Sent: March 29, 2004 13:25
Subject: [TruthTalk] What will the Church
Look Like When..
He comes to it? Just like TT, just like your
local "garden variety"
Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal, Charismatic etc.
Church. SOME
IN THEM WILL be without spot or blemish (whatever
that actually means).
There is no "grand transformation" about to take
place (either to
TT or to the Churches). Lance
This is what my KJV says
Lance
"Christ also loved the
church, and gave himself for it that he might
sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the Word, 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." Eph
5:26,27
Sounds to me like the issue is
sanctification/holiness
Jesus was a lamb without blemish
and without spot (1 Peter 1:19)
Contrast Him with actual
spots....
"These are wells without water,
clouds that are carried with a tempest
to whom the mist of darkness is
reserved for ever. For when they speak
great swelling words of vanity,
they allure through the lusts of the flesh
through much wantonness, those that
were clean escaped from them
who live in error. While they
promise them liberty, they themselves
are the servants of corruption; for
of whom a man is overcome, of the
same is he brought in bondage for
if after they have escaped the
pollutions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled therein, and overcome, the latter
end is worse with them than the
beginning. For it had been better for
them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they
have known it to turn from the holy
commandment delivered to them"
(2 Peter 2:17-20)
"These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts; and
their mouth speaketh great swelling
words, having men's persons in
admiration because of advantage. "
(Jude 16)
