Conditions For Living The Paschal Mystery

Romans 10:5-16, 'Conditions of salvation'

The Salvation of mankind's soul is mankind's passing over from slavery to sin, into the freedom of God's love, while incarnate in our present physical bodies, here on earth (John 8:23-32). Like the historical Jesus, many Christ-centered believers have discovered that salvation takes place through the Holy Spirit and indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith, through our spiritual bodies (Luke 4:16-21). Spiritually awake followers of the historical Jesus, realize that the Christ of Faith, God's image and likeness, forever dwells in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus, and the spiritual body of all persons, while incarnate here on earth (Genesis 1:26-27, Acts 17:24-30, Colossians 1:26-27).

Salvation has been described as peace in the human soul, heart and mind. This Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based peace surpasses all human understanding. Many believers are discovering that this peace comes through spiritual understanding and the inner realization of the Godhead as Spirit and Trinity. Mankind's true realization of God as Omnipresent Spirit always transforms our perception of apparent good and evil.

The Bible teaches that the historical Jesus, through his passion, death and resurrection, passed over from life in the mind of the flesh. In the mind of the spirit, Jesus ascended into a new and glorified life with the Father, in the kingdom of heaven, while incarnate here on earth. By steadfastly dwelling in Christ consciousness, the historical Jesus fulfilled the spirit of God's Law, while here on earth. The historical Jesus' life is not just a parable. Jesus' life is the actual revelation, truth and mystery about all mankind passing over from slavery to sin, into the freedom of God's love, through the Holy Spirit and the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith (Matthew 6:9-10, John 8:23-32, Mark 8:31-38).

In the context of the Paschal Mystery, salvation of the human soul is the truth that continues to unfold about mankind being born from above, through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit and the Christ of Faith in human lives (John 3:1-13). Following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery brings alignment, incarnation, lifting up and manifestation of the indwelling Christ of Faith as salvation, in the souls, hearts, minds and lives, of all who believe (John 3:14-18). Salvation is being born of the spirit and being born from above. It is seeking, worshiping and serving the Christ of Faith, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and in the spiritual body of all persons.

Romans 10:5-16 declares the truth about about the necessary conditions of salvation. Universal salvation occurs through faith in the indwelling Christ of Faith and the Holy Spirit, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and all persons (John 3:14-21). This Paschal Mystery is rarely preached. Many have never heard of living the Paschal Mystery. Romans 10:14-16 declares, "How then shall they call upon him in whom they have never believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?

And how shall they preach except they be sent? As it is written, "how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, "Lord who has believed our report"?

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Solicitude For Those Who Reject The Indwelling Christ Of Faith

Romans 9:1-6 'Paul's solicitude for Israelites who reject the historical Jesus'

The word solicitude is rarely used today in our western cultures. It is a very powerful word. It means a mental and emotional state of anxiety and deep concern for someone or something. Solicitude is a state of attentiveness, disquiet, apprehensiveness, uneasiness and worry about specific attitudes, decisions and actions. In the context of today's epistle, solicitude is the apostle Paul's deep concern, apprehension, dread and misgiving about the spiritual welfare and spiritual blindness of some of his fellow Israelites, who rejected the historical Jesus as Messiah. More importantly, they rejected Messiah's revelation of the previously hidden mysteries and glorious truths about the universal Christ of Faith, God's Presence, Son, Love, Grace and Truth in Messiah's spiritual body and in the spiritual body of all persons (John 1:15-18, Colossians 1:24-29).

As a spiritual gift of administration in the apostolic church, solicitude refers to the anxious concern of a Bishop for the spiritual welfare, spiritual health and spiritual life of his people. Paul always expressed and demonstrated solicitude for the spiritual resurrection, spiritual formation and spiritual life within the churches under his care. Down through the centuries, in the Christian Church, Paul remains the model of solicitude for Bishops and all spiritually awake believers ever since (2 Corinthians 11:26). In 1 Corinthians 11:1 Paul declared, "Be ye followers of me , even as I am of Christ". In the bible, the historical Jesus is frequently called Christ.

