Christian Limitations

Jesus says in John 10:9 "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture."

Somewhere along the line of modern Christianity, the door shut. Our Christian leaders shut it long ago and few have ventured to open it back up again—of course to Jesus it is always open and available to us. But in the Christian ministry Christ became the be-all, end-all of every sermon. These limitations are the dogma and religious doctrine that rob us of all that God offers. I’ve often felt that many have become so focused on Christ that they have forgotten that he was sent from God. It is God’s plan that Jesus and we are to carry out. To me, being a Christian means that I believe that Jesus is Christ, our savior; but there is so much more. It’s not really that we focus too much on Christ, we just don’t balance that focus evenly across the trinity—God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

In my opinion, Christ came to return to us what Adam had lost; the Holy Spirit in us. Adam had dominion over the entire world. That means he had what we would now call supernatural control of everything. (Supernatural meaning “outside or “above” the natural.) When Adam cut himself off from the kingdom, God had to remove him (and Eve) from the garden because they no longer had the nature to care for it. They had lost their essential force of life—God’s Spirit. I surmise that the entire first, or Old, Testament of the bible from the fall of Adam and Eve on is a record of God preparing us for the coming of the Christ and the return of God’s kingdom on earth.

In the New Testament, Jesus arrives as predicted by the prophets and teaches us, through words and deeds, the way to behave in a Godly manner. But this is not the only reason he has come; He prepares the way for the Holy Spirit and his crucifixion and resurrection completes the lion’s share of his mission. He returns to sit at the right hand of the Father and then, because He absolves us of all of our sins, the Holy Spirit is able to return to reside in us.

Jesus teaches us this, for example in John 14:16–17: And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever—the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

Prior to that, the Holy Spirit could only arrive and cover people; now, through Jesus completing his mission the Holy Spirit can live in us connecting us directly to God. No Limits.

There is a wonderful book by Dr. Myles Munroe titled “The Most Important Person on Earth” that gives a superb illustration of how the entire kingdom of God operates. I suggest that if you’re interested in this concept that you take the time to read it; and if you take the chance to practice living in God’s kingdom you’re life will never be the same.

God speed!