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Radical Intimacy with God • Apr 01st 1990
Making Christ Central Part 3
What if the Christian life we strive for is impossible for humans to live, and the common practices we rely on are worn-out gimmicks? Gene Edwards challenges us to turn away from mere religious movements and corrupt practices—like elevating spiritual gifts or focusing on doctrine’s origin over intimate reality—to find the true source of life. He humbly contends that we, as believers, have barely scratched the surface of knowing the Lord, often replacing a living God with printed material or boring routines. The secret to the Christian life is not Bible study, prayer, or tithing, but receiving the Father’s life, loving Him with that life, and continually beholding Him, just as Christ did in eternity. This journey demands that Christ be our only motive, leading to a radical, intimate encounter with the indwelling Lord outside of space and time. Come and listen to a necessary call to leave the external trappings of faith alone and embrace the highest life possible: knowing Him well.
Now, may that Lord and that Savior have mercy and be kind and gentle to this bunch of crazy people who stepped out of the organized church and put one foot in the glue pot and stagger around in the other foot ignorant, ignominious, and ignoramuses, seeking to follow what’s set in our hearts, trying to see the unseen, looking for a city we cannot yet clearly envision. But we’re out here. And we’ve got a right to be here. We have a Lord who we have not yet scaled the heights of Him, nor the depths of Him. And we are His girlfriend. We are His bride. And we are His bride. We can know oneness with Him, for one day we shall be His wife, and that means we will be made one with Him. If all of Scripture has anything to tell me, it is that all things that He will give, He has given and can give, does give, and will give to me…and give to you…a foretaste, which means that I can know oneness with Him now. I can touch that. I can be lost in God.
May God keep you. Thank you for these last six or seven hours we’ve been together here. Praise the Lord. Amen.
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