There is a very sore travail and groaning even in the hearts of Christians for something better. There came a cry from within us for freedom from fear’s frustrations and what has arisen from our depths is a knowing that God is our Father. That cry readjusted our understanding to know that our Creator is also our Father. “Abba, Father” is a cry of recognition that God is indeed our Father. Then we begin to see and know He is fathering even the small things of our everyday life, as it is written;
“For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.” Romans 8:15-17 NAS
Natural minded men have not understood this deep cry “Abba” that comes up from within because their spirit is still sleeping in a darkness. God is a father in our spirit, so His Spirit quickens our spirit. Deep within us, our spirit has come alive. The truth of His Word is now revealed to our inner man, causing us to understand. That has changed our travail and despair to hope in His coming forth to honorably execute His plans:
“Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts…" Psalms 42:7
From the depth of God’s heart comes a quickening that touches the depths of our heart. As He pours forth the water of His word, our cry of hopelessness is changed to knowing God’s purposes, even in the smallest details of our life, for He has spoken to the deep places within us. Man’s earthly reasonings, his carnal mind, has veiled his own spirit so he is not aware of his own center, blind to his own deep places.
As God calls to our depths, our spirit answers “Yes” in agreement. A realization comes up within our spiritual mind that makes us know what He is communicating to us. His Spirit is putting a recognition of the truth within our spirit, so we know just what our Father is drawing us to, what He desires for us. In the very beginning of Adam, it is noted that he was brought forth out of the dust of the earth and God gave unto him breath, a connection with His own Spirit.
God formed this spiritual connection in the depths of Adam to be equal in comprehension with the depths of God. He designed Adam to be His habitation, so originally Adam understood Him, walked with Him, talked with Him because God was living within Adam’s spirit. We know Adam fell from this arrangement, yet we are Adam’s descendants. We are designed to be the temple of the living God with depths that are equal to understanding the things that are hidden in our Father.
Adam’s fall has made this connection with God become increasingly unclear. Men have progressively known less and less of the deep spiritual things of God. They are not understanding even their own inner depths. Worldly educated men today think themselves to be but animals from the apes, a descendant of monkeys, because they do not know the treasures hidden within their own inner spiritual being.
Men do not know that their inner spiritual being goes on to exist after physical death. Unknown to the natural minded man are God's enlightening powers that transform our inner man, making us alive by seeing into His shining brilliance. Now comes the promised time of the Father’s manifestation in all those sons drawn to spiritual Mt. Zion. They are connected with Christ Jesus forever, living to see and know God as their Father, to inherit the same provision of sonship life Jesus has received.
Yes, the natural minded man is DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SINS, because he has not grasped this faith in Jesus’s sonship. It should be counted as most worthwhile compared to gaining worldly power and wealth. The pitiful state of fallen man has enwrapped himself with himself in his own soulish needs, without recognition of his own ongoing spiritual existence.
Our own spirit’s travail and groans for righteousness have been covered over and misunderstood. Held in the injustices of men’s judgments, most only get temporary gain. But God has planted the desire for righteousness and truthfulness within our spirit. He plants the fruit of wisdom so we may remain in fulfilling the plans of God. All those people who are “dead in trespasses and sins” do not know that Jesus is coming by His spirit and that God is quickening those He chooses within their spiritual beings.
Fallen men have no power to awaken to this from the domain of fleshy souls, yet when God reconnects our spirit to His, we gain what Adam lost — and much more! Our Father clothes our inner spiritual being to rule with Christ over our own soul’s fleshly coverings. God exposes every level of lies, raising us from the natural minded ministers who blame people with threatening speech about spending eternity in torment, rejection, and condemnation for not knowing Him now.
If ever there was a sign in heaven, read that “the merciful one” overtakes us, the condemnation is removed, and our inner being is brought forth to know God as a son. The spirit of sonship is being quickened by God within us, an inner light exposing the darkness of the reasoning mind of man that leads to death. The light of life is now giving us insight to know and see Jesus as He is. Even those who pierced Him shall see Him and we shall all be changed:
“Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” I Corinthians 15:49-51 NAS
“A bruised reed shall He not break, and smoking flax shall He not quench, till He send forth judgment unto victory.” Matthew 12:20
God kindly sends the followers of Jesus right judgment unto victory. The dead, great and small, shall be raised — all the dead — not for eternal condemnation, but for correction in God’s lake of fire. He will never smother to extinguish what last little spark of hope for mercy in a person. They then will cry out and come forth from every shameful thing. Our FATHER, working in Jesus, will be savior of all. He shall fill all people who ever existed, healing those who are bruised so they do not break again. Even the twisted and bent will no longer compromise with the darkness of death.
