In John:1-4 he states. "In the beginning was the Word and the WORD was with God
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and with out Him was not anything
made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of man." (This experience of him being life; is an emotional affirmative
and eternal amen by us having an inner reality that; Jesus is the Son of God and is alive and living in you by the Holy Ghost)
and only He is the source of all spiritual strength.
Jesus in talking to
the people said this in John 8:55. "Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was I AM. (Him saying; I AM is an eternal
statement that all of life is focused and hinged upon.)
Jesus in praying to His
Heavenly Father said this in John 17:24 "I will that they also whom thou hast given me will be with me where I am: that
they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: because; you loved me before the foundation of the world."
He also said this in Rev. 22:13 "I am Alpha and Omega: the first and the last."
The Greek word for word is logos: It means a thought with something being said. John was able to
get and explain a divine spiritual revelation and expression because; he walked in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Many
times in Jesus life, he pointed the people to the fact that; He had the living Christ in Him and His life was not centered
on any deeds that he performed but that it was Christ in Him that needed to get the glory.
All
of mankind must have a supernatural experience of a divine revelation of who Jesus is if; they are to walk in a spiritual
dimension and know that God is a living being trying to communicate with the people he created to govern and take back what
the devil has stolen from His creation. If we are to be correct and God focused; there is no REAL LIFE in trying to be a good
person or be going to church and trying to obey laws of right and wrong with out the living Christ at work in your heart and
mind.
Trying to obey laws may create order, however; it has nothing to do with
having a vital loving relationship with a jealous loving God who wants to touch every part of your life with his goodness
and mercy. A person must be experiencing this type relationship if it is their intent to know God intimately. A person must
seek God with all their heart and strength and surrender to Christ so they can be empowered by the Holy Ghost to get divine
revelation from Him and this takes place as they seek their righteous position in Jesus Christ as stated in (Math. 6:33)
A child of God who knows they are righteous= (blameless, free from evil and set apart to do the works
of Jesus in their arena of life; doesn't get bogged down with mind set burdens of working hard to clean up their act to
be accepted. God's love doesn't put demands on us; but woos us into trusting His leadings as we surrender to His holding
power of total acceptance no matter what trials of life that we encounter.
Is your relationship with God alive
and are you getting new divine revelation daily of the love and holding power that he has for you?
Romans 5:6-10 states. "For when we were with out strength, in due time Christ died for us. Now to a very
slight degree a person might die for a righteous man: yet possibly a person may dare to die for a good man. But by God's
given authority of him being love and wanting to give it to us; while we were yet in a sinner's state, Christ died for
us. Much more now, since we have been put in right standing by the infusing of his blood into our life, we shall be saved
from punishment or destruction caused by him being angry at us. For if, when we were his enemies, He brought us back to a
friendly relationship with him self; He will now rescue us from all harm by us interacting with His life." (My emphasis)
In my writings, I am totally being enlightened and getting new revelations of
truth that guards my heart and mind as I experience the all around securing arms of God my Father. I pray that you who are
reading this are having the same deep understanding of these last five verses which explains how secure and protected we can
be experiencing God kinds of love.
I have been persuaded by God to stay active
until His return and heed the scripture in 11Timothy 4:2 which states. "Preach the word and keep your sense of urgency
( be on hand and ready whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether welcomed or not by reproving, rebuking
and exhorting with all long suffering and doctrine."
Let's get real honest
with God and our self. How can we as His children have such a tenacity to do this unless our total focus is on our calling
as God's kids and God being our first love? When I know that my steps are being ordered by the Lord; it causes me to have
God ordained encounters in my market places of life almost daily with born again believers and non saved people and God gives
me a word of wisdom to share with them because they are weary.
Just this last
week I had the census taker stop by my house to fill out forms and he was a born again brother in Christ sharing with me that;
the main reason he was taking census was to be able to witness the love of God to every one he encountered. This should be
the norm for all of God's kids who have been called to be an ambassador for God. If you do not have the realization that
you are called by God to this generation; to deliver and heal the sick and broken of this world; I have to say in love; your
priorities are out of order.
I have no doubt that God loves the world however;
(the born again church who are God's family); are His first priority in wanting to mature them at this time and get them
off the milk of his word and grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ to send them into the market place of their travels
to do the works of Jesus again. I have an ache in me to abandon my self to the anointed Christ with in me and have signs and
wonders follow my God ordained steps so HE can get the glory.
