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jesus in sight

Every person aligns with an authority of some kind, which has an associate power. I believe it is reasonable to say that no one is exempt from this. So, who do we bow down to? If this is truthful, by Christian definition under Christ’s sovereignty we gain freedom. If we usurp an authority there are questions as to what that means. Regardless, who or what we yield to is in effect bowing to some form of power that entails its own demands and bonds even if we do not like to think that.

The question is our awareness of authority and ownership as all authority is ownership. This means agreement or rebellion between one authority or another as we are not privileged or with our own power to be in a non-neutral position within this dynamic.

This determines if we are able to effectively live out our lives, and further, if we may consider to love God’s goodness and justice with our own free will, God provisioning the freedom through Christ to do so. We say God is a good God, so there is nothing corrupt about this. Or alternatively, the strength and determination of another position. These are not the usual matters we hear preached from our pulpits, but they indeed have been at diverse times and places.

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What new concepts and ideas will spark our imagination and later be our experience? Through God, these discoveries are in sight. Can we imagine, for example, faith as broad and wide as the universe? Why did we limit it?

If you will consider the implication, nothing in all creation excludes or disqualifies you and your right from acceptance of God’s faultless, free invitation to be confessed as known before all the Angels in the Kingdom of God? No sin, no shame, no guilt has any singular power to nullify and overcome the work of Christ, God’s Son, who in the Divine Trinity or Oneness with God was obedient in his commission to remove all enemies under his feet, even death itself through resurrection.

These may be statements you have not heard before or chosen to look at carefully. If two magnets are brought into space with each other, north to north, they repel. There is nothing we can do about this fact. But if you choose to consider, to be South to North, you give yourself opportunity to see what the Gospel of Salvation is actually about – as many have discovered by the testimony of their own faith and experience.

It is our hope this website will provide some insight into Jesus and His relationship to individuals, His Church, and the nations.

Our views on life itself are often defensive or automatic. Sometimes what we say is not in conflict with another person, just from a different viewing angle. If we are hostile, are we aware that is how we are behaving? There is no opportunity in our minds to consider what as such is really being said. The condition of our brain shuts off and moves or generates things significantly out of context. We impose existing imagery on top of what people say.

For instance, how often have we seen decisions based on sudden, strong emotional reactions that do not serve us well? This does not suggest a failing ideology on being perfect. We want to survive. If our responses become patterns, what other patterns have we built? Are we willing to look at this? Stress and differences of opinion cause real responses. We choose to continue “as-is” through our life, or develop a degree of awareness about who we are and where we may have good confidence and better outcomes. We are all coming from diverse backgrounds.

We state that people are born beautiful and loved by God, that every person is unique and highly valued with a created, enormous capacity for spiritual “being”. We owe it to ourselves to deal with the dross that has been handed over to us that we may find the true sense of connection to this love again. Why would we want any form of substitution? If you do not like it or want it you will certainly say so, but the question is why. We try to address some of these harder issues here. If you personally are searching for Truth, walking along the shoreline of that seascape, I encourage you, even as part of your obligation, to see who Jesus Christ is. Faith is bigger than ourselves.

god consiousness jesusinsight

10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; [NRSV Proverbs 11:10]

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. [NRSV Romans 15:13]

9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. [KJV Philippians 2:9-11]

god’s righteousness jesusinsight

The only thing that brings us into God’s holiness is the Cross of Christ – his death in his body which was without sin, for us. The other side of this is what is vile by comparison, under condemnation and future judgement. People say they are not vile, they are good. This is not the definition, but what is on one side of the Cross as God’s holiness, and on the other side its absence. What else can there logically be but the “vile” if fully contrasted to this holiness.

Who is willing to say that they really want to be holy? (Most would say they want to be good, not holy.) This is a different context to what we usually refer to as being good. It takes a little time to see the meaning here. This is not meant to be offensive as all mankind are under the same condition until the application of the Cross, which was demonstrated in power over death for us by Christ’s resurrection. This has been God’s plan.

god’s holiness jesusinsight

Concerning salvation – “What cannot be found by moral perfection cannot be lost by moral imperfection.” Dr Michael Heiser

Today, people focus on what they say is moral, pure, immoral or sin. While these things are important, they are not the basis of salvation. Salvation is faith in Jesus Christ, Gods Son, and his dying for our sins, which then opens life to those who believe. Subsequent to this is often found misunderstanding of the Gospel. I.e., man’s views on what people must subsequently do, rather than God’s terms, His Holiness, and how God teaches his own children – not how you teach and tell them. Where is the respect for those whom God loves. Show me where it is displayed with true thought, genuineness, and life. Much of this website questions where thoughts and actions lead to dead ends and harm, where spiritual development is substituted by other means. God is the one who waters, God respects his own work, freedom of the believer is in experiencing the benefits of God’s choices made available. God then moves us on from our sins, the process being what is important, as that is what “time” is given to us for (in part). Man can offer none of this, but constantly he refuses to let go of this system he has determined to demand, losing much as a result. Love in the name of love is not love without Spirit and Truth. Truth is not an ideal or self-determined teaching. Who is a man to say another does not have the Holy Spirit when they in fact do. This is the problem we face today. We have forgotten the central focus on Christ’s love, and that God is God.