Aug 10
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Getting Real About What Jesus Said …and Why.
Have we met?
More clarity received in the midst of NOW in this “21 Day Challenge” – is how to relate the truth about something Jesus said …and without further adieu, here goes:
The story of Brad Cullen, the faith-walk, under an assumed name, so to speak, began when I became convinced of the need to take the words of Jesus seriously; particularly with regard to what he said about anyone who believes enough being able to be who he was and do what he did as a man.
But first, since the foregoing paragraph seems to bounce around with little effect, although it does rattle the cages of certain folks who are in bondage to a belief system that may not be entirely true; so, let’s take a walk through the foregoing by giving it just a little background.
The writer of the Gospel of John said that the SPIRIT, the “Word of God, Who created the universe and everything in it,” became the man the western world tends to refer to as “Jesus the Christ.” Jesus, John later reports, said that anyone who believes enough can and will be who Jesus was as a man and do what he did.
What is so important about the foregoing statement is that, if it is true, Christianity has made a mockery of it, by insisting that Jesus was unique – the “only perfect man” – and that no other man can live up to his standards as a man.
I recognize that this is “a hard saying,” but if we don’t face it head-on we are going to miss several important points, one of the most important being that it was Jesus who said about those who truly believe in him, “I will be in them and they will be in me.” We can stretch his words to mean many different things, but I am being instructed to tell anyone who is willing to listen that the real Jesus is in me saying this, so you may want to be careful about judging it.
It's Not Easy to Judge
I have chronicled my own walk in my own beginning and growing awareness of this promised destiny of not only doing the same things Jesus did, but even more than he did, in two books; one, a factual and somewhat chronological history of my own progress in this regard, called Unlocking the Treasure Chest and the other one a fictional account called Leapfrog.
Both books have been gratifying in that they have been the instruments by which hundreds of people have reported dramatic breakthroughs into direct relationships with the SOURCE of everything. What is amazing is that the title of the fictional work, Leapfrog, has been the actual experience of so many: That is, leaping over the head of Brad Cullen who, don’t forget, is a pseudonym anyway.
Wait a minute, that means the “real” me, the “I” who actually wrote these books is claiming to be able to do what Jesus did and more.
Read it, Believe it or Stay where you are....?
That’s correct, but what I’m also claiming, since I “really am” Brad Cullen (or perhaps better said, “Brad Cullen is really me”), is that, at the very least, hundreds of people have “leap-frogged” over my head too. Neither Brad Cullen nor “I” claim to be anything special anyway …the promise, again, by Jesus, is that anyone who believes enough can perform the very same “miracles” that Jesus performed.
If YOU, whoever you are, can step up to being counted as anyone, then YOU too have the very same destiny. Therefore, this isn’t about “me,” or Brad Cullen, this is about YOU! If you are ready to make this step, taking Jesus at his word that anyone can be who he was as a man and do the very same things and even more than he did; and, therefore, anyone is making reference to YOU then, perhaps, you are ready to see that it is time to also step away from the pew in which you’ve been sitting.
Don't Sit Here Waiting, Get Up...Now!
Here’s the truth about that: The pew you’ve been sitting in has, connected to it, unseen spiritual, chains around you and to which you are blinded until you step away. Here’s why: That pew is representative of something which Jesus said clearly not to do and by sitting there you are being unwittingly disobedient to the very one you have been led to believe you are honoring by sitting there; a strong statement that is about to get far stronger.
The first step is to get freed from bondage. Jesus said, “You will know the truth and it will set you free.” Is what is being said, so far, the truth? I strongly suggest that you read no farther until you find out. Who will tell you the truth? Certainly the one to whom you’ve been listening from that pew can’t and won’t because he or she is bound with the same chains. In other words, no judgments are being made here, just a suggestion that you both (the one behind the pulpit and the one sitting on the pew) can be set free by the truth.
Are Your Ready to Break Free?
The only one who will tell you the truth is your PERFECT-PARENT SPIRIT and I’m being instructed to tell you not to read any further until you are led by SPIRIT to do so.
Have you asked? Are you ready to move on? Please don’t read what follows until you are instructed to do so. This isn’t some sort of “reverse psychology” trick, we really do not want you to read any further until you are led by SPIRIT to do so.
Okay, are you still with us? Let’s step back for a moment to look at something which may appear that we are overlooking …and ask a crucial question. Since we are focusing on what Jesus said about you and me (anyone) and our destiny as individuals, which includes doing everything and more of what he did and reminding anyone who is open to what he, himself, said about his limitations …and let us further remind ourselves that Jesus emphatically told someone not to refer to him as “good” – because only God is good and, implied in that statement, is that no human being, including Jesus, can or should be considered as “good.” Of course, that begs the question, was Jesus “fully” a human being?
With all the foregoing as a backdrop, here is the “crucial question:” What about the emphasis of Christianity related to the sacrificial death of Jesus? And, how does the reminder of what Jesus said about his own limitations impact that?
Here’s the challenge: What Christianity, at large, has done is to mythologize Jesus into greatness, as a man, and put limits on his followers who he, again, said are unlimited if they believe enough.
If it is true that Jesus died for us, and I certainly believe that is true, then are we somehow undermining his act on our behalf by paying attention to what he said about us being who he was as a man and doing what he did? My (Brad Cullen’s) answer is of course not. But that answer is at variance with a great deal of what many Christians believe and teach. Who may be correct with regard to this issue can be answered only by the SOURCE and, again, have you asked?
What Jesus said about what he did in the way of the “supernatural” is that he didn’t. The PERFECT-PARENT SOURCE in him did. All claims to be able to do what Jesus did, therefore, simply mean “I” didn’t do any of the “works” …the SOURCE (by whatever other title or name) in Brad (me), and the hundreds who have surpassed Brad and me, did them.
What Limited? No Way!
Now then, consider that, just as Jesus was limited as to what he could do as a man – oops, let’s stop there for a second and see if we can’t remind ourselves of some of his recorded limitations; the following two come immediately to mind: He didn’t know the exact timing of certain things on our PERFECT-PARENT’s agenda, as the first example …and, second, that he couldn’t perform miracles in an atmosphere of unbelief.
Let’s go back, now, to the point implied in the title of this piece: Why we need to get real about what Jesus said. Very simply, it is that until we do get real about what Jesus said, particularly related to our individual destinies of being able to do everything he did (and even more than he did) and become joint heirs with him in the family of the SOURCE, we’ll sit in pews listening to powerless drivel (or worse yet, stand behind pulpits spouting it) and never, ever, breakthrough into healing power and spiritual healing …and really now, don’t you think we should?
Now then, listen up to a discussion about all this by Ryan Bruce and Brad Cullen in Podcast 20 Aug 15 2010 – 21 day challenge -Day 10.
In Freedom,
Brad