Thursday, 25 October 2018

(PART2)Christian Parenting with the Anointing









The Early Church

These people simply loved
God and loved each other. And everything
else flowed out of that.
There was a "child-like" quality to their
Christianity that we have
to get back to. And if we are willing to
leave the 'junk' behind, I
believe we can.

You know, in all His
dealings with men, what God has really been
wanting to re-establish is
His simple yet profound relationship with
Adam in the garden. The
two of them used to walk together in the
"cool of the
evening", communing with one another like the closest
of friends. And ever since
then, God has wanted to see this
relationship restored. And
through Jesus, at last there is a way.
But how many of us live in
that place of deep communion with God
today? Isn't it a tragedy
that Jesus died so every one of us can get
back to this kind of
relationship with God - yet so few of us live in it?

But it is possible.  In fact, this is the key to the love and
simplicity
of the early church. There
is a key Scripture that we need to look at:
"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness,
peace and joy in the Holy
Spirit." (Rom 14:17).  Notice that
"righteousness"
comes before 'peace and joy'. This is the key here.
If our heart can become
truly right before God, then these other
things will naturally
follow. And if we can get a GROUP of people
whose hearts are right
before God (-who have "no consciousness" of
present sin  - who WALK in the washing of the blood of
Jesus) then
that whole group can
experience the kind of unity and simplicity and
love that the early church
walked in. The key is "righteousness" -
and then will come 'peace
and joy'.  https://youtu.be/d06RFghDvS4

A lot of people try all
kinds of things to get peace and joy in their
lives - but they still
cling to certain sins in their hearts (-especially deep
unforgiveness) and wonder
why they never find it.

Just imagine for a moment
that a group of people could be found
who walked before God with
a pure heart like this. And imagine if
they had left all the
Religious 'junk' and paraphernalia behind and
simply gathered together
and loved God and loved each other. It is
the ABSENCE of this 'junk'
that makes things simple. Imagine the
love and the joy and the
peace that these people could walk in if
they just forgot about all
that stuff and simply focused on HIM. -This
is what the early church
was like. Jesus said: "I tell you the truth,
unless you change and
become like LITTLE CHILDREN, you will
never enter the kingdom of
heaven" (Mt 18:3, NIV).

In the 1960's, the
"hippies" tried to achieve this kind of thing, but
Ultimately failed, because
what they were doing was not built on
heart-righteousness. But
it is certainly possible if the righteousness
of God is at the centre of
it. Man has a deep longing to see a people
who live in true harmony
and love and simplicity? This is the essence
of what was lost in Eden. And we all have an
inbuilt longing to return
to it somehow. If people
ever see the real thing, they will surely respond.

God bless you all!   Christian Parenting under the anointing.  https://youtu.be/d06RFghDvS4
Rev Brian Richards