In the beginning was the Word:
the Word was with God
and the Word was God.
He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things came to be,
not one thing had its being but through him.
All that came to be had life in him
and that life was the light of men,
a light that shines in the dark,
a light that darkness could not overpower. - John 1:1-5 -
Thus, it becomes fitting that, indeed, Christ Jesus is fully human and fully divine. Having knowledge of God and the Lord Jesus Christ are enormous assertions, and it is a great privilege to know God and the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, Christians are always worthy and conscious of it. As in accordance with Sacred Scripture, it is an historical fact, and it is the symbol of a perpetual and eternal reality. On the other hand, many do not want to know and do not know who the Lord Jesus Christ is. Perhaps, they based themselves solely on external and family data and did not go beyond his or her human nature.
As pastors, priests, laity, brothers, sisters in Christ, and clergy as a whole, you are at the service of Christ Jesus the "Teacher" and the "Lord." To preach and teach the true Christian message [Gospel, Good News of Christ Jesus] is an essential and extremely important part of your ministry. How meticulous, attentive, and careful be about our preaching and teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ doctrine!, Gospel! It should be the continuation and consistent of our prayer, and the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus, with these practices, let people see, and it will leads people to God or bring peoples to God. We must have great faith, and love our vocation and mission. The Christian faith is ecclesial. The relation between theology and faith, founded and centered on Christ Jesus, fully connected that theology has with His Church.
Having this hope, we can be quite confident; not like Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the Israelites would not notice the ending of what had to fade. And anyway, their minds had been dulled; indeed, to this very day, that same veil is still there when the old covenant is being read, a veil never lifted, since Christ alone can remove it. Yes, even today, whenever Moses is read, the veil is over their minds. It will not be removed until they turn to the Lord. Now this Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord, all grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into the image that we reflect; this is the work of the Lord who is Spirit. - 2 Cor. 3:12-18 -
Since we have by an act of mercy been entrusted with this work of administration, there is no weakening on our part. On the contrary, we will have none of the reticence of those who are ashamed, no deceitfulness or watering down the word of God; but the way we commend ourselves to every human being with a conscience is by stating the truth openly in the sight of God. If our gospel does not penetrate the veil, then the veil is on those who are not on the way to salvation; the unbelievers whose minds the god of the world has blinded to stop them seeing the light shed by the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For it is not ourselves that we are preaching, but Christ Jesus as the Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. It is the same God that said, 'Let there be light shining out of darkness', who has shone in our minds to radiate the light of the knowledge of God's glory, the glory on the face of Christ. - 2 Cor. 4:1-6 -
God's kingdom has its beginning in the history of creation together with man. It has a long history. At the summit of this history stands Christ Jesus. 'The time has come' he said 'and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.' - Mark 1:15 - He spoke of it from the beginning of His messianic teaching and perseverance, tirelessly, announced this Kingdom to be chosen people.
Conversion is necessary for being able to regain the full truth of the Kingdom of God. After all, He gave His life for that truth... Good Friday closed with a controversy over God's Kingdom. On the Day of the Resurrection the truth of Christ's words confirmed, the Truth that the Kingdom of God has come to us, the Truth of the whole of His messianic mission.
The struggle between the kingdom of evil, of the evil spirit, and the Kingdom of God has not ceased, however, it is not over. It has only entered upon a new stage, actually the definitive stage. In this stage the struggle goes on in ever new generations of human history.
Do we really have to demonstrate that this struggle goes on in our day as well? Yes. It certainly goes on. Indeed, it develops together with human history in single peoples and nations.
It goes on in each of us. And, by following the history, including our own contemporary history, we can also define in what way the kingdom of the malign spirit is not divided but seeks unity of action in the world and, by various paths, tries to have its effects upon man, on groups, on families, on society.
As at the beginning, so also now, it stakes its program on 'human liberty' on man's apparently unlimited liberty.
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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