We Christians are to seek first the domain of God’s King. The King’s domain is found in the hearts of a principled people who have been gathering to the council of His throne. They are instruments in the hand of the Lord in which the King manifests His ruling council. His wisdom is provided them so that they answer from the Lord’s viewpoint on the questions of the hour. They have truth that endures forever, they understand spiritual things, and they live in earth being true to Christ in every matter.
His called people are a privileged people, blessed by God. They are instructed to overcome the fault lines of the human nature and to ascend from the candlestick churches of Christ. God’s priests are overcomers in His eyes. They are taught by His Spirit not to give allegiance to governments formed to rule by violence, with hatred holding up manmade principles, fleshly ideas trying to establish corruption in national governments, cheating in business governments, or dominating local and school governments. Most especially they turn away from lies in churches that are promoted in order to rule, to sway the popular vote this way and that.
Christ Jesus will yet heal us Christians completely and reach all the families of the earth. Oppressively, men have ruled to corrupt and destroy the best efforts of all the earth’s governments, so even the nations groan today. Christian overcomers are “called out” to be led into being GOVERNED BY HIS SPIRIT to claim allegiance to the highest authority. This is a form of righteousness in government, one set from heaven, one free to be lead now by the coming of the Spirit of God.
His Spirit touches our heart and writes upon our inner spiritual person. Our heart bears the truth of Christ’s viewpoint. His truth frees us from bondage and instructs our steps. He keeps us in the faith, keeping our heart from fear as Christ within us joins our spirit, changes our soul, and quickens our body. Those who submit to Christ are now translated into God’s Kingdom, forming a spiritual house that will last. This is what Christians are called to—the domain ruled by the Spirit that is in Jesus Christ.
God has fathered a people who are birthed into a plan for the nations of this world, to be fulfilled in the Day of the Lord. National governments like our American government have proven to be just at times and corrupt at other times. Time and time again when examined closely, lying falsehoods are at the core of some of our national practices. The bloody hands of leaders have enslaved masses of people. Slavery, unjust wars, perpetual poverty, aiding greedy, power-focused crimes, legislation that destroys the earth with pollution, keeping the people impoverished, are all present.
Yet America’s stated intentions are noble in providing freedom and justice for all. We Americans are reaping the whirlwinds and weary consequences of our modern day warfare. America killed many innocent Vietnam people along with the many combatants and such modern day conflicts are brutal. Rage is sown in the hearts of so many, so that violence seems right in the eyes of people, even in the nations of the world. Nations fight wars with rumors and falsehoods, and disease fosters injustices of all sorts.
Only through the coming of God’s Kingdom within our hearts does God rule within the earth. Patriotic drumbeats require devotion to a flag that men possess for their country but will soon be translated to zeal for His kingdom of peace, love of others, and an enjoyment of God’s blessing through His chosen people. The King’s government is within our inner being, so we are able to love God and our neighbor. He brings foremost attention and direction in actively stopping hatred, violence, any false statements, and allegiances that are perpetrated by corrupt men and false causes.
The Spirit of life in Christ Jesus governs the inner spiritual being of a people who form an overcoming rank governed by Christ Jesus. He is ruling and His rule will cause great contrasts in comparison with the motivations of some worldly leaders. So, we pray for our leaders and seek FIRST the kingdom of God, that His Kingdom would become evident here. As we do this, we gain inner strength from new fruit of the Spirit that develops the Father’s name within us. A new name is bestowed upon each of us. His name (nature) is even etched deep upon the inner parts of our being.
We quickly understand His mind concerning freedom:
“…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22
“Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.” Revelation 14:1-2 NASB
There is only ONE government that is ruled by LOVE, TRUE JUSTICE, AND LIBERTY FOR ALL. All the national governments of earth have never been able to stop all wars, nor stop their people from hating others, fearing others, plotting revenge, even jealousy that kills with gossip, and so forth. No church government is without discord, no assembly has been without divisions with prideful envy making people jealous with excessive ambition.
