reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

THE ONE, ETERNAL, INVISIBLE, CHURCH WHICH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. WHEN WAS THE CHURCH FIRST FORMED? IN THE BEGINNING GOD THE FATHER SPOKE, AND HE TOOK HIS WORD AND SHAPED IT AND FORMED IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE WORD OF GOD BECAME THE SON OF GOD. JN:1:1: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD, AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. WHEN GOD SHAPED AND FORMED THE BODY OF CHRIST, THE ETERNAL, INVISIBLE CHURCH WAS FORMED. THIS IS HE, THAT WAS IN THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS WITH THE ANGEL WHICH SPAKE TO HIM IN THE MOUNT SINA, AND WITH OUR FATHERS: WHO RECEIVED THE LIVELY ORACLES TO GIVE UNTO US: ONLY THE BORN AGAIN, SPIRIT FILLED, CHILDREN OF GOD ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THE BODY OF CHRIST IS THE ETERNAL, INVISIBLE, CHURCH IN WHICH MEMBERS LIVE ETERNALLY. COL:1:24: WHO NOW REJOICE IN MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, AND FILL UP THAT WHICH IS BEHIND OF THE AFFLICTIONS OF CHRIST IN MY FLESH FOR HIS BODY'S SAKE, WHICH IS THE CHURCH: ACTS:17:28: FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING; AS CERTAIN ALSO OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, FOR WE ARE ALSO HIS OFFSPRING. ETERNAL LIFE IS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1JN:5:11: AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE ARE SAVED BY THE LIFE OF CHRIST. ROM:5:10: FOR IF, WHEN WE WERE ENEMIES, WE WERE RECONCILED TO GOD BY THE DEATH OF HIS SON, MUCH MORE, BEING RECONCILED, WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT I KNOW OF, AND THAT IS THROUGH THE WATER OF BAPTISM. GAL:3:27: FOR AS MANY OF YOU AS HAVE BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST. WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS; WE COME INTO THE PROMISE THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. ACTS:2:38: THEN PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED EVERY ONE OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS, AND YE SHALL RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. I BELIEVE THAT THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST IS THE MASTER KEY TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHEN THE ELECT OF GOD ARE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST THEY ARE TRANSLATED OUT OF THE WORLD AND INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST. NOTICE THAT THE HOLY GHOST COMES WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS. ACTS:19:1: AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHILE APOLLOS WAS AT CORINTH, PAUL HAVING PASSED THROUGH THE UPPER COASTS CAME TO EPHESUS: AND FINDING CERTAIN DISCIPLES, ACTS:19:2: HE SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED? AND THEY SAID UNTO HIM, WE HAVE NOT SO MUCH AS HEARD WHETHER THERE BE ANY HOLY GHOST. ACTS:19:3: AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, UNTO WHAT THEN WERE YE BAPTIZED? AND THEY SAID, UNTO JOHN'S BAPTISM. ACTS:19:4: THEN SAID PAUL, JOHN VERILY BAPTIZED WITH THE BAPTISM OF REPENTANCE, SAYING UNTO THE PEOPLE, THAT THEY SHOULD BELIEVE ON HIM WHICH SHOULD COME AFTER HIM, THAT IS, ON CHRIST JESUS. ACTS:19:5: WHEN THEY HEARD THIS, THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. ACTS:19:6: AND WHEN PAUL HAD LAID HIS HANDS UPON THEM, THE HOLY GHOST CAME ON THEM; AND THEY SPAKE WITH TONGUES, AND PROPHESIED. ACTS:19:7: AND ALL THE MEN WERE ABOUT TWELVE. AND, WHEN THE ELECT RECEIVE THE WASHING OF REGENERATION, AND THE RENEWING OF THE HOLY GHOST THE INWARD MAN, THE SOUL, COMES TO LIFE IN CHRIST, AND WE BECOME A NEW CREATION. 2COR:5:17: THEREFORE IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD, ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW. 2COR:5:18: AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD, WHO HATH RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF BY JESUS CHRIST, AND HATH GIVEN TO US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION; 2COR:5:19: TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES UNTO THEM; AND HATH COMMITTED UNTO US THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION. AND WE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 1COR:12:27: NOW YE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND MEMBERS IN PARTICULAR. ROM:12:5: SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE ELECT OF GOD TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, AND NOT HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST? YES, THE HOLY GHOST USUALLY COMES WITH THE LAYING ON OF HANDS. ACTS:8:14: NOW WHEN THE APOSTLES WHICH WERE AT JERUSALEM HEARD THAT SAMARIA HAD RECEIVED THE WORD OF GOD, THEY SENT UNTO THEM PETER AND JOHN: ACTS:8:15: WHO, WHEN THEY WERE COME DOWN, PRAYED FOR THEM, THAT THEY MIGHT RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST: ACTS:8:16: (FOR AS YET HE WAS FALLEN UPON NONE OF THEM: ONLY THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS.) ACTS:8:17: THEN LAID THEY THEIR HANDS ON THEM, AND THEY RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY TO YOUR SALVATION TO EAT OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD. JN:6:53: THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. AND WE EAT OF HIS BODY AND DRINK OF HIS BLOOD WHEN WE PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. 