The Glorious True Gospel of Jesus Christ

The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is SO amazing to my heart.  God absolutely wants to teach each heart the purity of His Gospel and Word concerning His Son, Jesus Christ.  Without Him doing this, we tend to fall into everything LESS than the eyes of the heart "seeing" Christ Jesus, our Lord - ALL that HE has done - ALL that is accomplished.  And we fail to live by FAITH.  The way in, is indeed the way on.  Hebrews 4

If I do not understand something, I am supposed to go to the Lord.  I am supposed to lean upon the Holy Spirit for all clarity, wisdom, spiritual understanding, purity of His own Word - everything.

What would you do if you saw a group of people every day, every week staring at a sign in the midst of their group that said "Asheville, North Carolina."  (My hometown in the USA).

And each week the subject was to look at the sign and hope one day, to be there; they talk about Asheville, strive to be in Asheville, and walk distantly from Asheville in their hearts and minds.  All because they did not believe.  Believe what?

That this group of people ARE in Asheville, North Carolina already.

Would you say that was kind of dumb?

Yet I think in a way, we've done something of the sort, all throughout our lives.  I have experienced assemblies where Christ's name is named, but the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ is NOT clarified, brought forth as God would have it.  That:

We ARE in Christ Jesus our Lord. We ARE in the Spirit of the LIVING God through and because of the Gospel.  

When we believed in Him, the cross, His resurrection, God Himself PLACED us in HIM. And then sealed us with His Spirit.  We are truly to learn Christ in us and by the Spirit of LIFE be transformed.  Romans 8

We are called to understand the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.  We are the called out ones - the ones who LEFT Adam's creation (sin and death) and came into Christ Jesus (the last Adam - LIFE EVERLASTING).

We are SO supposed to fellowship with Him and the Father - growing in grace and in the knowledge of Him.  We are SO supposed to have discernment of ALL these "things" that have been erected to "leaven the lump," and take our eyes off of the LIVING Lord Jesus Christ - in the heavens and in you and me.

To me, part of what it means to be filled with His Spirit, is to have tears run down our faces as God opens His Word of Life to our spirits.  Rivers of living waters are purifying to the heart and soul.

So why do we put so much stock in man?  Why do we follow man?  That is, instead of the Glorified MAN Christ Jesus who is HEAD over all things pertaining to the church and WHO is over all creation - "All authority has been given to me," He says. 

All spiritual leaders are commissioned by God to stay on course and preach as Paul preached -  for Paul, the Apostle says this:

"Those things, which you have both learned and received, and seen in me, DO - and the God of peace shall be with you."  Philippians 4:9

Paul preached Christ in us, our hope of glory.  And he said that he was so surprised that the churches at Galatia had deserted HIM for another gospel - for something else.

God commissioned Paul to preach Christ - to understand spiritually WHO HE is, WHAT HE HAS DONE, and praise God, HOW in HIM we are to walk. 

God's will is to lift us into glory in the face of Jesus Christ - not dumb it all down to another religion called Christianity.  "A little leaven leavens the whole lump."  Have you been leavened?

It is also up to each individual to discern their own lives in every way to SEE if we are in the faith of Him - for if we are, we are going to understand and attain to ALL riches and full assurance to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the FATHER and of CHRIST, in WHOM are hidden ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."  Colossians 2:2, 3

To know the Living Lord is to knock out error in our lives - of every sort - and then to understand what God had revealed in totality to the Apostle for our sakes.  We will bear fruit if we walk His way.  Oh, have we been leavened?

"In HIM dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you are complete in HIM, who is the head of ALL principality and power."  Colossians 2:9,10

Take time today to read this:  Colossians 2:4-10

Let's allow all His Words to sink down into our spiritual ears.  "Today if you hear HIS voice, harden not your hearts."  "Oh Lord, cause us to fully understand YOU completely and then as your body, bring glory to YOUR name alone and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ."

Sue Gaither