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Living consistent lifestyle of a glorious churc, requisite for readiness for the imminent rapture.

Living consistent lifestyle of a glorious church requisite for readiness for the imminent rapture

Ephesians  5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Jesus Christ our Master and Lord, promised before He left for heaven in His first advent that He will be coming again.

John  14:1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  14:2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

But then when He comes back, He will not be coming for all the universal churches globally, but for the glorious church.

There are two categories of churches presently. The glorious and the graceless churches.

Graceless churches.

2 Timothy  3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,  3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Glorious churches.

Ephesians  5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;  5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,  5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

In fact there are two categories of churchgoers globally.

They are:

The sheep and the goats.

The Lambs and the wolves.

The wise virgin and the foolish virgins 

The glorious church and the graceless churches.

The believers and  unbelievers

The children of  the kingdom and of the wicked one.

Matthew  13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

The  wheat and the tares.

The vessels of honor and dishonor 

Our Master and Lord is coming for the glorious church,  washed with His precious blood from spots, blemishes and wrinkles etc.

Pause and sincerely examine yourself. Where do you belong too?

2 Corinthians  13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

For you to be members of the glorious church, you must experience the following:

Biblically saved and become a new creature.

John  3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

2 Corinthians  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.

Biblically sanctified 

Hebrews  13:12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.  13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Then you continue to walk on the highway of biblical holiness lifestyle till Christ comes.

Isaiah  35:8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.  35:9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

When do you do all of these?

2 Corinthians  6:2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

Beloved, if you are already a member of the glorious church, then continue to live a lifetime of daily biblical holiness till Christ comes.

His grace will be sufficient for you.

2 Corinthians  9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Let us pray.

Bishop Peter Babalola

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