jesus all the way

Greetings back to grace than maturity is not found in how fast we can conjure up another's mistakes, I like to add this for those escaping dark things, a dose of love there is  hope in and through Christ to be set free. Is by far  the total joy and life any can seek and find. I encourage you to read a Bible, I prefer the non politically orientated translations the kj3 young's literal etc. The Spirit of God is the life Giver God is Spirit  sir and Ms.2 Corinthians 3 helps us see through the mist on where the real power comes from.

All to often the following statement has become  all to often real and damaging. I propose a lot more ease and love for those fighting the internal wars even those that have all the answers  on how to..

Don't get me wrong we all have battles, that's part of the going, the real war is often never fought it's rejected and avoid called spiritual warfare. It's easy to go through the motions it's another thing to be kind to someone tied into very not nice things, your right be careful agree we may find our selves doing the same provided some slip up comes.

Far too often Christians expect “perfection” in the first week, run out of patience very quickly and reject them as not being genuine.  I have heard enough stories from enough people, and heard the consistency of expectations placed on them by non-understanding Christians, to know there is truth in what I am writing. 

 

In my estimation there is a real lack of understanding, patience and people skills amongst us today.  It is a real tragedy that when people reach out to Jesus for help, it is often the Christians who get in the way ~ modern day scribes and Pharisees.  That changed here years back man I fought some battles inside still do, illness etc, but for those escaping the dark side of cults.there has to be real help that is Spirit led  verses the hangman ...

 

Jesus real love bares no memory of the past, God for gives man likes to kill it makes him feel better that's the flesh part. get even or harm others by discrediting them.

 

 

My prayer is:

“Dear God, open our eyes to see the truth of what is happening in our society today.  Give us the grace, strength, wisdom, courage and Holy Ghost power to help see the captives set free into the glorious liberty that the true sons and daughters of the Living God enjoy.  Deliver Your people from the fear of man and the devil, and help us to rise and conquer the enemy in the Mighty Name of JESUS CHRIST OUR RISEN, LIVING LORD.  Amen.” About time is it not, tired of no faith, no victory and weakness worn out reading all the how to books , take the time to be alone with God and learn from him, "Be still and know that I am God"

 

 

 When we begin the process of death we hear of NDE'S  the questions come, God takes us to the edge to get our attention closes all doors to the out side world and  begins get us out of our selves so we can hear more clearly. You Christianity is no a religion it's relationship, alive and real get connected. A lot of faith has become a philosophy of man seek to triumph to God with his ideas how to get there, Go to Jesus, simple and super clear.

 

 

 

 

 

Sophistry the magic of mixed words.

Paul's quarrel is not with academic philosophy per se, nor is it with anyone who drafts persuasive and learned arguments to advance the gospel truth.

Paul himself is well educated in these matters and often appeals to philosophical ideas and uses sophisticated arguments to explain the gospel more effectively (see Acts 17:16-34). Rather, Paul opposes those whose learning is used to advance falsehoods as gospel truth. This is common today as it was in the past. He opposes any philosophy devoid of Christ that claims to teach about the spiritual order of God's creation and reign.


The case  can be associated with adaptation into the former neo platonic forms in theology and form , or the means by allegories the scriptures to make them say whatever we want. Or the form of self appointed hierarchy, and the changes made to scripture dealing with primary terms for the man's elevation.

Mistakes and reason for his rebuke than as it is now.The early body was getting caught up in starting to follow the speakers, this is sophistry in action and a form of idolatry by those following others based on their ability to express themselves well.Servitude is lost in an entertainment based religion.

The priesthood of all believers requires the personal responsibility to investigate and test what we hear or say to others to make sure the truth is spoke. or heard.God as a Spirit revels the false hoods from the truth in us to determine the truth from error. The ministry was not a career based occupation but servitude. thanks

NW
BACK TO JESUS.

A pathway not of our own making, but his way.

"... according to my earnest expectation and hope

that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness...

so now also Christ will be magnified in my body.

whether by life or death!

For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain!"

