.

LET US LOOK AT THIS BODY IN MORE DETAIL. IN EPHESIANS 4 WE LEARN OF THE FIVE FOLD MINISTRY GIFTS, A;P;E;P;T; GIVEN FOR, AS VERSE 12 SAYS

“THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST”

THE MINISTRY GIFTS ARE GIVEN TO BUILD YOU UP

TO THE END THAT

“THROUGH THE SPEAKING OF THE TRUTH IN LOVE, WE MAY MATURE UNTO HIM IN ALL THINGS, WHICH IS THE HEAD, EVEN CHRIST”

NOW PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING VERSE 16 WHICH SAYS:-

“FROM WHOM THE WHOLE BODY FITLY JOINED TOGETHER AND COMPACTED BY THAT WHICH EVERY JOINT SUPPLIES, ACCORDING THE EFFECTUAL WORKING OF EVERY PART, MAKING INCREASE OF THE BODY, UNTO THE EDIFYING OF ITSELF IN LOVE”

THE CHURCH

PART 2

THE EKKLESIA

THE CHURCH IS A FUNCTIONING ORGANISM IN THE WORLD, NOT OF IT, BUT IN IT.

CALLED OUT TO SEPARATION NOT ISOLATION.

THE CHURCH IS THE ORGANIZED BODY THAT REPRESENTS GOD IN THIS WORLD.

THIS WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THIS LEADS US TO THE NEXT POWERFUL TRUTH CONCERNING THE CHURCH.

THE CHURCH IS THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO 1 CORINTHIANS 12:13

“FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY, WHETHER WE ARE JEWS OR GENTILES, WHETHER WE ARE BOND OR FREE; AND WE HAVE ALL BE MADE TO DRINK INTO ONE SPIRIT.”

WE ARE A SPIRITUAL ENTITY.

WE ARE MIRACULOUS, EVERY ONE OF US IS A LIVING MIRACLE. THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVES IN US BOTH

INDIVIDUALLY AND CORPORATELY

THE CHURCH DOES NOT HAVE A TYPICAL TYPE OF MEMBERSHIP..... YOU DON’T JOIN THE CHURCH!

YOU ARE BORN INTO IT BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD! NOT ONLY ARE YOU BORN INTO IT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT YOU ARE POSSESSED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE CHURCH IS THE BODY OR HABITATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THAT IS A MIRACLE!

“WHAT, DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE, THE DWELLING PLACE, OF THE HOLY SPIRIT,

WHO IS IN YOU, WHO WAS GIVEN YOU BY GOD, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? FOR YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND YOUR SPIRIT WHICH ARE GOD’S”

HE OWNS US, LOCK STOCK AND BARREL... OR FOR LES, HOOK LINE AND SINKER! BOAT INCLUDED! THERE IS SOMETHING GREATLY COMFORTING IN THIS. BEING GODS PROPERTY, HE HAS GIVEN US THE HOLY SPIRIT TO ENSURE OUR SAFE DELIVERY; THE HOLY SPIRIT KEEPS US. LISTEN TO JESUS PRAYER FOR US, WHILE HE WAS PREPARING TO LEAVE US. JOHN 17:11-15 & 20 “AND NOW I WILL BE NO MORE IN THE WORLD, BUT THESE WILL BE LEFT IN THE WORLD, WHEN I COME TO THEE. HOLY FATHER, KEEP THROUGH YOUR OWN NAME THOSE WHO YOU HAVE GIVEN TO ME THAT THEY MAY BE ONE AS WE ARE. WHILE I WAS WITH THEM IN THE

WORLD, I KEPT THEM IN THY NAME: THOSE THAT YOU GAVE ME I HAVE KEPT, AND NONE OF THEM IS LOST, EXCEPT THE SON OF PERDITION; THAT THE SCRIPTURES BE FULFILLED. AND NOW I AM COMING TO THEE; AND I AM SAYING THESE THINGS WHILE I AM IN THE WORLD, THAT THOSE WHO I HAVE RECEIVED FROM YOU MAY HAVE MY JOY FULFILLED IN THEM. I HAVE GIVEN THEM YOUR WORD; AND THE WORLD HAS HATED THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD. I PRAY NOT THAT YOU WOULD TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WORLD, BUT THAT YOU WOULD KEEP THE FROM THE EVIL.......

