His Kingdom in the World
Misers are poor even when they are not. The miser has threadbare circumstances and threadbare ideas. The miser often hoards useless objects because that’s where the miser gets her security – the accumulation of stuff. A law-culture is equivalent to a miser culture – the hoarding of what one has and the limited vision of a poverty mentality in the midst of riches.
The subtle deceit of religion is that it has us living from a system and culture, when we could be living from the incarnation. We can sincerely serve God all our lives in this mode without experience in the fullness of God and getting to live as our real selves. In living in the incarnation the trinity lives as us. Read more.
The kingdom of God is not so small that it is issues based because this Kingdom of Life is about new creation in the micro and macro. New Creation comes from incarnation which is the spirit of sonship in action. Incarnation weaves God into us so that we become God’s expression in ourselves, marriages, families and the world.
It’s disappointing to hear those who could know better prefer a list of specifics as their righteousness over the incarnation of Christ as themselves and their community. But then if we insist on living from the law, we make a hash of our inheritance – which is Christ our life and replace our treasure with the poverty of Adam.
The new wineskin is not salvation as such. It’s the manifestation of God as human beings. This is the flesh and blood of the spirit of sonship. It’s a debilitating mistake to see our post cross life with Jesus’ help. No way. It’s being ourselves as a manifestation of Him.
The lens through which we read the Bible provides the meaning we get.
Start with the law as your lens and you will a manage a mongrel concoction of the knowledge of good and evil plus Jesus. And along with this, a Jesus who is a human construct but not the Christ of God. Start with the Christ as your lens and we get the Gospel of the Kingdom which is our new covenant union with God. This is unilaterally of God and not dependent on us. But it is the end of your Adam and the beginning of your ‘you’ as a son of God.
We are sons generically since we were created by God. We are sons and daughters in spirit and in truth when we agree with Christ that He is our life.
‘Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.’
Some of the things we have believed are ‘dung’ as Paul urged. It’s a case of ‘garbage in garbage out’, which is distressing to us if one has gained a status and an identity from a life-work in pushing a gospel that is fundamentally distorted. Paul called such talk ‘rubbish’ and Jesus called the culture of such beliefs ‘tares’. Tares comprise a significant proportion of the Body of Christ as a result of poor teaching, polluted revelation and the absorption of cunningly devised fables as ‘truth.’
The devil was defeated at the cross so his ploy has been to rob Christ’s achievement of its content and thousands to promote a christian version of the knowledge of good and evil as life.
If you are living the Kingdom, you are not living from the law, a piece of the law or a Christian performance mentality. In the Kingdom of Sons you are alive in the Spirit because Christ is you. The Kingdom is not ‘trying to be like Jesus’, striving to live the fruits of the Spirit or living Christian virtues with Jesus help. Your glory is to be who you are as a Christ incarnated person.
Live in any kind of religion and the very religion you are living from insulates you from union with God. It’s possible to live a church routine yet have a scarcely existing relationship with God and even no relationship. But what you do have is a relationship with church or religion. Francois Du Toit writes,
“The ‘must do’s’ and ‘must become have all been replaced by a Masterfully done deal through one brilliant move of God!
No more window-shopping, just gazing into the mirror with unveiled faces!”
Jesus Christ is the Mirror of you and the way to be you as son instead of a slave.
Christ in you is the hope of glory because Christ your life is the living way of being THE REAL YOU.
The Gospel of the Kingdom – the one that Jesus began – that Paul explained and John celebrated is much different to the gospel of men and degenerate gospels grazing like skinny cows in the mindsets of Christian Disability. There is an inherent meanness in law constricted gospels and much humbug in religious ones. In Christ our life – which is the vicarious humanity of Jesus embedded in our living – we can make the Kingdom what it is meant to be: The expression of the trinity in us, in the church and in society.
‘Grace’ disconnected from the new covenant is a very limited ‘grace.’ Grace is Jesus Christ and grace is God’s reality embracing you. Far more than a judicial position, grace is incarnational and ontological which is to say that it is about persons, about being and about foundational reality.
Grace activeis the drawing of all of us into the life and fellowship of God. Grace is the continuation of the big idea that is to create sons and daughters to enjoy the life and fellowship of God. But more than this – since grace was the Christ manifest as Jesus, grace is also Jesus manifest as you. More here.
CHRIST IN YOU 