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January 1st
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5).
The Christ-life message is based on the whole Word of God. This message is not from man or of man, not from prophets or apostles. Many passages in the Scriptures were given to different peoples or nations in various dispensations, but there is only one message God wants people to hear in these last days. That message is “of Him,” of Christ. Christ the Word is the heart and center of all Scripture. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). There is only one Word, the person of Jesus Christ.
When Christ the Word came to this earth, He came to His own and preached that the kingdom of heaven was at hand. His people, Israel, rejected Him and turned down His message (John 1:11). The Father raised up another people who would fit into His eternal plan and purpose, a people who would be rebirthed with His divine nature in them when they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. The Apostle Paul was given this message, and he called it “my gospel” (Rom. 2:16; 16:25; 2 Tim. 2:8).
This message concerns a mystery that had been hidden until it was revealed to Paul in the Arabian Desert. Paul says in Galatians 1:11–12 that it was given to him by the revelation of Jesus Christ: “But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.” This mystery had never been revealed at any prior time. It is identified simply in Colossians 1:26–27. “Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints…Christ in you, the hope of glory.” |
