We can produce malnutrition in the name of God or we can feed the people Living Bread. Living Bread comes from heaven. Junk food comes from the earth, the flesh and the letter. Christ is either our life or something else suffices as our substitute for the living Spirit of God.
In this hour Jesus is calling us to leave all and follow Him. Leaving all means leaving all that is a substitute for Him and all that is not Him for a life that is unconditionally Jesus and nothing else. This call is a call to re-birth that exceeds all others. Jesus asks us to find our identity, purpose and mission in Him and in Him alone. Since we are the Bride of Christ, all else is adultery. This is a blessing since attachment to smaller things leaves us smaller people.
If you have said to Jesus, ‘I’ll follow you no matter what’ the freedom and authority you will develop is infinite.’ But if you give a conditional allegiance and try to bargain with Jesus saying, “I’ll follow you so long as I can retain my religious identity and distinctive doctrines and continue to seek the approval of those who make me secure and comfortable” If this is your walk, don’t expect to reign as a king or a priest in the Kingdom of God. True we may make a start in the gifts or we may develop a ministry in some niche we did not have before. But compared to an immersion in Jesus and a genuine baptism and rebirth, our growth will be small, our spirit will be dulled and our ability to sense the Kingdom and feel God will benumbed. If we are leaders we will be a blind leaders of the blind. But we will not know it.
‘Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me’ John 12.26 NIV.
Some are controlled by a political spirit. The political person is tied to what man thinks. No matter what such a one affirms, he or she is less concerned about offending Jesus that about offending people. Such a one is a people pleaser. As a result they are bound by the spirit of religion. Their discernment is unreliable and their spiritual authority is small. Since such a one remains bound as a leader they binds others in the un-life and un-power of religion, exercising influence over a community of the bound. But Jesus is here to set such people free.
‘A life in Jesus is not life in the religion of Jesus. It is a life in the Spirit of Sonship.’
Jesus is all and in all. You can’t have two masters or three or four. You have no right to have ‘a perspective’ that is contrary to the New Covenant or a view point that is simply a plank in the knowledge of good an evil. As a minister of God you have no right to limit the fullness of Christ for the sake of ‘our theology.’ If you are Christ’s it is all or nothing. You either live totally in Him or you don’t. You are either a son or a slave and you are either preaching malnutrition or infinite life.
‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world’ John 6.51 NIV.
The Bread of Heaven is Christ as you by the Spirit of Sonship. In this season the sons of God live as the sons of God – not as sons of denominations, ministries or perspectives. Sadly there are sincere believers who believe it is godly to live diminished. Look to your self through Christ and not through the religion that blinds you. You represent either authority or captivity, knowing God or knowing the knowledge of good and evil. We can live in the Light and see light. Or we can talk of going from glory to glory while blindly leading the blind and celebrating our malnutrition.
‘I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him’ 2 Cor 11.12 NIV.
