There is a perverse and pervasive belief held by many, who call
themselves Christian, that the Church of Christ is the body of true believers,
which can and does cross many denominational lines. It is not the
denominational or nondenominational church that really matters, but the
personal faith of the individuals and these individuals are the ones who make
up the Church of Christ. In other words, the Church of Christ subsists in any
particular denomination.
All Protestants/Pentecostals hold this view as well as the new
religion in Rome, Novus Ordo/Vatican II religion which is ruled by the Soul killer, Francis.
The Second Vatican Council
actually states this very thing in its dogmatic constitution by stating that
the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church explaining that other
non-Catholic churches help build up the one Body of Christ in its Decree on
Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio.
According to the Bible, this is impossible.
Different faiths purporting to be about Christ do not make up the one Faith of Christ, but this is precisely what most
so-called Christians actually believe.
This is a complete falsehood and flatly contradicts the very
Bible they all claim to follow. It denies that the Church is the ONE FAITH of
Christ. Faith is not just a belief in Christ, for even the demons believe
(James 2:19). Demons are not of the one faith of Christ.
Make no mistake about it; any "church" that professes such a lie
is not a Christian church but rather a satanic church that only professes “a”
belief in Christ but not “the” belief of Christ.
If this sounds a little over-the-top, then perhaps a
re-examining of the evidence is in order.
Satan means adversary. Anything that is contrary to Christ would
be satanic. This is why Christ said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a
hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men.” (Matthew
16:23, Mark 8:33)
The Satanic Church doesn’t worship the devil per se, but rather
worships against Christ. Any religion that goes against the true religion is,
without a doubt, a religion of the devil or a satanic church. Christ said, “He
who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.”
(Matthew 12:30)
Some churches, such as the new religion of Rome, hold that their
particular church has the fullness of means of salvation, but that the means of
salvation can be found in other denominational churches, indegrees!!!
This lie, that the Church of Christ subsists in this or that
denomination, is Satanic because it allows each individual to follow his own
system of beliefs. It is Satanic because it follows the laws of the devil, “To
each his own,” which leads to “Do as thou wilt.”
All roads do not lead to heaven, but only one road and Christ
said it was so narrow that few would even find it (Matt. 7:14).
There are others who believe their particular church is the one
true church even though their church was founded by some man within the last
500 years.
According to the Bible, this also is impossible, because it
denies that the Church Christ founded was infallible and indefectible and would
last all days. It presupposes the Church must have died and needed to be
rebuilt or resurrected.
The following Scripture passages by themselves will refute
through implication why all these things are false beliefs about the Church.
They will also demonstrate how these individuals are actually outside of the
Church and apart from the very faith of Christ they claim to hold. Thus their
personal faith in Christ then becomes the very stumbling block on which they
will fall into condemnation.
May the following Word of God wipe clean this sinister snare of
Satan to find the true Church and reject all the clever works of the Devil.
Truth matters or else there would be no point to religion
whatsoever. Why practice any religion if it does not matter whether it is true
or not?
If one religion is better than another but both are legitimate
roads to Heaven, why would anyone practice the most difficult religion if only
to have a greater place in Heaven but a greater chance of hell? Would Christ
ask us to gamble with our souls?
All roads may lead to Rome but only one road leads to Heaven.
Comments have been added to many of these verses to hammer down
the point; the Church of Christ is one faith, which can only be of one
particular church in the world. All other churches, that claim to follow
Christ, are in reality merely man-made religions, which have used every lie in
the book to reject the one and only true Church Christ founded.
These psuedo-churches usurping the Christian name are truly the
most satanic religions of the world.
The one and only road
to Heaven is Jesus Christ as He Himself states, “I am the way, and the truth,
and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6)
Christ implies that apart from the truth is apart from the way
and life itself. The “Way” was how the Church was first known. The Way, Truth,
and Life are so linked together, that you cannot have one without the others.
