Living by spiritual laws of life or death
Part 1
In Romans 8:2 Paul tells us; "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from
the law of sin and death. We have two laws operating in our life and we will use this verse as a spring board to define the
inner struggle we all have in searching for true love and total acceptance from God and with one another. We will be using
the 8th chapter of Romans as this guiding foundation. The Holy Ghost is the only one who can define these two choices to our
understanding because; we are all in a dilemma of trying to cope with demonic entities who want to control us with strong
feelings and cravings that tempt us to live in guilt causing us to have a lack of true self esteem for our self.
The 8th chapter of Romans defines the difference between; experiencing God's love precepts of
life verses us being a slave to evil spirits that want to control us by trying to get us to obey obligated laws which in turn
causes us to reason in un-righteous thinking and actions. This is what bruises our soul which is made up of our (mind, will
and emotions.) When a born again believer is ignorant of the high esteem God holds them in as being His child in Christ; it
causes them to not interpret God's word correctly and they hinder the Holy Ghost from giving them the wisdom of how to
receive God's love. Living by laws causes us to judge our behavior and works at trying to control our decision making
and it may bring order to our life however; it does nothing to enhance a loving relationship with a loving God. When we have
no thoughts that we have broken one of God's laws; we do not live in guilt and worry about the consequence and penalties
we have to pay for breaking them.
God's love laws of life and death work
together as stated in the Old and New Testament and bring God's purposes to completion in our life. When we have a great
respect and reverence for the Lord; it will make us able to identify the thinking process in our search for total contentment
as we mix our thoughts with the Holy Ghost's thoughts. The greatest travesty that can happen to mankind is to be born
into this world and be living in a man ordained system of following rules and never having the security to be protected and
secured by them. That happens because; mankind is ignorant of coming to experience the true revelation and understanding of
the love of God and His intention for putting him on the earth in the first place. People who live by following obligated
rules have no true peace with in them self and live in toiling with guilt and condemnation. Wanting to be obedient to the
laws of God and man
is what God intended however; it is God's nature at work in us that causes this to happen.
God is the Author and Creator of the universe and has all the answers to life experiences. Our wholeness
depends on us recognizing His grace; which is His favor that we do not have to earn. Grace experiences keep us safe and secure
as we seek our personal destiny and particular purpose that God ordained for us and it only happens by us yielding to His
power of persuasion. Only He can teach, give us the desire and empower us to follow His love urges because, He was the one
who created this system of life and He is love Him self and not a person who works at loving.
If you owned a product
that broke down, common sense tells us to bring it back to the original maker for repairs. True God consciousness begins with
us becoming born again. Claiming to be a Christian by being an avid church goer and trying to be a good law keeper verses
having a born again experience in Christ is a matter of spiritual life or death. Only a born again believer can have a vital
living relationship with a living God.
Our spiritual life began when we
ask Jesus to come into our life and we had a miracle encounter with the Holy Ghost; who comes into our being. He is the one
who's responsible to show us how to participate in the spiritual kingdom of God. When you first see and have an inner
witness of the kingdom of God by having your born again experience; you also receive all of God's characteristics because;
He becomes your Father.
We make Jesus our Savior and become born again by obeying
Romans 10:9-10 which states. "If you believe with your heart and make a public confession with your mouth that Jesus
was raised from the dead and accept His finished work at the cross, you will be born again." Jesus was the first born
again God man who became God the Father's first son. When we become born again; we also become a member of God's family
and God becomes our Father as He is Jesus Father. In turn; Jesus becomes our brother. We are not talking here about belonging
to a certain denomination and attending church services. This should be our next destination however; without this supernatural
miracle taking place in our life, church going has no meaning in us having an intimate enthusiastic relationship with a living
God.
In Genesis it tells us that by God's spoken word He created the sea,
the animals and made mankind into His likeness. By creating mankind after His likeness; it was His intention for man to be
a co-partner and heir with Him in their physical life now while on earth and live with Him for eternity in a city called heaven.
A person who has been born again; has a inner witness through the Holy Ghost of the Spirit World and he is able to define
and identify the difference between God's voice speaking to him in his inner man verses all the other voices that are
crying out for recognition in the world today trying to bring mankind under control to do their bidding.
