The essence of Christianity

My friendTodd shared with us last week. I'll get his permision and add the sermon to the site. Here are my notes.

2Tim 2:7
The Lord gives the understanding. You cannot have the knowledge of God if He has not revealed it to you.
There is a wall between flesh and spirit.

Luke 24:25,26,27
We may wish that we were there but we are! Jesus is alive and he opens our heart for all that it is written about Him, even now.
:28-30
He opened their eyes, not themselves.
They want Jesus to stay with them.
He is the bread of life.
Christ is giving us the bread.

Jesus is alive, he teaches us. 'Think what I say, but He gives the understanding.' Whatever we know about God comes from God.

Gal 1:11-12
Paul did not go to school to learn about Him, he had a relationship with Him. He was not tought the gospel it was by revelation.
None can understand the Holy Spirit without a spirit. e.g. Elijah's servant and the armies of God.
Until He opens our eyes we are blind.

3:4 by reading. the knowledge of God is revelation.
it leads ... to the whole truth
the knowledge of Jesus Christ is increased (NOT the knowledge of the scriptures) via the spirit.
It makes contact with the flesh (our mind is flesh after all)
The comforter leads us not to Himslef but to Jesus

We should seek Him, ask Him
For every step of faith we make He makes 2 steps of grace!

He will talk to you. The voice of the Lord (not His writings, the scriptures, but His voice) can be recognized. He is willing to listen to us. 'He dwells in the praise of His saints'... 'Enter into His gates with thanksgiving', we need to praise Him more.

Until He gives the Kingdom over to the Father, He still lives, is the mediator, the Lord and works in this earth for God.

The essence of Christianity is to have that contact (flesh-spirit) that imposible one ;)



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