In Christ Revolution
The tremendous change which began on the Day of Pentecost from the existence of a gospel centered around Moses’ Law to the Christ-life was revolutionary, 1John 5:12 "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
The age long covenant of works was not readily set aside for these new teachings of Christ in us. But sadder yet is the fact that to this day there still exists an admixture and commingling of law and grace which has definitely hidden the Christ-life from multitudes of believers. It is not to be said here that anyone who has believed on the Lord Jesus Christ is not saved or is not a genuine Christian, for this is never the intent in preaching Christ in His fullness, Acts 16:31.
What is to be said here, and said dogmatically, is that multitudes of genuinely born-again believers have never come to the full understanding of Christ because of the admixture of law with grace.
Law and grace cannot and will not exist together, and when any believer attempts, as did Israel of old, to do something to please God, he has nullified the simplicity of needing only to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.
This nullification of the effects of salvation is generally seen in the modern Church, today, in the constant infusion of programs to keep believers busy doing, with the constant emphasis on “if you give, you will be blessed,” or “if you come, you will be blessed,” inferring that they can become better Christians by this.
Such is a nullification of the born-again principle that a Father has birthed in us His nature and that we form from that nature and not by anything we do in our flesh. To continue this admixture of the teaching of doing something to “get” faith, or the teaching of doing anything to be acceptable to God is a circumvention of the whole revelation God has for Christianity.
The tremendous change which began on the Day of Pentecost from the existence of a gospel centered around Moses’ Law to the Christ-life was revolutionary, 1John 5:12 "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
The age long covenant of works was not readily set aside for these new teachings of Christ in us. But sadder yet is the fact that to this day there still exists an admixture and commingling of law and grace which has definitely hidden the Christ-life from multitudes of believers. It is not to be said here that anyone who has believed on the Lord Jesus Christ is not saved or is not a genuine Christian, for this is never the intent in preaching Christ in His fullness, Acts 16:31.
What is to be said here, and said dogmatically, is that multitudes of genuinely born-again believers have never come to the full understanding of Christ because of the admixture of law with grace.
Law and grace cannot and will not exist together, and when any believer attempts, as did Israel of old, to do something to please God, he has nullified the simplicity of needing only to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved.
This nullification of the effects of salvation is generally seen in the modern Church, today, in the constant infusion of programs to keep believers busy doing, with the constant emphasis on “if you give, you will be blessed,” or “if you come, you will be blessed,” inferring that they can become better Christians by this.
Such is a nullification of the born-again principle that a Father has birthed in us His nature and that we form from that nature and not by anything we do in our flesh. To continue this admixture of the teaching of doing something to “get” faith, or the teaching of doing anything to be acceptable to God is a circumvention of the whole revelation God has for Christianity.
