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What it Means to Know Jesus Christ

Christianity is not doctrinal or theological intellect, in its purest essence, Christianity is knowledge of a person, the person of Jesus Christ.

One can know him intimately, follow him, please him, surrender to him all the while being intellectually as dumb as bag of nails.

Or one can also be exceedingly brilliant, deeply understanding great doctrinal truths, deeply disciplined and excellent in all manner of religious greatness. Finding great success in life. While understanding every misleading trap and deception of Satan. Yet still not have a clue what Jesus is like or is after. Still not knowing how to please Him, how to hear Him, how to see Him and how to follow Him around.

To know Jesus Christ is itself eternal life.

He is THE exemplary, the quintisential, the foundational human being.

He is the firstborn of all creation. He is the founding member and big brother of the new race of humanity. The humanity that will take our race into the future.

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The Fullness of Life

The fullness of life does not necessarily mean our outward circumstances are successful. Either financially or situationally or activity in church. At times it may look like this, but often it does not. Often it looks like difficulty.

“For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭36:9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

The fullness of life is an inward pulling from the life of Jesus Christ. It is an inward seeing and hearing of Jesus Christ that settles a person from the inside our. That guides a person, that directs a person. Not from manipulating and controlling and making things appear a certain way about ourselves. Then proudly boasting “look I’m rich”, or “look I’m full time at church”, or “look I’m active… this is fullness of life.”

People who teach others to do that are very confused. Our lives should not be engineered to look a certain way to allow us to say we are living by the fullness of life. That’s a waste and an insult to the reality of Christ.

As we seek Jesus first in all things without pretense without controls, as we surrender and obey him then we are able to walk in the fullness of eternal life. But it’s his full life we walk in not a manipulated version of our life based on our preconceived ideas of success.

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When the Weak can be Strong

When it comes to interpersonal relationships.

There are weak people and there are strong people.

The strong controls the weak and enjoys being strong, although they are not as strong as it might appear

The weak judge the strong and enjoys being weak and are not as weak as they might appear.

Only Jesus Christ can make them equal. In him the weak are willing to lay down their weakness and say “I am strong in him”, and the strong are willing to lay down their tools of dominance and strength over the weak for as long as the Lord wants, perhaps even a lifetime.

This is a sign that Jesus is able to dwell
In a people when the weak can be “strong” and strong can be “weak”. Back and forth taking turns laying down and picking up.

The clergy-laity hierarchy is a great display of this back and forth between the weak and the strong (for good or for bad).

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