Only God’s rule conquers the human nature! His rule is lived out in His chosen people who have displayed patient self-control. Some middle eastern nations are strict in what their populous can drink, so they ban alcohol and public dancing, and teach a form of hatred for western culture that seems unjust to us Americans. But Christians all over the world need to be sober and stop being drunk with the ambitions of false political leaders who lead mobs into the ditches of national shame, racial hatred, or some other factious division.
Paul is a special servant of Christ. He described the human characteristics that are “the works of the flesh." Interestingly, note each of the behaviors listed below are the works of the flesh that worldly governments cannot stop. We can easily see the works of the flesh are found in worldly minded leaders of governments. Fleshly characteristics of people are on wide display today. They can be seen and found very active in prominent leaders commanding citizens to fight for unjust causes. Even in churches, there are the voices of prominent men that are clear examples of yielding to the works of the flesh:
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” Galatians 5:19-23 NASB
The government of Iowa, for example, makes laws to control the flesh, but only Christ ruling within us can really defeat the fleshly characteristics in our being. The governments of men have created laws and applied them to societies to influence their certain human arrogance. Such fleshly discord easily fills our homes, troubles our work places, troubles our schools, and fills our jails with destroyed people, people whose lives cry out for freedom and justice. We too cry out, time and time again, for PEACE THAT IS JUST.
We hold out hope for healing liberties to flow from on high—the real freedom of God’s Kingdom even while in this world. So many people are bogged down with fleshly minded selfishness! It’s evident in political leaders that dupe the masses with lies. Businesses lie in advertisements that legally rob us. Failures are evident in church leaders who sow systematic fallacies in league with worldly minded political leaders. People in business pursuits have polluted our entire planet, business pursuits have wreaked our drinking water in Iowa and elsewhere.
Even our food lacks proper nutrition following depletion of our soil from mining, farming, and livestock production whose advice is that it is ok to partake of their waste products. Business has prospered, but now the lifestyles of every nation are polluting the planet with disease-causing chemicals, plastics and carbon. It is now obvious that people are cheating their very own children of a future.
God promised a blessing on ALL the families of the earth in Abraham and it WILL happen yet. The nations of the world face unprecedented problems which NOW present great OPPORTUNITY for God’s Kingdom to be manifested in His many membered body, His sons and daughters. His light shines brightly within those following the spirit of Christ.
Followers are delivered from fleshly discord, so we do not idolize Hollywood’s actors or sports stars, nor imitate violent television shows. We chase after no lying political influences trying to fill our head with constant distractions. We have found deliverance from what fills our streets with unsatisfied ambitions and unsatisfied fleshly desire. We are no more envious, but rather PEACEFUL.
People called into God’s governmental service, being made priests, do not trust the flesh, nor the works of the flesh, nor the worldly governments ruled by fleshly minded men. Distrust of fleshly minded men is a valuable fiber of the Bible and of our American Constitution. Israel, as a nation on earth, reached for freedom and justice for all as a response to the oppressive limits under unjust kings and potentates.
Similarly, the constitution of the United States was established to work for the good of the majority of its citizenry, for government of the people, by the people, which allows freedom of movement, free expression of speech, freedom of worship, freedom to work at what we want, freedom to live as we want as long as it does not encroach on another person’s safety and well-being.
Thank God for the most part, we American Christians have had the liberty to develop in peace, to live rightly, doing good, living soberly and godly among the evil in this present world. Democratic governments standing for the liberty of all, however, are hated by people worked up in their fleshly hearts to be hateful, cursing others with bondage, lying secretly to cheat, stealing even to misrepresent God with false ideas, to gossip as busybody witchcraft that casts sorcery over fellowships, dividing brethren etc. etc. These are all things God hates!
God’s law under Moses has not destroyed the works of the flesh. Back then, judges decided what was criminal and what was real justice. Crime of all kinds have risen, however, along with democratic freedoms, because one is free to pursue the works in the fleshly nature of mankind. But overcomers are enlightened to know TRUE FREEDOM, a freedom from the workings of the flesh nature in man.
