WHERE ARE WE GOING?

 

This blog is mostly about what many may know but don’t really believe.  It’s about what we may believe but don’t, or can’t, experience in our lives.  It is a tradition-buster and, at the same time, a truth builder.  We will explore the opportunities God has given us and our responsibilities in Christ, the things very few pastors talk about. The purpose is to bring more understanding into the darkness that surrounds us.  It will likely make us angry, more than once. But I’ve learned that’s alright--truth that makes us angry has the greatest power to change us!

 My desire in presenting this material is to cause us to challenge our belief system and to stir the God-given desires that are within us—to know Him more!  In fact, if you resist deleting this writing and join me in this journey of sorts, you may begin to challenge some of the things you thought you knew!  If we are to be a part of the final chapter of the church age, we must rethink some things, let go of what man has taught us and let God fill us with His big “T” Truth.  We aren’t throwing the “baby out with the bathwater, just trying to purify the water!  Making new wineskins—using the old at the hand of the Holy Spirit instead of the interpretations of man! If this happens to you, my purpose (and I hope God’s!) has been accomplished.  Know that my heart is to present this truth in love to empower all of us to reach our destiny in life. 

In the beginning--to “It is finished”

God created the earth and made it beautiful and good.  Because He wanted a family, He created man to be like Him.  God placed man (Adam) in a beautiful, fruitful garden with all things necessary for life and gave him dominion over all the earth. God’s DNA was in Adam!

Adam and his wife, Eve, allowed pride and lust to guide their thoughts and actions, violated God’s instructions and enabled the devil to have influence over the earth.  While God still desired a family and loved Adam and Eve, His justice demanded that they be removed from the paradise God had given them.  Through their sin, sin began its reign in all mankind.

To restore mankind to Himself and to demonstrate His love for us, God sent His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross of Calvary as full payment for the sin of all mankind, past, present and future, and to destroy the works of the devil.  Jesus took the punishment we deserved so we could become like Him.  When He cried, “It is finished,” God’s plan for mankind was completely restored. We, individually, must appropriate what He has done. In Him we receive all He gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  Through His death, in Him, we can be restored to God’s family, be made righteous, become sons of God and receive all the benefits of the New Testament of the Bible.  In Him, we are actually seated with Him in heavenly places!

 

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