Saturday, July 30, 2022

 fix All relationships are healthy in light of the spiritual value of the relationship. Full acceptance is not earned but provided by God. The experience of sin is an experience of rejection in some form. Rejection is not two dimensional but it is what we define as an experience of the pain of two realities. One is anger and the other is personality deficiencies from two personalities that clash. I mean sinful anger out of the desire to repay for injuries. God regenerates us so that He provides us with full acceptance. When God accepts us He adopts us into His family. God becomes our Father so that we are given the ability to have provision for all that we lack as a result of living in a sinful world. God loves us beyond our earthly relationships. This means that God provides for us in light of advancing His newness through many conversions of our minds and hearts. By conversions i mean a transformation through the renewing of the mind but we receive this as an assurance that we are His. This is what we call the ongoing experience of salvation. Or our being saved in a daily experience. Our position is that we are fully accepted... the Father has reconciled us as members of His family and He no longer responds to us in anger. By anger i mean that our relationship is fundamentally sound in our understanding of His sovereign grace. We are not regenerated and then put in a position of being in between pride and humility. Please people ... be careful what you listen to. Because the christian life is a life of listening and seeing as the experience of our assurance. It is not life of daily warnings as if we always have the potential of apostatizing. Youve got to understand that christian truth is not just a statement of beliefs in an orthodox way. But its the application that is more important than the intellectual assent. God says something and it defines what we believe. God does not say something that He does not accomplish in our lives. The other side will give you this proposition. They will simplify every thing to a kind of self generating world of human determinism. They will define growth as a process in which you are told what to do and you must accept it as Gods method of changing you. This is so wrong. There is no man who can stand as the arbitrator of a person.This is why the bible gives the message as a single voice on a very narrow path way because it does not share the authority with any man on this earth. It focuses on the authority as the example of what pride looks like in how men exercise that authority. This is why we must learn to understand the message and apply it so that we will know when someone is taking the authority upon themselves. The bible offers a message that is antithetical to the way authority structures work in this world.

The message of salvation comes to us in its application through encouragement and not through conflict. The conflict is caused by sin which in turn is the experience of rejection. Man does not have the authority to offer reconciliation outside of the gospel. This is why we are both unmoved from our position in Christ and in danger of daily rejection from other sources. Having a high level of confidence in this process of encouragement is not rebellion or sin. Avoiding conflict is not sin! The bible is a book that offers transformation through rest. It gives a man more than a success in his daily endeavors. It gives a man a place to go that avoids the conflict of this world. It provides this place not only to silence the conflict in a man but it is a place where we learn to create by our design to apply these truths in a supernatural way. All men have a way to be successful. All men want to be reconciled in some ways. But no man is able to erase the rejection that is the basis of conflict! Listen to me... if someone promises you they can give you complete freedom from experiencing rejection as the offer of reconciliation they are lying. We are promised in reconciliation that we are guaranteed a place that no man can share in which we can leave great rejections to Him and have peace spoken to us in this form of encouragement. Jesus Himself will redeem us from all of our sins. There is a place of transparency in the most private experience that no man can offer to answer our deepest needs.      

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