Deliverance is found in Zion by those asking for and seeking God’s truth to be written within them as they follow the leading of God’s Spirit. The revelation of Jesus Christ is spiritual. It is working in us now, translating us from fleshly conditions ruled by darkness, violence, and hatred. God's dear Son causes us to soberly heed the call to full adoption as sons of God who go far beyond worship in traditional church heavens.
He leads us to new higher principles of devotion in God. Saints who are true come from every nation, raised to form and house the highest offices in God’s government. They are all committed to Jesus Christ as the King, He who gives His subjects true freedom. This starts with changing our mind, giving us a spiritual mind that relates to God’s judgment. He sustains us through this process into acceptance by God Almighty.
The democratic government of America has been a great demonstration of human incompetence! Truthfully, no national government of men is worthy of much lasting respect and esteem in the light of God’s Kingdom. Americans speak as if our present democracy is something completely new, but both ancient Greece and Roman rule knew democratic and republican sway. Every form of government men have devised have failed, even the best, whose political philosophers conceived and tried ways that are now found wanting.
The evils of a democracy are perhaps fewer and easier to bear than the tyranny and suppression exercised under murderous dictators, yet a person would be blind to present conditions and history to say that American democracy is the most competent form of government in our day and time. America has strengths and weaknesses. American government is far from perfect, but its strength is found in its many believers in God..
Today America should be an instrument in God's hand that brings peace instead of war, freedom from poverty, disease, oppression, a liberty from oppressive bondage, free of fear and greed. Such perfection is in having the Father’s name written as sovereign authority within us, to reign over our own fleshly ways, delivering us from our fleshly natures. Behold Jesus, Who has determined to change us. THAT will change the governments of men! He will yet reign over the nations, bringing lasting peace to this shaking world.
The Day of the Lord has come, when heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool. His many saints have been praying for centuries that His will would be done in earth as it is in heaven, and now that time is come. Now God is spiritually coming to take over, first within us. His people are made right, so that they are extending righteousness and peace to all the people in earth! A brighter light is coming, as the real freedom that Christ brings ends the corruption ruling the earth. One person at a time, He makes of us more noble citizens of heaven, standing on heavenly principles, standing on a sure foundation.
Today the result of men’s greedy goals are clearly seen in rejecting the boundaries of righteousness. The “Christian right" movement in Iowa, for example, has successfully restructured our government to fashion it with Republican party legislation that ignores the social problems confronting our state and our nation. Placing restriction of abortions, voting restrictions, ignoring pollution standards yet wanting to re-institute public prayer in schools, legislating a whitewash of past history and morality which they insist on teaching our children.
American laws are based on people’s scriptural interpretations of righteousness that exercise control for the good of the people. The battle to convince Americans to vote for what they think is right is now a part of our political society. Americans are free to protest, Americans are free to organize, they are free to demand that rules and laws be changed. Yet fundamentalist thinkers in many religions think THEY should have authority to legislate their particular standard of national righteousness and enforce those laws within their states.
We find Christians who use the scriptures to make laws that take us right back under the LAW of Old Testament thinking, with all its “do’s and don’ts” that has NEVER brought righteousness. Israel was under a veil of fleshly thinking, under fleshly works that ended up demanding an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
The spirit of Jesus Christ has a better promise than that! Our Christian homeland is in the New Jerusalem order, an order in Zion where God’s government bears the Word that actually CHANGES PEOPLE’S HEARTS. The Spirit of Christ always releases its citizens from legalistic viewpoints and resisting the unjust laws of men, especially when wrapped in religion:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony. If I told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from heaven: the Son of Man. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.” John 3:11-17 NASB
He is coming so that the world may be saved! That is the spiritual dynamic of the Kingdom of God which is quickening our consciousness. We cannot be taken up with dead religious works, but desire to clearly see how earthly minded such practices are. Real enlightenment lets us recognize a spiritual operation of God in the lives of His followers that brings about a CHANGE.
He takes one from a city and two from a family and brings them to Zion. Here, in Zion, people are becoming “saviors” who impart a Word that SAVES THE WORLD BY BECOMING AN EXAMPLE of God’s completed salvation. This complete salvation quickly grows into glorious anointed flows, with messages that change the way people think.