When we as God's
children learn to let Christ through the Holy Ghost have full control in us; we won't have to think up gimmicks to get
people to come to church to get our pews filled up when ever. It is the anointing of God that breaks all bondage of demonic
activity trying to enslave the world and God's family to do their bidding. Righteous thinking has nothing to do with self
centered endeavors of us trying to change our self. There is no middle ground; you're either God conscious or self conscious
and God has given us the power to very clearly discern the difference through the power of the Holy Ghost IF; our first priority
is having a hunger to listen to God and die to selfish ambitions.
Mankind was
cursed with a fallen nature when they came into the world because of Adam and Eve's deception by Satan. This curse is
and was a living entity that had us under its control to violate God's laws of life which were His Ten Commandments. This
condition had us alienated from experiencing the love of God and it was God the Father's who first moved to save mankind
by sending us His best love gift in Christ Jesus to earth to take on the out ward appearance of sinful flesh (so He Jesus)
could experience all the burdens and fragilities that man will experience in life because of mankind was born with a fallen
nature.
In Romans chapter seven; Paul the Apostle talks about a inner struggle
he was having in trying to live up to the Ten commandments but he found that he was under control by some thing he called
the sin principle that was stopping him from obeying God's laws and it made him feel wretched and shameful. He had a desire
to be obedient but no will power to comply and obey God.
The only way we are
going to truly understand why Jesus willingly sacrificed him self on the cross and how God His Father planned it; is by having
the miracle of becoming born again from above. Jesus came out of Mary‘s womb a born again believer because it was the
sperm of God the Father that made her pregnant in the first place. Jesus was born with Christ already living in Him. That's
why when Mary and Joseph took him to the pass over feast in Jerusalem and they thought he got lost; they found him teaching
in the synagogue to the Pharisees and Scribes at the age of thirteen and he told Mary "Why were you worried about me.
Don't you know that I must be about my Father's business?"
Now please
here me on this: Make no mistake; as sure as Satan put a miracle curse on God's creation in the Garden of Eden the only
way we can be delivered from this curse is by the spiritual miracle of becoming God's child in having a born again experience.
This sin entity that we are talking about is an evil living entity of control that can only die and stay dead in us of; we
are allowing the righteous spirit of Christ to flow through our heart and mind. This sin entity has made a slave of mankind
and I am grieved to say that; many of God's born again children are still in bondage to it because; in the church that
they attend; they are still treated as sinners and their saint hood in Christ Jesus is not being taught.
We must truly believe God's word that Paul the Apostle states in 11Cor. 5:17, "If any man
be in Christ, he has become a new creature: old things have passed away: and behold, all things are become new." This
word beholds represents a spiritual witness from with in by the living Spirit of the Holy Ghost. Man's soul (his mind,
will and emotions) that is not being led and controlled by the Holy Ghost; will with great effort try to mimic the anointing
of God and it can mesmerize our fallen nature that we were born with to believe that; God is behind the scenes of certain
events and saying certain things however; in reality; it is Satan coming as a angel of light and this is nothing more then
"witchcraft." This spirit is running ramped and deceiving many in and out of born again church circles.
Once we became God's child through our born again experience; we entered in to the world of the
spirit and we must now be trained to do warfare and not take our relationship with God lightly. Reasoning with our carnal
or fleshly mind verses reasoning with the righteous mind of Christ that we received at our new birth is the difference between
night and day. Not only does God know who his children are but; the devil also knows who his children are.
Paul in Romans 8:6-10 makes it very clear when he says. "For a person to be carnal minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is ill willed against God and is not subject
to the law of God; there is no way it can be. So those that operate in their fleshly thinking can not please God. But the
born again believer is not in the flesh but in God's spirit if; the spirit of God lives in them. Now if any man has not
the spirit of Christ; he is not God's child.
With Christ living in you, your
physical body is dead to sin; because you have the Spirit of life by your born again experience which made you righteous in
God's sight. And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He Who raised up Christ Jesus
from the dead will also restore to life your mortal body through His spirit who now lives in you."
Reasoning with our carnal mind in trying to get Godly wisdom; we allow a cursed entity to put obligated
works on us which makes us think we can earn or work our way to heaven in some manner. God is constantly holding on to us
by His power of grace which represents a spirit of divine favor we do not have to earn.
We
frustrate the grace of God; because we do not believer that God's forgiving love wants us to rest in His care. By experiencing
God's grace it makes us live in peace with our self and know that He longs to talk to us.
Make no mistake; When we became a new creature in Christ by God's grace; we came into warfare between
man trying to make God into their own image verses our new created being that we became. The gospel is a hidden mystery that
we discover by the leading of the Holy Ghost and only those who are God seekers and in love with the Lord will be able to
run their particular race and accomplish their Godly purpose as He ordained it.
