GREETINGS:

"Holy greetings and blessings to you in the name our Lord and Savior Jesus 

Christ.  This subject on while people leaves your church was a blessing to me 

and my home.  As I read the article, what jumped out the most was UNBELIEF. 

See, Romans 11:20-21 says, "Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, 

and thou standest by faith.  Be not highstandest, but fear. For if God spared 

not the natural branches, take heed lest he spare not thee."  This is what 

happened to the Isrealites in the Old Testament.  And by us being the New 

Testament Isrealites, we have to learn from the old.  We find ourselves 

listening and living on opinionated statements and doctrine and not the Word 

of God.  We are living on emotions and feelings and not walking faithfully 

unto death (Revelations 2:10).  It starts with their church first (themselves). 

If Jesus Christ is not the head of their church (themselves), then how are they 

able to be a faithful member of any church?  If they cooperate while the 

Spirit of the Lord operates, they will have a successful surgery and be a 

part of God's living organism (The Church).  God bless and Be encouraged 

in the Lord!"

ANALYSIS:

This poster targets unbelief as the problem.  People are leaving the Church because they are lost in 

unbelief.  In order to do a correct analysis we would have to know what constitutes 'believing' and what 

doesn't constitute 'believing'. Then we will know what unbelief is.

Or are they no longer believing the FOUNDATION knowledge 

about Jesus Christ?

The poster is quoting from Rom.11:20,21, "Well, because of UNBELIEF they were broken off, and 

you stand by FAITH.  Be not high-minded, but fear."

"For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not you."

In verse 25 we read that, "Blindness in part is happened to Israel."  Here we have a supporting element

of discernment.  Blindness goes hand in hand with unbelief.  Those who are lost in unbelief are also 

spiritually blind.  But this still doesn't help us to know what constitutes unbelief.  Are christians blind 

concerning the fundamental knowledge of Jesus Christ, or are they blind about the foundation 

knowledge of Jesus Christ?

Hebrews 3:19 and  4:1-3 helps us to answer the question of what kind of unbelief makes a person 

spiritually blind. "So we see that they could not enter in (the promised land) because of UNBELIEF"

"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should 

seem to come short of it."

"For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them; but the word preached did not 

profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."

"For we which have BELIEVED to enter into rest....."

The kind of UNBELIEF that causes spiritual blindness

       is the kind of UNBELIEF that does not allow 

                          SPIRITUAL PERCEPTION. 

Deut.3:35, "Unto you it was SHOWED, that you might know that the Lord He is God; there is 

none else beside Him."

Deut.29:4, "Yet the Lord has not GIVEN you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to 

hear, unto this day." 

God HAD shown Himself in power to the children of Israel through many signs and wonders.  Did 

not Israel PERCEIVE the Egyptians were destroyed?  Did they not SEE the plagues upon Pharaoh 

and his people? Did they not SEE the Red Sea part for them by the word of the Lord, and then 

PERCEIVE that the Red Sea had engulfed their enemies?  Yes, they did see.  What then?  We 

can take note that the children of Israel DID believe the fundamental knowledge of their deliverance. 

But they did not perceive that God brought them out of  Egypt and into the wilderness to make 

a covenant with them. They could not PERCEIVE the PURPOSE of their deliverance. 

Even so, christians today DO believe the fundamental knowledge of Jesus Christ, that He is the 

Son of God, the Saviour of the word, that He did die for the sins of the world, and rise again from 

the dead on the third day and sent forth the Holy Spirit.  What they DO NOT believe is the foundation 

knowledge.  The foundation knowledge begins to set forth the PURPOSE of our deliverance 

through Jesus Christ.  

We read in I Cor.10:6-11 that spiritual blindness began when the people lusted after evil things, 

they were idolaters, they committed fornication, they tempted Christ, they murmured.  Their heart 

was not towards God.  They were our examples so that we could understand that when people 

try to use the truth of God to confirm themselves God will not sanctify them.  The grace of God 

does not work with our own truths about Jesus Christ. 

