Sons Of Agape

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behal

Right believing results in right living, but it is NOT right believing UNLESS it produces right living! We believe in the true and exact image of God the Father presented in the person of Jesus Christ, "Abba/Ishi," the Devoted Father and Husband," NOT "Baal," the "Harsh Slave-Master." "At that time"--this is GOD's Message still-- "you'll address me, 'Dear husband!' Never again will you address me,

'My slave-master!' Hosea 2:16 (MSG)

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father. John 15:15 (NET1)

We believe that Christ gave believers the SAME INTIMACY WITH THE FATHER AS HE ENJOYS, and it is this love that we are to reveal in word and deed that proceeds from our new identity in Christ, our "Christ-nature" inherited from Him, that has REPLACED our old "sin-nature" inherited from Adam at the Fall. But as for you, not in this manner did you learn the Christ, since, indeed, as is the case, you heard and in Him were taught just as truth is in Jesus, that you have put off once for all with reference to your former manner of life the old self who is being corrupted according to the passionate desires of deceit; moreover, that you are being constantly renewed with reference to the spirit of your mind; and that you have put on once for all the new self who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of truth. Ephesians 4:20-224 (WuestNT)

1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. John 17:1-3 (ESV)

11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. John 17:11 (ESV)

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. 26 I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.” John 17:20-26 (ESV)

01/05/2023

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11/02/2023

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03/02/2023

08/01/2023

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27/12/2022

Something to think about -

THE EXPENSIVE SIMULATION

"I don't believe Christianity is about clergy-laity division, real estate holdings, never-ending money collections, and Sunday morning rehearsed and staged programs. All those things are much later additions to historic apostolic Christianity. As much as we are used to all of the above today, all those things are a big part of the reason why people are kept in perpetual spiritual diapers.
That's simply how the system works today. With those, you don't so much grow into Gods fullness as you learn to become a "company man" or woman. "Part of the crew, part of the ship", as Flying Dutchman crew members in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie would say. Sure, Christ still finds cracks even in that system and reaches people through it as well - and thank God that he does. But I would submit to you that he does so despite it, rather than due to it.

How about this, for a change. What if people are simply taught just these three things:
- How to take the unseen reality of "Christ in you" to a progressively full, tangibly experienced realization,
- How to connect our heart with the love of the father and stay immersed in it 24x7, and
- How to reliably tap into the power of the Holy Spirit to do "greater works" of John 14:12.

Just these three things, taught by those who *actually* know how to get there and stay there. As opposed to an assortment of lectures on a variety of psychological and leadership topics, which are really more rooted in secular humanism than in actual way of Jesus Christ.

I am not against learning how to parse Hebrew and Greek sentences, how to deliver rousing orations, and earning the right to put important prefixes before personal names. Those skills (minus the prefixes, perhaps) can be useful. But if people having those skills don't have a proven track record with the three things in the bulleted list above - that's about as useful to me as having 50,000 experience points and three platinum badges in a simulation video game.

You can't really expect people to continue paying attention and money for the kinds of things which only work in simulated environments".

~ Oleg Aristo

25/09/2022

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