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"Never man spake like this man" (re. John 7:46). The authority to speak in the name of Jesus Christ is given to them whom, by suffering association and self-denial, have taken up their cross and followed him, not straight to heaven but to Gethsemane, Pilate's Hall, and then Calvary. The cross of Jesus Christ is my cross, and it is yours. By appointment, we are given place in midnight wrestlings to win the power, and by progressive grace and truth, we are given place. This is authority to have place in Christ and to speak out of that place for Christ. Mainstream Christianity has no viable witness of Jesus Christ because they do not live for Jesus Christ; they live for themselves. Christians talk about everything but Christ. Someone has to say it, and this book without apology does just that.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	10 août 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462412334
Langue	English

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For He Taught Them as One Having Authority, and Not as the Scribes. re. Matthew 7:29

ray d. brown

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Inspiring Voices rev. date: 03/06/2020

This effort to magnify the Lord Jesus Christ is dedicated to Pastor Mitchell Tolle, Senior Pastor at Man O’ War Church of God in Lexington, Kentucky, for the exceeding grace and love and humility of the Lord Jesus reflected in himself, and extended toward me.
In the beginning was the Word.
re. John 1:1
Here, then, is the inception of reconciliation, the genesis of Grace and Truth; “Let there be light.” 1 Here the rudiment of relationship in the birth pangs of the first dawn, the infancy of Alpha and I. This the origin and cradle of creative genius, the calling of those things which are not as though they were, 2 the debut of Logos, the initiation and actualization of the first faith. This is Christ.
Here, then, is the first utterance of faith dividing the darkness, the preface of form upon the void, the person of God. We witness omnipotence and omniscience move upon the face of the waters, the impetus and embryonic emergence upon the deep of the omnipresence of God; the Word of Life thus living and moving, the fabrication of faith. And God saw the light of it, that it was good. 3
Here, then, is the first glimpse of Grace, the organization and intuitive strategy of Genius, the unsearchable wisdom and intent of Jehovah God; this is Alpha expressing himself. This the prelude and passion of Christ, that of a Savior and a great King, that of righteousness, and of a peace “having neither beginning of days, nor end of life.” 4
Here, then, is the catalyst and continuity of the critical cataclysm of Life, the conflict and disaffection of Light and Darkness, a great divide - the chasm and mystery of God in Christ reconciling unto himself a world yet made. This, then, the preface of faith; that God had a plan. Here is the absolute of God, his unassailable sovereignty in the power of his Word, the unfathomable person of faith speaking the impossible into existence.
How to arrest eternity to analyze and appraise the person of God in Christ, such Grace in the genesis of time, and the beginning of mankind? In the beginning there was One, and he is HOLY. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 5
O Holy Father, and this, is the enigma of my grace in the moment of an immeasurable mercy, that you who made the heavens and the earth, are also mindful of me. That I would experience the intensity and conveyance of your emotion, the communication of your Spirit, the intonation of your holy desire for me - that by suffering association you are mine, and you have empowered me, and given me place to speak your holy name. In awe and wonder I sit in the silence of my soul, on the other side of the fire I thus sit, out of place to ponder great things; O my beginning, my first and last breath, my broken heart I bring, my feelings and thoughts by divine dialogue, simply to be magnificently known, the glory of I cannot express.
My hope is to sit quietly beneath your commandment in the One Word of your law, and to listen for the footfalls of your love. In this Word is the fullness of God and all my sufficiency, the tome of my character laid bare. You keep me from error by grace through that faith which works by love and obedience unto all sanctity - I will not believe a lie here; no, not out of this place of thy perfection. Thank you, O righteous Father, for shielding me about by Truth, encompassing me by Grace, saving me with One Word of Faith. You are my hiding place, O Word of Spirit and of Truth, I cannot be taken here, I will not fear. I will believe and thereby enter in, I will abide in your Word, and from here ask what I will.
In this my beginning was the Word, and in this the day of my salvation I am sustained, there is no day but this one. I will rejoice, and be glad in it. Deception has no purview or part in this place, a lie cannot attain unto me here. “Thy Word is Truth,” 6 and this is the beginning of my being born again, and the breaking up of fallow ground.
When I was yet without strength, and when I was lost and undone, and without hope in the world, in due time the Grace of God searched me out down the corridor of time and precarious circumstance to see me there; and in the beginning was the Word. At the end of myself emaciated and disillusioned, resigned to the death I had courted and surely won, and as I resolutely breathed what I thought was my last, well, in the beginning was the Word. Having taken the gift of life which God had given into a far country and wasting it on riotous living, and determinedly destroying the man I had become but could no longer live with, and finally, at death’s door, in the beginning was the Word. “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,” 7 yes, even before the earth was declared to be without form, and void, and as darkness was yet upon the face of the deep, in my beginning was the Word. “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.” 8
In this my beginning I have always been, and before the world itself began, God had a plan. My salvation was hid in the mystery of the wisdom of Almighty God in Christ Jesus, ere before the foundation was laid, my feet were set upon a rock, and my redemption was sure. Before there was a world made which would succumb to sin, he knew me. In the fullness of time God sent forth his Word, and healed me from my destructions. In the beginning was the Word, and I, in the hourglass and continuum of God’s grace came I forth unto birthing.
This, then, is my beginning, and the Word has always been. In the sovereignty and foreknowledge of God I am found, a son born into the Father’s favor by faith; even so, I came forth. By fire and by flood I came forth full term into faith, into place; “through sanctification of the Spirit” thus separated from the world umbilicus and expectations of men, severed from sin and shame and made a son “by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” I thus press into place.
In the beginning was the Word in which I have always been, and in which I now take my place, in this the fullness of time I press, in this a living Word to dwell, and from here to speak in Christ; an auspicious beginning, indeed.
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever.” 9 By the will of God the Father the Holy Spirit moves upon the Word of God in my heart and mind, and by light and by living water, and by all things working together, it springs into newness of life. In this my beginning was the Word. Even as Jesus began to explain the Parable of the Sower in Luke 8:11, he prefaced his exposition by saying, “Now the parable is this: The seed is the Word of God.” And we know that the LORD Jesus Christ, being the Word of God, and the seed of God, is One and the same; One LORD, One faith, One baptism. One God and Father of all by One Spirit; One Church, One bride, One people of God.
In my beginning there came an hour in which the Son of man was glorified as God, and he would have to die to do it; In that hour in which I saw him lifted up upon a cross bleeding and dying, that hour in which the Spirit of God made it real that it was my sin for which he died. “Jesus Christ as the Word” was revealed unto me by the Holy Spirit, that he was, indeed, GOD. In that hour of my auspicious beginning from the birth pangs of death unto sin I rose in the revelation of my true self and the realization of God, One and the same. In the beginning was the Word; the person of God.
As said the LORD Jesus, “The seed is the Word of God,” and as said the apostle Peter, “being born again by the Word of God.” And here, then, is a glimpse by grace of the mystery of its wisdom in the sovereignty of God. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” 10 Of course, the LORD Jesus refers emphatically and empirically and unequivocally to himself, the suffering servant of God; the emissary of the mercy of God, the manifestation of the Grace and Truth of God. This, then, is the gospel of Jesus Christ and him crucified, and there is none other gospel. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby