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THE 12 APOSTLES
THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION
 © Carlos Padilla, March 2009 The apostolic succession of takes us to the Church to three conclusions serve that us to strengthen plus our faith in the Son of God, without fluctuating because of the division of the Church in so many denominations. On the one hand, that the Spirit Santo does not leave single the Church it organizes, it, it directs, it equips, it takes care of, it gives growth, it regenerates and it supervises. On the other hand that the Christian, as much the one who has been time in the Way, like which he begins, can be sure that the Gentleman will not leave to him and will take to him everywhere by the good Way with brothers to where goes. And on the other hand that the Gentleman continues sending apostles by everybody to those zones where the Gospel is not known, it is Arab Africa, China, countries or indigenous zones without the necessity of apostolic councils, but under Their own and superior Spiritual authority. When Mr. Jesus Christ instructed to the apostles for the Great Commission, to take the Gospel to all the Earth nations, first they hoped to that the promise of the Father was fulfilled, the unction of the Spirit Santo. Before they named to MatÃas so that it took the vacant position and thus to receive the Gentleman being 12 again, between the 120 that was in the first Christian Pentecostés. It is from here that the apostles would see the hand of the Gentleman, after being they at the outset a time concentrating in Israel before in the nations and the Spirit Santo he would take part, leading the evangelical conquest of the world. Jesus Christ would act calling to Pablo for the apostolate to the gentile ones, and on the other hand the scattered ones after the persecution against the Church, after the death of Esteban, would preach to gentile and would establish in Antioch the first church where to the disciples it would be called Christians to them. The history of the Church in its different periods has shown a progressive deterioration of the apostolate after the councils that ended at an extreme clericalism, until the protestant reform arrived. Beginning the 21st century new apostolic movements have arisen from marriages that they lead to groups of pentecostales churches, with doubtful apocalyptic doctrines and forced supernatural manifestations. In the same way that the Catholic church has maintained the government system episcopal and a moved away doctrine of the Bible, and it puts in front the tradition although she is opposite to the Word of God, the false pentecostales movements based on the emotions and obligatory supernatural manifestations also move away of the healthy doctrine. It means this that the government of the church does not have to be apostolic. In order to clarify to the apostolic succession and its effect in the Church, we must approach the first traditional concept of the history of the apostolic succession that concentrates exclusively in the chair of the Pedro apostle in Rome, and that originates from the confession of Pedro to the Gentleman and its consequence: … Jesus said to Simón Pedro: Simón, son of Jonás, you love to me more than these? It responded to him: Yes, Sir; you know I love you that. He said to him: He feeds my ewes… Juan 21:15. … Responding Simón Pedro, he said: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God… … And I also say to you, what you are Pedro “Petrusâ€?, and on this rock “petraâ€? I will build my church; and the doors of Hades will not prevail against her. And (Church mine) I will give the keys you of the kingdom of skies… Mateo 16. This went education of Jesus Christ to Pedro. … Acercándoos to him, rejected alive stone certainly by the men, but for selected and precious God, you also, like stones cheers, thirst built like spiritual house and priesthood santo… 1Pedro 2. … Request to the old ones that they are between you, old I also with them and witness of the sufferings of Christ, that I am also participant of the glory that will be revealed: You feed the congregation on God that is between you, taking care of of her, not by force, but voluntarily; not by dishonest gain, but with spirit soon; like not having señorÃo of that they are to your care, but being examples of the congregation. 1Pedro 5. This went education of Pedro to the old ones. Totally in line and spiritual coherence with the education of the Teacher. In addition the apostolic succession on the chair to the Pedro apostle, concludes according to the catholic tradition in which he was the bishop of Rome during 25 years. This tradition lacks basic Biblical or historical, since Pedro, except in its death, was not in Rome, that is to say by all the letters of Pablo in the Bible, in which whenever it talks about the brothers of the capital of the empire, never it mentions him. A supremacy of Pedro as head of the Church on the other apostles is not what shows the first council of Jerusalem in Facts 15, presided by Santiago, nor the treatment that gave Pedro to the brothers, according to its own letter in which it is located in Babylon, where there was a great Jewish community honoring his work of apostle to the Jews, as well as Pablo honored his to the Gentile ones. It is argued in some sources that this Babylon is symbolically Rome; the reader discerns. Knowing at this point of the history and of the interpretation of the words of the Gentleman in Mateo 16:13 - 20; Marks 8:27 - 30; Lucas 9:19 - 21: … your you are Pedro (gr. petros, stone), and on this rock I will build my Church, and the doors of Hades will not prevail against her… with reference to the