TRUTH is as timeless as GOD HIMSELF--it
NEVER CHANGES! It may be forgotten,
neglected, perverted, opposed, rejected,
counterfeited or displaced, but it NEVER
CHANGES! It is not an emphasis, a concept,
a "party-line," nor merely on option.
It is an IMPERATIVE!

God created man in such a way that the presence
of God as Creator within a man as creature, is
imperative to his humanity. Man in NORMALITY
is to be distinguished from the animal kingdom
by a quality of life and behavior, that can have
no possible explanation apart from God
Himself in the man.

This fact is TRUTH! It is not subject to debate
nor dialogue--it is not an option to be offered--it
is a FACT to be proclaimed! Truth does not evolve
over the years, any more than God evolves or Christ
evolved. In assuming our humanity, the Lord Jesus
Christ as CREATOR chose to play the role of
creature. As the God Who made man, He chose to
be the kind of man that He, as God, had made. In
declaring that He as Man without the Father could
do NOTHING, Christ demonstrated the TRUTH
that has always been TRUE-- that we as men can
do NOTHING without HIM; that the Father as
God, then, was as indispensable to Christ as Man,
as Christ as God now, is indispensable to us as men!

To recognize this and to practice the principle is
the nature of TRUE REPENTANCE, and without
true repentance there can be no TRUE FAITH.
True repentance compels us to be totally dependent
on Christ, as He was totally dependent upon the
Father. Christ now can do the work in us as the
Father then did the work in Him, and so we may
let all God loose in the world--not then, "just
the sky" but God Himself is the limit!

This gives an entirely new dimension to our
understanding of the Gospel and the remedial
measures it proclaims; not only that in the
REDEMPTIVE ACT Christ died for us, but that
in the REGENERATIVE PURPOSE of God,
Christ rose again from the dead to live HIS LIFE
in us. Thus by apostolic proclamation: "If Christ be
not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith
is also vain . . . ye are yet in your sins!" (1
Corinthians 15:14-17). The RESURRECTION
through which we are BORN AGAIN is at the very
heart of the Gospel. (1 Peter 1:3). Any departure
from this truth is a CORRUPTION OF THE MIND
and has its origin in the subtlety of Satan. (2
Corinthians 11:2-3). It is a departure from the
"simplicity which is in Christ" and constitutes
"neo-evangelical humanism." (Rev. 2:4-5).

NEW BIRTH is a divine conception! A man takes
a woman to wife so that his life, imparted to her may
be reproduced in and through her. We too, have been
espoused to "One Husband," Christ, "Married to
Another, even to Him Who is risen from the dead,"
(Romans 7:4), so that His life imparted to us by the
Holy Spirit at new birth may be reproduced in and
through us, "to raise up the foundations of many
generations" (Isaiah 58:12)--fruit that abides to His
eternal praise, and not only to abide, but to reproduce!

The Lord Jesus Christ established the fact that our
spiritual union with Him, as He was in spiritual
union with the Father, is the true and ultimate
basis of all evangelism, missions and Church
planting. "The world will KNOW and the world
will BELIEVE." said the Lord Jesus, "that the
Father has sent Me, when they are in Us as I
am in Thee, Father, and I am in them as
Thou art in Me!" John (17:21-23).

That is the TRUTH that sets men FREE!