It’s 2000 years old, it’s a Christian church.
***It’s 2000 years old, it’s a Christian church.***
It is not 2000 years old. Elim was founded at Hornell, New York, by Ivan and Minnie Spencer in 1924. In 1951 the Spencers moved the school to its current site in Lima. Elim Gospel Church, an interdenominational Full Gospel church, was established near the Elim campus in 1988
Your church is 20 years old, not 2000. Its roots go back 80 years, which puts you guys arguably older than Dr. E.’s cult which began in 1937.
Regardless, the fullness of Christ is not found in either location or group. 1 John 4:
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1 Beloved, do not trust every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they belong to God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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This is how you can know the Spirit of God: every spirit that acknowledges Jesus Christ come in the flesh be longs to God,
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and every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus 2 does not belong to God. This is the spirit of the antichrist that, as you heard, is to come, but in fact is already in the world.
We know the ones who do not acknowledge Jesus, but prate as if they do. Their posts show them truly, though.
2 John:
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For this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; 4 this is the commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.
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Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh; such is the deceitful one and the antichrist. 5
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Look to yourselves that you 6 do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense.
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Anyone who is so “progressive” 7 as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and the Son.
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8 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him in your house or even greet him;
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for whoever greets him shares in his evil works.
We bring you the Gospel of Jesus the Christ. Whose gospel do you preach? Not Jesus; that is apparent. It is not too late; your churches are recent innovations of men. But yours souls are immortal.