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Pentecost 78 Living the Parable
Pentecost 78 Living the Parable
Jesus is a parable. He is the visible expression of the invisible God. The way Jesus believes is the mind of God. The way Jesus trusts is the heart of God. The Spirit of God motivates Jesus’ faith. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit and ministry of Jesus. Jesus said that when you have seen Him you have seen the Father and that He and the Father are One.
When you read Scripture you are reading a parable. Jesus said that the Word is truth. You open it and search its pages. You are searching a parable, a verbal picture of the mind of God, the truth of God.
The ‘church’ is a parable. When you worship you are among worshipers who are the visible gathering of the invisible Body of Christ. The institutional ‘church’ is not the Body, the people are. They are the hearts of gathered images of God who believe in His invisible presence in them and among them.
All of Creation is a parable. It is a visible image of the invisible mind, heart and spirit of the One who is behind it.
You are a parable. You are a living expression of an invisible reality. What you believe, who you trust, how you act, all reflect something invisible becoming visible. Your body acts out what your self-consciousness decides. You are the king of your heart kingdom. Again, Jesus the King of the Kingdom of God stands at our kingdom’s gates. ‘Kingdom’ is a parable of the capacity God has given each of us to be like Him, open, creative, inviting, inventive, free to receive, filled with grace (the way He accepts us) and truth (the way He thinks), the atmosphere of His Kingdom.
Every act, every invention, every discovery, every work of art, of music, of architecture, literature, every field of man’s work is a parable of what lies within the mind, heart and spirit of the people that produce them. They are man’s kingdoms seeking to express the mystery of being; of working with the skills and gifts they develop, to expand their kingdom. When Jesus the King of all kingdoms and kings is allowed to enter the smaller domains, He enriches them with His personal presence and they break out of their confines to further the real and final Kingdom of hearts. These Jesus will make into the ‘new Heaven and new earth’ He promised when He returns.
What makes Jesus’ parables unique are the way they pinpoint the mind and heart of individuals to see the One behind Creation, the Creator of the mind, heart and soul. When Jesus teaches in parables He is doing what is the most natural and direct way to reach the heart because that is the way He acted when He created the universe. The universe is a parable of God, a language of sight and sound. When His parables become the center of how we think the result is that our personal kingdom becomes an extension and expansion of a never-ending discovery of the creative God and experience He designed for us. The Kingdom of Heaven is an unfolding, moving and glorious reality of being constantly involved in the joyful sense of continual insight, open relationships and the flowing love of a happy nurturing God showering His people with a never ending sense of being fulfilled.
How do we know this? When we see Jesus we see someone constantly on the move, opening heart-gates, creatively and spontaneously reacting and responding with love, clarity and confidence. Jesus lived in a relational mode using the material world to accomplish spiritually relational goals. Jesus was always building, building, building. For Jesus it was all about His Father’s will, His Word and His Presence. That atmosphere of faith, grace, truth and ministry in the Spirit was and is the essence of His mission.
Jesus, the Parable of parables, is giving each of us the picture of the Kingdom of God, His Kingdom, and offering us a personal partnership in its planting in this world. Truly, the Kingdom of God is within. And, we are living the parable.
“He [Jesus] was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross (Col.1:19-20 Message Bible).”
Stay tuned…….
Jesus is a parable. He is the visible expression of the invisible God. The way Jesus believes is the mind of God. The way Jesus trusts is the heart of God. The Spirit of God motivates Jesus’ faith. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit and ministry of Jesus. Jesus said that when you have seen Him you have seen the Father and that He and the Father are One.
When you read Scripture you are reading a parable. Jesus said that the Word is truth. You open it and search its pages. You are searching a parable, a verbal picture of the mind of God, the truth of God.
The ‘church’ is a parable. When you worship you are among worshipers who are the visible gathering of the invisible Body of Christ. The institutional ‘church’ is not the Body, the people are. They are the hearts of gathered images of God who believe in His invisible presence in them and among them.
All of Creation is a parable. It is a visible image of the invisible mind, heart and spirit of the One who is behind it.
You are a parable. You are a living expression of an invisible reality. What you believe, who you trust, how you act, all reflect something invisible becoming visible. Your body acts out what your self-consciousness decides. You are the king of your heart kingdom. Again, Jesus the King of the Kingdom of God stands at our kingdom’s gates. ‘Kingdom’ is a parable of the capacity God has given each of us to be like Him, open, creative, inviting, inventive, free to receive, filled with grace (the way He accepts us) and truth (the way He thinks), the atmosphere of His Kingdom.
Every act, every invention, every discovery, every work of art, of music, of architecture, literature, every field of man’s work is a parable of what lies within the mind, heart and spirit of the people that produce them. They are man’s kingdoms seeking to express the mystery of being; of working with the skills and gifts they develop, to expand their kingdom. When Jesus the King of all kingdoms and kings is allowed to enter the smaller domains, He enriches them with His personal presence and they break out of their confines to further the real and final Kingdom of hearts. These Jesus will make into the ‘new Heaven and new earth’ He promised when He returns.
What makes Jesus’ parables unique are the way they pinpoint the mind and heart of individuals to see the One behind Creation, the Creator of the mind, heart and soul. When Jesus teaches in parables He is doing what is the most natural and direct way to reach the heart because that is the way He acted when He created the universe. The universe is a parable of God, a language of sight and sound. When His parables become the center of how we think the result is that our personal kingdom becomes an extension and expansion of a never-ending discovery of the creative God and experience He designed for us. The Kingdom of Heaven is an unfolding, moving and glorious reality of being constantly involved in the joyful sense of continual insight, open relationships and the flowing love of a happy nurturing God showering His people with a never ending sense of being fulfilled.
How do we know this? When we see Jesus we see someone constantly on the move, opening heart-gates, creatively and spontaneously reacting and responding with love, clarity and confidence. Jesus lived in a relational mode using the material world to accomplish spiritually relational goals. Jesus was always building, building, building. For Jesus it was all about His Father’s will, His Word and His Presence. That atmosphere of faith, grace, truth and ministry in the Spirit was and is the essence of His mission.
Jesus, the Parable of parables, is giving each of us the picture of the Kingdom of God, His Kingdom, and offering us a personal partnership in its planting in this world. Truly, the Kingdom of God is within. And, we are living the parable.
“He [Jesus] was supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross (Col.1:19-20 Message Bible).”
Stay tuned…….
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