Unseen Message of Christmas

Christmas is when GOD sent His Son to the world to save us from sin and it happened when the Holy Spirit overshadowed the virgin Mary, later resulting to Jesus being supernaturally born. So this day commemorates GOD's love for us proven by how HE initiated reconcilation through Jesus. It also highlights GOD's miraculous power. He wants us all to be saved and HE made the first miraculous move. 

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But we stop there. We think Jesus' coming is just that, to save us from sin and tell us GOD is with us. Jesus' birth is a vital aspect of the whole event but other details of the Advent should also be highlighted so that the commemoration won't just be about gift-giving, expenses, holidays, feasts and special Christmas church programs. We should see the unseen message of Christmas.

Outcasts

First was the barreness of Elizabeth at an old age. And then the strange and doubtful circumstances around Mary's pregnancy. I tried to put myself into their situation and saw how difficult it all was. Barreness and pre-marital pregnancy were issues then that subjected the guilty parties to the prying, judgmental eyes of the public, unlike today when pre-marital sex is an ordinary occurence. Barreness is still seen as a disgraceful weakness or disability today. 

I asked myself, why would GOD choose this scenario for them? Wouldn't this background be a minus factor for HIS plan? Wouldn't it be lots better if Jesus and John had come from prominent family backgrounds instead of having questionable ones? I can just imagine how it felt for Elizabeth, Zechariah Mary and Joseph to be in such discreditable circumstances. It's not indicated in the Gospel but it's easy to see how it went for them--the humiliation, ostracism, bashing and gossip. 

And then born in a dirty, nasty manger where domesticated animals were fed and probably defecated or pissed? Why this, when GOD could have so easily arranged something more decent? At least a clean lying-in clinic? And yet, nothing in these narratives were accidental, by chance or overlooked by GOD. Every detail had a divine purpose and Christmas and church would be vastly different from what they are today if we saw the purposes clearly.

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Poor Family

Jesus came from a poor family. This is proven by the offering they gave when they presented the baby Jesus at the temple and for the purification rites--a pair of doves and two young pegions--offerings required from the poor. 

Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period. 3 On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.

6 “‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.

8 But if she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons...

- Leviticus 12 

Why choose a poor couple as parents for Jesus? Why not be Herod's or Caiaphas' son so that the prominence could've helped the cause of the Gospel, being more easily promoted and more readily accepted by the people with zero persecution? Just imagine the huge evangelism budget possible with Herod or Caiaphas as Jesus' father. No, GOD opted for a poor carpenter, one that disappeared from the scene early. Imagine a single mom with a tainted image of pre-marital pregnancy raising up Jesus till he was a young adult. 

Then he was born in Bethlehem, the least town in Judah, and grew up in equally poor Nazareth, a notorious locality at the time. When Nathnael and probably other folks learned that Jesus was from Nazareth, they doubted how anything good could come from Nazareth. There's no mention of his educational attainment but a hint somewhere says he never entered school [John 7.15-18]. 

GOD Chooses the Despised and Weak

He could've been raised in decent cities like Jerusalem, or Sepphoris which at the time was a super wealthy town considered the jewel of Gallilee. He could've availed of quality education there, or perhaps in Alexandria, Egypt which offered the best university. But GOD didn't think so. HE didn't think all these supposedly plus factors were necessary for Jesus' success. Jesus never even set foot on Sepphoris or mentioned about it even if it was the posh and popular vacation and tourist destination of dignitaries and wealthy people at the time. To me, this was a display of Jesus' repugnance for vanity and a wealthy, superfluous lifestyle. 

All these, I believe, are part of the Christmas message. The Father sent Jesus here not just as Savior but to model the value system of the Kingdom for the church to mirror. This is part of the Good News--salvation through Jesus, meekness, poor in spirit, last is really first, and the least being the greatest. Jesus' birth, life and ministry focused on this but the church has been missing it all the time. If we really see this and understand, we'd celebrate Christmas in a totally different manner, and most especially, do ministry entirely differently.

We Hate the Manger Scene

Up to now, we have a different value system and preferences from what Jesus had. We marvel at mega churches, big church income, vast properties and costly vehicles, and boast of titles and degrees. We delight in our wealthy church members and supporters (we despise "benchwarmers"), or take pride in our association with the rich and famous. Pastors like to be identified with politicians and feel accomplished when connected with them--or have their selfies taken and displayed on social media. I can't imagine Jesus doing that.

