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I was going to respond to @Not me ’s thread Believing into the New Creation... but the post got so long that it seemed to need a new thread to contain it. Believing into the new creation is the only thing that removes us up and beyond the reach of satan, so therefore is the great lesson of the Bible.
Amen, If there is any one thing that needs to be learnt it is surely that.
From A-Z of the bible that is the work completed and destined for those who accept it. Adam and Eve in the garden (and how that temptation extends to us) to the Bride and Bridegroom in the New Jerusalem returning to the Father’s home and finding the rest for the soul forever. Yes, so be it Lord.
Satan's main objective, after enticing the emotion with lust of the eye, and provoking the intellect with lust of the flesh to step outside of God's protection, to obtain the human will.
Satan’s belief that they adopted was that God's restriction was not an act of love and that they were better off without Him. What they found as satan’s gain was loss of the ability to act in the way they were designed to.
Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature and is able to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they would become gods but without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could find no field of operation.
The consequences? Their abiding was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God, as Emanuel, came in incarnation as our tree of life, and the only stipulation in place to gain a proper character and conduct was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.
Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will. When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed, (having lost the perfect object), the intellect is bound, (being severed from infinite knowledge), and the will, (in attempting mastership), has lost it's true spring of action.
Emotions are set on love of material things.
Intellect looks to material things in semi-blindness,
the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome.
By our own will we dethrone God and enthrone self in separation from God.
As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected and a king of one’s own making is set in place. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19 Praise to the Father that He has sent His Son to fulfill our desires by joining to His desire to have none other before Him.
So satan's main objective is to gain the will to use the emotions and intellect, thereby causing independent actions, ungoverned activity, by being outside the sphere of God, and away from the tree of life.
We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared.
We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited yet held by the constraints of love. Abiding in our proper sphere which is confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. These three areas of self in being contained can be a constant due to our will set on Him. Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. We must never doubt God's love.
Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain by double-mindedness in doubting God's love.
Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour.
Bring yourself to the throne of grace by living and abiding in Him, where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3
In doing so He will find the work that He has for you to further His work in bring others to Him, in perfect obedience to His way. As members of one body, the Father has bestowed gifts to all for the purpose of edifying one another.
But first one must be born of incorruptable seed or else there is no life to grow because of being dead in sin. 1 Peter 1:23, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Peter 1:4 Human life alone isn't qualified to be One in God, that organic union depends upon the divine life mingled with our human life in faith and in baptism into His death which is the beginning, the elemental, that needs to grow with the divine life. Not that the divine life in itself needs growth but that we need to grow into it by the gradual (from glory to glory) reckoning of death to all that is revealed of the old self. Colossians 2:22-23 He must increase and we must decrease. As His body we can do this because after all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church Ephesians 5:29
However even this growth needs regulation. Our growth is to grow with God Himself increasing in us. What revelation reveals about the natural flesh and soul needs recognizing as being restricted by bringing the natural under the control of the divine. The Christ in us is King. We're in a priestly kingdom, a citizen of the kingdom. Royal families train for it their whole lives. So, for that, obedience is needed. There's a great experience that follows obedience that's an increase in light and love that is meant to increase further obedience that still furthers growth and developement in grace. The results are in perpetual progress of bringing the natural under the control of the divine. Yeilding to God light falls on the pathway and creates love. Love suggests obedience. The will, impulsed by love yeilds to the light and on it goes. It's not a work at all but only growth. Unbelief and disobedience impedes growth.
We have so many different character traits that all need regulating in every aspect of life. To be useful to God we have to allow the light to shine upon us to bring us to the Lord's judgement and according to His standards that reveal our true selves and helps us to become true to our new selves.
Without growth, even if you have the divine life, there is no maturity. The life plus the growth gives one maturity. Maturity comes out of growth, which is what the book of Hebrews is all about.
Matthew 25:4 shows the wise virgins as having oil both in in their lamps and in their vessels. The lamp signifies our spirit Proverbs 20:27 and the vessel signifies our soul, our being Romans 9:21-23 Both in our spirit and in our entire being we should be full of the (indwelling) oil, which signifies the Holy Spirit Isaiah 61:1; Hebrews 1:9 The more growth the more infilling of the Holy Spirit which is the growth in God.
