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Written by John K. Eichmann   
Friday, 14 December 2007
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God the Son came down from the third heaven and took upon Himself a human nature and became the God-Man at His first advent (cf. John 1:14 with Matt. 1:23). He came not to do His own will but to do the will of the Father. It was the will of the Father for the Lord Jesus Christ to explain the Father to believers (cf. John 1:18). It was the Father’s will for all of the “fullness of the Godhead” to dwell “bodily” in Christ (cf. Col. 1:19; 2:9). It was the will of the Father for Peter, James and John to behold the glory of God in the person of our Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount of Transfiguration (cf. John 1:14 with Matt. 17:2; I John 1:1-2). The Lord Jesus Christ told the eleven disciples (who became apostles) that to see Him with the eyes of the soul, understand what He had taught them, and to have seen the miracles He had performed was to see the Father with the eyes of the soul (cf. John 14: 6-11). The Son came to bring to us not only a knowledge of God the Father but to prepare for us a way for intimacy with Him (cf. John 17:3, 21).

“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” Acts 20:27

The problem is that a majority of the born-again pastors are not teaching the whole purpose of God. Milk is being given out over and over again instead of putting the meat of the Word on the table. A lot of time its 2% milk because so much time is spent with singing, announcements, trying to get believers to serve in the local church programs, joke telling (called establishing rapport with the congregation), and cute illustrations no time is left to really develop a passage of Scripture. In the liberal churches it isn’t even skim milk, just plain old water. Skim milk is the watery substance that is left when all of the butterfat (which is the basis for what a creamery pays a dairy farmer) has been taken out of the milk. Skim milk preaching is the reading of the text with no real doctrinal explanation. Just a lot of human viewpoint comments, poems, clichés and entertaining pseudo-illustrations.


 
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