ENTERING INTO LIFE: THE REALITY OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST - PART 1

Friends,

Sometimes it is difficult for me to express to others my understanding of what living in the "Kingdom of God" is and why, if you are a Believer you are in Gods' Kingdom "NOW".  I think it is mainly because holding onto my revelation of the Cross of Christ is not easy.  Verbalizing the revelation of my truth is even more difficult.  There are a thousand things bombarding my conscious and sub-conscious mind daily - awake or asleep, attempting to keep me focused on the circumstances in my life and not on the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ.  I think that is why the early Apostles Paul, James, Peter, John, Mary Magdalene  etc. exhorted the Church to "...hold fast to our "Confession of Faith" and why we are told to consciously fight 

(to struggle to endure or surmount, to gain by struggle, <fights his way through>

)  to stay in "faith". (

firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2) :complete trust)

to do so.

Have you ever asked yourself wh

at does our "Confession of Faith" mean?   I think most people who profess to be Christians think the "sinners prayer" is our Confession of Faith. You know...believing Jesus Christ is the Son of God, he died for our sins, he rose from the dead, ascended into heaven...etc., etc..  When in truth, the sinners prayer is a prayer of repentance and calling on/asking God to save/redeem you.  Our Confession of Faith is not the Apostles Creed Christian ministries cite as their statement of faith and what they believe, in a religious context.  

As children of the living God, do we even grasp the true meaning or the reality of what we have inherited in Christ? I think we consciously live in a space between two worlds.  One world an illusion and the other our true reality.  We are not consciously alive to the reality of life yet not unconscious; but looking/seeing the image of who we are through a distorted mirror and hesitant to leave the illusion and enter into the Kingdom of God as the cross of Christ allows us to do. 

Our Confession of our Faith goes deeper than mere words, or a belief in a religious system, or denomination.  Our Confession of Faith to me is living in the reality of what the Cross of Christ gave humanity.  It is knowing what we have, and who we are, and how we got what we have, and how in our daily, conscious, actions we keep what we have inherited through the Cross of Christ.  This is what I want to talk about in upcoming post..."Entering into life: The Reality of the Cross of Christ" which is living in the Kingdom of God "Now", our true reality (something that actually exists)

Take a moment to "slowing" and "prayerfully" read and meditate on the following verses of scripture...

Ephesians 1

The Message (MSG)

1 ^1-2 I, Paul, am under God’s plan as an apostle, a special agent of Christ Jesus, writing to you faithful believers in Ephesus. I greet you with the grace and peace poured into our lives by God our Father and our Master, Jesus Christ.

The God of Glory

^3-6 How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

^7-10 Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds. And not just barely free, either. Abundantly free! He thought of everything, provided for everything we could possibly need, letting us in on the plans he took such delight in making. He set it all out before us in Christ, a long-range plan in which everything would be brought together and summed up in him, everything in deepest heaven, everything on planet earth.

^11-12 It’s in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for. Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose he is working out in everything and everyone.

^13-14 It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.

What is the Apostle Paul trying to convey to the Ephesians Church and to all Believers?  What do you hear the Spirit saying?  Post your comments.

In the meantime,

TRUST YOUR HEART

Have you ever had the thought that you were not rejecting "Truth" but were rejecting what you were told was "truth" by people who claim to know the truth.  That is what I did more than twelve years ago regarding what I was orientated to believe was the "truth" regarding the "Church" (the Ekklesia).  I opened my heart to what I intuitively knew to be true and trusted my heart, my soul and the Holy Spirit who has been guiding me through this spiritual journey called life.  This change in thought caused paradigm shift in my belief orientation.  This truth I learned is to know that the power of life, who God (Theos) is, has been within me the whole time.  To know that anything that would cause me to hate, be fearful or to doubt is not from God, who is the TRUTH.  Anything that would draw me away from the doctrine (teaching) of LOVE (agape) is a false doctrine.  

Because of that, I concluded that some men and women who profess to speak for GOD in the CHURCH today, have taken the CHURCH INTO APOSTASY!!!   They do not preach the word (Rhema) of Love and Grace.  They preach another gospel, which is "God wants them to have the worlds riches'.  They preach the "it's all about me and what I can achieve and obtain financially", gospel.  They keep the eyes of the people on materialism of the world instead of on Christ.  They preach a selfish instead of a self-less gospel.  Their goal is to keep humanity entrapped by the elementary things of the world.  In bondage to fear and not the liberty of freedom to love.  

What am I saying, The "church" is apostatize (in other words, the many so called pillars in the church be they the Pope, Evangelical leaders, etc., have fallen away from the truth of the Gospel and have lead, are leading and continue to lead people into darkness instead of into light.  They have divided the "Church" into many factions and denominations and many who adhere to these various denominations and factions are following the false doctrine of the anti-Christ (those who preach against the doctrine of Love and Grace which is the doctrine of Jesus Christ).  Those who would keep these factions warring against one another not coming together in unity of Spirit.   These Demigods whose  goal and purpose is set to destroy humanity.  Those who question these leaders are afraid to question and feel they should stay with the group.  Many times in my journey I felt like a salmon swimming against the flow of the river.  I felt all alone. 

From my seeking TRUTH, I believe the "Church" was infiltrated by those who sought power and control many hundreds of years ago by men, demigods, who distorted the Gospel message of Jesus Christ for their own gain.  The message they preached and wrote about is a message teaching people who seek truth to fear God; not realize or have hope in the love God has for humanity and what God did for humanity through Jesus Christ.  What these men and women have done is turn the worship of God (the I AM) into idolatry.  Making God a thing.  Jesus said, "God is a Spirit and those who worship God must worship God in spirit and truth.  To our shame we allowed the worship of God to turn into idolatry generation after generation.

These men and women (so called leaders in the church today) are worse than the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jesus's time, including men who persecuted the early Church because today, these people boldly preach the message of the anti-Christ, a message of "us" against "them" which is not sound biblical teaching.  Scripture teaches that Jesus died to reconcile all of humanity back to God not just those who label themselves as Christians.  Jesus died to bring humanity  back to their rightful place in God.  Into the unity of the faith.

My concern is that those who are seeking the "truth" get caught up in the lie as I did many years ago because I trusted that those who profess to love God really did.  I was naive.  I have since learned that actions speak louder than words.  I did not and neither do other who are seeking the truth understand what we are dealing with when it comes to these Pharisaical (ungodly) elements who profess to know the Truth yet, lead people away from the "Truth" into the doctrine of demons and not into Christ.

In the writings of the Apostle Paul and John  and others we are warned of such men over and over again.

In the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 3:7-10 John the Baptist addressed these men thus...

"When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: “Brood of snakes! What do you think you’re doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference? It’s your life that must change, not your skin! And don’t think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes on the fire." (the Message Bible)

What we believed to be the "TRUTH"  has instead been perverted into an awful lie imposed on humanity by those who would keep us (those who seek the truth and light) enslaved to the elementary teachings of the world; enslaved to the illusion.  Keeping humanity in darkness, captured by religion and ritual, instead of LOVE and GRACE.

What I am asking here, is open your heart to "LOVE" which is all God (THEOS, the Word (Rhema) is.  Open your soul to receive the TRUTH which is God (Theos).  Open up your heart and realize who you are and trust your heart and the spirit of Christ within you, Open your ears to hear what the Spirit is saying so you will know, understand what is True and know what is false.  

2 Corinthians 6:14-18

Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise; leave it for good,” says God. “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you. I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you; you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God.

I am saying...It is right to question.  It is right to question!!!  

TRUST YOUR HEART!!!