God gave the Ten Commandment through Moses because; He wanted mankind to know that they were breaking
them. Breaking God's commandments not only keeps us from having the loving relationship He wanted with us but, it brought
with it shame, guilt and a lack of appreciation for our self. A person with out having the Holy Ghost living in them is incapable
of obeying God's laws because; his own will power is too weak and he is a slave to his crippled fallen nature that he
was born with without Christ.
That's what happened to Adam and Eve when Satan
made them believe that; God made them incomplete. Satan tempted them to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
and made them believe that if they ate it would make them like God. When they ate; for the first time they felt guilty of
breaking one of God's laws and it brought death to their transparent whirl wind spiritual relationship with Him.
They didn't realize that they were already like God as His children and their relationship with
Him was complete. Because of this new equation of life that was added to their conscious understanding it caused their soul
to be bruised. Because of their guilt; they hid in the trees and made fig leaf aprons because; they were ashamed because;
they became aware for the first time that they were naked. This is the nature we inherited from our greattttttt grandfather
Adam. God knew that man was incapable of being faithful in following Him and put a fail safe mechanism in man when He made
him perfect in the beginning before Adam disobeyed God. That being, that if anything happened by man missing God's intentions
for him by failing to appropriate God's best, there would be a consequence that man would reap in his soul which represents
as I have said; his (mind, will and emotions.
This consequence should make us
recognize that; we need a power greater then our own and where mankind starts being led back to his Creator who is the meaning
of all life. When man misses God's best; he reaps upon himself a feeling of incompleteness, shame and self loathing that
causes him to search for love in all the wrong places. He does this to find the longings for purpose that God planted in him.
Unless he comes to understand God's ways and let Him be a Loving Father to him; this searching with out true direction
causes disappointment, addicted behavior and an evil conscience that has him end up living a mediocre life.
Since man is made up of spirit, soul and body; it is our Spirit Man which can not be seen with our
physical eye that has to be empowered because; this is what should be controlling our soul and physical behavior. If we are
to truly worship God it must be by our spirit to His spirit which defines for us God's ways of thinking and interacting
with mankind.
Over the last forty five years of my seeking of God and looking
for my identity as a person, I have come to realize that I am a unique individual and when God made me He broke the mold.
If you want to be a whole person as God intended, this is the same conclusion you have to come to for yourself. When our self
esteem begins to grow; it brings with it feelings of joy and we grow to recognize how important you are to God and you learn
how to love the one you're always with; your self. This assurance brings with it a knowing completeness and the cares
of life have no power to interfere with your freedom in Christ Jesus. God is not a respecter of persons and He wants all of
mankind to know that He is a jealous lover who wants to have a very personal intimate one on one relationship with each one
of his children. God can only be truly worshiped when our spirit is one with His as I have said.
As God reveals His truth from His Spirit to ours; it causes us to live in peace with a hunger to want more
of His presence. God's truths were intended to be passed down from one generation to another as an inheritance from family
too family. When you begin to build any structure, you must have a firm foundation in place if; you expect the structure to
grow strong and straight. If the structure is being built with inferior material and without following the true blue prints;
it is only a matter of time before it totally collapses. If we apply this principle to how God structured our life and how
we are to be raised up as a holy edifice as His body to do His works in the earth, our basic foundation can not be built on
lies and doctrines of devils with us having the expectation of becoming a God quality product of power and wholeness. God
raises us as He wants us to train our children.
A child who is being
raised in a healthy home environment should be taught principles by their parents of God's plan of wholeness. We start
out with laws of does and don'ts. When a child breaks a law they receive discipline like going to their room or being
grounded etc. This should start to instill in a child that there are rules that have to be followed and it feeds a seed that
God implanted in them at their conception of submitting to the authority of God represented by their parents. These rules
put roots in kid's lives and as they mature and are nurtured in the admonition of the Lord by their parents, they become
the generation that God's uses to bring restoration and order into the earth.