Paul
makes an argument in Gal. 2:16:21 and explains the difference between a life of trying to obey rules (legalism) verses a mind
set of flowing in our righteousness in Christ. He states. "You should know that; a man does not become innocent (justified)
by trying to (observe) obey laws. Because; by observing the law, no one will be justified. If, while we are seeking to be
justified in Christ, we begin to have thoughts that we are still sinning, does that mean that Christ is the one that is prompting
us to sin? Paul states. ! Absolutely not!
If I try through my own striving to
reconstruct in my own mind what I have tried to put to death in my thinking, I prove that I am a law breaker. For because
of the law; I had to die to the law so that I might live. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ
now lives in me and the life I now live in my physical, body I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave
himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if me becoming (righteous) blameless, free from evil and set apart
as God‘s own child in God's eyes could have happened and made me mature by obeying laws, then; Christ died for nothing."
We must walk naked and transparent before God with no shame and uncomfortable feelings about our
self, because if we don't; we bruise and harm our soul. It is as our soul (mind, will and emotions) prospers; that makes
us mature in Christ and we have the perfect liberty to approach His throne of grace with confidence and boldness knowing;
we are His children who He always accepts.
There is nothing we can do in our own
effort to become more righteous nor can he do anything contrary to God's word to make us unrighteous. This spiritual principle
of self inspection keeps us as being spiritually feeble and crippled Christians and we are never able to function with the
inheritance given to us by God our Father the day we became born again.
A person
who does not walk in their righteous new man which took place by the miracle working power of Christ; they will never truly
understand what the bible means "we are to fight the good fight of faith." This fight is us knowing the difference
between planning our own way of staying saved verses letting go and letting God direct and empower our life.
Most Christians that I have met think that; their fight of faith is to stop sinning and do more obligated
works and if they keep their nose to the grind stone; they hope and truly think that; they may get the gold ring some day.
This thinking is not only dangerous but! UGH!
Paul tells us; there is the possibility
that while we are seeking to walk in Christ‘s righteousness; the devil will mess with our mind and tempt us to believe
that; we are still sinning with a sinner's nature and are incomplete in our own eyes. God already sees His children complete
because; they are in Christ. When we fall for this rues which is a condemnation of the fallen nature we were delivered from
at our new birth; we fall back from receiving God's grace (favor that we do not have to earn) which gives us the power
to experience His loving kindness and because of this falling back; a spirit of shame clouds our spiritual perceptions and
our soul suffers.
A born again Christian can not sin against God because; Jesus
handled that situation at the cross when he died and we accepted His sacrifice for our fallen nature. However; James states
in James 4:17, any person who knows what's right but doesn't do it, it is sin unto him." This is a demonic influence
that wants to cause us to judge our self with our own evaluations and play God in our own thinking and we must be able to
recognize these subtle thoughts and lay them at the cross of Jesus Christ.
This
situation of judgment and a sin unto one self can be a person ignorantly not knowing their Saint Hood condition in Christ
and also for those who are born again children of God and deliberately living in sinful pleasure in committing un god like
acts.
Paul the Apostle gives us a foundation of understanding when he says this.
Sin came into the world through one man (Adam) and all men died because all mankind was born with a sinful nature. This in
turn; caused them to perform sinful acts. Before men became aware that they had broken God's law; there was no consciecness
in them that they had sinned and that they needed a power greater then themselves to walk in freedom from guilt and condemnation.
Even though this is true; spiritual death still had control over mankind from
the time of Adam's eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil until God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. Adam
brought sin into the world however; Christ made us a new creature in Christ and took our old nature of sin out of us by us
experiencing His grace and it caused are old nature to die on the cross with Jesus. Experiencing God's grace continually
teaches and empowers us to function as Kings and Priests in His service by Christ's righteousness which brought us eternal
life and freedom from guilt.
If Jesus had not been raised from the dead by God
the Father; there would be no new life in the spirit with Him. It is us knowing Christ in His resurrection that gives us the
power of being righteousness which brings joy and peace in the Holy Ghost
God
used His Commandments as a strict tutor to lead us to Christ. When we are truly walking in Christ‘s righteousness; this
condemnation spirit with it's guilt and shame has no control on our life because; God's grace covers and forgives
all of our short comings and faults. A child of God must not only have working knowledge of this but he must also be experiencing
these types of loving encounters with God at their daily and nightly meetings.
The
answer is being God conscious not self conscious. Jesus said; "If I be lifted up: I will draw all men unto my self."
God doesn't need our help to save us from our self.
