Unending Horizons Of Truth.

 Your Pastor Is The Jesus You See.  This is one of the favourite captivating lines & chain of words used by vain talkers/preachers to seduce & bind men to themselves.  They will tell you that they represent God; they represent Christ to the church. That in his absence they are the Christ you see. None of the apostles preached such a crap.  Peter writing to the overseers and elders of the church on spiritual leadership, speaks of Christ as the Chief shepherd, and he himself as nothing but an elder also. - 1st Peter 5:1-5. He never said anything like representing the Chief Shepherd to the elders or being a kind of a general overseer who has general oversight of both the overseers & the flock/church at large; neither did he say anything like the elders representing or being a kind of Chief Shepherd to the flock.  There is only one Chief Shepherd and no elder is to usurp his place or act in His stead as though representing Him to His people.  Echoes...

  There is the faith of the gospel of salvation and there is the hope of the gospel of salvation.  The faith of the gospel dwells on what God has wrought for us in Christ, what is ours in Christ now. What God has wrought for us is in Christ and not in ourselves; apart from Christ we have no access to what God has wrought for us; in ourselves apart from Christ we have nothing good; the apostle Paul in the 18th verse of Romans 7 says: " For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing".  Another apostle(John) says in the fifth chapter of 1st John: " And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son. He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life"(1John 5:11-12).  This life is in His Son, not in us/ourselves as custodians of it apart from the Son. The Son is the custodian of eternal life such that it is only in relationship with the Son that we have it. W hat God has wrought ...