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FOUNDATIONS OF TRUTH continues.

Last week, we began laying foundations.

This week, we continue a sincere exploration into the Everlasting Gospel, revisiting foundations, re-digging ancient wells, and re-examining Scripture in the Light of Truth.

“For if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
— Psalm 11:3

We are exploring Truth beyond inherited systems, assumptions, and limited perspectives.

We recognize that Jesus came to reveal and establish the living Kingdom of God within and among humanity the Gospel.

That Gospel is greater than any label, tradition, or philosophy.
It is the revelation of Life.
The awakening of man.
The unveiling of Truth.
The restoration of divine consciousness and spiritual order through Christ.

So we are returning again:
to foundations,
to Scripture,
to the apostolic witness,
to the Kingdom,
and to the Reality that Christ came to reveal.

Our desire is that seekers and believers become rooted in Truth, spiritually awakened, and no longer tossed about by every wind of doctrine.

This is not merely intellectual pursuit or outward form.

It is a sincere exploration of Truth.

Every Sunday
3PM (WAT)
Via Zoom

Join the community:
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Experiencing God
(TRUTH ENCOUNTER NETWORK)

FOUNDATIONS OF TRUTH continues.

Last week, we began laying foundations.

This week, we continue a sincere exploration into the Everlasting Gospel, revisiting foundations, re-digging ancient wells, and re-examining Scripture in the Light of Truth.

“For if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”
— Psalm 11:3

We are exploring Truth beyond inherited systems, assumptions, and limited perspectives.

We recognize that Jesus came to reveal and establish the living Kingdom of God within and among humanity the Gospel.

That Gospel is greater than any label, tradition, or philosophy.
It is the revelation of Life.
The awakening of man.
The unveiling of Truth.
The restoration of divine consciousness and spiritual order through Christ.

So we are returning again:
to foundations,
to Scripture,
to the apostolic witness,
to the Kingdom,
and to the Reality that Christ came to reveal.

Our desire is that seekers and believers become rooted in Truth, spiritually awakened, and no longer tossed about by every wind of doctrine.

This is not merely intellectual pursuit or outward form.

It is a sincere exploration of Truth.

Every Sunday
3PM (WAT)
Via Zoom

Join the community for the link:
t.me/EGMCommunity

Experiencing God
(TRUTH ENCOUNTER NETWORK)

CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW (PART 2)

Thirdly, the law was enacted by God to train us in a 'military' way in obedience of faith till Christ was revealed. Then the immanent Holy Spirit became our lecturer and coach, not a military trainer!

Galatians 3:23
“But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed.”

See how the law kept us under guard for faith in Christ!

This simply means that obedience to the law in Old Testament is actually a form of faith in God in the new.

While the old brings people into obedience to God based on fear of God’s wrath by the written codes, the new brings men into faith based on the revelation of the Fatherhood of God and the grace of Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

Those who have been born in this new and living way and who have gained the knowledge of Christ have transcended the law to walk solely by faith in God.

This law is not according to ordinances and statutes of the flesh but according to the administration of the Holy Spirit and the anointing within us.

This spiritual law of Christ has three dimensions:

1. Law of the Spirit.
2. Law of Faith.
3. Law of Righteousness.

These aspects of the law of Christ are operated only by the Word, the Blood and the Spirit.

1 John 5:8
“And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water (Word), and the blood; and these three agree as one.”

This Law of Christ is all that Jesus came preaching and teaching everywhere about. He called it the gospel and mystery of the Kingdom.

He said this kingdom is near or available to all who believe.

He also said that the mystery lies in the parables He taught, with the parable of the Seed and Sower being the chiefest.

Then lastly, He said that it is only the ministry of the Holy Office that can teach this new law to those born again.

Paul the apostle of revelations came and added new dimensions to this gospel when he said in Colossians 1:26-27:

“…the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

Here Paul reveals that the mystery of the kingdom which Jesus parabolically introduced is actually a high concept known as:

Christ in Man, The Hope of Glory!

To this the ministers of the Gospel must of necessity give energy and diligence to preach and teach, nothing else, not laws of Moses and the prophets.

We are not even called to preach and teach the Bible, only Christ, Him crucified and glorified!

