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It cannot be denied that God has a wonderful plan for man. Although He has His own life and He can live without man. God wants to offer His love, His friendship, His own God life to man. He does love man so dearly and comes to man with His great power to make him His equal as it were. God therefore raise man up to His level by giving man a power to think with him, to love with him and to live with Him.

“But the appointed time came God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the law, to redeem the subjects of the law and to unable us to be adopted as sons. The proof that you are a son is that God has sent his the Spirit of His Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries “Abba Father”, and it is this that make you son, you are not slave anymore: and if God has made you son, then he has made you heir. Once you were ignorant of God, and enslaved to “gods” who are not really God at all.(Gal.4:4-8)

For there is only one God and one mediator between God and mankind himself a man, Christ Jesus, who sacrificed himself as a ransom for them all. He is the evidence of this sent at the appointed time.(Timothy 2:5-6)

After all, it is God’s will that men should have access to the father, though Christ, the word made flesh in the Holy Spirit and thus became sharers in the divine nature.

In order to extend this reality of salvation, Jesus instituted and commissioned a community of believers through which He communicates truth and grace. This we call the Church. The church must be the place of communion, the sign of unity of the world, the place in which one tries to live in the fullness, the characteristics of the kingdom of God, peace and love, truth and justice, freedom and holiness.

The origin of the church lies in the will of heavenly father. The father sent His Son into the world to give mankind a share in His divine life. And the Holy Spirit is to complete the work of Christ through the church. Hence the Church fulfills this task of extending Christ salvific act.

God prepared the church in the history of Abraham and His descendants and established covenant with them.

·        God made covenant with Abraham and His fruitful descendence(Gen. 17:1-8)

·        God made a covenant with the people of Israel through Moses and gave them the commandments the natural law.(Ex.19:5-8)

Finally, God promised David that the future, Savior will come from among his descendants and will establish an eternal Kingdom.(2 Sam.7:12-160

In all his covenants, God took the initiative. God kept His hope of salvation. Consequently, we see these covenants, too as figures and preparations of the church.

The Church knows well that God alone, whom it serves, can satisfy the deepest craving of the human heart. The world and what it has to offer can never fully satisfy man. The mission of the Church then, is not only to remind us about Christ but to make Christ present in our history. For Christ continues saving men by and in the Church.
As you go proclaim that the Kingdom of Heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out devils…..(Mt.10:7-20&40)

The gospel is the word of God which the Church addresses to the world. By preaching the truths of the gospel and enlightening the different aspects of human activity, the church seeks therefor to establish the peace and justice of the Kingdom of God.

“Whenever you go into town where they make you welcome, eat what is set before you and cure those in it who are sick and say,the Kingdom of God is very near to you”(Lk.10:8-9)

All disciples continue to preach the word of God, they never afraid because the Spirit of God guide them. Some people heard and believe while others, though, they heard but they continue their evil deeds.

“They knew God and yet refuse to honor him as God or to thank him instead they made nonsense out of logic and their empty minds were darkened… In other words, since they refused to see it was rational to acknowledge God, God has left them to their own irrational ideas and to their monstrous behavior and so they are steeped in all sorts of depravity,rottenness, greed and malice,an addicted to envy, murder wrangling, treachery and spite. Libellers, slanders, enemies of God,rude, arrogant and boastful, enterprising in sin, rebellious to parents without brains, honor,pity and love. They know what God’s verdict is; that those who behave like this deserve to die and yet do it; and what is worse,encourage others to do the same”.(Roman 7:21-32)

Soon it is not enough for them that their knowledge of God should be at fault in the great struggle, to which ignorance condem their lives, they next give such massive ills, the name of peace.

Because of God’s anger He left us, but it doesn’t meant He didn’t loved us. God loved us and He want us to be saved. What He wants is to believe in Him.

“God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son so that everyone who believes in Him may not be lost but have an eternal life”.(John 3:16)
Before we are dead, through our sins and because of God grace and big loved to us He sent His son Jesus Christ and He brought us to life, raised us up with him. And blessed those whom believed in Heaven.

“Now that is hardly the way you have learn from Christ, unless you failed to hear him properly when you were taught what the truth is in Jesus. You must give up your old way of life; you must put aside you old self, which gets corrupted by following illusory desires. Your mind must be renewed by a spiritual revolution, so that you can put on the new self that has been created in God’s way, in the Goodness and holiness of the truth”.(Eph.4:20-24)

Much better if we filled with the Spirit that sing the words of God and tunes of the psalms and hymns together than doing bad things that can destroy to our relationship of God.