Christ Is ALL - Chapter 10

Finished Work

I was onced asked if I was still leaning towards the Finished Work. With a smile I answered: "more than ever." Today, more than ever, do I see the revelation of the Finished Work of Christ. God is not going to do something that He has already done and He is Done! "Thus the heavens and thee earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made." Genesis 2:1-3, NKJV. This question that was asked to me caused me to examine myself to see if I am in the faith. Yes, I am in the faith, but what is the faith? We are told by Paul to "Watch, stand in the faith, be brave, be strong." -1 Cor. 16:14. We are to watch and stand in the faith, to be strong in it. With this came the realization of what has been a part of my dilemma: I have been leaning towards the Finished Work and I should be standing in it--living in it as the Reality of my life.

When we first hear the Christ message we must except it by faith. Then, hopefully, we will come into a realization of that WORD that we have received. We must stand in faith till that which we hope for is manifested as our experience. It takes great strength to stand in the faith of a Finished Work. To see and proclaim that it is finished takes great strengt while all the while the evils of disparity and hopelessness, and the wretchedness of the carnal mind, wreck havoc in "this world." But even though a thousand may fall victim to the lie at one hand, and ten-thousand at the other, it will not come near the Man who has his Being in Christ.

"The natural man does NOT receive the things of the Spirit of God...nor can he." Not His love; not His Grace; not His life; not His truth; not His light; nothing, not even His protection. The human being is rejected in his Adamic nature and cannot receive the benefits of God; for God is Spirit, and only the Spiritual Man can receive the things of God. This is why we are told to "seek first the kingdom of God" and all the things--that the natural man is seeking for in his self-abilities--will be added to us. We receive of God by grace, but we must be attuned to the Truth of God in order to receive His Good. We can only live in what we understand, and the Truth we understand--realized Truth--is what does the work for us. Truth goes before us to make the crooked places straight, in this way we live by grace. Out of absolute confidence and faith in the Finished Work can we live a life that is above the status quo of "this world".

"'They shall not enter My rest,' although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." -Heb. 4:3. The Adamic mind will not enter into the Rest of God...neither can he. No "man, whose breath is in his nostrils," can receive of the truth of being in Christ. Even the born again man who still lives out of the carnal mind of Adam cannot live in God's Rest. The works were finished from the foundation of the world, but man is a self-for-self being and as long as he is self-centered he will not enter God's Rest...although the work is finished.

"Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his work has been finished since the creation of the world." Hebrews 4:3, NIV. There is a finished work of creation that has been established from the foundation of the world, and only those who believe will enter into that Rest. The word foundation means to lay down or "to conceive...the injection or depositing of the virile semen in the womb", so we can see then that from the very conception of the world God's purpose was established, His work was finished. But, now, it is only by going back and seeing how it was finished that we can enter into His rest.

ABOLISHED DEATH

Jesus Christ, in His finished work of redemption, has abolished death and brought enlightenment of life and incorruption through the gospel: Through the message of the cross--the death, burial, and resurrection--Jesus Christ has brought to our understanding the abolishment of death, and a life of incorruptibility. "For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with our desserts, but in accordance with His own purpose and the free grace which He bestowed on us in Christ Jesus before the commencement of the Ages, but which has now been plainly revealed through the Appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus. He has put an end to death and has brought Life and Immortality (Incorruption -literal) to light through the Good News," 2 Timothy 1:9,10, Wey.

1). God has saved us. 2). He has called us with a Holy calling. 3). Not by our own works. 4). For His own purpose. 5). We were given this gift of grace before time began. 6). It is now known through the work of Jesus Christ. 7). Christ has vanquished death. 8). He brought enlightenment: (a) of Life, and (b) incorruption, (c) through the gospel.

