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The irony of the Christian life is in continuing to pay for that which is already ours. When each crises is covered up by other crises w/o dealing with the one previous, then deep dodo is the experience instead of clarity.
Christ went thru His own set of crises in His earthly journey, each formulated by God to create the first Christian experience. From each Christ learned obedience.
Previously the Israelites were experiencing an undermining of their religious fabric. The decay of the branch/tree was in imminent doom and the axe was posed. The Pharisees were ritualistic, having a form w/o power, but the offspring of vipers’s Tradition only evaporated their religion. The Saducees denial of the spiritual rationalizing was sapping any life essence the people possessed by denying power in their own form of contempt. The characteristic sin of the people was being satisfied by their pedigree of relation to God thru Abraham. Christ countered that by making the rocks of human hearts to sing and from that crises came the understanding that there is no contradiction in the essential greatness of God nor the faith placed therein obedience to the Divine Will. Obedience to the Divine Will was Christ’s mark in trade. By the insertion of their own will the Israelites had enthroned their own will and had dethroned God from their hearts.
Christ’s birth, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension resulted in the answer of redemption for the forerunner of the new creation. Redemption carried with it for those who followed a) restoration to God, b) knowing God thru Christ c) being like God thru Christ.
Confidence in God thru Christ paints a beautiful picture of each one of His Children being a letter from Christ to the Father. We are described as epistles of Christ whose function is to translate the truth of the glorious gospel of Christ into words and deeds to those with whom we come in contact.
This is a long intro into what a book by G. Campbell Morgan ~ the Crises of the Christ~ defines as seven crucial moments in the life of Christ - seven turning points of history. In this thread we will attempt to follow along the road of the life of Christ.
Christ went thru His own set of crises in His earthly journey, each formulated by God to create the first Christian experience. From each Christ learned obedience.
Previously the Israelites were experiencing an undermining of their religious fabric. The decay of the branch/tree was in imminent doom and the axe was posed. The Pharisees were ritualistic, having a form w/o power, but the offspring of vipers’s Tradition only evaporated their religion. The Saducees denial of the spiritual rationalizing was sapping any life essence the people possessed by denying power in their own form of contempt. The characteristic sin of the people was being satisfied by their pedigree of relation to God thru Abraham. Christ countered that by making the rocks of human hearts to sing and from that crises came the understanding that there is no contradiction in the essential greatness of God nor the faith placed therein obedience to the Divine Will. Obedience to the Divine Will was Christ’s mark in trade. By the insertion of their own will the Israelites had enthroned their own will and had dethroned God from their hearts.
Christ’s birth, baptism, temptation, transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension resulted in the answer of redemption for the forerunner of the new creation. Redemption carried with it for those who followed a) restoration to God, b) knowing God thru Christ c) being like God thru Christ.
Confidence in God thru Christ paints a beautiful picture of each one of His Children being a letter from Christ to the Father. We are described as epistles of Christ whose function is to translate the truth of the glorious gospel of Christ into words and deeds to those with whom we come in contact.
This is a long intro into what a book by G. Campbell Morgan ~ the Crises of the Christ~ defines as seven crucial moments in the life of Christ - seven turning points of history. In this thread we will attempt to follow along the road of the life of Christ.