Born Again
The word church in the Greek means assembly of people. Therefore, The church is the assembly of born again people. If the people are not born again then it is not a gathering of the born again people, it is then considered to be a not born again church.
We need to define born again Christian. There are so many meanings going on today. The word Christian comes from the reference first made to the disciples in Acts 11:26. Since the church lost the born again experience over the years and became a biological growth entity, the term born again Christian was needed.
The whole reason for Christ to come and die on the cross was to pay the ransom, for the sin of Adam. The ransom had to be paid by a human being through shedding of his blood. However, the blood had to be pure and untainted by human sins.
Only way that can be done is for God himself to be born in human flesh, through being born through a woman, yet without contaminating with a human (man's) seed.
That is why the virgin conception of Mary was important. She has to be a virgin so no man 'knew; her sexually, the holy spirit came in and became the seed for the woman to grow the God-child in her.
Once he is born into the world, he is now pure and sinless.
He has to continue to live in human form as sinless. He did that. Finally, he bled and died on the cross and gave up his life. Third day he rose again, as a permanent victory over death itself. This gives the Christians hope for what is coming to them.
The penalty for sin is death. It is a physical death as well as a spiritual death. The soul never dies, but the relationship with God is gone and thus the soul loses Him. The soul has to belong to either the Holy world of God or the evil world of Satan. There is no middle ground.
The whole salvation issue has to do with belonging to a kingdom. Death of the soul is referencing the Hell bound soul instead of the heaven bound soul.
Jesus came to take us to heaven. That is what a Christian is. We have been rescued from the Satan's kingdom. In addition, into the kingdom of God. As long we live here, God will sustain and provide the grace to live here in earth. When the last enemy death comes, Jesus has already won the victory; and we will be resurrected with him, or caught up to be with Christ in the air, if we are alive when he returns.
Many churches have fallen into the sin of Legalism. It is of Human Origin and Demonic. It enslaves the person to s system of human rules and human traditions.
This will quickly empty the soul of connection with the real intentions of God. God wants fellowship and relationship not a bunch of rule keeping legalists, judging each other according to their man made rules.
This results in losing the internal productive spiritual value by replacing it with external unproductive, hypocritical rule keeping pleasing other human beings.
Humans are always attracted to visible rule keeping and conforming to their system of values. This is far from the internal truth that God is interested in. God is interested in a person worshiping him in spirit and in truth. Not keeping a set of rules.
The external legalism Replaces true worship and walk with God.
Paul describes this very well in Colossians 2:20-23.
So, then, if with Christ you have put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it.
Do not touch this! Do not taste that! Do not go near this! Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice.
They even give the illusion of being pious, humble, and ascetic. However, they are just another way of showing off, making you look important.
Legalism is part of the Organized Religion. Most are motivated by greed, Money and Power. They like control people. Control can only exercised by defined rules of each church and group.
Once the organized church gets a grip on the people, then the people are trained in this false sense of holiness and spirituality. They then take this to be the true form of walking with God. All the time they are under an illusion-Humans controlled all the way by other humans for Money, Control, and, Power.
We need to set people free from the tyranny of the organized church. You shall know the truth and that knowledge of truth will set you free Being truly free is God's intention and will. This is what this all
about.
In His Everlasting love
Robert Fenn
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