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5101 The Spirit of God, p. 37.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church had ceased to “desire” them, that fact would by no means prove that God had withdrawn the gifts. But it would prove that the church had forgotten the …
5102 The Spirit of God, p. 40.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church has not attained. It will not do to say that the church did arrive at such a state in the days of the apostles, and that it has fallen from it, for the admonitions …
5103 The Spirit of God, p. 42.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
And that last excuse for discord and disunion among Christians, namely, that the various churches with their diversity of faiths, are recognized as so many “branches” of the body of Christ, is removed by our Saviour’s words to his disciples:-
5104 The Spirit of God, p. 43.7 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church as to bring them to the unity of the faith and spirit. Human strength and human wisdom cannot accomplish it.
5105 The Spirit of God, p. 44.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church we have a right to ask, By what authority and by what power have they been removed from the church? Did God ever make known his intention to deprive …
5106 The Spirit of God, p. 45.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church. He says:-
5107 The Spirit of God, p. 46.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… professed “body of Christ” is doing in this age. Some of the most important gifts which God set in the church are ignored, despised, and boasted against, as if they …
5108 The Spirit of God, p. 47.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… entire church, as God was pleased that they should exist, that no part be lacking, or weak, or defective, but that the whole body may be perfect according to the …
5109 The Spirit of God, p. 81.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
Paul wrote to the church of Corinth to “covet earnestly the best gifts,” but rather the gift of prophecy as being most useful to the whole body for their edification. He said:-
5110 The Spirit of God, p. 82.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church at Rome. We observe that his argument in 1 Corinthians 12, concerning the various members of the body, has respect to the gifts of the Spirit set in …
5111 The Spirit of God, p. 82.6 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church; for he who formed the body knows best the wants of the body, and best understands the proper order of its members.
5112 The Spirit of God, p. 85.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church “for the edifying of the body of Christ.”
5113 The Spirit of God, p. 92.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the body of Christ,” they were really more necessary, but less frequent because of the unbelief and worldliness of the church.
5114 The Spirit of God, p. 129.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church in respect to the gifts of the Spirit. In the early church, while all the gifts were accepted as objects of faith, and received according to that faith …
5115 Thoughts on Baptism, p. 116.5 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church, by virtue of the sacramental application of water. In both these respects it misrepresents the Saviour’s manner and intent. Concealing the form …
5116 Thoughts on Baptism, p. 136.4 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… the church, and disfigured the body of Christ. Hegesippas, an ecclesiastical historian, declares that ‘the virgin purity of the church was confined to the …
5117 Thoughts on Baptism, p. 161.2 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… Roman churches became distinct. So far, however, as their practice is concerned, it is not, probably, affected by this circumstance. The Greek Church is often …
5118 The Truth Found, p. 4.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… of professed worshipers of God, whether Jews, Catholics, or Protestants. This we learn from the of their respective authors, and from their church articles …
5119 The Truth Found, p. 29.1 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… national church. Mosheim, in his Church History, Vol. 1. p. 332, says, “They complained that the Roman Church had degenerated under Constantine the Great from its …
5120 Vindication of the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Unjust, p. 18.3 (Joseph Harvey Waggoner)
… his body, the church-all true believers, under whatever dispensation they may have lived; and from this revival into life all others, it seems to us, are absolutely …