Matthew 25 also speaks of the slaves talents and their diligence, because functionality depends on diligence. That comes from proper conduct thru co-operation with God.
Fellowship and prayer with the Lord co-operates to recieve His enlightenment, and to be dealt with by Him. Slothful people will never contact the Lord regularly, seemingly because they are content in their own dirty diapers that they have deemed comfortably (luke)warm to stay in. In order to grow and reach maturity one needs to be diligent.
Growth to maturity demands being filled with the Spirit and to be diligent with yourself to use the ability in maturity to serve the Lord. These two can be seen as the infilling of the Spirit and the outpouring of the Spirit for service.
To live a life in the Spirit is to reach maturity in Christ by the submission of the whole being and allowing the Holy Spirit into every part, to be able to function as a mature person that Jesus can use.
What that would look like: Maturity, the good ground:
- obedient behavior (flesh under control and submissive to the Holy Spirit)
- sorting gospel from tradition ( mind under the Holy Spirit)
- seeking above all else to please Him and serve others ( human spirit submissive
Personal fellowship, holiness of character:
-intellegence- able to understand things of God
( soul needs to overcome greed)
- emotion- love God and all He loves
(flesh needs to overcome lust)
- will- choosing things in harmony with His will
( human spirit needs to overcome pride)
Righteous conduct, co-operative activity:
-intellegence- moving in harmony with God
(again soul needs to overcome greed)
-emotions- in action
(again flesh needs to overcome lust)
-will- choosing things of God
(again the human spirit needs to overcome pride)
Find peace and joy in in the heavenly Father’s arms thru the finished work for His children everywhere. Thank you Lord
Amen, If there is any one thing that needs to be learnt it is surely that.
From A-Z of the bible that is the work completed and destined for those who accept it. Adam and Eve in the garden (and how that temptation extends to us) to the Bride and Bridegroom in the New Jerusalem returning to the Father’s home and finding the rest for the soul forever. Yes, so be it Lord.
Satan's main objective, after enticing the emotion with lust of the eye, and provoking the intellect with lust of the flesh to step outside of God's protection, to obtain the human will.
Satan’s belief that they adopted was that God's restriction was not an act of love and that they were better off without Him. What they found as satan’s gain was loss of the ability to act in the way they were designed to.
Our bodies house an intellect beyond that of any other creature and is able to comprehend the things of God. Satan said they would become gods but without the divine fellowship and cooperation they had passed into a region where the essential powers of their being could find no field of operation.
The consequences? Their abiding was no longer with God. Angel's were put in place to block the way. God, as Emanuel, came in incarnation as our tree of life, and the only stipulation in place to gain a proper character and conduct was to abide in Him. Without Him we can do nothing.
Intelligence determines the action of emotion and the final attitude of the will. When our essential being is operating in the wrong sphere the emotions are dwarfed, (having lost the perfect object), the intellect is bound, (being severed from infinite knowledge), and the will, (in attempting mastership), has lost it's true spring of action.
Emotions are set on love of material things.
Intellect looks to material things in semi-blindness,
the will, always attempting authority, is beaten and overcome.
By our own will we dethrone God and enthrone self in separation from God.
As at the garden, as at Shiloh, and for many today, the covenant is violated and mankind is put outside of His protection. God is rejected and a king of one’s own making is set in place. Genesis 3, 1 Samuel 8:7, John 5:19 Praise to the Father that He has sent His Son to fulfill our desires by joining to His desire to have none other before Him.
So satan's main objective is to gain the will to use the emotions and intellect, thereby causing independent actions, ungoverned activity, by being outside the sphere of God, and away from the tree of life.
We need that perfect fitness between the work to be done and the workman prepared.
We're limited and we need to be complimented with the unlimited. Un-limited yet held by the constraints of love. Abiding in our proper sphere which is confidence in God's love) the emotion, intellect and will are united with God. These three areas of self in being contained can be a constant due to our will set on Him. Jesus, as God, was the exact image while we are just the shadow. We must never doubt God's love.
Dear ones, created to be One with Him, don't fall into satan's food-chain by double-mindedness in doubting God's love.
