When we really get down to brass tax having ask such a question, what does a believer receive from the Lord that anyone can say beyond doubt that a non believer does "Not" also receive? That is enough that anyone could "Plainly" discern the difference between the two?
Just to name a few, consider the Sunshine & rain that falls on and can be "Seen" effectual in the life of all man?
What about equally seeing other things seemingly in the possession and or life of a human being such as land, a house, car, health, sickness, the reality of death in our mortal bodies, money, poverty, retirement account(s), college fund, wife, kids, family, friends, influence, beauty, charisma, physical strength, athletic ability, intellect, wisdom, knowledge, understanding? The list could go on and on.
Would it not also depend upon who it is that defines each one of those? As well how each did find its way INTO the individual life of a persons?
What about "Peace, Joy, Righteousness and unity found ONLY in and by way the Holy Spirit who is said to reside within every NEW creation? Found within each and every believer simultaneously and that as such that God has brought forth?
One God, One Christ and One spirit that compels living within us and counseling with the sound of the voice of ONE?
Is our special occasion in a relationship with God here on earth only when we as believers get something the other sect (non-believer(s) does not?
What does hope look like and what does a spiritually dead man walking appear as and who is able to discern enough to then care?
Is it even possible to find words that can express that as (ask) a said "Fair question" and that of God?
Especially when you're also the one that's going to have to interpret as to whether or not He did respond specifically to YOUR stand alone question(s) aimed at His person?
Who is going to validate and or come into agreement with you that any response was truly from God? Why isn't the witness of His Holy spirit sufficient for most that say they believe? Is due to lack of power which is said to accompany His spirit?
2 Tim 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power , of love and of self-discipline.
NIV
When as a believer we do trust that He did respond to our request made, is the answer always thought to be "Good" when it does come?
Would that also not place us in the seat of an esteemed opinion (decision made) as to what Gods "Goodness" is in whatever form He puts on display?
Brother's and sisters God is under attack, yet not the kind we have truly come to terms with while inhabiting the current flesh we reside in. The God (Christ) that is in us is under attack!
Yes vengeance belongs to the Lord, yet as believers we have an obligation to defend the portals we have been given dominion over which resides on each of our shoulders.
Yes the eyes, ears and mouth which also belong to the Lord despite what the world and it's temptation(s) request of us to consider as "ourselves".
Though somehow thoughts of our being different in His "unique" way of presenting us all to the world are being robbed of their mutual effectiveness all of which were intended for our corporate edification which then works inwardly towards us all and eventually finds us all individually united as ONE.
He is spirit AND according to His word, He is in ALL, through ALL and by Him are ALL things held together.
According to His word and in terms of the 3rd heaven where we trust that He resides there is no gender specifics as we currently understand as though the differences a corrupt world then goes to great extremes to point out (exploit) as such between male and female, the differences between Jew or Greek and the advantages and disadvantages held between slave and free.
An extreme perversion of what God has created is anything that attempts to identify itself as though made separately and or as a stand alone portion of humanity is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. There are segments of society that are trying to force their fellow man to accept them as if a NEW creation that has come into "Being" as such that is outside of what God declares that HE alone created.
A person can call themselves what they want as though a separate consideration among humanity, yet when such an identity goes against (opposes) what God says He created in HIS likeness is to suggest that their identity must also be accepted and that of the Lord is a lie.
When any cause whether it be sexual in nature (gender) the way God created it or it be the difference in appearance, the spirit within is what the war is about and NOT what any person(s) have alleged themselves to be otherwise.
There is ONLY what He has chosen to be. All of which can only be righteously interpreted through the filtering and or discerning WORDS that have come from His mouth as Lord. All else simply scoffs at what God has declared will eventually come to pass in His timing.
Whether it be the individuals that call themselves "Homosexuals" Muslims or Christians, God alone will ultimately define who's who and who does NOT belong to Him. Do not be alarmed at the claim made, yet be afraid of what is NOT in Gods eyes....
In terms of the word "Be" and such without a name, are you simply a human "Being" , yet as a human what are you presently trying to "Be-come" and that without the spirit of the Lord bringing that to pass?
A child of God or a child that's been fathered (sired) by AND further nurtured BEING fed by lies day to day?
When does a man know he's been deceived? Before or after revelation comes? When revelation does come what does it produce as a transforming work from within?
A man can have an inner thought yet what Good is that thought if it never finds its way into the thing God sent it forth to accomplish?
The bible makes many references to the contrast between the believer and the non-believer.
Why is each as though a name assigned so important?
Is it important only here and now OR is it ONLY a factor that's in play in the bye and bye (what takes place as an everlasting consideration)? When does eternity begin for the old or new creation? Is it only when it first dies? If yes when and where does it die and why?