We treat small churches blandly and either belittle or deem them "dying" just because they lack money and resources. That has been the church's value system--it's dead until it makes big money. People skip past poor churches and prefer mega ones anytime anywhere. They insist that only big and "growing" churches deserve their support and money. We hate anyting small, poor or least and put them last in our preferences. 

In our hearts we hate the manger scene though fondly put it up at the church altar under a dazzling Christmas tree on Christmas day, changing its meaning further when we put glittering decors, hanging Santas and angels and twinkling lights, sprayed with pine scent to put in glamour. But that's not how GOD presented it. The scene was an epitome of what the world despises and rejects. On Judgment Day, many will be shocked to see how GOD will prefer and delight in the despised, weak, rejected, small and mocked while trashing those that people have held in high honor. 

UNSEEN GOSPEL: 

And even if our gospel is unseen, it is unseen to those who are perishing. [2 Corinthians 4.3]

This Keeps the Church Deceived Big Time

You know what's really messing up church today? It's this idea that there's no perfect church, so don't look for one. It says, though the church is not perfect, it has a perfect GOD. And most people agree. But would a perfect GOD settle for an imperfect church? HE has already laid out in Scripture what HIS true church is. Through HIS love and Word, HE is preparing "a radiant church, without spot or wrinkle or any other blemish but holy and pure," [Ephesians 5.25-27]

Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

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The Direction GOD Points us to 

This is the direction for the church and all of us should be on this path from GOD. If we look anything different because we're taking a different path, we're running off course and should double back. We should get out of the devil's race track. At least, it should be in the church's heart to pursue the glorious-church course, though the church may miss the mark now and then. The imporant thing is we're on the right path--pursuing to be a glorious church of Jesus Christ--and not insisting that there's no perfect church. There is. It's the church Jesus died for and sanctifies. 

Jesus also stressed that true believers should "be perfect" as their heavenly Father is perfect. A lot in church are mocking this passage, denying its truth and short of saying that Jesus wasn't really serious about perfection but merely alluding to it as some sort of figure of speech. At best, it's merely about perfecting our love. Agreed. And it should be what we look for in a church. If the church we attend doesn't have it--and worse, is not serious about it one bit--then we better start looking for another. 

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Then Anything Goes

Maintaining that there is no perfect church makes us water down or even disregard the standards GOD has put for HIS church, and this helps Satan's deception a lot in these last days. Anything goes in church as long as it is effective, packs in more people and makes lots of money. The devil makes sneezing at GOD's standards look okay and normal, at the same time making us feel approved by grace even with substandard spirituality. The Lord's warning should give us a good idea about what HIS standard is. If it's not enough that we prophecy and drive out demons, how much more if we trash GOD's standards? 

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ [Matthew 7]

And insisting that there's no perfect church so don't look for one will put our guards down and make us part of the evil doers Jesus never knew, and this without us noticing it. Jesus told us to leave blind guides who are like plants the Father has not planted. When they're pulled out by the roots, we can be pulled out with them. The yeast of wrong churches (imperfect churches or those not in the path of perfection) can easily leaven up the whole dough, and Jesus told his disciples to beware of this yeast. 

Leave Them!

Jesus saying we should leave blind guides is a powerful sign urging us to look for the perfect church and leave whatever does not take GOD's maxims and exemplars seriously. And it's a command, not a suggestion or wish. We have to watch what or who is blind and leave them. Peter and the apostles were far from being perfect as GOD wanted them to be, and the church they headed was far from being the glorious church at the time. But their path was right. They seriously pursued after the glorious church and determined to be that church, all by GOD's grace and mercy, solely by faith. They never said there was no perfect church and we should stop looking for one. They saw to it that no Pharisaical yeast was being mixed with their bread. 

Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

[Hebrews 12.15]

No doubt, the church should welcome sinners, for instance, but no one should be serving at the altar who still wallows in sin or is not totally surrendered to the Lord. Serving the Lord is a priesthood function and entrusted only to those who are well aware of their priestly covenant and commitment with the Lord. Any trace of pride or arrogance, for example, makes you unfit to serve at the altar. If carnal people or calloused sinners are allowed to serve in your church, leave it. Go look for the church that pursues Jesus' glorious church. We are called to be part of GOD's very own godly nature.

