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Co-knowledge

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Heb. 10:2, “For then would they (sacrifices and offerings for sin) not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.”

The word conscience here in the Greek means either “a knowing with” or “co-knowledge.”

So, in the above verse what would I no longer have a “co-knowledge” with?

Romans 3:20 (NIV) says, “Through the law we become conscious (or have the knowledge) of sin.”

In Romans 5:13, it says, “Sin is not imputed when there is no law.”

It sounds like the co-knowledge is with the law. The law makes or made me aware of what missing the mark was or sin. The mark that the law made me aware of is no longer there because in Christ, by His sacrifice, I no longer have knowledge of the mark. Therefore, I no longer have co-knowledge because the co-knowledge was based on the knowledge of the mark. What is the mark? Sin means, “to miss the mark.” The mark could be a reminder of how far we fall from glory. It could be the goal of attaining the full stature of the body of Christ. The mark could be what I thought I was supposed to do or be spiritually.

According to Heb. 10:2, the co-knowledge of sin or missing the mark is no more.

So, what knowledge do I have now? The writer of Hebrews continues to write on in Hebrews 11:1. “Now, faith is…” Now, I have His faith in me. This faith in me comes by hearing and hearing His word. It is the revelation of Christ in me. We have understanding by faith. This understanding turns into revelatory, life-changing knowledge.

This is him?

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Usually, I don’t write about stuff like this, but this is a blog. So, here it goes.

I while back, I’d say maybe 6-9 months or so, I fell asleep in the living room. Around 3 a.m., I woke up because I knew someone came into my house. Specifically, my living room. I woke up and looked towards the T.V. I knew something or someone very tall was in my house. I’d say between 9-10 feet tall. Not sure how I knew, but it I did. I will call it a familiar spirit. I believe familiar spirits are humanoid in appearance. They are hence ‘familiar.’ Their voice is familiar too, but we know the voice of the Good Shepherd which is based on the word of truth and grace.

Back to what happened. I did not see this thing, but it was like closing my eyes and Shaquille O’Neal’s big brother was there. Shaquille O’Neal is an N.B.A. professional basketball player who is 7′3″ tall and weighs 350 lbs. I was very tired and I thought, “What do you want?” I was not alarmed or scared, but knew this thing had some authority or power I guess. Then I thought I heard this, “This is him?” Then it was gone and I went back to sleep.

I believe for whatever reason, the enemy sent this spirit to either intimidate or entice. He was unsuccessful. What I noticed though is that the enemy spilled the beans so to speak. He was so alarmed about something that he sent this higher-ranking spirit. I guess you could call it that. When I think of what it said, “This is him?” Then I start to wonder what was this spirit told prior to arriving? What was he told to expect? This is what I mean when I say the enemy spilled the beans or played his card. Paul says we are not unaware of the enemy’s schemes or wiles, 2 Cor. 2:11.

The New Covenant

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Heb. 8:10-11, “10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them.”

How does He put His laws in our minds and write it on our hearts? By revealing His Son in us. We have the mind of Christ. Yesterday, 05/26/09, I was getting ready for work and I heard this to my spirit, “You are holy. You are now holy.” I thought, “Ok.” Then I thought again, “I am holy. I am.” I believe this could be an example of Him putting His laws into our minds. I did not just believe what I heard, but I knew it. I know now. It was deposited in me somehow.

Knowing and believing are different. Paul talks about a knowledge of truth after godliness, Titus 1:1. He says “knowledge” not faith. I believe we have understanding by faith, Heb. 11:3. This understanding permeates into our soul. This understanding becomes knowledge. This knowledge becomes who we are.

Paul says having a righteousness apart from works of the law, Phi. 3:9. How does this happen? By grace through faith. We hear. Then we hear His word. Then faith is. By faith, we have understanding unto knowledge. This knowledge becomes our actions, mannerisms, speech, motivation, perspective, reality, awareness, Acts 17: 28. I believe if something is written to our hearts then the motivation of our hearts is changed. He is writing His law even His will into our minds and hearts by revelation of the Word in us. Christ is the Word in us.

Thanksgiving: How much is enough?

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1 Thess. 5:18, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

When I thank God for whatever situation I am in and I mean whatever situation. I put ’self’ off of me. Whatever is attached to ’self’ goes with it. This is God’s will for me in His Son. The old has gone, 2 Cor. 5:17. God’s will and willingness in me enables me to be thankful and change my focus off of me on to Him. His focus and will becomes mine, Phil. 2:13, Gal. 1:16.