You cannot have only one part of Christ. You either have Him totally or not at
all.
Jesus replied to Pontius Pilate, “You say that I am a king. For
this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to
the truth.” (John 18:37)
Christ bore witness to “the” truth. This means truth is not
relative. If it is true for you, it must be true for me.
Jesus said he would
build His [one] Church and it will never die.
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18)
“I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the
world.” (Matthew 28:20)
Notice, Christ built a church, not churches. The hundreds of thousands plus
denominations and non-denominations today, do not add up to “a” church. All
have different ways, beliefs, teachings, and practices. They all do not make up
a single religious church.
The Church of Christ
is the Body of Christ because She is the Bride of Christ.
(Ephesians 5:22-32) “[22] Wives, be subject to your husbands, as
to the Lord. [23] For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head
of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. [24] As the church is
subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their
husbands. [25] Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her, [26] that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the
washing of water with the word, [27] that he might present the church to
himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might
be holy and without blemish. [28] Even so husbands should love their wives as
their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. [29] For no man ever
hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,
[30] because we are members of his body. [31] “For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become
one flesh.” [32] This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers
to Christ and the church;”
(Colossians 1:18,24) “[18]He is the head of the body, the
church; [24] his body, that is, the church,”
(I Corinthians 6:15) “Do you not know that your bodies are
members of Christ? Shall I therefore take the members of Christ and make them
members of a prostitute? Never!”
(I Corinthians 12:27) “Now you are the body of Christ and
individually members of it.”
(Romans 12-4-5) “For as in one body we have many members, and
all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body
in Christ, and individually members one of another.”
The Church Christ
founded is the Way.
(Acts 9:2) “so that if he found any belonging to the Way”
(Acts 19:9,23) “[9] when some were stubborn and disbelieved,
speaking evil of the Way before the congregation [23] About that time there
arose no little stir concerning the Way.”
(Acts 24:14,22) “[14] that according to the Way, which they call
a sect, worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the
law or written in the prophets, [22] But Felix, having a rather accurate
knowledge of the Way,”
If Christ is the Way and the Church is the Way, and the Church
is the Body of Christ, then apart from Christ and the Church is apart from
Life. Apart from life means apart from salvation, therefore, outside the church
there is no salvation.
The Church is Christ’s
Flock.
“I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me, as
the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the
sheep. And I have other sheep, that are not of this fold; I must bring them
also, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd.”
(John 10:14-16)
“Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” (John 18:37)
(I Peter 5:1-4) “So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow
elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ as well as a partaker in the
glory that is to be revealed. Tend the flock of God that is your charge, not by
constraint but willingly, not for shameful gain but eagerly, not as domineering
over those in your charge but being examples to the flock. And when the chief
Shepherd is manifested you will obtain the unfading crown of glory.”
The Church is “of the truth” because it hears the voice of
Christ, who is the Head and Shepherd. Again, there is only “one flock” not
different flocks. Those who are not of the one flock, Christ must bring into
the fold. The implication again, is the flock will attain salvation with the
“crown of glory”, but outside the fold there will not be that crown of glory
meaning no salvation.
The Church is a
visible institution.
“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be
hid.” (Matthew 5:14)
(I Corinthians 12:28) “And God has appointed in the church first
apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then
healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in various kinds of tongues.”
(Colossians 1:24-25) “his body, that is, the church, of which I
became a minister according to the divine office”
The Church is visible
or else these passages are meaningless. If there are apostles and they are
first, then the rest should follow them because Apostles are leaders,
overseers, and the bishops of the Church. They did not appoint themselves but
were appointed by Christ Himself or other Apostles after Him. They don’t start
their own churches (denominations and non-denominations) but spread the one
Church already founded.
The Church is the household of God.
(Ephesians 2:19-22) “So then you are no longer strangers and
sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the
household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure is
joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are
built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.”
