THE MISQUOTED DOCTRINE UNDER THE LAW A CORE EMPHASIS FOR MODERN MINISTERS

THE MISQUOTED DOCTRINE UNDER THE LAW A CORE EMPHASIS FOR MODERN MINISTERS

1 Cor. 9:1-18

By: Bishop Albert B. Gran

I pray this very simple article would preserve many souls who were doctrinally blinded by the law of tithes as means for others to hinder the gospel of grace causing to produce more fruits redounding to the thanksgiving from many after the giving of love was exercised.

The opening salvo of I Cor. 9 was clearly a very hint while Paul along in this chapter defended his clear intention and purpose for the ministry and his ministerial services for the glory of God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Am I am not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

² If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

³ Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

Suffice to consider the tone of our apostle that the opening questions stated in the above verses also posed a queue that there were those among believers in Corinth questioning his apostleship, his freedom of ministering and service as God’s faithful steward, commission, and the fruit of his labors who were the saints at Corinth themselves. Furthermore, he then mentioned all these attacks were forms of examination (notice verse 3).

MORE POINT OF INQUIRIES STRESS HIS SUPPOSED POWER AND CAPABILITY TO EXERCISE POWER AS A MINISTER OF GOD

⁴ Have we not power to eat and to drink?

⁵ Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

⁶ Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

⁷ Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

⁸ Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

⁹ For it is written in the law of Moses, thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

¹⁰ Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

¹¹ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

^12 a If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?

These foregoing verses were relative to rebut and shut up those who examined his true ordination as a special apostle of God for the Gentiles. Notice that the mainstream issue denoting his defense against those who question his apostleship authority had mere view upon comparison of those ministerial purposes with their carnal followership that cause division, following  the previous head kingdom apostle and a kingdom church masterbuilder, Peter known as Cephas.

The “have we not’s and if’s" with Paul correlative to the clear exercise under the previous economy of law, together with their ministers who use the power of which in the context talked about living physical life’s provision in exchange of the spiritual services rendered( as it’s noticeable in verse 4 when he mentioned about eating and drinking), the verse 5 as lording over members in the church even above kingdom apostles and saints,  the verse 6 as using means to survive by forbearing outside source of living or income instead resort to church income,  the verse 7 with stressed more significance for a full time job as a soldier with full support from backups and as an agriculturist who ate the fruits where in the context of the chapter talked about using members to get his own physical supply and for the satisfaction of his needs,  and the verse 8 which discussed more principles how it was also used under the law applying the principle of a laboring ox which in its plowing time needs not to be muzzled so that it could also eat food while plowing which was also further emphasized in verses 9 and 10, these were what Paul seems  and supposedly applied in this dispensation of grace but found not to administer grace but law.

Parallel to this physical scene principle, Paul supposed that these powers in the physical ministering principles of service would seem or supposed and I emphasized, the same law principle rendition in view of the objectives of spiritual services for the Lord. Thus, in verse 12a he mentioned that when it’s possible for others to do the same, use the same power, and govern and lord over them in the church who have less authority, then there’s no reason why Paul himself couldn’t do it.

But hey! True followers of Paul! Look at the onset! See how Paul answered and shared his pure intention in the PURE service for the Lord which he offered for FREE, notice!

PAUL’S PURE MINISTERIAL GRACE SERVICE:

Verse 12b……  NEVERTHELESS WE HAVE NOT USED THIS POWER; BUT SUFFER ALL THINGS, LEST WE SHOULD HINDER THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.

This is what I want to show to you my dear friends how Paul shut off the mouth of those who questioned his authority as an apostle of Jesus Christ. He’s someone who administers grace with free of charge service, “NOT USING” forms of authority of lording those who were the least even those who are less honorable including the getting used of physical substance for the minister’s means of living, sources of funds, etc. At any rate, suffer all things FOR THE SAKE OF THE GOSPEL so that it wouldn’t be hindered.    

