THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD - PART 320

Every house is built with human intervention but He that built all things, He is God! Admittedly, as we recognize from reading the Old Testament scriptures, Moses was faithful in his house as a servant. But Christ was not a servant. Rather, Christ is the builder of the house. For it is written that all things that were made by Him and for Him is the reason why all things today exist. Indeed, it was JESUS - God Himself as a Son - who came as a son over His own house.

In this context, JESUS veiled Himself in flesh, becoming man’s only means of salvation. As a consequence, we were redeemed from the wilderness of sin by Christ (humanity) of God. The Christ being God Himself as a Son as it is written in the scriptures -- JESUS was the child of the Holy Spirit, and in JESUS' veins did flow the blood of the Spirit of God. For it was God Himself as a Son who was manifest in the world to destroy the works of the devil.

Therefore, JESUS is the head of the church which is His body. For it was through the sacrificial death of JESUS -- the only begotten Son of God -- offering Himself willingly at Calvary that we, Adam’s sin prone offspring can now by the grace of God become recipients of the free gift of redemption. For those who might not know, redemption opens the door for sinful men and/or women to be born again.

Born again, not of corruptible things such as silver or gold but born again through faith in the finished work of God’s redemptive plan, revealed in the life of God in Christ. He - God laid down His pure, holy, undefiled life as full payment for Adam’s disobedience. For here we see that God took upon Himself all of our sin so that we could become the recipients of His righteousness.

This result was accomplished because Christ was willing to imbue unto Himself our sin. In other words, His body became accursed for us. And we the guilty cursed sinful party are now declared of God to be whiter than the driven snow. For indeed it was God who laid down His life once and once for all. Therefore, there is now no condemnation to all who have returned back to God through the door -- which door is the sacrificed death of JESUS the Lord of Glory -- the only head of the Church!

Thus, one cannot put another capping stone on the Body of the Church. According to the scriptures, we are members of His body and of His flesh. We are God's purchased possession! And even as the Holy Spirit indwelt the man JESUS the Christ, even so now, we are the body of the Christ in which body the Spirit of God is pleased to dwell!

But around the time of 300-400 AD, another church institution arose, asserting that this new church is the true church. However, we now know this not to be true. We also know that the devil was a liar from the beginning of time for the anti-Christ church comes forth from Christ's church. As it is written, "They (anti-Christ) went out from us because they were not of us."

Interesting terminology - they went out from us - used in the scriptures so that it may be made manifest to one and all that "they were not of us." For if they had been of us, they would not have gone out from us.

Therefore, the head of God’s church is no other than God Himself as a Son. It is written, "My Glory I will not give to another." God has glorified His Son JESUS. Let all the angels of God worship Him. To us is the Word of this salvation sent! Peace!