Put in another way, the purpose of Scriptures is to reveal Christ to man so that man can realize Christ.

Colossians 1:28-29
“Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.”

This Christ is the little stone in Daniel chapter 2 which Nebuchadnezzar dreamt that crushed the giant statue he saw in his dream (read to the end of the chapter).

This Christ will bring to an end all the kingdoms and structures of this carnal life and will eventually rule in and around mankind for all eternity, alleluia!

This is the kingdom of God, CHRIST!

Romans 10:4
“For Christ is the end of the Law [the limit at which it ceases to be, for the Law leads up to Him Who is the fulfillment of its types, and in Him the purpose which it was designed to accomplish is fulfilled. That is, the purpose of the Law is fulfilled in Him] as the means of righteousness (right relationship to God) for everyone who trusts in and adheres to and relies on Him!”

Come, let us adore Him by beholding Him in true worship, gazing at Him with rapt attention, then we shall not all die but shall be changed into His image from glory to glory. Amen.

First published in The Fellowship of Disciples in August 31, 2017

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There comes a time when the soul begins to hunger for more than religion, noise, and outward activity.

A longing awakens for Truth, for Light, and for the Reality of God.

Experiencing God Meeting is a gathering for those seeking to explore the Everlasting Gospel of the Kingdom of God and the deeper life revealed in Christ.

A place of learning, spiritual formation and exploration of union life.

We are exploring the Everlasting Gospel.
Restoring the ancient pathways.
Reopening the hidden wells of spiritual truths.

This gathering begins Sunday the 17th.

Weekly virtual gathering via Zoom.
Every Sunday — 3:00PM (WAT)

The meeting link will be made available in the community:

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"Strive to enter the kingdom" is a spiritual instruction.

THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Science advances one funeral at a time.”
~ Max Planck

The above statement is also true of a rediscovered spiritual truth. For years the Roman church fought against the restored truth of “the Just shall live by faith alone”. Eventually the opponents of this truth died off.

Later the traditional church fought the phenomenon of “Baptism in the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues”, now the majority of the opponents have all died off and this phenomenon is now accepted and believed even in many traditional or conservative churches.

There are lot of kingdom truths that the Holy Spirit has restored that were initially fought against but gradually all the opponents died off or are dying off.

This year marks the 500th year since Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses, disproving salvation by dead works, on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517-2017)!

Ezekiel 42:15-20
Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect [is] toward the the east, and measured it round about. He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred (500) reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He measured the north side, five hundred reeds (500), with the measuring reed round about. He measured the south side, five hundred reeds (500), with the measuring reed. He turned about to the west side, [and] measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred (500) [reeds] long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

500 biblically speaks of that which is whole and which reveals what is HOLY from what is PROFANE.

We might be witnessing a gradual re-introduction of transforming TRUTHS that bring spiritual wholesomeness into the CHURCH, thus exposing Babylonian doctrines long held and cherished.

The fact is, Jesus is coming for a glorious Church having neither spots (wrong beliefs and mechanics, patterns or ways of doing things) nor wrinkles (carnality, idols and pollutions).

Ephesians 5:27
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

SO WHAT DO WE DO?

2 Peter 3:11
[Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness,

2 Peter 3:13-14
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

We are start walking in:

• Holy conversation
• Godliness

We are to start focusing our minds and hearts on:

• New heaven
• New earth
• Where righteousness abide

And transcend the bo***ge of materialism and ego.

We are to diligently exercise our spirits to be located inside Christ, in:

• Peace
• Spotlessness
• Blamelessness

By our strength we can't do this because the carnal man is egoistic, idolatrous and slavish to his SELF, BELIEFS, TRADITIONS, and ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES.

Only by these three divine activities that we can bear witness of GRACE and TRUTH:

1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

1. THE SPIRIT
Fellowshipping with Spirit in spiritual prayers and worship in order to be joint to the Lord.

2. THE WATER OR WORD
Abiding in the Word through scriptural assimilation, meditation and contemplation in order to awaken Christ within us and thus bear eternal fruits.

3. THE BLOOD
Conscious application of the blood (which is the consciousness of pure innocence as Eternal Life), to purge our conscience from DEAD WORKS in order to serve the Living God.

First published in The Fellowship of Disciples in November 2017