Further supposed claim of Paul if it thus:

¹³ Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

¹⁴ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.

This is the ultimate claim and stress for those who marked themselves USING THE AUTHORITY instead of not using it like our apostle Paul in the rendering of the free of charge ministry. Paul made mentioned if he was like the authorities’ over users then why it can’t be? He could do it because he’s a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Notice how the life of a pure grace minister, the apostle of us all today administers grace to the simple.

His real claim in the free of charge a moneyless charge spiritual service:

 ¹⁵ But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

¹⁶ For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

¹⁷ For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.

¹⁸ What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

A.      I HAVE USED NONE OF THESE THINGS, verse 15 (as mentioned above under the law including their supposed tithes)

B.      NEITHER HAVE I WRITTEN THESE THINGS, verse 16 (not wrote as a command, ordinance, obligation to mean others accountability)

C.      I HAVE NOTHING TO GLORY, verse 16 (as many tithe teachers and preachers boast their physical luxuries and prosperities in effect of their false teachings)

D.      MAKE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST WITHOUT CHARGE ( grace principle of ministering as a steward of the mysteries of Christ)  

E.       I  ABUSE NOT MY POWER IN THE GOSPEL (as many today used as they  like to forbear working)

STRAIGHT FROM MY HEART:

What can you say about the legacy of the true ministerial position that our beloved apostle with pure intent, for the gospel sake, suffer himself, neglect the authorities or power he mentioned above?

Why can’t many believers today follow Paul if they truly love God for the gospel’s sake? Why their aim focused to earthly abundance as they God prospered them using the law of tithe under the economy of law?

Compare spiritual things with spiritual folks and consider for your learning and life edification.

Grace and peace!

    

APOSTLE PAUL OUR PATTERN IN PRAYER

By: Bishop Albert Gran

Ephesians 6:17-19

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

Colossians 1:8-10

King James Version (KJV)

⁸ Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

⁹ For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

¹⁰ That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Prayer is one among many doctrines greatly misunderstood from our beloved friends in the old faith who embraced the traditions of men in consonance with the general belief especially in the doctrine of physical intervention.

I pray this simple task would lead to you my fellow laborers a desire to compare spiritual things with spiritual neither basing things from God in line with fleshly understanding for it only stands behind bar of lies and hypocrisy. 

Purity of grace doctrine adheres prayer in view of the mystery truth, thus, we pure grace believers dare not entertain the idea with the so-called supposition accordingly as how we should no longer pray in this age of grace.

WE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO PRAY

Ever since the time Paul started His ministry from the road to Damascus until his last breath, there's no point in his life that he stops praying. There were times he prayed for physical safety and deliverance. Thrice he besought the Lord for the healing of his physical infirmities believing God could do what he seems similar to what he used to do to His people Israel. The fact is that he knew Christ had responded him only through the sufficiency of His grace, experiencing the demonstration of God's power and might through overcoming sufferings and afflictions in the natural process and way without miraculous drama.

In my above mentioned statement, I already stated at first that Paul also prayed for and about his flesh in the gradual process of revealing the doctrinal point of truth in accord to the mystery plan of God in this dispensation of grace.

"We do not know how to pray as ye ought", this is a phrase Paul make mentioned why he included himself knowing that he once prayed a nonsense and unknown prayer, which caused him to understand the how and what's the  real sense and most significant view of prayer in our times following Paul as a pattern of praying an "unknown prayer". 

All of us including myself previously prayed an unknown prayer and also once followed Paul as a pattern who also didn't know how to pray. All of us too became under the yoke of bondage which is the law as Paul once became under the law in fact he  was on the seat to that of Gamaliel's. 

