If you ask any Christian if you love Christ, the answer is likely: "Yes, of course!" which believer would answer otherwise?But in the holy light of the Word of God, words are not enough. Jesus said that there are two evidences that reveal the love that one has for him.
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And if those two are not clearly defined in their life, then their love for Christ is only of word, not of deeds and inTruth. These two evidences are: (1) Their obedience to all the mandates of Christ; and (2) the manifestation of Christ's presence in his life.This verse says it all: "He who has my commandments, and keeps them, that is the one who loves me... And I will love him, and I shall speak to him "(John 14:21). We know what it means to keep the commandments of Christ. But what does it mean that he will "manifest" us?To manifest itself means to show itself; In other words, we must become an instrument or channel that radiate the presence of Christ.
The church is accustomed to praying like this: "OhSir, send us your presence. Come in our midst, derrámate on us, move on us, Revélatenos. " But the presence of God is not simply something that "falls." NoIt is something that falls suddenly and surprises the congregation or overwhelms it. It seems that we have the concept that the presence of Christ is like an invisible smoke that God sprinklesIn the atmosphere, like the Old Testament cloud of glory that filled the temple so that the priests could not stand to officiate.Too easily we forget that our body is now the Temple of the Lord: "or know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you?" (1 Corinthians 6:19). And if His glory comes, it must appear in our hearts and fill our body.
Christ does not dwell in buildings or in a certain medium; Actually, not even the skies can contain it. Rather it is manifested through our obedient and sanctified body, which is his temple: "For you are the temple of the Living God, as GodHe said: I will dwell and walk among them, and be their god, and they shall be My People "(2 Corinthians 6:16). But why in the midst of our churches is there so little or no presence of Christ?Why are so many congregations dead? Because the pastor or the people — or the pastor and the people at the same time — are spiritually dead! To experience the presence of Christ in a church is not so much a Community matter as an individual. True, a pastor without prayer, without spiritual life, can spread death throughout the congregation.But each member is a temple and is personally responsible for obeying God and being at his disposal as an instrument of his presence. Your church may be dead, and yet you may be filled with the presence of Christ.A few years ago four teenage boys told my pastor: — you preached in our church last year, and she was dead. Then we start a prayer meeting just for us.
We wanted to put ourselves in a correct relationship with God, repent and be torches lit by Christ. Our group grew to have ten members, and guiábamos other boys to find Christ. Now we are inviting the deacons and the pastors to come and pray with us. We actually have a transformed church. Now the Lord is there!A true revival, in my view, is a restoration of this kind of intense love for Christ. That love is distinguished by a new desire to obey every word of his, an attitude of the heart that says, "Whatever you say, I will." Indeed, a revival is aReturn to obedient love on the part of a people whose members have individually confessed and forsaken all sin, and wish only to become channels of the presence of Christ. True revival is embodied in people like that. They carry with them the glory and the presence of Christ, because the life of him flows through them at all times.There are pastors of great churches who have told me: "You must come and see what God is doing.
Thousands of people are coming; We no longer fit. Our cult is reallySomething to see! " I have come to some of those churches with high expectations, but I have seldom perceived or experienced the true presence of Christ in their mass assemblies. These congregations did not show true repentance. And I believe that if a prophet had risen and denounced the divorce, adultery, fornication and the use of evil music in those churches, half of the congregation would be gone.
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