Gaining the image of Christ

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Proverbs 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.​

That three-strand cord is what drives out all the thieves from your temple, while seven is the number of completion. (edit to add completion on earth) Wisdom is the Holy Spirit and the gifts she gives. Understanding is the mind of Christ, and knowledge is who you are according to the Father ( without the lies ) And of course the temple is your body.

The only truth worth knowing is when your heart identifies with God’s heart, truth becoming so clear that it dissolves the lie that you formally believed. Each step progressed is needed to live on. Each truth revealed is the next higher step that one needs to solidify within oneself. Knowing God is knowing yourself and is the only thing worth knowing. Jeremiah 9:23-25, 1 Corinthians 1:30-31, 1 Corinthians 4:6-7 We can see from that last reference quoted that the final thing to guard against after being lifted to new heights is to beware of pride seeping in, for pride always goes before the fall.

Start by thinking about what you have learned about yourself during your Christian journey as the first step. The lies are gone and are replaced with the truth. If you go back to believing the lies it's a downward spiral. That's why the truth must be continued to be believed in as true to keep yourself on the new level. You now have that foundation to reach a higher level of truth.

Understanding that process ( the three strand rope mentioned at the top of the post) establishes it. Each new truth can also be thought of as a fragrance that is the formula of you. You know when something you do stinks. That's when meditation in prayer at the throne of grace is needed to bring about the sweetness of the real you.

Each person has their own scent according to the life that they live. Stinkin’ thinkin’ also needs to be dealt with the same way.

ALSO you can ascertain another person’s journey when they do or say something that stinks to high heaven so that it becomes obvious whether they know themselves or will act and think from the lies that they are claiming as their own. No one can change another person’s journey nor can they make others see a height that is above their own.

‘Take it to the Lord in prayer’ and most importantly listen for the answer, know the answer when it is revealed, and build your trust in His care for you, a step at a time. What you learn is eternal.

Once the understanding of the process is there then the link to the source remains the same as to where the help is coming from. Human reasoning is incapable, it can only come thru revelation as a new understanding presented to the mind (as opposed to a thought process.) (once established within the thought process that then makes way for higher insights)

A metaphor that can link acquiring the scent of Christ against our stinkin thinkin is “A FLY IN THE OINTMENT”. Cambridge dictionary defines it as “a single thing that is spoiling a situation that could otherwise be very positive or enjoyable." It’s a fall behind the upward growth, the same way that believing the same old lie after knowing the truth applies to a downward spiral in life. It’s the move away from growth and a return to elementary things.

We all must beat the devil in our one life here, and it’s a burning process that we can’t turn away from.The fragrance that remains is carried for eternity, or it can be said, each jewel of kindness,goodness, the fruit of the Spirit, acquired, is what we will wear in lustrous clothing for eternity.

The burning happens when you see the lie and the burning happens when the lie is consumed by the truth. Some people may never learn.

The only thing that any human can do is breath in His fragrance, For every breath in of His goodness there is a corresponding breath out of the toxins of life. Like breathing in the oxygen from the trees and breathing out the carbondioxide, the trees breath but once a day. Each day is a new beginning.

A focus point is the mirror, a mirror that is cloudy but getting clearer each time you look into it. Never walk away from the mirror and forget what you look like. Carry the image of Christ everywhere you go.

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[Citizen of the Kingdom]

On the Road to Emmaus

Luke 24
28 As they approached the village to which they were going, Jesus continued on as if he were going farther. 29 But they urged him strongly, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening; the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them.

30 When he was at the table with them, he took bread, gave thanks, broke it and began to give it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him, and he disappeared from their sight. 32 They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Feeling the burn.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Being clothed with Christ

1 Corinthians 15
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

Romans 13
14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

 

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2 Corinthians 2
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us triumphantly as captives in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him. 15 For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one, we are an odour of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

Becoming the sweet aroma of Christ

 

[Unqualified]

Proverbs 24:3-4 By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.​

That three-strand cord is what drives out all the thieves from your temple, while seven is the number of completion. (edit to add completion on earth) Wisdom is the Holy Spirit and the gifts she gives. Understanding is the mind of Christ, and knowledge is who you are according to the Father ( without the lies ) And of course the temple is your body.

The only truth worth knowing is when your heart identifies with God’s heart, truth becoming so clear that it dissolves the lie that you formally believed. Each step progressed is needed to live on. Each truth revealed is the next higher step that one needs to solidify within oneself. Knowing God is knowing yourself and is the only thing worth knowing. Jeremiah 9:23-25, 1 Corinthians 1:30-

31, 1 Corinthians 4:6-7 We can see from that last reference quoted that the final thing to guard against after being lifted to new heights is to beware of pride seeping in, for pride always goes before the fall.

Start by thinking about what you have learned about yourself during your Christian journey as the first step. The lies are gone and are replaced with the truth. If you go back to believing the lies it's a downward spiral. That's why the truth must be continued to be believed in as true to keep yourself on the new level. You now have that foundation to reach a higher level of truth.



