The Church Realized - Who or what is the Church?

Volume I: The Church Realized

 

CHAPTER #1: The Gospel = “A Calling Out” into Separation

Introduction

Abraham’s Salvation

Isaac’s Salvation

Jacob’s Salvation

Israel’s Seed in the Exodus Generation

CHAPTER #2: The Church Defined at the Sinai Experience

The Church from its Beginning (Genesis) unto Abraham

In Retrospect from Abraham to the Exodus Generation

        The Sinai Experience: The Descent of God’s Immediate Presence

        A Law to Regulate the People, Place, & Environment among which God Dwells

The Church Defined, Recalled, & Revived

CHAPTER #3: Rules of the Union

Becoming “God’s People”, The Controversy

        The Controversy Begins: “The Great Pause” & a Generation Lost

Israel as “God’s People”, The Implications

        Salvation & Damnation in Reference to “The Face of God”

 

CHAPTER #4: The GLORY OF GOD Departing & Returning to “The Church”

The GLORY OF GOD Departing & Returning to “The Church”

Divine Acceptance or Divine Rejection

 

CHAPTER #5: The Prerogative for & Performance of Church Purity

The Immediate Presence of God = Immediate Judgments Against Sin

        Judgment Among God’s People: The Old Testament

        Judgment Among God’s People: The New Testament

The Church = “The Called-Out Ones”  

        The Spiritual Focus & Intentionality of a NT Church Assembly

 

CHAPTER #6: Divinely Empowered Civil Justice (i.e. The Kingdom of God)

The Anatomy of The Church as a Civilization

The Vision Unfolded in Five Themes

Theme #1

 

CHAPTER #7: Divinely Empowered Civil Justice, Theme #2

Theme #2

        Chapter 1: A Fit Introduction to The Book of Proverbs

        An Awareness of God’s Imminent Judgment

Unlawful Sex

Thievery

Covetousness

Love for God

Love for the Brethren

Bridling the Tongue

 

CHAPTER #8: Divinely Empowered Civil Justice, Theme #3

Theme #3

        Civil Justice was Effective to Save

Bridling the Tongue

Dishonesty & Slothfulness

Thievery

Covetousness via Oppressing the Poor

Fighting

Scorners & Fools

        When Civil Justice was Ineffective to Save

 

CHAPTER #9: Divinely Empowered Civil Justice, Theme #4 & Theme #5

Theme #4

        “A Little Leaven”

        Becoming an Abomination to the LORD

Theme #5

        The Dead-End of Injustice – God Rules