THE REVELATION OF CHRIST - Gal.1:6 I marvel that you are so soon removed from HIM...unto another gospel. The Galatians have not progressed. They have not continued being led by the Spirit unto the fullness of the In Christ position. They have been removed from Christ. Now, after people are born again , and especially after they are Spirit-filled, Jesus is in the center of their love affair. They love Him, they talk about Him, and they are given to expressing the reality of Jesus. The center of their whole conversation and life is Christ. But notice something: the Galatians after having had this testimony of Christ- centeredness, have removed Him from the center. Your first step in going deeper with God is to analyze your own life. Yo must consider Am I still in that vibrant stage of first love that I had when I first met Jesus? It is not likely that you are because since you first met Jesus , too many other aspects of the Gospel have entered in and you have not retained that vibrancy of love. As you continue to walk in the Lord, you are going to continue to pick up new truth. A person may be very Christ centered when he is first saved, but after while, he begins to concentrate on these new truths he picks up. It may be divine healing; it may be the baptism of the Holy Spirit ; it may be the gifts of the Holy Spirit; it may be the ministry; or it may be a great move of God etc. If you watch new converts, this is a consistent pattern. They become taken up with one of these things. Some will go through a state of demonology. They are baptized in the Holy Spirit, and they go a little while trying to test God in every area; before you know it, they go into the sphere where everything is a demon. They gravitate to the ministries of rebuking and casting out devils. Of course, that is important, but you need to incorporate that into your understanding in the proper perspective. I have ministered to some people who could not talk about Jesus at all because they were so devil - conscious. Their speech was all of Satan.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:32:39 +0000