TWO CHURCHES:

Regenerate and Degenerate.

By Venerable Dr Ifechukwu U Ibeme

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CONTENTS

Which Church do you belong to?

ARE YOU ONLY UNCONSUMED BY GODS SHOW OF MERCY OR ALSO SAVED BY GODS GIFT OF
GRACE?
DO YOU TAKE LOOKING BACK AND LIVING IN SIN LIGHTLY?
ARE YOU PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK OR OFF THE MARK?
IS YOUR DOCTRINE OF SINFUL IRREVOCABILITY FROM CHRIST OR FROM MEN?
ARE YOU MODIFYING THE TRUTH TO SOOTH AND SUIT YOUR SINFUL WEAKNESS?
ARE YOU REGENERATE IN THE FAITH OR REPROBATE OUT OF THE FAITH?

Which Church do you belong to?

The Regenerate Apostolic Church relies on Gods seed of GRACE that
overcomes sins. The regenerate runs from and fights against sin, laying aside
every besetting sin. Their focus was the importance of their pressing forward to
grow in holiness in order to apprehend their resurrection prize.
The Degenerate un-Apostolic Church relies on Gods sense of MERCY that
overlooks sins. The degenerate remains in and tangles with sin, condoning every
defiling sin. Their focus is the impossibility of losing their resurrection prize in spite
of their backsliding into sinfulness.

2 Corinthians 13:5
(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own
selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you,
except ye be reprobates?
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ARE YOU ONLY UNCONSUMED BY GODS SHOW OF

MERCY
OR ALSO SAVED BY GODS GIFT OF GRACE?
Mercy (unmerited favour) does not save from sins power but merely overlooks sins
pollution since Eden.
Grace (quickening power) saves from sin because it overcomes sins power and
pollution since Calvary.
Eph 2:10 says that Grace (which saves from death in sin and trespasses Eph 2:4-5)
is given as God's workmanship in us, recreating us to do those good works which
meets the standard He has purposed beforehand.

Titus 2:11-12
(11) For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all
men,

(12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we

should live sensibly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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DO YOU TAKE LOOKING BACK AND LIVING IN SIN

LIGHTLY?
The regenerate Apostolic Church (that belongs to them that PUT HAND AND LOOK
NOT BACK) taught that after we are saved by Chriss quickening power (GRACE), we
must press forward to know Christ and grow in grace in order to make the mark
The reprobate modern Church (that belongs to them that PUT HAND AND LOOK
BACK} teaches that after we are saved by Gods unmerited favour (MERCY),
however we are free to backslide in the flesh and decay in sin, since we have
already made the mark.

Luke 9:62
(62) And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the
plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
1 John 3:7-9
(7)
Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does
righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
(8) He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he
might destroy the works of the devil.
(9) Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his nature
remains in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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ARE YOU PRESSING TOWARD THE MARK OR OFF

THE MARK?
The truly saved Apostolic Church was concerned about how they could not afford to
defile themselves to make the mark and apprehend the prize.
The falsely saved modern Church Is concerned about how they could afford to defile
themselves since they have already apprehended the prize and secured the mark.

Philippians 3:12-15
(12) Not as though I had already attained, either were already
perfect: but I follow after, if indeed I may apprehend that for which
also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
(13) Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one
thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
forth unto those things which are before,
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(14) I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.
(15) Let us therefore, as many as would be perfect, be thus minded:
and if in anything you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even
this unto you.
2 Peter 2:20-22
(20) For if after they have escaped the defilements of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with
them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of
righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy
commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,
The dog has turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was
washed to her wallowing in the mire.
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IS YOUR DOCTRINE OF SINFUL IRREVOCABILITY

FROM CHRIST OR FROM MEN?
JESUS CHRIST the Saviour Himself and the true ancient Apostolic Church argued
with Christians that since the salvation offered to us is eternal then we must never
dare to fall away by failing to be fruitful for God.
The false non-Apostolic Church argues with God that if His salvation is eternal then
He must never dares to take them away however they fail to be fruitful for Him.

John 15:1-10
(1) I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.
(2) Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and
every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it, that it may bring forth
more fruit.
(3) Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto
you.
(4) Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can you, except you abide
in me.
(5) I am the vine, you are the branches: He that abides in me, and I
in him, the same brings forth much fruit: for without me you can do
nothing.

(6) If a man abides not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is

withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and
they are burned.
(7) If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask
what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
(8) In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall
you be my disciples.
(9) As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you: continue you in
my love.
(10) If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his
love.
Hebrews 10:26-31
(26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
(27) But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
(28) He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or
three witnesses:
(29) Of how much worse punishment, suppose you, shall he be
thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and
has counted the blood of the covenant, with which he was sanctified,
an unholy thing, and has done insult unto the Spirit of grace?
(30) For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I
will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his
people.
(31) It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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ARE YOU MODIFYING THE GOD-SUITED TRUTH TO

SOOTH AND SUIT YOUR SINFUL WEAKNESS?
The problem of the degenerate Church is not really about ASSURANCE OF
SALVATION but actually about LIFE OF SIN which they are not willing to give up or
feel unable to resist. But God gave Grace to make you both willing and able to
overcome sin.

Romans 6:10-14
(10) For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he lives, he
lives unto God.
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(11) Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
(12) Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should
obey it in its lusts.
(13) Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness
unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from
the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God.
(14) For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not
under the law, but under grace.
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ARE YOU REGENERATE IN

REPROBATE OUT OF THE FAITH?

THE

FAITH

OR

The degenerate Church philosophizes and argues that since we all sin, then there
has to be a theoretical way to make heaven despite sin. But the Scriptures did not
say we have no sin to fight against after salvation. The Bible says we must in God's
sight be truly penitent of any sin for us to be cleansed, but not wilfully continue to
live in sin.
GOD'S PROVISION FOR SIN IS REMISSION FOR PENITENCE NOT ETERNAL
SECURITY DESPITE WILFUL IMPENITENCE (1John 1:7-9).
Wilful sin and Continuing in sin means one is not even interested in being saved to
begin with.

1 John 3:7-9
(7) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is
righteous, even as he is righteous.
(8) He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
(9) Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin; for his nature remains
in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
Hebrews 10:26-27
(26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
(27) But a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries.
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Updated September 2, 2016

by Ven. Dr. I. U. Ibeme

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