A Christmas Message

“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:” (Col 1:27)

This Christmas why not consider the meaning of this “Christ in you” and the role that you play during this season? While we celebrate the birth of Jesus, who brought to the world the Light of Christ, he celebrates the birth of Christ, the Light, in you. After all, isn’t that why he came, isn’t that how he is Saving us? What is this Christ that it may be “formed in you” (Gal 4:19)? Jesus showed us and demonstrated this Christ but he told us that we are also that Christ; “ye are the light of the world” (Mat 5:14). The passages that I am quoting are from the King James Version of the Bible and they “stand alone” in their meaning. I am not trying to make them say anything, but when brought together in one place their meaning is amplified.

Christ is the Son of God, the Second Person of the Trinity. Christ is the Light out of whom all of the creation came forth. "God is a consuming fire" (Deu 4:24 and Hbr 12:29) and "God is light" (1 John 1:5). We were created in the “image” and “likeness” of God (Gen 1:26). All of the creation is composed of the Light of God's Christ which is self-luminous, innately intelligent, conscious energy. Christ is that Light "that was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." (John 1:9)

Christ is the Light, a Spirit of Truth, “the Spirit of his Son” (Gal 4:6) which dwells within every son and daughter of God, every child of the Light (1 Th 5:5). We are all "members in particular” (1 Cor 12:27) in the one Spiritual Body of Christ which is a Body of Spiritual Light. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." (1 John 3:2) "And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Gal 4:6) That Spirit is a Flame of God’s Fire that burns within our Heart of hearts, like the burning bush that burned but was not consumed (Exd 3:2). That Flame is a Trinity in a Unity, a Threefold Flame of Power (Blue, Father), Wisdom (Yellow, Son), and Love (Pink, Holy Spirit). It is also called the Holy Christ Flame. This is where we commune with the Christ Flame that is Jesus (he is no longer a flesh and blood man but a Spirit, a Flame of God). "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." (Rev 3:20) He will come into the Holy Christ Flame within our Heart of hearts and help us expand and intensify that Flame until it engulfs our entire body, as it did Jesus, so that we will be “endued with power from on high.” (Luk 24:49).

"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." (1 Th 5:5) "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;" (Rom 8:16-17) “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," (Gal 4:19) "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" (Phl 2:5) When we have that Mind of Christ, because Christ has been “formed” in us, then we are transformed into “a new creature” (2 Cor 5:17) by the Light of that Christ. “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.” (1 Cor 15:47). Therefore when Christ is Come Again in the Flesh through YOU, you will then be the fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and GREATER works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” (John 14:12). “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.” (John 16:23-28) "...I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God." (John 20:17)

"But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." (Mat 12:48-50) "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning." (John 15:26-27) We were all together in that One Body of Christ Light in the Beginning and we shall all be there in the Ending when we shall all have "put on Christ" (Gal 3:27) and become that Christ in the fullness of the Word.

May Christ be born in the creche of your heart this Christmas and may the angels and the heavenly host rejoice and sing hosannas that Christ is come again into the earth through you. (Luke 2:13-14)