Run the Race (1 Corinthians
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Speaker: Minister Tabitha Person
Dr Kevin G. Swann, Pastor
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SUCH A CLEARLY SPOKEN WORD!
THIS IS A GREAT WORD!!!!!
I love it it spoke volumes
A very relevant WORD emphasizing Christian discipleship!!!
Run YOUR race, while encouraging others to run theirs.
Thank you, Sister, for presenting the Word in power, simplicity, and clarity.
Multiplied blessings unto you, your family, and church family!!
Very clear message. Thank you
Wow I like this
Amen
❤Outstanding message
Run is such a way that yu may optain it!
Paul: “"For by grace are ye saved through faith;” not your selves.
[Acts 13:4-5-6] From the island of Cyprus the second Church created by the Apostles after the one in Jerusalem.
THERE WAS A CHURH PRESENT FOR SASLVATION when Paul was talking to the Ephesians! Lazarus the resurrected friend of Lord Jesus was the first Bishop of Cyprus here and this is proof of an existance of the Church from the begining!
[Eph 2:8] 8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God":
It is a historical fact that Paul was talking to Church members that were already Baptized. The Church was already present in the world because it was created the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit delivered to the Apostles 85 Holy Apostolic canons that represent the Will of God for the Salvation of man!
The 85 Holy Apostolic Canons of the Apostles delivered by the Holy Spirit for the creation of His Church the day of Pentecost. (still in use unchanged to day)
www.newadvent.org/fathers/3820.htm
Here is another one a example of the presence of the Church from the beginning! [2nd Corinthians 1:1] ”From Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by Gods will, and from our brother Timothy- To the Church of God in Corinth, and to all Gods people throughout Achaia: May God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace”.
THERE WAS A CHURCH PRESENT in the world 60 years BEFORE the Holy Bible started to show up beginning with the Gospel of Mark the year IN 60AD. orthodoxfaith.co.uk/timeline
Lazarus the resurrected friend of Lord Jesus became the first Bishop of Cyprus here for 30 years before dying a second time. What was the need of a Church and Bishops if Christians could be saved by Faith alone?
Lazarus video of Church and His resting place
www.cyprusisland.net/churches/church-saint-lazarus
Salvation was taking place in the absence of the Holy Bible because the resurected Lord Jesus /God Logos was present in His Church as High Priest and Mediator to His Father from the begining [Hebrews 5:5] with His Life Saving Holy Sacraments, A Kor. 4:1] LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. The Holy Sacraments are called Mysteries because we do not ko ho Lord Jesus does them…it is a Mystery to us!
orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Mysteries
Lord Jesus is the head of the body the Church and in all things He has pre emenence! (Colossians 1.18) “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence”.
orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_church.aspx
When we read [Eph 2:8 ] 8 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God", we need to be aware of THE FACT of a presence of the ONE CHURCH in the world as described in (Ephesians 4:5-6). Salvation can not possibly take place outside the Church created by the Holy Spirit with ordained Bishops and Archbishops that are mystics (priests) with the authority from above to redeem sin for the Salivation of man. “You can not come to where I am going with sins”. [John 8:21]
Priesthood (Eastern Orthodox Church)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priesthood_(Eastern_Orthodox_Church)
The Grace of God talked about in [Eph 2:8 ] that SAVES through Faith that was a gift from God, is God’s Life saving Grace begotten during the Holy Sacrament of Baptism. “Having been baptized into Christ, and put on Christ (Gal 3,27), Christians they were made conformable to the Son of God; for God, having predestined all of us for adoption (Eph 1,5), formed us (Gn 2,7) according to Christ's glorious body... You have become “Christs” by receiving the sign of the Holy Spirit. "Everything that has happened to you has been in imitation of Christ, whose images you are"’.
In his letter to the Ephesians [Eph 2:8] Paul is pointing out to (explaining) to Church members that they were saved because of their ~Faith~ that was the reason that they were led to Baptism and the life of the Church! Paul was addressing Christian Church members as ~the creator of their Church~ who were already SAVED by BAPTISM (Union with God/Salvation) as delivered by the Holy Spirit the day of Pentecost. They were SAVED because of their personal Faith to proceed to Baptism… and not because of their own works! The word “Church” does not represent a building but Lord Jesus/God Logos Himself.
The Church is not an human made organization, but a living god man organism that is Divine.[ Colossians 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: orthodoxinfo.com/general/stjohn_church.aspx
What Is the Orthodox Church? - Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick
th-cam.com/video/95P744siC7U/w-d-xo.html
The 70 Apostles
wordpress.com/post/jameswiliamsblog.wordpress.com/1142
Apostles who became Bishops (The first Gospel of Mark showed up the yer 60AC. Salvation was taking place in the absence of the Holy Bible as it has for 2000 years now because of the prersence in the Church of the Holy Sacraments ( orthodoxwiki.org/Holy_Mysteries) with Lord Jesus as High Prist and Mediator to His FAther for the Salvation of man!
Salvation was taking place in the absence of the Holy Bible with Iera Pardosis alone (Holy Tradition) the first 60 years of the life of the Church. This is why Holy Tradition is consitered by the Holy Fathers higher than the Holy Bible it SAVES without it!
IERA PARADOSIS (HOLY TRADITION)
WHAT THE APOSTLES PREACHED AND THE CHURCH RECEIVED
wordpress.com/post/jameswiliamsblog.wordpress.com/1676
Salvation in Christianity is all about SIN…NOT knowledge
wordpress.com/post/jameswiliamsblog.wordpress.com/2077
The Greek word Ecclesia (Church) is found writen in the original Greek Text of the New Testment 104 times.
Greek Orthodox by country
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy_by_country
God bless