The Gospel According to Jesus

The Message of Jesus’ Love

The Message of the Kingdom of God

The Message of the Church and Body of Jesus Christ

The Message of the Ages and the Revelation of Father

The Message of Holy Spirit through the Word and the Believer!

The supreme wonder of the gospel is its present realization of life - life of such unfathomable and enduring quality that it cannot fade for all eternity. World religions may claim to have the answers to the present misery of the individual, but what does it profit a man to achieve harmony with nature yet lose his soul? Jesus offers eternal life now. He said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die" (John 11:25, 26). God bless you. REINHARD BONNKE

The Gospel imparts a hope that is beyond sin, judgment and fear of exposure or death! You will never exhaust the vast ocean of God's love. You will be forever discovering greater lengths, widths, depths, and heights of His love.

Very important verse (so often translated and understood wrong!) 2 Cor 10:4 and 5 Paul says in the Greek, that we arrest every thought at spear point.

This is important to notice, it is the power in the sharpness of the spear that arrests the thought. In the previous verse Paul says, "We have weapons that demolish strongholds!"

A stronghold is typically a mindset, a thought pattern; now if a single thought can activate and engage a complete thought pattern, (almost like opening a complete document on your computer with a single click!) then if that thought can be arrested, the thought pattern is de-activated!
Here is the good news: Paul did not say like most translations do, "we must make thoughts obedient to Christ!”
The Greek says we arrest every thought at spear point by the obedience OF Christ!!!! Our own obedience couldn’t save us under Moses neither can it save us under Christ.
Its the revelation of the obedience of Christ that gives authority to the weapon that we employ to put every thought contrary to us, under arrest!
(Rom 5:19, The Mirror) The disobedience of the one man exhibits humanity as sinners; the obedience of another man (Jesus) exhibits humanity as righteous. The presence of the law made no difference, instead it merely highlighted the offence; but where sin increased, grace superseded it.

I am hyper-grace and you might as well throw in hyper-love for good measure! And it is not a theological position; it is a lifestyle of Grace through faith in every moment and every experience of my life! "His power (great grace) is made evident in my weakness!" Hyper grace, huh?

From Dictionary.com
hyper: word-forming element meaning "over, above, beyond, exceedingly, to excess," from Greek hyper (prep. and adv.) "over, beyond, overmuch, above measure," from PIE super- "over" (see super-). From the Bible -

If we can invent technology that can be an effective anti-virus shield to work even while we sleep, then let’s not underestimate the powerful and effective weapon God has given us in our ability to understand the full implication and benefit we have in the obedience of Christ!!!

2 Corinthians 10:3 The fact that we are living in a physical world in human bodies of flesh does not mean that we engage ourselves in a combat dictated to by the typical “tit-for-tat” strategies of the politics of the day.

10:4 the dynamic of our strategy is revealed in God’s ability to disengage mindsets and perceptions that have held people captive in pseudo fortresses for centuries!

10:5 every lofty idea and argument positioned against the knowledge of God is cast down and exposed to be a mere invention of our own imagination. We arrest every thought that could possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed identity and innocence at spear point! The caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of the global consequence of the obedience of Christ.

10:6 our ears are fine tuned to echo the voice of likeness that resonates within us. We are acquainted with the articulate detail of the authentic voice of our origin.

Love brought me back from the future to live as Jesus, fully human and fully divine by embracing all that today can be in Him!
He has brought me back from the past, trading the shame and failures to live today in the fullness of Mercy and Grace!
He has brought me to another today to live with hope while embracing a love that liberates me to be extra-ordinarily ordinary!
I will enjoy the peace to be at peace with His great love and divine design! I will enjoy Him in me and I in Him each moment of potential called now! Ron Ross

http://youtu.be/aCGJUcor30M  “Chasing You” Jenn Johnson, from ‘Tides’

The 3 Dimensional Word

There is no more delightful fellowship than among empty, hungry, willing believers who seek one another out for no other purpose than to eat Jesus together. This Divine privilege belongs only to the Corporate Body of Christ!

They do not talk about themselves or commiserate in self-help programs or discuss what they want to do or build in corporate self-actualization, but they simply come to give themselves together to Him and to “seek first His corporate expression!

Their passion is to ‘exegete’ Jesus (to make the Son of God known), as “Word” made flesh, and the “Word-Son” lifted from the very pages of Scripture and applied by Holy Spirit to the believer’s heart! And then to take Him to the world!

