Walking as Jesus Walked: The Original Operating System - Mark Ellis

What is really helpful is the fact that Jesus isn't just a theological or a theoretical construct Jesus was a real person who came to this earth, lived a life, died for us, and was raised from the dead and lives forevermore.

Amen? Unlike any other spiritual guru that ever was on the earth, Jesus conquered sin and death and established a way for us to be in relationship with God.

This is why I refuse to call Christianity a religion.

And if you've called it a religion, please repent from calling it a religion.

Because all religion is about reaching out to God.

It's about jumping through hoops and trying to follow procedures to try and get closer to God.

Would you all agree? Whether that God is a pantheistic God where everything is God, or where that God is a thing or another God's name or another thing, whatever it is, each time it's always about reaching out to that God and trying to get to that God.

That is what religion is about.

But what we see in the biblical narrative is that God actually writes himself into our story so that we can truly know him the way we know ourselves.

That's a beautiful thing.

How much love would the creator need to have for his creation so that he would choose to take on the very nature of his creation in order to bring his creation back into a state of completion and fulfillment? That's a lot of love.

Am I right? That's a lot of love.

So we can see that in the life of Jesus, we have this divine blueprint of not only a reflection practically and physically of the heart of the Father, but also a physical representation of what it would look like if someone was fully surrendered to the will of the Father and walked like that on the earth.

Okay, so Jesus didn't do the things that he did on the earth Because he was God, he did it because he was sent to reveal the way, the truth, and the life.

So Jesus came.

The Bible says that he left his glory and he came and he put on carnality so that he could dwell amongst us.

So Jesus gave up his divinity.

When he came to the earth, he put on humanity.

And then when he was baptized by the Holy Spirit, he was placed into the same position that every single one of us is placed in when we get born again and baptized in the Spirit of God.

The only difference is that Jesus was born with the seal of the Holy Spirit because he was born of the Spirit.

Remember, the angel came to Mary and said that the Spirit of God will hover over you and you will.

You will be impregnated, right? God will put that seed in you.

Isn't that right? So we can see that Jesus was born, born again.

I'm not just using it as a parallel.

It's not an actual fact, but you get the idea of what I'm trying to say.