15 Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth [in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly]. Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, [even] Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
16 For because of Him the whole body (the church, in all its various parts), closely joined and firmly knit together by the joints and ligaments with which it is supplied, when each part [with power adapted to its need] is working properly [in all its functions], grows to full maturity, building itself up in love.
Once again, there is only One and in Christ we cannot help but to work properly through the power of our Father. For us to not work properly would mean that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not working properly. We have the Holy Spirit empowering us to clearly know and live in this Truth. I honestly believe that the worlds Christians think that they have to first act, for our Father to then act through them. This is wrong and through the power of Christ we will preach the Truth that will set the world free. We are now one with our Father through Jesus, and because that we are the world is able to believe, John 17:19-22.
17 So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.
18 Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].
19 In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].
Let me ask you this question, has the world really seen and heard the Truth? Or have they seen a form of godliness that talks about Jesus and our Father but denies Their power, 2 Timothy 3:5. Here is what I mean: hasn’t the world predominately only seen denominations that arrogantly claim that they are the only true believers, 1 Corinthians 3:5? Hasn’t the world seen tele-evangelists that base their entire message on money, 2 Peter 2:3? Haven’t they seen and heard what they must first do, so that our Father can then do something for them, John 15:5? I honestly do not believe that the world has seen the Truth. They have seen a ton of religion, but not the Truth. I believe that when our Father takes us out to the world in the full power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit the moral understanding of the world will change! How can we hold them at fault when they have not seen the Truth of Love that intercedes, regardless of what they have done, to forgive them, just as it did with Jesus and Stephen? How can we condemn them when there is no condemnation in us, Romans 8:1?
Look at how Jesus dealt with the hard hearted and the morally corrupt. He feed them, forgave them, taught them, healed them, and loved them. We are now one with Him! How can we act any differently?
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