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Greetings,
Today I am going to continue with the empowerments of grace found in the foundation of Christ. I believe these things are essential for leaders to lead and for believers in Christ to believe, embrace, and be empowered to reign in life.
We must embrace a foundation of repentance unto life. As we receive the desires of God in our hearts, we find freedom from our old desires of the flesh. We are alive to God because we are loved by the One who gives us life.
Because we know His love, we now live a life of faith toward Him in all things. It is demonstrated in the works of our lives. The actions of our lives are a testimony of our identification in Him. We love Him and we trust Him; therefore, the life we live we live for Him in all things.
Our way of life is changing because our teacher is Holy Spirit. He doesn’t merely teach us by informing us as to what to do in life. He teaches us by transforming us as we are submerged in His anointing that transforms us from within. He teaches us by giving us our true testimony in Christ.
Our Father is Light, and we are growing in being the substance of His light to our world. His life-giving authority is flowing through us as we lay hands upon our world to bring light to darkness, healing to sickness, hope to hopelessness, and life to all manner of death.
Each of us are a unique part of the fellowship revealing the resurrection life of Christ. We each contribute to revealing the resurrection power of Christ to one another and to our world. We were created in Christ to be clothed in Christ with the power of His Might. We each do our share as we are sent to reveal Him to our world.
Today I want to address a sixth aspect found in the foundation of Christ. This is the grace of eternal judgment.
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.
God is our friend and He loved us so much, He sent His only begotten Son to reconcile us to Him. We were bound to the judgments of law and death. We chose to be independent from God our Father and our family tree became a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. There is good and there is evil, but our judgment of them is bound to deception, misinterpretation, and rebellion due to our self-seeking desires. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is filled with a fear of death and thus many judgments of death come upon us. God does not give us a judgment of death. The judgments of death are the result of not choosing an intimate relationship with God in life. The judgment that God offers us is an eternal judgment based upon His love.
A connection to, and a dependance upon, God will always lead to life. The eternal judgment that God gave to the world through Jesus Christ was MERCY! His death upon the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (the cross), justified all men to live because in Christ we all died. Because we died in Christ, we also find our life in Christ as members of His body by the power of His love. We are in communion with Him for eternal life with Him and with one another as the community of Christ.
Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
By Jesus we can receive the eternal judgment of mercy that justifies us to live. Because His mercy has justified us to live, His grace can now empower us to receive God’s salvation for eternity. The eternal judgment of God in Christ is – ‘Mercy, Eternal life for all who believe!’ This is a testimony of the Holy Spirit working by the Spirit of Knowing (intimacy) in our lives.
God has made an eternal judgment of mercy that triumphs over every other judgment. All we need to do is boldly come to His throne of grace to receive it. When we willingly receive His judgment of mercy, we are able to find His grace that transforms our lives by the power of His love. This is a power of communion with Him and with one another as the bread of the body of Christ. This is part of our foundation in Christ that sends us forward in the process of maturity as sons and daughters of God at all times.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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