Jesus is Father’s living, ingestible Word – your nutritious Life. The Spirit will feed you the Word-Son by revealing Him to you primarily through the Scriptures but also by many other creative means, which enable you to recognize and eat Jesus in your study of the Scriptures. Come with me as we are invited by Jesus himself to the ‘mysterious’ table of God; both, individually and corporately!

48 I am the Bread of Life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. 50 But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. 51 I am the Bread - living Bread! - who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live - and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self." 52 At this, the Jews started fighting among themselves: "How can this man serve up his flesh for a meal?" 53 But Jesus didn't give an inch. "Only insofar as you eat and drink flesh and blood, the flesh and blood of the Son of Man, do you have life within you. 54 The one who brings a hearty appetite to this eating and drinking has eternal life and will be fit and ready for the Final Day. 55 My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you. 57 In the same way that the fully alive Father sent me here and I live because of him, so the one who makes a meal of me lives because of me. 58 This is the Bread from heaven. Your ancestors ate bread and later died. Whoever eats this Bread will live always." 59 He said these things while teaching in the meeting place in Capernaum. 60 Many among his disciples heard this and said, "This is tough teaching, too tough to swallow." 61 Jesus sensed that his disciples were having a hard time with this and said, "Does this throw you completely? 62 What would happen if you saw the Son of Man ascending to where he came from? 63 The Spirit can make life. Sheer muscle and willpower don't make anything happen. Every word I've spoken to you is a Spirit-word, and so it is life-making. 64 But some of you are resisting, refusing to have any part in this." (Jesus knew from the start that some weren't going to risk themselves with him. He knew also who would betray him.) 65 He went on to say, "This is why I told you earlier that no one is capable of coming to me on his own. You get to me only as a gift from the Father." 66 After this a lot of his disciples left. They no longer wanted to be associated with him. 67 Then Jesus gave the Twelve their chance: "Do you also want to leave?" 68 Peter replied, "Master, to whom would we go? You have the words of real life, eternal life. 69 We've already committed ourselves, confident that you are the Holy One of God."

The Spirit lifts the food off the static, printed page and dynamically feeds Him to you. “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. (John 6:63)

Father is most eager to participate in this relational oneness, giving all the bounty of Himself into that Agape love “mix.” The one who is well fed with the flesh and blood of Jesus has the strength to remain faithful and true to those Father entrusts to him - the Son’s own tested, proven Agape love assimilated in him “never fails.”

Feasting on the Word of God! Ron Ross

(Thanks Bob Mumford for a major part of your life’s message.)

Are You Your Hearts Best Friend?

"The truth, for which I would give my life, must also be the truths for which I am living!" The New Covenant heart must be at the apex of that list. Many die for family, friends, country—but not enough value their own heart that high! The heart is mentioned over 1,000 times in the Bible.

We have spent and wasted so much time in our Christian history trying to get "there" when "there" is where we begin! (Our very origin is) Co-seated…by God's doing! We have always been in the Father’s heart. Jesus is ample evidence that we are supremely fashioned for a heart that receives His love and life! Even when we were far away from God with a hardened and wicked heart he loved us!

“There’s a river flowing in the heart of God. It’s called the “river of His delight” (Psalm 36:8)

Experience your world through the lens of gratitude and your heart will open to more than you could have ever seen. The heart eyes of gratitude will cause you to see your reality from a "Holy" other perspective-His! Hope is nurtured by Gratitude! He who has hope has everything.

5 “that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God's special favor that you have been saved!) 6 For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms -- all because we are one with Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:5-6 NLT)

However, God is rich in mercy. He brought us to life with Christ while we were dead as a result of those things that we did wrong. He did this because of the great love that he has for us. You are saved by God's grace! (Ephesians2:5-6 CEB)

We need to slow down to keep up with Father. Slow is Sabbath Rest! Let Papa's great Love catch up to your conscious reality! Fully Embrace His Embrace; everyday. Here’s how…

Living From the Heart

And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony heart of sin and give you a new, obedient heart. (Ezekiel 36:29 NLT)

Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do. (Proverbs 4:23 NLT)

Was it for nothing that I kept my heart pure and kept myself from doing wrong? (Psalm 73:13 NLT) Of course it wasn’t!