True ministers of Christ are about the Father's business, confirming the truth to believing hearts. Christians are ranked in the many abiding places in His house, where some are proven sons, sealed and raised to sit with Jesus. Sons have the same nature as Jesus, who said to a woman overtaken in the act of adultery:
“Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more.” John 8:11
Jesus charged that woman not to sin and I believe she did not sin like that any more. “He who is without sin” should still cast the first stones. That day when Jesus wrote in the sandy earth of their secret things, they rightfully excused themselves, beginning with the eldest. Jesus knew no sin and yet He did not condemn the confessing adulterous. He expressed a word with enough power to release her guilt, shame, and identification with her sin. Liberation from sin is something MORE than legislated law is able to do.
Today zealous folk are carrying placards and petitioning the government for justice, asking for changes against injustices of every kind. But the legislature cannot demand holy living and stop sexual activity with conceptions that people want to end by legislative arguments. Legislatures demand a supply of stones at major intersections, so they can stone their opposition without regard for objection.
Readily consenting to the stoning of Steven, Saul of Tarsus needed Christ to appear. THEN his ATTITUDE OF HEART, his entire character, was diametrically opposed to that event. He now knew the spirit of MERCY was flowing from the throne of his heart. Now he was seated in God's true government. In fact man's divisive delusions have been and continue to be enforced by the earthly governmental laws IN DIRECT OPPOSITION to the real government of God throughout history. Yet we are conceived in PEACE and LOVE.Jesus did not answer calls for public crusades to outlaw any of the social ills under Roman rule.
I commend all efforts that better social injustices and help heal broken lives with just practices. Yet, history proves that legal standards cannot make men loving, peaceful, and kind, patient, non-violent, PERFECT in nature as Jesus commanded us to be perfect as He is. Did alcohol prohibition in the 1930’s eradicate drunkenness from America? No! The natural inclination for sex outside marriage is the source of most abortions, so state legislation of sexual activity has not been successful.
We should not be taught to hate our enemies or easily accept lies that cheat others. We are not to be given to stealing, nor to killing the influence of others unjustly and wrongly. I say the most outrageous message coming from “religious people” is the blasting condemnation of sinful acts that declare following bad practices will cause people to be in hell forever, suffering torment in everlasting damnation. The unconverted are already IN hell, suffering torment they can't get out of until they pay the last farthing in God’s sight. We all soon face—become aware of—God's judgment.
There is a mercy seat that is the only open door out of this current damnation of human nature. Our hearts and minds are changed, no matter how desperately wicked we have been. The “religious right” are passing more laws against behavior they think is wrong, which sends their enforcers into the streets to maintain order, yet people continue to erupt, seeking out REAL justice.
True justice comes through THE NEW INNER BIRTH OF SPIRIT centered in God’s glorious Light. Christ becomes the motivating factor of our actions as we grow into the wisdom of knowing Him, being true subjects of God in our spirit. We are being ruled now under the law of the spirit life in Christ Jesus. His kingdom is within us, working deep within our being to enlighten our spirit and change our mind to the viewpoints in the mind of Christ.
God offered us a solution through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. We have entered His grace and now represent a supper that is full of the fruit of His Kingdom! Love, peace and joy, with the grace of gentleness, has joined our inner person. God’s government works within a people who pledge an allegiance to Christ Jesus.
God’s sons and daughters animate (bring alive) principles of truth. Spiritual power flows into and out of those led by God's Spirit. Allegiance to spiritual thinking is different than other forms of raised concepts, those resurrected ideas that radiate legalistic righteousness. We are seeing, knowing, and becoming one with and abiding within the King’s MERCY, KNOWING DELIVERING POWER THAT RAISES US TO GLORY!
God will yet turn every nation to be more peaceful in behavior, the same as men and women experience in spiritual regeneration unto divine transformation. We need people to gain the knowledge and power of Christ flowing within their lives as devoted followers of the only effective government of God. The earth is the Lord’s, and He has kings and priests having authority over every other domain. The earth is being transformedby the SPIRITUAL POWER of God’s Word, and His messages heal us.
