Living FOR Him vs Living FROM Him

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Living FOR Him vs Living FROM Him

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April 16, 2023 • Walt Davis

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Dear Holy Ones of the Most High!

We are excited to be back with you this Sunday. I was so excited to hear Brian share last week. What an amazing job he did! This Sunday we get back to our “10 things everyone, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, needs to know about Christianity!” We are on "#4 We are sons, not slaves!” Most of us reading that are likely shaking our heads in agreement, but here’s the deal. Do you find yourself living your life FOR God, or do you find yourself living your life FROM God?

Generally speaking, living FOR God sounds wonderful but can insinuate a daily struggle and strife of trying your best do serve God as best as you can, living as committed as you can, and using all the strength you possess to do great and wonderful acts of ministry for God. But what is the source of this work? You see when we focus our lives as living FOR God, we may be living more as slaves than sons.

Sonship is different. As sons of the Most High, having been born of His Spirit and now partakers of His Divine Nature, we live not FOR God, but FROM Him. He is our source. He is our strength. He is our energy. He is our comfort. He is our delight. He is our everything. We live in this world FROM Him not FOR Him.

Maybe you have experienced the same “burn out” in life that so many have described in Christianity. If you have spent any time trying to serve out of your own strength, you will and should "burn out.” But what if you choose to see the reality—that you are inseparably fused to the GREAT I AM and He is your source for all things. He is the Christian Life already in you living and you simply live now FROM Him? See the difference! One is labor. The other is Rest.

Let us enter His REST as his SONS and DAUGHTERS.

Hope to see you Sunday,

Walt Davis

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The Bible is One Book Containing Two Different Covenants

November 27, 2022 • Walt Davis

Hey Mosaic, Why is the Bible so hard to read and understand sometimes? Don’t get me wrong, some if not most of it is clear. But there’s a lot that leaves us scratching our heads at best. Sure, there are cultural differences between theirs and ours. Sure, there are language and translation difficulties. But sometimes the difficulty is more than that— it’s the content. For example, Jesus tells the Jews that God will forgive their sins only if they forgive other people's sins against them, but then Paul tells believing Christians in his letters that they are completely forgiven of all their sins—past, present, & future. Another example is that the same Bible says that God judged the Israelites because of their sins, but then we read Hebrews say that God remembers our sins “NO MORE!” So which is it? How do we reconcile these differences? I really hope you join us this Sunday at Mosaic, where we will try to unpack the truth that the Bible is one book that contains two completely different covenants. Knowing which covenant you are in makes a world of difference in what you believe about God, about yourself, and most practically, what you believe God thinks about you! Hope to see you there! Walt Davis

When the Old Has Faded Away

January 22, 2023 • Walt Davis • 2 Corinthians 3

Dear Saints, We look forward to celebrating Jesus and His finished work with you again this Sunday at Mosaic. We will continue our count down of “The Top 10 Things everyone needs to know, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, about Christianity!” We are on number 9 this week: When we see the Old has faded away, the veil hiding our new heart is taken away! - 2 Corinthians 3. You see the New Covenant can be really hard for us to wrap our religiously trained minds around. We are trained to live based on morality. In the New Covenant we learn to live by the Life of Jesus within. Of course, Jesus’ life is a moral life, but Christianity isn’t learning about morality and trying our best to live up to it. Christianity is seeing the truth that our new spiritual core is the very glory of God. As we see this truth day by day we begin to live out who we now are in Him—not by trying but by trusting! Are you tired of trying to live the Christian life and continue to fail over and over? Maybe it’s time to stop trying and start trusting in the good news that Jesus not only lived the Christian life but IS the Christian life and His life is now your life in you, joined to you, one with you. This veil of trying must be removed. As it is, the glory of God in you goes on display through you! I really hope to see you Sunday! Walt Davis

Once and For All

January 29, 2023 • Walt Davis • 1 John 1:1–2, 1 John 2:12

Dear Saints! I hope you are each doing well! We look forward to joining with you again this Sunday at Mosaic as I continue down this list I call “The Top 10 things everyone, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, need to know about Christianity!” This Sunday we are looking at #8 and possibly one of the most important: "Jesus’ Death cleansed us Once and For all, not over and over." 1 John 1:1-2;2:12. For the first 33 years of my life, I thought that God would forgive my sins one by one as I asked Him to -- daily, weekly, or whenever. I was taught things like: “Bring your sins before the Mercy Seat each day for forgiveness so that you don’t face them at the Judgment Seat one day,” or “to be a good Christian, you must keep short sin accounts with God.” I’m sure you have heard something like this. You, like me for 33 years, may have even subscribed to this idea of God still holding your sins against you until you ask Him not to anymore. In fact, most Christians live their entire lives with this thinking that they are dirty then clean then dirty then clean over and over and over. What is the truth? The truth might surprise you! The truth is that the Good News really is good news! We will see this Sunday that Jesus’ Death cleansed us once and for all, not over and over. Hope to see you Sunday! Walt Davis