"...that by these (exceedingly great and precious promises) ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

[2 Peter 1.4]

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When God's Promises Don't Seem to Work for You

We have medicines, hospitals and doctors today. They help a lot. They're also part of God's solutions to our health problems. I use them when God tells me to. But nothing beats HIS powerful miraculous promises in the bible. I won't exchange them for anything in this modern world, not even for modern medical science. And God still wants us to use them today.

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God talked with Moses face-to-face as a man speaks to a friend. And God promised him that “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.” God's promises worked for Moses in powerful ways. Moses didn't just talk or preach about God's promises or taught them in Sunday school to the Israelites. He demonstrated GOD's supernatural powers. When Moses asked God for anything, God literally moved in awesome signs and wonders. What more to us who are co-heirs with Christ?

God's awesome promises also worked easily for Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, David and the New Testament apostles, prophets and evangelists. Even in the ministries of Isaiah and Jeremiah, God did awesome wonders. As well as the minor prophets. The fact that they received God's prophecies supernaturally was an awesome sign and wonder. God's promise worked for them. But why won't the promises work as easily today? 

Tell me honestly--when was the last time a paralytic was miraculously healed in your church service or a few loaves of bread and fish multiplied to feed 5,000 with just a short thank you prayer in your church ministry? And when was the last time God's miracle promises worked powerfully for you? The few "miracles" that are reportedly happening today are often nothing but scams to make big money. This is why bible "experts" and teachers decide that miracles and signs and wonders are over. They're no longer of this "dispensation."

But they are not. As sure as God exists, miracles remain possible. Jesus promised that anyone who believes will be able to do what he did and greater works shall they do [John 14.12]. This promise has no expiration date. Jesus didn't put any. The only barrier to God's awesome miracles is the quality of faith---if we seriously believe with all our hearts. We have to have Jesus' own radical faith, no less. Does the church teach us how? NO. But  we all have to pursue this today! The church has got to go back to God's powerful ways through Jesus Christ.

THAT POWER CAN BE YOURS TODAY! 

Jesus promised that he himself will do "anything" we ask of him [John 14.14] and if we believe that anything we say or declare will happen without a shadow of a doubt, it surely will [Mark 11.22-23]. 

"...and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them."

Just imagine that! Nonetheless, many today still miss this opportunity to do ministry in God's awesome miraculous power. Why? Because of teachings and doctrines in church that insist miracles and signs and wonders are a thing of the past. It's their doctrine to trash GOD's miracles as a thing of the past. But we can make them a powerful reality again today by believing with all our hearts the bible principles behind signs and wonders and miracles. Do you know them?

If miracles worked in the ministries of the Old Testament prophets, it will work for us today because Jesus Christ is 100 percent in our bodies. HE is really alive and present in us. That's a sure fact. He is actually living in us (Christ in you the hope of glory), as the Apostle Paul testified that he no longer lived but Christ lived in him. Thus, the powerful miracles in his ministry. 

Unlike in the Old Testament when the Holy Spirit of Jesus didn't yet indwell believers. They were merely used by the Holy Spirit. Today, HE indwells us. GOD LIVES IN OUR BODIES! These are ideal times to replicate what Jesus, the apostles and prophets did in the bible. All we need to do is believe the bible principles on signs and wonders which is part of Jesus' apostolic teachings (lots of church and seminary people, titled and degreed, do not know Jesus' apostolic teachings. Apostolic teachings were what the Acts church focused on in their worship, fellowship and daily lives:

Acts 2:42: "And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers"

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Hospitals, medicines and doctors are God's blessings to us today. Avail of them when you can. I believe God uses them, too. But saying there are no more instant, on-the-spot miraculous healing today (and on a regular basis. In fact, this should be the ministry norm). They insist that God now uses medical science alone. Doctors, hospitals and medicines are good, but His supernatural promises and miracles still work! GOD's design for HIS church is to display HIS awesome supernatural power. Leave medical science and medicines to the doctors and hospitals. 

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UNSEEN GOSPEL: And even if our gospel is unseen, it is unseen to those who are perishing. 

[2 Corinthians 4.3]

Why the Gospel is Veiled

They teach us the how-tos of local ministry. The how-tos of the denomination. Jesus taught his disciples the how-tos of the Kingdom, particularly how to connect and work with God in his heavenly realms. This is what the church terribly lacks today. [Photo above by Jo Szczepanska, Unsplash].