Before his repentance, conversion and resurrection from spiritual death, the apostle Paul as Saul vigorously rejected the historical Jesus as Messiah. As Saul he sought to distort and contradict, Jesus' Christ-centered, Holy Spirit based message about the indwelling and incarnation of the universal Christ of Faith, in human bodies. Paul actually participated in persecuting, imprisoning and killing those who chose to follow the historical Jesus. Paul considered himself to be the chief among sinners ( Timothy 1:16).

After his conversion and spiritual awakening, Paul's soul, heart, mind and attitudes were radically transformed. Paul discerned, taught and proclaimed the historical Jesus as Messiah, the Son of Man. Paul discerned and personally experienced the Paschal Mystery. Through his personal encounter and surrender to the universal indwelling Christ of Faith, Paul was forgiven and delivered from bondage and slavery to sin. He passed over into the freedom of God's love, grace and truth, through the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith, by following Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery.

Paul recognized and taught that the historical Jesus was the full mental and spiritual alignment, and the full incarnation of the universal indwelling Christ of Faith, in human flesh. He discerned and taught that the universal indwelling Christ of Faith, is God's image and likeness, the Son of God, within the historical Jesus, within himself and within all persons (Genesis 1:26-27, Colossians 1:26-27). Paul recognized in the historical Jesus, the full incarnation of God's greatest gift and full manifestation of mankind's greatest potential, in and through the universal indwelling Christ of Faith, The Son begotten only of God, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and all persons (Genesis 1:26-27, John 3:14-21).

Like all who are reading this text, the apostle never met the historical Jesus face to face. He did however have a personal spiritual encounter with the indwelling Christ of Faith, Who came down from heaven and became fully incarnate in the historical Jesus, through Jesus' spiritual body (Luke 17:20-21). Throughout his ministry, Paul passionately followed the historical Jesus' universal command in Matthew 16:42, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me".

Do you believe the historical Jesus is Messiah? Do you believe the historical Jesus was the full incarnation and full manifestation of the universal indwelling Christ of Faith, who came down from heaven? Are you willing to passionately follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery? Like the apostle Paul do you have compassion for those who reject the historical Jesus as Messiah? Do you have solitude for those who reject the historical Jesus' revelation of the previously hidden mysteries and glorious truths about the universal Christ of Faith, God's Presence, Kingdom, Love, Grace and Truth in Messiah's spiritual body and in the spiritual body of all persons?
      

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Believers' Assurance In Living The Paschal Mystery

Reference Scripture:
Romans 8:26-39, 'The assurance of salvation'

In Romans 8:12-17, the apostle Paul assures us that Christ-centered spiritually minded believers are no longer debtors to the flesh, to live according to the mind of the flesh. They realize that living according to the mind of the flash produces spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death. Because they now live according to the mind of the spirit, under the dominion and guidance of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith and the Holy Spirit, these believers have the assurance, like the historical Jesus, that they are sons and daughters, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, in the kingdom of God and kingdom living, here on earth (Luke 17:20-21).

By faith, repentance, turning to the indwelling Christ of Faith, and following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, Christ-centered believers are delivered from bondage and slavery to sin. By personal, daily, practical application and appropriation of the inner spiritual meaning of the historical Jesus' suffering, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension and second coming (Paschal Mystery), they pass over into the freedom of God's love, in and through Holy Spirit, and the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith, God's Image and Likeness, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and the spiritual body of all persons (Genesis 1:26-27, Romans 8:32-33).


Now the indwelling Christ of Faith is God's Divine Presence, Spirit and Life contained in God's Word. The Christ of Faith is the Logos, God's indwelling Presence that purifies, by pouring into penitent and receptive believers' souls, hearts, minds, emotions, relationships and lives, new and pure streams of Divine Life. By faith and the proper conditions of spiritual and mental alignment, that is living the Paschal Mystery, the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith cleanses the human consciousness from slavery to sin and the dead works of the mind of the flesh.


