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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Taking A Break
However, there are some things I need to work out theologically before I declare them boldly.
I'm going to bunker down and flush out then flesh out some more accurate revelation and doctrine. Thanks for coming this far with me. Coming up:
"Secret Gnosis"
"Why I Reject the Trinity"
"Why I'm as Righteous as Jesus"
"The Baptisms of Water, Spirit, Christ, and Fire"
"The Day of the Lord"
"The Tithe Myth"
To Be Continued...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Estranged Children
Jesus literally became sin and died so that we could become righteous and live. The reconciliation was not just about dealing with sin so we could “live better.” It was about dealing with sin so we could enjoy the Father again in living spirit. This is now our primary ministry, to bring all people into the body of Jesus. God is reconciled to men in Christ now our purpose is to reconcile men to God.
“Therefore if any man [be] in Christ, [he is] a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things [are] of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
God provided everything to get His kids back. We just have to persuade His damaged children to walk through the door. While the enemy lies about our Father, distracts His children, and tries to offer Christian religion instead of reconciliation.
The reconciliation is eternal life; it is intimately knowing the Father and Jesus. God loved His estranged children so much that He supplied His perfect son, so that whoever rests “in him” will not be destroyed but instead enjoy intimacy with both Jesus and the Father. This is what I mean when I say true Christianity is not religion, it is relationship with our Dad.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Entering Christ
Through the body of Jesus the Father used the law to triumph over sin, and resurrection to triumph over death. The reward of the ministry of reconciliation was creating the spiritual body of Jesus that had life and perfection. This is the Spirit of Christ we receive when we are born again.
Jesus is in perfect right standing with the Father. God is in Christ and completely reconciled to the world. As people come into Christ they are reconciled to the Father. In Christ we are resurrected and our new created spirit is one with his spirit. Our born again spirit literally is a new creation that is perfect and righteous. It is with our spirit (one with Christ) that we enjoy the Father.
The Father waits for us to bring more people into Christ, the new Tent of Meeting. This tent of our covenant has no barriers, no veil, no requirements, any can freely enter. You don’t have to change to enter Christ, entering Christ changes you.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Peace on Earth
The Reconciliation: Part 14
Jesus’ ministry was the ministry of reconciliation. God was pleased to dwell in Jesus as He reconciled Himself to humanity with Jesus’ body. God was in Christ and reconciled himself to us now we can enter Christ and enjoy the Father. Jesus has become the new Tent of Meeting. He is the place that God came into and the place we are invited to come in as well.
Jesus dealt with sin once and for all, and God is no longer imputing sin against humanity during this age of grace. There is only reconciliation. God was at war with sin through the bodies of men, but at Jesus birth He declared “Peace on Earth.” God was not stating that Jesus came to bring peace among men.
Mathew 10:34
“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.”
Even in Isaiah the Father was declaring this peace on earth:
Isaiah 40:2-3
“Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
And who was to declare this? John the Baptist.
Mathew 3:3
“ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
God was declaring peace toward men from Himself. The war of sin between God and man was over. Now there is place where we can simply enjoy fellowship with our Father. Just like in the Garden of Eden there is a place where the Father dwells and He wants to enjoy us there. It is literally inside of Christ.
PART 15
Saturday, April 9, 2011
It Pleased the Lord to Bruise Him.
As we understand what was happening we understand Isaiah 53:
1Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
PART 14
Friday, April 8, 2011
Jesus the Serpent
John 12:31-33
"Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die."
Some translations insert the word men after “draw all.” However, this is talking about judgment. Jesus knew when he was lifted up, like the snake in the wilderness (Numbers 21:9) he would in that moment draw the world’s judgment upon himself; speaking of his death.
He did this for the purpose of casting the prince of the world out. This event was going to finally reconcile the Father to his children again. He was going to be resurrected a new Adam with life in his spirit, with ability to resurrect the spirits of dead men. After, Jesus traps sin in the body of the Jews they sacrifice him on the Day of Atonement.
They didn’t understand but they weren’t required to. The system was in place. They laid their hands on him and transferred the caged being of sin into the body of Jesus then shed his blood. It wasn’t the shedding of blood or the pain in Christ that pleased God it was the reconciliation.
PART 13
Thursday, April 7, 2011
A Jewish Cage
"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Jesus Didn't Destroy the Law...He Abolished it!
Hebrews 7:18-19
“For there is verily an abolishment of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope [did]; by the which we draw nigh unto God.”
Whenever I start to talk about how Jesus abolished the law the first thing out of a person’s mouth is, “Jesus didn’t come to destroy the law! He came to fulfill it.” That phrase is often followed by a satisfied grin as though I was put in my place. Well not only is this the most popular come back it also the most misunderstood. So let’s look at that verse in Mathew.
Mathew 5:17-20
“Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall by any means pass from the law until all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks(unburdens) one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (speaking of himself) For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. You have heard that it is written…”
Then Jesus teaches the full condemnation of the law.
If Jesus were to destroy the law he would be destroying word, the fabric of the universe. So he is clarifying he did not come to katalyō – destroy or disunite the law. He came to fulfill it. Why? What purpose is found in fulfilling the law? Keep reading. He says that until Heaven and earth pass away not one marking of the law shall pass away until all of it is fulfilled. I believe this is completely in line with what I discussed regarding the integrity of the word.
Jesus is saying there are only two ways to get rid of the law. First he could just destroy it but that would also destroy heaven and earth. If heaven and earth were to pass away then he could easily destroy the law; it would at that time have zero ramifications. So until the day that heaven and earth is no longer an issue not one jot or tittle shall pass away until all is fulfilled.
So to be clear Jesus is saying that when all of the law is fulfilled it can also be removed; while the integrity of the word, at the same time, stays intact. Though at first this verse feels like the perfect counterpoint to my teaching the end of the law, it is in fact my main verse to show how Jesus did abolish it. Fulfillment.