To most of us, Jesus' gospel is unseen. Yeah, church people read and memorize passages and pastors preach about them, but most of us don't really see it. It's a sign of a dying people that have been blinded by the god of this world. Paul declared the veiled Gospel in 2 Corinthians 4:3. It's an unseen Gospel. And you'd see why if you watch how churches operate today. Like in seminars.

How-To Formulas

In seminars, they teach us steps and formulas. How to evangelize. How to plant churches. How to worship. How to pray. How to minister to the lost or the sick or the hungry. They teach us steps and procedures, what we should do first and then next, and then the third step and so on. A funny formula invented by man is the prayer formula, particularly following the ACTS acronym. Jesus never did anything like that. He taught his disciples the protocols of heaven.

Jesus taught the protocol of heaven for prayer, showing us that relationship is crucial above all else. "Our Father in heaven," he said. From this, we do the rest. He showed us how we can simply "ask" God directly, and make things short but sincere (so sincere that we have to forgive others their trespass against us).

"Pray to your Father who is unseen." Jesus said. "Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." That is the Kingdom dynamics here, but people miss it altogether even to this day. They treat prayer as a show, and often believe it's the length that matters, "for they think they will be heard because of their many words." Nope, it's relationship. "Our Father..." 

So they emphasize the contents rather than the relationship.

And smart Alecks saw something else. They saw a formula for prayer. Your prayer should have the ACTS ingredients, they say. They suggest that each time we pray, we need to adore, confess, give thanks and supplicate. But we never see Jesus use the ACTS formula in his prayers. When he fed the 5,000 he didn't pray using the ACTS formula. He just looked up and thanked the Father.

The protocols of heaven is what so many church people (and leaders) do not understand. They just do ministry as they see fit. Worse, they copy from the world and apply it to ministry--like using sales and marketing principles. I was in this ridiculous pastors' seminar where they taught us how everything in ministry should be according to the SMART principle (especially when setting goals)--specific, measurable, attainable, relevant (some say reasonable), and time-bound (I thought it was time bomb).

The supernatural acts of God in ministry will never fit this SMART thing that smart Alecks believe in. Just look at "measurable" and "attainable," for instance. That's exactly how you put God in a box (and yet you hear them say we should not put God in a box). And goal-setting? Our only business is obey God. God sets the goals of what we can do and achieve. He reveals and we obey. Period. Moses could not decide to go either this or that way. He just followed the cloud. God decided where the Promised Land was.

Jesus' "Seminars"

Jesus did handle some "seminars" but they were very different from what seminars churches have today. An example is John 14. Jesus taught about the Father's house and the only way or path to it. This is so important--and it's far from being basic. Aside from Jesus being the only Way to the Father (and the only Truth and only Life), it teaches how knowing him makes us know the Father as well. This is a Kingdom fundamental we cannot do without (but which the church has been doing without).

Here is the powerful Kingdom principle. Anyone who has seen Jesus has seen the Father. Why? Because (watch this principle closely) Jesus said, "I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me." The same principle should work with us. We are in Christ and Christ is in us. Therefore, anyone who has seen us has seen (or should see) Jesus. Without this, it's impossible to take part in Kingdom building on earth. If you take this to heart, this will revolutionize your faith, worship and relationship with God and how you see yourself.

You mirror Christ. It's no longer you who live but Jesus who lives in you. Thus, the sick should think that by just touching the hem of your garment, they will be made whole--not because of you but because they see Jesus in you. Is this the case in church now? Nope, because the church has not pursued this. In fact, they don't believe this. You talk about it and they belittle you, thinking you're an idiot or a cult. So when someone in church feels sick, he opts to skip church this Sunday because he doesn't see it as a place where the sick gets miraculously healed by just touching garments.

It would be odd to hear someone say in Jesus' time, "I cannot come to Jesus' worship service today because my menstruation keeps flowing."

But church people and leaders don't get this. You look at them and you still see them, not Jesus. For one thing, they still stubbornly stick to their denominations and denominational doctrines. Christ never had them and never taught about them. And church pastors work so hard at becoming true to their denomination's creed. So when you look at them, you see their church denomination, not Jesus. You see a religious clergy doing his denomination's rituals, goals and policies. So people say of them, "He's a Baptist or Methodist or Pentecostal or Nazarene pastor." And they identify themselves the same way.

