Scripture Text: 1 Peter 1:3-9, 'A living hope'
Recognizing, experiencing, appropriating and sharing the Good News of spiritual resurrection, through the incarnation and reign of Christ of Faith, within human souls, hearts, minds, lives and relationships is living the Paschal Mystery. Deliverance from slavery to sin, and kingdom living in eternal and abundant life, here on earth are the universal hopes of Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all the world religions, culture, ethnic and secular groups, who choose to deny self, take up their cross daily and follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery
Living the Paschal Mystery by following the historical Jesus, is the mission, opportunity and challenge of Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all religions, cultures, ethnic and secular groups now have. Christ-centered spiritually awake believers are the universal body of the resurrected Christ of Faith, throughout our planet. What is the nature of your personal choice, knowledge, experience and relationship with God in and through the Christ of Faith, in your spiritual body? Do you believe your Father as Universal Spirit, is different from the historical Jesus’ indwelling Abba Father?
To restrict the Christ of Faith to the name and the personality the historical Jesus of Nazareth, is to give God’s universal, spiritual gift, His Image and Likeness, unintended carnal, mortal, material and human limitation [Genesis 1:26-27, John 3:16]. This limited perception continues to hide and veil the historical Jesus' universal call to spiritual resurrection, living one's life centered in the incarnate Christ of Faith as Lord and empowered by the Holy Spirit. The historical Jesus challenges all people to dwelling in Christ consciousness, while living in our present physical bodies, [Acts 2:1-11].
By God's plan and design, every human has the Christ of Faith, God's Image and Likeness, in our spiritual bodies [Genesis 1:26-27, Colossians 1:26-27]. The eternal hope of Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all religious, cultures, ethnic and secular groups is that by faith, all humans will enter and dwell in the mysterious upper room experience of the ‘I AM THAT I AM’, through, proper mental alignment, the incarnation and the full manifestation of the Christ of Faith in and through our spiritual bodies.
By God's plan and design, every human has the Christ of Faith, God's Image and Likeness, in our spiritual bodies [Genesis 1:26-27, Colossians 1:26-27]. The eternal hope of Christ-centered, spiritually awake believers in all religious, cultures, ethnic and secular groups is that by faith, all humans will enter and dwell in the mysterious upper room experience of the ‘I AM THAT I AM’, through, proper mental alignment, the incarnation and the full manifestation of the Christ of Faith in and through our spiritual bodies.
When dwelling in spiritual blindness, spiritual deafness, spiritual sleep and spiritual death, human beings miss the historical Jesus' Easter message of universal spiritual resurrection from spiritual death, by believing and follow the historical Jesus in living the Paschal Mystery. Sincere carnal, mortal and worldly minded, misinformed believers miss entering the Promised Land, being sealed by the Holy Spirit and dwelling in the power and glory of the incarnate Christ of Faith, which the historical Jesus revealed, taught and modeled, while in his physical body, here on earth.
Are you choosing to embrace the blessings of deliverance from slavery to sin, eternal salvation and the sure reward of eternal life, by following the historical Jesus, in living the Paschal Mystery (Matthew 19:27-31)? Are you seeking, with God help to discern and enter the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem now in our midst and within each of us (Revelation 21:2-7)? Are you, within your witnessing faith community caring, teaching, proclaiming, healing and modeling the Christ-centered kingdom living, which the historical Jesus promised, while here on earth (John 14:8-14)?
Are you choosing to embrace the blessings of deliverance from slavery to sin, eternal salvation and the sure reward of eternal life, by following the historical Jesus, in living the Paschal Mystery (Matthew 19:27-31)? Are you seeking, with God help to discern and enter the Heavenly City, the New Jerusalem now in our midst and within each of us (Revelation 21:2-7)? Are you, within your witnessing faith community caring, teaching, proclaiming, healing and modeling the Christ-centered kingdom living, which the historical Jesus promised, while here on earth (John 14:8-14)?