faith of Pedro in Christ like the Son of God, revealed by the Father, nowadays, cannot be discussed - although still they do it to the catholics that the stone was the person of Pedro, but the faith in Christ. This last one was taught by the immense majority of bishops of the first centuries, mainly by those of greater relevance in the education of the healthy doctrine of the Church, besides own the Pedro in his first letter in chapter two. If it were Pedro and its successor the head of the Church, how he is that the church of Rome has turned aside so much of the healthy doctrine? He would not have been thus if that Roman exposition were the true one. Neither the continuators of the work of the apostles, who appear in the Bible, like Lucas, Timoteo, Tito, Bernabé, etc. nor the first parents of the Church have never taught the priority of the bishop of Rome, of which I mention to some: San AgustÃn bishop of Hipona, in his commentary on the first epistle of Juan, explains the confession of Pedro: … What means these words: I will build my Church on this rock? They mean: I will build my Church on this faith, on which you say to me: Your you are the Christ, the Son of alive God. And in one of its famous sermons AgustÃn of the following form would preach: Your you are Pedro, and on this rock, (stone) that you have confessed, on this rock that you have recognized confessing: Your you are Christ, the Son of alive God, I will build my Church; on My same one, that I am the Son of God I will build, it; and not on you. With this affirmation of AgustÃn we can begin exposing what at his time it was the common faith between the Church of the first parents, like also San Ignacio, bishop of Antioch, 98 a.C., San Jerónimo, San Hilario de Poitiers, San Cirilo, San Ambrosio of Milan, San Juan Crisóstomo, and the others showed in the Council of Chalcedon a same faith on the confession of Pedro, and the bishop of Rome did not have any supremacy on the others. Policarpo, bishop of Izmir, 155 d.C. Church of Izmir, met a Juan (possibly to the apostle) disciple Jesus Christ. It defended in his writings the incarnation of Jesus. One met several times with the bishop of Rome, Aniceto, with respect to the date of Passover. There was supremacy of the no bishop of Rome. The churches of greater relevance were the one of Jerusalem, most influential Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Constantinople, and its bishops in the councils. Finally two of them car considered superiors to the others, the one of Rome and the one of Constantinople, which would be excomulgarÃan to each other giving rise to the two churches, Greek Roman and Orthodox Catholic. From that one final division it would arise the beginning of papado and one weakened vision of the apostolate and the government of the Church that lasts to the present time in this institution; and the rivalry between churches also. It can extend more on the History of the Church.   THE CHAIR OF THE 12 APOSTLES It must have a chair for each one of the 12 apostles due to the election of MatÃas to maintain 12, in line with the 12 tribes of Israel, or was only until Pentecostés to establish the foundation of the history of the Church from the coming of the Spirit Santo. An excellent data is that in Santa Cena they were 12 including a Jesus, and in Pentecostés 120. Thus the multiplication of the Church sealed with the Spirit began Santo. If it is possible that there was one tried succession of the position of each one of the twelve apostles, of course history has made clear that it was not an objective of the Gentleman, but the one of a work of evangelisation for the salvation of the souls, altogether between the calls of the Gentleman, according to the action of the Spirit Santo. The twelve of the old pact are renewed in the twelve of the new pact to finish the work in a multitude that cannot be counted. The base, the foundation, already was put on the faith of the 12 in Christ like Son of God, not it supremacy. Rome only follows car proclaiming its supremacy, but the Gentleman does not need Rome to take the Christianity to the nations, as it is evident for centuries. If Juan Marks were the first bishop of Alexandria, as he marks the tradition, we could well see one of the chairs of the twelve, as also the Greeks would protest orthodox, with its patriarch like successor of the Andres apostle, and thus other churches. The certain thing is that there is more than twelve nations and cities and, since we have seen, the Gentleman is not limited cities but goes so far by one of its ewes since makes lack, appearing in the middle of there where are two or three reunited in Its name. It is not that is the ideal system of congregation, but many, anywhere in the world, cannot have another one and it consequently knows it to the Gentleman and it acts by love. Being since the Gospel teaches to us in words of Jesus Christ, who It is the Way, the Truth and the Life and that through Him we only have access to the Father, all that of heart are had sorry of a life separated from God and have received the faith in the Son of God and His redeeming work and in the resurrection for eternal life in Their Kingdom, leaving then to a side the invention of papado, and the episcopal priesthood, by its uselessness and inefficiency, who interposes between the man and God, and having direct access to the Father through Christ, we go to the true essence of apostolate in history to the present time. To see Hebrew 7. What is an apostle, which is its function and which are the signals that accompany to him? Exist today apostles? If the Church of Christ is apostolic, what means this exactly. The Biblical Text of Mateo 10, Marks 6:7 - 13 and Lucas 9:1 - 6 shows to us that: 5A these twelve sent Jesus, and it gave instructions them, saying: By way of gentile you do not go, and city of Samaritan you do not enter, 6sino you go before to the lost ewes of the house of Israel. 