JESUS EXPLAINS CHRISTIANITY: Excerpt from The Valentine Prophecies, pp. 58-60. Jesus speaks, Disciples are first and foremost disciples because they love and adore me. They want to know everything I think, and say, and do, so that they can be just like me—just like the one they love. Being Christian is not ticking a box, it is falling in love. Yes, I understand there is a process to falling in love. It takes certain knowledge. It takes spending time together. But chatting together and chilling out together is not really why a couple falls in love with each other. It is rather that, during the chatting and chilling out together, they click—they enjoy being together—and this enjoyment grows and grows until they don’t ever want to be apart. This is what Christianity is to me, David. A Christian is someone who cannot bear to be apart from me. And I can guarantee that they will never be apart from me in this life, or the next, eternally. I am serious about love, David. I am serious about the people I fall in love with and the people who fall in love with me. I reject no one who loves me. Everything that matters in this life brings you closer to me. The church matters, Scripture matters, teaching and learning and preaching matter, fellowship matters, Christian friendship matters—when they bring you closer to me. So it is that, if you are being taught by those who are not close to me, or if your church is led by men who are not close to me, or if your closest friends are not close to me, don’t be so close to them. Everything that is close to you and everyone who is close to you needs to be close to me, so you are surrounded by every encouragement to approach the throne of grace with confidence. Be close to me, my Father, and the Holy Spirit. Know who your Rabbi is; be around people who know who their Rabbi is. When you rise in the morning, when you eat, when you walk or work, do all things with your Rabbi. Be constantly in fellowship and harmony with your Rabbi. Always be asking me questions, always be discussing Scripture with me, always be asking for a second opinion on your thinking and attitudes so that you know, in every little area, what pleases me. In this way, you will become like me, and that is what a disciple is: he is like me. Any version or teaching about Christianity that is not personal and about a walking and talking relationship with me, and the Father, and the Holy Spirit, is false and not of God. If you do not know God personally and you are calling yourself a Christian, you do not know anything. Now, I am not discounting that it can take months and years to walk and talk with me, just as it takes months and years to truly know any human friend. But an interest from the heart drives you forward—it makes you an explorer and one who wants to know everything about the one you are falling in love with. Your life is never the same when you are in love—madly in love—with someone. It is distracting and hard to get the one you love out of your head. So it is with Christianity. Read more excerpts at thevalentineprophecies/book
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