There is a huge hole in Christendom. I started to say “Christianity”, but I don’t consider what I see today as anything resembling what my Jesus brought to earth! My Lord prayed to His Father in the most intimate chapter in all of Scripture, in John 17:23. “I in them, and YOU IN ME, that they may be made perfect in ONE; that the world may know that YOU have sent ME, and has loved them as YOU HAVE LOVED Me.” In verse 22 He Phrases it, “that the world may BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE SENT ME.”
You see, everything that God has Done and is Doing is wrapped with this Divine Bow, the Love of the Father for His Son. All that God Does is all about Family LOVE!!! This is missing in Christendom! As Thomas Smail stated in his book years ago, “The Forgotten Father”, “we have a Christology and a Pneumatology, but we have no Paterology.” But it is far worse than that. It is not an additional “theology” that we need. It is an entirely corrected “Relationship” that we need!
Consider with me the prayer of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 3:14-21. He has spent the whole of Ephesians 1:1-3:13 unwrapping and bringing his readers into fellowship with the Mystery...”which from the beginning of the world has been hidden in God, Who Created all things by Jesus Christ.” (3:9) His calling by grace was “to make all see what is the fellowship of this Mystery”. It is “for this cause I bow my knees unto the FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Now note the “description” of this Father, “Of Whom the WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED.” This Family Context is missing from Christendom and Christian “theology”, and I don’t mean the “family church” on the corner. This is the Divine Family, the Eternal Divine Relationship of Father, Son, bound together in the Spirit of Love, commonly called, and somewhat coldly so, the Trinity. It is into this Eternal Fellowship that the Father’s Will and Purpose adopted children for His Pleasure from before the foundation of the world.(Eph. 1:3-5) It is for this Eternal Fellowship that the Incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of the Beloved Son was accomplished as John speaks in I John 1:1-4. “That which we have seen and declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: AND TRULY OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.” (Vs 4)
Christ didn’t come to “get people saved so they don’t have to go to hell.” That is a gross mis-statement of but a part of the Father’s Will and Purpose in the display of His Glorious Grace “wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”(1:6) The goal of our salvation is found in John 17:24, “Father, I will that they also, WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, may be WITH ME WHERE I AM; that they may BEHOLD MY GLORY, which you have give Me; FOR YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.”
You see, everything that God has Done and is Doing is wrapped with this Divine Bow, the Love of the Father for His Son. All that God Does is all about Family LOVE!!! This is missing in Christendom! As Thomas Smail stated in his book years ago, “The Forgotten Father”, “we have a Christology and a Pneumatology, but we have no Paterology.” But it is far worse than that. It is not an additional “theology” that we need. It is an entirely corrected “Relationship” that we need!
Consider with me the prayer of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 3:14-21. He has spent the whole of Ephesians 1:1-3:13 unwrapping and bringing his readers into fellowship with the Mystery...”which from the beginning of the world has been hidden in God, Who Created all things by Jesus Christ.” (3:9) His calling by grace was “to make all see what is the fellowship of this Mystery”. It is “for this cause I bow my knees unto the FATHER of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Now note the “description” of this Father, “Of Whom the WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH IS NAMED.” This Family Context is missing from Christendom and Christian “theology”, and I don’t mean the “family church” on the corner. This is the Divine Family, the Eternal Divine Relationship of Father, Son, bound together in the Spirit of Love, commonly called, and somewhat coldly so, the Trinity. It is into this Eternal Fellowship that the Father’s Will and Purpose adopted children for His Pleasure from before the foundation of the world.(Eph. 1:3-5) It is for this Eternal Fellowship that the Incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection of the Beloved Son was accomplished as John speaks in I John 1:1-4. “That which we have seen and declare unto you, that you also may have fellowship with us: AND TRULY OUR FELLOWSHIP IS WITH THE FATHER AND WITH HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.” (Vs 4)
Christ didn’t come to “get people saved so they don’t have to go to hell.” That is a gross mis-statement of but a part of the Father’s Will and Purpose in the display of His Glorious Grace “wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved.”(1:6) The goal of our salvation is found in John 17:24, “Father, I will that they also, WHOM YOU HAVE GIVEN ME, may be WITH ME WHERE I AM; that they may BEHOLD MY GLORY, which you have give Me; FOR YOU LOVED ME BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.”
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