Having thought of the progression in view of consideration to some points of significant changes in the doctrine of prayer as visible and evident in Paul's epistles such as: "When ye pray, pray with understanding", "I besought the Lord thrice and he said;"My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness";"Praying always with all prayers in the Spirit", "Set your affection on things above, not on things on earth", so on and so forth, it is enough to consider that the doctrine of prayer is something we have to consider dispensationally transcending from physical point of view towards the future hope of glory with current provision of His grace and blessings on the account of faith in the cross work of Christ, and apart from the notion similar to the blessedness of the nation Israel with physical prayer responses which God acted upon in blessing them and their land. 

Great thoughtful consideration in view of our understanding of which our prayer must not cling to the idea how God himself viewed prayer significant to the strengthening of our inner man enabling us to also have His inner might which I perceived the power of God brought by the gospel of the mystery.

The "working out of our salvation" is how God acted upon today, that means the source is within the inner man. Basically, when we view the doctrine of prayer dispensationally considered, most especially when you began to understand the eternal operation of God, you would see how it works in the realities of our present world wherein what you see is but the appreciation of His magnificent wisdom through the Spirit of God working in us upon His word.

HOW PAUL BECAME A PATTERN IN PRAYER?

Much thought in Paul's prayer was to far from the idea that Pure grace believers would no longer pray. We prayed and let's all pray together. However, sensible workman of God who understood the way of the Lord in our current time more perfectly advice you to pray no longer in an "unknown prayer" but a "prayer with understanding". As the truth of the mystery continues to increase in knowledge, wisdom, and understanding our apostle Paul prayed a right prayer which we have to follow today. What was his prayer?

Mediate and ponder the things he wrote for you today folks!

I do pray you will now start to pray a right prayer with understanding. Believe it and surely it will work.

Grace and Peace to you!

                            

STRAIGHT TO THE HEART IS HIS GRACE

Ephesians 2:8-10

King James Version (KJV)

8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

This web page may ensure your future life into what was right and appropriate before your true master in heaven who bought you with His precious blood.

God's sufficient grace is His fully provided measure to those who would want to enjoin His life back to the family of God. Our moments in this world are just passing by and thus, needs for you to be reconciled back to your maker and receive perfect restoration of relationship as once destroyed through the disobedience of one, Adam.

The secured restored fellowship in view of new creation determines what life you have in Christ with freedom from slavery and sin-condemnation. We can not boast of what we don't have but on what we have received from Christ, the abundant grace of God that is reigning in our lives today. It's but the cross of Christ simply savors the theme in our life as grace believers.

Our thankful life is that what praise Him all the more. The life we have today is not what we owe from Him requiring ourselves to pay what we can't do.It's a life of gratitude simply offered to Him like a precious ointment that adds scent to our new found life in Christ. It's also a flavor that adds taste to our most wonderful life inspite ordeals and unbelief of men.

No works of men which could be compared to the blessed wondrous offering of Christ's life imputed to the unjust who simply trust to such noteworthy grace of God demonstrated on that cross. It's all but that was a single element of trust you could best examine if you would try to find the abundant life brought by His love, mercy and grace. Your faith rest on the finished and once and for all act of God by providing the full soul's nourishment for perfect satisfaction, completeness, and freedom in view of understanding His pure love, grace, and mercy.

Having these knowledge-wise understanding your freedom in Christ leads you to the fulfillment of your hope not once received in this planet earth but towards the glory which soon Christ shall reveal to you.

Much blessings from God awaits for you brought by the truth of the gospel, the mystery which was known as the grace of God.

Grace to you and peace!

Bishop Albert Gran   

     

THE PRIZE OF A FUTURIST!

By: Bishop Albert Gran

2 Timothy 4:8

King James Version (KJV)

⁸ Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing

Romans 8:22- 25

²² For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

²³ And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

²⁵ But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Matthew 24:20-30

King James Version (KJV)

²⁰ But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
²¹ For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
²² And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
²³ Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
²⁴ For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
²⁵ Behold, I have told you before.
²⁶ Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
²⁷ For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
²⁸ For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
²⁹ Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
³⁰ And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
 

Just a thought made significant in view of the doctrine of "Preterism", a doctrine denying a certain period in the "future" eachatological events wherein having such an idea presumed futurist believers who they thought baselessly deny what has been fullfilled in the prophecy, challenged me to really review few passage of Scriptures through the light of Paul's epistles. The verses posted above were truths needed to be pondered. Now, let's be sensible in dealing whether Berean test would merit the philosophical twist compared to the wholesome truth of God's word available in our hands today.

