New and Living Way
“The law of the Spirit is the liberating force of life in Christ. This leaves me with no further obligation to the law of sin and death. Spirit has superseded the sin enslaved senses as the principle law of our lives. (The law of the spirit is righteousness by faith vs the law of personal effort and self righteousness which produces condemnation and spiritual death which is the fruit of the DIY tree.)” ― François Du Toit, The Mirror Bible.
You Belong
Jesus receives and loves you as you are. Not as you should be. This is the sure way, the new and living way of becoming your real self and a son/daughter in spirit and in truth. Religion can deliver notional sonship. Christ our life is our belonging in spirit and in truth. Many Christians live in uncertainty about their salvation, their acceptance with God and their trajectory to eternal life. They are like a person on an electric train hoping that they are indeed on the right train to the airport. They live a ‘yes and no’ existence even though Paul assures us that we are ‘yessed’ in Christ. You have been received into His life. It’s not presumption to believe that eternal life is yours.
Not yes/no or maybe..
IT REALLY IS FINISHED
“Christ Jesus is our atonement in Himself. He is our redemption from sin, and He is our justification. He truly is the author and finisher of our faith, the One who speaks on good authority when He said, “it is finished.”” (1)
Christ our life is not the the law our life becasue the law is separation and death.
You owe it to yourself and those whose lives you touch to live in Christ’s Gospel and not some derivation. You owe it to yourself to have a personal rather than a generic relationship with Jesus. Because Christ is all and in all and because He is your life and our life as the community of the church. In this way you become privy to the revelation of the real Christ – meaning Jesus as He is - and not as our misgivings have made Him and are delivered from the weight of Christian myths and veils that have accumulated as a result of Satan’s ploys to subvert our inheritance. As these veils are removed we come to know God as God is and we come to know ourselves as who we are, so advancing as sons/daughters in spirit and in truth.
(1) Morrison, S. D.. We Belong: Trinitarian Good News (pp. 113-114). Beloved Publishing. Kindle Edition.
THE DOOR
There’s an interwoveness between you and God that is yours if you embrace this union in terms of selling all you have to buy the pearl of great price. You will not get it or possess it if you are not willing to yield extraneous identities and long-held ideas to Jesus as the cross. Don’t expect to rightly divide the word of truth if your idol is your long held view or your denominational identity. You have one Husband. What counts is the mind of Christ, His gospel and not any self-defined gospel of your own and of yours.
