Activate the Relationship.....
>>That is one sense, but there is also a sense where we are in relationship with God. This relationship is blocked by our sin and can only be re established by God Himself. Since we are unable to climb up to God by way of religious observance and practice, Jesus came, incarnate, to fulfill the Law for us, that He might receive the just penalty for sin, and graciously give us His righteousness.>>
God's perfect order can never be violated. And it's for this very reason why these empty & loose - faith only - cannons come up empty.
Why?
Because if by faith alone - as many Christian "religious" folks espouse - we forever fallen sinners are to be redeemed then there's not ONE wink any need for me, you or any one of us to cooperate to refrain from evil.
We can sin and sin and sin again and just have faith in this 11th hour redemption of/by/for/in and through Jesus Christ who is God our Father.
The vast majority of what passes for mankind's religion never succeeds in activating an unmediated relationship with our Father Jesus Christ because they are claiming to mediate, regulate, judge and claim credit for taking this role IN FRONT OF - even INSTEAD OF CHRIST.
And this empty loose cannon belief in the empty power of faith at the 11th hour time of redemption ensures that individuals remain in a state of suspended spiritual animation as we float and flutter, fall and pick ourselves up after retreiving burnt broom after burnt broom from the orders of these Wizards - the egos inside each individual - who continue to feed the illusion of separation between man and God by worshipping claims and talking credit for the light, energy and Love of God.
For as you say...
>>This relationship is blocked by our sin and can only be re established by God Himself. Since we are unable to climb up to God by way of religious observance and practice, Jesus came, incarnate, to fulfill the Law for us, that He might receive the just penalty for sin, and graciously give us His righteousness.>>
His energy, His knowlege, His wisdom, His light, His love....
Jesus is our ONE Lord God in Heaven who fullfilled his mission in which as God He took on an incarnate body, lived a perfect life of Love and successfully made His Human Divine. The human was not Divine prior to the Glorification on April 9th in 30 AD. But on the day of glorification when His work was finished the massively strong woven curtain in temple was torn completely in two.
The Kingdom of Heaven had arrived for it was now possible once again for man to activate and step directly into in a direct relationship with our ONE Lord God in Heaven who is our Father Jesus Christ. And from that time forward there has never been a need for representative-based mediation with anything that mankind may attempt to conditionally ritualize or form doctrine about.
From that point forward this "New Jerusalem" has been forming bit by bit in the minds, hearts and souls of individuals all over this world. For this New Church knows no walls or boundaries. Each individual is a church in this new model which is governed by His Divine Providence as it's supported by His free and unconditional energy, light and Love.
Emanuel Swedenborg received from our Lord and was "caused to write" what he received over the last 29 years of his life in 27 of his final works on the religion and theology of this energy, this Love.
But if I could speak for him which I cannot, my feeling is that Emanuel wouldn't have ANY interest in claiming or conditionalizing ONE iota of what he was caused to write on these spiritual subjects for his personal credit.
For ALL credit must go to the ONE Source who is our Lord God in Heaven Jesus Christ. And this is the source of ALL the energy, light and Love in the entire universe and all universes are created and supported by Him.
When the natural mind begins to finally "see" the extreme power behind the simplicity of ONE, this is when we let to and open up more and more to allowing Him to come into our mind, hearts and souls so that He can, bit by bit, teach us, guide us and help us along this journey of redemption which involves Him reforming and regenerating us back to His order personally and directly.
This is the process of letting go to let God re-establish a New Will that's is constructed over the Old Natural Evil will which had been enslaving us to the illusion of separation from Him, the source of all light, energy and Love.
So with each individual's "cooperation" Jesus Christ who is our Father in Heaven opens up all the heavens and all the angels become our direct friends and resources to help up, guide us and teach us day by day by day.
This conversation with God begins in the heart and then proceeds into the mind and then flows freely out into the universe where His energy, light and Love is freely and unconditionally received and shared with others in the fullfilment of scripture "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven...."
I believe the Lord is working miracles all over this world every second of every day. I see this New World and this New Jerusalem being formed directly by Him, in Him, with Him and for Him. And all of this is being done in a way that in no way attempts to compell or violate the freewill of individuals. For the truth is not something that can be forced or compelled on anyone. It can only be freely received and shared with no hooks, bells, conditions or restrictions attached.
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