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Hebrews 6:1, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection..”

“Go on”

The phrase “go on” is present tense, passive voice, subjunctive mood. Present tense meaning continuing action or lifestyle. Passive voice meaning Christ enables us to go on by grace and not of ourselves. Subjunctive mood is the mood of probability (possibility, potentiality) = expresses an action which may or should happen but which is not necessarily true at present. Suggests that the action is dependent upon some condition being met.

“Perfection”

  • end
    • termination, the limit at which a thing ceases to be (always of the end of some act or state, but not of the end of a period of time)
    • lit., “unto (the) end,” signifies “continual,”

Paraphrase: “Therefore leaving the principles or primer of the word or Logos of the risen Christ, let the revelation of Him in us continue to grow in us unto His fullness by grace from glory to glory..”

The Hebrew word eternity reminds me of ‘perfection’ used in the Heb. 6:1 context.

The word olam is also used for time for the distant past or the distant future as a time that is difficult to know or perceive. This word is frequently translated as eternity or forever but in the English language it is misunderstood to mean a continual span of time that never ends. In the Hebrew mind it is simply what is at or beyond the horizon, a very distant time.1

In a nutshell, I believe the writer of Hebrews is saying there is more. There has to be. How big is God?

Hebrews 6:3, “And this will we do, if God permit.”

Fullness according to..

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Ephesians 3:19, “And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.“

Paul says Christ reveals Himself inside, Gal. 1:16. Through Christ in us and us in Him, we grow in revelation and edification of this transcendent, unearthly Love, 1 John 4:7-8.

Love builds up more and more and more and more…1 Cor. 8:1.

We are the vessels of His love 2 Cor. 4:7. These spiritual vessels grow, 2 Peter 3:18, Col. 2:19. I can have fullness by revelation of Him and metaphorically my vessel could be a small cup. I can have fullness by revelation and my vessel could a five gallon bucket, swimming pool, Lake Michigan, Atlantic Ocean, Solar System, Milky Way, etc.

Our vessels grow in Him. In Him ALL FULLNESS dwells, resides and lives bodily, Col. 2:9. We are growing into Him and like Him.

The word “filled” is passive voice in Eph. 3:19. It means’ filled until full by something or rather someone else.’

Paul says, “Be filled with ALL the FULLNESS of God.” What is that? I am chewing on that as well. I will attempt this time, but know this will definitely expand. The word “all” means ‘radically all’. We partake in the riches of His grace, Eph. 1:7, 1:18, 2:7, 3:8, 3:16, Phil. 4:19, Col. 1:27, 2:2. His riches are unsearchable. There are no bounds to His riches. There is no end to them. According to the riches of His grace, we are filled with all fullness and are growing into that as He causes the increase.

Newness in the car

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Quote from Fission of the Word in us,

“The newness1 of the word is in present pluperfect tense. It is always NOW in us.”

After writing and getting refreshed from recalling a blog1 from over a year ago, my sons and I were going to get some groceries. I was still chewing on the above quote. It was still quickened in me. I perceived the “newness” of the word in the car. It was fresh, different, real, almost tangible, powerful and alive.

Fission of the Word in us

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I was going through memory lane and read His power working in us… I was led to read up again on nuclear fission.

Greek paraphrase Phm 1:6: That the fellowship (indescribable intimate union and bond) of your (His) faith may become godly life-energy by the revelatory knowledge of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power1.htm

­The splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. The two atoms that result from the fission later release beta radiation (super fast electrons) and gamma radiation of their own as well. The energy released by a single fission comes from the fact that the fission products and the neutrons, together, weigh less than the original U-235 atom. The difference in weight is converted directly to energy at a rate governed by the equation E = mc2.

When I read the above link and looked at the animation I saw new revelatory word being birth in us by the Spirit of God continually on a daily basis. Word bonds with other word that causes a chain reaction unleashing energy then bonds with another and so on. All the Word is Him. This word co-mingles in our person, Rom. 12:2, and then becomes quickened unto godly-life energy, righteousness and power, Rom. 8:10. Our soul and flesh partake in this “fission of the Word” in us. The word expounds, expands, grows and is new all the time in us. The newness1 of the word is in present pluperfect tense. It is always NOW in us. This word comes from a place where a day is like a thousand years and a thousands years is like a day. To me, the word reproduces itself similar to the fission process. Who created the fission process? This Word is not of this world and comes from its source, Col. 1:5. This Word dwells in us richly now through faith and grace, Col. 3:16.

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.

You observe…

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Today, 06/20/10, was Father’s day. A day to observe in the U.S. I am reminded of a few verses.

Mark 7:9, “”You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!”

Rom. 2:25, “Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.”

Gal. 3:5, “Does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you because you observe the law, or because you believe what you heard?”

Gal. 4:10, “You observe days, and months, and times, and years.”

“Observe1” means:

  • to stand beside and watch, to watch assiduously, observe carefully
    • to watch, attend to with the eyes
      • of auguries, to see what he is going to do
      • in a bad sense, to watch insidiously
      • to watch one’s self
  • to observe, keep scrupulously
    • to neglect nothing requisite to the religious observance of

I’ve noticed that the expectation of the event comes with the day or event being observed. If the expectation is not met then there could be a potential for disappointment. Christ is always the ever-present, ever-joyful expectation of hope in us and we are not disappointed or ashamed, Rom. 5:5.