7Y going, you preach, saying: The kingdom of skies has approached. 8Sanad ill, you clean lepers, you revive deads, you sack demons; from grace you received, you give of grace. 9No you provide yourselves with gold, neither silver, nor receives in your cintos; 10ni of saddlebag for the way, neither of two túnicas, nor of footwear, nor of pigrim's staff; because the worker is worthy of his food. 11Mas in any city or village where you enter, informaos who in her is worthy, and you put there until you leave. 12Y when entering the house, saludadla. 13Y if the house will be worthy, your peace will come envelope she; but if she will not be worthy, your peace will become. 14Y if some will not receive to you, nor will hear your words, you leave that one house or city, and shake the dust of your feet. 15De certain I say to you that in the day of the judgment, the punishment for the Earth of Sodoma and Gomorra will be more tolerable, that stops that one city. The Gentleman said to them to the twelve that there were 12 thrones in which the 12 apostles would sit down to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Also groups of twelve in Apocalypse 21 are mentioned both. These two groups are the bases historical and doctrinal of both testaments and with respect to Gentile Jews and, that in the faith in the MesÃas Yahshua come together in a single town. Once the Church constructs on the stone of the faith in the Son of God, the twelve apostolic foundations remembers the twelve charismas to us that we saw in the 12 Apostles, but does not feel twelve chairs, but one, the one of Mr. Jesus Christ. Proof of it went that the Gentleman sent to other seventy with the capacities of the twelve to lay the Way of His Salvation, Lucas 10. Apostolic history would follow with two men who would be called apostles of relevance along with the 12: MatÃas, that the place would take from Judas, and Pablo. Other 7 men of faith, calls deacons, were named by the excellent apostles, Christians like Esteban, that died after the persecution of Pablo, before becoming this one to Christ, and Bernabé, companion of Pablo, the apostle called directly by the Gentleman and not among the 12. Although these are beginnings of Church and growth of work apostolic, fact has of great relevance that demonstrates with total clarity that Spirit Santo abrÃa Way in another regions in towns gentile, and that did not hope to that the first apostles organized the work, but is He organizes that it and directs, and those that are faithful are put by the Gentleman like apostles taking the Gospel to the world. Order this one that gave Jesus Christ in the Great Commission. And it says to the Scripture in Facts 11:26 to us that the church of Antioch would be the first place where to the disciples it would be called Christians to them. This church, as it narrates versicle 20, would be built in the Word taken by men coming from Cyprus who left after the persecution because of Esteban and which they spoke the Word to the Greeks, and versicle 21 says that… the hand of the Gentleman was with them, and great number believed and it became the Gentleman… After this event, the news arrived at the church in Jerusalem and sent to Bernabé to inquire on the matter, that soon with joy to see the work of the Gentleman took to Pablo so that, like apostle and old teacher “or bishopâ€? and supervisor, together they would serve to the Gentleman confirming and teaching to the believers in the growth and knowledge of the Gentleman in this new church. Thus the church was born from Antioch by unknown apostles, Facts 11:19 to the 30, but that brotherly they collaborated in the work with the well-known ones. Of this historical narration of the beginnings of the Church we see with extreme clarity that is the Gentleman and it hierarchy of the disciples, that organizes, does not direct and carries out the expansion of the message of the Gospel, and that stops it calls to all those that is arranged to serve by love to Him and the fellow to him, to which puts to work in the Great Commission which we see in Mateo 28. The confirmation of the approval of an apostolic or evangelÃstico ministry on the part of an apostle to a brother prepared and anointed we see, it of the hand of Pablo to Timoteo and Tito. And as the Spirit in Pedro says: … Also, young people, you are subject to the old ones; and all, submissive a humility a others, revestÃos… 1Pedro 5:5. The apostolic battle by the faith has left a history us of brave apostolic disciples, missionaries, gospellers and establecedores of churches that soon they supervised, with friendly and brotherly character, within a humble spiritual authority, from which the fruits of the apostolate arise: The first speech of Pedro, Facts 2:14 - 41, gives to Christ 3,000 people. Pedro and Juan heal to a cripple. Secondly speech of Pedro with Juan, Facts 4, believed 5,000 people. Judgment of condemnation and supernatural death on AnanÃas and Safira, Facts 5. Pedro and Juan are persecuted. The conversion of Pablo, preaching, health, presentation to the apostles. Pedro and Cornelio. Pedro informing to the church of Jerusalem. Death of brother Jacobo of Juan and imprisonment of Pedro. We know of Bernabé and Saulo in its first trip missionary, Facts 13. The church of Antioch that I have mentioned and that already had old prophets, teachers and. Pablo when it was stoned. The first council in Jerusalem, Facts 15. Pablo, when he went to the governors to present/display