We Are What We Eat (Your Sins or God's Son)

Let's talk about redemption and salvation. They are not the same thing. Redemption made us His. Whereas, salvation is the process by which we are revealed to be like Him.

Both the consequence of our sins and our sin-nature were dealt with on the cross. We have been forgiven for what we do and what we were was killed when Jesus died. When Christ resurrected, we were also resurrected with him as new creatures. The work,then, of the Gospel is not to change people, but to notify them of the change that has already come by God's love through Christ. This is why Paul told a young pastor named Timothy to, "do the work of an evangelist."

An evangelist is not necessarily someone who preaches in sports arenas and has altar-calls, calling people to Jesus. The evangelist is one who continually brings Jesus to people, letting them know that they are accepted,and if accepted, they are also perfected in Christ. This causes the growing of Christ in them until there is an outward expression of the inward consciousness of perfection.

Christ's growth in us will result in his expression through us and the leaving behind of sinful habits and actions. But always remember that "not sinning" is not what God desires from us. What God wants is His Son. And while the by-product of His Son's growth in us will be the expression of the Christ-nature to the extinction of our sinful habits, God's desire is simply to see His Son in the earth.

This does not mean that we are free to sin. That's not the Gospel! The Gospel is that we are free to God by Jesus Christ. If that is true, then our diet must be Christ and not sin. If we eat sin-consciousness,we will only show sin. But, eating Christ-consciousness (the consciousness of our perfection in him), having a mind full of Christ - - even after we have just sinned - - will eventually make us what we eat; organically birthing Christ in us as our new nature.