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The Only Foundation (Jesus Christ) – part II

Jesus Worldview

The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is rarely heard today. We hear portions of hit broken up and fractured in a variety of churches. Some churches you hear none of it. The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is what turned the world on its head in the first century. It infuriates many to the point of causing them to commit murder. It revolutionizes many more. This gospel is being restored in the earth today.

Five Common Gospels Of Today: (see part I)

  • Christian Gospel of libertinism
  • The Christian Gospel of legalism
  • Christian Gospel of Catholicism
  • Gospel of progressivism and enlightenment
  • Gospel of Islam

There are many others and strange partials as people try to explain God…..But with this post I hope to compare and contrast these with the gospel of the kingdom we find in scripture.

The Gospel of The Kingdom of Jesus Christ

John the Baptist preached it, Jesus preached it, the disciples preached it and the apostle Paul preached it to the gentiles.

The message of the gospel (good news) of the kingdom was that your world is entirely controlled by Satan. All of its systems enslaved to the demonic powers in control. Governmental, economic, religious (including much of Christianity), entertainment…all systems of Satan, controlled by wicked powers in high places.

You are loyal to this system and therefore are its slave.

God is uprooting and displacing this system with the currently present and increasing kingdom of his son, Jesus Christ.

Turn from your loyalty to the world system, repent of your sins and join God in his son Jesus Christ. Believe in him and completely surrender your life to him and follow him. Let him have his way in your life daily.

Baptism in water was an outward display of this turning and dying to Satan’s world and your loyalty to him.

The gospel of kingdom of Jesus Christ is about a new creation displacing the old. It’s about our death and his new life. This gospel is rarely preached today. We have shrunk it down to a miniscule version of its formal self.

The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ is like an insurgency within Satan’s domain.

God’s Restorative Work

The Lord himself is restoring this gospel of the kingdom message.

In these last days Jesus Christ is Gods communication with man (Hebrews1). Jesus Christ himself embodies the union between God and man. God speaks to man through his son Jesus Christ alone, God speaks to us in the language of Jesus Christ alone.

If our foundation is not on the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ we will struggle with confusion about God. Our worldview will be inaccurate and not match well with reality.

Much more to come on this.

Also don’t miss all the great work of Frank Viola on recovering the gospel of the kingdom.

Are You Loyal to or Enslaved by The Systems of this World?

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The Only Foundation of Jesus Christ – part I

Jesus Worldview

For a Christian the gospel that we believe is like our life’s foundation or our world view. We can track almost all of our behavior back to our gospel. Jesus Christ himself is the only foundation that will move into the future.

1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it. 11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

We should constantly reconsider and evaluate our own foundation, what we believe and why. We can also watch other people and find out what they believe about Jesus and their relation to him.

  • Is your worldview of God like a Santa’s nice list for blessings. God’s world revolves around your comfort and success? Your life is its foundation.
  • Is your gospel an after life business, an evangelism program that you are called to work hard for to please God? Foundation is self.
  • Is your worldview of God and church a social club for those going to heaven, “lets just all hang out and be friendly?”

Our gospel shows in our behavior, desire that it’s the same one Paul and John the Baptist and Jesus himself preached. That gospels is Jesus himself who is the only foundation, the chief cornerstone himself. Constantly be willing to have your foundation examined and perfected.

There are many gospels out there. More than ever, many involve parts of Jesus’, most steal ideas from him then exclude him.

Five Common Gospels Of Today:

Christian Gospel of libertinism, this gospel is primarily an afterlife program which teaches how you live doesn’t matter, it over emphasizes grace so that people can live and do whatever they want. Because their after life is set. Its true but its twisted and incomplete.

Christian Gospel of legalism, this gospel is about pleasing God with a list of things to try hard and accomplish. It over emphasizes the human role in service and it become extremely divisive because every legalist has a different list.

Christian Gospel of Catholicism, this gospel is about the catholic church centered in Rome, it seeks to sign people up under the Vatican’s hierarchy. It’s current version over emphasizes itself, the saints and Mary’s role in interacting with God. It has components of both libertinism and legalism.

Gospel of progressivism and enlightenment. Very common today, this gospel has as its foundation evolutionary theory, it believes humanity came up from the earth is evolving into something better and better. It emphasizes education and knowledge itself as the mechanism of human progress. This gospel enjoys the support of many governments in the world today as its official message and is taught to children at a very young age. It sees itself as superior to all religions. Enlightenment thinking typically pushes Jesus down as some religious figure while it plagiarises many of his teachings.

Gospel of Islam, This gospel is a message that rejects Jesus as God and exalts Allah as the single and one and only true God. There are many versions of it, some accept the old testament prophets view Jesus as one of them. Its central message is believe that Allah is one and only true God

There are many others….

The Gospel John the Baptist and Jesus and Paul preached

The gospel of the kingdom. I will elaborate in detail in Part II on 3/3/18.

Preview: The gospel of kingdom of Jesus Christ is about a new creation displacing the old. It’s about our death and his new life.

Also don’t miss the great work of Frank Viola on recovering the gospel of the kingdom.

What is your foundation?

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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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