Theologians have sought to describe the Godhead by their well intentioned philosophical analyses. Because they have approached the Mystery of Divinity mentally they have constructed a Triune God that is incomprehensible, a far off Entity to which we cannot relate. Jesus no longer is a Man. He has become part of Something upon which we can only speculate, employing similes such as: God is like a three-leaf clover or a light fixture having three bulbs.

Because we have not known the Father and the Son experientially we have created an Abstraction.

The truth is, in the day when Christ comes to us and casts down all our works, being formed in us and dwelling in us, we realize Christ is our older Brother; that God is our Father; that we are in Christ; that Christ is in the Father; that the Father is in Christ; that Christ is in us. We have become an integral part of the Father and the Son. This is the Wheel in the middle of the wheel.

"On that day you will realize I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you." This is how we grow to understand God—not with mental reasoning but as Jesus reveals the Father to us.

Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. (John 14:21—NIV)

The interpretation of Paul's teaching of Divine grace to mean grace is an alternative to keeping the commandments of Christ and His Apostles, the result being that the believers do not know which if any of the New Testament injunctions they are supposed to obey, has made it nearly impossible for most churchgoers to press through to the fullness of God.

Every day I live I become more aware how destructive the prevailing dispensational-grace-rapture-Heaven teaching actually is. It has created the moral disaster existing in our country. Let us immediately throw out dispensational theory and every hair and claw associated with it and return to the simple, straightforward teachings of the New Testament.

Yes, we have to keep the commandments of Christ if we are to enter the Kingdom of God. It is by keeping His commandments that we show our love for Him. We cannot substitute the heretical "grace" in place of stern obedience to the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles.

I do not wish to offend any of the brothers—but really! How long will this error prevail?

Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, "But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?" (John 14:22—NIV)

Judas' remark reveals clearly that the disciples understood Jesus to be speaking of a coming to them spiritually, not of His coming to the world.

The Lord has promised to show Himself to His followers before He returns with them to establish His Kingdom on the earth.

To be continued.