MEETING FOR Salvation

I’ve returned for salvation. How can I describe this heavy weight upon me, not a physical weight, it’s too heavy for anything physical to compare. Human eyes cannot see it nor their minds perceive it, but the weight is there, and as a yoke is placed upon oxen is this experience of weight upon me. I’m here for salvation. We are meeting in the spirit of narrative at this place of salvation.

Test The Spirit

Have you thought about the question from our previous meeting?

Did the Son of God actually come in the flesh as Jesus of Nazareth?

My spirit is tested by this question because the answer determines whether I’m of the Spirit of God or… not. The young Christians caught in sin are believing the person caught in apostasy although appearing true, the young might ask where this test is in Scripture, and so I point to 1^st John 4:

² By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; ³ and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming, and now it is already in the world.

My reaction to this test is to say, yes, I confess Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, but is it really that simple? Could it be that I’m confessing because I want you to believe that I’m from God? Is that not what a false prophet does, convince the innocent in their vulnerability that they’re from God?

Born Again

By my confessing that Jesus has come in the flesh must mean that my life of sin is exposed in the crucifixion of Jesus, because Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29), the Lamb takes from me my sin—exposing it for what it is in death—and my confession of this (1^st John 2:23, 4:15; Romans 10:9-10) should mean that my sin that was exposed (John 3:20) in the death of Christ is now my witness of the grace of God having forgiven me (Colossians 2:13), allowing me to be free to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit of God (Acts 2:38) as a new person in Jesus Christ, born again (1 Peter 1:3-5, 22-23) by the resurrected Christ who was ascended and is now in all authority (Matthew 28:18) at the right hand of the Father in the Kingdom of God.

If you read what I just wrote, understand it (Proverbs 9:10), and confess that Jesus has come in the flesh – the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes (Romans 1:16) – your spirit is from God.

question

The next question to meditate on is, how do we grow from being born again to little children, from little children to young adults, from young adults to parents of the faith?