GIBBERISH IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR LIFE

Sin began when Adam and Eve were seduced away from union with our trustworthy Father. They were lured away from the grace of the complete acceptance of the self in God. And so betrayed into an abandonment of the reality that was their oneness with God. The essence of sin is the adoption of our way for God’s way. The effect of sin is separation from God. The multiplication of sin is the pursuit of godliness independent of Christ or by a manufactured (false) Christ and false gospel. Any gospel premised on steps we must make to Christ is a false gospel with a false christ.

GRACE REFUSED
The most subtle sin is the dilution of grace. This sin is the cause of multiple degradations, soul disease, alienation of the spirit from God’s Spirit and the normalisation of non-life as the absence of spirit and life in exchange for an intellectualised belief system, aka a version of the knowledge of good and evil with a Christian gloss. The teaching of diluted grace is the stuff of false doctrine and muted kingdom life.

GOD’S NORMAL FOR ALL
Jesus Christ has undone Adam’s estrangement. Hooray for Jesus! He has made us one with God in Himself. The fall has been undone in the resurrection of Jesus because we rose with Him from the pit of the fall to sit with Him in the presence of Father in the throne room of heaven. God was in Christ, reconciling you to Himself. Your normal life today, because of the cross is union with God.

Christ’s cross is not something to be morbid about. It achieved the at-one-ment between you and God.

MIND OF CHRIST
There is no separation in Christ Jesus. If you feel separated it is because your mindset is out of sync with Christ’s mind and Christ’s achievement on your behalf. Your treasure, that you should embrace is oneness with God. It’s obedience and love.

LIMITLESS GRACE
Your sin/sins cannot separate you from God. Christ reached into sin, penetrating the most dismal rejection of life ever witnessed – the murder of the Life of the World. But in doing so Jesus travelled right down into the sinful abyss of the human heart and undid it from the source.

THE COMPULSION TO EARN UNDONE
Jesus, “Exposed the infinite guilt of man’s hatred of grace, drawing it out in all its enmity that he might bear it and bear it away as the lamb of God in holy and awful atonement.” (1) Thus the ring was cast into the fires of Mt Doom so that the power of the ‘one ring that had bound them all’ would be no more.

GRACE EARNED IS NOT GRACE
We can refuse grace today. The most subtle and debilitating refusal takes the form of  perverting the gospel of grace into a gospel of earning grace – which is no grace at all.

Refusing grace is the most subtle of sins, particularly so when it the sin clothed in ‘new light,’ our perspective and as a special revelation/knowledge. This is Gnosticism. A true Christ and a true Gospel does not endorse the law.

PERCEIVING THE OPIATE
Vital spirituality is not about being made comfortable in received beliefs. The subtle prison is his own mind and obeisance to received beliefs. That which he has always believed is his god.

The side-tracking of grace and the substitution of any kind of ‘work’ or practise is a false christ/false grace that has been made a substitute for Christ who is our union with God in person.

We may make an effort to live in this lie and spend our life trying to put a good face on a warped gospel. But will find no success in living life without limit and growing into our real self – which is the point of all mission.

(1)  Thomas Torrance, The Mediation of Christ, p 53.