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A definition of a wormhole, from Wikipedia: A wormhole is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime… A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, or different points in time, or both). More precisely it is a transcendental bisection of the spacetime continuum…
The cross of Christ links the two disparate points of the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light; of us spiritually lifeless in trespasses and sins to us as sons of God with eternal life; of us walking in the limitations of our fleshly understanding, where we allow feelings to guide our logic and our ways to us walking in the limitlessness of God’s wisdom, where the spirit of Christ’s love illuminates and empowers us at all times and in all ways.
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Generally speaking, Christians regard the cross of Christ as an event which occurred about 2,000 years ago, when a man named Jesus, a man born in Bethlehem to a woman who was a virgin at the time of her conception by the holy spirit of God, and who was brought up in a city called Nazareth; who, after his baptism in the river Jordan by John the Baptist and subsequent 40 days of fasting and solitude in the desert regions, proclaimed himself to be the God-ordained Christ, both by word and by deed (signs, miracles and wonders), and after a relatively short periof of active ministry on the earth, was tortured and put to death on a cross (crucified) by the Romans of Jerusalem at the urging of the top Jewish leaders.
These Christians believe that that event paid for the sins of anyone who believes on that event, thus allowing God to forgive that person, to give them eternal life and to welcome him or her back into His good graces. And those Christians wouldn’t be wrong!
But the cross of Christ is more than that! It didn’t just qualify us to be acceptable to God; it is also the doorway – the wormhole – into another dimension – the spiritual dimension. The cross of Christ transports a person, in a moment of time, from living in a world where darkness and despair and death dominate the landscape into living in what is known as the kingdom of God, where light and life and love have the dominating power over everything. This transportation from a kingdom of darkness and despair and death to a kingdom of life and light and love does not occur a single time, but every time a person comes to the cross of Christ!
Giving thanks unto the Father, Who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transported us into the kingdom of the son of His love. Colossians 1:12, 13
I have often spoken of the need that believers not just stand in the doorway to heaven (which the cross of Christ is), but to then enter into and inhabit the land which God has provided for us. However, I have not sufficiently addressed the need which arises whenever and wherever a believer departs from that spiritual land of light and life and love; when he goes back to his sinful ways, back into the arms of the adversary of God, back into darkness and despair – when he walks in a forgetfulness of what God has made him to be in and by the spirit of Christ. The cross of Christ is not a one-time-usage doorway, crumpled up and thrown away after being used the first time. The cross of Christ is our access to the kingdom of God always!
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel; not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them who are perishing foolishness; but unto us who are being saved, it is the power of God. I Corinthians 1:17, 18
A barbell with 200 lbs. of weight on it is very useful for someone wanting to build up his muscles and endurance, but that same 200 lb. weight is useless to someone wanting to buy groceries. A winter coat is useless to someone at the beach during the summer, but it means life and survival to someone living in Alaska during the winter. So the cross of Christ is really very useless to someone who is satisfied with his life in the world of darkness. In fact, the preaching of the cross of Christ is as useful as a mosquito to that person – it is simply an annoyance! But to us who desire the wholeness of being which describes living in the kingdom of truth and light and love, the cross of Christ is our access, our passageway, a veritable wormhole for us to be transported again from the land where all is dark and deadly and into the presence of God, where all is alive and fresh and energizing.
For the love of Christ constrains us (to constrain means to invite again and again – it doesn’t just happen once); because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead; And that he died for all, that they who live should not from now on live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again. Wherefore from now on we know no man after the flesh; yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh (those men back then who lived when he lived); yet now from now on we know him no more (after the flesh). Therefore if any man be in Christ (having availed himself of the cross of Christ), he is a new creation; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, And all things are of God …. II Corinthians 5:14-18a
The first time we come to the cross of Christ, we are not only transported to a different place, but we are also transformed into a different creature. We go from being a finite being to becoming an infinite being. We become once and for all time that new creation, bought with the blood of Christ which was spilled upon his cross. What is not completed in that moment of time is our growing awareness of who we are as that new creation.
That is the reason for our ongoing need for the transportation provided by the cross of Christ, taking us from finite understanding and selfish motivations and into the kingdom of God’s limitlessness again and again. You see, a man is once again transported into the kingdom of the son of God’s love when he once again comes to the cross of Christ. The difference is that all subsequent transportations after that initial one are but reconnections in his awareness with the new creation he was made to be that first time.
The new birth, that happens once; but the growing up into Christ, that is an ongoing process! And that process doesn’t occur without interruption! Because again and again, once transported into the spiritual plane of God’s dominance, man is drawn back into his old way of thinking and interpreting events and allowing feelings to rule his life and logic. Growing up into Christ is an ongoing process in the believer’s life. Though the cross of Christ is a one-and-done thing, growing up into Christ is not! That is why the cross of Christ stands ready, any time we come to it, to once again transport us back into the kingdom of God’s life, light, power and love.
For I am not ashamed of the gospel (“of Christ” is not in the text – rather, it is the gospel of the cross of Christ); for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one who believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Romans 1:16
You see, the good news we share is the cross of Christ, because it is the way into the kingdom of God. Once there, God Himself, via the spirit of Christ, becomes our teacher and guide.
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified… And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power; That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. I Corinthians 2:2,4,5
But the anointing (spirit of Christ) which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. I John 2:27
The cross of Christ never gets old, never becomes irrelevant for our lives. It was and continues to be our way into, (whether for the first time or the 5,000th) the presence of God, into His kingdom and His power and His glory. Through the work of His son, God has provided a spiritual inheritance for each of His children, and through that same work of His son, God continues to provide the means by which we access that glorious spiritual inheritance of light and life and love. Through the cross of Christ we have been saved. But also, through the cross of Christ we gain access to furthering our salvation. May we continue to avail ourselves of the “wormhole” of the cross of Christ, which will continue to transport us into the kingdom of God’s loving delight whenever we come to it.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has he reconciled, In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight; Colossians 1:20-22
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