A LIFE OF TRUTH AND AGENCY
11/05/24 11:26
Alienation from God began with a lie. A suffocated relationship with God is extended when our gospel is incomplete or even ‘no gospel at all.’ If we have been steeped in the law, we need to know that the law leads to Christ. But Christ does not lead to the law. He leads to Himself. A whole and holy life is lived by us as the manifestation of Christ. The Church is Jesus multiplied. Multiplied because by the Spirit, Jesus is incarnated in us.
CHRIST’S GOSPEL AND PAUL’S
The Gospel of the Kingdom is not an exercise in ticking boxes. It’s about the undoing of the separation from God that occurred as a consequence of the tragedy of being seduced into seeking to be ‘as gods’.
Christ our life is the undoing of Adam and the re-creation of you. John declares this in His prologue. Paul affirms it as ‘Christ who is our life.’
THE WIDE WAY IS NO WAY
A gospel that is a variation in the knowledge of good and evil, which law obsession is, is not the wide way that leads to destruction. But it does cause paralysis, diseased thinking and a crippled church.
CHRIST MADE YOU ‘IN.’
We can neither know God in separation from God or know ourselves in separation from God. Contained in the law we live in Adam’s separation from God. Hidden in Christ we live in Jesus’ oneness with the trinity.
Any observance that joins us to the law is a ploy of the anti-christ
Separated from God – in our minds - we have a confused view of everything else, which is one reason why stupidity is increasingly being exchanged for wisdom in this season.
TRUE GOSPEL LIGHT
Karl Barth writes, “The Gospel is the Word of the Primal Origin of all things, the Word which, since it is ever new, must ever be received with renewed fear and trembling. The Gospel is therefore not an event, nor an experience, nor an emotion—however delicate! Rather, it is the clear and objective perception of what eye hath not seen nor ear heard. Moreover, what it demands of men is more than notice, or understanding, or sympathy. It demands participation, comprehension, co-operation; for it is a communication which presumes faith in the living God, and which creates that which it presumes.”
CHRIST HAS DRAWN YOU INTO HIS LIFE
Your lived Gospel is your participation in Christ’s communion with the trinity in Him. It’s the eucharist lived.
THE WORD IS GOD
The Gospel is conveyed in words, but the meta Gospel is the person of Christ The Word. This is the Word that is sharper than a two-edged sword. It is the Living Word, aka the Christ of God. ‘The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart’ Heb 4.12. The Word does so because Christ is real life as opposed to the pseudo life of religion and legalism.
WITH CHRIST AS YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE A LIVING WORD
It is this Word in us, infused into our being, that enables us to see the Light and know what light actually is. Christ’s tutoring of the self in the Light teaches us how to see, what to regard as truth and what to discard as flesh and the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Any addition to Christ did not come from God and is one of the fruits that causes lack of discernment and accommodation to subverted gospels. Satan wages a war against fullness in Christ. Limiting beliefs in individuals arise as a result of this war and misguided denominations appear like weeds to teach distorted gospels that produce crippled lives. We are not compelled to plant and foster tares.
WE ARE IN GOD IN CHRIST
In the passage above, Barth emphasises a pleasing truth about the Gospel of Jesus. IT’S NOT MERE WORDS. IT’S LIVING TRUTH AND NOT ABSTRACT TRUTH. It’s about a state of being and not initially about doing. It is Christ. It invites participation in God, invites us to join Him in ultra-life and extravagant belonging of the Kind that is God’s life – the togetherness of the trinity. Life and love are closely linked in God. Jesus has drawn us into the this circle of fulfilment and joy. Real life is a state of being. OF BEING ONE WITH GOD. Not an exercise in ticking boxes.
CHRIST’S GOSPEL AND PAUL’S
The Gospel of the Kingdom is not an exercise in ticking boxes. It’s about the undoing of the separation from God that occurred as a consequence of the tragedy of being seduced into seeking to be ‘as gods’.
Christ our life is the undoing of Adam and the re-creation of you. John declares this in His prologue. Paul affirms it as ‘Christ who is our life.’
THE WIDE WAY IS NO WAY
A gospel that is a variation in the knowledge of good and evil, which law obsession is, is not the wide way that leads to destruction. But it does cause paralysis, diseased thinking and a crippled church.
CHRIST MADE YOU ‘IN.’
We can neither know God in separation from God or know ourselves in separation from God. Contained in the law we live in Adam’s separation from God. Hidden in Christ we live in Jesus’ oneness with the trinity.
Any observance that joins us to the law is a ploy of the anti-christ
Separated from God – in our minds - we have a confused view of everything else, which is one reason why stupidity is increasingly being exchanged for wisdom in this season.
TRUE GOSPEL LIGHT
Karl Barth writes, “The Gospel is the Word of the Primal Origin of all things, the Word which, since it is ever new, must ever be received with renewed fear and trembling. The Gospel is therefore not an event, nor an experience, nor an emotion—however delicate! Rather, it is the clear and objective perception of what eye hath not seen nor ear heard. Moreover, what it demands of men is more than notice, or understanding, or sympathy. It demands participation, comprehension, co-operation; for it is a communication which presumes faith in the living God, and which creates that which it presumes.”
CHRIST HAS DRAWN YOU INTO HIS LIFE
Your lived Gospel is your participation in Christ’s communion with the trinity in Him. It’s the eucharist lived.
THE WORD IS GOD
The Gospel is conveyed in words, but the meta Gospel is the person of Christ The Word. This is the Word that is sharper than a two-edged sword. It is the Living Word, aka the Christ of God. ‘The word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart’ Heb 4.12. The Word does so because Christ is real life as opposed to the pseudo life of religion and legalism.
WITH CHRIST AS YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE A LIVING WORD
It is this Word in us, infused into our being, that enables us to see the Light and know what light actually is. Christ’s tutoring of the self in the Light teaches us how to see, what to regard as truth and what to discard as flesh and the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Any addition to Christ did not come from God and is one of the fruits that causes lack of discernment and accommodation to subverted gospels. Satan wages a war against fullness in Christ. Limiting beliefs in individuals arise as a result of this war and misguided denominations appear like weeds to teach distorted gospels that produce crippled lives. We are not compelled to plant and foster tares.
WE ARE IN GOD IN CHRIST
In the passage above, Barth emphasises a pleasing truth about the Gospel of Jesus. IT’S NOT MERE WORDS. IT’S LIVING TRUTH AND NOT ABSTRACT TRUTH. It’s about a state of being and not initially about doing. It is Christ. It invites participation in God, invites us to join Him in ultra-life and extravagant belonging of the Kind that is God’s life – the togetherness of the trinity. Life and love are closely linked in God. Jesus has drawn us into the this circle of fulfilment and joy. Real life is a state of being. OF BEING ONE WITH GOD. Not an exercise in ticking boxes.
