2 Cor. 5 tells us that we have been given the message of RECONCILATION. So how do we step into, receive, or tap into this inheritance? ROMANS 4; tells us that we receive this inheritance [ BY FAITH , ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND RIGHTIOUSNESS WAS CREDITED TO HIM, FROM GOD, BECAUE WE ARE ALL SONS OF ABRAHAM, THIS SAME RIGHTIOUSNESS IS CREDITED TO OUR ACCOUNTS, IN THE SAME WAY TODAY] Because of Abraham’s faith GOD made the promise, that because of your SEED, ( MEANING ONE SEED, JESUS CHRIST ) that all of the nations of the earth will be BLESSED, also that his descendants would outnumber the grains of sand of the seas or the stars of the heavens. ( INNUERABLE, to many to count ) WHOEVER or whatever religious group, makes the statement or even implies or strongly make the case. WE HAVE GOT ALL OF THE TRUTH, WE ARE RIGHT , YOU ARE WRONG, MENTALITY OR ATTITUDE, if all of the members of any particular group are considered grains of sand, the total number of grains would not be able to fill a gallon container with sand. I can’t even imagine how much greater this GOD IS. That HIS WAYS go far beyond, finding out. we need to get this UNITY OF THE BELIEVERS, THING all figured out, BEFORE HIS RETURN. Only when this happens, ( then the world will KNOW) that we have obtained something worth looking at with respect and honor.
However, religion has mostly made the attempt to disqualify all other believer, if there is any issues of disagreement. This is the reason that we have approximately 2500 to 5000 Christian denominations in our world today. We have become much more proficient or skilled to build fences, rather than bridges. because a fence can be built by any property owner, however it takes some wisdom or engineering skills to build BRIDGES, over some divides in life. But the two greatest commands still remain, LOVING GOD, AND OTHERS , LIKE , BROTHERS,SISTERS, NEIGHBORS, and oh yes, even ENEMIES. ( OUCH )
I have a reason for doing this, ONCE AND FOR ALL MESSAGE, THAT HAS BECOME MY PASSION. Because under my growing up years, I understood that there was a list of things that I had to perform to be made right with this HOLY GOD, and I was not all that, in fact the list was ever changing, and I was not able to match my life experience and the gymnastics required to a performance level that I had achieved was always coming up short. My confidence and security, was that I never reached the level or ability to master the balance beams of LIFE or the power to take away my own sin. So one day in my BIBLE STUDY TIME, GOD turned the lights on for me, and I could see for the first time ever, HE IS: the spotless LAMB OF GOD. That became sin for us so that HE COULD, WOULD AND DID, what I was unable to take hold of , or achieve by any actions I might have attempted. So this statement about HIS, IMPUTED RIGHTIOUSNESS TO MY ACCOUNT. ( IMPUTED ) what is this word all about, so I did a word search, i.e. being made morally right, justified, made perfect, by the act of someone other than yourself. Is credited to all believers that will place their faith and trust in HIS FREE GIFT. HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, IMPUTED TO MY ACCOUNT. It’s not going to get any better than this, Beloved.
The word GOSPEL: means GOOD NEWS. And I had just found the treasure that this farm boy discovered hidden in a field and I was willing to sell all, to purchase that field that I had discovered in GODS WORD, that treasure that my soul had been searching for but didn’t, or perhaps had never been exposed to in my formative years, growing up. I do recall a SPIRITAUL TEACHER, EVANGELIST with a large timeline chart across the entire front of the church building. He was explaining about, the first man Adam, selling all of mankind into this condition called sin and the FEDERAL HEADSHIP, being transferred to the last man Adam, JESUS CHRIST, that came to buy the human race back to HIMSELF, if we were willing to meet certain criteria, I understood this to mean, that this was a joint effort, Part GOD and a lot of this was still my performance, IF I meet the conditions set forth by this particular denomination, or religious influance then I could be accepted into the body of CHRIST, or HIS church, as a true believer.
Now, today when I look back in the rear view mirror of my youth or upbringing, and my lack of abilities to make the grade, as to be accepted into the church or religious influence that all of my family was raised in. As for myself as one of five children, we had very loving and accepting parents. We were all favorites, or at least that was our individual perception, But because my father only had two week of Sunday school from a group that passed through the northern counties of Wisconsin, and GOD alone, knows all of the stops that this group impacted, kids and adults alike, being instructed about the good news about JESUS, as they traveled and my dad and his siblings participated in these Sunday school type of classes. The seeds were planted into the soil of small tender hearts.
One thing that has really impacted my life, is that both of my parents were first time believers and did not come to know JESUS CHRIST from any particular denomination. So they never had any stones, in hand, to throw at the place of their original faith. They never had the choice of switching from one christian infulance to another. Some of the best friends we had also had some different opinions about religions teaching, but never to the point of division, And the worship of ( OUR MESSAGE:) WAS NOT THE GOD WE WORSHIPED. That is why, Paul could write, when I am with you I’m proclaiming two things, instruction about what happened at the CROSS and getting to KNOW THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, HIS nature ,HIS love ,HIS grace,HIS mercy,HIS priesthood. HIS Obidance, His KNGDOM, HIS BLOOD SACRIFICE, KNOWING ,the JESUS of the bible, and when HE was resurrected from the dead, so were we, have been sItted WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS. And so it happens, that as we grow in knowledge and depth of insight, that what should be formulated, is a spirit of humility that is being produced in us and we should stay clear of all elevators and escalators, and stay clear of any form or attude that says or implies, we are right and you are wrong. Rather we need to come to and understanding that we are all wrong and that is why HE CAME. To REDEEM SINNERS.