In Holy Scripture, the universal indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith is often symbolized as the precious blood of the Lamb. The Christ of Faith is the undefiled primal life of Being, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and the spiritual body of every person. Through proper spiritual and mental alignment, and full incarnation, the historical Jesus revealed and made the universal indwelling Christ of Faith fully available and accessible to all people (John 3:16, 14:6). The indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith is the believers assurance and certainty of salvation, regeneration and eternal life, when following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery (Romans 8:35-37, Revelations 7:14).  


Spiritually awake believers in Christ-centered, witnessing faith communities within all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups live no longer as debtors to the flesh, to live according to the mind of the flesh. They now live according to the mind of the Spirit, because they desire to successfully follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery. The Christ of Faith and the Holy Spirit are the believer's assurance of salvation, regeneration, redemption and kingdom living here on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-10, Luke 17:20-21, Romans 8:26-27).


When following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, God works out his sovereign will, while at the same time preserving human choice. All people may therefore act freely to accept or reject the historical Jesus and the Gospel of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith that he proclaimed. Those who choose follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, have the assurance and certainty that nothing living or dead, animate or inanimate, can separate them from the Grace, Love and Truth of God, in and through the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith, as revealed in the historical Jesus (Matthew 16:24, Romans 8:38-39).

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Glorious Hope In Living The Paschal Mystery

Reference Scripture:

Romans 8:18-25,  ‘Mankind’s Divine Heritage In Living The Paschal Mystery’.

In Romans 8:18-25, the apostle Paul make it clear that in following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers are made sons and daughters of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ. They therefore no longer live after the mind of the flesh. To claim and appropriate their divine spiritual heritage of deliverance from slavery to sin and passing over into the freedom of God’s love, while incarnate in their physical bodies, they must live their lives in alignment with the mind of the Spirit. 

 

Paul sees the Christ of Faith as indwelling Spirit, the image and likeness of God, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and spiritual body of every person. He therefore describes the Christ of Faith as the ultimate Judge, midwife and Savior in every human soul, heart, mind, life and relationship. Paul teaches that by following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, Christ centered, spiritually awake believers will live and dwell in the light, liberty, grace, truth, love and civility of the risen Christ of Faith, the image and likeness of God, in and through their spiritual bodies (Romans 8:12-17). 

Through Christ-centered spiritual mindedness and empowerment by the Holy Spirit, the historical Jesus fully emptied himself of the mind of the flesh (Matthew 4:1-10, Philippians 2:5-8). Jesus lived this Paschal Mystery in the parable of his actual birth, life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension and second coming.  With God's help, Jesus revealed, taught and fully demonstrated the spiritual realization of humankind’s spiritual union with God, spiritual union with one another and kingdom living, within human lives and relationships, in the midst of the evil, error, unrighteousness and incivility throughout our planet.  

In Matthew 13:24-30, the historical Jesus therefore declared in parable, that the kingdom heaven and the kingdom of God here on earth are like a man who sowed wheat seed in his field. During the night, an adversary secretly contaminated the field with tares. Jesus uses this parable to remind believers that in following him in living the Paschal Mystery, righteousness, evil, sin and error will grow together in believer's hearts, minds, lives and relationships within witnessing faith communities. Jesus assures Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers however, that the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith is the universal midwife, forever birthing the spiritual kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven and kingdom living, in the midst of the spiritual warfare, which took place in his heart, mind and life and continues to occur in every human heart, mind and life (Matthew 13:36-37, John 1:1-5, Luke 17:20-26).  

God has mysteriously designed and forever placed, the indwelling Christ of Faith, the primal life of Being, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and every person. The Christ of Faith as the image and likeness of God is the only final Judge, Redeemer and Savior in every human soul, heart, mind, emotion, life and relationship (Matthew 13:37-43). With God’s help, the historical Jesus therefore recommends Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based patience, kindness, compassion, hope and long suffering, during times of spiritual warfare, as we follow him as Messiah in living the Paschal Mystery. 

Spiritually awake believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups are now called to live and appropriate the universal Christ-centered, spiritual mindedness, which the historical Jesus modeled. Spiritually awake believers are called to walk as joint heirs with the historical Jesus, in kingdom living here on earth. In the power of the Holy Spirit, they are challenges to manifest the incarnation of the indwelling Christ of Faith, the fruit of the Spirit, and kingdom living, within their unique witnessing faith communities (Galatians 5:22-26). 

