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What Does it Mean to Be In Christ?

In Christ Jesus

Here is an analogy to explain what it means to be In Christ Jesus:

Let there be a bubble formed around our lives, the bubble itself is Jesus Christ. The bubble forms by prayer to, and by faith in Jesus Christ. Its formation is outside of our control and our responsibiltiy to form (but it absolutely does form). It forms and it is like an immune system to spiriutal death, and to Satanic enslavement (which is the world system we are born into).

From now on we have no serious access to others except who make it through that bubble. Access to others thru Him and by His initiation and His sanction. By his doing, our bubbles expand and merge with other’s.

Those who exit the bubble (Jesus Christ), no matter how close they have been in the past. Are also exiting our lives to a large degree. This bubble is now the most serious and weighty thing in our lives. More serious than our immediate family, more serious than our spouses. It is more seruous than our money, and more serious than even the hopes we have for our future.

Stay In The Bubble No Matter What

We cannot and should never exit the bubble. Inside is love, is safety, is real spiritual family, there is THE future, and there is daily provision. Whoever comes in and whatsoever happens inside the bubble is by permission of him. Be it good, great, pleasant, difficult or even terrible. So we dont have to worry or have anxiety inside this bubble. Even the terrible, if its by his permission brings with it great consolation. It brings a special and unique return to us in time.

Jesus himself lived like I describe when on earth, he lived within a father-bubble and did and said nothing outside of it. “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise” – Jesus Christ. Jesus lived and died in this “bubble”, he experienced much good, great, and terrible things within it. He surrenered all within his Father-bubble.

Outside the bubble; we probably have much to fret, worry, and be anxious about (no matter how rich we manage to store up for ourselves) because there is no future. There is in fact, grave spiritual danger, it is just a matter of time, get inside Jesus Christ with extreme urgency. Then learn to stay in that bubble with peace and joy and the gladness of Christ.

Eventually the Jesus-bubbles, (can also be called the kingdom of heaven) around his people will expand and will merge, displace and destroy everything outside. And His reality will be the only reality. And God will have his purpose from eternity. That which he has always been after.

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Inserting Jesus

If we can insert Jesus Christ himself into our conversations, into our relationships, be they friendships, family or even foes.

Then we are making a great spiritual accompaniment.

Not necessarily discussions of church, or discussions on the greatness of some pastor, not discussions of theology, and not discussions of how our faith affects our opinions on politics. Those are usually not useful and they pale in comparison to him. They do little to no good spiritually to help people.

But making insertions of Jesus Christ himself into our relationships. Expressions of love, devotion, and awe at him personally.

If we are willing and able to do this with the people in our lives then these are tremendous spiritual accomplishments. Far more significant than we can imagine long term.

For he is the tip of the spear of the new creation. The kingdom of God which is displacing all other kingdoms. He is the beginning and end of the invasion of God into Satan’s world system we find ourselves in. And one by one we, his loyal, devoted and passionate followers, get to wield his spear and pick off spiritually dead people. To liven them and begin to return them to life again in Jesus Christ. Reclaiming humanity one person at a time.

What a wonderful Lord that he would include us in this process.

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The Gospels That We Embrace

I want you to consider which gospel you have and are embracing? (Pause)

In my experience most Evangelicals think “the gospel” is fixed and defined. Is summarized in a few sentences, called the Romans Road or the ABCs to getting saved. Usually treated like it is a 3-minute exclamation point for the sermon.

But I think there are actually many different gospels preached in evangelical churches.

A gospel is better seen as the sum total of our thoughts about God, it includes what the world is, how it works, why it and we exist.

That is a more thorough description of a gospel.

“How to get to heaven” through Jesus Christ, as wonderful and true as that is, is only part of the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, as was brought into the world with Christ. There is much more to hear and to preach.

Like a prostitute selling and twisting a great and precious thing, for money. The purpose is off. Similarly when the purpose of the preaching gets other than the Lord speaking through a person, then the emphasis is departed from the Lord’s intent for engaging in preaching in the first place. Then it often becomes not just off-base a little, but false.

“How to get to heaven” many evangelicals have surgically removed, and made it the whole, then sprinkled 52 other gospels around it for other reasons. So much sprinkling that they are almost false gospels (depending on the preacher), because the emphases are so far off on tangents.

Gospels, when embraced produce certain types of loyal and committed followers. The gospel of Islam produces a certain type of wildly committed radical follower.

Similarly in Christ certain gospels produce the type of Christian individuals and communities.

There is a gospel that produces teams of Christians who hire someone to gather around, a professional to lead and to head and to orchestrate the meetings. Someone who serves to isolate them from those they disagree with and don’t like. Someone to tell them when to come, how much to give, when to sit, when to leave, when to repeat after me, when to fellowship. And through sermons someone to tell them what is the mind of Christ as a weekly audience.

But fortunately as we read about in scripture there is also a gospel that connects people to the spirit of Jesus Christ. Who then gather as bodies of Christians. Who gather at his leading. Who leads a people to all contribute and who all one by one prophecy the greatness of Jesus Christ one. They allow Jesus Christ to lead, head and even orchestrate each meeting through every member in submission and in cooperation. And they together uncover the will and the mind of Christ. Assembling daily as the body of Jesus Christ in the earth in order to display the glory of God in the earth, to challenge the principalities and powers. And to usher fallen and dead humanity into the new humanity which has already begun in Jesus Christ.

Someday if the Lord allows it, I’ll teach and preach that glorious gospel.

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