his defense of the faith, before Stopping. The ministry of Pablo, the apostle to the Gentile ones. All a motivating history for the present disciple, who follows lives in Facts of the Apostles. The Apostles as he leaves from his apostolic legacy of the healthy doctrine for the future of the Church would be the authors of four gospels: Mateo or LevÃ, Marks disciple of Pedro, his two letters; Lucas, disciple of Pablo, his 13 letters and the Facts; Juan, the gospel, the three letters and Apocalypse; Santiago, Judas. The responsibility of Gospels by the Apostles. As far as the authors of 4 gospels, as all we know, two of them are written by apostles of the 12 and two are disciples of them. Marks were the nickname of Juan, used not to confuse it with Juan gospeller, author of the gospel who takes his name and of three letters more Apocalypse. Juan Marks was disciple of Pedro and her mother had a house in Jerusalem where the Christians met and where Pedro arrived when the Spirit Santo released to him of the jail. On the other hand, Lucas was the doctor and disciple of Pablo, apostle to the Gentile ones. Lucas, besides the gospel that takes its name would complete its work with the magnificent book of Facts of the Apostles, both with dedication to Teófilo. Of all this we can conclude that although they are only the two apostles directly called who wrote their gospels, also the other two are of responsibility of direct disciples of two apostles called by the Gentleman, Pedro and Pablo. More cannot be asked. The conclusion on the chair of the twelve apostles, is that such chair is not the intention in the Church, but such foundation of faith in Christ and a behavior and example that the twelve have demonstrated as healthy and solid, and which the Church in the world has to imitate.   The true apostolate today Facts narrate as the apostles taught to name old in each city, not many congregations in each city as they exist today, but one by city: … establishing old in each city… This Biblical doctrine also was rescued and taught by Watchman Nee, that starting off of EE.UU was apostle in China, that taught that in each city it only can have a church, not several, nothing else far from which happens in the reality; although he would be the correct thing, the Spirit Santo is not limited by the organization, once again. The prince of the apostles is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that is the envoy of the Father. … SantifÃcalos in Your truth; Your Word is truth. As sent You me to the world, therefore have sent I them to the world… Juan 17:17 - 18. All Christian is an apostle (sent) to which receives to him, and the one that receives an envoy of Jesus Christ, receives the Son of God, and the one who receives the Son also receives to the Father in its heart by the Spirit Santo. Nevertheless the history of the apostolate is the one of the apostolic deterioration as far as the government and the dictatorial imposition of norms and traditions in line with those you write and fariseos, and their consequences until today. The apostolic succession, historically speaking, has supposed a mere battle to be able within the churches and a distance of the Christians on the part of its shepherds, who have worried more about the organization than by the souls, as Jesus Christ denounced to before mentioned you write and hypocritical fariseos, besides a distance of the healthy doctrine and a separation of the Church in many branches, that in the end has been in a loss of efficiency fade in the spiritual growth of the Christians and in a lack of brotherly unit that the Gentleman always has had to replace to carry out the Great Commission. This reflection of history has given the following progressive panorama us of the deterioration of the doctrine that has been reformed in search of a Gospel like at the outset, and forms of spiritual life, more similar to those of the primitive church, as it has advanced the approach to the healthy doctrine of the Bible, and at the most the Christians of the method of apostolic and episcopal government have moved away. In a very brief review of the history of the Church we see what he has occurred: Beginning with the primitive church, the one of the apostles, as much the doctrine was healthy, because she was directly received of the Teacher and his twelve apostles, as the brotherly treatment of these towards the church were commendable. In four centuries the church happened of its beginnings to the councils of the bishops of the important cities that they discussed on the doctrines and they would end up to each other battling on his authority. This would be reducing the leaders to two groups, which would culminate in the great schism of east and the West, church of Rome and Orthodox church. These churches, as all we know, have turned aside so much of the doctrine that have ended up giving more importance to their tradition, to his papado and patriarcado, to their norms, their origins and other arguments that are not recognizable before the Bible. This theological dark was illuminated by the protestant reform of Lutero when translating the Bible in vernacular language for the Church in a movement that others as it already had begun, as it were the case of Spain and the Polyglot Bible. Finally the nonclerical Christian could have a direct encounter with the mind of the Gentleman. The protestant reform would end papado and the head of the Church again happened to be same Christ, for those in search of the truth of God. But some of the catholic traditions would even stay that the calvinismo, in one second doctrinal reform, would be in charge to reduce, although not to purify absolutely, finishing in a