The church is holy because it is indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

Because if you are a Christian, the Holy Spirit lives in you.

How can anybody look at the church and call it holy?

The secular world does not consider the Christian church holy,

not with all the scandals that have marked the track record of the religious community.

They laugh. They laugh us to scorn when we say the

church is holy. Holy church. It's more like an unholy fellowship. Well, again, we must go back

to the Protestant Reformation and even to Augustine before it.

But for a moment, let's stop at Luther, and Luther's famous citation that a Christian is one who is simul Eustis at Paccatur.

The Latin symbol, we get the English word from it, simultaneous, or simultaneously. Eustis simply means, or simultaneously.

Justus simply means just or righteous.

And et, we all know, is the past tense of the English verb to eat.

That's the way my mother, my grandmother used it, my grandmother used

always asked me, have you at your lunch?

Yeah, at my lunch.

Now you remember from Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, when Caesar gets stabbed and he falls dead

at the base of the statue, to whom?

Pompey statue, right?

And the knife goes in and he says, ah, help me, at two, Brutei.

Then what do he say?

What do he say then?

What do you say then?

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