LIVE THE GOSPEL THAT IS THE GOSPEL
10/01/25 08:42
God will have you because God will have His daughters and sons. He opposes our obstinacy with divine light and persistence. Christ is not known as the ‘hound of heaven’ for nothing. Jesus desires to include you in the fullness of His Life – in all of it – so that you are not drinking from a glass half full but from an overflowing glass brimming with His limitless life.
THE WORD IS JESUS
“When the Word of God became man, he came to his own, but his own did not receive him, for although they had derived their being from him they had rebelled against him and fallen into darkness and enmity to God.
WOVE HIMSELF INTO OUR LIVES
“Hence in his incarnation the Word of God penetrated into our sinful and distorted existence, into our personal darkness and mental alienation from God, even into the disintegration of human being in death.
“He came to share our lost and contradictory existence in order to save and reconcile us to God, and to regenerate and restore us through union with himself in his vicarious humanity as true sons and daughters of the heavenly Father who hear him, love him and obey him. Divine revelation and divine reconciliation are the obverse of each other.” (1)
INCARNATION
Christ’s Kingdom Life differs from religion in that it is more than religion. It’s an incarnation. Our union with Him is union with God’s Person and God’s life. Such a life is more than bits and pieces of morality. It is the New Creation Kingdom of God which is comprehensive and universal.
KNOWING CHRIST AND HIS GOSPEL DEPENDS ON IT BEING HIS GOSPEL
“Since revelation and reconciliation belong together, we are unable to hear the Word of God addressed to us in the Holy Scriptures or to interpret those Scriptures aright except through reconciliation with God in Christ in which our hearing of the Word of God and our understanding of it are transformed by it and operate in the obedience of faith.” (2) This is to say that the correct meaning of the scriptures will not be revealed to us if we are intent on a gospel of our own devising, whether this be as a result of misunderstanding or from an attachment/captivity to a false gospel hatched up by false prophets under the influence of deceiving spirits.
(1) Torrance, Thomas F.. The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons (T&T Clark Cornerstones) (p. 41). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
(2) Ibid. (p. 42).