In this video Adam discusses the mystery of the increasingly fast expanding universe, as mentioned by Brian Green. The expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, which is unexpected. Einstein suggested this could be due to the repulsive gravitation of dark matter. Adam suggests a reason for this based on the increase of Jesus Christ.
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I am convinced that the grief and loss felt when we abandon and ignore Jesus Christ is the root cause of most if not all of the mental health problems we see today, either directly or indirectly, either immediately or over generations, rejecting him is self-destructive.
Whether we believe in him or not we react subconsciously and emotionally…to the rejection and loss of him. There is an deep emptiness without him, without the one who made us, without the very reason that we exist, without our purpose. This emptiness, this abandonment, this aloneness is the beginning stages of death. I believe that Jesus Christ is far greater and more prevalent in the lives of every person than most realize.
We try to substitute him, some with families, some with the things he designed us to do in life, some try this with different medication but nothing can really substitute for him.
The “medications” we try are varied, prozac, marijuana, booze, sex, religion, but…it is him personally who we lose, loss of him is the source of our grief and pain. There is no adequate medication for that. We also grieve him and his grief we feel within.
Jesus Christ is himself our mental health. Surrendering to him is itself our peace, surrendering to him is itself our joy and surrendering to him is itself our love.
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” – Jesus Christ in Matthew 11
The real skill is keeping the focus on him, keeping him central in all that we do. Jesus said to just come to him, just learn of him, just take upon yourself his yoke and we always find our light and easy rest.
The death of Jesus occurred so he could pay the penalty for our sin-it was a direct legal substitution. But it was also much more than that, he did something to humanity, all of humanity. He also killed all of us, humanity is dead, we are finished, we are no more, we are kaput. It’s over, exit stage right. Extinction of the race from Adam and Eve, the human race has ended, as far as God is concerned.
Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
Ephesians 2:5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
also see John 11:21-44
What’s confusing about this is that it was done in advance, it’s like he created a reality in the spiritual world and the physical world is time-delayed, they are out of phase and the physical world is currently catching up. Rather than physically killing everyone in total annihilation like the flood of Noah (like he promised he would not do again) then start over, he just killed Jesus as a single human representative of all of fallen humanity.
To understand this better imagine hypothetically millions of years from now and we go extinct by nuclear war that gets out of hand. All humans are dead and buried and the earth is a wild place of chaos. If there will be a human race again it will need to be an entirely new creation of man OR a resurrection of humanity who had already died. Imagine the new first man (Adam) is Jesus Christ and the new first woman (Eve) is a group of people ‘joined to/ married’ to Jesus Christ.
Actually if you read Ephesians the death of Jesus and the creation of a new humanity through his resurrection was always the plan from before God ever created. It is a spiritual reality that the physical reality is slow to get on board with. He wanted many sons and daughters as a ‘bride’ for his son. As a family but he had to deal with rebellion and sin so he seemed to send Adam and Eve knowing what would happen as a warm-up for what was to come.
The death of Jesus Christ is also the death of humanity.
If you are not a Christian today and you are reading this post or watching this video, the gospel of Jesus is not a future appeal to do this or that religiously and make it to heaven. It’s a current appeal and invitation to resurrect, you are not even currently alive, as far as God is concerned, you are currently a corpse. Is Jesus calling your name? like he did to Lazarus after 4 days dead in the tomb? “Hey come forth”, can you hear him? He speaks right now, “wake up oh sleeper of death.” This is no joke we can live again.
