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Adam Clarke: “Receive him into your fellowship;” f37 so Comp. Corn.,
Doddridge, etc. See 1 Corinthians 5:4-5, where the church excluded a
member and 2 Corinthians 2:6-10, where she receives him back into her
membership.
(4.) In caring for the interests of the kingdom the churches exclude members.
— 1 Corinthians 5:4-9; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Revelation 2:14, 15,
20; 3:10; Matthew 18:17-19.
(5.) The church is to watch, guard the interest of the kingdom as a soldier, on
guard, guards what is under his care. Teereo — thre>w — rendered “observe”
in the Commission — Matt. 28:20 — means to “watch, to observe attentively,
to keep the eyes fixed upon, to keep, to guard, e.g., a prisoner, a person
arrested. … to keep back, to keep store, to reserve.” f38 In the following
passages it, and its family, are rendered, “watched,” “keepers,” “keep,” “kept.”
— Matthew 27:36; 28:4; Mark 7:9; John 2:10; 12:7; 17: 12, 15;
Acts 12:5, 6; 16:23: 24:23; 25:4, 21; 2 Timothy 4:7; James 1:27.
Thus the “keepers did shake;” “they watched him;” “Peter was kept in prison;”
“the keepers before the door kept the prison;” “charging the jailer to keep them
safely;” “commanded a centurion to keep Paul;” “that Paul should be kept in
Caesaren;” “I commanded him to be kept;” “keep yourselves in the love of
God.” Thus the church, at Philadelphia, is commended concerning the interests
of the kingdom, in that “thou didst keep my word.” — Revelation 3:8.
In 1 Corinthians 11:2, katekete — kate>cete — “to hold down, to detain, to
restrain, to retain, hold firm in grasp, to maintain” — see the Lexs. — is used
— “keep the ordinances” — Revised Version, “hold fast.” Thus we see, as
plainly as that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that as the Jews, under the Old
Dispensation, had the exclusive care of the word, the ceremonies, etc., so has
the church under the new; that the church, as a soldier, with its eyes fixed on
the interests of the kingdom, is to propagate, practice and guard them — as the
Commission reads, “teach them to guard all things whatsoever I have
commanded you.” As the Church, according to the word and the Spirit, obeys
the Great Commission, Jesus is with it. — Matthew 28:20. f39 If the church
were necessary in apostolic times it is necessary “alway, even unto the end of
the world.” — Matthew 28:20. Did not Christ provide for this necessity by
providing for Church Preservation? Or, was there, here, a little omission which
Wesley, Calvin, Campbell and other church builders provided for?
No doctrine of the Bible is more clearly revealed than is the doctrine of Church
Perpetuity. As easily can one deny the atonement. Convince me there is no
church to-day that has continued from the time of Christ, and you convince me
the Bible is false. “Pedo-baptists” and Campbellites have admitted that Church