Last Question for the Day
Questions and Answers
It is hard to face the questions we do not always want to answer.
The reality is, if we do not, we are likely to find ourselves on a way “Which seems right”.
It is crucially important to test ourselves, our beliefs and the things we hold as truth.
It is the only way we may purge ourselves from being led astray!
I love the Church of Jesus Christ with all my heart! If I did not, I would not care to pay any attention to it, or serve in ministry on its behalf.
It is Christ’s beloved body on earth — there is no other!
For that reason it is even more urgent that we have servants to the body that will ask the right questions in the hope of causing the body to discover the right answers for themselves!
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Is Church a place? Or is it a people?
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What pleases God?
Following church traditions, or walking in his reality?
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What is church?
An organization or a living organism?
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Basic truths –
Before we can have the peace of God — we need to be at peace with God!
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Faith assurance is not obtained in a confession — but in the fire flames of God’s Spirit which is alive and burning in the heart of man.
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Only to the measure of your own righteousness (or in other words — Christ’s righteousness having impacted your life and having transformed you into being his righteousness by displaying himself in you) — to that measure only, is he able to display his righteousness to others through you!
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There are no “Instant fixes” with God.
There is nothing we do that instantly brings us to our destination.
There is always process and relationship woven into everything that pertains to him.
Salvation is not an instant, but the beginning of a lifelong journey of process upon process deepening our relationship as he is rooted in us, and we are rooted in him.
The same is true regarding all things in him.
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Last Question for the Day …
Is the term “Church” that is used today, relative and compatible — as far as it’s purity, structure, faithfulness, power, and willingness to live sacrificially, is concerned – with what was known as the church 2000 years ago?
If not –
We ought to either change or ways, and rediscover their ways — or find a new and more appropriate name, aptly describing the identity of what presently is still branded as being the “Church”.
Agree?
~ Johann van der Hoven
Johann van der Hoven has been in service of the Lord since 1991 and has hosted numerous mass revival meetings in South Africa and abroad and is a published author. He is the visionary of Fellowship of the Believers, host to “Eagle Food” Apostolic & Prophetic Seminars, and currently pioneers “Deeper Life” Revival School International, from South Africa where he resides. For more info visit www.sonsofsovereignty.com
Beautiful. Thanks brother.