If I live with ingratitude or without thanksgiving in my heart then I do not have enough. Jesus is enough. He is more than sufficient. In Him, all fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily. “Enough” is a molecular word that cannot compare to Him in whom all things hold together, Col. 1:17. If I do not have enough then something is owed to me because I have not received it yet. Otherwise, it would be enough. His love is enough because I do not owe Him. He paid the price in full and said, “It is finished” or “Shelem.” I do not owe Him. His love does not keep record of any wrongs, 1 Cor. 13:5.

Therefore, I am ever-grateful and thankful for God’s only Son. This grace of thanksgiving overflows. It enables me and also whosoever that believes that He is, Eph. 1:19, Rom. 1:16. We express and manifest thanksgiving by faith because “The just shall live by faith.” We have understanding and knowledge unto godliness by faith, Titus 1:1. This knowledge becomes what we know and no longer faith. It becomes who we are in Him. Our lives are hid in Him, having a righteousness apart from dead works. A righteousness that is by revelation of Him according to His word.

Moved with compassion

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I am reminded of these verses.

I remember when I was 18 or 19 years old and it was after church service and I was overwhelmed with compassion for a teenage boy who had down syndrome. We had already been friends, but for some reason my heart was filled with this love towards him for him to be whole. My heart was directed towards his years of hurt from people judging and misunderstanding him. He did not choose to be born with down syndrome. It was not his fault. I think this compassion was supernatural. I went to him and we talked. I hugged him and cried. He looked at me and smiled. I told him, “I know who you are. This is not you.” All of a sudden, his face transformed to what we call normal. I said, “Yes, that is you!” He was alarmed and his face reverted back to the down syndrome appearance. I was very young in the Lord, but now I see that when His supernaturual compassion comes it changes worlds and lives.

Torturer

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Matt. 18:33-34, “Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?’ And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.”

First off, in my humble opinion, I believe the the Gospels are technically the Old Testament and occurred under the Old Covenant. When did the New Covenant and Church begin?

So, I believe the Gospels are evangelistic. Is there word and revelation in the Gospels for the believer? There most definitely is, but the admonition is not to mix old wine into new wine-skins and to rightly divide the word of truth as ministers of the New Covenant.

Matthew 18:34 says, “…delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.” Who are the torturers? I believe when the Lord spoke His words that they had manifold meaning. In this particular case, I think torturers could be a number of things. The word in the Greek is properly, “the torturer” which is singular. I believe this torturer is the law written in our hearts prior to knowing that is the One Who purges our conscience from the judgment and penalty of the law.

Now, that I am be honest with myself I think the Lord told me this morning, “Forgiveness comes through you.” He is the Forgiver coming through and I am the vessel partaking in the truth and light of this grace. I am under grace and do not judge myself, 1 Cor. 4:3-4. I can only forgive as He has revealed Himself, Love and His forgiveness to and IN me, Eph. 4:32. This forgiveness comes through the believer into the world. It is not ethereal, but does sit with Him who sits on the throne of grace.

This is what I saw as far as being “”…delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.”

I cannot set myself free. Only Jesus can pay the price. I can’t pay it and no one else can. We grow in the wonderful, life-changing knowledge and grace of Christ Jesus. In the is growth, I am changed and given all power to do things I could not do before like save myself, forgive, love.

The torturer is essentially the self-imposed judgment based on the law written in our hearts being witness by our conscience until the unveiled knowledge and simplicity of forgiveness is witnessed to our conscience in the holy blood of Christ.

The unsaved and those under the law (who shouldn’t be) are delivered to the torturer. Those under grace, walk by faith and revelation. For those under grace, the Lord reveals forgiveness to enable you to forgive. Either you are under grace or not. Who is he that condemns?

Thank you Lord.

What does usurping look like?

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This blog builds on the previous blog, Usurp.

I was wondering and praying about how does usurping manifest or what does it look like? I recieved an email from a brother in the Lord last night. He said he was at church and the pastor said the letters on the church sign kept blowing off and the pastor kept having to run out towards and even onto the highway. My friend yelled out, “The letter kills brother!” I thought that was so funny. He was referring to 2 Cor. 3:6.

This resonated in me this morning, “The letter kills.” And then it dawned on me. This is a type of manifestation of usurping. If I ‘put law’ on my spouse, brother or sister in Christ then this could turn into ‘law’. Some might respond, “So what?”