Let's discuss power for a moment and I'm not just talking about the stuff that comes from the utility company. Let's associate power with the ability to somehow accomplish in terms of "creating" something, but that something that has been created must also have come from nothing.
Mankind has fallen in love with the phrase "Self Made". We'll hear shadowy phrases used to try and identify (give shape and form) to this power along the lines of a "Self made millionaire, or we'll hear someone referred to as a "Self made man" as if to suggest "Look what I have done".
I hate to be the one that breaks the news, BUT this is not something new or original and if it's NOT something new, 'What is it"?
No in fact such a concept was before you or I came into existence.
If that be true, would that not also make whatever looks like this same "Thing" man has yet to properly name some how be related to it?
Where did it come from though one should ask?
The beauty behind something that has truly been "Created" and that from said "Nothing" (nothing man can do), that consideration if proved would squash nearly all other arguments with regard to something evolving, devolving (if there is such a word) and would only leave you with questions that pertains to who was "Involved" in the creation of anything said "New".
Everything that has to do with humanity, his flesh and its nature in common is "Old". So ask yourself, am I a New Creation and that in the Lord and then in truth examine what you do see taking place within you and compare that to what Christ says should be taking place when He has been made the true "Lord" over that accounting method?
Just like I'm using the word "Old" to describe something without shape and form used is only to suggest that because something has a point of origin that's been established it becomes history and is no longer "New".
If you are a believer, Gods word says that once you've been born again You are a "New" creation.
IF you can accept that would that not also make all "Excuses" we once USED as if to explain the way we were from our rebirth forward as such to be considered as though an "Old" excuse for the reason we are now what we claim to be (Born AGAIN)?
If I stretched this thing just a bit wouldn't that also strip the believer in Christ as a NEW creation of the entitlement if and when we TRY to USE others from our past as though THEY made us to be ANYTHING we now claim to NOW be?
In the face of revelation that would include what we ignored, what we once believed, what shape(s) and molds our behavior over the course of 1, 10, 20, 30 or however many years we claim to have been a NEW creation growing up and that in the Lord?
Who has been our teacher?
The Holy Spirit or man? Who has been the voice we say we hear and obey? The good shepherd or the self declared saints we love to follow, measure our progress by and then allow to mentor us as though the bench mark?
Tough question coming here, who is your shepherd and who lead you to be assigned to them specifically as if left to their care?
A nation whether thought to be Godly or ungodly will not stand for very long under a divisive ruler. God declares a kingdom of priest and a Holy Nation, yet not as such that is geographically identified under the new covenant.
I want to nourish this thought but I don't want to get ahead of the original thoughts about it that I trust the Lord has given me. I hope to share what I also believe to be needed in the midst of a world that seems to be nearly full of blame that should also be shared.
What does shared blame do though if that's even a possibility? How does wide spread blame that also extends to some that are no more (no longer here) now repent and turn back to the Lord?
I pray that what I do share has been shared with those that do have a common goal in mind which is OUR eternal salvation and not just what we think we know.
Much of what we think we know TODAY has been handed to us. Does that automatically qualify same to then interpret "From the spirit of the Lord"?
I suppose that would depend upon if what we now have is also the perfected body of Christ and that by the everlasting Love of God himself.
Each generation participates yet how each performs is only to be judged by whom we have believed what they also believe which then speaks if we allow it where we now find ourselves in the Love of God that is also for us.
All of which has also lead us to the condition we're in which we also desire deeply to be considered acceptable in the eyes of our creator.
If what we are is ALL that God intended the body of Christ to become, what is there left to say or do?
If we are all acceptable in the eyes of the Lord, then I nor anyone else has any thing they can say in order to compliment what the Lord has set out to accomplish.
If the body of Christ has made herself ready all that could be said as well be found righteous is "Lord come quickly to retrieve with your NET the results and purpose for which you originally sent your word to us so that we might believe and be reconciled to You.
I pray you'll join me Lord willing and I ask that you prayerfully consider what I share which I trust has been given to for the edification of those that do make up the body of Christ in the earth. We can truly do nothing for the body of Christ unless the those same things we do and say are by way of the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Have any of US arrived yet? No, yet being ready to sit down to eat and drink first requires an appetite, and both of those for all that has been prepared and set before us.
If no, then yes there is still much to be done. If we're truly found to be In Christ and Christ In US, it's always the yes and Amen.
Taking time to be Holy is more than reading, asking God for material things. Often finding Holy can begin with realizing the needs of others while truthfully considering the importance of coming into agreement pertaining to what God tells us will also unite and perfect the body of Christ.
