7. together with their children
commanded organize
constitutions
laws officers badges ordinances discipline
credible
true religion a member of this church
The church is God’s appointed agency for the salvation of men. It was organized for service, and its mission is to carry the gospel to the world. From the beginning it has been God’s plan that through His church shall be reflected to the world His fullness and His sufficiency. The members of the church, those whom He has called out of darkness into His marvelous light, are to show forth His glory. The church is the repository of the riches of the grace of Christ; and through the church will eventually be made manifest, even to “the principalities and powers in heavenly places,” the final and full display of the love of God. Ephesians 3:10. {AA 9.1}
During ages of spiritual darkness the church of God has been as a city set on a hill. From age to age, through successive generations, the pure doctrines of heaven have been unfolding within its borders. Enfeebled and defective as it may appear, the church is the one object upon which God bestows in a special sense His supreme regard. It is the theater of His grace, in which He delights to reveal His power to transform hearts. {AA 12.1}
constitution
[kon-sti-too-shuh n, -tyoo-]
the system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, or the like, is governed.
the document embodying these principles.
badge
[baj]
Noun
a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.: a police badge; a merit badge.
any emblem, token, or distinctive mark: He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.
a card bearing identifying information, as one's name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one's clothing.
ordinance
[awr-dn-uhns]
Noun
an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
a public injunction or regulation: a city ordinance against excessive horn blowing.
something believed to have been ordained, as by a deity or destiny.
Psalm 127:3
3. Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
And the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Heritage: To maintain as a possession, to give as an inheritance.
Hereditary property
Parents are to protect their children from the corruption that is in the world, Christmas, Easter, Carnival, Divali, movies, video games, music etc by teaching about their dangers.
Proverbs 22:6
6. Train up a child in the way he should go:
And when he is old, he will not depart from it
Example. Act 8:26-39 Ethiopian Eunach
Carla Charles testimony on how I met her; My own Testimony of coming to Christ.
John 3:8
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
prerogative
[pri-rog-uh-tiv, puh-rog-]
Noun
an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
a right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category: It was the teacher's prerogative to stop the discussion.
Acts 7:38
38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
To The Church Visible Jesus said, “salvation is of the Jews..” but they did not Progress with the light.
Any Jew that is restored, they will not enter a new church, but will be grafted again into “their own olive tree” (Rom. 11:18–24; comp. Eph. 2:11–22)
Revelation 5:9
9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
Revelation 14:6
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Revelation 14:12
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Matthew 16:18
18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
The word prevail which as we have seen means gain the victory over implies very strongly that there will be danger and opposition to the church , both within and without the Church.
Ephesians 5:23 which tells us that the Great Head of the church will preserve the church. “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.” According to VINE’S EXPOSITORY DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT WORDS the word Savior here means preserver and so what Paul is saying in Ephesians 5:23 is that Christ is the Sustainer and Preserver of His church
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