A Christian Message Cleaned Up As You Go

The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind- a New Perspective on Christ and His Message.

If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Jesus' vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can use to experience the heart of his teachings for yourself and others.

Christian Enlightenment

In Christianity, enlightenment through Jesus is a spiritual process that involves knowing and experiencing Jesus as the light of the world. The Bible uses light to represent spiritual principles like truth, love, and life. 

Ephesians 1:15-18 (NASB) “For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might.”

Paul writes a prayer in the beginning of Ephesians that the eyes of the believers’ hearts become enlightened to understand their spiritual inheritance in Christ. Paul is admonishing an experiential, relational knowing of Jesus, the light of the world, that transforms our entire being. The “heart” Paul refers to is the inner man - the center of our mind, will, and emotions.

The Bible uses the concept of natural light to illustrate a spiritual principle. Light is ultimate truth, freedom, clarity, love, and life. When Jesus declares Himself the light of the world (John 8:12), He is declaring that He is the natural embodiment of all these spiritual principles. When I receive Jesus, I instantly receive all of his light. I am instantly made exactly as He is (1 John 4:17).