I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2021 New Year! My message in fellowship this week deals with a problem that many have not realized. The problem as my title indicates is “Pursuing a relationship with God”. We were created for Union, Oneness and Identity. Many believers have labeled this fundamental need as a “relationship with God”. As well intention as this term may be, it paints a picture that distorts the real mystery of spiritual Oneness. It actually short circuits our understanding of the new birth and leads us away from true spiritual identity. One ongoing theme in the Bible that cannot be ignored. Let’s talk about it…
I have spent some time with the Father during the last month and He focused me on some important truth of the cross, that will greatly help us as His sons to know and understand in this ever growing process. I plan to share these with all of you just as He gave it to me. Our Father certainly wants us to know that we are His sons through a new creation birthing. Some of the things that we may struggle with can be answered with a better knowledge of the finished work on the cross of Christ. Also, I find this also helps us better understand our new Spirit birth creation life and our new absolute Spiritual Identification much better. These are things as He puts it to me, is for all of us to grasp and realize, so that we can Spiritually live in practicality what we positionally are as His sons.
We will take a deeper look at the blood atonement and what that means for our new identifications as His sons. We will also take the same in depth look at the crucified body of Jesus and what that has achieved for us in our new creation identity. We will take a look at the four (4) major things of our old identity that was put to death on the cross, in order that we might have freedom to walk in oneness with our Father in our new Spiritual identity. We will take a look at Galatians 2:20 in the light of our NEW SPIRITUAL IDENTITY. And, last but not least, we will have a new diagram which the Father gave me that may better declare the new reality of our Spiritual Birthing as a New Creature with our NEW SPIRITUAL IDENTITY. Look forward to sharing this with you.
I trust all of you have a wonderful week in the process of Sonship. The Father has provided this process so that each of His spiritually birthed Sons will learn who they are to Him. Our spiritual identity flows out of our spiritual union in Christ and oneness with the Father who birthed us. The belief that you are adopted by God and the belief that you can be ‘like’ God are inseparable. What do I mean? Being ‘like’ God is a basic and essential part of the lie that you were adopted by God. How can you be anything other than ‘like’ your adopted father? There is no DNA involved. That is common sense. So why is it that you believe that your new spiritual birth leaves you in a position to have to be ‘like’ your spiritually birthed Father? Human conception is the only parallel in the natural that Jesus gave us when He said that you must be born from above in John chapter 3; and yet, there are very, very few Christians that can explain what being born again means. How does Jesus coming to live in your heart have anything to do with conception? That may be union, but that dual identity of roommates can never become oneness. Without understanding oneness, you will never know who you are as the spiritually birthed son of God.
This week we’ll be talking about the Cross. As the title says, The Cross: It’s Mystery, Absolute Authority, and Power. Today we are going to talk about the Cross. Not just any cross but the Cross of Christ or the Cross of Jesus Christ. Usually when many talk about or discuss the Cross, it’s in the light of “sin”. And, not just any sin, but “the sin of man” or “the sins of mankind”! But why sin? For some it’s a heaven or hell issue. Without the cross everyone would definitely go straight to hell. There would be no forgiveness. To others the cross is a “bridge” to allow men to come to God. This bridge of the cross has the ability to provide a way over the great chasm of sin which has separated man from God! And finally, to some the cross is justice for what men have done in the world concerning sin and sins. The cross has been compartmentalized in the minds of men to solely fix Adam’s sin!- to fix “the fall of man” and give him a way back to God. So, let’s talk about it…