THE CHURCH – THE BODY OF CHRIST
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I am so grateful to receive Pastor Wayne Edwards’ sermons, here is the latest in his current series, “The Church, the Body of Christ”. These sermons stand out in these troubled times with profound and sound Gospel insights. I thank my readers for their encouraging comments. The Service begins at 25 minutes, click link above. Notes on the news follow.
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Chugley
PASTOR EDWARDS WRITES:
April 5, 2024
Dear Heritage Family,
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul referred to the church as the body of Christ several times. He used the metaphor of a “human body” to relay significant truths about the church and to help believers understand the need for both unity and diversity within the church.
In 1 Corinthians 12:12-14, the Apostle Paul wrote: “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free, and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.”
The church is called the Body of Christ because Christ is the head of the church, and those He called to be saved He also called to serve. The Holy Spirit enables each believer with a unique spiritual gift, and when those gifts are merged together, the mission of “The Church” reflects the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ.
This Sunday, we return to our doctrinal series of sermons under the title: The Church: The Pillar and Ground of Truth. The title of this sermon is: The Church: The Body of Christ. If you view the sermon on our website, www.the heritage church.org, you may click on the sermon title on the second page and find the sermon study guide in another forma.
THANK YOU FOR FORWARDING THESE STUDY GUIDES TO OTHERS. WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR HOW THESE SERMONS ARE OF HELP TO YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH!!
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Wayne J. and Linda J. Edwards
PO Box 766
Perry, GA 31069
706-599-3966
wnledwards@gmail.com
PASTOR EDWARDS’ COMMENTS AND CURRENT NEWS
My Fellow Watchmen,
April 6, 2024
Only God knows for sure what will happen over this next week. However, it would be a major mistake not to see these events as His warning of what is yet to come. Tragically, even the Lord Jesus said, before He returns, people will be engaging in everyday life just as they were in the days before the flood; thinking nothing was going to happen, until it did!
Beloved, the Bible warns us that massive changes are ahead. Those of us with more days behind us than ahead of us have already seen the massive changes in the political, sociological, economic, and religious areas of our lives – most of us never dreamed we would live in such a world as we do today. Unless God intervenes, it will only get worse. War has been on the rise since about 2012, and from the looks of things, we may be in WWIII before the end of this year. However, future wars will be fought on a scale much different from WWII, with many nations now having weapons of mass destruction at their disposal.
I urge you to carefully read the selected articles in this week’s Watchmen Report and prepare accordingly. As I said, only God knows what is about to happen, and since we don’t know what tomorrow holds, it is vitally important that we KNOW GOD! As the Apostle Paul said in Romans 13:11-14, “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now, our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
Let us diligently and responsibly conform our lives to the image of Jesus Christ so that we might share life with Him forever. Let us also share our testimony and our witness to those with whom we want to spend eternity, and let’s do it with a sense of urgency, for supernatural events of this next week may very well fit into God’s plans to release His judgment upon America, or even to bring this age to a close.
Please forward these articles to those you think might be interested.
Wayne J. Edwards, wnledwards@gmail.com
Wayne J. and Linda J. Edwards
PO Box 766
Perry, GA 31069
706-599-3966
wnledwards@gmail.com