Philippians 1:20-21


Ms their is no reason not  to go, the destruction of the America family, and the dissolve into an  immoral culture, is never a wise choice. Just a start of a deeply empty  inward  state. The mechanism behind the drift is spiritual and needs to be addressed . The war of  spoke of ephesian six  is not another agnostic religious  philosphy, or pattern of how to do this or that, or an external religion but an inward change..Relational spiritual, alive not formal.
The very word for prayer implies a communicational relationship with God, Inward dwelling of God as Spirit is well seen in scripture, kj3 or young's literal etc. As you say,,,  to go forward the faith must abound over present condition of obstacles which if allowed draws us into spiritual introversion and into doubt.

 I personally avoid any digression by always advancing  into the impossible,where faith is required in the object of it is Jesus Christ.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD--lHALcm0 Jesus was not a political correct wishy washy sooth sayer, enjoy.

Were the temple now, lives in people, living, not an institution....No going back... reach out and lead by living in faith.... love abounds in his ways in him..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZR7FaTq7I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE98IF9oWT4 I like the writer he expounded nothing in secret no esoteric doctrines perhaps we can shun that which is,  come back to him alone.
NW

 

ONE WAY ONLY

The institutional Church, at large, has been fearful that an emphasis on the subjective relationship of Christ and the Christian would impinge upon the basic foundations of Christian thought.

 But even more than this concern for ideological preservation has been their concern for ecclesiastical preservation. The tendencies to collectivization and objectification in the Western Church have allowed the ecclesiastical authorities to exercise power, maintain control, and "keep a handle on" the Christian enterprise.
 
To allow the grace of God to function freely and subjectively in Christian individuals has been eschewed as a "risky business," allowing for too much individualism, too much subjectivism, and too much personal freedom. Whatever happened to faith, or spirit led?


The "good news" of the Christian gospel is that God in Christ is reinvested and restored in, as, and through the receptive Christian individual. The objective of the gospel is not to formulate an orthodox belief-system, nor to construct and maintain an ecclesiastical organization. The Spirit of Christ is free to express the character of Christ in novel and spontaneous ways in each Christian, and that unto the glory of God. The Holy Spirit must not be imprisoned in church structures, encased in book-interpretations, or relegated only to a judicial courtroom in the heavens. The Spirit of the living Christ is present in the Christian, existing as the identity of the Christian, and functioning to express Himself through the Christian. The documentation of these realities is the objective of this article.




This classic example of our passion for the freedom of the Spirit in wisdom. The massive void which exists limiting and regulating the powerful work of God the Spirit, in an ongoing manner in the life of believer and reducing it; has led short falls and unanswered  crooss over fromthe natural to the supernatural which Christ lived out and he stated that we to would be empowered by the Spirit often has becme little more than a series of how to books  and trend following instead. Thanks to and for those fine truths. I agree fully , regaining the way is what we have done and set out to do ask others it;s time to  do so.




Getting back to  Jesus Chirst.


Despite the attempts of Protestantism to objectify the benefits of Christ's work in an almost paranoid aversion to anything other than "alien righteousness," there have been evangelical Christians throughout the ages who have understood that the Person and work of Jesus Christ must not be only extrinsically applied, but that the living Person and activity of Christ indwells the spirit of the Christian.



This fundamental reality of Christ's actual and spiritual presence within the Christian individual is so well-attested by direct New Testament references that those who "search the Scriptures" and are receptive to spiritual reality invariably recognize the indwelling presence of the living Christ.


Jesus Himself explained that He would give another Helper, the Spirit of truth, and His disciples would know that they were in Him, and He was in them (John 14:20). In His prayer for unity Jesus explained that He would be in His followers as God the Father was in Him, the Son (John 17:23).Amen!




D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote: "Justification makes no actual change in us; it is a declaration of God concerning us."1 Louis Berkhof explained that both Luther and Calvin describe justification "as a forensic act which does not change the inner life of man but only the judicial relationship in which he stands to God."2 Anglo-Catholic, E. L. Mascall, notes that "justification has been envisaged as simply an act of God by which man is accounted righteous without any ontological change being made in him."3 Louis Bouyer, a French Reformed theologian who became Roman Catholic, lamented, "It was apparently impossible for Protestant theology to agree that God could put something in man that became in fact his own, and that at the same time the gift remained the possession of the Giver. That amounts to saying that there can be no real relation between God and man."4 These quotations serve to verify that the over-objectification of Protestant theology in general has effectively deterred teaching of the personal and subjective action of Christ in the Christian individual.


