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The Key to Fellowship With God

The Key to Fellowship With God

May 28, 2023 by NCC-Admin-1 in

“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failing and shortcomings and let them drop.” (Mark 11: 25-26 AMPC). 

We live in a world that is constantly pushing against us; constantly attacking us and constantly seeking to overwhelm us through a variety of means.  We experience betrayal, hurt, rejection and many levels of woundedness in our lives.  Those things deeply impact us.  Being a child of God does not exempt us from those things.  But being a child of God does give us the means to overcome them. 

One of the things the Holy Spirit does for us is to empower us to do what we could never do on our own.   He empowers us to forgive those who have wounded us. It is not our nature to do that.  Our nature is to want to get even.  Our nature is to want them to hurt more than they hurt us!  We don’t want them to get away with it!   We want them to pay for what they have done!  We want them to deeply regret what they have done to us! 

Only the Holy Spirit can enable us to surrender our pain to Christ.  And  only the Holy Spirit can enable us to  surrender that person to Christ.   When we choose to do so, and it is a choice, we then allow Christ to become our vindicator (Rom. 12:19).  His powerful love can then free us from the painful emotions that ensnared us.  That is the wonder and the power  of the Gospel!  Our ability and willingness to forgive is only made possible when we realize just how much the Lord has forgiven us!   When realize we have been forgiven much, we  are then  in the  position to forgive much! (Luke 7:40-48).   It is when we come to the place of forgiving and releasing that person to the Lord that we are made free and are placed in the position of also being forgiven!

So let us determine to walk in forgiveness toward one another so that we may experience forgiveness ourselves and enjoy unhindered fellowship with the Holy One! 

James W. Black

When The Light of Christ is Rejected

When The Light of Christ is Rejected

May 21, 2023 by NCC-Admin-1 in

“The wicked freely strut about when that which is vile is honored among men.”
(Psalm 12:8 NIV 1984 Edition). 

Jesus came for the purpose of bringing the Light of His Life and His Presence into the darkness of our world (John 1:4-5). That Light is  the revelation and embodiment of all that is pure, holy, righteous and good (John 8:12).  In Christ there is no greater light, no greater purity, no greater holiness and no greater good.  There is absolutely nothing that is higher or greater than Him!   It is His Light that  reveals what holiness is.   It is His Light that reveals what purity is.  It is His Light that  reveals what  righteousness and goodness is.  Without that Light we would still be in darkness with no understanding, no direction and no hope of ever escaping the darkness.   

The powers of darkness fear that  Light. They hate that  Light because that Light exposes the wickedness  of their work (John 3:19-20).  They cannot stand to be in the Presence of that Light!  The brightness of that Light paralyzes them.  They try to  hide from that Light.

When men reject that  Light , the only True Light which is revealed only  in the Person of Christ, they give an open invitation to  the powers of darkness to rule and reign.  The darkness will initially seek to rule over  the individual.  But if left unchecked it will spread to the entire family and ultimately to the culture at large.    Once the darkness becomes entrenched, it then becomes emboldened.  Once emboldened, it  becomes proud and arrogant.  Then it begins to  promote  that which is “evil” as something that is “good” .(Isaiah 5:20).    Men will then honor the darkness as something that is normal.   The end result is destruction and death.  The death of the individual.  The death of the family.  And ultimately the death of the culture at large (Rom. 3:23). 

We are called to be the instruments of His Light in the darkness of our culture (Matthew 5:16). We are not the source of that Light.  We are merely the instruments through which that Light shines.  Let us so yield ourselves in obedience to that Light,  that darkness can no longer strut about. 

James W. Black