NEITHER PRAY I FOR THESE ONLY, BUT FOR ALL THOSE THAT BELIEVE ON ME THROUGH THEIR MESSAGE.”

JESUS ASKED FATHER GOD TO KEEP US, PROTECT US FROM THE WORLD WE LIVE IN, HOW DOES HE DO THAT? REMEMBER THE MESSAGE ON THE TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH? DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT PEATER SAID THAT WE HAVE AN INHERITANCE THAT FADES NOT AWAY, RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU.

“WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF GOD THROUGH FAITH UNTO SALVATION, READY TO BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME [THE END OF TIME]”

EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH HAS THE DEPOSIT OF GOD THAT GUARANTEES YOUR SAFE DELIVERY TO THE TIME OF COMPLETION. YOU ARE SEALED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, NOT YOUR WORKS, NOT YOUR EFFORT SALVATION IS NOT PERFORMANCE BASED, ITS HOLY SPIRIT BASED. 2 CORINTHIANS 1:22 TELLS US THAT GOD ”WHO HAS SEALED US AND GIVEN US THE EARNEST OF THE SPIRIT IN OUR HEARTS.” EPHESIANS 1:13 & 14

“........ IN WHOM ALSO AFTER THAT YOU BELIEVED, YOU WERE SEALED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF PROMISE, WHICH IS THE EARNEST OF OUR INHERITANCE UNTIL THE REDEMPTION OF THE PURCHASED POSSESSION.....”

AND THEN LOOK AT EPHESIANS 4:30

“AND GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, WHEREBY YOU ARE SEALED UNTO THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.”

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR GUARANTEE OF A SAFE DELIVERY. HE WORKS THE FOLLOWING IN THE CHURCH BOTH ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND CORPORATELY.

HE IS OUR GUIDE THROUGH THE TRAPS OF LIFE.

HE IS OUR STRENGTH IN TIMES OF WEAKNESS.

HE IS OUR HOPE IN HOPELESS SITUATION.

HE IS OUR COURAGE TO FACE TRIALS WE WOULD RUN FROM.

HE IS THE COMFORT WE NEED IN SORROW AND PAIN.

HE IS THE WISDOM WE NEED WHEN WE ARE IGNORANT.

HE IS THE WORDS WE NEED WHEN ALL ARE TRYING TO SILENCE US.

HE IS THE VISION WE NEED WHEN DARKNESS CLOUDS OUR VIEW.

HE IS THE ANNOINTING WE NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE FATHERS TASKS.

HE IS THE POWER WE NEED TO PUSH BACK THE FORCES OF DARKNESS.

HE IS THE GRACE WE NEED IN TIME OF FAILURE.

HE IS FAR MORE THAN I DESERVE YET SO WILLING TO BLESS AND HELP ME.

HE IS SO CLOSE AND INTIMATE A FRIEND ABOVE ALL.

HE IS SO CARING HE WILL ALWAYS TRY TO STEER ME TO WHAT IS BEST FOR ME.

HE SO LOVES THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, HE DOES EVERYTHING HE CAN TO NUTURE, PROTECT AND KEEP IT IN ONE PIECE.

HE IS EVERYTHING WE NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS LIFES JOURNEY.

EKKLESIA THE CHURCH

PART 3

THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST, HAS MANY DESCRIPTIVE TERMS AND QUALITIES.

ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL TERMS IS FOUND IN EPHESIANS 5:25-27 & 32

“HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR IT; THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT WITH THE WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD. THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT, OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT IT SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.....

