According to the Bible Jesus is the Godman — God in human flesh. He laid down His life on the Cross so human beings can be restored to heart-to-heart intimacy with God the Father. Christ rose from the dead and lives forever so that He can now live inside of (Colossians 1:27) and through His true followers as God the Holy Spirit. He speaks and His followers hear His inner podcast. (John 10:27) I listen to the risen Jesus.
From the beginning the Word was with God and the Word was God. (John 1:1) Then the Word became flesh and gathered people around Him. His name is Jesus. He taught them. He trained them. He loved them. He led them. (John 1:14) Those people beheld His glory and spread His story, not just in words but in how they lived their lives.
Jesus the Godman is the true light that gives light to everyone. (John 1:9) He invites whosoever will to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him (Luke 9:23) yet multitudes reject His light. Many others just honor Him with their lips but keep their heart far away from Him. (Matthew 15:8-9) However all who truly receive Him, surrender their heart to Him, and rely on Him as their living Lord and their God (John 20:28) become children of God supernaturally born again. (John 1:12-13 & 3:3-7)
If you will let Jesus, the Godman, continually align your will with His will you will know Him as your Lord and Master. Then you will experience His glorious presence like never before!
Followers of the Godman should want the people they disagree with to be healed, encouraged, and transformed by Christ’s joyous presence and peace. (Luke 6:28) They should radiate His light. (Matthew 5:14) They shouldn’t use power or politics to try to defeat or humiliate people. (Zechariah 4:6) They should win them over by God’s love. (Matthew 5:44)
Through all that’s going on around us, we Christ-followers need to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) Our hearts need to be constantly aflame with passionate love for and obedience to the Godman. (2 Timothy 1:6) We need to always demonstrate (1 Corinthians 2:4) the reality of Christ’s presence and love in all we say and do.
Nations are discipled by the power and presence of the risen Jesus being demonstrated in and through followers of the Godman — Christians who love not their lives unto death (Revelation 12:11) and demonstrate compassionate love for their enemies. Disciples aren’t made by politics.
In the final hours before His crucifixion, Jesus, the Godman, chose tenderness at a supper table not triumph from a conquering throne. He chose foot washing not enemy squashing. He calls us to do the same.
Followers of the Godman are supposed to be a supernaturally functioning family led by God the Holy Spirit. Unfortunately, contemporary church is much closer to being a formal restaurant than it is to being a family. It serves up a meal of words, (called a sermon) collects money, and then sends everybody out into this lonely, mental health crisis world and hopes that they make it on their own until next Sunday morning.
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