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Originally Posted by Ohio
The entire body of Christ should give thanks for the "Jesus People" move of the Spirit of God during the unrest of the civil rights Viet Nam Era. It is worthy to note that the media tagged it the "Jesus People" movement with pics of young people being baptized in lakes and rivers.
Our Heavenly Father really shook things up... that new wine could seek out fresh wine skins.
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The subject of the Bible is Jesus. He is the way home to the Father. Not the ground of oneness, not the ministry of the age, not God's economy, not the present recovered truth, not NT believers enjoying grace. Our unyielding focus should be on him alone. All those extras are bad wine skins. If we focus on them our "enjoyment" will soon be cobwebs and vapours. The wine will pour out and be lost.
There's one mediator between God and man, and that is the man Jesus. There's no other. Any other intermediary fails. There is one name by which we can be saved. No other name (or 'non-name', wink-wink) should catch our attention or hold our allegiance.
In 2 Kings 4, look at the Shunnamite woman's posture when her son dies. She looks neither right nor left, nor will she slow down. She must see Elisha. Well, Jesus is our Elisha. Not Witness Lee nor any other. Lee tricked us into settling down in his local church. We sang, "Home, home in the church/It is here that I've ended my search". Oops.
Lee's church is not our home - our home is with the Father. And Jesus is the way.