1COR:10:16: THE CUP OF BLESSING WHICH WE BLESS, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST? THE BREAD WHICH WE BREAK, IS IT NOT THE COMMUNION OF THE BODY OF CHRIST? WHY THE LAYING ON OF HANDS? WHEN WE, THE ELECT OF GOD, ARE BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, WE BECOME A MEMBER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. AND WHEN WE LAY OUR HANDS ON SOMEONE THE BODY OF CHRIST IS TOUCHING THAT PERSON AND VIRTUE FLOWS FROM THE BODY OF CHRIST AND HEALS THAT PERSON. JMS:5:14: IS ANY SICK AMONG YOU? LET HIM CALL FOR THE ELDERS OF THE CHURCH; AND LET THEM PRAY OVER HIM, ANOINTING HIM WITH OIL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD: JMS:5:15: AND THE PRAYER OF FAITH SHALL SAVE THE SICK, AND THE LORD SHALL RAISE HIM UP; AND IF HE HAVE COMMITTED SINS, THEY SHALL BE FORGIVEN HIM. WHEN WE LAY HANDS ON THOSE THAT ARE SEEKING THE HOLY GHOST. GOD TAKES OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS ON US AND PLACES THE SPIRIT UPON THE ONE SEEKING TO BE FILLED. NM:11:16: AND THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES, GATHER UNTO ME SEVENTY MEN OF THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, WHOM THOU KNOWEST TO BE THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE, AND OFFICERS OVER THEM; AND BRING THEM UNTO THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, THAT THEY MAY STAND THERE WITH THEE. NM:11:17: AND I WILL COME DOWN AND TALK WITH THEE THERE: AND I WILL TAKE OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS UPON THEE, AND WILL PUT IT UPON THEM; AND THEY SHALL BEAR THE BURDEN OF THE PEOPLE WITH THEE, THAT THOU BEAR IT NOT THYSELF ALONE. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE ELECT TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST WITHOUT THE LAYING ON OF HANDS? YES, AT CORNELIUS’S HOME THE CHILDREN OF GOD RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND THEN WERE BAPTIZED. ACTS:10:44: WHILE PETER YET SPAKE THESE WORDS, THE HOLY GHOST FELL ON ALL THEM WHICH HEARD THE WORD. ACTS:10:45: AND THEY OF THE CIRCUMCISION WHICH BELIEVED WERE ASTONISHED, AS MANY AS CAME WITH PETER, BECAUSE THAT ON THE GENTILES ALSO WAS POURED OUT THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. ACTS:10:46: FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND MAGNIFY GOD. THEN ANSWERED PETER, ACTS:10:47: CAN ANY MAN FORBID WATER, THAT THESE SHOULD NOT BE BAPTIZED, WHICH HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST AS WELL AS WE? THE THINGS THAT YOU SEE ARE TEMPORARY, IT IS THE INVISIBLE THINGS THAT ARE ETERNAL. 2COR:4:18: WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. IN THE PHYSICAL CHURCH BUILDINGS THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, THERE ARE CHILDREN OF GOD THAT HAVE NOT BEEN BAPTIZED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, THAT HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST. IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT BRINGS LIFE TO THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL. 2COR:4:16: FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. AND THERE ARE THE CHILDREN OF SATAN. IT IS THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, THAT PREACH, AND TEACH HERESIES. THEY PREACH THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEVILS. 1TM:4:1: NOW THE SPIRIT SPEAKETH EXPRESSLY, THAT IN THE LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS, AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS; 1TM:4:2: SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY; HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED WITH A HOT IRON; 1TM:4:3: FORBIDDING TO MARRY, AND COMMANDING TO ABSTAIN FROM MEATS, WHICH GOD HATH CREATED TO BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING OF THEM WHICH BELIEVE AND KNOW THE TRUTH. 1TM:4:4: FOR EVERY CREATURE OF GOD IS GOOD, AND NOTHING TO BE REFUSED, IF IT BE RECEIVED WITH THANKSGIVING: 1TM:4:5: FOR IT IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WORD OF GOD AND PRAYER. 