This
Greek word for admonition is noutheteo: It means to caution, reprove gently and be reminded of something. A child should always
want to seek the advice of their parents whether they're living at home or out of the house. However, the first admonition
that must be laid in their life is them coming to know the Lord Christ Jesus as early as possible by asking Jesus to come
into their life and them becoming born again by God's Spirit. This is the power the child needs to walk in obedience to
parents who represent the authority of God's love laws.
A child needs to become grounded while he still lives
at home under the watchful eye of his parents and mature to have a hunger with in him self to walk in obedience to their leadings
without always being told what to do. A child who has not become born again; does not have the Holy Ghost living in them.
It is the Holy Ghost who creates this hunger with in them to be obedient and a child can only experience the inward satisfaction
and self worth that is produced in him if; he is walking in obedience as a born again believer.
With the influences of the Holy Ghost; it creates a spirit in them of always being available and looking for
every opportunity to co-operate and conform to God's ways and their parent's leadings. Unless the parents have watered
this spiritual principle in children which causes them to willingly want to be obedient by the time they leave their house,
they have failed in preparing them to face a hostile world being controlled by seducing spirits of devils. These seducing
spirits come to rob them of God's inheritance that was planted in them at the time they became born again while under
the watchful eye and care of their parents.
The greatest inheritance that a parent
can give to their children is the wisdom and love of God that He put in their own lives.
As
parents; our children must be our top priority, not our ministries, job, or our hobby etc., or we have failed the foundational
purpose of Christian maturity. A child is a slave in having a lack of good judgment because; he was born that way. We have
to compel them through unpleasant conditions and take on a responsibility because of the authority we were invested with by
God to look out for them and point them in the right direction. Coming out of our mother's womb, our human nature says,
"I will not obey." We were born alienated with a wall between our maker and His creation and we need to be loved
back into wholeness by discipline with great passion, patience and perseverance.
We
start building character in a child habit by habit. This brings order; but not relationship. If the child has a messy room,
we work at trying to get them to keep it clean. We start by making them aware that they have a duty to perform like a ritual
of obedience. However, we must take them to the next step and instill in them how to become inter-dependent with God and to
decide for them self if; they want to be obedient for the satisfaction it creates with in them or; stay in a pattern of having
a fear of the consequences if they do not obey. They need to know this difference before they leave their parent's house
or their actions as adults will be founded on a weak foundation of countless unrelated habits and desires, which waver and
conflict with one another. This produces no apparent direction and they have no power within them self against the turmoil
and fears that daily beat against their mind. Our whole being has to be disciplined and focused on seeking a clear and direct
course of action with a vision given by the Holy Ghost. Now what we are explaining here are the two laws as stated in the
Old and New Testament.
The law of death says from the Old Testament; "I
have to obey or I am going to get punished." The law of life of the New Testament says; "I have a hunger in me to
walk in obedience because of the pure pleasure of feeling so loved and secure with in myself."
The devil is the father of all lies and a very real living entity on the earth who is the prince of the power
of the air in lofty places going about in a rage trying to influence mankind to miss their appointed tasks and destiny with
God their creator.
It is the born again children of God in their battle uniform knowing their call and trained in spiritual
warfare with their God given weapons and gifts; who are to take back what the devil has stolen and maimed upon mankind.
It is an awesome responsibility to be called on by God to be a parent and raise a generation of children
as a fighting force and equip them to birth God's kingdom into the earth.
This
is why the devil is absolutely terrified of the Joshua generation that God is raising up for this final battle against evil
and this is what will usher the Lord Jesus Christ back into this earth.
The Hebrew
word for Joshua is yeh-ho-shoo-ah: It means; one who saves. It represents a generation of those who have the breathe of God‘s
Spirit alive and flowing in their mind and heart proclaiming freedom and offering assistance to those who are under demonic
attack. They have a great passion to deliver those people who oppose themselves; by rescuing and avenging what the enemy has
stolen and looted from God's people and the world.
If we are growing up in
our parents care and are being taught principles where their originality comes from the Ten Commandments, we go through an
inner struggle of realizing that we are having a terrible time deciding that we want to obey them let alone having the strength
to obey them. This causes a fear and insecurity with in us that is a very real living entity that we have to learn to deal
with. This always was God's intention in the first place by giving Moses the Ten Commandments. It made us realize how
weak we were to keep them.