The Israelites thought that their deliverance from bondage centered 

around THEM, but it did not, it centered around God and His plan. The 

Body of Christ is in darkness (ignorance) because people who have 

made a confession of faith in Jesus Christ also do not have a heart 

to perceive their deliverance. 

They think that the plan of God centers on them just escaping hell.  But the plan of salvation 

centers on God and His redemption through Jesus Christ.  Therefore, there is a responsibility on the part 

of the believer to be joined in covenant with God. 

Heb.8:9, "Because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not says the 

Lord." Just because salvation is free does not mean it is free from responsibility.  This is what 

christians do not want to believe.

God provided the children of Israel with the power of their deliverance so that they would apply 

themselves with the knowledge that came through Moses; to 'fear' Him, 'serve' Him, and 'cleave' 

unto Him (Deut.10:20).  The children of Israel heard with the physical ear, but not the spiritual ear.  

The children of Israel saw with the carnal eye, but not the spiritual eye. 

And so God said of them, "Oh that there were such an heart IN THEM, that they would fear 

me, and keep all my commandments," Deut.5:29.  It was because they did not apply themselves 

to the revelation of God that God did not give them a heart to perceive.

We can see clearly that when God 'shows Himself' (grace) there is a responsibility on man's part 

to apply himself. 

This is why Jesus said, 

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock, if any man hear My voice (grace) and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me," Rev.3:20.	He was not speaking of "inviting Jesus into our heart."
	He was speaking of the yielding of the will to the grace of God throughout our life.
	We must yield when Jesus is knocking (when grace is present).
	This is when you will be given a heart to perceive.

 We read this again in Hebrews 3:7-9, "Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost says, To-day if you 

will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation 

in the wilderness.  When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw My works forty years." 

The grace that God gives must be responded to in the time it is given.  We cannot go to answer 

the door hours or days after a caller has come knocking, and expect to still find him waiting at the door.

God will give the heart to perceive when the will is yielded to grace.  This is called mixing faith with 

the word. Heb.4:2, "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the 

word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."

This is what the poster seems to be reflecting upon when he said, "We find ourselves listening 

and living on opinionated statements and doctrine and not the Word of God.  We are living on 

emotions and feelings and not walking faithfully unto death."

Faith has to be the lifestyle of the righteous, not just a foot in the door of heaven through a confession 

of faith.  But the Church is no longer familiar with the tools and articles of the covenant that God 

established through Jesus Christ.  Therefore they don't know where to find the grace of God and 

have learned how to replace grace with religious rituals which are of no power.  They are now 

living under the persuasion of false knowledge and a false inspiration.

The poster ends by saying, "If Jesus Christ is not the head of their church (themselves), then how

are they able to be a faithful member of any church?  If they cooperate while the Spirit of the Lord 

operates, they will have a successful surgery and be a part of God's living organism (The Church)."

This is why the apostle Paul said that the apostles were 'first' in order of government (I Cor.12:28).  

Not first in a carnal sense, but that the headship of Jesus Christ is first seen through the delivery of pure 

doctrine to the Church through apostles (Acts 2:42).   Doctrine first, then function.

People are not able to believe the foundation knowledge of Jesus Christ because they no longer 

know what that is.  I agree, the Church HAS been living on the doctrines of those who are not called 

as apostles.  Therefore the BELIEVING of the fundamental knowledge of Christ is not mixed with faith. 

Let us heed the warning, "Well, because of UNBELIEF they were broken off, and you stand by 

FAITH.  Be not high-minded, but fear.  For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed 

lest He also spare not you."

Let us who are prepared to join God in covenant through our Lord Jesus Christ accept the yoke 

of His knowledge and receive with meekness the engrafted word (the anointing of truth) so that

we can PERCEIVE the purpose of our deliverance and serve God with reverence and godly fear. 

We are ROC are prepared to help you reenter the true Church.  The doctrine of Christ that is 

delivered through the apostle Eric is not the doctrine of man.  It is the grace of God that makes 

doctrine divinely inspired, not the vessel. 

Strong In His Grace,

Maria / Teacher

R.O.C. Analyst

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