The Paranthetic Ecclesia - A New Creation

The apostles and elders gathered together, forming the first Hebrew believers Council, to hear Paul and Barnabus give an account concerning God's work through them among the nations. James, the physical brother of Jesus, who took over the leadership of the believers said, "Hear me! Simon unfolds how God first visits the nations, to CALL OUT OF THEM a people for His Name."Acts 15:13-15

The reason for this dispensation of God's calling out a people, is not the conversion of the world, but a CALLING-OUT of all nations to be a body of Christ. Whilst Israel was a called out body, it is a National Body, composed exclusively of the physical descendants of Abraham. This called out , ecclesia of grace is a spiritual body. "…….Christ Jesus, in whom the entire building, being connected together, IS GROWING into a Holy temple in the Lord: in whom you also, are being built together FOR God's dwelling place, IN SPIRIT" EPHESIANS 2:19-22.

Therefore it is a New Creation, invisible to the world, being spiritual.

2 Cor. 5:17

"So that, if ANYONE is IN CHRIST, there IS a new Creation: the primitive passed by. Lo! It has become new!"

Galatians 3:27-28.

"For as many as are immersed in Christ, put on Christ, in Whom there is NO Jew nor yet Greek, no slave yet free, no male and female, for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:3.

This ecclesia is "blessed with every spiritual blessing among the celestials in Christ……"

Ephesians 2:10.

"For we, the ecclesia, are His achievement, being CREATED in Christ Jesus for good works.

2 Cor 5: 18-21.

"Yet all is of God, Who conciliates us to Himself through Christ, and is giving us the dispensation of the conciliation, how that., in Christ, God was conciliating the world to Himself, not reckoning their offences to them, and placing in us, the word of the conciliation".

"All is of God", is the key to real evangelism. The keynote is CONCILIATION.God conciliating the sinner, not the sinner conciliating God by penance and prayers. The sinner may be most offensive and insulting, but God does not reckon these offences against Him. God is not charging men with their sins, for Christ died for the sins.

God is beseeching the SINNER to receive the conciliation, and be at peace with Him, receiving the Spirit of life because of His righteousness. Romans 8: 1-4. A.V.

2. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh;
4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit."