A Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World

Thomas H. Vanleer

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For those who has ears to hear . . . his words force us to make difficult choices. The Reverend Thomas Vanleer’s composition “A Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World” is a powerful anthology of God’s righteous word of judgment and hope, calling back to its roots and original mission.
Speaking in a dynamic prophetic style, Vanleer challenges the Church to de-institutionalize the Biblical message of the “Beatitudes” focus less on denominations and more on the body of Christ!
— Reverend Lonnie Branch
ELCA Pastor Emeritus
Pastor Thomas Vanleer new book My Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken World is a brilliant and inspired must read book. It is profound and challenging in transformation of one’s understanding of the plan of God. Thank you, my friend, for listening to our Savior, for He has given you to write a masterpiece of a book.
—Thomas J. Salen, president of Salen Incorporated

A Pastor and friend, Reverend Tom Vanleer has been my friend and church brother for ten years. I have been honored to know him during that time as a thoughtful, wise, loving man who has improved and continue to grow as his years extend. One cannot find a better man. The labor of this book is sincere and honestly written, it is as God Himself dictated the very words he has written. The message is heartfelt and challenging to God’s Church.
—Jeff Pelletier
Founder of the Foundation for Excellence in Faith and Work
The word of God received and transcribe in this book is Powerful, inspirational, compelling, instructional and a warning and hope to the Church and to mankind. This book gives us reassurance of who God truly is to us and refreshing for those that are truly walking with God and following his Commandments. This is a MUST READ.
—Reverend Christopher Brooks
Executive Director, SHINE

Sujets

• Thomas
• Religion
• Spirituality
• Vanleer, Tennessee
• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669850960
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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A WORD TO A FRACTURED CHURCH AND A BROKEN WORLD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THOMAS H. VANLEER
 
Copyright © 2023 by Thomas H. Vanleer.
 
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Rev. date: 01/19/2023
 
 
 
 
 
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Prologue
 
Chapter 1       Who Is in Charge? I AM!
Chapter 2       What I Hate!
Chapter 3       Truth Personified
Chapter 4       Things You Need to Know!
Chapter 5       Because I AM!
Chapter 6       The Simplicity of My Salvation
Chapter 7       The Fractured Church
Chapter 8       A Broken World
Chapter 9       Clarification on Prayer and Its Power!
Chapter 10     How to Obtain Happiness
Chapter 11     The Adamic Covenant
Chapter 12     The Covenant I Made with Noah!
Chapter 13     The Abrahamic Covenant
Chapter 14     The Mosaic Law
Chapter 15     The Davidic Covenant
Chapter 16     My Promise Fulfilled
Chapter 17     My Last Will and Testimony
Chapter 18     My Divinity/ My Godhead
Chapter 19     My Messengers
Chapter 20     Take Heed!
Chapter 21     The Time Is at Hand
 
