Dear Family,
Today is Thursday, June 2, 2022, Day 5 of Week 7. This is the 47th Day in our Count to Pentecost.
If God had wanted the entire world to have known immediately about the resurrected Christ, there are many ways He could have achieved it. After all, nothing is impossible with God. However, it was God’s revealed plan that He build a Church, and that His faithful servants would be the ones to accomplish the spreading of the Good News of the resurrected Christ and the coming of the Kingdom of God, by telling and retelling the story to new people and teaching (feeding) the Believers who joined in the effort.
Once Jesus Christ’s perfect work was accepted by the Father, God initiated a new phase of His plan. Hence, the Day of Pentecost and the pouring out of His Holy Spirit as He birthed His Church almost 2000 years ago. God sent POWER to become sons of God (John 1:12). Much like the members of a baby’s body being formed inside its mother, God’s begotten sons are being formed.
Much of this must be being done in secret. We wait for the appointed time. We wait for the redemption of our bodies. We wait for our change to come when this mortal shall put on immortality.
Psalm 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Romans 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
1 Corinthians 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Jesus said He would build His Church, and the gates of hell could not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18). Although the early disciples reportedly “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6) with the details of God’s plan, the true Church of God has remained small for 2000 years compared to earth’s population.
God has a way of working things out in quiet and in secret until He is ready for the great revealing or the public presentation of His particular project. Consider how small our numbers seem to be in God’s Church today. We don’t really know all of the people with whom God is working. We certainly seem to be a small flock, scattered into so many different groups under so many different corporate structures. However, we KNOW God is building His Church, and He is perfecting it. Nothing can stop it! It cannot be long now until Christ returns, and God’s Church transitions into another phase of His Master Plan. Let us endeavor to be in prayer and supplication in one accord as we wait.
Ben Faulkner, Pastor
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