Radical Disciples – A Remnant Revolution

If you [really] love Me, you will keep (obey) My commands. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever–The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you [constantly] and will be in you………….The person who has My commands and keeps them is the one who [really] loves Me; and whoever [really] loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I [too] will love him and will show (reveal, manifest) Myself to him. [I will let Myself be clearly seen by him and make Myself real to him.] (John 14:15-17, 21)

What is the very core which drives a person to serve the Lord!

If a disciple is driven out of fear of Hell they will consistently walk about under and imprisoned by the weight of condemnation and crawl down the road of works.

But what of the Lord’s words in this verse, are they directing us towards obedience? The key here is love, passionate love – that love that fuels ones willingness to go all out for the person they love regardless of the cost!

Passionate – unabandoned Love!

When I was dating my wife, I wanted to go all out to please her because I was so captivated by her beauty (and still am) and felt like I had to be in her presence every moment of the day. Not only that I just had to tell everyone about her.  I would wait, counting down the minutes for my next trip back to Pensacola to visit her. The time seemed to go by so slow in between trips and ever so fast during our visits but the love in my heart over-road any barriers that might try to deter me.

Now, as I look at my son Joshua I know that I do every thing I can to show him my love, something that was missing in my youth in regards to a male figure. In the very center though is love, I would lay my life down for my wife and son. Regardless of the cost I would pursue them regardless of the distance that was between us not out of obedience as a husband and as a father, it is fueled by a deep rooted passionate love for them. I know their love for me is not something that I have a list of things to follow in order to get their love for it is a gift and I simply do for them out of the love in my heart towards them. Even during the times when I may not be the best husband or dad they still love me!

In the same way it was like this when I first came to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as the one true Messiah at the age of fifteen while attending a David Wilkerson crusade, I was filled with excitement and wanted the world to know. My whole life was captivated by His love – it was so real, so strong, so consuming. I would read His Word because I wanted to know Him more, I would spend time in prayer because I wanted to hear His tender voice.

The prison of religion!

Then for a number of years I had the onslaught of doctrinal teaching in my life that at times, were steeped in (though carefully concealed by the enemy)  a works mentality. This started building a huge gulf between the Lord and I.  Not by His doing, for the whole time as I look back now,  I see that He was patiently, every so lovingly waiting for me with His arms wide open, beckoning for me to look at the bridge He had purchased with His own blood – the cross. For the cross of Christ is that bridge which allows one to escape from the confinement of sin,religion and bondage and step into a true freedom along with a relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Prison doors opened!

Over the past several years Holy Spirit has been stripping me of the religion – that like mud had become cakes upon me. He broke through the prison of religious thinking that became rooted in a “salvation by works” mentality and revealed the mystery and revelation of these verses – Now I see that I had allowed the enemy and myself to take something so beautiful, so free and turn it into something ugly and ever so burdensome.

If a disciple truly loves the Lord they realize that we do not obey all the Lords commands to gain His love and enter into a deeper relationship with Him, we do it out of a passionate motivation of Love. He loves us even before we know Him, while we are still sinners living a life of sin – He loves us because He loves us, there is nothing we can do that will erase that love or broaden that love –He gives it all unabandoned- He showed the ultimate depth of His love for us when He surrendered His own life that we might gain freedom and eternal life. As there Word proclaims – “There is nothing that can separate us from the Love of God”.

Revolutionary Love!

O’ brothers and sister if you can but grasp this revelation your spirit man will step into the radical side of this revolution against religion. The freedom to serve the Lord God, fueled by a deep seeded passion of love will revolutionize your whole life. This Love was and still is a stumbling block to many including Satan himself – The Fathers love for His creation is a mystery that has eluded the enemy from the first time he witnessed it in the throne room – He fully knows about it’s power and has been attempting to conceal its revelation since the days in the Garden. He has used the weapons of selfishness, hate, fear and religion for generations to build a prison about mankind that they might never see the love of God in its purity.

Yet, Praise God for 2000 plus years ago this Love walked willingly up to the cross, willingly laid His life down – allowing His own creation to nail His feet and hands to the very device that would take His life and when it was finished, His last breath poured out the heavens were torn and Gods love broke through in a manner that the world or hell for that matter had never witnessed before. Yet Hell it’s self could not contain and hold this Love – Yes and amen, for it broke through with such a force that the world or hell could never again block its power and authority. For now it has been poured out into human vessels with the same power that spoke the world into being.

Join the revolution!

If you have not experienced this Love, if it has not broke through and freed you from the dungeons of religion, pray and ask the Father to send Holy Spirit, who is The Spirit of Truth – For just one light glimmer of God’s true love will destroy every yoke of bondage that attempts to imprison the children of God.

This love once revealed and received will birth a freedom in the disciple’s life that will push them past a life of burdensome obedience into a life of willing servant-hood – a position where one no longer  serves obediently out of fear, rather serves obediently willingly- birthed from  from a position of passionate Love!

For indeed we serve an Awesome God!