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Gerry Gutierrez' Update
Reforming by pen.
Reform is a Jesus way of thinking.
To add or to extract from the truth is the felony of unfaithfulness and the antidote against this poison is being full of faith or faithfulness. Jesus was faithful. After the hot summer is gone, the wax museum requires the services of a “Reformer” to give back the original form which was affected by the heat. The reformer must not add or take away wax by the work of his hands.
The main trade of the reformer is “Faithfulness,” the belief that there is one God, one Messiah, one Spirit, one will, one word one message, one purpose and one destiny sovereignly set in motion from eternity to eternity where Time and Space are but a bump and a pothole soon to be forgotten in the plains of the infinity.
Accept this fact as faithful truth and that will keep you from getting lost in the enchanted forest of worldly knowledge where even if you come to understand it all you will never entirely satisfy the bottomless pit of the enquiring mind. Should you succeed in mastering the Truth you might unwillingly think you are indeed a “Master” and therefore greater than the truth. Yet your task in life will remain the same and that is to disciple one person at the time to the point to bring him or her to agree with you in the oneness of the mind of Jesus.
You will soon find out that people do not care how much you know until they know how much you care for them. Our ministry is not a matter of the Great Commission but a Matter of the Great Commandment. It is a matter of loving God and then loving people. Relationships should precede Enterprise. It is a matter of the honey of discipleship and not of the vinegar of Evangelism only. The evidence of Jesus in me is my capacity to love one person as Jesus loved Peter, James, and John. False love is idolatry. You can bet on that. God loved Moses just the same even though he did not enter into the Promised Land. Moses did not need to get into the Promised Land. Moses is in heaven now. Jehovah himself was always Moses’ portion. Moses could handle the impediment because he was the meekest on earth. Humility above all. God enables, first and trust later with the test. For by grace, we are saved through faith and even faith also is the gift of God not by works so no one can boast.
We are saved to do good works prepared before the foundation of the world that we may walk in them. The Reformed way of thinking is the Jesus way of thinking. Reformed way of thinking is a predestined way of thinking. In the Reformed way of thinking there is no improvisation. A Reformed way of thinking is a prophetic way of thinking whereby the bold believer says: “It will be so and in no other way.” And by faith believes, loves all things, accepts all things, trusts all things in childlikeness.
This was a sick prophet of the poor and the childlike.
Gerry Gutierrez.
P.S. Please pray for a good primary care doctor. This picture was taken this morning. Jeremiah was my editor in chief of this letter.
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