1). To understand what it is to be saved you must look to the Greek word SOZO. Sozo means to be "safe," to be made whole; to be saved from suffering, from disease; to be healed, or restored to health. It is a word of restoration. To me, to be saved is to be restored to the Father in a right relationship that He has never given up on. A good picture of this would be the story of the prodigal son. The prodigal was saved when he made the decision to return to Father's house. The Father was always awaiting his return, and didn't hold any of his wrong doings against him. The whole time it was the prodigal's own consciousness that kept him away. Until that time he was lost in his own sin. He was reaping what he was sowing. Full salvation came when he was restored to Father's house and was given the ring and the robe, and his rightful position of a son. "Whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved": whoever calls upon the nature of the Christ and returns to Father's house will be restored to favor. By turning from our own way and course of life and believing on the Way of Christ Jesus we are restored to a right relationship to God our Father. We then begin the journey to Father's house where we are restored to our full Sonship in Him.

2). Now that we have seen that we who have believed have been saved, restored to a right relationship to God, we can see that He has called us with a Holy calling. "God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord." 1 Corinthians 1:9, KJV.

We who are saved have been called into "the fellowship of His Son". The Holy calling that has been bestowed upon us is the high "upward call of God in Christ Jesus." The "fellowship of His Son," and the "upward call of God," is none less than a call to grow up INTO HIM in all things. We are called to ascend into the fullness of the Christ. We are saved and called for a purpose, and that purpose is that He may bring many son's to glory through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. There is a call of Sonship, and that call is one that is being worked out in your life if you are following on to know the Lord. Sonship is a manifestation of the Son in the son's--the full and complete adoption into the God family. The expression of the Christ, the Son of the living God, is to be expressed, and manifested, in a redeemed people who have "let" the Lord have His way in their life. A people who have left the self-centered consciousness caused by the fall of Adam, and have ascended into the Christ-consciousness, which is Self-for-others. This is Sonship. "For ye have not received a spirit of servitude, leading back into fear, but ye have received a spirit of Sonship, whereby we are exclaiming----Abba! Oh Father!" Romans 8:15, Roth. "But, when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, who came to be of a woman, who came to be under law,-- That, them who were under law, he might redeem, that, the Sonship, we might duly receive;--" Galatians 4:4,5, Roth.

"Marking us out beforehand unto Sonship, through Jesus Christ, for himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," Ephesians 1:5, Roth.

The fellowship of His Son is those who fellowship in what is true of the Son, those who judge with "righteous judgment" what is true in you and in me. It is those who are willing to look through the lie of the Adamic sin-consciousness to the truth of individual being in Christ. What is true in the heavens must become true in the earth, but in order for this to happen, someone must be willing to see what is true in Spirit and declare it in the earth. Someone must take what is Christ and show it unto us through the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit of God. Speaking the truth in love we can expose the lie of carnal thinking and help others to see through this matrix to the Reality of Spirit. This will change the world. If only we can believe without doubting. If our eye be single our whole body will be full of light: If we can come to the singleness of Spiritual Truth, manifestation of that Truth will be expressed as body.

"Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified." Romans 8:30, NKJV. Called, justified, and glorified; three stages of growing up into Him in all things. You who have been called into the fellowship of His Son have also been justified and glorified. This is the True condition of the inChristed sons of God...can you believe? You can't make yourself believe any of these incredible truths of God. It takes revelation to see them, and realization to live in them. The revelation is here, and I believe the realization is beginning to dawn in consciousness; and I look forward to the demonstration of Truth, of Reality, in the lives of the Body of Christ as she is conformed into the image of His Son. This is Sonship, and this is a Holy calling. One thing we must remember: it is not about you, it is about Him.

3). Now that we've been saved, and have heard the call to Sonship, we learn that it is not by our own works it is a gift of Grace. "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God," Ephesians 2:8, NKJV. There is not anything you or I could do to deserve this wonderful call of God; the only thing we can do is to "believe in Him whom He sent" and that is all. The only thing God accepts from us is belief - faith in what He has done. It is His good pleasure to give us the kingdom, if we can receive it. "Nothing is impossible to him who believes." Do we believe? Can we receive?

