Wrapped in Christ

Glory to God!

These past few weeks the Lord has been speaking to us about the powerful truth of what we have received in Christ. As God continues to establish us this year in our identity, values, purpose and position, He is giving us spiritual revelation for us to receive, understand, remember, trust in and apply so that we walk in the freedom of sonship. Hallelujah!

In his sermon entitled, "Eternal Life - Be Consumed!" Prem showed us that Jesus is eternal life and that the believer receives eternal life in Christ (John 1:4; 1 John 5:11,20). We saw further that eternal life is not just a life that exists eternally or begins once the believer dies, but that eternal life is a quality of life available to the believer in his or her knowledge of God (John 17:2,3). Prem pointed out that just as Jesus lived in perfect intimacy with the Father, experiencing the fullness of the Divine life, so the believer can participate in the same union with the Father and the Son and experience fullness of life - Eternal life! Hallelujah!

On Sunday, David shared a message entitled, "What are you wearing?" in which he spoke to us about being clothed with Christ. Looking at Luke 4:17-21 and Isaiah 61:1-3,10&11, we saw how Jesus came to exchange the believer's clothing with a garment of righteousness, peace and joy. David challenged us to examine our hearts to recognise whether we rely on ourselves and our circumstances for righteousness, peace and joy. When our righteousness, peace and joy are self-governed, we are not participting in the life of Christ with which the believer has been clothed. The Good News is that the believer has been clothed with Christ and can live by faith in His righteousness, peace and joy and experience fullness of life in Jesus! Hallelujah!

Upcoming Meetings
 
Tuesday from 19:00 - 21:00: Discipleship Group - Leipziger Str.60 (L60) Friday from 7:00 - 8:00: Men's Prayer Breakfast at L60
Friday 14.04. from 15:00 - 17:00: Good Friday Service at L60 Last Wednesday of every month from 19:30 - 21:00: Worship and Prayer Evening  at L60 Saturday 03.06, 02.09, 02.12: Welcome Coffee at L60 05-07.05.2017: KLF's 10th Anniversary Celebration at Eastsite 15
12,13.08: Journey with the Holy Spirit with Edgar Mayer

Sanctified to Love

Glory to God!

Yesterday's meeting was amazing. The presence of the Father was tangible as He ministered His love and healing to us. The Lord spoke to us about how we need spiritual revelation to "understand what God has freely given us" (1 Cor. 2:9-12). This is what He showed us:

We have received

God has given every believer fullness in Christ. Col. 2:9,10; 1 John 4:15
In Christ every believer has received every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. Eph.1:3
In Christ every believer is sanctified - made holy and righteous. 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 1:4; 5:25-27

To become or to be?

Many believers think that God saved them to become like Jesus and that their Christian lives are about God refining them to become increasingly Christ-like. Suffering, sickness and challenges in life are all attributed to God's sanctifying process and understood as God's disciplining work to improve His children. Ultimately God is held responsible for making the believer more Christ-like and is also blamed for the believer's lack of Christ-likeness!

The truth is that God has given every believer His fullness - His divine presence and power so that the believer can walk like Jesus did and be like Him as He is (Eph. 4:24; 2 Peter 1:3; 1 John 1:6; 4:17). It is the believer's responsibility to be obedient and to put on Christ because s/he has received Him (Eph. 5:1; 8,9; Col. 3:10-14). The believer doesn't become loving - s/he is commanded to love because God, who is love, dwells in him/her! We love because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).

The nature of God in the believer is revealed by faith and obedience.

Similarly the fruit of the Spirit is produced by faith and obedience as the believer follows the desires of the Spirit and keeps in step with Him (Gal. 5:16-25). Faith works through love as the believer realises the One who dwells within and chooses to love as He loves.

The believer is sanctified to love!

We praise God for His revelation to us and for showing us what He has freely given us.

"Therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may still have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." Colossians 3:12-14