The Church of Christ with the Elijah Message Blog

2 Peter 2:1 -3

“But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”

Be careful out there. There are many people who claim to be teaching about Christ and this message that are just shouting evil. Make sure you don’t get caught up in the emotions of the speaker and that you look at the words that they are saying. Only people sent by God will teach the truth. The truth can be found in the three books. All teaching must match the written words. If it does not, it is not from God.

Message 59:4

I cried repentance in the days that are past, my message is repentance today. Let all men repent of their sins and selfish ways, for sin cannot receive the glory of God nor the power of the Lamb slain. Except they repent they cannot be redeemed from that awful state. For the Lord has prepared the way of redemption and he has spoken. It is Christ’s words that shall judge all men, therefore, he cannot use man of his own way, for man’s heart is filled with selfishness.

God has put together a great plan for our salvation. It is up to us to follow it. There key points are repentance, baptism and follow Christ. We must repent of our sins that we, ourselves, have committed. After that we must be baptized by one having the authority to do so. We then follow Christ’s teachings in our daily lives. We cannot follow the teaching of a man for we will be judge against Christ’s. I challenge you to look at your life and see where you are in the plan. If you need to repent and be baptized, then let do it. If you have been baptized how well are you following the instructions that we have?

From Bro. Norm

I sometimes find myself a bit captured in my thinking when I consider the event in the Word of God; that nobody seems to address much in teaching or preaching. The Lord Jesus Christ had been resurrected and had appeared unto many of the believers and had been upon the earth for a period of time and then we find he ascended into heaven. Perhaps you have never thought of it, but what if he did not ascend into heaven?  Why not stay on earth? He had defeated death, overcome the world and the cross. He could have victoriously led His Church on an undefeatable crusade and totally defeated all evil and all notions or doubts concerning His resurrection.

Instead we find a handful of  His Apostles standing and watching Him ascend into the heavens and these were joined by two angels in white apparel (see Acts1:9-11), asking them “Why stand ye gazing up into heaven?” Had not the Lord given them a commandment to take the gospel to the world? Why were they simply standing there? What would you have done?

Perhaps it is a mute point, however have you ever wondered what it would have been like had He stayed? For Him, the battle had been won! For Him, He was totally victorious! We had crucified the very God and He had returned to show He was very much alive! Perhaps the answer is contained in some of His earliest words to His Apostles, when he said in Matthew 10:7, “Go, preach, saying the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” He had spent three years preparing his Apostles for this moment and had already given them their commandments. It was a fulfillment of the first two commandments: Love God and Love your fellowman.

Message 26:1, “….for no greater responsibility was ever placed upon man than taking the gospel to the nations of the earth in it’s purity..”

From Br. Norm

The Lord Jesus commanded his Apostles in Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach…….”, and continued in verse 20, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you…”  Jesus Christ wanted his Apostles to teach and that was their first responsibility; not to preach or any other thing. I am amazed at the lack of understanding among people in the ministry concerning this subject. Ministers of the Gospel love to preach, but few like to teach, yet that is what is most needful and commanded of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In the Record of Nephites, the book of Jacob 1:19, tells us, “…taking upon the responsibility of the sins of the people upon our own heads, if we did not teach them the word of God with all diligence.”  Again we find it a responsibility of importance to teach the word of God.

In Message 9:4 was plain in its instruction saying, “But remember, this work is sacred, the work that you shall do. Therefore, be humble in all that you do and say, for God looks upon the heart, and only the pure in heart are acceptable to Him. By your lives and by your teaching you must prepare a people who shall be worthy to meet Christ at his coming.”  Did you notice that it is a responsibility to teach and prepare a people through teaching for the Lord’s coming? Did you notice that was not only Christ’s first commandment, but also one of the first things commanded in the Word of the Lord brought to mankind through the Elijah Message?

See Second Corinthians 1:21-22, “Now he which stablish us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God. Who hath sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.” Established by what we have been taught that the Holy Spirit may bring it to mind and sealed it in our foreheads that we might have the mark of the Lord in our heads and our hands, because we obey and do the work of the Lord which is in our heads.

Colossians 2:5-7

“For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.”

Even when we are out on our own, Christ is with us.  We have been taught the true gospel, and if we follow it, we blessed. There is strength in numbers, but as long as we have a sold foundation we can stand on our own.

Matthew 28:20

“Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

God is always with us when we follow him.  This is very comforting to know. We are supposed to teach others about God teachings, the best way of doing this is by living a life that shows God’s love.