We have grown up under the human belief that "nothing is free" or "it is to good to be true," or one of the many variations of that. I had a guy call me on the phone the other day and offer me a "free vacation" that I only had to pay 30 percent of. In the human world it may be true that nothing is free, but in the kingdom of God, all is free. That is what Grace is all about. God, through His Son Christ Jesus, paid all the price that would ever need to be paid. The benefits of the kingdom of God are now free to all who will receive of it. "Do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Luke 12:32, NKJV. Grace is one of those "unsearchable riches of Christ" that we have, and may take a lifetime of contemplation to comprehend. But we are saved "not by works, least any man should boast." Religion teaches that we must work to be saved, but in reality we do works because we are saved. We cannot work for God's favor, that is something that we must accept by grace, and grace alone. Working for your salvation causes self-righteousness and that is absolutely rejected by God. But the righteousness that is accepted by God comes from God to those who will believe in Him whom He sent. Grace is a free gift of God that can't be worked for, it only comes through faith in Christ.

Faith without works is dead, but faith by works is just as dead. You cannot work for God and earn your salvation or any other benefit. All of God's goodness is free to anyone who will receive of it through faith in Him. Do not think that you can appease God in any way...you can't...no man can. All that is of the Adamic race is rejected, and only that which is of Christ is received. This is why our own works (self-effort) is rejected by God like Cain's works were rejected. There is only one thing that God requires of us, and that is to offer to Him what He has given to us. The slain Lamb is the work that God accepts--the ministry of Jesus Christ.

4). Now that we have found out that we are saved; called with a Holy calling; not by our works; we can come to the understanding that it is all for His own purpose. I would like to take you through Ephesians 1:3-12, and show you all this in there, but I will only hit the highlights and let you search out the rest for yourself.

As one writer has said: "we must move from a self-centered understanding of the gospel, to a God-centered understanding." All this that is true of us in Christ is not for us...it is for Him. God didn't bless you for you, He blesses you for Himself. God is fulfilling Himself in and through you if we will "die daily" to personal selfhood and let Him complete the work that He has began in us.

In Ephesians 1:4 we see the phrase: "He chose us in Him," and He did this "before the foundation of the world." Now God didn't do this for your sake, but for His. Look at verse 5, "having predestined us.....TO HIMSELF.....of HIS WILL." "To the praise of the glory of HIS GRACE" -vs. 6. "IN HIM we have redemption through HIS blood.....riches of His Grace." -vs. 7.

If we can back away but for a moment and see from His viewpoint, we would see that all things were created for Him that He might express Himself throughout a vast infinite universe, a never-ending expression of Himself. Sure we receive of His goodness, but is not for us, it is all for Him. All things were made FOR HIM. He is Self-for-others, and in order for Him to be fulfilled He has to give Himself to others. For Him to be complete He gives Himself to others. His perfection is in expressing Himself in and through you that He might fill all in all.

"Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which HE PURPOSED IN HIMSELF," Eph. 1:9, NKJV. He purposed in HIMSELF that we would be "to the praise of HIS glory" in His Son Christ Jesus. What else can I say? It's not about me, it's about Him expressed as me. God's creation is for Him, but we are the benefactors in this relationship of ONEness that we have in Him.

If you planed to have a family you didn't have children for the children's sake. You had children for your sake. You don't say "I hope we have a boy," or "I hope we have a girl" for the child's sake. You say that for yourself. But our children benefit from this relationship. Each child is an individual expression of the parent. And you are an individual expression of God, through His Son Christ Jesus.

"We are HIS workmanship," we are the work of God. We are His family, we are His children, we are His sons and daughters; and He will dwell in us, and walk among us, and He will be our God, and we shall be His people. For we are His good pleasure and we are created for Him to be fulfilled. "In Christ we have been given an inheritance, since we were destined for this, by the One who WORKS OUT ALL HIS PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE DESIGN OF HIS OWN WILL." Ephesians 1:11, Phil. The work of creation is for God and he is working out His plan according to purpose. We just need to believe in and except this gift of Grace He has given us.

