{"id":1141,"date":"2010-06-15T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/june-qwill-the-church-be-the-churchq\/"},"modified":"2014-01-21T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:40:45","slug":"june-qwill-the-church-be-the-churchq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aletheiabaptistministries.org\/Blog\/june-qwill-the-church-be-the-churchq\/","title":{"rendered":"Will The Church Be The Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have written much lately about the church being the church in today\u2019s world.\u00a0 It has been my contention that the local church of Jesus Christ needs to be about doing the Father\u2019s business and not the world\u2019s or the government\u2019s or the devil\u2019s business.\u00a0 The local church of Jesus Christ is God\u2019s instrument on earth in this age of grace to be the disseminator of the gospel, the revealed mystery once hid but now made manifest to the whole world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Historically, God\u2019s institutions have operated successfully when they have not strayed from their divine constitution.\u00a0 God established the family in the Garden of Eden but it has often strayed from its moorings.\u00a0 Our day is witnessing a struggle for the very existence of the family as God designed it.\u00a0 Human Government was given by God after the Noahic flood as a means of rule, replacing the immediate intervention of the Holy Spirit during the dispensation of conscience.\u00a0 Governments have come and gone, due primarily to the selfish and often evil bent of their rulers.\u00a0 Both the family and human government exist today as God\u2019s instruments on the earth.\u00a0 They are sometimes good and sometimes bad but they are God\u2019s institutions nonetheless.\u00a0 Israel was and is God\u2019s chosen people.\u00a0 To them belong the promises and covenants yet to be fulfilled at the return of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Due to Israel\u2019s rejection of the true Messiah, Jesus Christ, God has set them aside until the time of the gentiles is fulfilled and they are again restored to their intended purpose as the world-leading nation in the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n

The Church is God\u2019s program for God\u2019s people who live in this dispensation of grace.\u00a0 The people of God are to assemble themselves into local churches where they live and carry out God\u2019s Word in life and worship.\u00a0 They will still uphold the traditional (provided that remains \u201cBiblical\u201d) family, obey the civil government, and recognize God\u2019s future for Israel.\u00a0 Yet, without violating any of those, they will live as the people of God, strangers and pilgrims though they be, communicating God\u2019s Word to a lost and dying world, and walking in the light of that Word by covenant and conviction.<\/p>\n

Can the church do this?\u00a0 Will the church do this?\u00a0 Both questions are connected.\u00a0 The answer to the first is definitely \u201cyes\u201d but the answer to the second remains unknown.\u00a0 The seven churches in Revelation all had the same advantages, all lived in the same time and place, and each faced unique challenges.\u00a0 Some of them failed and some of them succeeded.\u00a0 This has been true in every age and yet it has never been more challenging and critical as it is today.\u00a0 The church has all it needs for both success and for failure.<\/p>\n

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The church has all it needs for success<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Edward Hiscox, the well-known writer of Baptist polity, wrote, \u201cA Christian Church is the most perfectly constructed society known to men, and its system of government the most simple and complete.\u00a0 As each member on entering it, solemnly covenants to maintain, defend and abide by these regulations, so he should consider himself bound by the most sacred considerations to honor and keep his covenant inviolate.\u201d1\u00a0 Peter said that God \u201chath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue\u201d (2 Pet. 1:3).<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Since every believer has received the Holy Spirit from the moment he\/she was saved, the local church may be said to possess the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 \u201cFor by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body\u201d (1 Cor. 12:13).\u00a0 This Holy Spirit immersion enables us\u00a0 to understand God\u2019s Word, to enjoy Christian fellowship, and to bring before God spiritual sacrifices that are well-pleasing to Him (Heb. 13:15-16).\u00a0 This is not some charismatic-generated source of new revelation.\u00a0 In that case there would be no permanent and comprehensive ground for truth in Christianity.\u00a0 We have been placed into Christ and have been made to hear and understand the Word of God \u201conce for all delivered unto the saints\u201d (Jude 3).\u00a0 The Holy Spirit is God\u2019s gift to each believer in that He regenerates, seals, baptizes, indwells, fills, illuminates, and leads us.\u00a0 Through Him we have success.<\/p>\n

The Word of God.\u00a0 The church of Jesus Christ knows that God has revealed Himself.\u00a0 But we also know that such \u201crevelation\u201d came \u201cat sundry times and in divers manners . . . Unto the fathers by the prophets\u201d (Heb. 1:1).\u00a0 We also know that \u201cin these last days [He has] spoken unto us by his Son\u201d (Heb. 1:2).\u00a0 We further know that the only revelation available for us today is the Bible, the written, inspired, infallible, Word of God.\u00a0 Peter assures us that this Scripture is \u201ca more sure word of prophecy\u201d (2 Pet. 1:19) than those that had passed away.\u00a0 Further, Paul says that \u201call scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works\u201d (2 Tim. 3:16-17).\u00a0 All that the church needs can and must be found in the written word of God.\u00a0 This IS God\u2019s prophecy for today; this IS God\u2019s incarnation for today; this IS God\u2019s sure Word for today.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t ask for God to reveal Himself to us today.\u00a0 He HAS revealed Himself and ONLY reveals Himself in His Word.\u00a0 We don\u2019t ask God to show us His Word for this church and then His Word for that church.\u00a0 He HAS shown us His Word for all churches in the Scripture.\u00a0 Any other searching for a new word or a further word is a plain lack of faith and only causes confusion among the churches and an insecurity as to what God\u2019s Word really is.<\/p>\n

The gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Will the church ever lack for a message to give in this age of grace?\u00a0 No! It will not.\u00a0 All the various commissions to the church (Matt. 28:19-20; Mk. 16:15-16; Lk. 24:46-49; Jn. 20:21-23; Ac. 1:4-8) contain the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Paul made the gospel the opening subject in the great book of Romans, \u201cPaul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy Scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord\u201d\u00a0 (Rom. 1:1-3).<\/p>\n

The church\u2019s job is not political or social (except within the confines of the order and service of the local assembly) but is spiritual and exclamatory.\u00a0 We truly believe that this world will come to an end and eternity awaits every human being.\u00a0 Heaven and hell are the only alternatives and the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only hope for any soul that will miss hell and gain heaven.\u00a0 Though we are not calloused to the plight of people on this earth, the high-calling of the church is to prepare people for eternity.\u00a0 When that day comes, nothing else will matter.<\/p>\n

The field.\u00a0 Jesus said that our field is the world (Matt. 13:38).\u00a0 This world (kosmos) is the totality of people living at any given time.\u00a0 Every local church has had a field within which it must work.\u00a0 Jesus saw the field in His day white unto harvest.\u00a0 Paul explained that we are workers together with God in our field and that our job is to plant the seed and water it until the time of harvest (1 Cor. 3:6-9).\u00a0 Our field will have both wheat and tares growing in it (Matt. 13:24-32).\u00a0 They will be separated by the angels of God at the harvest.<\/p>\n

The church is not to use civil force to separate the tares from the wheat but is to let both grow together until the time of harvest.\u00a0 This is not a mixed multitude in the church but in the world.\u00a0 It is the way the field is and must be until Jesus returns but it is our field nonetheless.\u00a0 The field doesn\u2019t have to love us or care that we have this ministry, but it does have to receive seed when it is cast.\u00a0 We remember that Jesus said that only a fourth of the soil will actually produce fruit (Matt. 13:10-23).\u00a0 That is not discouraging but encouraging because it matches with the reality we find.\u00a0 It is not our job to convert the world but rather to give seed to the world, and to let God give the increase.<\/p>\n

The Blessed Hope.\u00a0 Among many other ingredients for success that the church has is the imminent return of Jesus Christ in the rapture.\u00a0 This is called a \u201ccatching up\u201d by Paul (1 Thes. 4:17) and a \u201cblessed hope\u201d (Tit. 3:13).\u00a0 Though only the last generation of the church will experience it, every member of the church has the responsibility to look for it and to \u201cwait for his Son from heaven\u201d (1 Thes. 1:10).<\/p>\n

This looking for our Savior at any moment is a great motivation to service and a deterrent from sin.\u00a0 Some have ridiculed the doctrine for these very reasons, but let the moment come and all things will be made manifest, even the hidden things of darkness and the counsels of the heart (1 Cor. 4:5).<\/p>\n

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The church has all it needs for failure<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Again, the question is not whether the church can succeed, but whether it will succeed.\u00a0 The church has the ingredients it needs for success but also for failure.<\/p>\n

The old environment.\u00a0 Ironically, our field in which we work is also the very thing we are not to love\u2014the world (1 Jn. 2:15).\u00a0 In preaching peace to those in the world, we are at the same time in danger of falling back into the old life ourselves.\u00a0 Peter warned that \u201cthe time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles\u201d (1 Pet. 4:3), as Paul also says, \u201cIn the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them\u201d (Col. 3:7).\u00a0 We must work in it but not be part of it lest we become disqualified ourselves (1 Cor. 9:27).<\/p>\n

The old nature.\u00a0 The church is made up of people who are regenerate but also who retain their flesh which they inherited from Adam.\u00a0 This flesh fights against the Spirit and the Spirit against this flesh (Gal. 5:17).\u00a0 This flesh must be put to death daily or it will rule in our hearts to the detriment of God\u2019s work (Col. 3:5, Rom. 8:13).\u00a0 Many today mistake our inordinate affections for positive cultural acuteness, and destroy the church of God through the human nature.<\/p>\n

The old enemy.\u00a0 The church faces the world, the flesh, and also the devil.\u00a0 He is the adversary to the work of the church (1 Pet. 5:8) whom we must resist.\u00a0 His demons have complete doctrines ready for the church\u2019s destruction (1 Tim. 4:1) and false apostles who appear as angels of light (2 Cor. 11:13-15).\u00a0 We spend too much time belittling him and not enough time learning to resist him.\u00a0 We allow his work among unbelievers to creep into our own fellowships and feast with it without fear (Jude 12).\u00a0 Only discouragement and defeat can come of such carelessness.<\/p>\n

The old question.\u00a0 The serpent asked Eve, \u201cyea, hath God said?\u201d (Gen. 3:1) and he has been asking the people of God the same question ever since.\u00a0 The Word of God, when properly treated, can be the very source of strength and success.\u00a0 But when the Word is doubted and twisted to fit our own purposes, it becomes our own excuse rather than God\u2019s revelation.\u00a0 John Newton wrote,\u00a0 \u201cNow as God only thus reveals himself by the medium of Scripture truth, the light received this way leads the soul to the Scripture from whence it springs, and all the leading truths of the word of God soon begin to be perceived and assented to.\u201d2<\/p>\n

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And So . . . <\/strong><\/h2>\n

The church will be the church if we will follow the Lord in all things and not allow the wilderness of the world and the old life to encroach upon God\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1. Edward Hiscox, The New Directory For Baptist Churches (Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Kregel, 1970) 164.<\/address>\n
2. John Newton, The Letters of John Newton (Edinburgh:\u00a0 Banner of Truth Trust, 2000) 15.<\/address>\n
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