presbiteriano system, or of old. Today the evangelical churches baptists and protestants only recognize two figures in the government of the Church, the shepherd (bishop, old or presbÃtero) and the deacon. The doctrine of the Bible would be from a point without return for all that one Christian who really looked for the Word of God and was arranged here to leave the pomp and the tradition by the truth of Christ. But still they were some doctrines that to reform and forms of government. Successively the faith evangelical baptist would be determined by a congregational government, where each church is independent, but it separated of the others as far as walking together in celebrations, cults of praise, joint study of the doctrine and the theology, shipment of missionaries apostles, evangelÃsticas campaigns and humanitarian aid, etc. At this point it had been far the system of church-been. The Church was in the greater scriptural purity, nearest the primitive Christianity in its history. From Lutero to the beginnings of the EE.UU of America, the Christianity had advanced so much in the doctrine that the Christian who reads the Bible with a sincere heart before God, receives the revelation of the heart of God. Later, after the conferences baptists in whom the evangelical churches were united to organize events, the Christianity enjoyed a healthy movement in the doctrine and the treatment, although it lacked an organization of government like other traditionalistic churches, his fruits would be the majors and its effect, that before were of smaller effectiveness in the rest of the world, would pass to be effective through the associations when providing the necessary missionaries, apostles who conquer earth where still the Gospel had not been known, and where the charity works were and are emergency, besides having to reform the catholic faith there where it had arrived. Indeed world-wide the evangelÃsticas associations have united to the churches for the organization of evangelÃsticos events at world-wide level, but not as far as government. The EE.UU churches have sent missionaries, apostles by everybody and planted churches by all the countries, and without no Pope, nor episcopal system. And this organizational chart of down above, where the churches are independent in their government, but agrees in the doctrine because they preach the same gospel based on the Bible with the guide of the Spirit Santo, has produced the majors fruits of the history of the Church. He was at the beginning of century XX when many Christians threw in lack a charismatic manifestation of the gifts of the Gentleman in some Churches baptists, who had become a too serious form of praise for them, and too much Biblical study, although not thus in the song churches gospel. These are until today the pentecostales churches, that make a greater emphasis in the supernatural manifestations, the praise, the spilling of the Spirit Santo, but who in many occasions neglects the education of the healthy doctrine. This relaxation of the doctrine would end up turning aside themselves of the Way and giving entered doctrines of the end of the world and forced manifestations of the Spirit. The unitary branch of the pentecostal church does not believe in the Trinidad of people within the Deity, but standard that God reveals itself in three manifestations; it indoctrinates well-known like unicity. At the end of this synthesized history we found a resurgence of the apostolic system in the protestant churches, indeed of the hand of the pentecostales churches. And again it is observed that the effect that produces is a distance of the healthy doctrine of the Bible and a system of authority imposed on the shepherds of the churches. The doctrine in this case changes by the emotions of supposedly pentecostales manifestations: “if you do not speak in languages, you have not been born again from the Spirit Santoâ€?. The first apostolic church that imposed the authority was and is the catholic, and its moved away doctrinal deviation of the Bible is evident. But it is now, or at the end of the time of the gentile ones, when we see again like the implantation of that imposed apostolic authority, returns to derive in the doctrinal deviation also moved away of the Bible, surely by an attempt of rationalization of the immensity of God, or to want to feel and to receive from God being ignored the Bible. What means this reaction on the apostolic system in the Church? Perhaps the Church of Christ is not apostolic. The answer is: yes that is it, of course, but the man and the enemy of the man, do that the anxieties of imposition of authority and ideas destruction of the Church becomes a powerful weapon of car. If we observed the treatment that we read in Facts of the Apostles, and in all the letters, besides the exquisite treatment of the Gentleman in Gospels, we understand what is what means the apostolate and, with him, the true apostolic succession. Although all the Christians we are apostles to the souls from which they receive Christ if we preached the Gospel to them, because their souls are the promised Earth of the Gentleman, which is conquered for Him, the apostolate of the old ones must be a reference of doctrinal and brotherly solidity in the churches of the world, a reference in the cities, and a guarantee of coordination between the Body of Christ. While I write these lines, the churches of healthy doctrine have chosen for being congregational, that is to say, independent, and, yes, the doctrine can be santa, the friendly treatment and brotherly, the cults of praise for the glory of the Gentleman, but the restrained work is still something, the work of evangelisation at national