Jesus the Rabbi A truth of Christian spirituality that is easy to believe but sometimes harder to experience is the reality that we are never alone. We walk with the ascended Christ through the Holy Spirit. We share Christ’s mind and He teaches us to walk in the ways of God’s truth. We learn to think and act as righteous sons and daughters. God’s

“What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not with words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words...we have the mind of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 2:12-16

is that the character and nature of God’s spiritual reality (“heaven”) manifest and make themselves apparent in our realm (“earth”). The new humanity, the Body of Christ, is the conduit of the life of heaven and God’s agent of change on earth. We cannot enact the will of heaven without an awareness of what God is thinking and saying. This is where

Through the gift of the Holy Spirit and the anointing, God has also given us the ability to live in the flow of the Father’s voice. This allows us to live a “here as in heaven” lifestyle, a central theme of the Lord’s Prayer. The idea

The anointing enables the prophetic lifestyle, but it is the mind of Christ that activates it.

Eternal life is within God’s prophetic people - it courses through our veins. It is the living water of the Holy Spirit, the anointing of Jesus Christ, who brings life and God’s power to anything and everything we do.

The coming of the Breath of God, the Holy Spirit, on both Jews and Gentiles was the fulfillment of God’s promise to the prophet Ezekiel: the dry bones of Israel would rise and live again!9 Death, the consequence of mankind’s sin, had been vanquished on the cross. Life abundant, enabled by restored access to the presence of God, has now become

The rejection of God’s presence is what had originally brought sin and death upon humanity. There was no sin and death before Adam and Eve’s fall in the Garden of Eden. Sin and death entered the world after they attempted to seize autonomy from God. Christ, the last Adam, abolished this mistake of Adam and Eve. The cross completely destroyed the

Eternal life is Jesus Himself, who has healed the separation between God and man. Through the cross, the Lord has restored humanity’s ability to access and experience God’s presence. For the Jewish people (i.e. the Bible writers), life is God’s presence. To be absent from God’s presence is to be living in death. Absence from God’s presence prevents