Understanding that process ( the three strand rope mentioned at the top of the post) establishes it. Each new truth can also be thought of as a fragrance that is the formula of you. You know when something you do stinks. That's when meditation in prayer at the throne of grace is needed to bring about the sweetness of the real you.

Each person has their own scent according to the life that they live. Stinkin’ thinkin’ also needs to be dealt with the same wa



ALSO you can ascertain another person’s journey when they do or say something that stinks to high heaven so that it becomes obvious whether they know themselves or will act and think from the lies that they are claiming as their own. No one can change another person’s journey nor can they make others see a height that is above their own.

‘Take it to the Lord in prayer’ and most importantly listen for the answer, know the answer when it is revealed, and build your trust

in His care for you, a step at a time. What you learn is eternal.

Once the understanding of the process is there then the link to the source remains the same as to where the help is coming from. Human reasoning is incapable, it can only come thru revelation as a new understanding presented to the mind (as opposed to a thought process.) (once established within the thought process that then makes way for higher insights)

A metaphor that can link acquiring the scent of Christ against our stinkin thinkin is “A FLY IN THE OINTMENT”. Cambridge dictionary

defines it as “a single thing that is spoiling a situation that could otherwise be very positive or enjoyable." It’s a fall behind the upward growth, the same way that believing the same old lie after knowing the truth applies to a downward spiral in life. It’s the move away from growth and a return to elementary things.

We all must beat the devil in our one life here, and it’s a burning process that we can’t turn away from.The fragrance that remains is carried for eternity, or it can be said, each jewel of kindness,goodness, the fruit of the Spirit, acquired, is what we will wear in lustrous clothing for eternity.



The burning happens when you see the lie and the burning happens when the lie is consumed by the truth. Some people may never learn.

The only thing that any human can do is breath in His fragrance, For every breath in of His goodness there is a corresponding breath out of the toxins of life. Like breathing in the oxygen from the trees and breathing out the carbondioxide, the trees breath but once a day. Each day is a new beginning.


A focus point is the mirror, a mirror that is cloudy but getting clearer each time you look into it. Never walk away from the mirror and forget what you look like. Carry the image of Christ everywhere you go.

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Growing is great keep doing what you are doing because it’s working. Change for the better is good. You feel better, love others, are more ministerial, understand more, study more, learn more. It’s kind of a uphill staircase that puts you more in the kingdom.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Growing is great keep doing what you are doing because it’s working. Change for the better is good. You feel better, love others, are more ministerial, understand more, study more, learn more. It’s kind of a uphill staircase that puts you more in the kingdom.

Thank you for the encouragement. Absolutely, I agree.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason,
full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
James 3:13-17

God bless one and all!​

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Lady Wisdom, portrayed as being around since the beginning of time, exhibits the seven women surrounding the tower, supporting the building process. Each one is the previous one’s daughter, in this order: Faith, Self-restraint, Simplicity, Guilelessness, Chastity, Intelligence, and Love. Good character that grows the Church.

She says “ I have brought you up in much simplicity, innocence and purity because of the mercy of the Lord. He has poured out His righteousness upon you so that you may be made righteous and holy from all your sins and depravity. But you do not want to rest from your sins.

Listen to me now and be at peace with one another; visit each other and bear each other’s burdens. Do not eat God’s provisions alone, but give them abundantly to the needy. Some produce weakness in their body thru abundance of food, and in this way they corrupt it, but the body of those who have no food is corrupted and wastes away because they do not have sufficient nourishment. This excessive eating is evil to you who have abundance and do not share with those who are needy. Keep in mind the judgement that is to come! You therefore who are in high positions, seek out the hungry as long as the Tower is not yet finished, for after it is finished you will long to do good but will not find the opportunity. Be alert, you who glory in your wealth, for fear that those who are in need should groan, and their groans should ascend to the Lord, and you be shut out of the Tower.

So I say to you who preside over the church and love the first seats: do not be like drug-mixers. For drug-mixers carry their drugs in boxes, but you carry your drug and poison in your heart. You are hardened and do not want to cleanse your hearts and add unity of purpose to purity of heart, so that you may have mercy from the Great King. Children, beware that these divisions of yours do not deprive you of your life! How will you instruct the elect of the Lord if you yourself do not have instruction?

Therefore, instruct each other and be at peace amongst yourselves so that I also, as I stand joyfully before your Father, may give an account of all of you to your Lord.”


