Articles - Joe Hill If you have accepted Jesus, raised your hand during service, responded to an alter call and accepted Jesus into your heart, accepted the reasonable nature of someone else dying in your place to satisfy the judgment of God, or in any other modern techniques to extract profession from people, then the odds are the Jesus you are following is a faint shadow of the Lord of glory.  There is a better way, the truth of the Gospel is that Jesus has been given authority over all flesh, and he exercises that authority to the extent that he is believed.  When Jesus is in fact Lord in a man that Lordship governs the man including his own flesh, and the actions of that man reflects the character of the Jesus who is Lord.  Jesus is Lord, Jesus is not a sacrifice to be accepted, nor does he exist for the bidding or comfort of men, He is Lord, he rules in men for the glory of God, he rules in men to reconcile a world to God, he rules in men so that the righteousness of God may be proclaimed and seen on this earth.  He rules with love and for the sake of love.  In Him the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, not just the love of God for us but the love of God in us for others.

In this world you have many tribulations, but fear not for I have overcome the world.

Jesus has overcome the world, overcome Satan and his lies, overcome rulers and principalities and authorities, overcome even our human nature and flesh, this is not true for us only after we die.  This is true for us as we live in this world, as we live only for the glory of God.

Comments are welcome on this, an incomplete thought.

Articles - Joe Hill