Living the Paschal Mystery

Scripture Reference: 1 Corinthians 3:16, 'Temples of the Living God'

The historical Jesus lived a God-centered life. 

The Christ-centered spirituality which Jesus initially revealed, taught and modeled, provides the universal foundation and divine order needed, for believers in all religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups to live God-centered lives. 

The universal foundation of the God-centered human life is the Holy Trinity.    

The historical Jesus revealed God's divine order of grace and truth, needed to live a God-centered life. 

With God's help, the historical Jesus proclaimed, taught and modeled the human initiatives of agape love and freedom from slavery to sin, needed to live the God centered life. 

The historical Jesus described the God-centered life as being born again, being born of water and the Spirit, being born from above and kingdom living here on earth (John 3:1-21). 

Are you willing to live a God-centered life by re-orienting your ideas, attitudes, values and actions God ward?

Are you willing to follow the historical Jesus in the daily practical application of the metaphysical and mystical meanings of living the Paschal Mystery, within your own unique witnessing faith community?

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Manifestation Of Mankind's Universal Salvation

Ephesians 3:7-13, 'Paul's Ministry of Universal Reconciliation'.

By the leading of a star, God manifested his only begotten Son, the Christ of Faith, to all humankind, in the historical Jesus, as a baby in a manger in Bethlehem [Matthew 2:1-12]. Through his dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus, the apostle Paul discerned that in the Paschal Mystery and the historical Jesus' ministry, God's eternal, universal plan of deliverance, salvation, redemption and abundant life for all mankind, through the Christ of Faith, was fully revealed, proclaimed and manifested. 

Paul called the mystery of Spirit-based transformation in human souls, hearts, minds and lives, mankind's indwelling and hidden hope of glory [Colossians 1:24-29]. He discerned that the indwelling Christ of Faith, the image and likeness of God, eternally dwelt in the spiritual body of historical Jesus, himself and all persons.  He affirmed that  the indwelling Christ of Faith is always ready and available, within every person, to meet the just physical, emotional, and spiritual requirements of God's changeless Law. 

The Christ of Faith is God's universal presence, truth and way to achieve humankind's redemption from sin, spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death [Ephesians 1:3-8]. Like the historical Jesus, Paul sought to explain this previously hidden revelation, true understanding and full manifestation of the Paschal Mystery, God's eternal Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based plan of salvation, love, grace and truth, through the Christ of Faith, for both Jews and Gentiles. 

Paul teaches that the historical Jesus is truly God's Messiah, the literal, allegorical, metaphysical and mystical revelation of God's redemption to both Jews and Gentiles. To Paul, the entire wisdom, knowledge, power and judgment of God are all eternally centered and fulfilled in the Christ of Faith.  To Paul, the historical Jesus fully embodied proper mental alignment, the incarnation and the fully orbed human manifestation of the Christ of Faith.

God has always given humankind free choice. We can choose to obey God's changeless Law by repenting and turning within to the Christ of Faith. In the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we can fulfill the letter and spirit of God's law and more fully partake in God's universal economy of love, grace and truth. Through Christ-centered spiritual mindedness, we can re-discover, seek and serve the Christ of Faith, in the historical Jesus, in ourselves and in all persons.  We can through faith, humility, and obedience, follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery. We can further establish kingdom living here on earth, as it is in heaven [Matthew 6:10].

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The Wholistic Approach In Living The Paschal Mystery

Sunday’s Epistle 2 Timothy 1:1-7, reminds all Christ-centered spiritually awake believers, in all witnessing communities to be bold and courageous in their proclamation of the Gospel of Christ. They are called to authenticity in their teaching, living and sharing their unique gifts and ministries, as they follow the historical Jesus, in living the Paschal Mystery.  They are challenged to be faithful ministers in rightly teaching, preaching and dividing the Christ-centered written and spoke Word of Truth, found in all the world religions.

Paul assures us that through the Christ-centered, spiritual mindedness of right brain hemisphere thinking, which the historical Jesus taught, all people, in all religions, cultures and ethnic groups can overcome internal fear, error, sin and all evil desires as well as external rejection and marginalization. Wholistic interpretation and daily practical application of the sacred writings and oral traditions in all the world religions are desperately needed in all religions, at this pivotal time in human history. 

Many literal, carnal and mortal minded religious leaders in all the world religions, consider the universal, metaphysical and mystical Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based teachings, principles and practices in the Gospel of Christ, as taught and modeled by the historical Jesus, heretical and apostasy. I believe that exclusion of the metaphysical and mystical approaches to any religion lays the sure foundation for confusion, error, xenophobia, spiritual sleep, spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness and spiritual death within any witnessing communities. 

Christ-centered, spiritually awake witnessing communities are now emerging in all cultures, ethnic groups and religions. They stresses that God's grace, love, power and hope, have been eternally given to all humankind, through the Christ of faith and the Holy Spirit in the spiritual body of every person [John 16:12-15, Colossians 1:24-27]. These witnesses reject the inappropriate dominion of left brain hemisphere thinking and seek to regain the appropriate balance of right brain hemisphere thinking, feeling, emotions and actions, which the historical Jesus taught and modeled, throughout his incarnate earthly ministry, as kingdom living.
 

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Lordship Of Jesus And The Living Christ

Scripture text: Colossians 1:18-19, 'Christ's headship of the church'

The apostle Paul proclaimed for himself the same Christ-centered, Spirit-based relationship and union with God, which Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah had experienced. This new birth and new life experience involved repentance, proper mental alignment and the incarnation of the living Christ. He declared that by Christ-centered faith, this new birth and new life is actually available and accessible to all people. Paul realized this because of his willingness to embrace and in faith, humility and obedient surrender to the living Christ, as Savior and Lord.

Paul discovered that his personal mind of the flesh, left-brain hemisphere dominance, was at emnity with the will of God for his life. He also discovered that his mind of the Spirit, right-brain hemisphere dominion was in alignment and harmony with God's will for his life [Romans 8:1-11].  Paul proclaimed the supremacy of Jesus of Nazareth as the unique and full human manifestation of God, revealing Himself to humankind in and through the living Christ. He also declared the supremacy of the eternal Spirit, the living Christ as the head of Jesus of Nazareth and the universal, spiritual head of the body of Christ.

To Jesus and Paul, the living Christ is mankind's universal, indwelling center of light, life, love, grace, truth, authority, identity, worship, security and meaning [John 17:15-23, Colossians 1:15-16]. The living Christ is mankind's spiritual indwelling and incarnate King of Kings and Lord of Lords. The living Christ is eternal Spirit, the Image of God, in the spiritual body of all people.  

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