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Agreement with Truth

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06/20/10

I have noticed at times in my life there is a tendency to suppress my emotions or minimize them. I sometimes dismiss an emotion like sadness possibly as weakness. It is a good thing for me to be aware of my emotions and to know why I feel the way I do. If I don’t know or acknowledge why I feel the way I do then this could give room for vain imaginations, speculation and doubt. Just because I ignore or dismiss the feelings does not necessarily mean they will going away. We also are not led by our emotions, but by the Spirit of Truth as children of God. We have not received a spirit of fear or confusion. Truth is more real than emotions. We also are not called to be Vulcans1 that are without emotion and base everything on logic. We are new creations in Christ and are growing more into wholeness by the sanctifying work of the Spirit of God.

Ephesians 4:21, “The truth is in Jesus..”

John 8:32, “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

If I am acknowledging or even confessing that I feel a certain way then I am agreeing with Truth. In this established agreement through acknowledgment I can receive grace from the throne of grace.

1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

The word “confess” above in 1 John 1:9 is ὁμολογέω homologeō1. It means literally “to speak the same thing” or even “the same word as.” It is a combination of two words “homou” + “logos”.

Jesus is the Word (logos) made flesh, John 1:14. So, homologeō1 could mean “the same fleshly word of Christ as”.

So, in the acknowledgment, understanding and agreement, I am agreeing with Truth, Word or really Him in me. In doing so, I am agreeing or acknowledging with who I really am by grace because our identity is hid in Christ Who is the Truth. How can I love myself if I do not allow myself to feel what I feel and then recognize what I am feeling? That sounds like emotional self-neglect. Not good or healthy. Perhaps that is being machismo2. Machismo is definitely not godliness, but rather pride and self-strength. Ethics3 and culture cannot save me.

The Lord said in John 4:24, “God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.”

So, in the situation mentioned earlier, once I acknowledged I was sad and how I felt I was then agreeing with, partaking of or even becoming truth. I believe it is the effect of the acknowledgment and not necessarily the emotion. The effect is of grace. Truth sets us free from what is not real. The thing that was not real was that my emotions are not as important as I think they are. That is definitely not true. Recognizing that they are shows worth and His love for me. I love me because He is love, has/is showing me love and has shed abroad His love in my heart by His Spirit. He is truth and dwells in me and He is my elder brother. In Him, I am righteousness and truth by grace through His faith in me.

06/21/10

There is another word I discovered this morning via the radio from the following verse,

James 5:16, “Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

This word is ἐξομολογέω exomologeō. It means “to profess, confess, acknowledge openly and joyfully.” In our acknowledging, we have boldness, assurance and plainness of speech before the Father because of Christ our High Priest Who is the Way to the Holy of Holies in our hearts where He dwells by grace and faith. Thank you so much Lord. When I exomologeō, I am openly speaking forth and out by faith, Rom. 10:8. This speaking out of faith has an effect. His word does not return void. I am speaking rhema4 into this creation. Rhema word raises the dead, John 11:43.

In us, at the altar of our hearts, He diffuses His grace, essence and virtue. We are established and being established in Him by His indescribable gift of grace to those who believe. He enables me to exomologeō or “profess, confess, acknowledge openly and joyfully” by His grace. No flesh shall glory in His presence. He is the Author and Finisher our the faith in us. He is the Life in us that we live, move and have our being.

Homologeō1 could be internal and exomologeō could be external.

Established heart

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The previous blog, Radical self-blame, was about intrinsic self-condemnation and self-blame prior to knowing and being IN Christ.

Now, IN Christ, there is NO condemnation EVER. Thank you King Jesus for your blood Lord.

Once again, to reiterate what John said,

1 John 3:21, “Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.”

Now, the writer of Hebrews says:

Hebrews 13:9, “For it is good that the heart be established by grace..”

Paul says to the Thessalonians:

1 Thess. 3:13, “To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

1 Thess. 3:13 (Aramaic), “And may He stand your hearts with no accusation in holiness before God the Father…“

Established (950) (bebaioo from  bébaios = sure, fixed, standing firm on the feet, steadfast, maintaining firmness or solidity. In classical Greek from the 5th cent. B.C. bebaios acquires the meaning of firm, durable, unshakeable, sure, reliable, certain; and in the legal sphere, valid, legal <> bebaios is derived from baino = fit to tread on = having a firm foundation) is a verb which means to make sure or certain, to prove valid or reliable or to verify and (in legal language) to guarantee.

So, what does this mean, “Establish your hearts?”

I recall a few months ago waking up in the morning. I saw something like a shadow over my heart. I think of 1 John 3:21, 2 Cor. 3:15 and Eph. 4:18. I believe this was the faint shadow (at best) of self-imposed law and the Lord was revealing this.

This is the amazing thing. Once our hearts are established in Him by His grace through revelation of Him in us, watch out. He entered the Holy of Holies by His own blood to be our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek in order that no more sacrifice would Ever be needed again. He sat down ONCE. When He died on the cross He said, “Shelem.” “It is finished and complete in every way.” Now, this High Priest offers His grace to our hearts.