Satan is a roaring lion looking for whom he can devour.
Bring yourself to the throne of grace by living and abiding in Him, where you are guaranteed grace and mercy by His sacrifice for you. And keep yourself there as is your reasonable service. Romans 12:1-3
In doing so He will find the work that He has for you to further His work in bring others to Him, in perfect obedience to His way. As members of one body, the Father has bestowed gifts to all for the purpose of edifying one another.
But first one must be born of incorruptable seed or else there is no life to grow because of being dead in sin. 1 Peter 1:23, 1 Corinthians 15:53, 1 Peter 1:4 Human life alone isn't qualified to be One in God, that organic union depends upon the divine life mingled with our human life in faith and in baptism into His death which is the beginning, the elemental, that needs to grow with the divine life. Not that the divine life in itself needs growth but that we need to grow into it by the gradual (from glory to glory) reckoning of death to all that is revealed of the old self. Colossians 2:22-23 He must increase and we must decrease. As His body we can do this because after all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church Ephesians 5:29
However even this growth needs regulation. Our growth is to grow with God Himself increasing in us. What revelation reveals about the natural flesh and soul needs recognizing as being restricted by bringing the natural under the control of the divine. The Christ in us is King. We're in a priestly kingdom, a citizen of the kingdom. Royal families train for it their whole lives. So, for that, obedience is needed. There's a great experience that follows obedience that's an increase in light and love that is meant to increase further obedience that still furthers growth and developement in grace. The results are in perpetual progress of bringing the natural under the control of the divine. Yeilding to God light falls on the pathway and creates love. Love suggests obedience. The will, impulsed by love yeilds to the light and on it goes. It's not a work at all but only growth. Unbelief and disobedience impedes growth.
We have so many different character traits that all need regulating in every aspect of life. To be useful to God we have to allow the light to shine upon us to bring us to the Lord's judgement and according to His standards that reveal our true selves and helps us to become true to our new selves.
Without growth, even if you have the divine life, there is no maturity. The life plus the growth gives one maturity. Maturity comes out of growth, which is what the book of Hebrews is all about.
Matthew 25:4 shows the wise virgins as having oil both in in their lamps and in their vessels. The lamp signifies our spirit Proverbs 20:27 and the vessel signifies our soul, our being Romans 9:21-23 Both in our spirit and in our entire being we should be full of the (indwelling) oil, which signifies the Holy Spirit Isaiah 61:1; Hebrews 1:9 The more growth the more infilling of the Holy Spirit which is the growth in God.
Matthew 25 also speaks of the slaves talents and their diligence, because functionality depends on diligence. That comes from proper conduct thru co-operation with God.
Fellowship and prayer with the Lord co-operates to recieve His enlightenment, and to be dealt with by Him. Slothful people will never contact the Lord regularly, seemingly because they are content in their own dirty diapers that they have deemed comfortably (luke)warm to stay in. In order to grow and reach maturity one needs to be diligent.
Growth to maturity demands being filled with the Spirit and to be diligent with yourself to use the ability in maturity to serve the Lord. These two can be seen as the infilling of the Spirit and the outpouring of the Spirit for service.
To live a life in the Spirit is to reach maturity in Christ by the submission of the whole being and allowing the Holy Spirit into every part, to be able to function as a mature person that Jesus can use.
What that would look like: Maturity, the good ground:
- obedient behavior (flesh under control and submissive to the Holy Spirit)
- sorting gospel from tradition ( mind under the Holy Spirit)
- seeking above all else to please Him and serve others ( human spirit submissive
Personal fellowship, holiness of character:
-intellegence- able to understand things of God
( soul needs to overcome greed)
- emotion- love God and all He loves
(flesh needs to overcome lust)
- will- choosing things in harmony with His will
( human spirit needs to overcome pride)
Righteous conduct, co-operative activity:
-intellegence- moving in harmony with God
(again soul needs to overcome greed)
-emotions- in action
(again flesh needs to overcome lust)
-will- choosing things of God
(again the human spirit needs to overcome pride)
Find peace and joy in in the heavenly Father’s arms thru the finished work for His children everywhere. Thank you Lord