My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever. (Psalm 73:26 NLT)

Those who are wise will take all this to heart; they will see in our history the faithful love of the LORD. (Psalm 107:43 NLT)

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. (Psalm 119:11 NLT)

O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. (Psalm 139:1 NLT)

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. (Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV)

O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes delight in my ways of wisdom. (Proverbs 23:26 NLT)

Sowing From the Heart

2 Corinthians 9:6 We are all familiar with the natural law that says, “Stingy sowing will always reflect in the harvest; so does liberal sowing!”

9:7 Every individual must thoroughly think this through in their own heart, not with thoughts of possible regret or out of a legalistic sense of duty! The agape-love of God inspires extravagance of hilarious proportions! (The Greek word 1hilaros is from the root word-‘hileos’ which means cheerful, attractive.)
Mirror Bible

Does this ring true and line up to your experience? Maybe a heart inventory would unlock the Glory that is yet to be revealed through your heart-life! Be-come your hearts best friend!

With you I will go, “You” are the fair one, and “you” are my lover! The days are more than curious-they are mysterious even to the most casual of observers...My hope is that the mysteries of the times become the norm of my today’s and elusive tomorrows...Like a weightless hummingbird, flitting from flower to flower, I thirst for the nectar of “Your” great love...And as I drink deeply I am startled by the inebriation of your loving presence...All I can do is laugh, spin and sing of the height, width, length, and breadth of the sheer joy that accompanies You!

 King David had a heart after God! A heart after God is under the search-light of Father’s Heart. “The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the earth, searching for a heart that’s completely His, that He strongly supports it.” This heart has eyes for Jesus; no one else!

From our new heart all we can see is Christ—and in Him is all Grace! This heart reveals “true truth”; what we have not only seen and been taught, but what we have also had personal experience of. Ultimately, we really (only) need Jesus himself, the great comforter, whose Holy Spirit comforts us always from the inside out!

Sometimes it is hard to look at love square in the eye, and accept the acceptance of pure love flowing from a pure heart! That is the bottom line of the heart of Jesus toward our heart!

Be loved and accepted by the Heart of Jesus! Ron Ross

Never Give Up!

Never give up! Never quit! Don't even entertain the dark voices of shame, despair, doubt or hopelessness! The ride may even get a bit rougher!

10 Instead, strike first with the weapons fashioned for victory...A final word: Be strong with the Lord's mighty power. 11 Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies and tricks of the Devil. 12 For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world, and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms. 13 Use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy in the time of evil, so that after the battle you will still be standing firm. 14 Stand your ground, putting on the sturdy belt of truth and the body armor of God's righteousness. 15 For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News, so that you will be fully prepared. 16 In every battle you will need faith as your shield to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan. 17 Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere. (Ephesians 6: 10-18, NLT)

Turn the face of faith in a faithful God into the winds of adversity and they will become the very winds that lift you into the 3rd Heaven of Faith, Hope, and Love! Here and here only you will enjoy Father's Soaring perspective of Love! Ron Ross

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The Divine Cover-Up 2

“The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it. 16 But the LORD God gave him this warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden 17 except fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of its fruit, you will surely “die” (forfeit a living/intimate relationship with God)." (Genesis 2:15-17, NLT)

25 “Now, although Adam and his wife were both naked, neither of them felt any shame.” (Genesis 2: 25, NLT) Shame was born in dis-obedience. And so was mankind’s propensity to lean upon flawed understanding and call it “wisdom or knowledge”. These are the result of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil! Their/our eyes were opened to what they weren’t equipped to understand or process.

Mankind was awakened to deception and blinded to the trickery of illusion! “Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths. 7 Don't be impressed with your own wisdom.” (Proverbs 3: 5-7, NLT)

“Now the serpent was the shrewdest of all the creatures the LORD God had made.”Really?" he asked the woman. "Did God really say you must not eat any of the fruit in the garden?" 2 "Of course we may eat it," the woman told him. 3 "It's only the fruit from the tree at the center of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God says we must not eat it or even touch it, or we will die." 4 "You won't die!" the serpent hissed.

5 "God knows that your eyes will be opened when you eat it. You will become just like God, knowing everything, both good and evil." 6 The woman was convinced. The fruit looked so fresh and delicious, and it would make her so wise! So she ate some of the fruit. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her. Then he ate it, too. 7 At that moment, their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness.” (Genesis 3:1-7, NLT) God clothed their nakedness with the skin of a wild animal.