How than should we think? Ever wonder what rela faith looked like?




"Christ as us" is another way of referring to the Christian's "union with Christ" which has been a part of Christian understanding from the beginning of the Church. Christian thinkers have often struggled, however, to explain and articulate what Paul meant by his statement that "the one being joined to the Lord is one spirit (with Him)" (I Cor. 6:17). Likewise, they have shied away from Peter's assertion that Christians "have become partakers of divine nature" (II Peter 1:4).




Clinging to the Greek humanistic idea of an inherent "human nature," Christians have often been blinded to the Scriptural explanation that "we were by nature (Greek phusis) children of wrath" (Eph. 2:3) in our unregenerate spiritual condition, when "the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience" (Eph. 2:2) was indwelling and operative in us, but we are now "partakers of the divine nature (phusis)" (II Pet. 1:4), by the presence and function of "the Spirit of Christ" (Rom. 8:9) within the spirit of the Christian (cf. Rom. 8:16). Being "partakers (koinonoi) of the divine nature" (II Pet. 1:4) and "partakers (metachoi) of Christ" (Heb. 3:14) implies that Christians are participants in Christ, sharing in the commonality of His nature and identity in spiritual union with Him. This participatory fellowship (koinonia) with the living Lord Jesus (I Cor. 1:9), with God the Father (I John 1:3,6), and with the Holy Spirit (Phil. 2:1) indicates a spiritual union with the Triune Godhead.




 Eastern Orthodox theologians are careful to explain, though, that neither the early church fathers nor they are advocating that the Christian becomes God. They qualify "deification" by indicating that it is participation in the "energies" of God's presence and Being, rather than becoming the "essence" of the Being of God. Though they emphasize the intimacy of the union of the Christian with the "divine nature," they maintain at the same time that the creature always remains essentially distinct from God. They maintain a careful balance of union and distinction.




Having noted how the character of Christ is expressed in Christian behavior by "the fruit of the Spirit" (Gal. 5:22,23), we now note that the ministry of Christ is performed through us by the "gifts of the Spirit" (cf. Rom. 12; I Cor. 12; Eph. 4:8-16). The "fruit of the Spirit" has to do with the functional expression of the character of Christ, while the "gifts of the Spirit" have to do with the ministry of Christ to others in the context of the Body of Christ. It is most lamentable that in many portions of the Church today the "gifts of the Spirit" are regarded as marks of spirituality or trophies of spiritual possession, rather than as the means of Christ's ministry through Christians. The "gifts of the Spirit" should not be viewed as separated or detached entities or abilities, but only as the functional grace-expressions by which Christ ministers through any Christian in a given situation of another's need. (cf. Fowler, Charismata: the so-called "Spiritual Gifts")


No greater joy than stepping out of doubt and fear when it comes to be included in the beloved.

Keep on trucking!!!

"Not that I speak in regard to need,

 for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content:

I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.

Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full

and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

I can do all things through Christ

who strengthens me."

Philippians 4:11-13

 

Content? in all things does not mean to sit back and do nothing, I believe if their is anything that breeches your rights should be tried and those punished seeking to usurp the constitution, they have no place in those jobs..

 

By the way, you have right to speak of Christ where ever! it is part of the constitution, those seeking to intimidate you, your  free to do so in public, it makes for a law suit to hold you back, they hope they scared you, away...an effort to trample our constitutional rights by people who have no business being here.

 

 America has numerous pro Christian characteristics as  written in, but is not utilized by those who made out well on not doing so..for their own gain.

 

I strongly encourage all those of faith to stand up to the twisted means seeking to silence your faith,  it's a breech of the law of our nation for them to imply they are above it. They are not , we the people, and the agencies seeking over riding  our granted rights have no place  in so doing.

 

There is no need  to  ask them for what you have been granted as part of being an American.  So I would not hesitate a law suit,   against any organization or people, or person, seeking to silence your faith it's time to say enough, so I agree fully, do so.

Use the media and all means of commutation exposing the practices they do all they can to twist it,  the other way. Thanks...

 

We need a pro constitutional government, totally.