When Peter looked at Christ, he said "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." When John the baptizer saw Jesus, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" They saw nothing of man or of the world in Jesus. They saw only God and His Kingdom in him. This is the kind of seminar churches today need so badly--how people would see the same in them, not their denomination. They need to know how to connect and identify with heaven on a higher level, so that "it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work." Not steps or formulas or strategies or gimmicks. Not hermenuetics or homiletics which are all human formulas perpetuated by the church as things of the Kingdom. Not their clever theology.

"...whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it."

The Kingdom dynamics of greater things begin with doing the same works Jesus did. THE SAME WORKS. Again, this is the kind of "seminar" the church needs today. No church today follows this course. They're all doing their own works and even copying what they see is effective in the world, paving the way to the modern Babylon system in church. You look at most churches and you see corporations or cause-oriented (or "purpose-driven") groups, not Jesus.

We're given the hint that Christ doing what we ask in his name (to effect the greater things) is predicated on the church doing THE SAME things as Jesus did. This is the only way the greater things will come and church ought to be desperately pursuing after this in these last days. This is what their seminars should be all about. This is the sole purpose that should be driving them.

Then "the Father may be glorified."

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UNSEEN GOSPEL: And even if our gospel is unseen, it is unseen to those who are perishing. [2 Corinthians 4.3]

Thoroughly Equipped in Christ

They can't believe they're now fully equipped and empowered. This is the sorry condition of the church today--it wields the powerful Scripture but cannot believe it. Bible usage is just to legitimize their claim of being Christian. But church is a far cry from what Jesus was in the Gospel. [Image above by Todd Quackenbush @toddquackenbush].

So here's the ridiculous situation--pastors and church leaders believe they are not fully equipped for ministry so they attend all sorts of seminars. Seminars for this and that. Some seminars have become scams, charging people exorbitant fees in the guise of helping them succeed in ministry. But all these seminars do is enrich the organizers. I heard one leadership seminar charge P10K a participant. I hope I heard wrong.

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The Unseen Gospel is unseen to the perishing. They can't see what Jesus did. He did the things he did so we can have all we need. Complete. Nothing missing--if we claim it and believe. For instance, just see what power this passage holds:

"...if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." [Matthew 17.20]

Let me cut that short: "If you believe...nothing will be impossible for you." You see the word NOTHING? Do you believe it? So where does "unequipped" fit in there? Nowhere. The words, "nothing will be impossible for you" give us everything we need and make us everything we need to be. It doesn't say, nothing is impossible for you if you attend this and that seminar. You don't need seminars. It's all in you if you're IN CHRIST.

His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. [2 Peter 1.3]

Everything we need. See that? It's not just fantasy or just my idea. It's God's Word. All we need to do is believe and operate in it. We are fully equipped to face anyone or anything because of the Spirit of Jesus in us. Here's what Jesus said about His Spirit:

"He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.” [John 16]

Jesus is glorified when the Holy Spirit declares or makes known to us what He received from Jesus. And what did he receive from Jesus? All that belongs to the Father! The Spirit will reveal to us "all that belongs to the Father." If that's not powerful, I don't know what is. You mean seminars are more powerful than this?

Pastors and church leaders attend all sorts of seminars. How to do this and that. How to evangelize, How to disciple. How to do missions. How to worship. How to manage church finances. How to do counseling. How to be a better parent. How to deliver the demon-possessed. I guess even how to scratch your head or tie your shoes.

But it's all in God's Word. Just meditate it day and night and Joshua says you will prosper and be successful. Look how Paul sees it:

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. [2 Timothy 3]

God promises that you are already "thoroughly equipped" through the God-breathed Word. Just believe it and live it. But you have a ton of problems if you don't and instead seek refuge in man's seminars, seminaries and bible schools. The church has been inventing a lot of seminars for this and that, and yet the church remains the same--always craving the attention of the world. If it does not advertise, promote, lure, do gimmicks or force (or pester) people in, no one's going to pay attention to it. Powerless.

Even today, the church keeps rejecting the Stone that has become the Capstone.

“‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; 11 the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” [Mark 12]

Jesus never attended seminars or required his disciples to attend them. Neither did he teach them how to do this or that in seminars. What he taught was how to move in the Holy Spirit (John 16 is an example) and trained his disciples how to do ministry hands on. He did it through his discipleship, not seminars.

That's what the church needs today--a Jesus type discipleship that demos Jesus' supernatural ministry and teaches about how to move in the Holy Spirit.

UNSEEN GOSPEL: And even if our gospel is unseen, it is unseen to those who are perishing. [2 Corinthians 4.3]