Key Verse: "This life was revealed, and we have seen it and testify to it, and declare to you, the eternal life, that was with the Father, and was revealed to us' (1 John 1:2).
The Paschal Mystery, is the revelation of the invisible presence, glory, and eternal life of the Godhead in Christ Jesus. As the Son of Man and the incarnate Son of God, Jesus Christ modeled how all Christ-centered believers could pass over into a new, glorified and eternal life with the Godhead, while he was in human flesh, as Messiah (John 3:16-17). In today's Epistle, the Apostle John declares that he was an eyewitness of this physical revelation of the eternal life of the Godhead, in Jesus Christ. John declares that he also witnessed in the mind of the spirit, the invisible presence and eternal life of the risen, glorified and ascended Christ, and the kingdom of heaven, here on earth, while in his physical body, as the New Jerusalem (Luke 17:20-21, Revelations 1:9-20, 21:1-8).
In Colossians 1:24-29, the Apostle Paul explained that he also experienced the presence, glory and eternal life of the invisible Godhead in Jesus Christ, in the mind of the spirit (Acts 9:1-9). Jesus Christ as Messiah, located the place where God intends the Paschal Mystery to take place, in our present human lives and relationships. He declared that the kingdom of heaven is within every person and in our midst, here on earth (Luke 17:20-21). Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul and the Apostle John assure believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups that the cleansing, fellowship, passover and celebration in the kingdom of God are centered in the incarnate Christ, within human beings, who live their lives in the mind of the spirit (Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-24, John 1:1-4, Romans 8:12-17, Colossians 1:24-29, 1 John 1:1-4).
The Bible declares the reason the Father sent Jesus Christ as Messiah into the world, is to restore all mankind to normal mental alignment, fellowship, eternal and abundant life with the Godhead and one another with Christ, in the mind of the spirit. Jesus Christ was the Word made flesh, who dwelt among us (John 1:1-5). In Jesus Christ, God revealed the full incarnation and full manifestation of the Godhead as SPIRIT, in human flesh (Colossians 2:9). By following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal mystery in the mind of the spirit, believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups can and will experience resurrection from spiritual death, regain spiritual fellowship, experience spiritual joy, know the incarnation of Christ and realize the same spiritual fullness in Christ, which Jesus Christ experienced, revealed, taught, modeled and manifested here on earth (Matthew 16:21-28, Mark 8:31-9:1, Luke 9:22-27, John 14:1-14, 1 John 1:3-4).
The Bible declares that believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups who reject God's way of living human lives in the mind of the spirit, are false prophets. They have a false profession of faith in Jesus Christ. They are walking in the hard heartedness, spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death of the mind of the flesh (John 4:23-26, Romans 8:1-11, Philippians 2:5). The mind of the flesh is the Man of Lawlessness, who must be identified, cast down, cast out and destroyed in believers' souls, hearts, minds, relationships and bodies, if they are to live in harmony and fellowship with the Father-Being, Christ-the Begotten, and the Holy Spirit-Begetting, while incarnate, here on earth (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12, 1 John 1:5-6).
Spiritually awake believers, who follow Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery in the mind of the spirit, bring witnessing paschal faith communities into fellowship with the Godhead and the Saints in Christ. Through faith, confession of sins, humility and repentance, within witnessing Paschal faith communities, believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups do experience deliverance, and progressive cleansing from the inappropriate dominion of the mind of the flesh, in their lives and relationships. The blood of Christ cleanses repentant believers from all sin. By faith believers are united with Jesus Christ as Son of God and Son of Man, in his risen, glorified, and eternal life with the Godhead, by living their lives in the mind of the spirit (1 John 1:7-8).
In today's Epistle, the Apostle John describes the perils, apostasy, lying, false witness, self-deception and universal sins of believers, within witnessing paschal faith communities, who reject and refuse to live their lives in the mind of the spirit. The Apostles John and Paul remind us that believers who choose to live their lives in the mind of the flesh, live under the dominion and control of the Lawless Man (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12). Their unrighteousness is described as spiritual destitution, degradation and hypocrisy. Humble, repentant and obedient believers in all traditions, religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups are assured of God's pardon and forgiveness of sins, by following Jesus Christ, in living their lives in the mind of the spirit (Romans 8:12-17, 1 John 1:9-10).
Believers who reject the false pride, condemnation, strife, deceit, mischief, betrayal and discord of the mind of the flesh and turn to Christ, have an Advocate with the Godhead. Jesus Christ is the believers' assurance and advocate with the Godhead, in the midst of their normal, daily challenges of spiritual warfare. Jesus Christ came not only secure forgiveness of our sins. Jesus Christ shows all mankind God's way to redemption and eternal life, in Christ. Believer can know and have abundant and eternal life, by following Jesus Christ in living the Paschal Mystery, in the mind of the spirit (Mark 8:31-34, 1 John 2:1-2).
Do you seek and follow God's way of eternal life, at this present time in your life, by knowing God and Jesus Christ, who God sent, in the mind of the spirit (John 17:1-3)? Do you seek and serve Christ, God's Image and Likeness in the spiritual body of Jesus Christ and all persons, and love your neighbor as your self (Genesis 1:26-27, Matthew 22:36-40, 1 Corinthians 15:42-49)? Do you discern the reality and deceptive power of sins of the mind of the flesh, within your life and within your witnessing paschal faith communities? In honesty, faith, repentance, and obedience, are you willing to die to the sins of the mind of the flesh, in your daily life? Will you live and proclaim with assurance the joy of Christ's resurrection in your life, in the mind of the spirit, within your witnessing paschal faith community?
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