This religious program, and it is a religious program, has caused people to have the wrong view of God the Father.
The very idea that AA can talk about a loving God on one page, then talk about a bunch of rules and a spiritual program, is just a wicked distortion of Daddy God.
Yes, He is our Daddy:
"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." (Romans 8: 15)
"Abba" is Hebrew for "Daddy!" the simplest, most affectionate term one can utter.
That is the name which Jesus revealed the most about God:
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (Galatians 4: 6)
We have a new spirit, the Holy Spirit, who lives and dwells in us, granting us not just a new life, but a new identity, just like His own Son Jesus:
"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4:1 7)
We need to recognize that we are no longer living this life to measure up to a standard, because Jesus has fulfilled the law fully, finally, and forever:
"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matthew 5: 17)
and
"Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:" (Galatians 3: 13)
and
"And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:" (Colossians 2: 10)
The New Covenant has taken care of us and our part, because we simply cannot fulfill it:
"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 8: 10-12)
This new covenant removes our "I" and replaces it with God's "I"
For too long, I had always believed that my sins were forgiven, yet no one had explained to me that because of this New Covenant, the Old Covenant was rendered inoperative and unnecessary, because Christ Jesus fulfilled the law in its entirety, dying for all sins, even all our sins -- past, present, future -- then granting us His life, Himself, including His perfect standing at the right hand of God the Father.
We do not need rules, because the Ruler rules within us, yet God the Father thourgh His Son, by the power of His Holy Spirit makes us not just alive, but sons, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8: 17)
Jesus came to give us life, to give us His life, and to give us Himself.
How dare AA make God the Father, Jesus Christ, and everything that He has done for us anything less.
Forget about a conception of God. We need to receive a growing revelation of how great He is --and continues to be great in our lives!
The law is fulfilled! The law is complete! We are no longer under the law, but we are under the grace of God in that everything that we are, that we have, that we do is based on the requisite knowledge that everything has been paid for, and paid for forever!
The part that has really opened up my eyes, just as the eyes of the two travelers on the road to Emmaus, is that law is not for me at all!
It's all about Jesus, who fulfilled the law, who fulfills, who fills me full of Himself - and blesses me fully to the fullest with His filling!
I could go on and on.
It's not enough for us to realize that all our sins are put away, which means that we should not go around taking our inventories, or confessing our sins.
We first need to accept that there is nothing, not one thing good in us.
Then we see how good God is, and then He blesses us with His infinite goodness in all things!
We must not, cannot return to the weak and beggarly elements without ruining the peace within, only because the law brings out sin, and as long as we walk around in these bodies, we can still be tempted to sin. Yet the greatest temptation to sin is not in circumstances, but in God's own law.
And the law has been fulfilled, and thus we are no longer under the law and have nothing to worry about!
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