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But a ‘father’ in the faith is someone who draws you into cross-

ing the line, and living life in the New Covenant gospel, where you

should be living. It has nothing to do with sex! WOMEN often make

much better ‘fathers’ than men!

Do you know what most Christians are afraid of? They fear

giving Christ too much credit!

The process of the gospel gives Him ALL the credit. That’s too
much for the religious mind. The sense of pride and self-righteousness

says we have to play a bigger part in the program of God.

Thus, Paul says in First Corinthians that the cross of Christ —

the gospel — is foolishness to the religious minded. They can’t under-

stand it. It is estimated that the vast majority of Christians go to their
graves never embracing the cross of Christ.

They only ‘tag’ the cross, to get saved, and then go back under

some program of God, thus living their whole life in a religious grave-

yard!

We are joint, equal heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). God lifts us

with Christ to sit on His throne with Him, far above all principality

and power (Ephesians 2:6). “As Jesus is, so are we in this world”

(I John 4:16). When you get revelation of what these verses say, and

similar verses, — then spiritual warfare, and everything else in Chris-

tianity takes on new dimension and perspective!

The ‘Lord’s prayer’ closes with the words, “For yours is the

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