level and world-wide it does not bear all the fruits that can give for want of coordination, of evangelÃsticos events, mass media which they arrive at the citizen who is not disciple, of television channels which they arrive free at all the houses. This does not happen in all the nations, but in some, many, as the Gentleman says: … the nations that had been safe… Apocalypse 21:24. The Church is not winning in all the cities to the powers govern that them, for which must first have unit of the Church. Meanwhile we pray so that Internet continues being the means of greater evangelÃstico growth, by its transformation in gratuitous television, and especially by the work of so many brothers that are apostles in the countries of the Third World, with limited resources, lack of support of churches of healthy doctrine, because it does not have reach capacity, and because the fight by the survival of the own congregation is already sufficient load for the shepherds which they cannot support a global evangelisation, due to the great doctrinal divisions and of ideas and government it damages, it of the man. … I am of Pablo; and I of Apolos; and I of Cefas; and I of Christ. Perhaps is divided Christ? 1CorÃntios 1:12. We have seen in the history of EE.UU like has had many years of blessing, that now we see by its leaders and their citizens who arrive at their aim, influenced by the spiritual power of this world, just as the Islamic and communist Europe, countries or the socialist dictatorships, the new nuclear proliferation, the governments of the world which they follow pawned on dividing the Earth Promised in two states, using to Jerusalem like currency of change, and the lack of sanctity of Israel like nation, all the panorama of the waiting room of the end of the world. The Scriptures on the other hand show to a clear organizational chart of the Church according to Efesios 4:11 to us, that is divided in these ministries: Apostles, prophets, gospellers, shepherds and teachers, with the aim of building the Church, and the aid of deacons. Is necessary the figure of the apostle in the Church of today? Commands the Gentleman are who them? The message of a true apostle according to the order of the Teacher, Jesus de Nazaret, is to announce that the Kingdom of skies has approached. Mateo 10:7. In contrast today many of which apostles proclaim themselves do not take to this message but the one of submission to their authority and the one of the economic prosperity. The last apostles will be the Messianic Jews to the Jews so that they receive to the MesÃas they will announce and it to the world. Romans 11:25 - 36. Finally to indicate that in the congregation besides shepherds and teachers, there are prophets. He was are the Apostles who settle down the churches and the gospellers that call by the preaching to the souls to the different churches from their zones. Each because it sees with clarity if in his church sees the healthy doctrine, the apostolic base, the brotherly treatment, and the true signals, and watch at themselves and their fruits and works, not only those of its churches, because the Church is compound of Christians, and if these do not reform to themselves, the Church does not bear its fruits. The gifts that the Gentleman granted to the 12 were supernatural for the beginning and the establishment of the Church, and certainly today there are no apostles like the 12, but that does not mean that the gifts are not, and which the Gentleman in His sovereignty does not make miracles and grants gifts in the Church, nor either that it has not sent from God to establish churches there where Christ has not been preached before.  MESSAGE TO THE BROTHERS THAT WRITE LOOKING FOR A GOOD CHURCH Those are so many Christians that write requesting direction to find a good church, disappointed by those to which go and asking for the type of church that we are those that we belong to this ministry of josephmorrisministries.org that I would like to say to them to that they come the weekend, but the distances are a great barrier. He is not really so serious at global level, but it is it for many Christians in the personnel. In the first place I must say that the greater complaint is the evil treatment, and the lack of treatment, followed of the meaning of people, the scorn, the lack of spiritual aid, the lack of education of the healthy doctrine, which is not taught to them. The Christian needs that his old either bishops or shepherds listen him and they take care of him in a friendly way, that his brothers are his friendly, that listens to him, whom they consider part him of the congregation and they can participate in her, in those areas in which each is useful or has the gift. If we did not pardon to the brothers, if we did not listen to its problems, if we hoped that they are super heroes who never fail, as if the old ones we also did not fail, as he happened to him to Pedro - but the Spirit recovers to us if we are humble, if we did not strive to train the family of the Gentleman, as what he serves to go to a church? would not finish all single ones reading the Bible? We are not deceived. On the other hand, it is not necessary to say that there are many Christians who do not commit themselves with the Christian life, do not adapt to no congregation nor denomination because they want a church to his taste, when they do not put of their part. Also many differ with the Bible because they have formed a missed image of God in his minds. Many of these are expert in criticizing, nonOran, do not study the Bible, do not comprise of the equipment, vagan in their reasonings, do not help the needed ones, do not listen the old ones. This the good shepherds