The simplicity of the truth
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
In the book of 2 Corinthians 3: 12-18 we find another beautiful teaching from Paul on the simplicity of being able to share the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That word tells us: "seeing Van that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished. But their minds were blinded; for until this day remains the same veil on taken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is a red, the veil is up on their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed unto the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord."
From the beginning the big problem is that many Christians speak with Fort Thomas. They speak a strange lean goal called the language of cyan and can only be understood by using a special on scrambler, which most people do not possess. Simply put; we tend to use a churchy kind of speech to impress one another with spiritually. We somehow get the impression that if we can speak in this spiritual kind of way we can convince those around us that we are close to God. For the most part this kind of thing works around those who are either new to Christ or those who choose to walk around as baby Christians and are unwilling to grow or to allow God's Holy Spirit to teach them how to discern spiritually. Speaking in this way does not fool God, and it usually does not fool those who walk close to God.
I catch myself using terms that others do not understand as well, and so instead of preaching to the choir on this subject I am also preaching to myself. Each of us need to learn to speak plainly and not in some kind of code. Paul was also dealing with an attitude that people had as they used this language based upon a kind of church code. Inverse 14 through 16 Paul pointed out that many of their minds were blinded because through the laws of Moses God's true desire and didn't nature were being hidden from them. We do not find the true nature of God until we come into his presence through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. For many people even today when they deal with Old Testament teachings they tend to have that Vail upon their heart. It is not until we begin to open up our hearts, and live in the spirit of God instead of living in the law that our mind becomes open to the heart of God. Paul said in verse 18 "but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord." I find that many times when I share Scripture with people that I enjoy sifting through the details of Scripture, but many times when doing that people want to make issues out of things that are not important. If someone becomes a Christian, some in the church seem intent on shaping them to be conformed to their own image, rather than the image of Christ. They feel that they should dress, look, believe, speak, eat, and breathe just the way they do. When someone comes to the Lord, he may not look as we think he should. His hair may be long, his close may be radical, he may have jewelry or in ear ringing in his ear, but if these things are wrong God will speak into his heart. In the meantime, he may be ministering to him about the need to return stolen goods, or about seeking forgiveness from those he has wrong in the past. Those are the things that matter to God, and those are the things that should matter to us. The truth is that the closer we get to Christ, and the more we allow God's Holy Spirit to govern our minds and our heart the more simple the gospel gets. Our lives, and our speech patterns should also be more easily understood by those who see us from a distance, or even from close-up the closer we get in our inspection of God's word the more simple that message should become, and the easier it should be to understand both for us as well as those around us. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
In the book of 2 Corinthians 3: 12-18 we find another beautiful teaching from Paul on the simplicity of being able to share the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ. That word tells us: "seeing Van that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished. But their minds were blinded; for until this day remains the same veil on taken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. But even to this day, when Moses is a red, the veil is up on their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed unto the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord."
From the beginning the big problem is that many Christians speak with Fort Thomas. They speak a strange lean goal called the language of cyan and can only be understood by using a special on scrambler, which most people do not possess. Simply put; we tend to use a churchy kind of speech to impress one another with spiritually. We somehow get the impression that if we can speak in this spiritual kind of way we can convince those around us that we are close to God. For the most part this kind of thing works around those who are either new to Christ or those who choose to walk around as baby Christians and are unwilling to grow or to allow God's Holy Spirit to teach them how to discern spiritually. Speaking in this way does not fool God, and it usually does not fool those who walk close to God.
I catch myself using terms that others do not understand as well, and so instead of preaching to the choir on this subject I am also preaching to myself. Each of us need to learn to speak plainly and not in some kind of code. Paul was also dealing with an attitude that people had as they used this language based upon a kind of church code. Inverse 14 through 16 Paul pointed out that many of their minds were blinded because through the laws of Moses God's true desire and didn't nature were being hidden from them. We do not find the true nature of God until we come into his presence through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. For many people even today when they deal with Old Testament teachings they tend to have that Vail upon their heart. It is not until we begin to open up our hearts, and live in the spirit of God instead of living in the law that our mind becomes open to the heart of God. Paul said in verse 18 "but we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord." I find that many times when I share Scripture with people that I enjoy sifting through the details of Scripture, but many times when doing that people want to make issues out of things that are not important. If someone becomes a Christian, some in the church seem intent on shaping them to be conformed to their own image, rather than the image of Christ. They feel that they should dress, look, believe, speak, eat, and breathe just the way they do. When someone comes to the Lord, he may not look as we think he should. His hair may be long, his close may be radical, he may have jewelry or in ear ringing in his ear, but if these things are wrong God will speak into his heart. In the meantime, he may be ministering to him about the need to return stolen goods, or about seeking forgiveness from those he has wrong in the past. Those are the things that matter to God, and those are the things that should matter to us. The truth is that the closer we get to Christ, and the more we allow God's Holy Spirit to govern our minds and our heart the more simple the gospel gets. Our lives, and our speech patterns should also be more easily understood by those who see us from a distance, or even from close-up the closer we get in our inspection of God's word the more simple that message should become, and the easier it should be to understand both for us as well as those around us. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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