Organic Christanity

\“This is the undiluted hope of the gospel, the good news of the organic opportunity to be his Holy and Spotless Bride.”

James 1:17 … [The] Father of lights, with whom there is NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING.

John 14:30 …for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has NOTHING in Me.

We live in a world that screams that there are no absolutes. A world looking for shelter from its conscience, in the grey areas of life: the places between black and white truth; which excuse allegiance, and promote indecision. Right and Wrong have been replaced with the hybrid of tolerance and relativism. We are told to question everything, except those who tell us to question everything. Our new society condemns any who would define Truth in specific terms. Instead society chooses the path of appeasement, enabling its people to believe, that belief in nothing at all…amounts to something.

Morals and values are termed “Old Fashioned” in an attempt to belittle integrity and equate faith to fable.  The atmosphere of acceptance has settled over our spirits and minds like a thick fog, and seeing we no longer see, and hearing we no longer hear (Matt 13:13). We deify the frailty of our own understanding and follow our feelings; enthroning our assumption and theory in a kingdom of politically correct, blissful ignorance.  All the while agreeing only to bring one sacrifice to our alters: TRUTH.

Even religious people have become entangled with this perception creating one of the greatest industries the world has ever known…… the lukewarm church. We have mixed the worldview of the cold and callused with the fire of an eternal God, and end up a tepid institution with multiple personality disorder: dying from the disease we are supposed to be the cure for. We are intertwined within a spaghetti culture where reality suffocates under wishful thinking, and where Disney world optimism substitutes heavenly insight.

Instead of a pure, clean, organic Christianity, we subscribe to a brand containing our own man made additions; self-preservatives, religious fillers, and the artificial colorings of our own emotional hype. Our salt has lost its flavor (Mat 5:13), so we season our services with synthetic sermons, and imitation splenda-style sacrifice.  We substitute the grand Holiness of an organic God, with the empty “faith free”, god-zero variety of our own way, and wonder why in “taste-tastes”  (Psalms 34:8) we can’t compare. Our “diet-right” morality has crippled our cause, and our leaven additive (Mat 16:6), pseudo-spiritual, hype-injected version leaves us powerless and deceived.

But there is a better way. There is an Organic Christianity: a caged-free; Spirit-Fed style of intimacy with our creator. A true, all-natural, nothing added relationship with the God of all eternity is available to us all; it was paid for by the pure, sinless, holy blood of our Savior. He is the one and only absolute God who created the universe, who is all powerful, and all knowing, and still concerns himself with numbering the hairs on our head. A God who dwells in inapproachable light, with no variation or shadow of turning; lets discuss what this means.

To call something Organic means that it is undiluted, wholesome, and uncontaminated. God is just that, perfect. Jesus said the ruler of this world (Satan) is coming and he has NOTHING in me. Jesus was saying I am faultless, I am pure, I am untainted by anything evil. There is not a hint, a trace, a speck of anything other than good in God.  Jesus’ absolute power comes from his absolute purity. Just as the higher the octane of gasoline, the more power it provides, and the more concentrated a cleaner the greater its potency. The higher the proof the stronger the drink, the purer the gold the greater its value; the same is true of the character of our Lord; His supreme authority is a by-product of His supreme purity.

Thus contrasting and exposing the source of humanities hypocrisy, our weakness comes from the mixture of the mundane with the miraculous. Just as James says, a double minded man is unstable in all his ways (James 1:8), and fresh and bitter water can’t come from the same spring (James 3:11). The fusion of faith and fallacy is why we are not the church God intends us to be. We have a concocted blend of Christianity, combining relationship with Jesus with the rebellion of our own way, and in doing so have robbed our generation of the power and the presence that come from His purity.  That is why God hates lukewarmness, because it is in complete conflict with who He is. It is the hot fire of God being diluted by the cold sin of this world.

God uses no exaggeration when he speaks, in fact, He cannot. Remember God said “Let there be light” and light appeared. It is hard for us to understand this about God, because we are so different, but His words are His actions (Is 55:11). We can say one thing and then do another, but God is not a man that he should lie (Num 23:19, Tit 1:2, Heb 6:8). So when He says “Be Holy as I am Holy” (1Pet 1:15), and “Be Perfect as I am Perfect” (Mat 5:38) His grace is available to achieve this, or he would be denying he own, word which He cannot do (2Tim 2:13). The same God that brought light forth with a word says this: Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear (Hebrews 12:28). Jesus is saying His grace enables us to serve Him acceptably, His grace changes us from the lukewarm church that makes Him sick, to a glorious church that brings Him honor, and brings His uncompromised truth to every lost soul.

This is the undiluted hope of the gospel, the good news of the organic opportunity to be his Holy and Spotless Bride. To be “sin free” because He is “sin free”; it is not something we have earned or ever can earn.  It is the difference between the 87 octane unleaded of manmade religion and the righteous rocket fuel of a perfect God’s grace residing the tanks of our spirit. Our vehicles can go nowhere apart from the power of the fuel we impart to them. But ask yourself this next time you “pay the price” to fill up your car with the fuel it requires to reach its destination; how would you feel with the key turned in the ignition if nothing happen? You would call your vehicle broken but, our churches call it acceptable. The bible calls it clouds without rain, (Jude 1:12) advertising what they can’t deliver. It is having a form of godliness (being like God –literally holiness: Strong’s Dictionary) but denying it’s power (2Ti 2:15).We look like a vehicle that can drive the highway of holiness to our destiny, but we have mixed our sin with the purity of God and have “broken down on the side of the road”. Why? Because a little leaven, leavens the whole lump! Just like a little bad fuel corrupts the whole tank and stops us in our tracks. So we have the full measure of Jesus’ Spirit available to us, yet we can’t get “started’ to drive the evil from our communities, or transport the lost and hurting masses to their divine destination (even though the greatest price of all was already paid). The answer is to repent, to pour out of our hearts the idolatry, religion and rebellion that pollute our potential, and to be filled with the Organic Spirit Of God (Ephesians 5:18).

All things are possible to our Glorious God (Matthew 19:26). He is able to do more then we could ever think or imagine (Ephesians 3:30). Mountains could be moved if we would just believe (Matthew 17:20). He is offering us an infinite, limitless love affair with Him, to make us more than conquerors (Romans 8:37), to empower us to walk in undiluted Holiness right beside Him. Our decrypted world craves more than the, over processed, prepackaged, artificial answer we have given them. God is offering organic intimacy to anyone who will repent of the contamination inside of their heart. He has extended extravagant relationship to all who would deny the corrupted life of lukewarmness, and the pious pollution of our reprobate religion. We must cry aloud for our pretense to fall to His purity, and our filthiness to fade to His faithfulness; in doing so we will be full of the great grace, which gives us His divine nature to revolutionize this planet with His perfect presence.