Wouldn?t it be nice if everything in your life was just perfect? Well, there is a group of people who will actually experience it: they are normally called ?The Remnant?.
There are many people who go to church but they are not part of The Church. They attend church but they do not allow the Holy Spirit to build them into the body of Christ, the Church.
Just Perfect!
04/03/19
Apostle Andre Pelser
Scripture references are taken from: The New King James Version
(Twelve pages, 5134 words)
Introduction
Wouldn?t it be nice if everything in your life was just perfect? Well, there is a group of people who will actually experience it: they are normally called ?The Remnant?.
There are many people who go to church but they are not part of The Church. They attend church but they do not allow the Holy Spirit to build them into the body of Christ, the Church.
On the other hand there are many churches who assume to be the New Testament body of Christ but they operate according to Old Testament principles even thought the preach salvation through Jesus Christ and their modus operandi is not scriptural but based on human motivation and business schemes. They seek success rather than seek after truth. They say they have a passion for God and they become God chasers but they never come to the knowledge of truth. They are easily deceived and led astray by false doctrines.
Then there are those who have entered a new level of existence through faith that justifies and have been made perfect by the power of God working through the five fold ministry, in other words they have accepted the authority of apostles and prophets in their lives.
Some people will never change and they will carry on being burdened by their own weaknesses and failures and will never overcome their own faults because thy refuse to submit to a body of believers where apostles and prophets operate.
Some churches even resist apostles and prophets and some even say there are no apostles or prophets and cut themselves off from the process Christ has planned for the perfection of the saints.
What we need to realize is that each of us have a choice after we have come to salvation: we might be justified by faith but we need to choose to be made perfect! This aspect of the life of believers has been sadly neglected because we did not understand it. Understanding establishes us in truth.
Paul, the apostle, prays that the eyes of our understanding need to be enlightened before we will know our calling, before we can see the riches of God in the saints and before we can experience the power that raised Christ from the dead working through us who believe.
God is calling us to be made perfect after we have been justified by faith.
We can either slow this process down or speed it up according to our willingness to obey His instructions. If we hold on to our own opinions and do what we want we will miss the moulding of the Spirit in the Church body.
There is a kind of church that lines up with the New Testament concept of what a church should be like.
Just because people have communion and preach from the bible does not make a gathering a church. A church has specifications laid out in the New Testament that have to be adhered to before the full benefits of a church can be enjoyed.
The True Church is God?s Genius at work
A true church is a synergized body where individuals contribute to the whole as people would by shares in a company and corporally draw annual dividends that rate far above the individual capacity! Jesus said I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. We have to exercise faith that Christ is building His Church the way He wants to and we have to find out what our part is so that we can co-operate with Him.

If all of us realize what we are actually busy with we would be more careful about our words and actions and also have greater zeal and appreciation of what we are involved with in a church. May God grant us understanding in this matter! May God help us to advance His purpose with the Church! May the Genius of God be revealed through the Church to the world at large!

The question you and I have to ask ourselves is: do we belong to the true Church of the Lord Jesus Christ or are we mere church goers?

There is a definite description of the true Church in the Bible
Hebrews 12:22-24
22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

To be just perfect you have to be part of the N. T. Church
There are many churches in the world, but all are not necessarily correct in their New Testament perspective. Every believer who comes to faith in Christ Jesus has to be made perfect to be part of The New Testament Church, registered in heaven. It is called the Church of the First Born. In the Old Testament the First Born son had special privileges. In the New Testament believer?s names are registered in heaven and they are part of the Church of the First Born. These people have two distinctive qualities according to our portion of Scripture reading: they are just and they are made perfect.

Whether we like it or not: being made perfect is equally important to justification by faith in order to be part of the New Testament Church. That is why Jesus gave gifts unto men when He ascended on high to perfect the saints and to equip them for the work of the ministry.

Ephesians 4:10-16
10 He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head?Christ?16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

He gave some apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to do the work He used to do. Without apostles and prophets the perfection of the saints will never be completed. The role of apostles is vital in being made perfect after you have been justified by faith.
Justification by faith comes before being made just perfect.
Justification comes by faith in the finished work of Christ Jesus on the cross: he became our justification. He glorifies those whom He justifies.
Romans 8:29, 30
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

To those who put their trust in Him He has become everything they need:

1 Corinthians 1:30, 31
30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God?and righteousness and sanctification