Jesus’ Life Standard
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser as a pre-cursor to a series about the seven churches of Revelation.
When studying the 7 churches that John wrote to in the book of Revelation, the key is to discern the characteristic of Christ being revealed to any specific church. It is that revelation that unlocks the full potential of that church and corrects any erroneous misrepresentation of Jesus through His Church locally.

Here is a passage that reveals the standards of Jesus Christ that we all pray for in our local churches, and indeed our personal lives.
“John [writing] to the seven assemblies, the ones in Asia. [Sanctifiying] grace to you and [tranquilizing] peace, from Him who is and who was and who is coming, and from the seven spirits which are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the trustworthy, dependable witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and set us free from our sins by means of His blood, and who constituted us a kingdom, priests to His God and Father, to Him is the glory and power forever and forever. Amen.” Revelation 1:4-6 Wuest’s Greek New Testament Translation.

Standards from Jesus life that builds the Church

1. Grace that sanctifies. There are few terms as full of meaning as ‘grace.’ God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense. What I have found in ministry is that grace is an enabling force that lifts you above your own abilities to fulfil something that originated in God’s heart. It includes both the power and provision for the task and creates an environment that makes anything you believe seem possible for a moment. If you can zoom into your spirit and track that moment of grace, it becomes a new pathway for you existence and starts to spread out across all the spheres of your life.
2. Peace that calms. Kingdom peace is something that surpasses your understanding. Surrealism is art that creates a sur-reality where the laws of physics are bent to accommodate creative ideas that use free association in settings that seem life-like, yet totally impossible. Salvidor Dali and Rene Magritte were some of my favourite Surrealists.
What the world needs is for creative thinker to life society into a sur-reality of faith that will challenge current affairs and philosophy, and indeed ways of life that have not produced peace. The liberation of the world is dependent on the revelation of the sons of God being revealed. But if we don’t’ overcome the angst of the world, how will the world know our peace?

3. Eternity. In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John understand something about the eternal existence of the man he knew as his friend, but also the Light of the World, the son of God, the Christ Jesus he worshiped and continued to see in the higher reality of his visions on the isle of Patmos.
Hebrews 11:6
Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
God is. He exists in the spiritual realm of eternity. We need to relate to God in that realm. Sense evidence is deceiving. What appears to be is temporal, what is unseen is eternal. Quantum physics has changed people’s view of matter and what is visible. Things are inconstant flux and oscillations of electrons in fields create what we see in the visible spectrum of light. There is so much more to life than empirical evidence. Just the concept of thought helps to show that you can override the laws of physics with an idea. Gravity is a fact and if you jump up you will come down, but the idea of lift and thrust can cause a plan to overcome the forces of gravity and drag.