Unification of doctrinal belief generally divides among the preterists considering that they were also disunitied in the stand between Partial Preterism and Full Preterism. Noticeable from the standpoint of majorities' understanding among the circle of preterists hold a firm premise where there won't be any realization of future hope.

How can we get rid through avoidance of future promises the Lord Jesus Christ himself promised to the church, the Body of Christ? How come many interpreted as though God's promises for us today were already fulfilled upon the twist of their illogical premises? How can this vile body would soon unable to function in glorification to his creator when one unrealistically see the future hope ensured to us through our God Almighty as far as the resurrection issue is concerned?

Jesus Christ once mentioned about the Lord's day where heavenly creatures brought cataclysm and disorder which would soon melt the planet earth to the point where people would encourage death to come upon them. No record of history even by speculation proving such accounts or events were true when one investigated the historical scene that happened last A.D. 70. Events recorded in the year A.D. 70 perfectly disqualifies the preterists allegation that God's prophecy and past recorded prophetic accounts prophecied by the prophets had been fulfilled last A.D. 70. Sensible student of God's word must be keen to compare if those things mentioned by Christ in reality through fact check had recorded such amazing account not once happened in the earth's history. The fact that Christ told his disciple that the events falls on that day are NOT ONCE happened in the history's past neither in the ending portion of the present dispensation of grace leading to the resumption of the prophetic program in the era of the man of sin, the god of this world Satan who was known as the anti Christ.

How could the believers in this dispensation of grace consider the thought of preterism if the most denied resurrection account for the members of the Body of Christ which is known as the caught up event was too far from the reality as a future hope for them? Why they thought there's nosuch thing as bodily resurrection as best promised of God to not pass the future event not once named in the  earth's history?

The prevailing truth of futurists made a very spectacle sound basis how soon we as members of the body of Christ shall fill-in the heavenly places promised by Christ through the gospel as we're all joint heirs of Christ, the soon to be rulers of angels who possessed significant ruling power to the praise of His glory.

Be a futurist and not a preterist.

Grace to you and peace!                       

WHY BISHOP NOT PASTOR?

By: Bishop Albert Gran

Ephesians 4:10-12

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
¹¹ And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
¹² For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Titus 1:1-10

King James Version (KJV)

1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

² In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
³ But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
⁴ To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
⁶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
⁸ But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
⁹ Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
¹⁰ For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

Get the relevance of sound presentation as many years had passed opened to the hearers during Paul's time with an applaud doctrinal thought in view of God's perspectives. Bishoprick is what was mostly an ignored office designated by Paul as majority thought such term correlates pagan exercise or practice not even worthy to be used in our era today.

Grace believers thought it unwise to apply this idea today as only Catholics and other Protestant groups applied this office when their leaders called to ordain elders and leaders to function church leadership.

Let's even know the fact if we truly believed what has been ordained as current instruction when Christ stopped giving men as gifts in the church after he ascended up on high. It's even spectacular to bow down the authority of God's word written in His word as we knew there were changes of dealings in matters of choosing gifts.

Christians thought that Christ still acted the same active involvement in giving men to the church today after the completion of His revealed will not knowing the fact that those gifts were really for the Body of Christ prior  to the completion of the mystery truth in this age of grace.

