The Radical Change in God's Plan At the Day of Pentecost
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The Radical Change in God's Plan At the Day of Pentecost - Warren Litzman, Sr.
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Chapter 1
The Day of Pentecost
Most human beings do not know what God is doing; all they know is what they need from God to handle what they are doing. There is a difference between understanding what God is doing and trying to get God to help individuals in what they have to do. Attempting to meet people’s needs alone results in a man-centered gospel. Much of the gospel preached today is in that understanding. That is why many ministries have centered their messages in health and prosperity. There seems to be little or no interest in what God is doing according to His plan given in the Scriptures. People are only interested in what is happening to them, what they are doing; instead of the interest being toward God, too often it is self-ward. The positive-thinking syndrome, the health-and-prosperity message, the find out who you are, be who you are
ideas — aside from God’s eternal plan for believers — have become most prominent in our day. The result is these manmade ideas do not bring the real peace and joy that comes from knowing that Christ lives in the believers.
So, what is God really doing in the universe? What motivates Him? Sad to say, too often the Scripture verses used today are those that show what God will do for man. Most people are so inclined, especially when in great need, because they are told God loves them so much that He just wants to do for them whatever they need. As a result, they never come into the final rest and peace that is theirs in Christ. They don’t see what God is doing or what He has already accomplished for them. They are dealing only with the ramifications of the outer man, neglecting the inner man.
God Is Gathering All Things Together
"That in the dispensation of the fullness of times, [every way and means by which God deals with human beings all added together]he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him." (Eph. 1:10, author’s interpretation added)
This is the Scripture that settles once and for all what God is doing. He is bringing everything that has to do with anything into one: Christ. Many believers do not know such a powerful verse as this is in the Bi-ble.
Today, many people have begun to see Christ as all, as having to do with all things in their lives and in the universe. Like Paul, they desire to know nothing save Jesus Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). Colossians 1:16 through 17 states that all things were created by Him and for Him, and aside from Him there is nothing in existence. Colossians 3:11 says, But Christ is all, and in all.
However, if you say things like that, people will ask, Do you say Christ is in the sinner, too? No, He is only in those who are born again (Eph. 1:23; 4:6). It is very difficult for some people to grasp the idea that Jesus Christ is all and that God is bringing everything together in this one person. Paul, when writing these things, left this natural, three-dimensional world and went into the spirit world and said that not only the things which are on earth, but also those which are in heaven are coming together in Christ. It means His lordship, His life, His person are in all who are His. Christ is all to the believer.
See Christ in All Things
So what is God doing? He is bringing everything together in Christ. If believers do not see Christ when they read the Old Testament, what they see is incomplete and inconclusive because the allness has to do with the person of Christ. In the study of religion or any of the sciences, if Christ is not seen, the discipline is in-conclusive and incomplete because Christ is the fulfillment of all things. When the Spirit begins teaching you the deep things of God and you go to some religious meeting and don’t see Christ as all, you may leave exasperated because Christ is the fulfillment and the end of all things. Many are coming to see this and are growing spiritually in that idea. It is a beautiful experience.
To come to this place in Christ, it is necessary to go through different levels of understanding. Often people start in the mainstream denominations, become dissatisfied and move on to a stronger Biblical doc-trine such as spiritual salvation or physical healing. Finally, they come into the charismatic renewal or something similarly deeper. That is the sort of tour people take in coming to know God, and this is good. However, according to Colossians 3:11, what God is doing in our lives is never complete on any one of these levels until we come to where Christ is all. That may be hard to accept, but the Father is bringing all things together in Christ.
The Importance of Ephesians 1:10
Why is there such a verse in the Scriptures that says everything in heaven and earth is being gathered together by God in the one person of Christ (Eph. 1:10)? It is because Christ is the seed of God. He is the nature of God, and aside from Christ there is no godliness on earth or in heaven. Do you understand that aside from Jesus Christ there is no godliness? A Jew is not godly, regardless of how godly he may act, because godliness is in the nature of God, and the nature of God is in the person of Christ. Christ in us is the nature of God operating (2 Peter 1:4). It is impossible for God to be on this earth in any way other than in Jesus Christ. There are many people at other levels of understanding. There is Shintoism, Buddhism, Islam and many other -isms, but none of them is godly aside from the person of Christ.
So what is God doing? He is gathering all things together in Christ. Nothing in this world fits if Jesus is not in His proper place. If believers who begin to see Jesus as their life do not exemplify this, they fail in the understanding they are receiving. Everything in their lives should be wrapped up in the person of Christ.
Notice, God is not letting the world destroy itself. He is not letting dictators rule the whole world. They only rule over there little kingdoms. Communism can come and go, but believers will keep right on growing up in Christ. The true Church of Jesus Christ will never be demoralized or destroyed on this earth. It is al-ready sufficient unto the glory of God, and will continue. Nothing will stop God’s plan because He is bringing it all together in the one who is victorious, the overcomer, the life. And to think we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4)!
Christ Is God’s Allness
When did this radical thing of God’s allness in Christ begin