5). We now come to understand that we were given this gift of Grace before time began. Before anything was God established His eternal covenant of grace as the means whereby He would conceive the universe in righteousness. Everything that was created was created through an understanding of God's eternal purpose, and grace is the animating factor in all of God's endeavours.

Grace was established before creation and is not an afterthought, for grace is a part of God's character. Grace was not plan "B" in God's eternal purpose: Grace was set in motion before the conception of the Ages. God set forth and established this free gift of grace from the very foundation of time and space. You could say that God, the Master Builder, put up a deposit of Grace, before He began His work of creation, that would be the exact means by which all His plans would be carried out to the infinitesimal detail. God had fully considered what it would take to bring His plan to full manifestation, and He had everything in place to bring this about.

"But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you" 1 Peter 1:19,20, NKJV. Here we can see an absolute picture of the Grace of God that was established before the world was conceived. The Messiah was the sacrificial lamb that was chosen and foreordained before the foundation of the world. This was God's deposit of guarantee that what He has purposed He will complete. God's gift of grace was given before time began. "All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Revelation 13:8, NKJV.

From the very foundation the Lamb was slain and this is our surety of Grace that God will complete the work He began in us from the very beginning of time itself. "We speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began." 1 Corinthians 2:7, NIV. The wisdom of God, which is Christ, was established by Grace before any of the created works of God. "But we speak the mysterious wisdom of God, which has been till now concealed; which God declared before the time of the ages, should be spoken to our glory." 1 Corinthians 2:7, LO.

The unveiling of the Mystery, the eternal purpose of God, was manifest through the work of Jesus Christ, and is for our glory. We are to be to the praise of His glory, and it will be so, when we come to the full knowledge of the glory that has been given unto us through the Finished Work of Christ. The Mystery is=8Ait is finished! It has always been a mystery to humanity that the work is finished and we must rest in His work.

"Just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved." Ephesians 1:4-6, NKJV.

In God's free gift of Grace we are chosen in Him to the call of our Sonship according to His purpose, His will, and to the praise of the glory of His Grace. All of these Truths will take much contemplation and meditation for them to become a realization in our lives.

"Now we know that for those who love God all things are working together for good--for those, I mean, whom with deliberate purpose He has called. For those whom He has known beforehand He has also pre-destined to bear the likeness of His Son, that He might be the Eldest in a vast family of brothers; and those whom He has pre-destined He also has called; and those whom He has called He has also declared free from guilt; and those whom He has declared free from guilt He has also crowned with glory. What then shall we say to this? If God is on our side, who is there to appear against us? He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Romans 8:28-32, Wey.

What is there to separate us from the Grace of God that was freely given to us in the beginning of time? "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:38,39, NKJV. The love of God and the grace of God go hand in hand. Love is in His right hand and grace is in His left: And the Truth of who we are in His purpose is beginning to dawn in our understanding, and we know that when we see Him as He is in us we shall be like Him. This is what His Grace is all about.

6.) All of this is now known through the work of Christ Jesus. All that I declare to you, and all that I say, is only understood and known through the Finished Work of Jesus Christ. Many persons have studied and dug around in these deep things of God. And many of these persons have ended up with the wrong man on the throne. Without an understanding of the work being accomplished through Christ, and for God, they have ended up thinking that it is they who are a Son of God; that they are the Christ; that they are Gods. If there is one thing that I pray you will understand in what I am writing it is this: "I of my own self can do nothing." I am no God. Only God is God, and He is God within me.

Can you fathom that Jesus said that He could do nothing of His personal self. He knew that of his own personal self, His human self, could do NOTHING; He knew that it was the Father within Him that was doing the works. He did not even speak of His own: "My doctrine is not mine" He said. "If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true." If we bear witness of our personal selfhood, our witness is not true. There is nothing of the natural man that is going to be raised up to sit with Christ in the heavens. This is a major part of the problem that we have; we think it is us who is seated with Christ, and it is not us (personal self), it is the New Creation Man that we are in Him that is seated with Him.

