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Jesus is Not A Series of Principles

“If You Do Your Part”

If you are a Christian who listens to sermons. How many times have you heard “if you do your part God will do his”? That’s great sentiment but if we don’t understand God’s part we end up confused and disappointed. Some people end up angry at God after a few rounds of this perform and expect cycle.

God is not obligated to follow the principles that we think describe him. Things like “if you do this, God will do that” or “if you do your part God will do his”. They can be accurate but are not necessarily always accurate.

God is a person, not a law, and he is not a set of religious rules of thumb. He won’t be confined to principles summarized for our intellect.

We cannot summarize him and his ways in our day to day life then live by the principles. This is a mistake, this is how academia works when we study a topic.

Extracting Principles

Some are good at analyzing a bible story, extract principles then declaring “you can duplicate that principle and God will respond in a certain way.” But he responds differently to everyone.

Jesus Christ is not obligated and will not be manipulated regardless of how good our attitude and motives are. He is not on call to our expectations regardless of how eloquent and convincing the sermons were.

It’s a moment by moment surrender, like a blind following, like a blind and confused man being led by the hand. All we know is him, his voice, his directions, his actions, his hand guiding. This is relaxing to me, it relieves stress because it means I don’t have to perform. There isn’t a set of laws or expectations that I must adhere to.

It is much easier than we’ve been taught, we simply follow and surrender, listen for him and we do ONLY as we see him doing. Its not helpful to go on autopilot assuming what God wants based on some sermon or study.

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Jesus The Theory of Everything - Predictions
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An Indestructible Life

Gods Enduring Resolve

Jesus Christ has an enduring resolve to bring about Gods purpose in the earth. He is bringing about this resolve by the power of his indestructible life.

Men and movements come and go. This has been true within so called Christianity and without. Even a casual observer of history can see that most of what is popular today will be seen as ridiculous tomorrow.

Through it all Jesus is at work to bring about his purpose. He endures and he works to this on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. Imagine if you lived forever watching the generations come and go. Then imagine you could be an invisible spirit that could come inside of people or a physical being in one place and at one time.

Jesus Christ is alive forever and he is now a life-giving spirit. He is not interacting with earth through a physical body anymore he is a spirit.

We can connect with him live and in person by the spirit and cooperate with him while we are alive physically. During our few years we have in the flesh on this planet. We can become a building stone for his houses going up all over the planet. Or we can do our own thing and pretend to.

Jesus Christ has an enduring resolve. Worded even better… Jesus Christ is the embodiment of Gods enduring resolve.

For more on Gods Enduring Resolve click here.

The best book that I’ve seen on God’s Eternal Purpose is Frank Viola’s From Eternity to Here.

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Our Purpose Hardwired Within

I sometimes hear people ask, various people from my 6 year old child to a 70 year old friend.  “What is the meaning of all this?”, “why are we here?”,  “why did God make us?”, “What is the purpose of all this?”  The answer to these questions is found woven within scripture, the bible retells the story over and again. Jesus said more than once that the scriptures are about him (all of them).

But I think the same answer can be found or alluded to within us our makeup. Woven by the creator who created us for that purpose in the first place. It can be found in our DNA, in the design of our bodies and in our very instincts.

Humanity is driven for a romance, driven to build a home and a growing family.

I was on a walk this evening and the sun was almost set, it was cold and windy and the snow was drifting. The trees were dormant yet still alive. I could see the first star and I thought to myself what does all this tell me about God? Then I prayed and asked God what should I learn from the massiveness of the earth and the universe about God himself?

We are hard wired by the creator who is currently building a place for himself to lay his head. Building a family to love, building a bride for his son, building a body to fill the universe with his own image. We like him do the same instinctually all over the earth. We see a drive for a spouse, a family, a home, our bodies are built for this.

Our instincts are clues to God’s purpose and therefore our purpose.

God is extremely resolved to see his purpose fulfilled, that purpose and that resolve is summarized in the person of Jesus Christ.

Gods Enduring Resolve

T. Austin Sparks and Frank Viola have called it Gods Eternal Purpose, Davern Fromke called it Gods Ultimate Intention. Others have called it other wonderful things.

I feel like the Lord is leading me to begin writing and thinking about what I call Gods Enduring Resolve. Enduring because it is so long (to us) in development. God does not change, no matter how many centuries pass. Resolve because God seems absolutely fixated and resolved on seeing his purpose fulfilled.

For more on this topic go here.

What do you know of God’s purpose?

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