This book will kick up a lot of "religious" dust in all of us. It's what we do when the dust settles and our eyes are opened that will determine where we go from here. It is only when we see Him, that we see our destiny. We must not get offended with the truth. The truth is the only thing that will set us free.
The enemy is behind offenses, as he does not want us to reach our destiny. Each one of us has a marvelous, unique destiny marked out by the price Christ paid for it. Hebrews 12:1b puts it simply, "Let us lay aside every weight and sin which does so easily beset us and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."
We would all agree that the church has a message for the world, but would we all agree that the world has a message for the church? They, most assuredly, do. Their cries identify the reason Christ came to earth as a man and became the sacrifice for those cries.
For every cry, there is a provision in His sacrifice. Has the church in general disclosed the real Christ and His sacrifice that brings wholeness and purpose for all people; regardless of denomination, race and background? The world is crying out to the church, "Show Me This Man Called Jesus"! This book reveals truths to the world and the church that will awaken "hope" in both. Hope awakened in the church will bring her out of law into grace. Hope awakened in the world will bring the world to Christ!
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Have you ever heard the sound of a horse when he has been hurt? How about a dog that is still alive after being hit by a car or a frightened elephant in search of her calf? What about an almost frozen bird lying on its back in the cold of winter? My dear mother picked up one, took him in her kitchen and turned the oven on low and "in he went" - guts, feathers and all! He survived (the cold and the oven)!!
This is one of the things we have in common with anything living - including animals and even warm-blooded (after the oven), egg - laying vertebrates. We all have our cries for help, don't we? Christians and non-Christians.
The cry of the world (non-Christians in this context) is their message to the Body of Christ. Is this a sound statement? I believe it is. You decide for yourself. Their message in those cries is that we, the Church, demonstrate our message. Paul states this in 1 Cor. 2:4: And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
Their cries identify the reason Christ came to earth as a man and became the sacrifice for those cries. For every cry, there is a provision in His sacrifice. The Christ that is in all Christians is their answer. I am not their answer and neither are you, but Christ within us is! Is not the Church the Body of Christ?
Jesus explains His mission on earth in Luke 4:17: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
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