Having consistent to the extent of that old notion many believers even grace believers in out times resort their edification solely to those whom they thought the source and basis of their edification who were their spiritual mentors whom they called  "Pastors, evangelists, and teachers" as they thought the office of apostles and prophets were no longer in operation today. The idea of Christ sending these remaining gifts (Pastors, evangelists, and teachers) is what the majority thought even if the reality speaks that Paul called elders to choose qualified elders known as Bishops as per command of Christ as Christ no longer set those offices when the complete source of edification through the written revelation for the Gentile age of grace had been fulfilled.

Why not resorting to the true comfort and source of your edification when you read and obey the instruction of Christ current in our times in view of the mystery truth revealed to Paul? Why being saddened when your Pastor will no longer function to scratch itchy and fleshly religious observance? Why feeling discomfortable when one shall plainly declare the good news how you could be free from the bondage of slavery again to fear?

Ultimate change in the giving of gifts whom Christ himself performed leading to the idea when He called Paul to ordain men as leaders in the church and charge to commit the same to faithful men is the idea of transitional delineation of office from direct to indirect form similar from direct edification and indirect edification through the complete written word of God. That means that the idea of basing believers' edification from men (Pastors) as their inspiration correlates the traditional idea when Christ still choose to give gifts when the source of edification which is the word of God was not yet fulfilled. Thus, if you thought of ignoring the Scriptures and giving heed to the basis of your spiritual mentor who competes the source of true edification from the word of God in view of truth then the sound teaching of grace prohibits you to do that. Paul has instructed in 2 Tim. 2:15 to study and even call to apply in other passage to give attendance to reading and exhorting and not cling to the fables and stories from your traditional spiritual mentors. They were those who are the modern-day  Pharisees in our time who continually oppose the doctrine of grace, mixing the doctrine of grace ordained by Christ since the world began.

If you are afraid of applying bishoprick principle for having thought of inclining to the supposed pagan type of exercise then you are bias in your own judgement. Consider why Paul commanded Timothy and Titus as elders to ordain elders known as Bishops to supply the things wanting in every city or place around the world whenever propagating the gospel of the grace of God. They were not introducing paganism doctrine, instead,  telling the truth the right office called to be named and apply in your ministerial plans and purposes.

This grace alternative is for you to see the glimpse of truth form transition to purity of grace doctrines.

Grace to you and Peace!

         

WHY SHOULD YOU THINK OF HINDERING THE GOSPEL?

By: Bishop Albert Gran

1 Corinthians 9:11-15

King James Version (KJV)

 

¹¹ If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
¹² If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
¹³ Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
¹⁴ Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
¹⁵ But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

Straight from my heart, emphasis for these most misunderstood verses often quote by our folks in their assumption to apply law principle governing the things at the altar was something their clue in adherence to what has been thought an ordained giving principle of grace. However, those were all conjectures for those who would resort to use God's business for material gain rather than the most edifying gospel which is the grace of God. 

At the onset those who try to reject the principle used by Paul of not hindering the gospel in connection to the carnal or material giving basically had their defence and confirmation how their ministries simply embraced the doctrines under the law. The imposition of tenth (10%) as nowhere in the almanac of today's dispensation of grace  excluding the modified invented types of religious givings was all the most popular stress in the Christendom. Pulpit sermons are simply overloaded with the supposed  conditional blessings from God as though such were responsibilities how they could pay back the goodness of God. Others thought those types of givings were means for God to act upon his duty to bless his saint in the most supernatural way.

Carefully examine if such idea was really sound or indeed true for those who supposed following the Pauline way of ministering the gospel. The point is we're ministers of Christ ministering with the gospel and for the gospel without an exchange of carnal or material things for such would lead to hindering the gospel.

Spiritual eyesight rather lead to see the glimpse of thought how a minister could offer himself as a true servant of God even not considering himself and or his flesh to establish spiritual purpose of nourishing our inner man through the gospel. 

The mystery truth really made something very significant and special to His saint considering the fact how His manifold wisdom reflects to our eyes of understanding that what reigns today was His ultimate grace and the blessings of His grace depends on the establishment brought by the things from the Spirit which was basically revealed to us today.

