Michael continues that Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. You shall know the Word of God and Jesus Christ, the Word of God made manifest in the flesh. The truth shall make you free. Galatians 5 says, Therefore, stand fast in liberty wherewith Christ has made you free and be not entangled in the yoke of bondage (of the Old Testament law of sin and death.) The freedom is not an occasion to sin... to run wild, but instead it is the freedom to serve one another in love. God chose men and women who hunger and thirst after righteousness. They will be filled with the power of God, born-again of God’s incorruptible seed. They will be disciples, disciplined followers of their Lord Jesus Christ. As sons and daughters of God and followers of Christ, He’s called us to be witnesses of God’s power in manifestation. The Apostle Paul said, for we speak not ourselves but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Galatians 2:20)
The Apostle John said, “walk in the light as he is in the light and the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The light of the Son of God is a disinfectant cleansing us from infectious pathogens ... the darkness, destruction, and decadence of this world. The cleansing is in walking with Christ. When we walk according to the spirit of Christ, then we exercise Christ’s feet behind our feet, His eyes behind our eyes, His ears behind our ears, His hands behind our hands ... His heart behind our heart. You’re most like the people with whom you spend time. Who are your twelve and who are your three? Be careful who your enemies are, but even more careful about who your friends are. Bad company corrupts good morals. Therefore, find a man or woman of God and come alongside them. Then, hang on Jesus’ screen door like a cat clinging desperately to a screen door slamming in a windstorm.
When we come to know Jesus Christ, we will understand the love of God. For it is the goodness, the loving kindness and tender mercy of God that calls a man and woman to repentance. When we surrender our lives and make God’s desires our desires, His delight our delight, and His purpose our purpose, then He will work with us and within us to will and to do of His good pleasure. A wise man said, most people can overcome adversity. However, only one of ten people can handle success. The temptation is that the trappings of worldly success become their god. The problem with the rich young ruler is that he had the wrong lord. He was not willing to forsake his worldly riches to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. America is a rich nation. There is irony in the motto of the United States: “In God we trust.” This motto is printed on our currency. The Irony is that money is the god in which most Americans trust.
Jesus calls us where we are for such a time as this. God works best with people whose hands are empty. The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. America today is like the opening line from Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities: It is the best of times and the worst of times. Because America is emerging from the global pandemic and in political chaos, many Americans are desperate for deliverance. God has called us to spread the good news of deliverance from the bondage of the troubles of this world. He has given us the ministry of reconciliation ... to reconcile God’s people back to Him. He has called us as Ambassadors from our home in heaven, empowered with the word of reconciliation to deliver a peace treaty from our Sovereign Lord. We are the only bibles some people will ever read. For you are our epistles, God’s love letters, known and read of all people. This is our mission and our great commission: Go give ‘em Heaven that together we may live to the praise of the glory of His grace!
Your brother in Christ, Michael
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