Fulfilling Mystery

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We have got to see what our life in Christ means as the Church, and understand that we are called by God to a cosmic and final struggle in a battle with the powers of darkness over the whole issue of which wisdom will prevail over God's creation. Wisdom does not mean what we would ordinarily think it to mean. It is not wise sayings, but more like value systems. The wisdom of the gods of this world is a system predicated on force, violence, threat, fear, ambition, lust, intimidation and the terror of men to preserve themselves, and to make their own survival the first law of life. Their system is the unchallenged premise by which the world lives its life, namely, the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure, and makes that the foremost purpose of its being. The ability to lay down one's life and not to consider that one's life is dear to oneself is the wisdom of God. This wisdom is predicated on weakness and foolishness. The one wisdom lives for itself, its own preservation and its own advantages, while God's wisdom lives for another. The wisdom of the Son of God is selfless; He never initiated anything for Himself, but lived entirely for the gratification of His Father.This is contrary to human nature and how we think man has to live. Everything that is resolved through violence is the wisdom of this world. That is the way the world has lived its life throughout history. God's wisdom is to relinquish(, to give up, to yield and to believe that there is something greater than death and, by that, overcome the fear of death. God's wisdom is of another kind that is centered in the Cross of Christ Jesus, namely, to serve and glorify Him, and if that does not bring us suffering, nothing else will. We will know that we have aligned ourselves with God when we constitute a threat to the realm of spirit powers that brood over us. The overcomers at the end of the age are not those who attain to a painless, pleasant life; they are those who do not "love their lives, even unto death" (Rev. 12:11). This is the wisdom that the world cannot bear. The only one who can live like that truly is one who does not think that this life is the whole story. There is an eternity, and it is the true appreciation of that fact that enables us to be fearless in this life. If we suffer the loss of our life, we are fully persuaded that it is not mere happenstance or accident, but ordained of God, and that there will be a reward for that sacrifice and suffering. Matthew 16:25," whoever wants to save his life will loss it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will shall find it." Jesus tactical approach is the prevailing tool against the wisdom of the world, the overcomers culture (Rev 12:11).  Unless we break through to an understanding of this, our spiritual life will be stifled and church will be nothing more than a succession of services, and we will not be part of the fulfillment of the mystery. We have to decide whether we will be part of this or not. We do not have to be, and unhappily, if we are not, we will be in something that is called "Christian" but it will likely be apostate.

We are living and moving by another wisdom, 
Defying the odds yet gaining grounds,
Aligning differently yet archiving more,
We have become a mystery why fulfilling the mystery,
A content not understood with the natural eye,
Losing to them but without regrets,
Falling prey yet gaining stature,
Denied meat and fats yet reckoned with glory,
Fools yet chosen,
Weak yet setting captives free,
In chains yet without limit,
Revealing the invisible,
Conquering the impossible,

I AM FULFILLING MYSTERY.
JESUS my PATH.



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