Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 33)

Because God is omnipresent, He is as present to the pagan as He is to His born-again children. But not so relationally. Relationally, God is more distant from the heathen than the sun is from the moon. Adversely, within God’s family He is relationally attached to each of His kids. But not equally attached. Relationally, we are serving either a nearbyJesus or a farawayJesus. It is my contention that cessationists and calvinists, who have made inroads into FB friends, serve a farawayJesus. My rationale is simple….

Christians who are tightly bonded to Jesus are taught by Jesus. How? By the very “Spirit of truth”. Jesus has never taught His disciples that 1) He ceased doing to and through His church what He once did (cessationism), and 2) He predetermines who is to be rescued and who is to be damned (calvinism).

Can you imagine a worshipper of Christ – one who maintains Jesus as “first love”, one who “dwells in the secret place of the Most High”, leans on, trusts in, adheres to Jesus – falling into debilitating heresy? Is that possible?

We all have as much of Jesus as we want to have. Jesus abides in us to the degree we have chosen to abide in Him. Strength of relationship is determined by us, not Him. Those serving a relationally faraway Jesus will be severely disappointed at Christ’s judgement seat; they will “suffer loss”, their rewards minimal. Those serving a nearby Jesus will be rejoicing, their rewards will be abundant.

Christians bonded to any religion, most certainly including evangelicalism, serve a faraway Jesus. Those accumulating things and more things are serving a faraway Jesus. (Jesus: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth”). But there is good news….

Anyone serving a faraway Jesus can reverse his/her course at will. A nearby Jesus is available to anyone humble enough to repent and courageous enough to resist the pull of debilitating, culturalized christianity.