You don’t want law on your back. You want grace. Law brings to life the old nature. It empowers sin. It can only judge and condemn. It eventually brings you to Christ by your inability to fulfill it. It kills you, Rom. 7:11! Our righteousness is by His faith in us through grace.

I believe Revelation 2:20-24 also speaks of usurping. Revelation speaks of the woman Jezebel, but usurping is impartial to either gender.

Usurp

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1 Tim. 2:12, “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

I recently wrote Solo. Today, I was reading about the office of an apostle at this link. I came across the above verse, 1 Tim. 2:12. I went to BLB and queried the verse and word “usurp.” I discovered it is very similar if not almost the same as was I wrote in the Solo blog.

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It means “One who with his own hand kills either others or himself (suicide).” This is what Paul is saying in regard to a woman usurping authority over her husband and authority in the Church. This is very interesting. I recommend reading Solo and then cross-reference this blog. Very interesting. So, it seems that usurping authority is like a spiritual homicide or suicide. If I usurp God’s authority then I am alienating myself from His Life!

Self-condemned: Conversion to inversion

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Back in April, I wrote Self-imposed enmity. Today, I discovered that the apostle Paul used a similar word, autokatakritos, when he was speaking to Titus in Titus 3:11. The word means, “self-condemned.” Paul says those who are self-condemned, or those who have not known Christ’s forgiveness or have forgiven themselves with His power are warped, twisted and inverted. They are “turned inside out” or “changed entirely.”1 What does this mean? These individuals are inverted. In Psychology, when someone takes the role of the opposite gender they are inverted2.

According to scripture, God’s love does not keep any record of wrongs because of Christ’s death and sacrificial blood. Christ died because of God’s will, love and nature. If I am inverted then I am opposed towards my true nature and identity. I am opposed to myself. If others do not agree with my self-opposition then I could be unawarely compelled to convert them to inversion or oppose them. I believe this is what Paul dealt with and why he may have written things like Gal. 2:4, 2 Cor. 11:26, 2 Cor. 12:7.

To me, something that is inverted is something that is not in its naturual designed position, purpose and orientation. As an example, I am reminded of an inverted cross or the above example of a transgender peron. Although the world may frown upon transgender people, the Lord is no respecter of persons, Acts 10:34. If this is true then I believe unforgiveness was not meant to dwell in us. Instead we were created to have faith, love and hope dwell in us, Eph. 1:5. Why was Christ crucified before the foundations of the earth? Who was He crucified for?

Inexcusable

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Romans 2:1, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.”

Inexcusable:

  1. without defense or excuse
  2. that which cannot be defended, inexcusable

If someone judges me they are really telling me the law written in their own heart. If the law written on the Gentile heart is not met that person will let others know if they are not meeting it either. They are under the curse of the law in the heart!, Gal. 3:10, “All who rely on observing the law are under a curse…” Even the law written in our hearts! Just my opinion of course.

So, someone would say, “Brother, that scripture is in regard to the Jewish brethren.”

My response is Romans 2:26-27 (NIV), “If those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised? The one (Gentile) who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you (Jew) have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.”

It would be better if I do not judge myself like Paul did, 1 Cor. 4:3. Why or how was this possible? I believe Paul’s conscience was purged. How did he know this? He speaks of faith and knowledge that lead to godliness or god-likeness in Titus 1:1. This faith was imparted by the revelation of Christ in him!, Gal. 1:16, 2:20. Faith is imparted when God speaks to us. When we hear God speak to us it changes us and does not only make us right-standing with Him, but it imparts and creates His righteous nature in us! This righteous nature also contains a good, pure, sanctified and purged conscience according to the sacrificial blood of the Lamb of God, Christ, Heb. 9:14.

In essence, according to what Christ fulfilled on His cross, my conscience does not know what the judgment or penalty of the “self-imposed law” in my heart is anymore! I believe this is what Romans 8:1 implies, “[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” “No condemnation or judgment” means none whatsoever. It is non-existent.

The writer of Hebrews says in Hebrews 11:1, “Now, faith is…” So, NOW, FAITH is. Not NOW Condemnation, but we are ministers of the New Covenant. The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life and quickens our mortal bodies everytime we hear what God speaks to us. When He speaks His word to us by His Spirit we believe. In this believing, I am being transformed by the faith and knowledge unto godliness over and over, glory to glory to be like Him.

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