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To the church in
Fallopi:
grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I write to you brothers and sisters in Christ for I see that having received the Word of Christ you are now labouring in vain as if the Word was not in you. Why are you trying to become something you already are? Why, having received the Word of Christ, have you not believed it? Do you not know that you were born in Zion - the womb of God? You are children of God, complete in Christ, loved and accepted as you are because of Him. And yet I see you live as if this were not so! You strive to become children of God, acceptable to Him as if that is not what you already are. Why do you seek to enter His presence when His presence is in you? Why do you try to become like Christ when Christ is in you? Do you not know that He is becoming like you.he is being revealed in you and as you - that is why it says, 'He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ.' And what is that day of Christ? It is the revealing of the sons of God that all creation longs for.this will be your birthday. As an unborn baby rests in its mother's womb so too you must enter his rest and allow Christ to be formed in you. See to it that none of you stop short of this rest. I fear for you that many of you having received the Word of Christ, The Seed, are now trying by you own efforts to grow into Christ. You are forming outside the womb of God - you must rest from your own works and enter His rest. Do you not know that a baby that forms outside its mother's womb is aborted? You foolish Fallopians, do you not know that ectopicacy is sin? Why then do you live in this half-way house - having received the Word of Christ, the promised Seed - you are not entering into the truth of who you are. Like an embryo stuck between the ovary and the womb you acknowledge the truth but stop short of embracing it. I write these things to remind you of the hope you have in Christ. Little children, you have known the Father and your sins are forgiven you, once and for all. Your identity as His beloved is fixed for all eternity. Let us therefore leave the old life of Self living for God and move on to enjoy the privileges of Sonship in Christ. For it is by grace, through faith, that you have been saved, not by your own works so that no-one may boast. So just as you received Him, continue to live in Him. No longer must you know each other after the flesh - the striving in which you used to once live. But now each must speak truthfully to his neighbour as together you affirm that if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation, the old has gone the new has come. Stand firm in the faith resisting that Great Deceiver who would have you believe that you are forever Fallopian. For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ. Grace and peace to you as you trust in Christ and wait for his appearing. |