FOUNDATION OF LIFE TO THE FULL
20/11/24 10:17
The Word of God is not just words. It may not be a sermon consisting of a line of texts and their exposition. Why? Because the Word of God is a Person and being in the word is a state of being, of being one with Christ. We are living the reality that He has included us in His life and thus in the Word as in the person of Christ. We are in Christ’s person who has atoned for us, meaning that our adamic separation has been undone and we have been positioned in oneness with Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
TRUTH IS LIFE
Life is truth and deceit is death. Truth is life and life is truth when it is Christ our life. If you love life, you will not bend the truth or ignore it. Or blunder on in a glass mostly empty.
LOVE LIFE. LOVE TRUTH
If you love people, you will not promote lesser forms of life when they are not life to the full. Deceit hides in a culture of truth-denial. This is a disease that fosters leadership by the numb in spirit and crippled in soul. Such leaders may be relied on by religious authorities because they are not perceptive enough to be challenge socialised falsehood that is the culture of the denomination.
Reality is Christ and love is as real as one’s love for people. Your belonging in God is as real as the trinity is real. ‘No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us’ 1 John 4.12 NIV. Here is the key to grace and love towards others and the reason for truth-telling. It is life-giving.
READING TRUTH
There is a way to read the scriptures and a way not to read them. Reading bits of morality and listing the fruits of the Spirit, as a means to ‘doing them’ is a misguided kind of legalism. It differs from Judaism but its essence is the same. It’s a novel kind of law.
Legalism is “..a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?’ Acts 15.10. When our meaning frame is the law/moralism we distort even life in the Spirit, dragging it down into a subtle legalism.
JESUS REPLICATED IN US
Jesus is not here to help you do Christianity. His mission is not that trite. Jesus is with us in order that we may possess His union with His Father as our union with Father and become fully human and fully alive. As such we are multiplying agents of His spirit and life.
With a disease like leprosy, we become an expression of decay. Jesus healed many lepers because he loved them and because it was a sign that he healed us of sin – this body of death. Living incarnated makes us alive in His life. ‘Christ our life’ is the joy of living and the way of transformation. Our treasure is that we participate in Jesus.
KINGDOM FOUNDATION
Incarnation is the core of our lives. Visions, dreams and tongues have their place but are a diversion if we are not living in our inheritance which is union with God. It’s sad to experience healing of limbs without healing of being. Jesus is our union with God and God’s healing and life.
EMBODIED LIFE
We are already one with God – it’s not something to achieve, but something to live in. One with His Father, Jesus was spirit and life and ministered spirit and life. Without oneness we can minister words but not spirit and life. The gifts of the Spirit may give a sporadic and intermittent anointing. Oneness with Christ gives you a life that is spirit and life. Here we witness life because we are actually alive.
WHOLE PERSON LIVING
The Word of God is the Son of God – fully God and fully man. By the mystery of the Spirit, He lives in us in order that we may express His life. To reduce His life to words is to make Him less than He is and us less than we are. We are one with His Person to be the expression of His person. This is Christ in you, the hope and present reality of your sonship. Not just the glory of God but the glory of you as a daughter and son of God in spirit and in truth. You have your own glory as the son/daughter who you are in Christ your life. Your glory is to live as your real self and spread Christ’s life to others.
A LIVING WORD - AS YOU
Jesus is the Word as the living expression of God. You are living word as the manifestation of Jesus. The sons of God live in the Son of God by incarnation. ‘Realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.20. As a manifestation of the trinity ( a son), you are a word from God to the world. The most amazing manifestation of the Holy Spirit is you.
TRUTH IS LIFE
Life is truth and deceit is death. Truth is life and life is truth when it is Christ our life. If you love life, you will not bend the truth or ignore it. Or blunder on in a glass mostly empty.
LOVE LIFE. LOVE TRUTH
If you love people, you will not promote lesser forms of life when they are not life to the full. Deceit hides in a culture of truth-denial. This is a disease that fosters leadership by the numb in spirit and crippled in soul. Such leaders may be relied on by religious authorities because they are not perceptive enough to be challenge socialised falsehood that is the culture of the denomination.
Reality is Christ and love is as real as one’s love for people. Your belonging in God is as real as the trinity is real. ‘No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us’ 1 John 4.12 NIV. Here is the key to grace and love towards others and the reason for truth-telling. It is life-giving.
READING TRUTH
There is a way to read the scriptures and a way not to read them. Reading bits of morality and listing the fruits of the Spirit, as a means to ‘doing them’ is a misguided kind of legalism. It differs from Judaism but its essence is the same. It’s a novel kind of law.
Legalism is “..a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?’ Acts 15.10. When our meaning frame is the law/moralism we distort even life in the Spirit, dragging it down into a subtle legalism.
JESUS REPLICATED IN US
Jesus is not here to help you do Christianity. His mission is not that trite. Jesus is with us in order that we may possess His union with His Father as our union with Father and become fully human and fully alive. As such we are multiplying agents of His spirit and life.
With a disease like leprosy, we become an expression of decay. Jesus healed many lepers because he loved them and because it was a sign that he healed us of sin – this body of death. Living incarnated makes us alive in His life. ‘Christ our life’ is the joy of living and the way of transformation. Our treasure is that we participate in Jesus.
KINGDOM FOUNDATION
Incarnation is the core of our lives. Visions, dreams and tongues have their place but are a diversion if we are not living in our inheritance which is union with God. It’s sad to experience healing of limbs without healing of being. Jesus is our union with God and God’s healing and life.
EMBODIED LIFE
We are already one with God – it’s not something to achieve, but something to live in. One with His Father, Jesus was spirit and life and ministered spirit and life. Without oneness we can minister words but not spirit and life. The gifts of the Spirit may give a sporadic and intermittent anointing. Oneness with Christ gives you a life that is spirit and life. Here we witness life because we are actually alive.
WHOLE PERSON LIVING
The Word of God is the Son of God – fully God and fully man. By the mystery of the Spirit, He lives in us in order that we may express His life. To reduce His life to words is to make Him less than He is and us less than we are. We are one with His Person to be the expression of His person. This is Christ in you, the hope and present reality of your sonship. Not just the glory of God but the glory of you as a daughter and son of God in spirit and in truth. You have your own glory as the son/daughter who you are in Christ your life. Your glory is to live as your real self and spread Christ’s life to others.
A LIVING WORD - AS YOU
Jesus is the Word as the living expression of God. You are living word as the manifestation of Jesus. The sons of God live in the Son of God by incarnation. ‘Realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you’ John 14.20. As a manifestation of the trinity ( a son), you are a word from God to the world. The most amazing manifestation of the Holy Spirit is you.
