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The Church of God in Cleveland!
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Lining up with Jesus...
According to the Word of God, Jesus is working through the Spirit and by His Word to sanctify His church. Why is He doing this? It is "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." God is going to have a special people on the earth. The thing that makes you special to God is your obedience. God said in Exodus 19:5, "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine." Though God does love the billions of people that live upon this earth, He is looking for His "peculiar treasure." It is a rare thing to find people in this world who truly seek to worship God in Spirit and in Truth. We should seek daily to be that people!
Since Jesus is the "Chief Cornerstone", it makes since that if we want to be a part of God's Spiritual Temple, then we have to in everyway line up with Jesus. We must continually look to Jesus for He is the "author and finisher of our faith." The way to line up with Jesus is to "follow the Lamb withersoever He goeth." Jesus summed up what it means to be in line with Him when He said, "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." We are required to live in obedience to the Word of God. Our love for Jesus will cause us to love and desire His Word, for His Word is truth. I encourage you to give your all to Jesus and let Him do His perfect work in you! Be that "peculiar treasure" that the Lord is seeking for today!
May the Lord bless you!
Pastor Tim Miller
“THE SPIRIT OF REFORMATION”
From the time that He began to work among men, reformation has always been the principle by which God has brought forth His will. It is a testimony to His immutability that Yahweh has never entirely discarded His people or His work and started over with a new people or a new work. God always takes a remnant and continues to mold it unto perfection.
KEY TEXT: ''Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation" (Hebrews 9:10).
God's program for men is never static. It is constantly developing, continually unfolding as He progressively reveals His truth toward the end of perfection. This theme is clearly set forth in Proverbs 4:18 and Romans 1:17.
The way God accomplishes this ever-unfolding revelation of His will is through the principle of reformation. Whenever a group of people becomes so static and crystallized that they can no longer progress in God, He takes a remnant of that people and begins to reform them into what He desires. This is the divine principle set forth in Jeremiah 18:1-6. Notice in Jeremiah 18:4 that God, the Potter, does not discard His work and start over on something completely new. He always takes the material that was marred and reforms it.
This was the case with Judaism, the religion of the Old Testament. When the time came for perfection to be brought to that faith, the people refused to receive it. God took a remnant and reformed them into His Church. This is the message of Matthew 5:17 and Hebrews 9:10.
Reformation has been a continuing principle (II Peter 1:19). After the Early Church went into the Dark Ages, God brought reformation through Martin Luther. Consider the reformation from Romanism that Luther led. Other reformations brought the restoration of sanctification (Wesleyan) and the baptism of the Holy Spirit (Pentecostal). Analyze these reformations.
After the Church was restored in 1903 (Isaiah 60:1), it endured two reformations (1922 and 1957). Consider the causes of these reformations and their results (Zechariah 13:8,9).