By following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, the love, grace and truth of the indwelling Christ of Faith and the Holy Spirit will burn up all dross, error and anything unlike God's image and likeness in human hearts, lives and relationships (Matthew 13:40). The indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith and the Holy Spirit will cleanse and purify human hearts. Following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery will bring the inner spiritual realization of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, kingdom living and eternal life, within us and in our midst. 

Sowing Gospel Seed And Living The Paschal Mystery

Scripture Text: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, 'Sowing Gospel Seed'

God's eternal plan for the salvation and redemption of all mankind and establishing kingdom living here on earth, through the Christ of Faith are included in the Paschal Mystery. In today's Gospel reading Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23, the historical Jesus uses the parable of the sower to teach the mystery and central importance of mankind's heart felt thoughts, attitudes, emotions, receptivity and relationships to the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith in the Gospel of Christ. This parable of the Gospel of Christ also  unveils the mystery that only divinely prepared human hearts and spiritually receptive human minds can and will hear and respond creative and positively to the Gospel of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith. Jesus reminds us of the truth that God alone as Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, can prepare and make human hearts receptive to the Gospel of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith.

The nature and choices of human hearts and their internal responses to the hidden mystery of the indwelling Christ of Faith, in the spiritual body of every person, determine mankind's spiritual communion with God, spiritual communion with one another, civility to one another, and kingdom living throughout our planet (Colossians 1:24-29). In God's sight, mankind's internal heart responses to the Good News of God's grace, agape love and truth are more important than our spoken human words and visible human actions (1 Samuel 16:7, John 1:16-18).

In today's text, the historical Jesus used good soil to symbolize Christ-centered, spiritually minded, divinely prepared and spiritually receptive human hearts and responses to the Gospel of Christ. These Christ-centered, spiritually awake teachers, believers and hearers can be found in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups. With God's help, they choose to embrace the Gospel of the indwelling Christ of Faith, in the spiritual body of the historical Jesus and in the spiritual body of every person. They choose to follow the historical Jesus in sowing Gospel seed, living the Paschal Mystery, and Christ-centered kingdom living here on earth (Luke 17:20-21).

As the universal body of the indwelling Christ of Faith, they seek and find God's grace, truth and love through deeper spiritual understanding of the mystery of the historical Jesus' life, passion, death, resurrection, ascension, second coming and ultimate reign in human lives. These Christ-centered teachers, believers and listeners are not discouraged when their messages of deliverance from slavery to sin, eternal salvation and kingdom living here on earth are rejected by their hearers. They steadfastly seek spiritual knowledge and spiritual experiences of mankind's true and abiding relationship with God and each other, through the universal indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith.

Spiritually awake teachers, believers and listeners steadfastly seek to nurture, cultivate and grow the seed and virtues of the universal, indwelling Christ of Faith's agape love, grace, justice, truth and civility in all human hearts, lives and relationships. These universal Christ-centered teachers, believers and listeners are now found and can be discerned in all human traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups. They are resilient, spiritually awake and spiritually minded. They know and teach the presence of the universal Christ of Faith, forever dwelling in the spiritual body of every person, is the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-31).

Christ-centered teachers, believers and hearers are not despondent nor discouraged, when their Gospel seeds are rejected by spiritually blind, spiritually deaf, spiritually asleep, hardhearted and spiritually dead listeners. They know they are forever called by God to sow Gospel seed in the hearts, minds and lives of all persons. They steadfastly sow Gospel seed with agape love, compassion, grace, patience and truth. They seek spiritual knowledge, deeper spiritual understanding and actual spiritual experiences of mankind's true and abiding relationship with God and each other, through the universal, indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith, as revealed in and through the historical Jesus.

Spiritually awake teachers steadfastly seek to nurture, cultivate and grow the seed and virtues of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith's love, grace, justice, civility and truth in all human hearts, lives and relationships. They steadfastly follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery. These universal teachers, believers and hearers of the Gospel of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faith are resilient, Christ-centered and spiritually minded. 

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