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Colossal Waste of Time

No Greater Waste

I can think of no greater waste of our time and opportunity here on earth than the following: To substitute the first-hand experience with Jesus Christ for the intellectual topic of Jesus Christ.

Its like having a birthday party for a person but not inviting the person. We talk about how wonderful the person is yet don’t invite them or enjoy their presence.

By our tradition we have reduced him to a subject, a topic, a sermon, a chapter of intellectual religious entertainment.

This is substituting the presence of God for man-made religion. It is a starving person substituting talk about eating dinner with eating the turkey dinner sitting in front of her.

Jesus Christ can be known and seen and expressed through face to face meetings. As each member speaks and declares Christ and makes him known he himself is seen and heard. Sermons with intros, three points and a conclusion can substitute for his presence. His presence which speaks through whomever he wishes, however he wishes.

Jesus Christ is a now a life-giving Spirit, he is not a distant religious idea.  He exists, he is active, he is doing things. He can communicate and interact with us and he has a will for us knowing him.

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Is Jesus just a great idea to you or is he a real and living person interacting and guiding you?

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The Two Types of Loyalty

Worldly vs. Godly Loyalty

-a strong feeling of support or allegiance.
Loyalty is allegiance or support to another person or institution. But I think there are two types of loyalties in life based on differing motivations.

Worldly loyalty is toward colleagues and friends and is based on desire to gain something in return, this allegiance is cheap and humanistic. This feeling of support is linked closely to hierarchy and is valuable within institutions and in most functioning societies (governments, companies and religious institutions.) If you want to get ahead then be loyal and learn how to display it often.

Any leader or institution that requires and thrives on this first type of loyalty must become divisive. I say that because he must exalt those who are loyal and oppress (or at least disregard) those who are disloyal (to one degree or another) in order to keep things orderly and under themselves.

There is also a Godly loyalty between people based upon love. This love binds the kingdom of God together. It makes healthy society work. It is misunderstood by most and is sometimes seen as weak and small. Loyalty based on love makes groups of people function effortlessly. Real love comes from another realm altogether and is a key feature of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Ask yourself a few questions:

  1. Are you loyal to people?
  2. Why are you loyal to the institutions or people that you are loyal to?
  3. Take away whatever benefit you are receiving (or hope to receive from it) and will it go away?

When all those benefits are stripped away all that will be left is loyalty based on love. Jesus Christ is the only source of love.

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The Horizon That is Christ

The Horizon That is Jesus Christ

What do you think of when I say ‘horizon’? I think vastness as far as the eye can see in any direction, I think of what is coming, I think of warmth and light, which supplies and supports life.

Can you see him? over there on the horizon? Look with your heart, look in the spirit. There is a light shining, let yourself see it. He is coming and bringing all things with him. Watch as he swallows up all things, watch as he burns up all things not of him, starting first in the lives of his very own children.

“So we have the prophetic word made more sure, to which you do well to pay attention as to a lamb shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star arises in your hearts” – The Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 1:19

Like the arctic, dark and locked up in ice for thousands of years so are we before his coming.

Everything God has ever set out to do, his reason for creating, the reset, the redemption of all of creation, it is coming an it is within that horizon. Its is quite dark here in this life but it is getting lighter. It can be quite frozen here but it is getting warmer.

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The Spiritual Horizon for everyone is Jesus Christ. Every thing and person contained in that horizon is also Jesus Christ.

Our loved ones who have gone before who are in him, are in that horizon now. They are seated with him, coming with him, and waiting to awaken at his command.

The Horizon of Jesus is Here But The Day Will Fully Come

But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.” – The Apostle Paul

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