The Sum of All Possibilities in Christ
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To understand the written word of God on a deeper level, we need to know how the Bible conveys the words of truth. The Bible is divided into two Testaments. The Old Testament is concerned with righteousness and the New Testament is concerned with a holiness that reconciles humankind to the living God. It has been said that the New Testament is in the Old Testament concealed and the Old Testament is in the New Testament revealed. The balance that exists in the truth is revealed in a tension of two seemingly opposing forces. The balance is in the dual aspects of the truth being equally measured, one against the other. Examples of these polarities are mercy and truth, the law and grace, the love and the fear of God, the kindness and severity of God, etc. It isn’t by accident that justice is often represented by a weight balancing scale. God is looking for a perfect and just weight in all our dealings (Deut. 25:15). A biased tilting towards one aspect of the truth or another in our judgments is an abomination to the Lord (Prov. 11:1). One aspect of the truth doesn’t negate another. We should be careful to not tip the scales in favour of a preferential reading of the Bible.
The Bible, at its deepest level, is a book of mysteries that conceals the ways of God. Something as unexpected and mysterious as this cannot be directly communicated without help from the Holy Spirit. The words that have been encoded by the Spirit into a human language can only be decoded by that same Spirit. The New Testament is communicating mysteries that are so deep and powerful, that mere words can only convey truth in a low-resolution form. Unless we can understand the distinction between a low and a high resolution understanding of the words in the Bible, we will miss half the truth.
Knowing about the truth doesn’t mean we know the truth. Even with all the opportunities to know God’s ways we have been presented with throughout Church history, we don’t see an increase in an understanding of the truth. We have settled for far less than what is available to us by grace. We seem to prefer an initial sweetness followed by an ultimate bitterness (Rev. 10:10), rather than taking the bitter pill that brings an ultimate sweetness. Do we believe Jesus when He says we must first lose our lives before we find them? (Matt. 16:25) To get to the truth in its proper depth we will need to go the extra mile; to dig deeper and persevere in our seeking. We know we have proper doctrine when we find the different depths (resolutions) of the truth coming into agreement. God has given us more than one reference in order to correctly line up our way of seeing. It is only as these references line up that we know our aim is true.
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About the Book
This book provides the reader with a framework required for the deeper Christian life that leads to Christ-likeness in character. Like the dry bones of Ezekiel 37 that come together to form a cohesive whole, the chapters in this book form the bigger picture into which we are better able to see ourselves as we truly are. The author uses multiple points of reference to get a clear picture of what is being described by the authors of the Bible. This will help us with an understanding of how we are to progress in the Christian faith.
About the Author
For over 40 years J.F. Morin has followed Christ by the leading of the Spirit. In this book he shares the insights and lessons he has received that point to a walk with Christ both in this temporal world and in the eternal reality of the Kingdom of God.