2003/07/08

Resurrection of Christianity

As background to my letter to the editor of Time magazine I sat down to put my thoughts in order before I wrote the letter.
More than ever before I realize that Nola and I are not busy building a church or starting a movement but that we have a responsibility towards Christianity as a whole to steer the next generation onto the path marked 'right' so that they will not falter or fail as the deception in the world grows stronger.
Nola and I find ourselves involved in spiritual battles we cannot explain – for the sake of the body of Christ. We realize our lives are hidden with God in Christ Jesus and that our lives are not our own. People who want to measure what God is doing in our lives by comparing our church or buildings that we rent with theirs are obviously operating carnally and live by their 5 senses rather than the spirit within.
There is so much more at stake than a single church. We are battling for truth's sake and our work and our reward is with God, our Maker.The Resurrection of Christianity
2003/07/08
Andre Pelser

Just as Christ died and was buried in the grave, Christianity has reached a place where it is dead and buried as far as the world is concerned. But the Good News is that just as Christ was raised from the dead on the third day triumphing over death and the grave so Christianity is being resurrected in a more powerful form than ever before!

Isaiah 52:13-15
13 Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently;
He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high.
14 Just as many were astonished at you,
So His visage was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;
15 So shall He sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.

The image of Christianity has been so marred and perverted that it became unrecognizable to the world. Christ was marred on the cross and no longer resembled a human being because of all the punishment and the contortions brought about by the excruciating pain caused by the most extreme form of punishment and torture ever known to man, crucifixion. Besides the physical suffering his soul was tortured by all the sins of the world and his body had to endure every imaginable disease and results of sin affecting the body, including modern diseases such as HIV/Aids.
Jesus did not merely carry the burden of the sins of mankind through the ages, He actually became sin. He who knew no sin became sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God through faith in Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

God is raising up a new kind of Christianity that this world has not seen before. It is the manifestation of the true sons of God, not another religion. Manmade religion has twisted and contorted the image of Christ in ways that suited their doctrines and interpretation of the Scriptures, but God is manifesting His true sons, or little Christ?s, meaning ?anointed ones? all over the globe and you find them in every walk of life. They have a different frequency, walk to a different drum beat and do not always fit into the existing formats of churches the world has become used to during the past two thousand years.

2 Corinthians 5:17
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

They are a new species of being: sons of the living God. They have the nature of their heavenly father in them and they are strong enough to overcome Satan the deceiver and to rule over sin and to break the bonds of sin and sickness because the Word of God dwells in them in such a way that the word has once again become flesh. Their faith does not depend on a church doctrine but on a natural relation with an invisible God through faith in His present day revealed truth.

I am writing this as I listen to Gustav Mahler?s Auferstehung?s Sinfonie Nr. 2 in C-minor (Resurrection Symphony) played by the city of Birmingham?s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Simon Rattle (recorded in 1986 in Watford town hall and produced by David R. Murray made into a sound recording by EMI in 1987) The CD cover depicts Jean Delville?s painting, ?L?homme Dieu? (1901-3) on display in the Stedelijke Musea in Brugge. I found this CD in our Milnerton Library at the time of Mahler?s birthday: 07.07.1860 ? He would have been 143 years old had he lived to this day.

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