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The Church Visible and Invisible
Have you ever heard of the term “invisible church”?
St. Augustine was the first to formalize the idea.
He made a distinction between the invisible church and the visible church.
This distinction by Augustine has been many times misunderstood and misapplied.
What Augustine meant by the “visible church” was the institution of the church that we all see visibly in the world.
It has a tangible list of membership rolls.
We can identify people who are a part of a specific church.
first to formalize the idea.
He made a distinction between the invisible
church and the visible church.
This distinction by Augustine has been many
times misunderstood and misapplied.
What Augustine meant by the “visible
church” was the institution of the church that we all see visibly in the world.
It has a tangible list of membership rolls.
We can identify people who are a
part of a specific church.
But when we consider the “invisible church,” it is a roll that is not
written down in our world but is written in Heaven, God’s kingdom.
So this brings us to the question “does someone have to go to church to be a Christian?”
Is church attendance a requirement for heaven?
The most simplistic answer is no.
However, Scripture commands us not to forsake the assembling together of the Body of Christ.
() When God constituted the nation of Israel He very deliberately organized them into a visible nation and placed upon them the obligation of corporate worship.
If a person is a Christian he is called to participate in the koinonia of the church.
This is our fellowship with other Christians and the worship of God.
But when we consider the “invisible church,” it is a roll that is not written
down in our world but is written in Heaven, God’s kingdom.
So this brings us
to the question “does someone have to go to church to be a Christian?”
Is
church attendance a requirement for heaven?
The most simplistic answer is no.
However, Scripture commands us not to
forsake the assembling together of the Body of Christ.
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When God constituted the nation of Israel He very deliberately organized them
God constituted the nation of Israel He very deliberately organized them
into a visible nation and placed upon them the obligation of corporate
worship.
If a person is a Christian he is called to participate in the koinonia of
the church.
This is our fellowship with other Christians and the worship of
God.
Many of those who claim to be Christians today may be deceiving themselves.
If we truly love Christ how can we despise His Bride?
How can we consistently and persistently be absent from that which he has called us to join, His visible church.
The sobering reality is the fact that people may be deluding their own soul.
The invisible church is many times thought to be something separate or outside the visible church when, in fact, the invisible and visible church are two sides of the same coin.
themselves.
If we truly love Christ how can we despise His Bride?
How can
The Invisible Church
we consistently and persistently be absent from that which he has called us
to join, His visible church.
The sobering reality is the fact that people may be
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deluding their own soul.
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Our Eyes and Heart have been enlightened
We think of the heart as the emotional part of man, but in the Bible, the heart means the inner man, and includes emotions, the mind, and the will.
The inner man can see, hear, taste, smell and touch.
This is what Jesus meant when he said of the people: “They seeing see not, and hearing they hear not.”
The inability to see and understand spiritual things is not the fault of the intelligence but of the heart.
The eyes of the heart must be opened by the Spirit of God.
He has called us and chosen us v. 4
Enlightenment comes from the Holy Spirit.
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The invisible church is many times thought to be something separate or
outside the visible church when, in fact, the invisible and visible church are
The Holy Spirit reveals truth to us through the Word then gives wisdom to understand and apply it.
The Spirit also gives us the power to practice the truth.
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two sides of the same coin.
2. We are given the knowledge and Revelation of God
The knowledge of God is everything for the invisible church.
This is why we hunger and thirst for more knowledge and Revelation.
Man cannot understand anything apart from the knowledge of God.
- willful ignorance of God - unwillingness to know God as creator and sustainer, Savior and Judge.
To know Him is?
*increasing sanctification ()
*To know him perfectly is Glorification ()
That we might know God’s calling - Church means called out ones.
That we might know Gods riches.
This phrase refer’s to God’s inheritance in us - the fact that God would look at us as HIs great wealth of treasure.
Just as mans wealth will bring Glory to his name - Gods wealth will bring Glory to Gods name alone.
(God will get the glory from the invisible church all because of what he has invested in us)
That we might know our future.
The invisible church lives in the future tense not the past!
(our lives are controlled and consumed by what we are becoming).
That we might know God’s power (19-23)
*God’s power is divine, dynamic, eternal energy that is available to us all.
(what good is wealth if you are too weak to use it?)
*God’s power enables us to use God’s wealth
*God’s power as head controls the whole body
(this is physical and spiritual)
Matthew 26:
ILLUSTRATION: Romans intentionally made statues with detachable heads.
For this, they specially [commissioned statues] with detachable heads.
Practically, if a sculpture (of a hero, a well known person, or a ruler) loses fame, honor, or dies, the head could easily be removed and be replaced by the head of a new hero, a more well known person, or a new ruler.
In these cases [the] sculptures with detachable heads have a typical and ideal body of no character [i.e., without "identity specific" appearance, and thus interchangeable].
[Ancient] Romans believed that it is greatly the head that carries the identity of the person, so statues with detachable heads were [the norm].
“It being usual upon  many occasions to put other heads upon statues, Caesar took off that of the Alexander of Lysippus, and substituted his own.
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