CSMC Holy Beulah Land

Happy First Sunday of the year 2024

2023 Convention 72 Hours with God

In God's presence....

GOD BLESS MY COUNTRY, GOD BLESS NIGERIA

Happy Birthday to you sir

Happiest birthday wishes to a mother of youth, a good companion, a good listener, full of divine word and encouragement to the lost, a gift to this generation and generation to come, reliable and dependable mother, a humble servant of God. indeed you a blessing to us all. We love you

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In this season of rebirth, may you feel your faith renewed and your heart made new with the hope Easter brings. Amen

Wò o nisisiyi pe Emi, ani Emi ni, kò si sí ọlọrun pẹlu mi: mo pa, mo si sọ di ãye; mo ṣalọgbẹ, mo si mu jiná; kò si sí ẹnikan ti o le gbà silẹ li ọwọ́ mi. Deut. 32:39

Don’t follow your heart; follow Jesus.
He is the truth, he is the way, and he will lead you to life (John 14:6).

Let the spirit of love gently fill our hearts and homes. In this loveliest of seasons may you find many reasons for happiness

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Fellowship and the Church

We have already seen that God wants to transform us into the likeness of Christ. But this transformation doesn't take place in us in isolation from other disciples of Jesus. It is only along with them that we are transformed.

God wants us to live, not only in dependence on Him, but in fellowship with one another as well. In Old Testament times, God worked through individuals - a Moses or an Elijah or a John the Baptist etc.

But under the new covenant what God wants is a Body of disciples who have become one under the headship of Christ. This is what 'the church' is - the Body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22, 23; 2:14-16).

The Church - The Body of Christ
The church is not a building, nor is it a denomination. The English word 'church' in the New Testament is a translation of the Greek word 'ekklesia', which means an assembly of people who are called out - in this case, called out of the world to be God's own possession.

All over the world, those who have responded to God's call to be separated from sin and the world, form the church - the Body of Christ. In every locality, these members of Christ's Body should together become a local expression of that body.

The first body of Christ was the physical body in which Jesus came to earth. In that body God showed Himself to the world. Jesus yielded Himself so perfectly to the Father, that at the end of His life He could say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).

Now our calling is to represent Jesus together, to the world around us. No one can represent Jesus adequately, all by himself. We need one another. The best among us are still imbalanced. We have our strong points, but we have our weak points too. We may be able to reflect Christ well in one area, but very poorly in another area. But together, we will find that the strong points of one balance out the weak points of the other. And if we live in love and submission to one another, Christ can be reflected in His totality through us, to an unbelieving world. This is God's purpose for the church.

Becoming Part of a Local Church
As soon as you're converted, you need to seek out and join a fellowship of disciples who are eager to obey God's Word and to follow in Jesus' footsteps.

This is where the new convert can be bewildered by the numerous groups and denominations that he sees in Christendom. From one end of the doctrinal spectrum to the other, there are unfortunately, many, many groups that lay claim to be the only true representatives of Christ on earth!!

Many of these groups would thump their Bibles and prove to you that you cannot be a part of the Body of Christ unless you join them!

It would be almost impossible to convince most of them that God has many children who are not in their 'group' and who don't hold exactly to their peculiar forms of doctrine! Such is the power of prejudice! You must be careful that you don't get entangled in this web of Pharisaism and cultism, that plagues much of Christendom today.

Keep your heart open to all who love the Lord and who seek to follow Him in sincerity. They may not dot their doctrinal in exactly the same way as you do. But that's not serious, if they're walking in the light that God has given them. We cannot demand that they should walk in the light that God has given us.

Receiving All of God's Children
We must have as many brothers and sisters as God has children.

We should wholeheartedly welcome and receive all whom God Himself has received (Romans 14:1; 15:7). If Jesus is not ashamed to call someone His brother, we shouldn't be ashamed either (Hebrews 2:11).