When parents are not bringing their children up in
the admonition of the Lord, we end up with kids having no discipline and vision of the life God planned for them. If you are
a born again believer who says they love God and wants to fulfill their purpose on the earth, it has to be very disconcerting
to see what's going on in the world and the spirit of anti-christ at work driving the presence of God out of the consciousness
of society. This whole country is in an uproar trying to correct every ill with different fixes and they have no clue as to
God being the only one who has the answers of life and its purposes.
I can understand
the scandals and perverse behavior among the unsaved community. However, the scandals and perverse behavior going on with
in the born again community in leadership and the congregations of America is a disgrace and unless God's people who are
called by God's name will humble themselves and repent of their ignorant errant ways, this country will implode from with
in.
I sense that because the days that we are living in are dangerous and Jesus
is about to return to the earth; the born again church which is God's salt and light to this generation; must become alert
and begin to present the gospel with passion and power in their arena as Jesus did when He walked the earth. Jesus is the
perfect example of a man born of a woman into this earth and scripture tells us that there is no other name given among men
as a foundation for mankind to understand how to operate in the kingdom of God. Therefore, we must understand His walk and
the way He found His place in His relationship with His Heavenly Father who is the creator of the universe.
He was born into a normal family as any other person in the earth. His earthly father who physically
nurtured Him was a man called Joseph whose occupation was that of a carpenter. The Hebrew word for Joseph represents one who
supports and adds to a child's education and raises him in the ways of God. Jesus was raised as a carpenter's son
and this became his earthly occupation however, his father was mightily used by God to give Jesus wisdom and encouragement
so he could fulfill His Heavenly Fathers spiritual call in the earth. The only difference between Jesus birth and the rest
of mankind's birth is that, His physical birth and conception was from the sperm and DNA of the God of the universe and
it did not come from an earthly human male sperm.
He was born a God man because,
Jesus was conceived through God's seed and came into this world as a born again believer. Jesus the earthly physical human
had Christ the anointed King who was with God when He created the universe now living on the inside of Him with all of His
Heavenly Father's characteristics and was born from His mother Mary's womb a Righteous person in Christ. God His Heavenly
Father looked at Him as being blameless, free from evil contamination and set apart to do His heavenly Father's purposes
in the earth. Now the only way mankind can make God their Heavenly Father as He is Jesus Father, is by them having a second
birth which is a spiritual miracle from above through God the Father's sperm.
This
takes place as I have said when; we make a commitment and ask Jesus to come into our heart and have a supernatural experience
through the Holy Ghost. When this happens; a person has a witness from with in him self of this taking place. As a born again
believer, it's very difficult at times to realize that God looks at us the same way He sees His first born son Jesus as;
blameless, free from any evil contamination and set apart to do His heavenly Father's purposes in the earth. That's
because, we have to deal with being tempted to look at our faults and failures as we endeavor to find peace and purpose for
our life.
As we begin to understand and over flow in our righteous position in
Christ by having a hunger and thirsting after God, the Holy Ghost reinforces our doubts of our permanent and total acceptance
that God wants to lavish on us as His children. By us staying in a constant awareness of how highly He esteems us, it keeps
our heart open for Him to give us a vision and a distinct purpose for our particular calling with power to live in freedom
from fear. This is what makes us become like Him in our characteristics and temperament. Our experiencing righteousness, acts
as seasoning or a spice to our daily walk, just as spices in our food enhance and create flavor to our palates. We experience
peace and joy in our walk with the Holy Ghost and it is acceptable and pleasing to God. We can also communicate with people
a lot better, because of the higher esteem we have for ourselves.
Unless we are
skilled and participating in our righteousness in Christ, we will continue to live as a baby Christian living in a double
minded mentality of, God loves me and He loves me not.
Jesus was betrayed and
put to death because of our misdeeds (or sin) and was raised from the dead to secure our justification (we were put back in
right standing with Him and we must totally understand that; God now sees us as sinless after having our born again experience.)
