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the New Jerusalem have the same expression— the expression of jasper, the glorious appearance of God.

In the New Testament, the distinction be tween the churches is not on the positive side but on the negative side. Some may say, "Were not the churches established by Paul in the Gen tile world of one kind and the churches in Judea, especially the church in Jerusalem, of another kind?" This is true, but only in a negative sense, not in a positive sense. In the positive sense, all the churches believed in Jesus Christ and had Christ as their life to express God. On the posi tive side, there was no difference between them. However, on the negative side there was a differ ence because the Gentile churches knew noth ing about keeping the law, while the saints in Judea, especially some in the church in Jeru salem, still practiced the rituals of the Jewish religion, even up to the time of Paul's last visit to Jerusalem. That was a real distinction among the churches. Do you want to keep this kind of distinction? The saints in Jerusalem even con vinced Paul to pay the charge for purification in the Jewish religious way, but God did not agree with that. Yes, there were distinctions between the churches, but only in a negative sense.

Shall we keep the negative distinctions, or shall we go on to keep the positive oneness? All the churches must be the same. We have one Bible, we believe in one God, we have the same one Jesus Christ as our Savior, and we all enjoy Him as our life to express God. There is no rea son to be different. If we still maintain the dif ferences, it means that we are negative. All the forty-eight boards in the tabernacle expressed the glory of the same gold, and the entire wall of the New Jerusalem will have the appearance of jasper. How happy we are that all the churches today are the same positively. We must forsake the traditional concept that the churches should be different. All the churches must be the same.

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