Guarding Against The Tendency & Doctrine Contrary To The Heavenly Calling/Hope.

Guarding Against The Tendency & Doctrine Contrary To The Heavenly Calling/Hope.


The history of the church is one long story of the tendency to settle down on earth and to become conformed to this world, find acceptance & popularity here & eliminate the elements of conflict/enmity with the world and of pilgrimage in it.
With every break of the light of revival, which has seldom shone/rayed in, the inclination & gravitation of hearts to this dark world, soon eclipses & instituitionalizes it, turning it into an earthly thing, an organisation, a new denomination or sect.

From the high altitude of the first years as set before us in the book of Acts, the church in it's pristine and sublime state, began to decline, until the church publicly and generally became an earthly institution, a mere religious organisation even politically attached to the earth.

The battle all through her history has been in this connection; whether the church would maintain or retrieve the loss of it's heavenly calling and position.
The battle intensifies much more in an endtime, as many scoffers and mockers arise in the garb & nomenclature of 'apostles', 'prophets' & 'teachers'; speaking despicably of the heavenly calling, inheritance and hope of the church, questioning the hope of the Lord's coming/return.

Those who do not know nor are mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and the apostolic teachings of the apostles of our Lord in the scriptures of truth, are vulnerable and susceptible to being led away by the error of these wicked teachers, who consistently and deliberately speak/teach against the heavenly way & hope.

2nd Peter 3:1-4 & 17
This second letter, beloved, I already write to you, in both which I stir up, by way of putting you in remembrance, your pure mind.
To be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandments of the Lord and Saviour by the apostles; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days, mockers with mocking, walking according to their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for from the time the fathers fell asleep all things remain thus from the beginning of the creation.
Ye* therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, take care lest, being led along and away with the error of the wicked, ye should fall from your own stedfastness.

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