Reading the word of God very slowly coupled with timely pauses (meditation) in the timing of the Lord as we first ask and then "Wait" for revelation regarding the condition of the body of Christ here in the earth as well those that have labored prior to our lively existence.
Becoming "Impatient" is NOT a quality we should desire especially when what we petition involves waiting on the Lord God that is a part of all things.
There should be little differences when we do compare between the birthing of the first century saints as compared to those today except for the theater through which God displays Himself to either. Especially when say we know Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever as Our GOD that also does NOT change.
Believing and knowing the person of Christ takes as long as you are here as we individually and corporately endure the circumstances we NOW find ourselves in otherwise we've stepped out on a spiritual vacation.
There is a part that is supposed to be continually dying because it has been weighed against as though opposed to the one who is Holy as well the other part (spiritually renewed mind) that's supposed to be alive that has been Increasingly made aware (alive) of the example given as our Christ who then participates in the Leading of the NEW Creation who will be properly introduced once all things have been made new.
Judge for yourselves what is righteous so you too will NOT be judged. Just because we justify whatever it is that we do, that does not suggest or vacate the thought of Jesus telling any of us that " I never He never You".
Knowing Him to mean as such that moves ahead in Him in order to know Him intimately.
We can claim that was then and this is now when we read the words of eye witnesses of Christ while here in the flesh, yet if by FAITH we today are to BE an even greater part of who they are or were how do we find ourselves NOW?
Do we find our condition today equal to, lessor than, or further along having operated in the denial of a pro-visional Lord?
I will not apologize for what I hold out in the hope for, yet I will suggest that I am "Be-coming" more and more ashamed of the said "WE" that claim to be a part of those "Called Out" as those which belong to the Lord.
When we alone govern ourselves, what should we come to expect when do find that we've been deceived?
Forgiveness yes, when met with repentance in keeping with the Godly defined "broken, humbled and contrite heart", but what remains and continues on to also be found tried and then true will always be what God has done as well what His word did or did NOT accomplish when we as said believers say we've been formed and made to be like Christ.
Made how, self made? No, yet instead as the good and effectual result(s) of what we were willing to "Believe" about His person as though only ONE that has been doing whatever it is that gets done in our lives having been lead By His Spirit.
John 3:19-21
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
NIV
1 Cor 6:2-3
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels ?
How much more the things of this life!
NIV
Rom 12:1-3
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
NIV
ALL will forever mean all as well ONE will only become when One has also brought forth the ONE in the ALL.
Don't believe me? Ask the ones that were "Beings" (angels) before mankind that have fallen beyond recovery if you should find your self there with them in the day of revealing as to Who any of us are in the light of TRUTH.
We are called to longer sin. Do we then continue only to ask "How" that is possible OR do we move beyond what we don't know and pursue the one with whom ALL things are possible?
It doesn't say when "Unbelievers" heard this instead it said "the disciples". Who are they and who are we?
Matt 19:25-26
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible ."
NIV
Who have we blamed (or lay such credit to) as having had dominion over us when we do? What we've only been told God has been forgotten or what we've "Believed" God has forgiven AND forgotten?
I suppose that would depend upon what the word "Believe" truthfully does mean when said from the mouth of God and NOT what mankind is claiming he ALSO completely understands?
Has a man "completely" Understood as though ONE with GOD in His suggestion to be Holy as He is Holy?
What if Holy were to mean "Being in Agreement" and that in every opportunity we do "Find"? Would that oppose what Jesus spoke concerning the father and son not only "Being" One yet also agreeing as One before anything gets accomplished (takes place) as set forth?
No more means what? Sin no more?
Or does it mean rely on the leading of the Lords spirit within us and we will NOT as a result find ourselves continuing to live as though "Full" of the Sin nature versus being Filled by His spirit?
Instead living as the likeness of Jesus who was and is "Spirit" before he put on flesh and walked among men because He only did as he heard and or saw the father doing (guiding)?
Can't hear God? Then yes that presents a huge problem. Do you get to choose "when" you hear God?
If as an infant that's also unfamiliar with the sound of His voice, then once again a huge problem, because that would place you alone as the one determining what is righteous in everything you choose to do.
Once again, "Who is your shepherd and who have you given the entirety of that trust to as it pertains to what Jesus did in all truth give to those that believe in HIM as provision for our spiritual journey while in the container of flesh?
Denial is and can be a huge problem, yet denying ourselves is the beginning of being able to hear and see what is true, to be taught how to hear, to be silent and listen and only then DO what we do.
John 16:8-9
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment:
in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me
NIV
To be continued.....
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The Lord is my Shepherd.
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