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He is the greatest of all proph-
ets." He still today is living,
and He is the head of the
Church. But where is He
today?
"He ascended to the
right hand of God in
heaven"
and there He has
been the High Priest of the
Church ever since.
Now, He's not the High Priest
of the world. The world rejects
Him; and even individual
Christians are not members of
His Church. They reject Him
as the head of whatever church
they belong to because He is
not the head of any other
church but His own Church;
and, if they are not members
of it, He is not the head of
their church. That's all there is
to it.
His Church is "fitly joined
together." It is "compacted in
every joint" just as if it is
welded together, solidly bound
together and organized. The
organization is explained in
the 12th chapter of I Corinthi-
ans and the 4th chapter of
Ephesians; and how God has
organized His Church. It is an
organized body, but it is not a
human organization. It is a
spiritual organism, and yet it
is well organized.
Now I might just say, by way
of a little news I might put in
right here, that in the past
week the board that I have
surrounding me now in the
human level of the Church, at
the headship of the Church,
the leadership, is an Advisory
Council of Elders. And in this
past week we have been going
over a constitution, and form-
ing and carefully going over
every line, and sentence, and
paragraph of a constitution
and bylaws of the Worldwide
Church of God, an unincorpo-
rated spiritual organism. But it
is organized, and well organ-
ized.
BEGOTTEN,
NOT YET BORN
Now the unincorporated
Worldwide Church of God
does have a number of corpo-
rate entities under it, one of
which is the Worldwide
Church of God Incorporated, a
California corporation. We are
incorporated actually in a
number of States, but the only
members of the corporation
are merely the officers of the
corporation.
But the general laity of the
Church are only members of
the Church of God. In other
words, we are all children of
God; and the Church's congre-
gation is the assembly, group,
family. We're the begotten
Family of God, not yet born.
Now, there are plenty 'born
again' people all around. They
don't know what 'born again'
means. They don't know what
Jesus meant by that word, but
in God's own Church we do
know. We are begotten of God,
and we do have the promise of
being born of God; and too
bad that others cannot under-
stand that.
We are in the process of spir-
itual growth of overcoming
Satan and this world, coming
out of this world; and of grow-
ing in the grace and the knowl-
edge of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ; and also of
enduring until the end of this
life, or the end of this time,
whichever comes first.
So God has given us that
understanding because this is
the Church of God, and it is
based on the Word of God.
And of the foundation of the
Church, we find in Ephesians
the 2nd {5} chapter that it is
founded on the apostles and
the prophets,
"Jesus Christ
himself being the chief
cornerstone."
But it is
"fitly
joined together."
And Christ pictured it in the
15th chapter of John when He
spoke about Himself being the
vine and we are the branches.
But did you ever notice that
the branches are all joined to
the vine, and the branches are
joined to one another through
the vine. Through CHRIST,
we're JOINED to one another.
We're FITLY joined together.
You break one of them off and
let it go alone, and it's also
broken off from Christ.
A lot of people who want to be
lone Christians say, "Well, I
don't have to belong to any set
church." Well, God has one
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