Paschal Mystery And Christ Crucified

Reference Scriptures:
Matthew 5:17-21, ‘The historical Jesus fulfilled God’s law
Matthew 16:21-28, 'The unique, personal and universal Second Coming of Christ'
Acts 17:22-34, ‘The Unknown God’
1 Corinthians 2:1-12, ‘Christ Crucified’

Both the historical Jesus and the apostle Paul recognized that within the sacred texts of all religions, every word and sentence veils universal, Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based truth  [Matthew 5:17, Acts 17:30].

Throughout his life and ministry, the historical Jesus taught, revealed and modeled the full incarnation and manifestation of the Christ of Faith, the Image and likeness of God, in his spiritual body and thus potentially, in the spiritual body of all persons.

The apostle Paul fully embraced the historical Jesus’ teaching, that in God's universal plan of Salvation, the Christ of Faith is the reigning divine Presence, Wisdom and Power of God, within every fully functioning human life, here on earth.

Whoever follows the Christ-centered, Holy Spirit-based inner spiritual, mental, emotional, relationship and physical steps outlined in the Gospel of Christ Crucified, will finally reach the conscious relationship with God, other human beings and all creation, which the historical Jesus knew, here on earth.  

Based on your personal experiences of awakening and resurrection from spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death, you will begin to discern how you have crucified afresh, the Christ of Faith, within your own spiritual body.   

By follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery; Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all religions, secular and ethnic groups are now able to proclaim the resurrection, incarnation, second coming, manifestation and reign of the indwelling and incarnate Christ Faith, through their spiritual bodies.

These believers, who are now realizing what it means to be born from above, are declaring like the apostle Paul; "I previously rejected, crucified and buried the universal indwelling Christ of Faith by my own spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death".

"The previously Crucified Christ of Faith is now Resurrected and Reigning as indwelling and incarnate Savior, Master and Lord, through my spiritual body".

By following the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery, these Christ-centered Spiritually awake believers are now realizing, proclaiming and further establishing kingdom living here on earth, as it is in heaven.  

Unity And Universality Of The Christ Of Faith

Scripture reference: 1 Corinthians 1:10-16, 'Christ, the universal Lamb of God' 

Living the Paschal Mystery is often strongly rejected as foolishness by many exoteric religious and secular minded people. It is however more warmly embraced and applied, as the universal power of God unto salvation, by most esoteric, spiritually awake, religious people, in all the world religions. Like the historical Jesus, the apostle Paul also taught that only the cross does save humankind from vain and erroneous human philosophies, and brings all mankind to the true, exoteric and esoteric knowledge of God’s grace, truth, wisdom and love, through the universal, indwelling Christ of Faith, the image of God, in the spiritual body of all persons [Genesis 1:26-31, Matthew 16:24-28, Colossians 1:26-27].

Mortal minded people believe that human beings are now experiencing separation from God and one another. The carnal minded are intellectually motivated to deny that all human beings have eternal spiritual bodies. They are thus preoccupied with the things of men, rather than the things of God. Mortal, carnal and worldly mindedness are among the diverse manifestations of the mind of the flesh. Spiritually minded people realize, that all humans, like the historical Jesus, are eternal spiritual beings, going through temporary, incarnate, human experiences [John 1:1-5, Romans 8:1-11].

In Romans 8:5-8, the apostle Paul declares that the mind of the flesh, always burdens people with the sins of erroneous thinking, spiritual blindness and spiritual death. Paul makes it clear that the mind of the flesh creates divisions, schisms, conflict and separation. Paul realized that the historical Jesus' exoteric and esoteric message of the cross, is foolishness to those who are perishing in the erroneous thinking, spiritual blindness and spiritual death of the mind of the flesh [1 Corinthians 1:17-18]. 

The Bible declares that the Book of Revelations completes the unveiling of the limited exoteric and the universal esoteric messages of the historical Jesus. It describes the second coming of the universal Christ of Faith on earth, as it is in heaven [Matthew 6:10]. It outlines many aspects of the coming triumph and reign of the universal Christ of Faith, in human hearts, minds, emotions, lives and affairs, here on earth. These apocalyptic writing describes many of the literal, metaphorical, metaphysical and mystical end time experiences, of people following and those choosing not to follow the historical Jesus, in living the Paschal Mystery. 

Are you numbered among those Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers, in your unique religion, who with God's help, have chosen to steadfastly follow the historical Jesus, in living the Paschal Mystery? Are you daily, in the power of the Word and the Holy Spirit, crossing out the inappropriate dominion of the mind of the flesh? Have you chosen, with God's help, to put on the unity and universality of the mind of the indwelling and incarnate Christ of Faitht? 

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