This grace, Eph. 1:19, established, unshakeable, reliable and certain in our hearts doesn’t go away once established. It is an eternal establishment. Imagine that. Eternal establishment. This established heart will also be beneficial in the life to come, 1 Tim. 4:8. This establishing occurs by the revelation of Christ in us and by growing in grace and the knowledge of Him by hearing and hearing the word of truth.

In Him, our hearts can be irreprehensible, unblameable and without accusation even if there is reason. He is that big. The word big is a limited English word that cannot contain His goodness. We don’t even know what that means that He is good? Our definition of good is not His definition. Would you die for the people who blew up the Sears Towers because you love them? He did. He is good. He is worthy to be praised.

Establishing our hearts in Him by grace gives no room anymore for self-blame. It can no longer be in our nature. In Him, we partake of His divine nature and ARE righteousness. Our triune being IS being sanctified by revelation of Him through the Spirit of God unto righteousness unto holiness and being who we are in Him since before the foundations of the earth. Love cannot hold records of wrong against itself. It cannot be malicious towards itself. That is not its nature.

Eph. 1:4-5, “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will…”

Set your affection..

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Colossians 3:2, “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

Ephesians 1:3, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ”

Col. 3:2 paraphrase: “Through the enabling ability of God by His faith in you, habitually (present tense active voice) set and commit (imperative mood), your thought patterns 2 Cor. 10:5, orientation, heart purpose Rom. 1:5, and direction on things that are heaven-based, things that are spiritual in Christ.”

The word affection can mean,

  • to feel, to think
    • to have an opinion of one’s self, think of one’s self

Set…mind (5426) (phroneo from phren = literally the diaphragm and thus that which curbs or restrains. Figuratively, phren is the supposed seat of all mental and emotional activity) refers to the basic orientation, bent, and thought patterns of the mind, rather than to the mind or intellect itself (that is the Greek word nous). Phroneo includes a person’s affections and will as well as his reasoning.  In other words phroneo refers not simply to intellectual activity but also to direction and purpose of heart.

The Greek verb tense is present tense, active voice, imperative mood. This means the individual sets his or her opinion of themselves habitually over and over again in a committed fashion.

The next question is why would I set my affection on things below? Possibly because my value is where I place it. Reminds me of Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” I believe the Lord was addressing motive once again.

I have discovered that at times, the “phroneo” of the old man attempts to take responsibility for other people’s feelings and doesn’t want to hurt them. In turn, this puts pre-eminence with that person. This is idolatry. Wow, look at 3 verses down in Col. 3:5, “…which is idolatry.” This also reminds me of the motive behind Another gŏs’pəl. That is to please man and his ego.

My mother died when I was 13. My father was an alcoholic and workaholic at times. I am beginning to see the correlation here.  A little boy would naturally take responsibility for his parent’s feelings because he doesn’t want them to leave or abandon him. During my childhood, I recall saying I felt like the parent. I was a nurse to my handicap mother and a co-worker of support for my father when he would binge drink. As a child, the thought came and went that my mom may die one day. I was not emotionally connected with my father until years later. Overall, I also felt this was unfair and bore resentment towards my parents. Now, the Lord has put His understanding, grace and love in my heart for my mom and dad. I am thankful for them in my life and have no regrets. It is what it is. I’m sure this is a redundant story on the planet. I am not alone. Thank God. Father, thank you for your Son.

The lie is this, “If you take responsibility for others feelings and/or cater to this then they will not leave you.” This is a lie from the pit of Sheol. In naivety, ignorance and fear, the old nature believed this lie and in fear established this fear-based control pattern to avoid hurt and pain, but in reality it causes so much more.

The truth and reality is in Jesus, Eph. 4:21, and the truth is people will leave if they want to leave regardless of what you say or do. In Christ, our emotional welfare is not rooted or founded in man, but the Last Man or Adam, Christ.

The writer of Hebrews talks of a rest provided for God’s people. The word says the truth sets us free. The Truth says, “I will Never leave you or forsake you.” If that is true and it is then He is more than sufficient. Also, trying to be responsible for other’s feelings or emotions is coercive and ultimately selfish. Some might say a form of witchcraft. Hey, watch it. Oh well, I said it.

In Christ, we are dead to these old earthly types and patterns that the world says we should adhere to.

Colossians 2:20-23, “If you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations– “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,” which all concern things which perish with the using–according (intrinsicly) to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.”

Christ sets us free from us. Rom. 7:24.

From the heart

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Romans 6:17, “But God be thanked that [though] you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.”

Paraphrase: “But God be thanked for His His Son, power and grace that you were and no longer are under self-imposed law in your hearts. You were and are unable to free yourselves from its power being ignorant of truth and love, and blind of light. All have fallen short of His glory based on this self-imposed law in their hearts. And now, in Him, your hearts being effected by revelation, grace and truth of the Only Begotten of the Father, have willfully by grace hearkened unto the quickened foundational word that was delivered to you. This truth of this word, Col. 1:6, changes you from pattern to pattern unto perfection enabling you to supernaturally bear fruit. The imperfect particles of the old nature are nullified and made obsolete by the unveiling of Him and of His love that casts our fear and torment.”

