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The Regenerating Generosity Of God

As we celebrate the end of the second millennium from the time of Jesus Christ's birth, it is fitting that God should want us to understand more clearly the true significance of that event. An occasion of great joy, heralded by the angels proclaiming 'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those of goodwill .' The birth of our Saviour.

The Regenerating Generosity of God.

After the fall God immediately began to implement His contingency plan, not in a revolutionary way, but in an evolutionary way, allowing mankind to experience the practical implications of the choice between good and evil. To learn that freewill was not just a choice, but a challenge to the heart, mind and soul, a challenge to each persons integrity. Everyone from the time of the fall has and is being tested, individually within the whole collective struggle of humanity.

In God's own words to His prophet:

"The character, the very essence of your being is your spirit. It is your spirit that is given freedom, freedom of expression, freedom within the confines of your mortal being. And within the confines of your mortal being, the very character that is you, has the task to subdue that mortal being.

To achieve the conquest that leads to salvation, you, your very character, your very essence, realises and must surrender to the will of your God and the sign of this surrender is to ask for the grace of My most Holy Spirit. Here then is the nub of the whole subject of your very being, that you, your character, desires to have victory over the world, the flesh and the devil.

This battle, this exchange of wills, is what your life is all about. For you are above all a spirit, let free from the hands of your God. Has it not been said, "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak?" But I extend to you, the spirit MUST be willing, for it is free. Your body is no more free than the cattle of the field, but your spirit is and it is your spirit that listens first to the love song of your God to come back to Him, to seek Him, to ask for His grace.

This enlightenment will give you a foundation on which to build an understanding, a tactic you can use so that your character, the very essence that is you, can be glorified in the sight of your God."

Comment: To know the truth, so that the truth will set us free - this is the tactic highlighted in this message. The truth that we come from God and that we will never be completely happy until we find Him again and make Him and His Kingdom our goal.

The way to the Kingdom is via the gateway of Christ. The Divine and perfect Judge, who as God the Son, is all knowing, all wise, all just, all merciful and always obedient to God the Father's specification.

As the perfect all knowing Judge, Christ understands the love of the Father for His children, which is the real fundament of the specification. The bottom line for a true and final decision. In the word explicit, coming from the word specification, is to be found the real clue to Christ's judgements. Explicit comes from the Latin 'explicitus', unfolded. As 'explicitus est liber': the book is unfolded (or complete).

In other words the judgement is not unfounded by lack of knowledge of what has gone before, or what is possible in the future. Of what can evolve in a life tested by good times and bad. Tested by the dimensions (qualities) of life experience, from birth to old age, to death. From death to - where now?

God expressed it this way to His prophet:

"From age to age and step by step My plan unfolds and in this unfolding My people witness the faithfulness inherent in My love, to My commitment to draw you one and all to Myself. No stain, no blemish that My child may have inherited or acquired, will keep Me and My love from seeking the salvation of that child."

Comment: As the second Millennium A.D draws to a close, many demands for change were being made on the basis that "We are living in the nineties." What a contrast to God's words of encouragement, that regardless of which age it is that we as individuals live and die, He is and His love is for all ages - forever.

It could be said that the most prevalent feature of the 20th century has been the regularity of crises. Crises which have prompted changes and changes which have spawned crises. Involved in all of this have been the people - the Plebiscite - the public forum. Faced with the pace of change and crises, the public expression has become confused and anxious, an anxiety that has reached into family life and the lives of individuals.

God's desire to heal our anxieties was given to His prophet this way:

"Feelings of anxiety can stem from a lack of knowledge of that which makes you anxious. I your God am all knowledge, therefore seek from Me by faith and trust the hope contained in the knowledge that I am.

As a loving Father I do not want you to be anxious, but to be happy. To have love in the knowledge that you are indeed (in-deed) loved, loved by Me your God, your Creator, your King.

Feelings of concern however, are acceptable, for you should have concern if you feel a dimming of hope. A dimming of hope is a sign of a diminishing faith and a diminishing faith means that love is not being reciprocated and shared."

Comment: From a down to earth perspective anxiety usually centers around health, wealth and happiness. It is said that we do not fully appreciate good health until we lose it, or that all the money in the world cannot buy good health or happiness. Nevertheless without good health and without sufficient income, life can be a very difficult and depressing experience.

God, knowing all these things and the reasons for them, indicates that He can heal our anxieties by bringing hope into our lives through our knowing and our acceptance of His existence and the great love that He has for us.

Is it that we have our priorities out of perspective? Are we worrying too much about our health and wealth, thereby hoping to find happiness, instead of securing happiness in our knowledge and trust in God's providence? Are we too concerned with the present when God is inviting us to be positive about our future? A future which can be an eternal life of happiness with Him in the immensity of His Kingdom, made possible through Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit added His encore on the subject through His prophet:

"The principles of balance are placed before you and the principal, the King of balance is Christ the King.

All creation is balanced by the perfect obedience of Jesus to the will of the Father. This statement is at present far beyond your understanding, but it is gravely essential that you in the beginning understand it, so that in time all peoples will understand it.

For until they do, Christ will be ignored, His name will be blasphemed and His love will be rejected by so many. The sacrifice of the cross will be misunderstood and the Eucharist will be received unworthily. The delicate perfection of the God that is Christ is so beautiful, so sacrificial and yet so unimposing. It is unimposing because the Father wills it to be so, so that all of human creation can be free to love.

Christ is crucifixed to be the reference of primary balance and His sacrifice on Calvary was to demonstrate His crucial alignment. The figure of Christ on the cross is symbolic of the figure of Christ as Divine Creator, so obedient to the Father's will that He became the Eucharist you receive - to impart the grace you need to imitate His obedience to the Father - (the way of love) the way to eternal bliss with Him in the Kingdom of Glory, Alleluia!"

GLOSSARY

Explicit - precisely and clearly expressed, leaving nothing to implication; fully stated (unreserved)

Goodwill - benevolence, kindliness, willingness or aquiesence. Acquiese: to comply with, assent to without protest, to, in this case the kindness, goodness and love of God - The Regenerating Generosity of God through Jesus Christ.

His Contingency Plan - In God's own words "Collapse of structures built on shifting foundations (false based) is always going to happen if the builder does not keep to the specification of the planner. I am the infinite planner and I have allowed in My plans for shoddy builders who slip from My directions. Everything has been given many contingency allowances to offset the blunders of office."

Plebiscite - The vote of the populace; to approve, to know.

Specification - detailed description of criteria; specific, explicit, particular or definite in the way things must be judged or decided.

The Regenerating Generosity of God - (1) To restore what was lost (through the disobedience of one man, Adam). (2) The opportunity given to us to be morally and spiritually reborn (through the perfect obedience and example of one man, Jesus Christ).

Understand - sympathetic to, or compatible with; congruent. (sympathetic - the sharing of anothers compassion; an affinity or harmony between persons; mutual affection arising from such a relationship.)

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