The "us" has been done away with in the death of Christ. And the new creature, that we are, is raised with Him. This is why Jesus came. He came to give us life, and by dying He destroyed the very thing that was holding us in bondage from life--death. Then when He was raised He opened up a new way of Life that is available to us through faith. Paul was given the understanding of the death of the "old man" and the raising up of the New: "how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already," Eph. 3:3. Paul then wrote down his revelation for us to understand so that we would come into our own revelation of Christ; whereby we would see that we were crucified with Christ, and raised up into a newness of Life through this Finished Work of Christ.

All that is true of us is true by virtue of the work of Christ and what that means to us. It's not about us, it's about Him; and in the seeing of Him we see who it is that we were created to be in Christ. The work of Christ is a birthing of the New Creation from the old creation. From the natural man, "whose breath is in his nostrils," to the spiritual man who has his being in Christ.

"What you sow is not made alive unless it dies," and God has sown in us the Seed of His life; and through the death of His Son we find the death of our natural Adamic man, and then the Life of our spiritual creation is made available through His resurrection Life, but we must believe.

Through the work of Christ we must see the absolute nothingness of our personal selfhood that is apart from God, a branch that is withered and dies; and come into the Christ-consciousness of who we are in Christ in God. The Father is in Christ, Christ is in the Father, and we are one in Christ in the Father; and they are One in us. Only can this be true through the Finished Work of Christ.

7.) We now come to the thrust of the matter: He has abolished death. Christ Jesus has rendered inoperative the one having the dominion of death by passing through death. Christ has freed us from the Adversary of our soul, who has held his power of death over us, by destroying him in his own backyard. We who have been held in bondage our whole lifetime by the fear of death have been set free from death in the Christ of God. "Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He (Christ) Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Hebrews 2:14,15, NKJV.

Christ has abolished death and it is only our fear of death that keeps us in bondage to it. The word abolished means: "to render idle, unemployed, inactive, inoperative; to cause a person or thing to have no further efficiency; to deprive of force, influence, or power; to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish." This is a strong word, and one which will take some understanding to comprehend.

"Manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ; who has, indeed, vanquished death, and brought life and incorruptibility to light by the gospel:" 2 Tim. 1:10, LO. CHRIST JESUS HAS VANQUISHED DEATH. This is one of the most powerful statements I can think of: That death is now inactive, rendered idle, unemployed; deprived of force and power. Think of how awesome that is. For if this is true then what is it that we see going on every hour of every day in this world of sickness, sin, and death?

Paul tells us in his first letter to the Corinthians that "the last enemy to be destroyed is death." Then he tells us in his second letter to Timothy that Christ "has abolished (destroyed) death." Which is true? Both: Christ has destroyed him who had the power of death by passing through death, death no longer has dominion over Him. We are incorporated in this work of redemption, and the last enemy of death is destroyed as we ascend in our understanding of the absolute Truth of the gospel. You shall know the TRUTH and the TRUTH (you know) shall set you free from the old law of sin and death. As long as we believe the law of sin and death we shall be under it. But when we come out from among them and are separated unto God alone, and His law of the Spirit of Life in Christ, we shall be free indeed. When we know the Reality of Spirit as the reality of us, we shall be free from the bondage of the fear of death.

The death that Paul is speaking of here is not physical death but is a condition of death. It is this old law of death and corruption that we see in operation in our lives, and it eventually brings about physical death. Everything of Adam must die, it all must pass away. Not under any circumstances shall the old Adamic man live forever. "In Adam all die." All of Adam dies and must die, but in Christ ALL shall be made alive. Death is fully destroyed when Christ is fully put on. Whether it happens in this life or in the next, it will happen. The Truth of God's word will come to fruition.

It is possible in this life to experience less and less of the dominion of death. Christ has abolished death and paved the Way whereby we can live a life that is free from sin and death. As we become God-centered through our Christ-consciousness we will be lifted more and more into the Reality of Spirit and experience the Life of God in Christ.