(I Timothy 3:15) “you may know how one ought to behave in the
household of God, which is the church of the living God”
Notice, the Church is built upon Christ and the apostles and
prophets, not men reinventing religion with a new foundation of enlightened
thought such as the Protestant and Evangelical Reformers who started their own
churches based on what they thought the church should be. Sola Scriptura (Bible
Alone) is the myth, which became the justification to reject the foundation of
the Apostles, and create a new foundation and just call it the foundation of
the Apostles. Modernism is the enlightened thought of the new religion of Rome,
which replaced historic Christianity and usurped the Catholic name.
The Church is the
household of Faith.
(Galatians 6:10) “So then, as we have opportunity, let us do
good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.”
The Church equals Faith. If you have “the” Faith, you are of
“the” Church.
The Church is the one
Faith.
(Ephesians 4-6) “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you
were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one God and Father of us all, who is above all and through all and in
all.”
(I Timothy 6:20-21) “O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to
you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called
knowledge, for by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith.
Grace be with you.”
(Jude 1:20) “But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most
holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;”
Since there is only one Lord, it only follows that there is only
one Faith. The Church is the Body of Christ. It equals the Faith, which equals
the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
The Church has true
authority.
“…tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the
church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to
you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 18: 17-18)
(Galatians 1:8) “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be
accursed (anathema or cut-off).”
(Titus 2:15) “Declare these things; exhort and reprove with all
authority. Let no one disregard you.”
If one has a
disagreement about something of the Faith, which Church does he take it to? If
the Faith is the Church, then there must be someone whom has the authority in
the Church to say so. This someone is the one who has the authority to bind and
loose. He is the one whom has the authority to anathematize. Although several
persons could make certain decisions in the Church, it ultimately must come
down to one person in the end. But the authority cannot be rejected or else you
will automatically be cut-off from the Way. Thus, the rejection of this
authority will be the rejection of salvation. “Whoever hears you, hears me; and
whoever rejects you, rejects me,” says the Lord Jesus. (Luke 10:16)
The Church is immaculate and has no flaws or defections.
The Church is immaculate and has no flaws or defections.
(Ephesians 5:25-27) “Christ loved the church and gave himself up
for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of
water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in splendor,
without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without
blemish.”
This demonstrates how one cannot complain about anything the
Church teaches or practices or else the implication would be the Church is not
a spotless Bride, but a whore. He who rejects anything the Church teaches or
practices because he thinks them to be spots, wrinkles or blemishes of the
Church, blasphemes Christ and His Church.
The Church is the
pillar and bulwark of Truth and is infallible.
(I Timothy 3:14-15) “I am writing these instructions to you so
that, if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of
God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the
truth.”
A pillar and bulwark is something that holds something else up.
In this case, it is the Church who holds up the Truth. If something is not
true, then it is a lie. The Church cannot lie. Everything the Church teaches
must be true or this passage is meaningless.
“Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.” (John 18:37)
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to
worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit
and truth.” (John 4:23-24)
The worship of the Church is of the spirit and truth. It is not
apart from the spirit and truth, or else, it would not be the true Church doing
the worshiping.
“[7] Nevertheless I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage
that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Counselor will not come to you;
but if I go, I will send him to you. [13] When the Spirit of truth comes, he
will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority,
but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that
are to come.” (John 16:7,13)
“[17} Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth. [19] And
for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in
truth.” (John 17:17,19)
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew
16:18-19)
What are the gates of hell but the lies of the devil and men. If
the Church taught one lie, then the powers of hell would prevail. However,
Christ promised this never to happen. The keys are given to one man, Peter. He
is that someone whom Christ has given the power and the authority to bind and
loose. He is the one whom has been given the authority to anathematize. The
keys also denote succession. All this can be seen in Isaiah 22:22, from which
Christ, the Eternal son of David, was drawing from, when He gave Peter the
keys, just as Eli’akim was given the key to the house of David.