...... THIS IS A GREAT MYSTERY: BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.”

NOTICE THE THINGS PAUL SAID.

CHRIST GAVE HIMSELF FOR THE CHURCH!

THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY IT!

THAT HE MIGHT CLEANSE IT!

THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS

CHURCH, WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH LIKE THING.

THE IMPLICATION IS THAT HE MAKES IT PERFECT.

THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT JESUS AND THE CHURCH ARE COMPARED TO A MARRIAGE, AND IT IS RELATIONSHIP BASED. THERE ARE SCRIPTURES BOTH IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS THAT INTIMATE THAT WE ARE “THE BRIDE OF CHRIST”. JESUS, HIMSELF, INTIMATED THIS WHEN HE SPOKE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. HE ALSO TOLD THE DISCIPLES OF JOHN “CAN THE CHILDREN OF THE BRIDEGROOM MOURN [FAST] AS LONG AS THE BRIDEGROOM IS WITH THEM? BUT THE DAYS WILL COME WHEN THE CHILDREN OF THE BRIDEGROOM SHALL BE TAKEN FROM THEM, THEN THEY WILL FAST.”

NOW PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THESE NEXT FEW VERSES IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15:47-50 “THE FIRST MAN IS OF THE EARTH, EARTHY; THE SECOND MAN IS THE LORD FROM HEAVEN. AS IS THE EARTHY, SUCH ARE THEY ALSO THAT ARE EARTHY: AND AS IS THE HEAVENLY, SUCH ARE THEY ALSO THAT ARE HEAVENLY. AND AS WE HAVE BORNE THE IMAGE OF THE EARTHY, WE SHALL ALSO BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE

HEAVENLY. NOW THIS I SAY, BRETHREN, THAT FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD;.....” THIS NEEDS SOME CLARIFICATION.

YOUR FLESH AND BLOOD, THAT IS YOUR NATURAL BODY WILL NOT GO TO HEAVEN IN IT’S CURRENT CONDITION. PAUL SAID “FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME [THAT IS IN MY FLESH,] DWELLETH NO GOOD THING.” ROMANS 7:18 OUR BODIES, JUST LIKE PAULS, ARE CONTAMINATED WITH SIN. GOD DESIGNED DEATH AS THE WAY TO DISPERSE SIN BACK INTO THE GROUND.... “CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE”. HE TOLD SATAN THAT HE WOULD “EAT DUST THE REST OF HIS LIFE” OUR FLESH IS MADE UP OF DUST! THEN GOD TOLD ADAM – “IN THE SWEAT OF THY FACE SHALL YOU EAT BREAD; TILL YOU RETURN UNTO THE GROUND; FOR OUT OF IT WERE YOU TAKEN, DUST YOU ARE, AND TO DUST WILL YOU

DUST YOU ARE, AND TO DUST WILL YOU RETURN.” THIS IS GOD’S WAY OF DEALING WITH SIN.

THIS IS WHY THIS EARTH WILL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE.

“BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH A FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND ALL THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP”

2 PETER 3:10

IF THIS IS THE CASE, WHAT INHERITS THE KINGDOM OF GOD ? OR WHAT GOES TO HEAVEN?

IT IS CLEAR THAT OUR BODIES DO NOT.

WE KNOW THAT ABSENCE FROM THE BODY IS TO BE “PRESENT WITH THE LORD.” 2 CORINTHIANS 5:8

BUT LOOK WHAT IT SAYS JUST A FEW VERSES BEFORE.

“... WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS THAT ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.”

ALL THAT IS VISIBLE IS A TEMPORARY CONDITION.

IT GOES ON TO SAY –

“FOR WE KNOW THAT IF OUR EARTHLY HOUSE OF THIS TABERNACLE WERE DISSOLVED, WE HAVE A BUILDING OF GOD, A HOUSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS, BECAUSE OF THIS, WE GROAN EARNESTLY

DESIRING TO BE CLOTHED UPON WITH OUR HEAVENLY HOUSE.”

