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Greetings,
Today I will be finishing in Angola. It has been a wonderful week with hungry believers with a willingness to learn and be changed by God’s presence and word. I am blessed with the fruit of life that God is causing to grow here. I am looking forward to all that God is going to do in the future.
When God sent Jesus, He didn’t have Christianity in mind. He made a way for Christ to be in humanity. Christianity alone can be a belief system or a culture of religion. Christ in humanity is the empowerment of our lives to become givers of Christ’s life to our world. It is a faith and faith comes by hearing God in our hearts. That faith empowers us to be changed and to become the life-giving substance of God in increasing measures. This is the power of New Covenant life. The New Covenant is not a transition in time, it is an ever-present eternal relationship with God in our hearts. The time is always NOW! Christ in us is the hope of glory (Col. 1:27).
The kingdom of God is an internal force of love and life upon the human heart that is the testimony of intimacy with God in Christ. The administration of the law was an external influence upon the human soul and was limited to the instruction of words and the voice of a prophet. The administration of grace is an internal influence that brings about true change of the hearts and minds of men. It is not administration of mere accountability to God. It is an administration of intimate and powerful relationship with Him. It is an unshakeable testimony of God in the human heart.
The Old Covenant was the result of Adam and Eve choosing the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. When they ate of that tree, they broke their trust in God. They rejected a willingness to respond to His voice and were not able to be honorable towards Him. They forsook their dependency upon Him and embraced a dependency upon knowledge. This disconnected them from fulfilling their destiny of producing a family tree of life in the earth. Instead they produced a family tree of death. That family would seek to be governed by knowledge and would produce judgments of death upon themselves and upon one another because of independent conclusions of what is good and what is evil. Because of this mankind forfeited their ability to fulfill the mandate of God for them. They could be fruitful, multiply, and fill in the earth (Gen. 9:1), but they could not subdue or exercise dominion.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
An administration of information cannot fulfill God’s mandate. Only an administration of life can fulfill God’s mandate to mankind. To subdue is to destroy death by the power of life. To exercise dominion is to crumble every lie with life-giving truth. Grace is the manifest presence of God in our lives and God’s grace in us enables us to subdue in our world. We can destroy death by being empowered to be and give life. We become who we are meant to be in Christ and who we really are gives life to our world. Our heavenly Father is not a taker, He is a giver of life. This is the substance of who He is. He gives life, breath, and all things. When we become who we are meant to be we manifest His character, nature, way, power, and authority in our lives. We become truth and that truth will crumble every lie of death in our world. This is exercising dominion. God’s grace empowers us to take back territory that needs to be restored and the truth of who we are in Him fills that territory with His life. Jesus was the word of God born into our world as a man full of grace and truth so that we could be made the same (Jn. 1:14).
The community of God is dependent upon being a temple of God’s Spirit – the place of God’s manifest presence. When we are a dwelling place of God’s Spirit, we become a community of people that live for God’s purpose, and we fulfill the destiny of His name in our world. The temple is not dependent upon the community. Being an expression of the community of Christ is simply the fruit and evidence that we are a dwelling place of His presence.
We are the body of Christ – the temple of Holy Spirit. The temple of the Holy Spirit will activate, facilitate, and manifest the community of Christ. Christ in us inspires our faith towards God and we trust Him, respond to Him, honor Him, and bear the fruit of being dependent upon Him in all things.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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