Therefore, Peter’s true successors will have his same power,
which ultimately comes from Christ. This has always been the belief and
practice of the Church Christ founded. To reject Peter and his successors’
authority is to reject the historic Christian faith. It also means the
rejection of the Way, the Truth, and the Life who is Christ himself. Apart from
this truth of Peter means apart from salvation. Salvation depends on this truth
to make sense of the whole of the Scriptures about what the Church is, does,
and means. Refusing to listen even to the Church, which must by necessity come
down to the authority of one man, is to be as the Gentile and tax collector.
“tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the
church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to
you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 18: 17-18)
The Church guards all
truth and keeps all false teachings out.
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by
itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it
is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If a man does
not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are
gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me, and my words
abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. By this my
Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. If you keep
my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s
commandments and abide in his love.” (John 15:4-10)
(Galatians 1:8) “But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be
accursed (anathema or cut-off).”
(I Corinthians 16:21-23) “I, Paul, write this greeting with my
own hand. If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord,
come! The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.”
(II Timothy 4:3-4) “For the time is coming when people will not
endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for
themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from
listening to the truth and wander into myths.”
(I Peter 5:8-9) “Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil
prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. Resist him, firm
in your faith”
(Colossians 1:21-23) “And you, who once were estranged and
hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh
by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable
before him, provided that you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not
shifting from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which has been preached
to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.”
(I Timothy 1:3-11) “As
I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus that you may
charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, [4] nor to occupy
themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather
than the divine training that is in faith; [5] whereas the aim of our charge is
love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith. [6]
Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion,
[7] desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they
are saying or the things about which they make assertions. [8] Now we know that
the law is good, if any one uses it lawfully, [9] understanding this, that the
law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the
ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and
murderers of mothers, for manslayers, [10] immoral persons, sodomites,
kidnapers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
[11] in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I
have been entrusted.”
(II Tim 1:14) “guard the truth that has been entrusted to you by the Holy
Spirit who dwells within us.”
CONCLUSION
According to the Holy Scriptures, the Church Christ founded is
the household of God and Faith. It is a visible institution with divine
offices. It has the full authority of Christ to teach, preach, sanctify, and
anathematize. The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. It is united in
faith and perfected in truth. Outside this Church, there is no salvation. The Church
of Christ can be found in all generations. Only one Church can claim to be this
Church for only one has all the marks. One cannot claim to believe in Jesus,
the Holy Bible, and Christianity without acknowledging it.
The TRUTH of religion matters for the salvation of men.
Truth is objective. The true religion must be perfect in every
way. If one discrepancy can be found by way of doctrine in a particular
religion, then the whole religion is corrupt. It must be rejected entirely.
Christ calls man to be perfect. (Matthew 5:48)
If God is to be
worshiped in spirit and truth (John 4:24), then a false religion would not be
in spirit and truth, but in contradiction and error.
To remain in a false religion as one picks and chooses out of the false
religion what is good and what is bad, is not in spirit and truth.
The whole tree must be good. If it bears bad fruit, it should
cut down and thrown into the fire. (Luke 3:9, 13:7)
The Vatican 2 Church and all the Protestant, Evangelical, and
non-denominational churches are trees that bears nothing but bad fruit, since
they all lead to a false relationship with Christ.
They all mock Christ and everything that is holy while
pretending to be Christian.
In the end, Christ will have them all cut down and thrown into
the fire.
Only one Church will
be left standing.
The underground Catholic Church, which is the Bride of Christ,
will be raised up and brought out of the wilderness (Apoc. 12:6) because she
has kept herself pure by not following false doctrine and will be dressed in
fine linen (Apoc. 19:7-8), and there will be a great feast.
“And the angel said to me, “Write this:
Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he
said to me, “These are true words of God.” (Apoc. 19:9)
By Steven Sperey
Presented by Malachy Igwilo, 23rd May 2020. feast of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, within the Octave of Ascension.
