Matt. 6:34 (NIV), “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own”
If we worry about tomorrow then we could be trying to control or predict the future. In self-strength apart from His faith in us, vain imaginations (thoughts inspired by self-imposed law and fear) are created that self-imposed law attaches to. In turn, the fear of not fulfilling those expectations manifests.
The Word says, “The just shall live by faith.” Faith is not based on what we assume, think or suppose. Faith is revelatory and not time-based. Love, hope and faith do not hinge on fear, but on Him in us. Christ is the pattern of the Last Man or Adam. His pattern in us is according to grace, truth and faith.
When Lazarus died Jesus did not panic. Why? The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him bodily. What does that mean? It means all faith is in Him. Moreover, all FULLNESS. He does not lack. He is all self-sufficient. He said, “I AM the resurrection and the life.” Before the foundations of the earth, He IS and always will BE.
He was moved with compassion and love to do the will of Him who sent Him and raised Lazarus from the dead.
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.
The more light in me, revelation, truth, grace, the more clarity and visibility around me. Others who are dark I am able to see clearer. Such as motive, emotions, sickness, death. Truth separates from things that are not truth. Things that encounter the light are exposed. If I flash a flashlight at night and something or someone walks in front if it the light exposes it.
Perhaps this is why Paul says, “Where are not unaware of the enemy’s schemes.” I believe a huge part of the enemy’s strategy is to constantly stimulate self-imposed law. How? Thoughts. Revelation apprehends and passively arrests us. If we know something that is undeniably real and true. The truth of what we know affects us. That is what truth does. It aligns everything with it. Truth does not even hinge on time.
By possessing revelatory knowledge of a purged conscience by the blood of Christ these ‘thoughts’ thrown our way become less and less powerful. Self-imposed law based thoughts are works-based, self-strength based, self-condemnation based, and the like. A conscience that is purged nullifies the little. That is what the Aramaic translates into in Corinthians. Something nullified is obsolete and annulled. So, the old man-based or self-based thoughts thrown our way are nullified in Christ? Isn’t that what Paul says in Gal. 2:20, 2 Cor. 5:17?
I remember the Lord told me once, “My forgiveness is greater than your unforgiveness towards yourself.” Even if I am not forgiving myself for whatever this is not even necessary. Repentance is something else. Repentance is and “after thought” with lasting affects on one’s life that do not change or go away. Repentance is real. Whimsical forgiveness based on me failing self-expectations has no value to us being in Christ. This is also what Paul talks about in Phil. 3, “Not having a righteousness
Hebrews 10:2, “2If it could, would they not have stopped being offered?”
If I am unsure about my walk, my righteousness before God the Father then there is a possibility I could be under self-imposed law even though I am not. If am tired, trying to make things right, walking the tight rope of self-righteousness, looking over my spiritual shoulder, not sure if my next step is sure then this does not sound like liberty or being under grace or being IN Him to me.
The dead works cease to be offered when you are not compelled to offer them. Why? Because He has revealed Himself IN you! He IS our righteousness and our identity is hid in Him.
This also originates back to our conscience being purged from the guilt and knowledge of the judgment of the law. Which the writer of Hebrews discusses further in Hebrews 10. Good stuff. Thank God for our High Priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Been reading these “I Spy” books lately with the boys. It dawned on me how you look at the same thing over and over and do not notice something. Either in people. Especially, the Word. In life and everything. You look and look and then BAM! you see it.
Romans 16:25, “The revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began…”
Eph. 3:1, “1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles…”
Just imagine. You’re in prison, but you know the warden is Christ in you. Therefore, you are the prisoner of Christ Jesus according to His purpose for His life in you.
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.
