Touching people with the love, purity and hope of Christ – We are the hands of Christ, we are Christ to this world. When we are in Him, we touch the world with the love of God, we give the world the purity of God and we bring to everyone the hope of God.
“because as he is, so are we in this world.” – 1 John 4:17 – In everything we do, how we think, and do, our role is to show people Christ and this is natural because Christ lives in us and we live in him. It is NOT a “DO”, but a “BE”. We are united with Christ, we part of his body and as He is so now are we.
Innocence is always under attack – We are in a battle for our mind and our thoughts and this battle is to rob us of our innocence. – “ whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” – Philippians 4:8
The way we think and perceive things in the spirit withers as we become guarded, wary, mistrust, and suspicious. – It is so important that we renew our minds to the truth of our new creation birth. That we nourish, nurture, and protect the life of Christ within us and the knowledge of all Christ is. Satan wants us to live a life of mistrust and he is the master of causing unbelief. But Christ lives in every believer, the same power that raised Christ from the dead lives in us. We are never separated from God.
Innocence is a quality we are born with but slowly lose through the experiences of life. – It is the innocence of our New Creation Nature that Satan and the world desperately ties to corrupt. Every experience in life has been set before us to grind us down and take away our innocence. Satan tries every plan to steal, kill and destroy, he tries every effort to rob us of our New Creation perspective and give us his worldly perspective.
Grace and Mercy has birthed us into Innocence
Through our New Creation birth into Christ we have entered into all Christ won at the cross and this kills all Adam lost for us in the Garden of Eden. We are now re-born as New Creation and receive the innocence of Christ. Now as Christ was born without sin from the incorruptible seed of God, we to are New Creation re-born into Christ without sin by the incorruptible seed of Christ. – “having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living and abiding word of God.” 1 Peter 1:23
We are ambassadors of the grace and mercy of God. We are ambassadors that God is not counting men’s sins against them.
We are to bring heaven to earth – Our “commission” is to reveal the grace, mercy, goodness, and kindness of God so that everyone can see that a loving God has done everything in His power to bring them into an abundant and eternal life. This revelation of God’s overflowing heart of compassion and love was given so that everyone would be encouraged to repent and let God change and bring new birth into their lives. To take them from a consciousness birthed in Adam to a consciousness now birthed in Christ.
The two main attributes of God that run through the bible are Grace and Mercy. God is full of favour and goodness. Jesus has been judged at Calvary so that all who come to him in life will receive grace and mercy.
We come to a God who is overflowing in grace and mercy – We now live in the day of the Lord’s favour, the season of grace where the church is alive to show and represent the mercy of God.
A God of love who is eternally good – God’s nature is that He is love and he created us to dwell and be with him in intimate relationship.
We are to give the earth a taste of what heaven will be like – It is God’s overflowing delight that we should bring Heaven to Earth. The fruit of the Spirit is our inner garden of all the attributes of Heaven to be overflowing on earth- “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;” – Galatians 5 : 22-23 – From out of the overflow of our heart’s, Heaven comes to earth.
Living Grace 