We now rejoice and are thankful that the DAY OF THE LORD IS COME! The King has establish His rule above the top religious mountain. Here is a city of people made to be new creatures, with some of them as priests of the highest order. Kingdom priests are destined to rule over the earth. They will guide governing powers and raise people to new heights. Their word will lift every past generation into the path of life, raised into their rightful place in God’s government so people are no longer at war:
"Now it will come about that in the last days, the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. And many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; That He may teach us concerning His ways And that we may walk in His paths.’ For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. And He will judge between the nations, and will render decisions for many peoples; and they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, and never again will they learn war.
Come, house of Jacob, and let us walk in the light of the Lord." Isaiah 2:5 NASB
This Jesus taught:
“Except a man [any man)]be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” John 3:3
"Except a man be born of the water [of the word] and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." John 3:5
When a man is truly born again to grow and be governed by the Word and Spirit of God, he NEEDS NO OTHER LAWS to enforce righteousness upon him. God’s truth accesses our depths to bloom in our heart, so our steps are prepared beyond our present comprehension by faith in Him. We live in a more excellent order that is “new every morning”, feeding us new hidden manna as a partner. He provides part of a “feast of fat things”, providing us a supper of spiritual substance.
The Feast of Tabernacles speaks of a third feast. The third day is a third thousand years in which the Holiest of all is opened, and the ark being seen in heaven:
“We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth. And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm.” Revelation 11:17 - 19 NASB
The nations are enraged today, yet God’s judgment has been manifested in heavenly places. That saving power delivers us from fleshly works, transforming our inner being with power to follow Christ into a spiritual union that accomplishes a sealed work of righteousness. Kingdom Ambassadors bring the present rule of Christ Jesus as perpetual, constant, progressive—never vacillating and never retrogressing.
God is in control of all that happens, all the time, both of good and evil. He is working out ALL THINGS after the counsel of His own will.
"I am the Lord, and there is no other; besides Me there is no God. I will gird you, though you have not known Me; that men may know from the rising to the setting of the sun that there is no one besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other, the One forming light and creating darkness, causing well-being and creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these.” Isaiah 45:5-7 NASB
Paul was caught up to the third heaven, hearing unspeakable things, unlawful for man to utter. God is not just who we resort to on Sundays:
“Boasting is necessary, though it is not profitable; but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak. On behalf of such a man I will boast; but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in regard to my weaknesses.” II Corinthians 12:1-5 NASB
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19 NASB
Some are prepared for a greater and fuller manifestation of God that surpasses all former events, outpourings, healing revivals, and all the reforming work in the church world. The history of national warfare proves this is no time to be trying to save the world with old religious ways! It is a waste of time to be patching up the old orders trampled by governing men and women. This is the hour to be raised to NEW FREEDOM, free from fleshly ways that work to oppress the spiritual steps taught with authority by God’s King.
We must not, yea, we CANNOT, utilize the strength of the flesh or the ways of the religious church world to promote and build the Kingdom of God. “Not by might, but by my Spirit” says the Lord. Every one must be LED OF GOD’S SPIRIT to overcome the problems found in their lives and even in their churches. I have no confidence in religious activity that motivates men to busily and craftily work for their organizations. Men can spend their entire lives in spiritual houses of bondage to dead works!
It is better to wait on the Lord outside the camp, seeking to understand His Word as taught by His Spirit to our inner being. The “kingdom of God is WITHIN you.” It is iniquity to invent ways of religious works among His people. INIQUITY IS PRESENT IN RELIGIOUS TEACHERS USING FLESHLY EFFORTS TO TRY TO DO WHAT ONLY THE SPIRIT OF GOD CAN DO. Doing religious good works can keep us in the second heavens, the Pentecostal heavens of hope and faith.
Those second heaven efforts are blessed even though they always fall short of the mark. To please God, however, we must learn the necessity of being LED, waiting for the Holy Spirit to instruct. He tests and sorts to purge us from producing our own divisions, bringing unclean iniquity, creating more fleshly works using worldly methods. Much iniquity is among the Lord’s people!
