Last week Friday, God blessed me so much in Colosians 1. I just realised that this is my heart in ministry. I know that God has called me for the ministry, to minister the Spirit of Christ to all people, to everyone who receives me. This scripture just cemented it in my heart. There is a specific purpose God has with the preaching of the Word. It is to make the Word of God fully known to all people. The Word then in turn has the power to save our souls if it finds entrance into our hearts, and is rooted and implanted in our hearts (James1:21 So get rid of all uncleanness and the rampant outgrowth of wickedness, and in a humble (gentle, modest) spirit receive and welcome the Word which implanted and rooted [in your hearts] contains the power to save your souls.)
The Word then works perfection in us. So what am I called for? To make the Word of God known to all men, so that I can present them mature, and perfect in Christ. What a vision. What a task. How is such a great vision possible? Only by grace. Only by His superhuman energy which He so powerfully works in us. I will preach this Gospel untill the very last person on earth looks like, walks like, and talks like Christ. Only His Word and His Spirit has the ability to accomplish this.
So here comes the scripture:
Col 1:25-29
In it I became a minister in accordance with the divine stewardship which was entrusted to me for you [as its object and for your benefit], to make the Word of God fully known [among you]-The mystery of which was hidden for ages and generations [from angels and men], but is now revealed to His holy people (the saints), To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory. Him we preach and proclaim, warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom (comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God), that we may present every person mature (full-grown, fully initiated, complete, and perfect) in Christ (the Anointed One). For this I labor [unto weariness], striving with all the superhuman energy which He so mightily enkindles and works within me.
About 5 years ago I had a vision. In this vision I was in darkness, holding something like a dark veil over my head. I felt someone pull on the veil like object over my head, and it was pulled off me. I saw light and as I looked up into the light, I was elevated from my dark surroundings to look from above. I saw a landscape of veils draped over the heads of people. I went down, and pulled a veil from someone else's head, and the person saw the light and was elevated. I started to fly over this landscape, pulling as many veils off people's heads as possible. Some people persisted and rejected the light, saying NO! Leave me under the veil! Others welcomed the light, and joined me in flying over this landscape of veiled people, removing the veils with me. Then God gave me 2 Cor 3:15-18:
3:15 Yes, down to this [very] day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies upon their minds and hearts.
3:16 But whenever a person turns [in repentance] to the Lord, the veil is stripped off and taken away.
3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (emancipation from bondage, freedom).
3:18 And all of us, as with unveiled face, [because we] continued to behold [in the Word of God] as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; [for this comes] from the Lord [Who is] the Spirit.
This means that every sinner will receive God's uncoditional forgiveness, every sick person will be healed, every poor person will be amply supplied for, every distressed person will receive peace! This is a Kingdom Vision. It is not only for one man. Join me in reaching every person on the planet, making the Word of God fully known to them, so that they can be presented perfect in Christ!
If you want to learn more, visit http://www.christlife.co.za/, or e-mail me at contact@christlife.co.za, or come and join us in our the services, at the Alkantrand Community Library Hall, c/o Lynnwood & Daventry, Lynnrodene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. Sundays @ 17:00 (5pm) and Wednesdays @ 19:00 (7pm). There is a detailed map on the website.
Bless you!
G
2 comments:
I am beyond eager to experience more and more of what you speak of. The part of the verse that talks of us transforming over and over, more and more into His likeness, is SPECTACULAR!! Thank you for reminding me.
Many things drag on our thoughts; the things with which we keep ourselves busy; the things with which we entertain ourselves; our internal dialogue like a thousand voices debating and deciding and judging and feeling all the time; our fears, guilt, helplessness.
The thought that God can look at the sticky, stumbling, uncertain mess that is me, and yet declare it righteous through the work of Christ!!! And if He says so, then it's True. What I desire with my whole heart is to hear the message as you preach it until I do in reality 'look like, walk like and talk like Christ'.
Please don't stop.
Thank you JHKuhne for your comment. Love is the greatest paradox. God is love, and therefore He loves us! His desire was to bring us to perfection, and He was the great instigator of salvation. Religion teaches us to change ourselves. Christianity reveals to us who we already are in Christ, because of His finished work on the cross of Calvary. When we believe who He says we are, we are transformed into that image, which is the very image of the perfection of Christ Himself.
The only reason people would fear judgement from God, is because they are not informed of how good He is. Having faith is being convinced of His goodness toward us! The Law (of Moses, and any other law) can never change our way of thinking, which is the centre of repentance. Only the goodness of God van lead people to repentance, not fear of judgement.
He justified us in the beginning of our walk with Him, and that removes the need for us to try to be better (against all odds) to try and win His favour. We already have His love, because of who He is. In this is love, not that we loved Him, but that He loved us.
Only fellowship with His goodness and love can make us experience the bliss of Him, and that experience is not a human experience, but a godly experience. It can not be produced by trying, but only by Him experiencially revealing Himself to us. This happens by faith, by believing that He is good and only good, and that we are who He says we are!
Bless you. I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ will reveal His love and grace toward you and deeply touch your being adn give you peace. I pray that all the contradicting voices will be silent, and that you will only hear the voice of Him Who loves you beyond human understanding. I pray that you will experience the bliss of being justified, and made holy by His grace!
Love
Gerrit
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