LESSONS LEARNED:
The official name of the church should be, the Church of God.
As everything is named after the owner, the church should be named after God who's the builder and owner of the church.
Many today build their own church and drack God's name there. This is not supposed to be.
Psalms 127:1 says, except the lord builds a house, they labour in vain that build it.
So those that build their own church and drack God's name to it, labour in vain.
God says, in vain do they honour me, when they take for worship the doctrines of men.
So it is God that builds the church and the church should be named after him.
1 Timothy 3:15 makes clear that the house of God is the church of the living God.
Everything was created by God and is called by God's name. So the Church shouldn't be an exception.
In 1 Corinthians 12:28, God set in the church Apostles, Prophets, teachers, etc. This is because he is the owner of the church.
According to Ephesians 3:15 the Bible says that every family is named after God and in Daniel 9:19, we understand that the people and nations are owned by God.
Hebrews 3:4, makes it clear that the builder of everything is God.
So the Church is the church of God.
In 1 Corinthians 12:28, God gave the church, apostles, prophets, teachers, etc, because he's the owner of the church.
In exodus 20:7, we were commanded not to take the name of God in vain.
But sadly, many are taking it.
They built their own church, name them after themselves and even drack God's name there, which is a sin before God.
God wants all his possessions to the called after him, according to the book of Daniel 9:19 and John 17:11.
We also learnt that there's what the Bible calls, ends of the earth.
Many claim that this is taking about time, but that's not true.
In Isaiah 43:6 and in Acts 13:47, the Bible records that there are ends of the earth.
This is rather talking about the far away places of the gentiles where Paul was sent to.
This far away places are called ends of the earth in the Bible.
We also see in Psalms 19:6 that there's also end of heavens.
FORMER BELIEF:
I had no contrary belief regarding the teaching.
EFFECTS OF THE TEACHING:
The church owned by God should be named after God, as the church of God.
The ends of the earth are the far away places where Paul was sent to preach, not time.
Thanks be to God.
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