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People have asked me, over the years, about when I “got saved”. I was saved when we all died together with Jesus Christ on His Cross. (He that is dead, is free… saved… from sin, death and the Law! Why does hardly anyone ever mention our being saved from the Law, saved from both Moses and Elijah; let alone, our being saved from death?? If, “faith comes by hearing”…?)
People have asked me, over the years, about when I “got born again” or what my “born on date” is, as if I’m a frickin’ bottle of Budweiser!! We were all born again when God our Father raised Jesus Christ, together with us all in Himself, from the dead...
What?? Nothing with which we can attempt to stroke our fragile, little egos? No sense of accomplishment or achievement, on our part, unto which we can masturbate; claiming that, “we did” what God has “required of us to do,” in order to “get saved”? If there were anything, at all, that either you or I could have ever possibly done to “get saved”; then what was the point of our Heavenly Father providing Himself as The Lamb, who took away the sin of the whole world??
The Pure Gospel of The Lamb & His Finished Work never, ever strokes, placates, comforts, coddles, consoles, or reinforces our fragile, little, wounded egos and false sense of self-righteousness; but rather, The Cross of Jesus Christ is the death of ego, glorifying both The Foolishness of God and The Righteousness of God (*the true image and likeness of our Father, as He is only seen in, and by, and through, and because of The Lamb!) far above and beyond any, and all, so-called “intelligence,” “brilliance” and “high-and-mighty-mindedness” of carnal and corrupt men and women.
How and where does one discover these glorious and majestic, redemptive realities? In the stillness, in the quiet… from within the deep, deep, depths of our own hearts… from within our spirits, where The Eternal Godhead Himself… of Father, Son and Spirit… is resting, dwelling, tabernacling and communicating Himself. Yes, even much Bible reading and study can become a hindrance, a stumbling block, unto our communion with this Divine Love, who lives within the Human Heart by His Grace alone!
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