God's whole concept
of His love is to deliver us from being our worst enemy. The sin principle; which is a living demonic entity that once had
control over us; wants to bring us back into thinking in right and wrong concepts in our decision making. We can't understand
how God our Father can look at His children with out spot and wrinkle because; we have faults and actions at times that come
into contrast with the instructions stated in the bible. Born again people are not to spend any abusive time skin peeling
them self because when they do this; they indirectly don't believe the image that God has of them and they call Him a
liar.
John in 1John 3:2-9 states this, "Dear friends, now we are the children
of God and what we will become is not yet known. But we know that when he appears, we will be like Him for we will see him
as he really is. Every one who has this hope in him purifies him self as he is already pure. Every one who sins breaks the
law and sin is lawlessness. But we know that because He appeared (died on the cross) He came to take away sins because; in
Him there is no sin. No one who lives in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen Him or actively
knows him. Do not let any one lead you astray; He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is already righteous.
He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has sinned from the beginning. The
reason the Son of God (Christ Jesus) appeared was to destroy the devil's work. No one who is born again of God will continue
to sin, because God's seed constantly remains in him and he can not go on sinning because; he is born of God."
Those whose focus is on trying to not be a law breaker are functioning with their carnal natural
mind and are living in a fixing up mode because of having a sinner's mentality. People who govern their life in Christ's
righteousness focus on nothing else then; experiencing His grace and total acceptance with the love He has for them. This
is a difference between having Christ at work in us verses being in an un-resting life mentality.
People who are not born again from God's seed are burdened down with a sinner's nature. They try to
live by the Ten Commandments or some other thing they make up for them self. It's like making a New Year Eve resolutions
that only last for a while. A sinner's nature is a living entity that violates laws and fulfills some lust or feeds some
fleshly thrill and enjoys these pleasures for a season and a person can become addicted to this condition and cause them to
experiment with these evil entity impulses to get a more fulfilling high. God wants His children to only become addicted to
His presence. Before I received Christ I enjoyed sinning even though I knew it was wrong however; I became a slave to these
evil desires.
Outward behavior sin is described by Paul the Apostle in Galatians
5:19-21 when he says. "Now the works or fruits of the flesh that become obvious are, immorality, impurity, indecency,
idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger ill temper, selfishness, divisions, party spirits, sects with peculiar
opinions, (meaning heresies) envy, drunkenness, carousing and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that
those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."
The person
who is not born again has all of these characteristics at work in their life due to all mankind being born with this cursed
sin fallen nature. However; they do not go to hell because of these sins that are running ramped in their life at times. They
only go to hell because they have never become a new creature in Christ and become born again by God's Spirit. So for
them; they have no inheritance from God because; they are not His children.
For
the born again believer who has Christ living in him; they can because of not knowing how to flow in God's righteousness
or deliberately living in sinful behavior and still be addicted to some of these impulses stopping them from enjoying all
of God's blessings and favor. God judges us by our heart attitude and not by our outward behavior as most people do. The
word for sin in the Greek Concordance is hamartia: It means; an offense and something that causes us to fail in achieving
God's high calling and it stops us from participating in our God given inheritance because we do not know that we are
highly valued by God as being His child.
God's children have become saints
because their nature has been changed. These offenses called faults or trespasses are not sins but areas of weakness where
the Holy Ghost wants to strength our resolve in Christ Jesus. A trespass causes injury to some one and that some one is us.
That is why when we gather in Christ's name; we are to share our faults and short comings and ask for help as we pray
for one another.
Our struggle is with spiritual evil entities trying to hinder
our relationship with the Lord and we can not deal with them with our own human senses. We must be taught how to do spiritual
warfare in the heavenly realms.
Born again people who have God's seed in them
with all of their Heavenly Father's characteristics are not sinners but saints in progress and are already looked on by
God their Father as holy and righteous because; it is Christ He sees in them His first born again Son Jesus and not their
weakness and short comings.
I have laid a sure foundation that must be in place
and if this understanding has been planted in the fleshly tables of our heart being God's child; our reasoning and the
word's that are coming out of our mouth will be anointed and the power we have in Christ will give us the know how to
lock and unlock areas in peoples lives where they are in bondage to fleshly attitudes and carnal thinking.
I have been in places where I have done spiritual warfare trying to set people free who are still
unsaved and heading to hell and also with God's children who are born again and have the Holy Ghost living in them however;
totally ignorant of not knowing who they really are in Christ Jesus and some who are deliberately living in a sinful life
style of immorality.
