We Must Believe, Receive and Transceive

Here we are in the Hebrew month of Nisan, the first month of the Jewish calendar that marks the beginning of the spring season–the season that displays the promise of New Life. From the Old Testament perspective, it is also when Passover, commemorating the Exodus from Egypt, is celebrated. Nisan is considered the “month of redemption” and a time of renewed hope and freedom–which deep down all people intrinsically desire.

Nisan corresponds with the month of April on the Gregorian calendar this year, the month we celebrate Easter the ultimate expression of Passover in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, who was slayed as THE Passover Lamb for all who will believe, receive and transceive. Let me explain.

While the Bible is clear salvation is available for all who believe in and receive Jesus as the substitutionary sacrifice, who paid the debt of sin we owe but cannot pay, God’s Word also challenges anyone who places their faith in Jesus to be transformed, to embrace their new life purpose, to act on their claim of faith in Christ. This means to live according to God’s standards which are entirely contrary to the standards of the godless world.

The word transceive is reference to radio communication and means to receive and transmit which is the mandate God places on all who profess to be Christ followers. We are to receive the wisdom and counsel of Holy Spirit and transmit the same as we live our daily lives. We are to transcend our natural human nature by emphasizing our new supernatural nature given us when we genuinely choose to submit ourselves to Jesus Christ. Such places Christians in the forefront of the fierce battle between good and evil, life and death. Jesus never promised the Christian life would be easy. On the contrary, He openly stated it would be replete with conflict, obstacles and conflict with the promise of victory for those who persevere. We persevere by acting on the wisdom and counsel of the Holy Spirit, thereby overcoming evil.

The Exodus from Egypt was a depiction of God redeeming people who willingly obey His instructions, to come out from the bondage and deception of the world into the Promised Land that flows with milk and honey. History reveals, while many people were delivered from Egypt in the Great Exodus, relatively few of them persevered the obstacles of the desert, preventing them from entering the Promised Land. As is true today, many people want to enjoy all the promises of God without actively working to overcome the ravages of this world. This has given us the term easy-believism.

Easy-believism is a term used, often pejoratively, to describe a view of salvation that emphasizes a simple act of belief, like reciting a prayer, as sufficient for salvation, while downplaying the need for a changed life and commitment to following Christ. It’s often associated with the idea that salvation is “easy” to obtain, requiring minimal effort or transformation. Easy-believism suggests salvation is solely a matter of intellectual assent or a superficial act, rather than a genuine transformation of heart and life.

I focus on this today in awe of the miraculous intervention God has repeatedly provided us through all history, as we consider Passover and Easter, wanting us to embrace the full measure of God’s offer of redemption and a victorious new life. Based on all my work in ministry, seeking to reach people with truth, to help us all recognize the lies and deceptions from the enemy that are constantly before us to prevent us from walking in the fullness of God’s intent, I am deeply grieved that more of us are not transceiving.

In these very days we live, cheap grace has nearly cost us everything. The deception of easy-believism has rendered the Church, the Ekklesia, impotent. But all praise to God, He has once again intervened in the lives of His people to redeem us!

The term “cheap grace” can be traced back to a book written by German theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, called The Cost of Discipleship, published in 1937. In that book, Bonhoeffer defined “cheap grace” as “the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline. Communion without confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ.” Notice what is emphasized in Bonhoeffer’s definition of cheap grace and what is de-emphasized. The emphasis is on the benefits of Christianity without the costs involved; hence, the adjective cheap to describe it. 1

We’ve learned of the very real, evil plot for a one world government that has been underway for hundreds of years through government and political world leaders. Thanks to God’s intervention, we’ve been caused to wake up to the extent of the progression of evil, to our utter astonishment. Only now are we beginning to realize we’ve been deceived in so many ways.

As the Bible reveals, this evil effort for a One World Government devoid of God is the plot of the enemy of God who will one day establish his anti-Christ reign. But this is not that time. Thank God, this is not that time! God has made clear, this is the time of redemption and a time of renewed hope and freedom as He is once again delivering His people out of the bondage and enslavement of the world.

How I pray that we all wake up fully, to understand the seriousness of our folly, and in response run to the Father in repentance and unhindered desire to become all He intends us to be in honor of Jesus and all He has done for us, and for us to become genuine transceivers in Christ, being the influence on the world causing evil to retreat instead of allowing the influence of the world to trample the Church. As I say at the close of each of my podcasts, “Christ died for us, the least we can do is live for Him.”

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