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You are Very Needy • Jan 01st 1987

Paul’s Letter to the Gauls (Galatians) – Chapter 6

First Century New Testament Paul the Apostle The Epistles

We believe true Christians don’t have deep problems, but Gene Edwards challenges this spiritual insulation by confronting the messy reality of life in the body of Christ. Gene Edwards unpacks the honest, often shocking, reality of enormous needs—from hidden addictions to chronic manipulation—that universally surface when believers live in genuine community. This powerful teaching moves past legalism and simplistic fixes, urging us to recognize that Christian maturity is rooted in the humble discovery of our weakness, for “Grace says you are weak”. Crucially, Paul’s instruction compels the spiritual to stop judging the broken and instead participate in the hard, compassionate work of restoration, thereby fulfilling the singular “law of Christ” by bearing one another’s burdens. Ultimately, Gene Edwards invites us to stop praying for a future release and embrace the liberating truth of the Cross: the world has passed, and we live in the “eternal now” where right now it is Christ that lives in me.

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Listen, I’m going to say a word. Train yourself to say, “Now, right now, it is Christ, not me.” I’m sitting here right now, and it is not me. Now it is Christ. Tomorrow you will be washing dishes. Now it is Christ. Tomorrow you will be changing dirty diapers. Now it is Christ that lives. Tomorrow you will be working as a carpenter. Everything around you is messy, but everything down here is over with. Now it is Christ. I don’t feel spiritual; I don’t feel God’s presence. Now it is Christ. Right now, it is Christ who lives in me. Right now, it is Christ. Right now, it is Christ…right now. It is Christ. Now it is Christ. Not tomorrow. Not some better day. Not some golden day. Now it is Christ. I’m going to go eat. I’m going to go drink. Now it is Christ. It is no longer me, but now it is Christ. Now, right now, it is Christ. I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live, yet it is not I, but it is Christ living in me. The life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Right now – it is Christ.

Will you do me this little goodbye favor? Will you repeat it with me? Now it is Christ. Now it is Christ. Right now. Right now, it is Christ who lives. We’re going to do it again. Right now, it is Christ who lives. No skyrockets, no great glorious thing, no enormous spiritual encounter, no mountaintop experience, no great forgiveness of sin, no new release into a new world, but it is now, and the past is all over with. And right now, it is Christ that lives in me. Repeat it. Right now, it is Christ who lives in me. You’ll never get any further than that. You’ll never get a word better than that. Go live on it. When you come to the scripture, be there when you pray. Be there when you’re with your husband. Be there when you’re with your wife. Be there in a crisis. In dry times, in high times, in low times now. It is not I, but Christ who lives right in this mundane moment.

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