There is much more beyond to carnal things laid on the temple or the tenth giving under the law and that is the "pureness of the gospel", the grace of God which surpasses all knowledge and understanding.

Haven't not known how these grace of God revealed to Paul made him say,  ¹² If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless WE HAVE NOT USED THE POWER; but SUFFER ALL THINGS, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.  Did we really suffer for Christ sake by not naming those things (as in the issues of carnal givings under the law) to hinder the gospel of Christ.

The thrust of a true servant of Christ was his selfless desire as someone bought with the costly price in order to not work for his own but for Him that called him WORKMAN!                 

KNOW YOUR REAL MISSION

By: Bro. Albert Gran

2 Corinthians 5:17-25

King James Version (KJV)

 ¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

 ¹⁸And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

 ¹⁹To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

 ²⁰Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

 ²¹For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

If you are swayed by the real essence of our ambassadorship role in Christ considering the fact that you’re too tied by some religious affairs which you thought your real mission, then start to go back to the right track and embrace the thought how God chose you to be part of His mission for the Body of Christ and not anymore to a man-made established institution where the sect’s name and an identity in whatever local affiliation were much hailed and being sacrificed for.

 Most of the believers’ objectives today were much focused to build up buildings (material façade) instead of building up quality believers who are nourished up in God’s word and those who are established in the faith.

 Indeed no one would deny that fact how Christ wills that ‘ALL WILL BE SAVED’ however, it’s not only that because each person who was saved must needs to ‘KNOW THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH’. There’s a need for every workman of God to attain to reading and exhortation in order to find out God’s exact purpose in His life and that in much time if possible, a workman of God should found establishment in word and in doctrine that has nothing to be ashamed of before him. His goal was merely not to be detracted by the man-made religious goals where its inspiration was motivated by selfish motives of material gain instead of gaining wisdom from God.

If we are indeed motivated by the real essence of our mission in accordance to Christ’s intent then understand that no religious affiliation or entity could cause you to spread out the truth how a sinner could be reconciled back to God in effect of the true gospel which is the message of the grace of God in light with the mystery program. It’s your understanding of His plan and through your response that Christ used every member of the Body of Christ to let the lost back to Him (being His ambassador) through the message of grace and not the church building, Christian music and selfish testimonies by the supposed miraculous physical intervention of God. These couldn’t be our main motivating factor to inspire a person to join local fellowships. Instead, the real cause for their restoration is to simply communicate the truth of salvation and simply aid them (as workmen) to be established in the faith (set of doctrines) through the gospel that the apostle Paul preached since he’s the apostle to the Gentiles. 

     

Consider how religion nowadays designed the traditional ways as they supposed God used them and their mechanics thought to be well pleasing before God. However, the manifestation of their hearts’ intents declared that their goals and plans were not really motivated by voluntary service for God but with behind tracks of covetousness, religious authorities and powers, e.g. by which it only sums up to have focused on earthly treasures instead of having affection to heavenly things.    

This kind of fleshly motivation, as I believed, obviously is out of God’s will. Substantial chaotic realities or real happenings in the society of the so called Christian religion itself emerged as the most ungodly principle of propagating Christ’s name. The name of God and His doctrines are blasphemed by the pagans because of the Christian religious man-made systems supposedly using the word of God and yet denying its power.

We all know that God established a true church (the called out ones) which is the BODY OF CHRIST whose head is Christ and yet religion tried to compete the established church as planned by God with another church with its independent names and entities where most Christians fought for and declared that their local church (its names and identities) are the true church.

Know therefore beloved what church are you building for? Are you building up the church as in accord to the plan of God before the foundation of the world? or Are you building and profound the man-made church based from religion?  

Let’s go back to the real mission which is to reconcile the lost back to Christ and be part of the church the Body of Christ not anymore to the man-made church. Let’s all function as an ambassadors of Christ not to be hindered by whatever man-made religious affairs.