The principle that must be remembered is: "But each one in his own order." The order is first: Death is abolished in Spirit. Second: Death is abolished in Soul. Thirdly: Death is abolished in Body. Spiritual death is the first to go, and we should know that this is an established fact in the finished work of Christ. When Christ Jesus was raised from the dead spiritual death was abolished forever as an absolute fact. Next we must eliminate death and its fear from our soul. With the renewing of our mind, and with the ascending of our consciousness into spiritual truth, we will restore our soul from the lie of the carnal mind into that mind that was in Christ Jesus. And there we will find our freedom from fear and the bondage of corruption that has enslaved the human race. From there we shall be changed, and our body will be fashioned after His glorious Body. We will put on our body that is eternal in the heavens, and then we will say, "O death, where is your sting? O hell, where is your victory?"

But beloved Brethren of God, do not put off to the future what is truly yours today. The future is a thief, as well as the past, we must live in the NOW of God. We must acknowledge everything that is in us in Christ, and forget those things that are behind. Don't put off till tomorrow what is yours today. Today is the day of salvation, today if we will hear His Voice in the midst of the garden that we are. Today is our salvation nearer that the day when we first believed. Look up into the Spirit, for you redemption draws near to you from there. Look within to the kingdom of God and see the glory of the Lord transforming your thoughts, and lifting you higher into the Reality of the Spirit. Walk in the reality of Spirit and you will not fulfill the lie of carnal thinking. Set your mind on the things that are true of you in Christ in God. Acknowledge Him in, and as, all your ways and see the fruit of Spirit come to fullness. Abide in His WORD and let His WORD abide in you, and you will see the salvation of the Lord in your life. May the God of peace set you apart for His eternal purpose, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be brought to completion in Him. -So be it.

8.) The reason for the finished work of Christ is to bring enlightenment of life, and incorruption, through the gospel. Through the good news of Christ and His work of redemption we should be receiving light on Life and incorruption. We can have a life of incorruption through an understanding of the gospel of Christ. "I am telling you the truth as a Christian man--it is no falsehood, for my conscience enlightened, as it is, by the Holy Spirit adds its testimony to mine--" Romans 9:1, Wey.

"I came that you might have life" is the teaching of the Master. "In Him was life, and the life was the light of men." He is the true light that lights every man coming into the world. But man must believe for it to be appropriated in their life. Mankind must receive the True Light, the Life that only comes from Christ. This Christ is the Way and the Truth and the Life to all mankind. But all mankind have not yet received this truth. To them who do believe He gives them the right to become sons of God, birthed by faith alone in what God had done through His Son Jesus Christ. Will you believe? Will You?

"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption." 1 Corinthians 15:50, NKJV. Our incorruption is not on our human terms. As natural men of the earth we are in our corruption, but as we put on our spiritual identity we will find ourselves clothed with incorruption -- and we will be changed.

"For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." 1 Timothy 4:8, NKJV. God awareness, God centeredness, Christ-consciousness, has a promise of the present life that we are now living, as well as that which we will enter into in the Ages to come. But let us concern ourselves with that which is right here, right now, and move on into a greater understanding of who we are; of who God has made us to be, and all that we can be, through the Finished Work of Christ.

"He has saved us from all that is evil, He has called us with a Holy calling; Not because of any of our achievements, works, or anything that we of our own selves have done, but for His own eternal purpose He has done this. Before time, or the Ages began, He planned to give us in Christ Jesus the grace to achieve this purpose. But it is only since the revelation of Christ Jesus that the method has become apparent. Christ has rendered inoperative (deprived of force) Death, and has now, through the death and resurrection of Jesus, opened to us all the illumination and the shinning of light on the possibilities of a life that is free of corruption. God has given us life and incorruption through the good news of Christ Jesus."

The message of Christ must become more than just something that we learn, it must become who we are. "Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."" Mark 9:23, NKJV. Can you believe?

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