Those called to the New Jerusalem order would rather spend life hidden on the back side of the desert waiting upon God, spiritually learning, than to be caught up with busy work in the church world! We are not part of "that religious woman clothed in scarlet with the golden cup in her hand," who is dressed in regal garments doing everything she can to maintain and justify her control over others.
Listen: many Christian ministries will be found wanting and will be burned up as hay, wood, and stubble in the Day of the Lord. That is to say, they who are expecting reward will have no reward of God at all. Jesus said the leaders around Him already had their reward—getting the honor and prestige that comes from men:
"Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you who practice lawlessness [iniquity]!’” Matthew 7: 21-23 NAS
Fleshly efforts to influence the world for Christ are destined to fail and soon pass away. His passionate coming now shines liberating light within His people. He speaks with a liberating Word bearing heaven’s witness that heaven and earth do belong to Jesus Christ. He is coming now in a heavenly host to raise the remainder His people from passing heavens into the city prepared of God.
It is critical to KNOW what the will of the Father is in life’s every situation! The Lord’s people expend their energies like Mary of old, at His feet, learning to know Him, how He thinks and being familiar with His ways. How much better is this time spent humbled and low before God in prayer, locked away in a secret place where He opens our hearts to change by unveiling Sonship within us, like our apostle Paul:
"But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus." Galatians 1:15-17 NASB
We pray for all men, everywhere, including our governmental leaders, trusting that God is working out His plan in all things by His Spirit. God’s spirit faithfully instructs us daily to will and to do ONLY those things which please the FATHER. SPIRITUAL PROMPTINGS must open our eyes to what hinders our own walk, shaking us loose from our own fleshly ideas.
Some of these are in the secret subtle places of our mind. Then, as our soul is cleansed and yielded, we, like Paul, have no confidence in our own flesh. Neither are we any longer seeing through the blinding flesh of others’ judgments, those who are measuring others by and among themselves. They do judge others, gossiping and judging each other as faulty while claiming to be perfect.
Our heavenly Father uses both good and evil to form Christ in us. He bends us, He breaks our pride, He binds our soulish ideas, and bridles our tongue to block all that would proceed from us that is carnal, vain, violent, selfish and wrong. This is VITAL in knowing the ways of the Father. Sons of God discern between what is generated by God’s Spirit and what is generated by the religious soul of man.
Sons are raised and given connection to deep understanding, rewarded with His wisdom. Sons recognize iniquity in old heavens in order to bring the light of new heavens of the Lord’s Day. Jesus Christ is the only true standard of sonship. He clothes us with a heavenly garment that fills our house with an enlightened spirit. We are CLOTHED with the Word and Spirit of God Almighty in our spiritual man. We are not found working in the iniquity of passing heavens, in the “nakedness” of man’s fleshly wisdom.
A glorious reality of resurrection is working to mightily raise the “dead”, to redeem us and deliver us from every dead thing. He frees our spirit from every yoke and bondage to be joined to the SPIRIT OF CHRIST that enables our spirit to be ALIVE with God. He is truthfully impressing this principle deeply upon a prayerful mind, writing it indelibly within our hearts. KNOWING the good works of Christ will deliver the creation from the bondage and tyranny of man’s corrupt behavior.
“LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION” is the prayer we are crying out to PASS ALL THE TESTS. We pray to be sealed into the THINGS that qualify us through life’s trials and chastisements in order to obtain the prize—to be victorious in reaching out beyond temptation into a perfection prepared for us by our loving Father.
We are made to fit with the “spirits of just men being made perfect” in the unseen realms of Zion. We are united with the body of Christ, full of hope, having promises of a full salvation that are RESERVED in a special place. We are anticipating the lasting, unchangeable, untemptable nature of God to be written within us ,as bestowed, sealed and delivered into a commission within our spirit and soul:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:3-5 NASB
The KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOMING THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD AND HIS CHRIST. He shall reign forever through chosen priests, sons who will yet bless all the families of the earth with a SPIRITUAL government that is FOR THE PEOPLE, one that delivers them from every bondage to corruption!