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Originally Posted by awareness
Ga 5:22-23 : But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Recovery back to the early church is not it. Recovery back to Jesus is.
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Amen, dear brother awareness. Recovery back to Jesus is it! Christlikeness is the fruit of the Spirit. This is our wonderful reality and our glorious destiny as believers in Christ!
Getting back to Jesus Christ is the most basic and fundamental matter. This is where God begins and this is where God carries out His work. In Chirst! In Christ! Always in Christ!
Your post is actually an excellent segue right into Message Nine. As TAS points out, our beginning is in Christ, our progress is in Christ, our work and our service is in Christ. If we go beyond Christ, God will bring us back to Christ.
As TAS said in Message Nine,
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"Let me just re-emphasize this: with God everything begins with a revelation of His Son. If we go beyond that, God will bring us back to it. That is true in the matter of Salvation. There is no true beginning of the Christian life without a seeing of Jesus Christ as God's Son. And that is true of all the progress of the Christian life. God keeps all our spiritual progress true to the revelation of Jesus Christ. And that is true of all the work of God. All the true work of God has got to be done by our seeing the Lord Jesus . . .
We ought never to do anything in the work of God, unless we get it from the Lord . . .
The Spirit of God was saying, is this thing of Christ? Is it an expression of Christ? It is not what you think about this work of God. Not your ideas and your judgments, not how you do things in the world. It is, Has it come from Heaven by the Spirit of God? Have you waited on God to get it from Him? That is how it has always been in the beginning. That is how it was in the beginning of THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES."
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