This book adds three life-changing themes to our everyday worship life. They change our life by growing our faith. First is our relationship with our Abba Father, our spouse, and each other. All three come together in Christ with the Holy Spirit. Next is the divine spirit world, the missing ingredient in our worship life. The third theme is a new subject we named Earth-life Bias (ELB) which starts with simply adding God to this life as an accessory. In addition, we journey through ancient Hebrew and Greek to unpack the more profound meanings of our Abba father’s faith words.
This book is not just an intellectual exercise; we wrote it to change lives by applying the Scripture. ELB life overloads us with broken families, broken homes, broken dreams, and broken people. And every day, I see our Abba Father at work in them putting their lives back together. In ministering to my flock, the Holy Spirit has fed me and led me into the Scripture. And out again with messages that resonate and bear fruit in the practical side of life.
No matter how broken a family may be, we understand what a family is, and in most cases, our Abba Father’s Family is the only hope we have for one. So that is where we focus. We are suggesting a significant change in how individual believers, the body of Christ, consume the Scripture because we are individually responsible for our relationship with our Abba Father, our spouse, and each other.
We also pray for a change in preaching/teaching in the modern church. Small churches (20-30 members) are popping up all across the USA; perhaps our effort will inspire more. The concern is that our Abba Father’s promises are the central theme of modern preaching, but they are part of a covenant rarely included with the promises. We cannot earn our redemption, but we still have covenant responsibilities.
Believers engage in our Abba Father’s plan for the world at all levels, but knowing the plan helps us grow our faith. We discuss that in detail, but we tease it here. Our new creation starts with our redemption prayer, but that is only the first step. Redemption is one action point in time; accepted, over, and done. We become a new creation, justified as righteous and made a citizen of Heaven.
Believers change in redemption, but little recognition of the change is part of the teaching process. Why? Because it is supernatural, and we fear embracing it. Our Abba Father revealed redemption in Romans 10:1-13. It is not very complicated, but it is heartfelt. A tiny part of the Scripture is about redemption itself. Most of the Scripture is about living in a relationship with our Abba Father and doing our job in the Family business. Knowing that grows our faith.
The goal of all our teaching, study, and worship should be strengthening our relationships through the Holy Spirit and the Scripture, not just seeking knowledge or pain relief. The fruit of that is deeper faith. The Scripture is not just to learn but to live as a new creation in a different world, the spirit world. There is little point in being born again into the same old life.
After redemption, we must move on in the continuous sanctification process. That means our Abba Father sets us apart to be Holy for his purpose: doing our job in the Family business. We must be our Abba Father’s image to others so that people will see and want what we have for themselves. Imaging our Abba Father must be our self-image. That way of life should always reflect our new creation. Too many believers only scratch the surface of our Abba Father’s majesty after receiving Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Our Abba Father created us to glorify him, and he wants to be with us as a loving Family, not a ruler and subject. We can believe in and love him sitting on our butt, but we cannot glorify him sitting on our butt. That is the missing link in many people’s faith, glorifying our Abba Father in all we do.
There is a powerful reason that this is the time to move into our spirit citizenship. We need to step up because of Postmodernism, the era we now live in defined as “there is no such thing as truth.” Postmodernism is the enemy raising his game in Earth-life Bias (ELB.) Revelation 12:12, “Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you with great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.” Well, guess what? Our time is even shorter!
Postmodernism started in the mid-1800s, the same time as a second great awakening of faith. It has established itself in every aspect of our lives. Postmodernism is the catalyst for turning truth upside down in today’s world, and it is the enemy’s work in ELB.
Chaos and the deconstruction of everything we stand for are postmodern progressivism fruit, and our only hope is to come closer to our Abba Father and grow our faith to have his strength to resist. That can only happen in a strong relationship with him. The pressure to do and tolerate sinful and ungodly behaviors is approaching “end time” levels, and we must strengthen our faith because the world has come to take our children. Please pray on that.
Back in the beginning, Genesis, the first son killed the second son. Why? Likely because the enemy thought it would thwart our Abba Father’s plan. Our Abba Father said to the serpent (enemy), Genesis 3:15, “He shall bruise your head . . .” Other translations say, “crush your head.” Our Abba Father told the enemy he would be crushed. The enemy is not taking that lying down.
Our time calls for believers to stand up and be strong. We must protect our children with no exceptions, teaching them the ways of the LORD. Not just to endure ELB, but to continue doing our job for our Abba Father. And get as many people as possible into the Family. But seriously, is there any good reason not to always live in our relationship full-time with our Abba Father?