already know many. They pray by his shepherds and they help them. The perfect church does not exist, because we are not it, but Christ, who yes is perfect and he perfects to us, makes perfect to the Church by His work. As she says to the famous Creed of the Apostles the church is one, santa, universalâ€? and apostolic catholic “. To brothers catholic, that reads the Bible because in her they will find the truth, and does not accept the false doctrines and the false intermediaries who are not Jesus Christ, their unique priest before the Father, and that participating in the good works, of whom this church is promotional, is not justified in them for their salvation, but in the work of Christ in the Cross. The Church must have an apostolic system of organization but not as far as the imposition of government like the church of Rome, but like world-wide the evangelÃsticas associations; a doctrine like the church baptist or the last reformed church, but without limiting themselves exactly,… not that we are competent by we ourself to think something like of us, but our competition comes from God, which also did competent ministers to us of a new pact, not of the letter, but of the Spirit; because the letter kills, plus the Spirit it vivifies… 2CorÃntios 3:5 - 6. Meaning that to interpret the Bible also of spiritual form is recognized like a pentecostales gift of God, as it teaches to the Gentleman and Pablo, for example, with the intention of the spiritual construction of the believer like temple of alive God, and authentic manifestations, there are when them, not by imposition, but employees of the Spirit Santo, without disqualifying to the brothers that do not show visible gifts, since they erroneously make many churches pentecostales, denying many Christians that have been born again, which is by the faith, because they do not show visible gifts externally. I would already like that the denominations and the false doctrines of all the churches fell, but I am afraid that this we will not see it, which does not prevent us to live it in Christ. If it does not find a church in these lines that I have described, and I admit that I have not put it easy, it looks for between the evangelical, baptists or reformed churches, and even in some pentecostales where they do not force the manifestation to him of gifts that are not certain, and where they are not turned aside of the reformed faith or the baptist, more good still, of the faith of the primitive church, in the spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures, in whom I make emphasis from this ministry, and where it can comprise and well it is received, where it finds the love of the Gentleman in the brothers and the healthy doctrine. If it does not find any in its city, travels the weekend where it finds one, if it can. If it does not find it, it looks for other brothers and meet in his houses to pray, to study the Bible, to praise the Gentleman, to take Santa Cena and to organize aid and preaching, and continues looking for until finding a shepherd and teacher of the healthy doctrine and true the brotherly treatment, in case of not having old between its brothers, and meanwhile studies the Bible and lives in sanctity. The Gentleman sees his heart and he will provide to him. … not stopping congregating to us, as some have by custom, but exhorting to us; and so much more, when you see that one day approaches… Hebrew 10:25.  BIBLICAL TEXTS LUCAS 11 … 49Por that the wisdom of God also said: I will send prophets and apostles to them; and of them, to they will kill and to others they will persecute, 50para that demands of this generation the blood of all the prophets that has been spilled from the foundation of the world, 51desde the blood of Abel until the blood of ZacarÃas, that died between the altar and the temple; yes, I say to you that it will be demanded of this generation. 52Ay of you, interpreters of the law! because you have cleared the key of science; you yourself you did not enter, and to which entered you prevented it. FACTS 8 … 1Y Saulo allowed in its death. In that one day there was a great persecution against the church that was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered by territories of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles. FACTS 8 … 4Pero those that were scattered went throughout announcing the gospel. 5Entonces Felipe, descending to the city of Samaria, preached Christ to them. 6Y people, unanimous, kindly listened to the things that Felipe said, oyendo and seeing the signals that did. 7Porque of that they had impure spirits, left these giving great voices; and many quadriplegic and cripples were healed; 8asà that was great joy in that one city. 1CORINTIOS 12 … 27Vosotros, then, you are the body of Christ, and members each in particular. 28Y to put God in the church, firstly apostles, soon prophets, the third teachers, soon those that make miracles, later those that heal, those that help, those that they administer, those that have gift of languages. 29They are all apostles? they are all prophets? all teachers? they make all miracles? 30They have all gifts of health? speak all languages? they interpret all? 31Procurad, then, the best gifts. But I show a even more excellent way to you. (The love). 