The message is clear in scripture and crystal clear in our spiritual mind that GOD IS THE FATHER OF US ALL. He will prove that He does love us and freely offers us His abundant life in due time. It will take refinement, it will take seeking, but we will last with the ages and amount for some good as God’s day unfolds. God life will make us rich and dissolve our sorrow, for “in His presence there is fullness of joy,” and “at His right hand there are pleasures forevermore”:
'“You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.” Psalms 16:11 NAS
This is still truth and working today, praise God! His might is flowing out in kindness and mercy unto all who have been drawn nigh to the throne can receive it now. God has condemned the wicked sinners to fiery hells and torment, now and for ages, but NOT FOR ETERNITY. Jesus is coming by cleansing our souls by the Spirit of His Word. His messages from the throne bring LIFE to those who were dead in religious trespasses.
He shall continually bring help throughout this next age to council all the nations. Those peoples who are weak and undone shall be introduced to His sons who are raised to bring the dead to life. The time has always been NOW with Him! He is ready and the spirit of God has made a ready government that shall rule the nations with an iron rod. These shall bring the living and every dead person in the grave, even those in hell, held by bondages of dark deeds. They shall all eventually hear His voice and come forth.
The truth of this quickens our spirit, our mind is renewed, and our inner spiritual body is formed with these truths we can perceive. It builds up our spiritual being to know we have been fathered of God. He has written His Word upon us, so we will alway exist with Him through the ages because spiritually we are alive:
“For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who are asleep.
For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, after that those who are Christ's at His coming, then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when He has abolished all rule and all authority and power. For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet. The last enemy that will be abolished is death.
For He has put all things in subjection under His feet. But when He says, ‘All things are put in subjection,’ it is evident that He is excepted who put all things in subjection to Him. When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.” I Corinthians 15:16-28 NAS
“So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.’
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.” Genesis 2:21-25
Thank God our inner man has been raised in understanding, our spirit is alive to God, and our soulish parts are washed! We are no longer covered in the sackcloth of Adamic death, our mind is free of the curse of Adam, and we no longer are a curse — we bless and curse not! When Adam was put to sleep in the garden, he was lowered out of a high state of awareness of God, of knowing the details of God’s existence.
When Eve was separated from him, his soulish viewpoints were lowered and love for her conquered him. He never fully awoke to God again. Rather, his understandings slipped into the pressing needs of this physical world, becoming exposed to realms of darkness that made him selfish, fearful, bored, and raging with greed. Sinful thoughts and death collapsed upon him. He did not know part of him would exist and could have found place of honor, the place of a son of God.
Today, the people in the nations are totally destroying this planet and man has corrupted every society. We had two ways before us, either the way of union with God through Christ working within to feed us where we eat of the hidden tree of life, or, rather, to be controlled by soulish goodness or wicked evil thoughts, each leading one to partake of practices that produce death. The tree of good and evil offers tantalizing thoughts to invigorate man’s soulish fancies. These vanities capture many, holding to their own experiences and becoming less than what God intends His sons.
This is what happened when the serpent spirit offered Eve the power to be "like God," in a sense being a god, by saying:
"God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Genesis 3:5
After Adam and Eve partook of self-determined fleshly wisdom, God Himself acknowledged that they had indeed become as god. Yet the deep union Adam had as God’s son lifted. Adam’s own spirit sank, to be covered over and hidden, lost in the darkness of multiplied sorrows. In its place within him was the degrading of earthly sufferings that ruled within his own fleshly mind. The long night of darkness, sorrow, sin and death has continued for all Adam’s descendants!
"Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil…" Genesis 3:22
Yes, natural minded men are “as GODS” to assume a state of GODHOOD. Men do it all the time but it is a godhood outside and independent of the One True Living God. The life in Jesus is not the godhood of selfish, independent men. As a son of God, we have a restored spiritual union and are now being made one with our heavenly Father. Natural minded men are self-centered gods, regardless of nation or race. Men truly are destructive gods in this world, as we witness the earth reeling from the rule of man — fallen man, Adam man. It is only Christ that is able to quicken us to possess God’s nature.
