{"id":47501,"date":"2022-10-01T02:55:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-undenominational-church-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:55:25","slug":"the-undenominational-church-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/the-undenominational-church-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"The Undenominational Church – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the world, there are congregations of Christians who have obeyed the commands of our Lord with regard to salvation. These Christians are organized into local congregations (Titus 1:5-NKJV), having no central government and no earthly headquarters (John 18:35-36-NKJV). Each congregation is independent, taking the New Testament as its sole authority in religion<\/strong> (1 Corinthians 2:1-5-NKJV; Gal. 1:6-12-NKJV; Ephesians 3:1-11-NKJV).<\/p>\n

The members of the Lord’s church in the twenty-first century believe the exact same things<\/strong> that first century Christians believed, and by doing the same things they did, they become the same thing Christians (Acts 11-26-NKJV; cf. Isaiah 62:2-NKJV).<\/p>\n

The Lord’s church was established on Pentecost day, 33 A.D. And as we read in Acts 2, every saved person was added to the church by the Lord Himself (Acts 2:47-NKJV). Thus the church is composed of folks who have obeyed from the heart<\/strong> the Lord’s plan of salvation (Romans 6:17-18-NKJV; 1 Corinthians 15:1-4-NKJV; Romans 6:1-8-NKJV; Ephesians 5:23-NKJV).<\/p>\n

God’s word is similar to a seed planted (Luke 8:11-NKJV). This seed produced Christians in the first century, and will produce Christians in the twenty-first century<\/strong> (1 Peter 1:13-25-NKJV; James 1:18-NKJV; cf. 1 Corinthians 4:15-NKJV).<\/p>\n

Twenty centuries have passed since the beginning of the church, but we still have the same truth (John 17:17-NKJV) that will judge us on that last day (John 12:48-NKJV). We still have the same church unchanged<\/strong> in name (Matthew 16:18-NKJV), doctrine, organization, faith, and practice.<\/p>\n

The Lord’s church does not use any creed other than the inspired New Testament (2 Timothy 3:16-17-NKJV; 2 John 9-NKJV), nor does it add any doctrine or commandment of man (Matthew 15:9-NKJV; cf. Colossians 2:18-23-NKJV; Revelation 22:18-19-NKJV).<\/p>\n

The only plea of the Lord’s church is the plea for unity not unity in diversity but for unity based on the standard revealed in God’s Word<\/strong> (John 17-NKJV; Ephesians 4:1-6-NKJV). The Lord’s church pleads the merit of no man only the merit of Christ’s shed blood and of His holy Word (Romans 5:6-9-NKJV; Ephesians 1:3-7-NKJV; Hebrews 9:11-14-NKJV; 1 John 1:7-NKJV).<\/p>\n

Dear reader, will you not this day study the above statements along with your Bible (Acts 17:11-NKJV), seriously and prayerfully consider them, and then become obedient to the Lord’s teaching regarding the New Testament church (Romans 6:17-NKJV).<\/p>\n

May the Lord bless you as you think on the Scriptures provided in the above study.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> For any additional questions you might have regarding the undenominational New Testament church, please contact a congregation of the Lords people nearest you or consider becoming a member of the Preacher’s Files Forum. The brethren there will be more than happy to assist you in finding a Bible answer to your questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the world, there are congregations of Christians who have obeyed the commands of our Lord with regard to salvation. These Christians are organized into local congregations (Titus 1:5-NKJV), having no central government and no earthly headquarters (John 18:35-36-NKJV). Each congregation is independent, taking the New Testament as its sole authority in religion (1 Corinthians … Continue reading “The Undenominational Church – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}