CHARLO, New Brunswick, March 31, 2024 – It falls on every born-again believer throughout the ages to remind other born-again believers of the first Church, of the foundation that was laid by God for the first Church, and of the need to perpetuate this Church not by altering the foundation or burying it and laying another foundation, but by understanding in the profoundest sense that we are the first Church, and that there’s only ever been one Church: the one founded by God and headed by Jesus and peopled by born-again believers.

Nothing has changed over the past 2000 years to alter that Truth.

In understanding that there’s only ever been one Church and that this Church is the same one that early Christians made their spiritual home, each of us has the responsibility to continue the legacy entrusted to us. However few and far-flung we may be, each of us carries the torch fired by the same flame lit by Jesus himself. What an honor and privilege it is to carry that torch! And how humbling.

The full membership of the one true Church is known only to God and Jesus and to whomever they choose to reveal it. In the spiritual realm, members of the Church who are still on Earth are visibly marked as God’s people. If you’re genuinely born again and therefore a member of the Church, you bear God’s mark. By this mark, you’re known in the spiritual realm as Jesus’ followers and children of God. Even the dark entities know your spiritual pedigree and keep their distance (other than when God permits them to tempt you, during which they can only tempt you to the exact measure that God stipulates).

I am reminding you here today of the first Church and of the foundation that was laid for that Church by God because other churches are vying for your attention and ultimately for your soul. Some of these other churches also call themselves the “one true church” and try to lord over you so that you cow under their dictates. In the past, if you didn’t cow, you’d be tortured until you did or until you died. These interventions have not entirely gone away; they’re just not as public as they used to be and the methods have been… sanitized.

The foundation we stand on is the same foundation stood on by Jesus and his first disciples and followers. These are our brethren. All the Marys in the New Testament are our brethren, as are the Jameses and the Judases (except for Iscariot). All the faithful, whether named or not, are our brethren. This is our Church and these are our people. There is only one Church standing on one foundation, and anything and anyone not standing on that foundation is not ours, is not the Church.

There are many other churches standing on many other foundations. Let them be. If they choose, let them come to you, but don’t you go to them: “What concord hath Christ with Belial… and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”

We, the Church, stand on the uncut stone of the rock of God.

Where we stand now may we stand forever.