About the Author


 
My Word to a Fractured Church and a Broken W orld!
INTRODUCTION
I, Thomas H. Vanleer , a bond servant, an ambassador of God and His Son , my Savior, Jesus Christ, I am writing this under the supreme guidance of the Holy Sp irit.
God has spoken to me and said,
I have chosen you, not a scholar or a theologian, to write this communication to My church. I chose someone that I have personally trained. I taught you the art of writing, first by writing your autobiography, From Promise Land to the Promised Land. Like My Servant David, you confessed all of your past sins in your first book. All who I called must follow My commandments and confess your sins and repent. I was very pleased, of course, when you not only confess your sin to Me, but also to your trusted friend. No one can hide or cover up their iniquity. My first children tried this by covering themselves with self-made ap rons.
My training put you through many trials and setbacks. Like Jeremiah, I put a fire in your belly, testing your sensibility, until you finally submitted; then I put it in your heart to write “I’m Just Say’n,” using the words uttered by a colleague and friend, George Garnett. I knew he loved you and respected you, that is why he chose you to perform his marriage. I then inspired you try your hand writing a third book, The Conversation. “Look Who’s Talking” is a fictional story of a family revealing both sin and righteousness. Yes, by My Permissive will, I put you through many trials and setbacks, even a near-death experience, a disease that only I could cure, Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS); then I took away your sexual prowess, watched you succumb to pornography, but you proved your love for Me. I kept asking you the same question that I ask all my followers, “Do you love Me more than these?” You finally submitted. Some may ask, “Where does your authority come from to write such a book?”
Send them to My Book of Life. It is written in the Book which you call the Bible! My servant, the Apostle Peter, wrote his pastoral letter to My fledgling church to encourage and give them hope to sustain them as they lived and witnessed a pagan society. He wrote this to My chur ches.
As each one has received a gift, employ it for one another as good trustees of God’s many side of grace faithful stewards of extremely diverse powers and gifts granted to Christians by the unmerited favor of whoever speaks the oracles of God (let him do it as one who utters) whoever renders service let him do it as with strength which may be glorified through Jesus Christ [the Messiah] to Him be glory and dominion forever.” So might it be! (1 Pet. 4:1 0–18).
PROLOGUE
To those who will read this, please allow me to further explain one of the most profound statements in the universe that is found in the Book of Life (Bible), and the Torah, the first five Books of the Bible, a.k.a. Word of God, or the Scriptures. It begins with “In the beginning.” Exactly what does that mean? The simple answer is “a point in time or space in which something starts.”
To help you further understand what we, as finite creatures can grasp, it can be a birth or the emergence, or a starting point, or perhaps the debut of something new that never existed before.
Of course, we understand a beginning because we at birth have a beginning, but can we really say that the seed of our birth is our beginning? While I do not profess to be a scientist, I know a little something about the human chromosome (DNA), which is a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes. These genes are the basic physical and determine our heredity of who we are as human beings, so the logical question is, where does life begin? There are many theories about the beginning of the universe, and the beginning of the human species. It’s the word that follows “In the beginning” that most fail to comprehend, and that Word is “God!”
God spoke to one of His prophets, Jeremiah, and said, “I knew you before you were conceived in your mother’s womb.” I find this fascinating in the invisible world, which cannot be seen by us, unless God wills it so, who has always existed!
I believe that I have been commissioned to write this epistle to the Church; this will be my fourth book. It is especially written to the Western Church “because to them; that much has been given much, much is required.”
“It is written too, and for the Christian Church, after the resurrection, Jesus claimed. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me” (Matt. 28:18).
It is quite clear that the church is one body; Jesus Himself is the unconditional head of the church (the chief cornerstone). It exists both in the physical and spiritual realm. The Church has always existed in the mind of God; it existed before time as we know it, it was hidden until Christ came, and the first time we learn about it is from the mouth of Jesus, when He led His disciples to a country of Caesarea Philippi. He asked them, “Who do people say that the Sin of Man is?” And they answered, “Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others are saying Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.” But Jesus wanted to know what their thoughts were, so He asked, “But who do you say that I am?”
I think most Bible readers are familiar with Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus Christ. He is best known for his denial of Jesus when he stood with others in the courtyard, following Jesus and the entourage of His captors. When they thought they recognized him as one of Jesus’s disciples, they said to him, “Aren’t you one of His disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, said, “Did I not see you with Him in the garden?” The text tells us that as Peter denied it again, immediately a rooster crowed. Jesus prophesied that Peter would deny Him three times and a rooster would crow.
I must make this disclaimer; I am not trying to prove the existence of God. Jesus has done this, as both the Son of God and the Son of man as He often referred to Himself. Secondly, dearly beloved, if the Gospel message (the Good News) is unrecognizable or rejected, then it’s because of unbelief, and you are among the lost!
Simon Peter, always, quick to respond, replied, “You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) the Son of the Living God.”
Before we continue, let us look back to the early church Fathers who spoke about the last days. This was written around AD 100. From their writing, we learn how the apostolic church tried to understand the of the church Didache, it reads,
Watch for your life’s sake. Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloose; but be ready, for you know not the hour in which our Lord cometh. When lawlessness increased, they shall hate and betray and persecute one another, and then shall appear the “world deceiver” as the Son of God, and shall do signs and wonders, and the earth will be delivered into his hands, and he shall do iniquitous which never yet come to pass since the beginning. Then shall creation of men come into the fire of trial, and many shall be made to stumble and shall perish, but they that endure in their faith shall be saved from under the curse itself. And then shall appear the signs of the truth, (a) first the sign of an opening