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

WE KNOW THAT GOD CANNOT TOLERATE SIN IN HIS PRESENCE SO HOW ARE WE GOING TO MAKE IT?

THE SEED THAT GOD BIRTHED IN YOU IS THE ONLY WAY IT IS POSSIBLE.

THE SEED OF GOD’S SPIRIT HAS THE POWER TO CARRY US INTO ETERNITY FOR IT IS ETERNAL BY NATURE.

WE THEN MUST SOW TO THE SPIRIT, GALATIANS 6:8

“FOR HE THAT SOWS TO HIS FLESH, SHALL OF HIS FLESH

REAP CORRUPTION; BUT HE THAT SOWETH TO THE SPIRIT, SHALL OF THE SPIRIT REAP LIFE EVERLASTING.”

LET US EXAMINE THE WHY OF THIS –

THE SPIRIT CANNOT SIN!

THAT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, THE SPIRIT CANNOT SIN.

LETS LOOK AT WHAT JOHN SAID IN HIS FIRST LETTER.

CHAPTER 1:8-10 “IF WE SAY THAT WE HAVE NO SIN, WE DECEIVE OURSELVES, AND THE TRUTH IS NOT IN US. IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND TO CLENSE US FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. IF WE SAY WE HAVE NOT SINNED, WE MAKE HIM A LIAR, AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US.”

NOW HERE JOHN MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE HAVE SIN.

HE ALSO MAKES IT CLEAR THAT WE HAVE SINNED.

NOW LET US LOOK AT WHAT HE SAID IN CHAPTER 3:9

“WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOES NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINS IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD.”

MANY PREACHERS LIMIT THIS TO MEAN JESUS ONLY.

IF THAT WERE TRUE VERSE 10 MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL.

“IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL...”

NOW AS WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY STATED, THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN US. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:19

NOW LET US LOOK AT ROMANS 8:9 & 10

“BUT YOU ARE NOT IN THE FLESH, BUT IN THE SPIRIT, IF IT IS TRUE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLS IN YOU. NOW IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE DOES NOT BELONG TO GOD. AND IF CHRIST IS IN YOU

THE BODY IS DEAD BECAUSE OF SIN; BUT THE SPIRIT IS ALIVE BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.”

ARE YOU CONNECTING ALL THE DOTS?

SO BECAUSE GOD CANNOT ALLOW SIN IN HIS PRESENCE HE HAD TO GIVE US A SINLESS QUALITY.

BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY SINNED, HE DELAYED JUDGEMENT UNTIL AFTER PHYSICAL DEATH.

BUT THROUGH THIS PROCESS HE ALSO GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ESCAPE JUDGEMENT AND LIVE ETERNALLY. HE SENT JESUS TO PAY THE PRICE FOR OUR SINS! HE THEN DEPOSITED IN US HIS SPIRIT TO ENSURE WE HAD ETERNAL LIFE! BECAUSE THAT WHICH HE BIRTHED IN US IS SINLESS, LETS GET THIS RIGHT.... THE HOLY SPIRIT CANNOT SIN

OR HE WOULD NOT BE GOD’S SPIRIT.

SIN IS LIMITED TO YOUR BODY, THAT DEAD OLD DUST. THAT IS WHY YOUR BODY IS DEAD ALREADY, IT HAS THE SENTENCE OF DEATH ON IT. NOT THE SPIRIT.

THAT IS WHY WE SOW TO THE SPIRIT.

WE PLANT TOWARDS THE SPIRITUAL NOT THE NATURAL.

WE BECOME SPIRITUALLY MINDED NOT NATURALLY!

EVERYTHING WE DO NATURALLY WILL BE BURNT UP.

EVERYTHING WE SOW SPIRITUALLY WILL LAST FOREVER.

IT CANNOT DIE NEITHER CAN YOU.

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY GOD WANTS US TO CELEBRATE?