This act by Him made us all blameless from guilt and the feeling of being punished as far as God is concerned. It's absolutely
critical we understand that, we do not become more righteous by doing more things in God's service or that we lose our
righteousness by missing God's will from time to time. Jesus did not save us because of any works of our own that we had
done or can do.
God knew that man could not be trusted to help save himself. It was God's pity and mercy that
He had on us and it was His premeditated plan of uniting Himself to man without us doing anything to earn or deserve it. It
was by our new birth experience in Christ and being regenerated by the Holy Ghost that we became part of the eternal family
of God. Through God's grace (unmerited favor) we have His living power working within us. In turn, this enables us to
conform to His will in purpose, thought and actions, and become heirs of eternal life with a continual greater reality of
His presence as we experience His unconditional love.
Jesus said, "Greater
love has no man then this that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you."
Jesus laid down his life for us and He himself is our righteousness; who now is alive and living with in us. It is the continuing
revelation of this fact that secures our hope in God and what persuades us that; God wants to be a loving Father to us His
born again children.
A person could have a real zeal and hunger for God to move
in their life and if they were not flowing in His righteousness, their endeavors to walk in obedience would be doomed to failure
from the start. We can only experience our righteousness as we reason through the mind of Christ under the Holy Ghost's
influence; which we received the day we had our born again experience. It is by me experiencing my righteousness in Christ
that; clears my mind of the (negative influences) that daily bombards my thought life.
There
are examples in the bible how Christians got misled and lost their awareness of how to operate in their righteousness and
went back to living under the mental torment that they had broken one of God's commandments and it made them feel they
were going to be punished by God. Human nature is still the same today. Many of our assemblies have lost or have never had
a true vision of what righteousness represents in a believer's life.
Jesus
tells us "Unless our righteousness goes beyond the righteous positions of the Scribes and Pharisees; we will not be able
to take an active part with God in His kingdom." Pharisees taught the laws of the Torah; which embodied the Jewish law
for the people to obey. The scribes were letter writers who documented the laws on paper. Jesus said; we need to go beyond
this concept of the Pharisees standard of how they tried to obtain a righteous position with God by them trying to obey laws.
When we live with a Pharisees mentality; we never will be able to enter or take an active part in God's kingdom.
This word enter is an action word of participation. Common sense tells me, if I have a desire to
love the Lord and follow His leadings, and Jesus in scripture warns me of a condition that can take hold in my life that can
hurt me in my relationship of getting to know Him better, I‘d better stand up and take notice and know the difference
between being righteous or living in a un-righteous mentality which is causing me to harm my self.
The Pharisees were trying to obey the Ten Commandments and that seems like a good thing to do and the majority
of born again and none born again assemblies are teaching this today. It doesn't make sense in our own understanding of
anything being wrong with teaching this concept. However, Jesus said we must go beyond that.
In
Matthew 6:10 Jesus said this, "God thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is already being done in heaven."
The day we became born again, the kingdom of God came into our very being and we became citizens of heaven right then and
forever. Unfortunately; I have met a large majority of Christians; who do not believe this.
Our born again experience
was a miraculous encounter with God and as I have said and He gave us all of His characteristics and our total inheritance
with a promise of receiving our new glorified body when we're raptured off this planet. This concept needs to be deep
rooted in our heart and mind if; we are going to participate in God's kingdom right now. Kingdom rule is not a democracy
or people praying and calling on God to bless their own endeavors of what they thing is right. Most assemblies teach that
after we die we will be living in God's kingdom if, we have done enough good works or haven't died with sin in our
life. This is a demonic doctrine and totally contrary to scripture and absolutely ridiculous to tears.
Mankind does not go to hell for his sins nor does he go to heaven for his good works. It only depends
on him making Jesus the
Savior of his life and becoming a born again believer! PERIOD!
This
foundation must be in place and be totally understood by God's children because; all further truth of God's love is
built on this premise. God set in motion His way with HIS WORD from the beginning of when ever, and we need to seek His face
and stop living in ignorance by following man made concepts of what they think kingdom living is all about. If Jesus is going
to become our Lord and Master, we are going to have to do it his way. God is a King ruling His kingdom, not a democracy and
all these denominations coming up with their own rule of law.
