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BUMP & PING
1900 years ago, a Jewish carpenter in the Roman Empire predicted that "the gates of hell" would not prevail against His church. The Greek word for church is "ecclessia," and it means "called-out ones." When Jesus made this prediction, there was no church, but only 12 followers, and one of them was a traitor. Jesus was then crucified and resurrected from the dead. This documented historical event was so convincing, that almost immediatly, His prediction came true, and this "ecclessia" or "called-out ones" still exists to this day.
For 1900 years, Christ's church has been martyred, attacked, and ridiculed by skeptics and heretics throughout the world. It has endured intense persecuton throughout the ages of history, yet it continues to make converts in every land and in every time, even though there is spiritual apostasy and sinful hypocrites among its members.
Sinful men need to quit making excuses. They need to get their eyes off the spiritual apostasy and the sinful hypocrites in the visible churh, and turn their eyes to Christ. Then He will place them in His invisible church. And that, my friends, is not a bad place to be!