From Nature

Nature, creation, is all around us. Our life is dependent upon our natural environment: it is part of us. Does it have a message for us or a teaching beyond the daily struggle and labor to survive?

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
With these words the Voice has established the truth of God’s creation, that God began and sustains the universe. The visible, physical presence of that Voice has again brought us true knowledge. Knowledge not of creation, but of the Creator, the beginning and end of all.

God began history when He created all things.

Man distorted history and the world when he turned away from God, rejecting God and God’s gift.

God Himself now comes to man, and offers directly, in a material and physical way perceivable by all, that grace of sonship, of adoption into the divinity. “God became man so that man might become god” St Athanasius the Great, On the Incarnation, c. AD 330.

We testify that all this is true. Our continuous witness from the time of Jesus Christ until today, verifies the words of this Gospel, it confirms the preaching of the Apostles and of all those Saints who came after.

The Word is one, unchanged, ever living, and present through the Holy Spirit, calling everyone to Him and granting His gift and grace unto them that believe on His name.

The Word is present bodily in the assembly, in the communion, in the brotherhood He established in His Church, built up and sustained through His Holy Spirit.

“Christ is the head of the church: and He is the saviour of the body … Christ also loved the church, and gave Himself for it; that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Eph. 5:23-27).

Christ “is the head of the body, the church” (Col. 1:18) … and for us “now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, … which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:21-27).

The Father “shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; … He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. …ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you” (John 14:16-20).

“But if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Amen, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. … For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Matt 18:17-20).

“Love the brotherhood” (I Peter 2:17).

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