Grace N Truth

 Many years ago Father opened my hEARt to the phase ‘IN Christ.’  When anyone wrote me asking how we are doing I always replied back “we are doing great IN Christ.”  I saw the IN Christ, but I saw as a maturing child.  Today by His grace and Truth I see that I am ‘blessed IN Christ’ I am ‘created IN Christ’ and I am ‘chosen IN Christ’ Why? Cause the phrase "IN CHRIST" is the key to the whole purpose and plan of God in this age and in the ages to come. "If any man be IN Christ he is a NEW CREATION." "In Adam all DIE, but IN Christ shall ALL BE MADE ALIVE.  Now we notice that it is not BECAUSE of Christ or THROUGH CHRIST, but IN Christ. For the one IN Christ is as He is and the one in Adam is as he is. Two different ideas concerning ones ORIGIN and IDENTITY. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Ga

Truth About Reconciliation by Des Walter Paul tells us that all things are of God who hath reconciled all things to himself by Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, that God was in Christ reconciling THE WORLD TO HIMSELF not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed unto us the WORD OF RECONCILIATION. The word “reconciliation” means an adjustment, or to bring together two things which differ one from the other so that they can now agree and be as one. Atonement carries much the same thought. In book keeping our ledger must agree with the total income being equal to the sum of the profit and the total expenses for the year. If for some reason these two figures do not agree then reconciliation must be made, by adding a figure from one side of the ledger to the other to bring about a balance. Thus God has balanced the books on our account because we have put ourselves into debt to him through sin. The process of reconciliation is expressed in a

THE NEW COVENANT The religious systems of the world have made SIN the center of their theology, and then formed a humanistic solution for dealing with the problem. John records for us the truth saying, “For God sent not his son into the world to CONDEMN the world, but that the world through him might be saved." Jn 3:17. The sending of the “WORD” into the world to be made flesh had nothing to do with condemnation but to giving life to all mankind. The word “saved” used by John is the Greek word Sozo and means, to save, to deliver from both disease and also death, and to make whole. So from God’s point of view, sin certainly was not the major issue. Jesus spoke of condemnation saying, “This is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.” Ver.19. It seems man is drawn to darkness when it is light we should be attracted to. But our reconciliation is in Jesus Christ, so God is saying to us that he has sent

Remember we are seeking to discover who it was that died on the cross. Paul tells us in 1 Cor 15:45 that, “The First man Adam was made a living soul, but the Last Adam was a life-giving spirit. Both men are called ADAM, but the LAST ADAM had the power to give life. But Paul says of this “Last Adam” that God made him to be “Sin” for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in HIM. How was Jesus Christ made to be S-I-N. We know he was not a Sin Offering because scripture state clearly that God did not want any more sacrifices and offerings. So we must look carefully to discover the answer to this important question. In Matt 26:36-45 we find the veil lifted for us on a world changing event in the life of Christ. He returns to a “Garden” where once a man (Adam) lost paradise and gained a wilderness. Now we see unfolding before us an event that would restore to all mankind their union and oneness with God that originally was ours. Jesus told the disciples to sit and