THERE IS NO GOSPEL OF NONSENSE

Beliefs are not true simply true because our parents hold them. Christian perspectives are not sound just because those who hold them are nice people. Misguided ideas are not ok just because those who hold them are our friends. The world is not flat simply because most everyone believed it was at one time in history.

DON’T TALK NONSENSE
That there is ‘no condemnation in Christ Jesus is not a reason to believe nonsense because it suits us.’ Jesus is not our excuse to be opinionated and ignorant.

Jesus is Truth, the Way to Truth and the One who touches our eyes to see truth. We are not authorities on the Gospel just because we have a Bible. We make a start on wisdom when we listen more than we talk and are teachable.

UNIVERSAL CHURCH
If our Gospel is not catholic (not Roman Catholic) it is possibly no gospel at all. The Gospel of Jesus, John and Paul is not always well known in Christian circles. If people are not hearing that Christ is our life, they are being short changed by deficient teaching.

IT’S THE NEW CREATION
The new creation advances slowly because so much of what we do as Christians is not new creation life. Good deeds and good morals are ok but not the inheritance Jesus left us. He bequeathed us Himself as us. Because of Christ we participate in God – if we can be taught.

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT IS NOT THE LAW GIVEN A POLISH
When it is asserted that Christianity is not a religion but a person, it is exactly Him. Jesus multiplied in us. Don’t dilute this to mean Jesus’ Religion multiplied in us because Jesus is not among us now to multiply religion. He is here and in you to multiply Himself.  It’s Jesus incarnated as Jill and John.
THE NEW CREATION
Just so we know -  the new creation is Jesus expressed and manifest as us individually and as society. Not us manifesting Jesus’ religion. The difference is being a spiritually alive and spiritually dead. Christ in us makes us one with the trinity, one with God’s life and being. Oneness with religion makes us one with an abstraction. We may as well be one with cardboard boxes.
LIFE-GIVERS
One with God we impart spirit and life to all our externalities. We are life-givers. This is what we present Jesus and the Gospel as it is – not as it is imagined.
We need not be glued to the Christian version of the knowledge of good and evil, a belief system, intellectualised religion or semi-asceticism. Our New Testament inheritance is simply Christ as you, the triune God as us all. This is sonship.
MISGUIDED RIGHTEOUSNESS
Some Believers have made an entire denomination out of a life in the law. The logic here is pretty straightforward. Once it is assumed that the law is the decisive issue of the ages, all talk of life in the Spirit is likely to be regarded as specious, a cop-out, a ploy of the Enemy, cheap grace or emotionalism. But Christ our life is the law of the spirit of life. Christ your life is you alive as a real daughter, a real son.
SUBVERTED SPIRITUALITY
The result of these rationalisations is as follows. The cross is negated, the new covenant becomes the old covenant reinvented, and Christ is made the Champion of the Law when He is actually the champion of Himself as us.
BODY OF DEATH GOSPEL
In this necro-mongering interpretation the incarnation is robbed of vitality and belongingness in the Body is reduced to words. Thus these realities become a shadow of what they really are: Christ come in the flesh of Believers. Believers becoming the manifestation of the triune God.
Scripture clearly speaks of the non-relevance of the law as in
1. ‘I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
 
2. The ‘The law is a shadow but the reality is Christ.’
 
3. We have been given the righteousness of God APART FROM THE LAW.
 
HUMBUG AS GOSPEL
 
Nevertheless, captivity to the law is rationalised with fictions such as ‘Scripture must be talking figuratively’. There is an appalling woodenness among law-keepers even when they get the gifts of the Spirit. Woodenness because they have cut themselves off from the spirit and life that would be theirs if Jesus was them. Of course they are not bereft of God. They exude drops of grace when they could be irrigating themselves and others with rivers of spirit and life.
 
PANTING FOR THE NEW CREATION
 
In a recent book, Rick Joyner writes,  “The creation is travailing for the manifestation of the new creation to retake its place over the earth and to be restored again to what it was created to be. What The King did was for the whole world, and what you are doing by following Him is for the whole world as well.” (1) But Following Him is not following a religion made out of Jesus’ Stuff. Following Jesus is being one with Him and One with our Father and Holy Spirit. Obedience is living in what we have.
 
LIFE MULTIPLYERS
 
Rick Joyner continues, “There is no wisdom greater than the cross. Those who walk in wisdom are those who take up their cross. The King has conquered death, and if you follow Him you will conquer the death in this valley. If you stop following Him to take any other path, this valley will devour you.” (2)
 
LOSING ALL WE HAVE
Death devours all who substitute Christ our life for other gospels and deviant christs. As religion it is a slow death as all they could have had seeps from their souls. Life abounds in all for whom Christ is life. Incarnated with the trinity they are alive and not dead in the letter that kills. They don’t lose all they had. They become more than could ever be imagined. Like the TARDIS they are bigger on the inside than the outside.
(1) Joyner, Rick. The Valley (Fire on the Mountain Book 2) (Kindle Locations 54-56). Morningstar Publications and Ministries. Kindle Edition.
(2) Joyner, Rick. Ibid (Kindle Locations 73-75). MorningStar Publications and Ministries. Kindle Edition.