Have you ever considered that you were “in Christ” before you were “in Adam”? Christ is your truest home. He defines you, not Adam. You are God’s masterpiece created in his image. There is no excuse for living as “mere men”. We are so much more than we have ever grasped. We have been trained to think we are Adam’s children; therefore, we believe we are forever bent, twisted, and skewed. We must simply accept we are a part of a fallen race. But no, we are a part of restored mankind. Our fallenness was nailed to the cross 2000 years ago. Now, we are part of resurrected humanity, and we are already joined with the Trinity. You are not limited by the genes passed onto you by your physical parents, you have the DNA of your Father which overrides everything else and raises you to the level of God-consciousness, and out of sin-consciousness. Your identity is not a “sinner saved by grace.” You are a Child of God, and you carry His nature. You are not striving to become something you are not; you are waking up to and beginning to live up to who you already are in Christ. We have been made fully compatible with God by the finished work of Christ. There is no distance between us. We are one. If you think you are even one step away from union with God, the devil is pleased, and you fall back in the religious trap of “doing” in order to “be”. It feels so spiritual to run yourself down and grovel in what religion makes us think is genuine humility, until it is finally exposed as a false humility, robbing us from the abundant life designed and purchased for us. All of creation is groaning for us to awaken from our Adamic hangover and enter into the fullness of sonship. God is, neither, self-centered or threatened by us. He is secure in His identity, and He desires for us to become as secure in ours. Jesus was not an example “for us”. He was the proper example “of us”. He is the only one who fully functioned the way God intended for all humans to live. The fact that all the fullness of God dwelt in Him bodily proved being human is not our problem. We have under-estimated the God’s design and destiny for humanity. We are not the ones who decide who we are in God’s scheme. He defines who we are. We have an identity problem, not just a behavioral problem. The incarnation of Christ was aimed at identity not simply sins. Now, with first Adam euthanized in the cross, we are new creations in the Last Adam – by God’s doing, not our own. Until we fully embrace the reality of our new identity, we will still produce the fruit of falleness. We are now good trees, not bad trees or good/bad trees. We have one nature, and it is the same nature as Christ. Any fruit that does not look right on a good tree is not from the real us. It’s a result of lapsing into the old programming left un-renewed in our soul. It is sin working in us, as Paul told the Romans, not a fruit of who we truly are now. As this blog continues, much of what I say may sound “off” to the modern Evangelical ear. Good, because after a lifetime of study, prayer, and Truth seeking, what I will be teaching lines up with original Christianity. Alignment with the believers of the first three centuries is much safer that to be in line with anemic Ameri-Christianity. If it sounds like my message is too positive, maybe that is why it is called GOOD NEWS.
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