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Originally Posted by A little brother
Take the example of what we have been talking about in this thread - the servants in Matt 25. The master left after entrusting the servants with the talents. If the faithful servants were busy looking for their master, they would have failed the assignment. In fact, their works with the entrusted talents were their linkage with the master. It was the third servant who played safe and did as little as possible while the master was not with him.
Again, I am not saying we don't have to focus on Christ. It is just that we cannot neglect either the focus on Christ and works (as in Matt 23:23 I shared earlier).
One common logic flaw I found from many of WL's messages is the "if it is A, then it must not be B". Christ and works are never mutually exclusive. If we as believers claim all our works could only be from our old selves, we could be rejecting the works of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Phil 2:13 For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure.
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We're both saying the same thing, from different perspectives. I was making my point because in the LC the real danger lies in your trusting yourself - your calling, your confessing, your sharing in meetings, your alignment with Anaheim. If you do all this then you'll make it into the Wedding Feast and avoid 1,000 years of outer darkness, with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I'm stressing the point that if you seek first the kingdom of God, everything else will be added to you including the (necessary) good works and the "kingdom reward". If you keep your eyes on the King, you'll get everything else.
The LC seduces you to trust your "enjoyment" as if that were something in and of itself, of independent value. It's a Chimera. Eventually your enjoyment is subsumed by theirs. Eventually the Guru wants to take some church funds to bankroll his son's business, or set his other son over the churches as "the office." That's his enjoyment; now what has happened to yours? Gone. Suddenly it's all about "being restricted for the Body".
If you had simply kept your eyes on Jesus, you would have gotten all that already. All the struggles, the hope, the triumphs - they are all His. Our faith brings us along for the ride. To quote a Hippie poet: "The bus came by, and I got on; that's when it all began." Jesus is our bus, and faith puts us on it.