1 Jesus Is Coming Back
1.1. But We’re Not Ready...YET!
“God will soon crush satan under YOUR feet.”
“I will build My community that will blow up Hell’s fortress.”
“God’s Intent NOW, through the church, His daily Body, His community of the Spirit-born, is to make known His power and love and wisdom even to the principalities and powers in the unseen world.”
“The Bride has made herself ready, for the Return of the Groom!”
Earthquakes and wars, before the Lion of Judah, Jesus, returns? Yes, of course (Matt. 24). But, the BRIDE making herself ready for the wedding feast is the prophecy of what must first take place, also. There are lots of earthquakes and wars.
BUT, the church, the Bride, His Body is not ready yet!
“Without VISION the People perish, push back!”
Don’t be afraid to KNOW this Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers, and everyone else: “Religion” is NOT what Jesus brought to this spinning ball of mud someone nicknamed “Earth.”
Sunday morning attendance and clergy isn’t in the Bible or Biblical in any way. It can’t be found. Weird.
So, if an attendance-based club with hierarchy and ritual isn’t what Jesus died to bring us, then what is?
What is the Jesus-Life, in the Bible, and in the experience of the First followers of Jesus? What in the world are we supposed to do instead of attendance?
Must we close our eyes and blend in with what doesn’t look like the Life Jesus brought to Earth? Or, should we just quit? Or, should we mess around trying to “start something”?
That’s what we need to talk about. We have so-often replaced Jesus and His Life with a man-made system when what He left us was an Ecosystem full of Power and Promise. He didn’t just come to save us when we die, He came to fill us with Himself—NOW.
I truly believe, along with so many, that Jesus is coming back soon. But the Scriptures are clear that He will not return until His Bride has been made ready, and we are not ready. But we will be. JESUS said so, and He’s not ever wrong, no matter what we have seen or heard up until now!
Jesus did not leave us steeples, rituals, robes, clergy, hierarchies, programs, systems, performances, and a different brand name of Himself on every street corner.
And He did not authorize lukewarmness, hypocrisy, dividedness, worldliness, and mixture amongst those who wear His name—Christians.
This mess we have accepted and excused is not OK with Him. It does not honor Him among the nations. There is no “shock and awe” in this version of religion, that LOOKS so very little like the God of Creation, born to a virgin, and conquering sin and death itself! Today’s version cannot storm the gates of Hell like Jesus promised His church, His ekklesia, would.
So again, what do we do about it?
There is only ONE way that this disaster of a mess we inherited can be solved: HIS DESIGN! ECOSYSTEM ZOE LIFE!
The person of Jesus and His Ecosystem of Supernatural “on earth as it is in Heaven” Life is “the Way!” Nothing man-made. His outrageous, courageous Ecosystem, not a religious System to woefully compete with other world “religions.”
There must be both...
- Revival in our hearts AND
- Restoration of the WAY He taught us to live, according to the Scriptures.
1.2. Religion vs. Reality
We know that Gen Z will not be inspired to stick around anything calling itself “church” that is different than the Life Jesus actually lived with the apprentices, and then the 120, the 3,000, and 20,000 (before persecution tipped the bowl over into the rest of the world).
Jesus began with the Genesis of New Life 2,000 years ago, the actual Ecosystem of His Seed Life. THIS is the “Second Adam,” Jesus and the Garden of Eden with Father—done Right this time.
Starting to restore visible Ecosystem Eden-Life will win more atheists, PhD scientists, Gen Z, bored old people, and billionaires, than all the sermons and programs and services in a millennium of Sunday-attendances could ever dream of winning.
Let’s GO!