I have been asked
"aren't we supposed to be living by the Ten Commandments"? Let me answer that and define from scripture how
Jesus wants us to go beyond this concept of Law. Jesus was always talking about the heart. The religious leaders always dealt
with the physical seen acts of men (the outward). Their judgment was based upon what they saw by a person's do or don'ts
and they executed judgment if a person violated the Levitical Law of Moses or the Ten Commandments.
God created the law so that we could experience a spirit of shame and the loathing disappointment for ourselves
because; it made us realized that; we were breaking God's laws.
The law was
never designed or intended to give peace to the offender. God gave the law to cause confusion and unrest in His creation.
When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments it never gave us the power to try and keep them in the first place. The law was given
to minister death to those who were kept under it, UNTIL Christ would come to give us a spiritual revelation of God's
true heart by making our physical body His temple to live in; which sets us free from having a weak will struggling to keep
His laws. Now; to many of you reading this; this may be a new revelation of truth especially if; you have been trying to be
a good doer and living under the burden of trying hard to be obedient by cleaning up your act.
! PLEASE HEAR ME! Father God sent His first son Christ Jesus who was the first born again believer in the
earth and by us accepting His sacrifice of dying on the cross; it brings us peace and joy in our lives and delivers us from
the burden of shame with guilt of breaking His laws. A person stays delivered from guilt and shame by being taught and understand
what their sanctified position in Jesus Christ represents. Many church assemblies are still teaching a sin conscience judgment
mentality and the born again child of God's true saintly position in Christ is not being taught to them at all.
Jesus endured the cross for the joy that was set before Him; so He could set people free to recognize
that; they are now worthy to have an intimate relationship with Him. That's why it pleased God the Father that in Jesus
Christ all the fullness of the Godhead would live in His mortal body. We can only keep God's law by experiencing God's
love through His Righteous Spirit. When God the Father looks at us; He sees His righteous Son Christ Jesus who now lives in
us who is blameless, free from evil and; we are set apart as His chosen people; with the power to do His works in the earth.
(Think on what I have just said)
The Ten Commandments was our stern schoolmaster
to bring us to experience God's holding power of love. A schoolmaster is a type and shadow of a hireling. All hirelings
want is blind obedience and the Pharisees were inflicting this kind of personal judgment on the people according to their
behavior by telling them if they broke the law there would be consequences. Don't make any waves or trouble for me; I'm
here for the paycheck. Any interaction with a hireling is usually initiated by the one who is under their subjection and domination.
We need to understand that God was the first one to hold out a helping hand to humanity that was inflicted with this spiritual
death curse and why; Christ came to earth and lived in Jesus.
Paul the Apostle
walked in a true vision and goal of understanding when he said this in Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ;
since He is now in me; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live in my mortal body; I
live by the faith of Christ Jesus who is the Son of God who loved me and gave His life for me."
People who oppose themselves do not understand how to let Christ live again with in them and His holding power.
They live their whole life insecure and guilt ridden trying to do what ever they can to hold on to God. In turn; this causes
them to be dominated by any spirit putting conditions on them and feeling obligated in order to belong to any group or sect.
Our intrinsic sense of dominion given to us by God struggles and at times hates being controlled by any demonic entity or
from any person trying to put controlling laws of obligated responsibilities on us, God never intended for His children to
be put in a box or sheep pens and be controlled by any entity that robs them of the freedom to make independent choices to
love or not love.
There is no freedom when one has the fear of not having the
free choice of wanting to love or not love.
My children over the years have told
me at times; they felt I was trying to put them in a box and to perform like puppets. There must be a transformation from
with in our self that only can take place as we mature and become independently dependent and submitted to God's authority
which causes us to make healthy freewill choices for our self on a love basis and not through obligated demands. A large majority
of the born again believing church is crying out with in them self to be set free from a self hate mentality because; they
function with a cleaning up my act philosophy.
We were made to explore and search
for the meaning of life and to recognize our weaknesses with out judgment and realize that we need a higher wisdom and a power
greater than our own.
