Loving Jesus

Lloyd Elcock

Dog Ear Publishing, 2005 - 172 pages

Christians do not love Jesus enough Indeed on a scale of 1 to 10 the average Christian's love for Him scores no more than 2. That is the startling message of Lloyd David Elcock's first volume of a series of scriptural expositions that he proposes to publish under the rubric: "What the gentiles have done to Christianity." The foundation upon which he has built that series includes the following three cornerstones: Biblical Christianity can accurately and justifiably also be called Jewish Christianity. After the control and direction of Biblical/Jewish Christianity was passed from Jewish to Gentile hands at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, the Gentiles comprehensively deformed it, and 1200 years later, partially reformed it. The salvage and recovery of Biblical/Jewish Christianity, begun five hundred years ago by Luther, Calvin and the other Gentile Protestant Reformers, is only fifty percent completed; in particular, a number of the most important doctrines of Biblical/Jewish Christianity are yet to be recovered and their absence from today's Evangelical Church is the principal cause of the endemic and widespread carnality, and stunted spiritual growth that characterize the lives and lifestyle of the overwhelmingly vast majority of born again Christians everywhere in the western world. In this first volume, the author puts forward the view that one of those as yet unretrieved fundamental doctrines is the major key to the Spirit filled life of love, faith and power that is the ultimate goal of both Biblical Christianity and Gentile Evangelical Christianity. That key, he contends, is hidden (in plain view), in the pages of the fourteenth chapter of John's Gospel

Contents

• The Restoration of Biblical Christianity: 19
• A Divine Message to the Body of Christ: 21
• Davids Story: 23
• In Love with Jesus: 24
• Backslidden: 25
• The Prodigals Repents: 26
• Finally Came the Light: 27
• Liberated by Loving Jesus: 29
• Jewish Christianity and Gentile Christianity: 37
• The Gentiles Take Charge: 40
• Formed Deformed Reformed: 41
• Long Lost Doctrines of Biblical Christianity: 42
• Loving Jesus Part I: 48
• Christianity is Loping Jesus: 50
• One of Christianitys Greatest Tragedies: 55
• Loving JesusBe Warned: 58
• The Supremacy and Centrality of Christ: 60
• Christ the Central Figure of the Bible: 66
• God is I x I x I I: 67
• Gods Personal name: 71
• Loving Jesus Part II: 73
• A Heart Stopping Mind Blowing Reality: 81
• Level I John 141518: 82
• Obedience Equals Love: 83
• Love Me Jesus Your Enemy: 84
• Salvation Obedience: 85
• Advanced Upper Level Love for Jesus: 86
• Three Levels of Love for Jesus: 89
• Loving Jesus Covenantal Obedience: 90
• Gods Four Great Covenants: 92
• Calvary Prefigured in Eden: 94
• The Covenant with Noah: 95
• the Pattern of the Sanctuary: 96
• The Pattern of the Temple: 99
• Loving Jesus Wifely Obedience: 111
• The Body and Bride of Christ: 112
• Marriage the Ultimate purpose of Creation?: 115
• Husbandly Love and Wifely Submission: 118
• Loving Jesus More and More: 121
• The procedure and the Process: 122
• Gods Twofold Pathway to Spiritual Growth: 123
• Loving Jesus in the Face of Churchless Christianity: 126
• Shout to the Lord with a Loud Voice: 129
• Walking and talking with jesus: 131
• The long Hours in Solitary Places: 140
• Conclusions: 146
• The Manifested Presence of Jesus Gods Provision for Christian Maturity: 148
• A Prophetic Dream for Gods Church: 153
• Endquotes I Loving Jesus: 155
• Endquotes II The Body and The Bride: 157
• Final Word on Loving Jesus: 163
• Brief GlossaryCommentary: 164
• Suggested Reading: 167

Bibliographic information

• Title: Loving Jesus
• Author: Lloyd Elcock
• Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, 2005
• ISBN: 1598580205, 9781598580204
• Length: 172 pages