“THe Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God…”  (Romans 8)

“…[B]ut the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered…”   (Romans 8)

 

I’m not dogmatic on this point and I cannot quote chapter and verse on this, however it seems a sound deduction, using [Theo]logic.  I have asked various persons if they believe the church…the invisible church, in general is sound and healthy.  In other words I asked different persons if they believed the churches a cross this country are preaching the whole counsel of God.  Is the church whole, sound and healthy?

The other day I was listening to a preacher on the radio.  This preacher, i am comfortable with.  This preacher was talking about the unsoundness in the Church.  When he was talking with another preacher he asked the other preacher what he was planning on preaching.  The preacher said it was a really good message and the people are going to enjoy it.
This same radio preacher was, himself, asked by a different preacher what he, himself was planning on preaching.  The radio preacher said, “2 Thessalonians.”  the questioning pastor looked at the radio preacher and thought he was joking.  The point the radio preacher was making was the other preacher didn’t realize 2 Thessalonians was an actual book of the Bible!!!  Kind of like 2 Hezekiah, preachers will quote from in jest because there is no 2 Hezekiah!!!  But the questioning preacher didn’t know that 2 Thessalonians was an actual epistle of Paul and a book of the New Testament???  This I have a hard time believing, but the radio preacher was serious. how can a “pastor” not know the Books of the Bible?

Back to my question. How do these persons know the Church is unsound in it’s teachings today?  Yeah, I know the Scriptures foretell of a great falling a way and a great apostacy, but how do we know this is happening in our time?  Most persons attend a single church, so how would they know the Church is sick when they do not attend other churches?  Yeah, I know about t.v. preachers but those are t.v. preachers, they do n ot represent the whole body of Christ, so how do Christ-ians know that the Church is unsound?

I asked persons this week and they confess the illness of false doctrine in the church, but when I ask them if their church is unsound, they say not.  I then ask them how and why they think the Church is sick.  These persons look at me and say, “I don’t know.”  This is fascinating to me.

How does the body of Christ know things and not know how they know these things?  I’m not saying they’re wrong, I’m not discounting their views, I want to know how we know what we know instinctively.

It seems to me that there is a spiritual and communal mind within the Christ-ian and within the Christ-ian body, the Church.  In Romans 8 we read that the Spirit witnesses to our spirit and that He intercedes with groanings that cannot be uttered.  I’m learning that we as Christ-ian believers are tapped into One Communal MInd!!!  Christ is the Head of the body to be sure. The Spirit of God is He Who brings Christ’s thoughts and that which God wants us to know…it is like a telephone tree in a local church.  If a member is sick one person will call a few persons and then those persons will then call other persons and on it goes.  I believe that this is how Christ-ians know what we know…yeah, I know Scripture tells us and teaches us all things necessary….the transfer of that knowledge necessary, however is transferred into knowledge received and confirmed through the intercession of the Holy Spirit!!!

In Bible times word would spread from one home to another.  The episteles of the Apostles would be sent to one church body and then that church would then deliver the epistle to the next home church and on it would go, being preserved by God.  Today with Christ-ian believers being spead over the globe, the Holy Spirit delivers knowledge to God’s people as we have a communal Christ-ian mind.  This is how certain Christ-ians can identify other Christ-ians whom they have never met.  The Holy Spirit is bearing witness within each believer and when that happens each believer’s spirit witnesses to each other!!!  This is why Christ-ians become fast friends and unity is formed so quickly.

We are of One Spirit…One Holy Spirit, and He binds, ties, knits, unites, glues us all together into one communal spirit or mind.  How great is our faith…How Great is the Author and Finisher of our faith?  O’ God, my God!!!…praise Him, all ye that have breathe. Praise God in the Highest  Christ-ian unity…the body of Christ… the Church United… WHAT!!! a great FAITH and FAMILY our God has put together; this family of God spans ages, eras, centuries, countries, continents…we are all bound together by One Spirit…One Blood…One Love…One Hope…One God…One Baptism…One Creator…One Name under Heaven given among men whereby WE…WE..WE MUST be saved.

Godspeed.