Sabbath 24/01/49/120

Dear Friends

We just returned from the eight days of Passover in temporary accommodations as commanded in the Scriptures.  For those that are seriously studying, we should be concerned with who we are and where is the One True Church of God. (see No. 171C). We should also be concerned with where the True Church of God is, that keeps the Faith once delivered to the Saints, spoken of by Jude 1:3. It is the True Church of God that will be speaking, teaching, and obeying God’s Law and Testimony.  God says through the prophet Isaiah that anyone, and especially a group purporting to be the Church of God, has to speak according to God’s Law and Testimony. Unless they speak according to the Law and the Testimony there is no light in that person (Isa. 8:20). Those are very important questions, and the task is then set for the individual as to what it is and where it is.  Christ said that the gates of death would not prevail against the Church, and thus it has to be on the planet alive now, and we must be able to identify it, and join it. There are many simple tests for that Church that should outline on paper from its doctrines. A good place to start is in examining its Statement of Beliefs. Does it express and promote keeping the Faith once delivered to the Saints and does it teach obedience to God’s Law and Testimony?

The Statement of Beliefs of CCG (A1) is a summary of the Biblical position, as held by the Apostles, during the first century. It presents the Bible position in a clear, coherent form. It is comprised of seven chapters covering the Godhead, the Plan of Salvation, Doctrines Concerning Human Responsibility, Doctrines Concerning the Messiah, The Problem of Evil, The Church, and the Kingdom of God. There is an introduction which deals with the question of the divergence between modern and ancient Christianity. When Messiah comes again, he is going to introduce, in total, the system of law that he gave to Moses at Sinai. Every Christian has an obligation to identify, and to implement, the system of living and worship, that is laid down in the Bible. The Christian is obligated to emulate the way of life of Jesus Christ and to live by the systems that Christ introduced and lived by as a man and pre-incarnate. This work is dedicated to producing the whole system in a coherent and identifiable manner so that the false systems of seventeen hundred years can be swept aside and the original and true way can be identified, and implemented in the lives of all people, no matter what they have done in the past. Our task is to call people to repentance and newness of life and prepare them for the Coming of the Messiah ahead. There is also an Appendix which deals with the development of Trinitarian doctrines. It explains:

• How many true Gods does it have? The Bible texts are very plain, and they say that there is only One True God Eloah and He sent Jesus Christ, and on understanding that fact depends eternal life (Jn. 17:3). His name is Eloah (Prov. 30:4-5; Ezra Ch. 4-Ch. 7, F015ii).  No man has ever seen Him or can see Him and He alone is immortal (Jn.1:18; 1Tim 6:16).
• The true Church keeps the Temple Calendar, and always has done so, over the last two millennia. The Sardis system went into apostasy from 1940 over Hillel in both the COG(SD) and the RCG and later WCG and offshoots. CCG keeps the Temple Calendar.
• The WCG system abandoned the Passover as an 8-day feast in 1965-1967. CCG still keeps the 8-day Passover out of its gates.
• Anyone that trades on a New Moon or a Sabbath cannot be the True Church of God.  CCG prohibits this trade.
• The True Church of God has to keep the Law and the Testimony that comes from the Law, including the Sabbaths, New Moons and the Feasts, and the Jubilee system. Only CCG does this.
• The church is also governed by the Law in all aspects and anyone teaching that the Law is done away or that any aspect of the Law, apart from the sacrificial law, does not have to be kept is not part of the Body of Christ.

If you or your church is not doing these things or teaching that they are not required then they are not inspired. Get away from them.

Wade Cox and Tom Schardt elders
For Coordinator General