The main goal in most born again churches is to win the
lost and when this takes place through out the world it will usher in the return of Jesus Christ back to this earth. There
has also been every possible idea planned by the born again churches to win the lost. This is excellent for the bible tells
us that all of God's kids need to be doing the work of an Evangelist in their areas of life. In the last twenty five years
in my arena of life I must say with much amazement and sorrow; I have not had one person come up to me in the market place
and ask me if I knew Jesus as my Savior.
Being born again at twenty five years
of age; I had a man come into the bar and restaurant that my family owned and flat out asked me if I had asked to become my
savior. I was religious and attended the Catholic Church and had a love for God but not according to the living reality of
knowing Him personally. It was his tenacity and pursuit of me for nine months of conversations during the lunch hour that
won me to Christ. I had a Holy Ghost wind experience in my automobile taking my wife to the doctor as she was pregnant with
our second son.
For me my conversion was a physical manifestation. I had never
read the bible and never knew through a living experience that; there was such a Person as the Holy Ghost being a rushing
wind. After my born again experience; and starting to read and meditate on God's word; the ink on the pages became alive
and to this day it's as if the ink is still wet and God talks to me daily. Whether your conversion was that real or not;
a born again believer must have an inner witness that God is alive and living in them or I would doubt their conversion.
This term being born again has over the years been taken so for granted that the movies have picked
up on this phrase as if any thing that happens in life that's strange; people can become born again through some weird
resolve and be changed to what ever the movie theme is.
In John chapter three;
Jesus made it very clear to Nicodemus a devout religious Jewish leader who came to Him during the night time hours so he was
not seen by the other Jewish leaders to ask Jesus: "what must I do to get eternal life" Jesus answer was, "Unless
a man is born again from above he can not see or be acquainted with and experience the kingdom of God."
Jesus went on to say, "Except a man be born of water and the spirit; he can not enter the kingdom
of God. What is born in the flesh is flesh (our physical womb birth) and what is born of the spirit is spirit (our accepting
Jesus in the power of the Holy Ghost birth from above.) The wind blows where it blows and though you hear its sound yet you
neither know where it comes from nor where it goes. So that is the way it is to every one who has been born again of the Spirit."
Have you come into agreement with what Jesus said?
Over the years; I have seen
the good news gospel become more maligned, distorted and misunderstood with people adding and subtracting from its meaning.
I have never met as many people and heard from so called Christian's leaders that there is another way to get to heaven
by some others means then by being born again by asking Christ Jesus to come into your heart and confess that you have had
the reality of this miracle of faith taking place. When and if it gets to the point that we begin to mess with the main foundation
of what Christianity represents; there is no greater falling away from Christ Jesus of truly knowing the life of His person.
It is difficult enough to see and meet born again believers who love the Lord and have the Holy Ghost
living in them even though they don't realize what their position in Christ represents. This happens because; they have
been sitting under teachings as I have said that makes them feel obligated and not complete with their new nature. But as
of lately I have met people who tell me that they have the spirit of God in them or that they have been God seekers for years
and that God would not send any one to hell because; He is merciful and all peoples whether born again or not will eventually
earn their way to heaven.
This truly disturbs me and with every ounce of spiritual
empowerment; I try to persuade them to change their mind and let go of traditional un-god like views that either is going
to send them to hell because they are not born again or if they are God's children; they will live as spiritual cripples
the rest of their life because of their ignorance of not knowing the true love that God their Father has for them.
You are either going to have a spiritual walk with God or; your earthly flesh and senses will try
to measure up to get God's approval however; our natural senses can not be trusted to understand God.
Romans 10:9-11 tells us. "If a person acknowledges and confess with his mouth that Jesus is
Lord and in his heart believes that God raised Him from the dead; he will be saved. For with the heart a person believes and
relies on Christ and so is justified (declared righteous and acceptable to God), and with his mouth he confesses and speaks
out freely his faith and gets a confirmation that he has become born again. No one who puts their faith and trust in Him will
ever be disappointed."
There is no other way to receive your righteous nature
except through this miracle encounter with God. I know that the reasoning carnal mind that we were born with has a hard time
believing that people can be raised from the dead. However; this word faith is interpreted in scripture as the "substance
of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen."
Our substance of faith
is the living reality of Christ revealing Him self to you in your inner man because; you asked Christ Jesus to come into your
heart and make Him self real to you. As a person speaks out of his mouth what Christ is telling him in the inner man; the
evidence to our natural senses or areas where we need a inner healing of our soul and our capacity to mature begins to materialize
to our mind, will and emotions. Our born again experience is the first encounter that a person must have to operate in faith.
Mankind was made to have this type relationship with God and there is no other
way for mankind to be restored to a place of intimate awareness of being a child of God and enjoying His Company and know
your rightful place at His side as His friend AMEN! (So be it.)