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Jerusalem is the mother of Perfection i.e. Maturation (Galatians 4:26) Jerusalem provides understanding that acknowledging the sovereignty of God is boundless; freedom and life. Understanding Jerusalem requires realization that in the scriptures Jerusalem is often referred to in a allegorical sense. From the Garden of Eden to the Present day the most consistent theme is the sovereignty of God and His relationship with humans.
Significant Point --- Acknowledging the sovereignty of God, in spirit and truth, is beyond religiously adhering to rules, rites, creed, and traditions; denominational affiliations; ethnicity/national origin; walls of an edifice; mere formalism; is not conditional proposition; it's beyond time.
Further Review
Benjamin Frankilin --- " I have lived sir a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probably that an empire can rise without his aid? – We have been assured, sir, in the writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest."
MLK, Jr Sermon: The Three Dimensions of a Completed Life
Psalm 37:37 --- "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
Matthew 5:48 --- "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
Ephesians 4:11-16 --- "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."
II Corinthians 5:17 --- "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Significant Point --- Acknowledging the sovereignty of God, in spirit and truth, is beyond religiously adhering to rules, rites, creed, and traditions; denominational affiliations; ethnicity/national origin; walls of an edifice; mere formalism; is not conditional proposition; it's beyond time.
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches (bodies of believers)" --- Revelations 3:22
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"Sovereign"
Further Review
Benjamin Frankilin --- " I have lived sir a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men! And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probably that an empire can rise without his aid? – We have been assured, sir, in the writings, that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.’ I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel: we shall be divided by our little partial local interests, our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest."
MLK, Jr Sermon: The Three Dimensions of a Completed Life
Psalm 37:37 --- "Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace."
Matthew 5:48 --- "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
Ephesians 4:11-16 --- "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love."
II Corinthians 5:17 --- "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
"Alleluia; Salvation, and Glory, and Honour, and power, unto the Lord our God." --- Revelations 19:1
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