“Sanctify them by the truth, your word is truth.” (John 17:17 NIV) We can trust that whatever God says is factual, especially what He says about us! At times, He will use those in our ‘Oikos’ (your sphere of influence or of being influenced) to help us become better acquainted with reality and authenticity. God’s truth often seems inconsistent with our present perceptions. But as we learn to “trust” in the outcome, we find that it is our perceptions that are off or skewed.

It is at this point in our journey that we ask for beyond help! And what pray tell is beyond help. It is when we arrive at the conclusion, “I am beyond helping myself. I need a power greater than myself.” Who do you suppose will be there when we arrive at reality? A loving and forgiving Father! A graceful, merciful Savior and Lord! And comforting, encouraging Holy Spirit who gently leads us into all the truth. Now that’s real help! Here it comes!

The heart of God is always immensely warm, inviting, embracing and open to all who will be loved! Will you be loved? Can you share His love?

God did not clothe Adam with the skin of a slain animal because of a divine need to be appeased. But because of their unconditional love for Adam! They also understood the language of judgment (Adam’s self judgments) and are touched by Adam’s infirmities. Adam, not God, was embarrassed about his nakedness. The clothing was not to make God look at Adam differently, but to make Adam feel better about himself!

Ultimately it was to prepare Adam for the unveiling of the mystery of mankind’s redemption in the incarnation-Jesus coming as the Son of Man. Here Deity would clothe themselves in human skin in a son, and the Lion of Judah, would become the Lamb of God, in order to free our minds to re-discover his image and likeness in our skin! Humankind is tailor-made for God!

Jesus-the new man (who lived our life, death, burial and ultimate resurrection) completely identifies with our condition!  In Jesus-the new Adam; we are empowered to walk in the Spirit, victory, freedom, grace, mercy, faith, and peace. And we are now clothed by His righteousness, instead of our shame and failure. Following are some of the wondrous gifts of being clothed/covered by Christ!

1.”So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 For the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death. 3 The Law of Moses could not save us, because of our sinful nature. But God put into effect a different plan to save us. He sent his own Son in a human body like ours, except that ours are sinful. God destroyed sin's control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

4 He did this so that the requirement of the law would be fully accomplished for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow the Spirit. 5 Those who are dominated by the sinful nature think about sinful things, but those who are controlled by the Holy Spirit think about things that please the Spirit. 6 If your sinful nature controls your mind, there is death. But if the Holy Spirit controls your mind, there is life and peace. (So much of our identity with Jesus happens first in new thinking!)

7 For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. 8 That's why those who are still under the control of their sinful nature can never please God. 9 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you. (And remember that those who do not have the Spirit of Christ living in them are not Christians at all.)

10 Since Christ lives within you, even though your body will die because of sin, your spirit is alive because you have been made right with God. 11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as he raised Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal body by this same Spirit living within you. 12 So, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation whatsoever to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. 13 For if you keep on following it, you will perish. (Romans 8: 1-10, NIV)

But if through the power of the Holy Spirit you turn from it and its evil deeds, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. 15 So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God's very own children, adopted into his family -- calling him "Father, dear Father." 16 For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God's children. 17 And since we are his children, we will share his treasures -- for everything God gives to his Son, Christ is ours, too.

But if we are to share his glory, we must also share his suffering. 18 Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will give us later. 19 For all creation are waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. 20 Against its will, everything on earth was subjected to God's curse. 21 All creation anticipates the day when it will join God's children in glorious freedom from death and decay. 22 For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

23 And even we Christians, although we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, also groan to be released from pain and suffering. We, too, wait anxiously for that day when God will give us our full rights as his children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

24 Now that we are saved, we eagerly look forward to this freedom. For if you already have something, you don't need to hope for it. 25 But if we look forward to something we don't have yet, we must wait patiently and confidently. 26 And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.” (Past, Present and Future-Your entire life) (Romans 8: 1-28, NLT)

He has brought me back from the future to live as Jesus, fully human and fully divine by embracing all that today can be in Him!

He has brought me back from the past, trading the shame and failures to live today in the fullness of Grace!

He has brought me to another today to live with hope while embracing a love that liberates me to be extra-ordinarily ordinary!

I will enjoy the peace to be at peace with His great love and divine design! I will enjoy Him in me and I in Him each moment of potential called now!

In the Grip of Grace! Ron Ross