Oh, God is authoring an original scheme of existence for those drawn to Zion! We are supposed to be continually inspired living creatures doing the will of the Father. Adam was a son of God originally. Before he was put to sleep, he displayed the radiant essence of light coming from fellowship with the Father.
That essence of sonship is available through the faith given in knowing Christ Jesus. One of man’s greatest inherent potentials is to KNOW GOD. Christ delivers the part of us that is dead, because in our spirit, the center and source of our life, HE is coming. Jesus is now coming, and, through Christ, the apostle Paul said, “in Christ we are complete:”
"For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And you are complete in Him…" Colossians 2:9-10
Adam himself never generates God’s spiritual life. He can only generate soulish goodness along with a lot of confusion. Men make a good show in the outer physical realm, being naturally religious, using worldly senses to satisfy their own greedy appetites for power and wealth, but sorrow and death, lying, cheating, and killing dwells in that center! Jesus understands, explaining:
"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?" Matthew 16:25-26 NAS
"There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man…For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man." Mark 7:15,21-23 NAS
"For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace…" Romans 8:5-6
To be filled with the mind of Christ removes the BOUNDARIES set by that realm of flesh within the whole dreadful realm of Adam’s disease and darkness of mind. The Adamic nature contains every sorrow, tragedy, pain, trouble, sickness, hatred, strife, heartache, ignorance, fear, and torment commonly known to all men.
God’s Spirit washes us, writing His order on our minds. We are enabled to stay in contact with heavenly joy, real peace, and a love for righteousness. We dwell with faith that’s wise enough to build a glorious domain that will last — all by the power of being connected again as a dwelling place of God.
Overcomers eat from the tree of life. They have been filled with spiritual light as they are abounding in heavenly understandings of the Father’s wisdom and knowledge, the fearful power and dominion of God’s perfection. The tree of life has fruit that would indeed make Adam’s descendants radiant with resplendent glory as the face of Jesus is shining at times as the sun and His raiment of radiant light is extended to us.
Jesus is the tree of life that grants overcoming saints to be seated with Him. Many are now granted to be eating from the tree of life that is in the center of paradise with God. At His right hand the radiant perfumes of truth satisfy the hunger and thirst for more. In heavenly realms are sweet fragrance to our spiritual nostrils. We can access the deep hidden wisdom and the great mysteries of power in God Himself. These are opened by Christ Jesus to walk in the presence and fellowship with God as our Father, knowing the almighty Life in Himself:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…in Him was life; and the Life was the light of men." John 1:1,4
"I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread which I give is my flesh [the Word made flesh], which I will give for the life of the world." John 6:51
Every man and woman who has ever lived will eat the bread Jesus gives and drink His drink. What He says will dominate the world eventually. It’s just a matter of time, for each thing God has planned WILL happen. It’s not a bad plan, we have just needed patience . Patience will grant us a love that is patient, a love that ties us to perfection, a love that draws us to God because LOVE is what the Father bestows upon and within our spirit, for each and every one of us in due time:
"Yet shall we not much rather be subjected to the Father of spirits and be living?" Hebrews 12:9
Adam’s descendants have been returning to dust, with dying minds and bodies as all other men, yet their spirit returns to the place God desires it to be. To one He gives the cleansing fire, to others are given the Kingdom. Now it is in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus that God and His creatures meet again. Through a Mediator, God has an appointment with all His creation. They are all coming together, being made connected with spiritual life, in oneness as never before. Christ has quickened our spirit to become alive to God, the Father of all!
God plants the Word in our minds, in order that we may SEE the spiritual. Truth is a seed that grows in the gardens of our lives, growing up into pure understandings of God’s clear intent. The light of Christ will enlighten every man, of every race, from every nation on planet earth, including the vast heavens of departed souls, and the brimming pits of hell.
God’s Spirit is sent to become the light of our inner spiritual person. When our spirit is quickened by God, our candle is truly lit and we hear the divine call! We hear the messages from the throne and, from within our being, our inner depths call out “ABBA, FATHER!” Our Father’s deep calls to our deep, though we have had to seek, and ask, and knock. God’s treasure house is open and we can enter the straight gate into the kingdom of the dearest Son:
"Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away; but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory; the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood; for if they had understood it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory; but just as it is written,
‘Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.’ For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God." I Corinthians 2:6-10 NAS