1TM:4:6: IF THOU PUT THE BRETHREN IN REMEMBRANCE OF THESE THINGS, THOU SHALT BE A GOOD MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, NOURISHED UP IN THE WORDS OF FAITH AND OF GOOD DOCTRINE, WHEREUNTO THOU HAST ATTAINED. HERE ARE SOME OF FALSE PROPHETS, AND FALSE TEACHERS DOCTRINE. DOCTRINE DESIGNED TO SEND THE CHILDREN OF GOD INTO THE FLAMES OF HELL. WHEN YOU HEAR A MAN OR WOMAN TEACHINGS THIS DOCTRINE KNOW THAT THEY ARE EITHER UNLEARNED, OR CHILDREN OF SATAN. FAITH PLUS NOTHING, EQUALS SALVATION. FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD. JMS:2:17: EVEN SO FAITH, IF IT HATH NOT WORKS, IS DEAD, BEING ALONE. IF A PERSON BELIEVES THAT DOCTRINE, AND REFUSES TO BE BAPTIZED; HE WILL BE OUTSIDE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, AND UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES; AND BY THAT LAW NO FLESH WILL BE JUSTIFIED. ROM:3:20: THEREFORE BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE SHALL NO FLESH BE JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT: FOR BY THE LAW IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN. IF A PERSON REFUSES TO PARTAKE OF THE LORD’S SUPPER HE WILL HAVE NO LIFE IN HIM. JN:6:53: THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO YOU, EXCEPT YE EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF MAN, AND DRINK HIS BLOOD, YE HAVE NO LIFE IN YOU. CAN THE ELECT OF GOD ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITHOUT RECEIVING THE HOLY GHOST? NO THEY CANNOT. JN:3:5: JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. JN:3:6: THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. WHAT IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD? ROM:14:17: FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK; BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. WHY IS IT NECESSARY FOR THE CHILDREN OF GOD TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST? IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT GIVES LIFE TO THE INNER MAN THE SOUL. JN:3:5: JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. JN:3:6: THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH; AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST, THE ANOINTING THAT HE BRINGS WILL TEACH US, AND BRING US INTO ALL TRUTH. 1JN:2:27: BUT THE ANOINTING WHICH YE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDETH IN YOU, AND YE NEED NOT THAT ANY MAN TEACH YOU: BUT AS THE SAME ANOINTING TEACHETH YOU OF ALL THINGS, AND IS TRUTH, AND IS NO LIE, AND EVEN AS IT HATH TAUGHT YOU, YE SHALL ABIDE IN HIM. WHERE IS SIN LOCATED ON THE HUMAN BODY? SIN CLINGS TO THE FEET OF THE SINNER. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY THAT THE SAINTS OF GOD WASH YOUR FEET, AND THAT YOU WASH THEIR FEET. IF YOU LEAVE SIN ON THE HUMAN BODY IT WILL BRING DESTRUCTION. JN:13:6: THEN COMETH HE TO SIMON PETER: AND PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, DOST THOU WASH MY FEET? JN:13:7: JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, WHAT I DO THOU KNOWEST NOT NOW; BUT THOU SHALT KNOW HEREAFTER. JN:13:8: PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU SHALT NEVER WASH MY FEET. JESUS ANSWERED HIM, IF I WASH THEE NOT, THOU HAST NO PART WITH ME. JN:13:9: SIMON PETER SAITH UNTO HIM, LORD, NOT MY FEET ONLY, BUT ALSO MY HANDS AND MY HEAD. JN:13:10: JESUS SAITH TO HIM, HE THAT IS WASHED NEEDETH NOT SAVE TO WASH HIS FEET, BUT IS CLEAN EVERY WHIT: AND YE ARE CLEAN, BUT NOT ALL. FOR A MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST TO MAKE HEAVEN THEIR ETERNAL HOME, THEY MUST BE OBEDIENT TO THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 2TM:2:5: AND IF A MAN ALSO STRIVE FOR MASTERIES, YET IS HE NOT CROWNED, EXCEPT HE STRIVE LAWFULLY. WHERE DO WE AS CHILDREN OF GOD WORSHIP GOD? WE AS SAINTS OF GOD WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT, IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. JESUS CHRIST SAID THESE WORDS. JN:4:23: BUT THE HOUR COMETH, AND NOW IS, WHEN THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS SHALL WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH: FOR THE FATHER SEEKETH SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM. JN:4:24: GOD IS A SPIRIT: AND THEY THAT WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. WHEN A PERSON RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST, IT IS THE HOLY GHOST THAT GIVES US THE POWER TO LIVE THE SIN FREE LIFE. BY THIS YOU CAN IDENTIFY YOUR BROTHERS, AND SISTERS, IN CHRIST. 1JN:3:8: HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL; FOR THE DEVIL SINNETH FROM THE BEGINNING. FOR THIS PURPOSE THE SON OF GOD WAS MANIFESTED, THAT HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL. 1JN:3:9: WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 1JN:3:10: IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. CONCERNING THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT, DOES EVERYONE THAT RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST SPEAK IN TONGUES? NO, WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES TO DWELL WITHIN A PERSON HE BRINGS A GIFT. BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT GIFTS. 1COR:12:29: ARE ALL APOSTLES? ARE ALL PROPHETS? ARE ALL TEACHERS? ARE ALL WORKERS OF MIRACLES? 1COR:12:30: HAVE ALL THE GIFTS OF HEALING? DO ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES? DO ALL INTERPRET? HOW CAN A PERSON IDENTIFY A MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT HAS RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST? 1JN:3:9: WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM: AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD.