The “Basic” Gospel

I was recently told that all I can talk about is the Gospel and that it is 'basic', that I am preaching to the choir.  This person basically meant that “everyone” already knows what Im talking about and that they are “past” the gospel long ago onto greater things.

Wow… I never had that train of thought in my life before.. What this person failed to realise is that I went onto greater thoughts about that just same way of thinking 7 years ago and came to the realisation that the greatest thing is “the gospel”. If you think you’re past it you have never known what it is in the first place - hence my inability to stop speaking about it ;-).

The gospel is the beginning and the end of everything. Paul said he came preaching nothing else but Christ and Him crucified. (1 Cor 2:2).

Heb 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

Here Paul basically says that “the Message of Righteousness” is maturity or solid food. The message of righteousness is the Gospel. The elementary things mentioned in Hebrews 6 are : “repentance from dead works and faith in God, 2 teaching about baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.” - These things are basic because they are teachings that are about peripheral things, things around the Gospel and not the message of Righteousness or the Gospel itself.

In Hebrews 5:13 Paul says “those whose perceptions are trained by practise to discern both good and evil” - in referring to being mature. I suspect he is speaking about training our thoughts to be in line with the Gospel, in line with the righteousness we already have in Christ and training our perceptions by the truth and not our feelings, or fleshly or sinful perceptions, but looking to the cross for our righteousness, forgiveness and wholeness.

Maturity is to be about Jesus, and as Paul says in Col 1:28 "He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ."

and also : Eph 4:13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. -

We become mature in Christ if we look to Him and him crucified. By doing this we realise what He has done in us, for us and who we are in Him. This is the way to grow in maturity, maturity not in normal knowledge but in revelation knowledge of who He is and who we are through Him.

Going past the gospel means missing it entirely...

The "Man" Christ Jesus

God became a Man, a human so that men may sit in the company of God.

Tasting the elusive carrot

Our lives revolve around expectations. Expectations that life, our society, work and people place on us. Some of the greatest expectations we have are those that we place on ourselves and this is generally formed by the expectations of others.

When we are in the process of trying fulfilling these expectations we have a certain drive or motivation to fulfil them as we go through life and when an expectation is fulfilled we find a certain satisfaction. This is because we have proved that we are something special.

Think about it, you might have an expectation to be the best in your profession, the best person you can be, or an expectation to become rich or to find happiness when you’ve reached a certain milestone in your life. And right now, you are not yet there, you have not proved it and cannot accept that you are special or the person you thought you could be.

This feeling or subconscious drive for fulfilment makes us attempt more, try harder and fight for what we want in life.

Some of us have reached our goals and found a level of satisfaction and then we set out to form new expectations that will give us more fulfilment in order to prove more things about ourselves. And so the cycle continues.

Some have failed miserably, disappointed themselves and others and have not had the courage to get up again and remain unfulfilled.

But is this really the way to a fulfilled life? Is meeting your own expectations really going to give you the joy and fulfilment that you want? Is proving a point to others and yourself really going to cut it? History kind of tells us that those who make their millions and reach their dreams are generally not fulfilled and become depressed after climbing the proverbial ladder. It seems kind of deceptive to think that one can reach the pinnacle of happiness by following this subconscious drive. There is always a higher ladder to climb and you never seem to quite reach the top. You might have accepted that this is just the way that life is, and seeing that everyone else is doing it like this it makes sense to do it anyway. Or we just keep on doing it and try to be better at it then other people.

Perhaps the greatest expectations we can have are those that we believe God has of us. If God expects something of me, I can never really relax until I’ve met that expectation. And quite frankly if God expects something of you now, he always will, and you will never quite reach His expectations of you. And if God is not satisfied with you not reaching expectations how on earth can you be satisfied in yourself?

Is this just the way things are or are we missing something?

Yes, we have missed something. We have missed the simple Gospel (good news). We have missed the point of life and Christianity altogether.

We are not to live up to a certain level of fulfilment but rather from a place of fulfilment.

We are not climbing the ladder to get more, we have already reached the top.

God is not expecting anything of you except that you be fulfilled in what His son Jesus Christ has already done for you.

You see, I am not trying to please God anymore, living my life in a way to meet expectations and obey certain rules so that I may be accepted, blessed or approved. I believe that Jesus in my place has been accepted, approved and that He has met all expectations.

I have died, all my attempts to meet expectations have died, and a new creation has emerged that is perfect and seated with Christ in heavenly places.

The focus in no longer on myself, or what I believe God expects of me, but my focus is on Him and that He has met all expectations, carried all sin and paid the whole price.

Rom 6:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

We are so quick to be entangled in a yoke of slavery and fall back into self-improvement, or find ways to reach fulfilment by attempting to do it our way, instead of seeing and accepting what He has done for me.

You see the whole problem is with what we see and believe.  If I believe that I am poor while missing the fact that I already have 1 Billion Dollars in my bank account, I will live poor and work my head of to get the money.

But if I see and believe that I have been made rich by the perfect Son of God, I will live like a rich man. This is not merely “the power of positive thinking” as positive thinking sometimes ignores the facts and makes me lie to myself in order to feel better. The power of positive thinking will eventually run out as my subconscious continually reminds me that I am lying to myself.

No, this is recognition of eternal, spiritual truth. This is a spiritual epiphany where you come face to face with the gospel facts. The fact that you have indeed died and have were resurrected as a new creation. The fact that you were accepted, forgiven and welcomed into the eternal embrace of your creator 2000 years ago regardless of who you are or your successes or failures.

Once this more powerful spiritual truth takes hold of you, it doesn’t just transform your spiritual life, but everything else too.

Now you no longer do things to get more, but you do things to give more of what you have already freely received.

You no longer start that business to reach the top, you start that business because you are overflowing with creativity and passion of God.

You no longer become a preacher because it is what God expects of you, but you become a preacher because you cannot shut up about this goodness of God.

The father of lies will always lie, and try to keep us climbing the same deceptive ladder, striving our lives away trying to reach that elusive carrot.

But the simple truth of the gospel declares that through Christ we could have tasted it all along!

Salt of the earth

Sometimes we as believers strive to find our calling and where the puzzle piece of our lives fit into this world. I think it happens a lot that we become anxious about our calling and living it out. We see and hear of others who do great things for God and some God uses mightily... (but maybe not you).

Its then easy for the "common" believer to feel left out and overlooked by God and then start to look at our works and what we have accomplished. This leads to feeling inferior, or prideful - a sick and worldly comparison.

But, you are the salt of the earth...

Salt adds taste to food, it also keeps meat from spoiling. We are believers, whether we perform massive things for God or not, are still the salt of the earth. Even if you do not say or do anything special, you are still the light of the world - exactly the same as the mighty prophet and the faith healer - there is exactly no difference.

Salt and light is what we are called to be. And we who are saved are already the salt and the light in this dark world. The problem is that we lose sight of this the harder we try to be something else.

Knowing this, gives us courage and motivation to just "be" who we "are".

"You are not of this world, but you are in this world". If you feel that you do not belong here and that you do not fit in with everything that is going on around you, don't sweat it, this is not your home. While we are journeying through this temporal life, we are sons and daughters of heaven walking amongst the darkness on this earth. We shine and we permeate everything around us by just being who we are - citizens of heaven, passing through.. Salt an light.

The doing part follows naturally and effortlessly and differently for each person after finding out who they truly are. So stop comparing yourself with someone else. Our comparing is usually based on the doing part and we forget that we are all one in Christ. No male nor female, slave or free, black or white, little believer or powerful preacher.

Be free and know that you are a christian. The word actually means, "a little Christ". You ARE a brother and sister of Christ and the spirit of the creator lives within you and me.

Colossians 3: 1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Let it be according to your faith

“Religion” is defined as trying to get something from God, that he has already given. It is living in unbelief. It is almost like you are saying that you need to do a few things right in order to get something from God. Once you have done those things, you feel qualified or disqualified to receive from God. And you probably might get what you then expect.


“Let is be according to your faith"


Religion keeps us endlessly occupied with self efforts. Looking to yourself and measuring your performance against others and God. You might give up after a while, or you might push yourself and become blindly self-righteous.


Faith, is the opposite. Turning your eyes completely away from your own perceived accomplishments or failures and putting them on the fully accomplished work on the cross. There where He has already qualified us all.


Its not about you anymore, it’s about Jesus and his cross. The cross where you died with him.

Revelations of eternal Truth

This life dictates to us. From the car you should drive to the house you should own, not to mention how you should feel about yourself based upon the opinion of others.

Are we losing our lives in search to fulfil our ambitions? Are we climbing the ladder only to find that it was against the wrong building?

Are we on an endless evasive pursuit for happiness?

I asked a friend the other day : So what will make you happy? She could not immediately reply. A few days later she came back to me with a simple answer. Only to feel that I belong.

Perhaps happiness and fulfilment is found in the small things. The simple and uncomplicated things. It seems that we have complicated life and fulfilment to such a degree that it becomes a rat-race to attain.

Perhaps its even more simple than that.

What if we could experience happiness and total satisfaction right now. What if we did not have to wait and labour many years before we could reach that which fulfilled us?

What if I told you something that would shake you awake from your sleep?

What if true fulfilment, joy and happiness was just an eye-opening away?

What if you could enter into the fullness of Life right now and come to the ecstatic revelation that you were blind all these years and that true and total fulfilment and joy is yours right now?

Its simple, but difficult to grasp because of the callouses and dictations this world gives us.

The simple truth is this :  In the death and subsequent life of the Cosmic Creator, you and I were mystically and eternally fused together with Him. It happend. Whether you believe it or not. You and I are already home. Forgiven, full, accepted, blessed, and eternally loved.

We already have more than we think we need.

The key to true fulfilment lies not in relentless ambition, but in revelations of eternal Truth.

Christianity is no Religion

Christianity was never meant to be a religion. A religion by definition is a means of humanity finding ways to bridge the gap to God. But Christianity reveals the exact opposite. It declares that God has incarnated Himself to bridge the gap. He has taken initiative while we could not or were not even interested. Faith now is simply believing God's initiative in declaring us innocent... His Son became the scapegoat. There is now no more effort on our behalf to reach God. He took all the effort upon Himself. This is the message God has planned to reveal to humanity throughout the ages. Those who hear and believe will find themselves face to face with their own creator, never to be separated again. They will find their true selves and live from the platform of innocence and total fulfilment.


And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation. In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:18, 19 NET)