Follow the Firstborn

<p>Have you seen the beaming smile of a baby responding to the love of its parent? We were created to enjoy it forever! But for most people as we mature through life this smile eventually fades into loneliness defeat and despair.</p><p></p><p>Popular Christianity tells us that grace is the news that we can simply receive forgiveness so we can go to Heaven. Not only does this fail to make sense of most of the Bible it leaves us living defeated heartbroken lives.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately God is bigger and better than that! He knows we need a kind of power that is just not in us. Therefore He will also heal us; evict oppressing spirits; break the power of sin in us; Rebirth us with an infusion of His own nature and empower us. Guilt shame and fear are annihilated.</p><p></p><p>Christ is the Firstborn of this second mankind and He said Follow me. The Gospel announces that the way is open to come after Him-in His lineage and His inheritance. The cost is life-exchange but it brings the ultimate return.</p><p></p><p>In Follow the Firstborn Jon Farmer has curated about 70 passages that cause your Bible to no longer be a mysterious puzzle. If you hunger to partake in the nature of God then the Word of God will take root in you; you will be filled and truly satisfied... now. Your smile shall return now as it has for so many!</p><p></p><p>Jon is a Gospel equipper at Bethel City Church near Raleigh North Carolina.</p>