Excerpt from ~ The Shepherd of Hermas (Roberts-Donaldson translation) ~ 3rd vision

"Not by might, not by power, but by My Spirit” says the Lord.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Eventually, when God's work is completed, there will be no more sea. In the new heavens and new earth there is only land, no sea (Rev. 21:1). The sea representing a main part of Satan's kingdom has been eliminated. Praise the Lord!
The dry land appeared in order to produce life, to generate life. On the third day, Christ came out of death. Christ came out of death in resurrection just to generate life. Hallelujah!
Although you may be saved, the darkness within has not been cleared up, the waters have not been divided and confined, and the things of death have not been limited. As you are going on with the Lord, the waters of death within you will gradually be confined, limited, and eliminated. Within you, the dry land will rise up. That is Christ. That is Christ in resurrection. First Peter 1:3 tells us that we have been regenerated by the resurrection of Christ. Without the resurrected Christ, there is no possibility for any life to be generated.
As we grow in the Lord, we learn how to discern light from darkness, separate heavenly things from earthly things, and divide life from death. In my speaking I may have nothing dark and nothing earthly; yet I speak without life. I am devoid of life. My speaking is genuine and proper, with nothing of darkness and nothing worldly, but nevertheless is full of death. So, I must pray, "Lord Jesus, drive away all the death waters within me that the dry land may appear to produce life." In my speaking there should be nothing of darkness, nothing of this earth, and nothing of death. Within my speaking there must be the dry land that produces life.
Types in Genesis lsm.org​

1 Peter 4:11
If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

There are two supernatural forces contending for the mastery of mankind. The first reference heard was in the words to Cain. Genesis 4:7 Jesus exemplified the concept by associating it with the demon Mammon. Matthew 6:24-25, Luke 16:9-13

Principles of everlasting habitation. The act of division of soul and spirit.

Humans are but vessels, God and satan vie for control but both cannot control a person at the same time. So when humans abandon God, the force of evil will take control. That person becomes soulish and the spiritual aspect is laid dormant.

James 3:15
That wisdom is not the wisdom that comes down from above; but is earthly, soulish, demoniacal!
John 12:25
The one loving his soul shall lose it; but the one that hates his soul (-ish life) in this world will preserve it unto eternal life.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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God has been building His Habitat since the beginning. Wisdom has built the house, understanding has established the house, but knowledge is what fills it.

Seemingly mankind was left without tools to work out the means to live in a fallen world? But God has been working to engrain obedience to Himself and trust as the only way back to the reality of the image of Him that we were first made. How else could He alone be in the driver’s seat?

Thousands of years was spent on developing the outward image of what was to be His inner abode. The image, male and female. Made from dust and built from a rib. Then a body prepared for Christ and His church built from wisdom, understanding and the knowledge of all that pertains to it. From the old creation to the new creation. As opposed to 1 Timothy 4:1.

The general idea behind the word occult suggests hidden knowledge. When one foresakes the knowledge of God it is to pick up the occult. 1 Thessalonians 1:8-10 That is spiritual adultery. John 8:44 The lie is the denial of God and the deification of the created rather than the creator. Isaiah 14:14

It’s rather frightening to hold a world-view that the rulers of the darkness of this world are contending for mastery over the bodies and minds of all members of the human race. The lie has been perpetuated and has invaded, controlling unregenerate mankind, without mercy. Satan’s food chain can only be escaped from by rising above it.

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Imago Dei "image of God” (vs believing the lies ~ emphasis mine)

("image of God"): A theological term, applied uniquely to humans, which denotes the symbolical relation between God and humanity. The term has its roots in Genesis 1:27, wherein "God created man in his own image. . ." This scriptural passage does not mean that God is in human form, but rather, that humans are in the image of God in their moral, spiritual, and intellectual nature. Thus, humans mirror God's divinity in their ability to actualize the unique qualities with which they have been endowed, and which make them different than all other creatures: rational structure (see logos), complete centeredness, creative freedom, a possibility for self-actualization, and the ability for self-transcendence.

Imago Dei - Longer definition: The term imago Dei refers most fundamentally to two things: first, God's own self-actualization through humankind; and second, God's care for humankind. To say that humans are in the image of God is to recognize the special qualities of human nature which allow God to be made manifest in humans. In other words, for humans to have the conscious recognition of their being in the image of God means that they are the creature throught whom God's plans and purposes can be made known and actualized; humans, in this way, can be seen as co-creators with God. The moral implications of the doctrine of imago Dei are apparent in the fact that if humans are to love God, then humans must love other humans, as each is an expression of God. The human's likeness to God can also be understood by contrasting it with that which does not image God, i.e., beings who, as far as we know, are without self-consciousness and the capacity for spiritual/ moral reflection and growth. Humans differ from all other creatures because of their rational structure - their capacity for deliberation and free decision-making. This freedom gives the human a centeredness and completeness which allows the possibility for self-actualization and participation in a sacred reality.

However, the freedom which makes the human in God's image is the same freedom which manifests itself in estrangement from God, as the myth of the Fall (Adam and Eve) exemplifies. According to this myth, humans can, in their freedom, choose to deny or repress their spiritual and moral likeness to God. The ability and desire to love one's self and others, and therefore, God, can become neglected and even opposed. Striving to bring about the imago Dei in one's life can be seen as the quest for wholeness, or one's "essential" self, as pointed to in Christ's life and teachings.


Glossary Definition: Imago Dei ("image of God")

 

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will protect you, (wisdom built the house)
and understanding will guard you. (sifted and remaining in knowledge)