A hireling's mentality has a legalistic attitude and
cares nothing about the person as a unique individual. A hireling is incapable of relating to another's weaknesses because,
his pride of being right prevents the transparency needed to create the bond of peace needed to create healthy relationships.
Everybody is the same to him without any distinction.
However; God on the other
hand is the exact opposite. As a Shepherd; He leads and calls his sheep by their name and knows the number of hairs on their
head and they know the sound of His voice and follow Him. Everything God does is for the benefit of another. His mercy and
love for us demanded justice because of how the evil entity of sin diseased His creation. Jesus Christ the God man on our
behalf offered up Himself to satisfy the demands of the schoolmaster (God's law) which we were under subjection to.
Jesus fully satisfied the demands and legal requirements once and for all and we must understand
this concept by the power of the Holy Ghost or we will never stop working so hard at trying to be good doers and trying to
measure up to be accepted by God and others. Judging our self for breaking God's laws was satisfied when Jesus was raised
from the dead. Unless we truly understand this; we will stop the Holy Ghost from having the freedom to love us unconditionally
and we as a child of God can never be delivered from our shame and loathing for our self that at one time had a claim and
a right to judge us. However; the instant we became born again; the court was satisfied and suspended forever.
Christ Jesus work was and is completed and because He is alive and seated at the right hand of his
Father in heaven as our High Priest and intercessor; His door is always open and never in recess and He is always on our side
and representing us to God our Father as being blameless in His sight. His seeing eye is always ordering our steps and He
always identifies Himself with us and has our past sinful nature buried with Him at His grave sight and our present and future
hidden faults and failures are covered by His white robe of righteousness that was put on us the day we were ushered into
God's family. This awareness with in us makes us know that; we are with out spots and wrinkles in His sight. We have faults
as a child growing into maturity however; we must understand that God as our loving Father matures us with patience as we
learn to walk in His courts with great freedom even if we are still wearing dippers in some areas. I pray the Holy Ghost is
making this real to your mind and heart.
If we truly live in our new righteousness
and know how we are protected by our white robe of righteousness that God the Father has now put on us; we will be able to
live at peace and be resting from the daily struggles by allowing the Holy Ghost's anointing that now lives in us. Christ
is the end of us working and trying to obey the law. We live by the righteousness of Christ, which was freely given to us
the day we came into God our Father's kingdom and we have now become the workmanship of God in Christ as God created and
transformed us into a new species of man with a spirit of True Righteousness and Saintly Purity.
It is a matter of abundant life or death between living in the faith of Jesus verses living and functioning
by the faith of Christ Jesus. Of, represents us being empowered by an inner awareness of a living person working with in you.
Where in, represents a belief in principles of scripture with non living entities of doctrines of do's and don'ts
that man manipulates to fit into their own agendas of what life represents. However; these agendas have no reality in ministering
to the bruised or maturing child with in us that Christ Jesus died for.
Jesus
tells us in John 8:31. "If we would continue in HIS WORD (by being led by His Righteous Spirit) then; we will be His
disciples (visibly evident for all to recognize, even the lost) and are (Guaranteed) to know the Truth and the Truth shall
make us free!" We will be truly functioning as Jesus disciple, when we stop having our behavior being controlled by us
trying to obey God's laws, not because of its intended purpose, but because of the fear of the consequences if we don't.
No one can capture the favor of God by trying to keep His
Commandments.
Jesus tells us in John 14:23, "If a person really loves me,
he will keep my commandments." However; blind obedience without love will maintain order, but it does nothing to enhance
a loving relationship. Blind obedience without recognizing its value is destined for failure. Love gives the reason to obey
and gives us value and worth. The hungering heart seeks with passion the kingdom of God. The complacent heart grows restless
in its pursuits of God.
Knowing how eternally secure we are in Christ, is the
CENTRAL CORE issue to walking in a healthy relationship with God. Unless we have a true revelation of how God's love secures
our daily thoughts and goes beyond our own intellectual reasoning, we will walk as crippled and defeated believers who doubt
the faithfulness of our King concerning His love and goodwill of heart towards us.
The
majority of the born again church has become performance oriented in their relationship towards God because; they are still
trying to earn His favor. Cont. in p. 2