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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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From
Whence Came The Word Unto You?
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Message Transcribed and
Edited From Audio Tape #276
Preached September 18, 1986
By Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, GA
My thought from the Word of God for this timely
message will be a blessing to many of us. I believe
this message will help us to see our way of spiritual
travel more clearly through this maze of religious
confusion, which now exists in the religious world.
The thought for this message, “From Whence Came
The Word of God To You Gentiles?,” will give an
explanation of where the Church started. The Church
started with the Jewish people on the day of
Pentecost; however, the beginning of the Church did
not stay within the Jewish realm for a long period of
time. As the continuous forming of the Church took
place, no books or letters directed specifically to
the Gentiles were written from Jerusalem. This will
be a very important point as we study the Word of God
on this topic.
The Bible scripture for this thought comes from
First Corinthians, chapter one. I believe this
message is very important due to the Word of God that
some religious leaders are attempting to preach to the
Gentile Bride of Jesus Christ. I want to show you
that the Word we have did not come from Jerusalem.
This is a very important point to remember. The Word
that came to the Gentiles was written from other
places in Asia, and even from Rome. The real Church,
the Gentile Bride Church specifically, “caught on
fire” in Asia Minor. We can understand that the
twelve apostles came from Jerusalem, but the Seven
Churches were represented in Asia Minor, the Gentile
world. This is a very important understanding of the
Word of God for our day in history. We are a Gentile
people, and some of the scripture that was
specifically written for the Jews does not apply to
us. Many ministers attempt to use the four
gospels,-Matthew, Mark, Luke, and St. John, - and make
the teachings of these gospels a major part of the
gospel that God has given to us Gentiles. The Word of
God teaches us in Romans 15:8—“Now I say that Jesus
Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the
truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers:” However, Paul was the minister of Jesus
Christ to us as Gentiles. Take special note as we
learn, for this is going to be extremely important for
our understanding. There is a slight difference in
the Gospel to the Jews, than to the Gentiles. When we
look into the Word of God, you will see that the
Epistles that were written to the Bride of Jesus
Christ were not written from Jerusalem.
Perhaps we have not realized that the city of
Jerusalem is not so much a city for the Gentiles.
Jerusalem is mainly a city for the Jews. When the
Gospel came on the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up
with the eleven, (with Peter being the twelfth). All
these followers of Jesus Christ were Jews and the
Gospel they preached was to the Jews. When Jesus
preached the Word of God, He said in Matthew 10:5—“…Go
not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of
the Samaritans enter ye not:…” To whom did He direct
this statement? Verse 6—“But go rather to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.” He came as that
promised seed of Abraham to minister that Covenant to
the nation of Israel. However, we are not Jews! We
are Gentiles! This fact makes a difference, and there
are people in the land today who are the Gentile Bride
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul wrote to the Bride of
Jesus Christ to be continually washed by the water of
the Word in order to leave this physical earth in the
catching away, or what we like to refer to as the
rapture. I want to clear some thinking on some
points, so that our understanding will be plain – in
order that we will know our spiritual direction and
the goal of the Lord we are striving to obtain. I
will use the King James version of the Bible. Also,
it has been researched as to when each book was
written and from where it was written. This
information is very important to our understanding.
You will see as we go along and bring forth our points
for this message.
I want to read First Corinthians 14:36-38—“What?
Came the word of God out from you? or came it unto
you only? If any man think himself to be a prophet,
or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that
I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.”
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