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Greetings,
I have been addressing seven things that are essential for leaders to lead and for believers to believe, embrace, and be empowered to reign in life. Our lives are hidden in Christ and our lives are revealed in Christ. We were born to be loved by God and to be empowered by His grace to influence our world for the glory of His name. The foundation of this is found in living by the empowerment of God’s grace found in Jesus Christ. He is the One who gives us internal desires. He is the one who inspires the actions of our lives by an internal empowerment in our hearts of a love for God. The external evidence of our lives is revealed by the daily words of God in our hearts and the life-transformations that constantly reveal a new and living testimony that our world can see. We can give life to our world as sent ones of the authority of life. We are clothed in the clothing of Christ’s resurrection life and we each do our part in the works created for us in Christ. The eternal judgment of God’s mercy continues to make us a part of a family of life with communion with God as our Father and with one another as His sons and daughters. These six things are known as repentance from dead works, faith towards God, a way of life that comes by submersions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and God’s eternal judgment. These six things are listed in Hebrew’s chapter 6 with the hope of moving on to perfection, the seventh thing found in the foundation of Christ in our lives.
Hebrews 6:1 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to 7perfection, not laying again the foundation of 1repentance from dead works and of 2faith toward God, 2 of the 3doctrine of baptisms, of 4laying on of hands, of 5resurrection of the dead, and of 6eternal judgment.
What is perfection? Is perfection what happens in our lives? Or is perfection what progressively happens in the lives of others because of us? Our destiny in Christ is part of an eternal reality. It is part of a multigenerational plan. Our lives are given to us that our children and our children’s children might know God in a greater way than we do. There reality is the fruit of our sowing. Our ultimate reaping is in their further sowing. The cloud of witness is the increasing reality of the living, in heaven and upon the earth.
Hebrews 12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.
God’s place of influence in the earth and in heaven is Mount Zion. What was formerly possessed by an enemy that sought to trample upon the visions and dreams of our hearts has been cast down. Zion is our corporate connection to God in heaven and upon the earth for the future of our world. A former stronghold of death has become the place of God eternal residence – a place of knowing Christ in us and us in Him. We are above the principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, and names of this world. Our connection to God and to one another is seen though the giving our lives for God’s glory in the destiny of humanity. This is the power of prayer. It is the fruit of an awe of God, the deepest of love found in an awe of who God is. It is a willingness to put God first in our lives for the sake of Him being first in the lives of our children and our children’s children. It is giving God our very best for the sake of Him making even the least the best in our lives and in the lives of our posterity. By this, the earth will increasingly be filled with the glory of God. This was the seed sown by Abel, when he gave to God the first and He gave to God the best. His awe inspired love for God guaranteed the future of humanity. His assassination in the earth could not destroy his inheritance in heaven, nor in the earth. His blood upon the soil of the earth cried out for the once for all shed blood of Jesus Christ that would redeem the future of the family of God in the earth. I believe this is the testimony of perfection.
I pray today that the awe-inspiring Spirit of the fear of the Lord would empower us all to give our lives for the generations of God’s glory. To live our lives in a face-to-face relationship with God will empower us to receive the increasing rewards gained for us by the mercy of God. God’s love is not just a victory for our lives. It is the victory for the destiny of our family name. May we be inspired to give God our first in everything and may our hearts be gripped to give Him the best. May we eat with Him and drink with Him in the feast called ‘our life’. By this our mark in heaven and our mark in this world will be a crown that we can cast before the One who loves us. All things are summed up in Christ that all things might be presented to the Father for it was His plan to partner with the family of mankind.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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