Our Restoration
is only in Jesus Christ
The
word restoration means, to be brought back to an original or earlier condition. It also means to bring health
and strength and a true understanding of consciousness. When our consciousness is healthy, we are able to think and be mentally
aware of our inner thoughts and feelings while being influenced by our outward circumstances meaning social, financial, moral
or similar circumstances. This process is common to all mankind. However, not all people are consciously aware of this process.
No one can escape these influences in their daily travels in what ever arena they are living in. Scripture tells us that because
of events that are taking place in the world today, we are living in the last days before Jesus returns to this earth. Scripture
also tells us “will Jesus find anyone still operating in this process of wanting
to be restored to their original condition when, He returns.”
Because
I am in my sixties, I have seen the changes that have taken place over these many years. The technologies and fast paced life
styles have increased to unparallel proportions. Everybody is scurrying around going here and there like ants, which have
their own set course of action given to them at birth. I believe that this next statement applies to all
mankind that being; we have become to busy with daily chores and too many of us have lost the ability to wonder and ponder
the make up of the universe around us and the unique awareness of our true nature. I have never in my lifetime seen and heard
such a Warfare of ideas and a bombardment of pressures trying to desensitize our sensibilities to think independently,
and us not providi ng the time to apprehend the circumstances going on in our lives and the world around us today.
We are being brainwashed to not get in touch with the God of the Universe and know Him
on a one to one bases. We have the news media not telling the news, but interpreting it and talk show programming devaluing
human beings by exposing depraved behavior and the audiences lapping it up. The constitution is being amended to change it’s
meaning as intended and we are slowly driving the consciousness of God and of His directions out of our society. In the Roman
days in the arena, they were killing Christian’s physical bodies. In the days that we live in now, our minds are being
destroyed and our concept of morality is being changed moment by moment. Jesus tells us that, He came to earth to sacrifice
His life so that we would have the power and ability to live with peace and joy if, we would guard our hearts, where the issues
of life and death are formed.
Our restoration can only be built on the
main foundation of Jesus righteous loving act as being the Son of God and who came
to die on a cross so that our relationship with God could be restored as God intended from the beginning of time. There is
no other name given among men where we can be restored to a healthy relationship with God and be able
to enjoy a secure loving relationship with Him. Unless we come to realize our fallen nature due to Adam and Eve’s deception
in the Garden of Eden, man will continue to do his own thing and he will live with the philosophy that, anything goes. With
all the churches going up and all the aspirations of the gospel being preached to the whole world, there are still people
falling between the cracks because a big majority of the born again church is still playing church and are not functioning
in the market place with the anointing of God which He gave them the day they became saved. Sunday and Wednesday church services
are not where the action is. It services a purpose of empowering one to know their position in Christ if,
The righteousness of our psition in Christ is being preached.
However, once we get out of
our diaper stage and become young men and women in the Lord, we will want to go out into the streets of our arena of life
and make a statement against wickedness where ever we find it. A Christian that does not understand their position in Christ
is a misinformed Christian who lives in ignorance and has no power to comprehend the urgency of the moment.
When you live like this, the process of having a healthy consciousness and using the
new mind we received the day we became born again never comes into play in our understanding of God’s purposes.
When this happens, the born again believer lives his life in meaningless endeavors of
chores of life and never has a clear cut understanding of his purpose as God’s ambassador to the lost and hurting.
Now it is easy to understand people who have never given their life to Jesus Christ
and have become born again. Scripture says, “They are sinners and are a slave to their impulses to do their
own thing and violate there own selves with sinful behavior.” When you have not had your nature changed
and have the Holy Spirit living in your being, you do not belong to the family of God. Since God made people, they were made
to live for eternity with Him. Unsaved people also live by this thinking process of their inner thoughts verses them being
influenced by there outward environment. Unless they hear the Gospel and dedicate their lives to Jesus Christ, they will spend
eternity in hell. There are slews of people I run into who think this statement is insanity and that God never would
allow this to happen. We all need to realize that God does not invade our lives and dictate to us terms of do it or else.
Now again I can understand unsaved people believing like this. However, when born again believers think like this, it is a
scary mind staggering thought and wonderment, if in their assemblies their righteous position in Christ is really being communicated.
We know that only Jesus Christ can save. Well He also sanctifies. The
word for sanctification in the original Greek is hagiozo: where we have a mental awareness
by the Holy Spirit telling us of our holy purified state that God sees us in. He sees us as blameless,
innocent and perfect in His sight. Now remember we are talking about an inner reasoning of conscious
thought that we need to be experiencing daily that is restoring us so we can have a healthy relationship with God. Scripture
tells us that a man should not lean to his own understanding because; his decisions will bring him death and destruction.
When he does this, he becomes molded to the environment and the influences around him and never is able to communicate and
fulfill God’s will for his life.
This gospel that God gave to the
born again believers which are His children is not even fully being taught in the born again Churches of today. It is a serious
and scary thing to see born again people being taught denominational doctrines that teach, there are things that they have
to do to keep their salvation and that Jesus death on the cross was not enough. When we teach denomination rules of conduct,
our denominations become abominations. Only Jesus saves and sanctifies..
For us to be restored to the original condition that God wants, we have to be led by
the Holy Spirit who has the words of life and is the teacher to bring us back to wholeness. So the question is, who are we
going through this conscious thought process with, is it the Holy Spirit who is our instructor or are we leaning to our own
understanding and having our morality barometer being brainwashed by the changing morality of the world around us. Scripture
tells us that God says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your ways.” If
we are going to be restored, we must be searching for a higher wisdom than our own. This is the key to healthy living. This
wisdom must be built on God’s word and nothing else. Only the word of God being planted deep with in our being can restore
us to a place of safety and quit rest in the chaotic state, which we are experiencing in the world right now.