Hebrews 3:15, “As has just been said: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.”

I can have all the revelation in the world, see the dead rise, own billions, have prestige, fame, gain the whole world, but it is of no real value or worth if I don’t know love.

1 John 4:8, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

1 John 4:16, “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”

1 John 5:2, “This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.”

Thought life..

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I am starting to believe revelation comes from motive. Quote from Arbitrator - thoughts.

So, what does the conscience perceive in positive thinking? “You better be positive. Be a good person. You must think positive. Why aren’t you thinking positive?” Doesn’t sound like pure motive to me. Only the holy blood of Christ can purify the conscience from the guilt, judgment and penalty of the law. In turn, motive is purified, thoughts are renewed by revelation. Once again, “The just shall live by His faith in them.” His faith comes by hearing and hearing the word, revelation. Faith deposits, diffuses into wisdom, knowledge and understanding and becomes you. We inherit His righteous nature. This nature comes by hearing the word.

Our motive in Christ is compelled and enabled by His grace and power.

Phil. 4:8 says, “…Think on these things.” The word think in the Greek is in present tense middle or passive deponent voice. Present tense meaning a continuous habitual action, but what is the catalyst? To “think” on these things is to actively do, but because of a passive influence. This is middle or passive deponent voice. This is key. Why? It is His enabling Power and Ability to those who believe. The same power that rose Him from the dead from the house of Sheol for our salvation is the same power that motivates and compels us in Him. This is good. Thank you Lord.

This supports 2 Cor. 10:5, “Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,”

Romans 12:2 says, “Be ye transformed.” “Transformed” in the Greek is in passive voice. It means to be transformed due to an external influence or even internal, Christ in you the Hope of Glory. It is akin to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to butterfly. Even the motive of the butterfly has been changed due to its transformation. Glory! How much more in the hearts of men and women? One of the purposes of the caterpillar is to transform and be a butterfly and not to stay a caterpillar.

“Grace” IN your hearts

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This morning as I was waking up, 02/17/10, saw a shadow over the heart, but in Christ the heart (His motive by the faith of Him) is the substance of His will (Heb. 10 Aramaic NT). He is the tupos, pattern or mold of mankind. Adam was created in HIS image. Colossians or Romans says, “We have the true circumcision of the heart made by the Spirit of the Living God!” The law is a shadow of the substance of His will or good things to come  and not the realities themselves.

Col. 3:16, “16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.”

Grace in your hearts by revelation of Him. Revelation of Him by hearing and hearing the unveiled Word changes motive.

Hebrew for heart is “authority within”

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http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/27_heart.html

In the ancient Hebrew, heart means “authority within”.

Let His peace because he is peace (wholeness, completion) umpire your mind and heart. Hebrews see mind and heart combined. He is the Shepherd of our souls. “Authority within.” The authority could be His peace (His IS peace) over our hearts and minds from the guilt and judgment of the law. I am growing into peace in Him.

John 5:37, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”

Eph. 1, “Mystery of His will” enables authority as we grow in grace and knowledge.

What is being blameless?

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1 Cor. 1:7, “Who shall also confirm (establish) you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The Greek word means ” that cannot be called into to account, unreproveable, unaccused, blameless.”

How does this take effect? What do I need to do to make it happen?

Answer: nothing.

It is the impartation of the knowledge and understanding by grace that sin cannot be held to my account ever again by the revelation of Christ and His complete work on the cross.

Col. 1:9, “(We) do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;”

Do you really want to?

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Today I heard the Lord tell me, “You don’t have to love people.” I said, “Excuse me, huh?” “You don’t have to love people.” This is true. I don’t. If I have to then is that real and bona fide motive from my heart?

Romans 6:17, “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.” I am, I do and I be because He is in me. His grace and will alter my will and motivation to do and be. Nothing else can genuinely make this claim and keep it because they are at best shadows.

This blog builds a little more on a previous blog, The substance of His will.

Hebrews 10:1, “1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things (or substance of will or His will), can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.”

I believe “substance of will” is sincere, real and true motive. It is substance. It is immortal, eternal, ever-motivating substance because of fullness and no lack whatsoever. In Him, is all fullness of the Godhead bodily. This substance deposits by diffusion into my spirit by the Holy Spirit by grace through faith of hearing the word of truth in its fullness. This revelation changes my life. Thank you Lord.

Authority

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1 Cor. 7:37, “Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power (ἐξουσία exousia, authority) over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart…”

I possess and grow daily in the knowledge that has been kept hidden in ages past, but now revealed, of the will of God through His only Son Jesus. The knowledge of His will imparts and diffuses into my will. In doing so, I also grow in His authority.

Authority or “exousia” in the Greek means, “Denotes “authority” (from the impersonal verb exesti, “it is lawful”). From the meaning of “leave or permission,” or liberty of doing as one pleases, it passed to that of “the ability or strength with which one is endued,” then to that of the “power of authority,” the right to exercise power…”

The authority is in His will in me by grace.

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