2CORINTIOS 11 … 4Porque if some comes preaching another Jesus who the one that we have preached to you, or if you receive another spirit who the one that you have received, or another gospel that the one that you have accepted, you tolerate or it; 5y fodder that in anything I have been inferior to those great apostles. GÃ?LATAS 1 … 15Pero when it pleased to God, that separated to me from the belly of my mother, it called and me by its grace, to 16revelar to its Son in me, so that I preached to him between the gentile ones, I did not consult immediately with meat and blood, 17ni I raised Jerusalem to which was apostles before I; but I went to Arabia, and I returned again to Damascus. GÃ?LATAS 2 … 6Pero of that they had reputation of being something (what they have been formerly nothing matters to me; God does not make meaning of people), then, those of not at all new reputation communicated to me. 7Antes on the contrary, as they saw that the gospel of the incircuncisión had been entrusted me, like a Pedro the one of circuncisión 8 (because the one that acted in Pedro for the apostolate of the circuncisión, also acted in me towards the gentile ones), 9y recognizing the grace who had been given me, Jacobo, Cefas and Juan, who was considered like columns, they gave and to Bernabé the right hand in comradeship signal, so that we went to the gentile ones, and they to us to the circuncisión. 10Solamente they asked to us that we remembered the poor men; which also I tried with diligence to do. EFESIOS 2 … 18porque by means of him and the other we have entrance by a same Spirit to the Father. 19Asà that no longer you are foreign nor foreign, but fellow citizens of the saints, and members of the family of God, 20edificados on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, being the main stone of the angle same Jesus Christ, 21en who all the building, or coordinated, is growing to be a temple santo in the Gentleman; they 22en who you also together are built for mulberry of God in the Spirit. HEBREW 3 … 1Por as much, holy, participant brothers of the celestial call, you consider to the apostle and extreme priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2el what is faithful to which it constituted to him, as also it were it Moisés in all the house of God. 2PEDRO 3 … 1Amados, this is the second letter that I write to you, and in both wide-awake with exhortation your clean understanding, 2para that you have memory of the words that before have been said by the holy prophets, and of the order of the Gentleman and Salvador given by your apostles. APOCALYPSE 2 … 1Escribe to the angel of the church in Éfeso: The one that has seven stars in its right hand, the one that walks in the middle of the seven gold candlesticks, says this: 2Yo I know your works, and your arduous work and patience; and that you cannot support the bad ones, and you have tried to that they are claimed to be apostles, and they are not it, you have found and them lying; 3y you have undergone, and you have had patience, and you have worked arduously by love of my name, and you do not have in a faint. 4Pero I have against you, that you have left your first love. APOCALYPSE 21 … 12TenÃa a great and high wall with twelve doors; and in the doors, twelve angels, and names registered, that are those of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel; 13the east three doors; to the north three doors; to the south three doors; to the West three doors. 14Y the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.  CONCLUSION From Pentecostés, where the Spirit Santo equipped the Apostles he multiplied and them until “120 in numberâ€? until Antioch, the primitive church was concentrated at first in the town of Israel, when they had to fulfill the “Great Commissionâ€? to all the nations, until the Spirit Santo took part of two forms: first calling to Pablo like apostle to gentile and sending to disciples the unknown in the beginnings of the church that would give name for the first time to the Christians: Antioch, Facts 11:19. The paradox: whichever greater apostolic, world-wide, national, regional, provincial and local organization of the churches, as far as its government, more far from the true doctrine of the Bible. At least hierarchic authority in the organization of the Church, major doctrinal truth and better brotherly treatment in the Church. The churches with apostles who are for serving have blessing, those that it stops to dominate by imposed authority the old Christians and, distance of the Word of God. The church is apostolic in its doctrinal foundation, on the faith in the Son of God, as at the outset we saw in the church of Antioch, and will follow the Spirit Santo abriendo horizons so that there where there are two or three that receives to the Gentleman like rescuer, Church forms, and the Gentleman is in the middle of them, like in the middle of us until it comes in His kingdom. The apostolate of the true church has not failed, and the Spirit of God has replaced to us with His great mercy, Its love, Its manifestations and miracles, Their education and Its prophecies fulfilled and in fulfillment, and with the purpose of to almost totally reach already the Great Commission, for whose objective in the zones of the world more opposed the Gospel a new commitment from the Church at world-wide level is necessary. The Church to demolish its denominations will be able and to take advantage of the power God to be united without ecumenicalism, but in healthy doctrine to obtain it, before the time end of the Gentile ones. The Gentleman has left the best gift us: the Bible, Its Word, the Verb of God, that emanates Its Santo EspÃritu, which is our guide, supervisor and governor of our congregations, apostle and head of Its Church. I take leave with the goodbyes of two general purpose maps of the Pedro apostle giving glory Jesus Christ: … To Him it is the glory and the empire, for the centuries of the centuries. Amen. Saludaos an a others with ósculo of love. Peace is with all you those that you are in Jesus Christ. Amen. To Him it is the glory now and until the day of the eternity. Amen.   |