| TEMPLE OF GOD
MAY 5,2001
Unto the Church of God, and all who are called to be sanctified in our Lord Jesus Christ: All Hail: Is it well with thee?: I am well in the temple of the Most High God: the body of His only begotten Son Christ Jesus. By whom all knees shall bend, and all heads bow: for Great is the Lord God of Israel that created the heavens and the earth.
To my brethren of Israel, and to the Filipino saints, and to my Muslim brothers, and to all that are in sanctified in the body of Christ: I testify this Sabbath and every day of the week: The house of God is not a building; but the body of a righteous man. We who are sanctified by the Holy Ghost, are born of God, and stand as the temple of God. For by our baptism in the Spirit of Truth, we are renewed in the likeness of Christ: the minister of our sanctuary, which is our mind.
Let no man be mistaken: for I have come not to destroy the church: for it is certainly a place for assembly if it be the Sabbath day. But the sanctuary of God is the mind: as the temple of God is the body. Thus be clean and sober in the mind: pure and righteous in the heart: steadfast and unmovable in the body in Christ. Upright and holy with the bosom of charity and the eyes of truth: and sound doctrine as the drum of each ear. For the temple of God is upright and holy: so tear down your old body and build anew: for the body of Christ is sanctified with freedom from sin and all unclean things.
So put away the things that defile the body: surely lies defile the body: and drugs defile the body: and cigarettes defile the body: and liquor defile the body: and wine defile the body: and fornication defile the body: and homosexuality defile the body: and dressing in things that pertain to the opposite sex defile the body: and envy defile the body: and jealousy defile the body: and selfishness defile the body: and greed defile the body: and hate defile the body: and lust defile the body: and public nudity defile the body: and gossip defile the body: and hypocrisy defile the body: and ignorance defile the body: and foolishness defile the body: and all transgression defile the body.
For it is written: "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods" (I Corinthians 6: 18-20).
"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods" .
The Scriptures say that you are brought with a price: so know that your body is not your own to do as you will. Your body is given life because Christ gave his body death for your sake, that you might be saved. For Christ need nothing to save him: for he is the Savior. Your body is owned by God to do according to Gods will: so when you mark your body with tattoos, you have marked the temple of God. I speak this not to condemn those with tattoos: but to bring to light that which was overlooked. So be not angry at the truth: for if a man be angry at the truth; then a man is angry at God: how then can that man stand?
So humble yourself and remove all pride that you adhere to your mistakes and make correction: for whom the Lord love He correct (Proverbs 3:12). For all have sinned and come short of Gods glory: so no man is without wrongdoing. So be not angry at the correction given: for if it had not been given, how could you be saved from hell?
Follow the Scriptures and glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which is owned by God. And fear not them that can kill the body: but He that can destroy both body and soul in hell (St. Matthew 10: 28).
To the Gentiles of the earth that are sanctified in our Lord Jesus Christ: Open your bibles to Ephesians 2: 12-22, and read: "That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are built together for an habitation of God through the Spirit" .
So men of Israel: you are indeed the salt of the earth (St. Matthew 5:13): but the repenting Gentile is a fellow citizen with the saints, and of the household of God. And if a Gentile be of Gods household, then he is built as a new man on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets: and what be the foundation of the apostles and the prophets but Israel. And if Jesus Christ is the chief corner stone, then what are the customs of Jesus but Hebrew customs. So know therefore, all Gentiles called into the body of Christ, to be fellow heirs, that your body cannot be undefiled in pagan customs. For you are made into the body of Christ, to stand as the body of Christ. Thus, as a temple of God shall a man adhere to the commandments and customs of Christ. And what is the first commandment: "And Jesus answered him, The first commandment is, Hear O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord" (Mark 12:29).
To seek the body of Christ without the commandments of Christ is to seek in vain. For what say the Scriptures: "No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (St. Matthew 6:24). So put away your idols, which are your pagan traditions: for such has no place in the temple of God. For it is written in II Corinthians 6:16-18: "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty" .
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you" .
Hear the word of God and come out from among them, and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing. How powerful are the words of God? So listen, and hear, and obey, that your body and soul be not destroyed in hell fire.
And if a man should ask what is an unclean thing? It is that which abide not in the commandments of God and His Christ. It be as it is written: "But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them. For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" (Ephesians 5:3-17).
Read and well remember the Scriptures of Ephesians 5:3-17: for such are the answers to many things.
I know that I have overwhelmed you with the Truth: but many have not yet seen the Lambs book of life. Greater is the knowledge in the book of life: and more esoteric.
I speak to all the earth and let this word be heard: For the hour of decision has risen: for no longer can a man sit on the fence: because the saints of the Lord are called to one Lord, and one faith, and one baptism. And if you love Jesus as you claim you do, then no man can supersede his words. For Paul so said: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5). And Jesus Christ himself told us the one Lord in St. Mark 12:29, and the one faith in St. John 4:22, and the one baptism in St. Matthew 28: 19.
Those are the words of Jesus Christ: Why then is there resentment when you claim you love Jesus Christ? For by grace has no man been omitted from salvation but by his own will: for Jesus said, "Teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (St. Matthew 28:19). So why are you angry? Except you be angry because the truth is not of your liking: because the truth has taken away your worldly joy, which are the pagan traditions of Christianity. So you lash out against me: bold in your statement behind my back, saying, Who is he to judge? I Cornelius, speak not behind your back, but to your face: so turn around so you may hear this: I judge nothing; but Truth is the Judge of all things.
And if a man should say unto me: It is written, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy-day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days" (Colossians 2:16).
First, I am not a man, but the Spirit of Truth sent down from the throne of God. Second, know that the words of Jesus Christ himself supersede the words of any before him, or after him. Third, It is written by Paul who also wrote Colossians: "Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away" (I Corinthians 13:8-10). That which is perfect is the testimony of Jesus Christ: for the apostles were made able but not perfect: so what they taught was in part: because leniency was given for the sake of maintaining the church. But perfect has come, which is every word according to the testimony of Jesus Christ: so that which is in part is now done away. So in this hour seek not the teachings of the apostles to justify your disobedience: for the foundation is built upon the apostles and prophets with Jesus Christ as the chief corner stone (Ephesians 2:20). So the bottom line in all things is the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Let the Truth be known: for the covenants of promise were two: which is to Israel and Islam (Galatians 4:22-31): before Jesus there were no other. But by the grace of God, our Lord was sent in sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh (Romans 8:3), and to raise the temple of God (St. John 2:19-21) as a house of prayer for all who call on the true name of the Lord, that all flesh might be saved in the temple of God, whose temple you are. So run not to a building to be saved: for in a building can no man be saved. For it is written: "God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with mens hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things" (Acts 17:24-25). And Jesus said, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the body. When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said" (St. John 2:19-22).
The words of the Scriptures are more powerful than any words a man might speak. So let a man know without doubt, that the temple of God is the body. So tear down the old man and build anew: for it is written: "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new" (II Corinthians 5:17).
And it is written: "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are" (I Corinthians 3:17).
The Lord God almighty is calling all nations to the one body of Christ, which is the temple of God. Be upright and holy: arrayed in the armor of God: and steadfast and unmovable in the Spirit of Truth. Amen.
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