I believe the old nature could attach or entangle, Gal. 5:1, itself to these observances and expectations if one is not careful. In turn, the ego turns on itself betraying itself.m In Christ, we are dead to the guilt and penalty of the law. Even the law in our hearts because of the sprinkling of His blood upon our hearts, Heb. 10:22. Who we were is not who we are in Christ, Gal. 2:20.

51st state of Disarray

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The big cities in this state are envy, strife,

Phil. 2:3, “[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”

James 3;16, “For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”

Envy: ζῆλος zēlos - “(zelos from zeo = to be hot or fervent) describes an eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something and can have a good sense but in context (and as used most often in NT) here zelos has an evil sense, meaning envy, jealousy, anger.”

Strife: ἐριθεία eritheia - “denotes “ambition, self-seeking, rivalry,” self-will being an underlying idea in the word; hence it denotes “party-making.” It is derived, not from eris, “strife,” but from erithos, “a hireling;” hence the meaning of “seeking to win followers,” “factions,”

Confusion: ἀκαταστασία akatastasia - “”instability,” (a, negative, kata, “down,” stasis, “a standing”), denotes “a state of disorder, disturbance, confusion, tumult,”

I was reading in Philippians 2 this morning and Blue Letter Bible took me to James 3:16 where I discovered the Greek word for confusion. Apart from Christ, in our fallen nature, we are unstable and in a state of disarray. Our souls are unregenerate and dead. They have no life, Eph. 2:1. We are separated from God’s love & life energy through His Son because of the hardening of our hearts and ignorance of the truth, Eph. 4:18. Before Christ, we are willfully ignorantly suppressing righteousness, Rom. 1:18 (NIV), “Wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness..” We suppressed righteousness in fear, but His perfect, beautiful, fulfilling love thrusts it out. There is no room for it.

1 John 4:18, “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

Perfect love, by its nature, habitually thrusts and throws out the imperfect. It builds up and edifies 1 Cor. 8:1. See The beauty of nullification. The imperfect could be the fragments of the old nature and lack that creates fear and separation from His love & life. These fragments of the old man are nullified, obsolesced, absorbed and absolved by the revelation of Christ and we grow from pattern to pattern, image to image unto the fullness of the Godhead bodily in us, Col. 1:19.

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…”

Radical self-blame

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Romans 7:24, “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”

Ephesians 2:15, “Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of two one new man, [so] making peace;”

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

The Greek word for “does not condemn us” is καταγινώσκω kataginōskō. It means “”to know something against”. It uses the prefix “kata-”. This means “to diffuse”. In our old nature, prior to Christ, I was unable to forgive myself. I did not know what true forgiveness was. True forgiveness does not think about itself, but the other (Gal. 5:14) and would even lay down its life regardless of the circumstances on the basis of supernatural, unconditional love, Rom. 5:8. I am continually amazed at the Lord’s goodness and love, Eph. 3:18.

What I have noticed over the years is that the old nature strives and attempts to attach to old thoughts that are waxing old and decaying away, Heb. 8:13, 2 Cor. 5:17, Col. 2:14. It attempts to do so through thoughts. It is like a zombie that has no power. Death had and has no power whatsoever over Christ in me. I believe even if the old nature thinks it has something by attaching to a thought that in reality and Truth does it really matter? No, it doesn’t. Wow. God is omniscient. He knows. Christ’s work is a complete work in every way. Now, in Him, we have rest from our works, Heb. 4:9. The truth is in Jesus, Eph. 4:21. Truth stands alone. It does not prove itself and is not compelled to do so. It does not strive to attach itself to something else because it is complete and perfect. It is not in lack. Christ, the inner man, in me, is Truth and is not moved by “every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, [and] cunning craftiness”, Eph. 4:14.

Paul prayed in 1 Cor. 15:58, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

“Phroneo” disappointment

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Building on Set your affection..

Short quote from the above blog,

Phroneo includes a person’s affections and will as well as one’s reasoning.  In other words phroneo refers not simply to intellectual activity but also to direction and purpose of heart.

I could easily see the phroneo affection1 (Col. 3:2) as a catalyst to people who have high highs and low lows. The psychiatric term is bi-polar. I believe the biblical term is carnal minded, Rom. 8:6,7. It is an emotional and mental roller coaster, but really is spiritual. The person would be habitually letting themselves down or fulfilling themselves creating these highs and lows. We cannot fix ourselves. A whole pattern of a man is necessary in order to know what wholeness is. This pattern is the revelation of Christ in us. The new person in us.

Proverbs 13:12 says, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick (dysfunctional), but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

Jesus is the longing fulfilled in us. He is life, John 14:6. He is the passive, ever-eager, perpetual, joyful expectation in us. He is the Hope of Glory! Col. 1:27, Rom. 5:2, Eph. 1:18. This hope predicates on His faith in us because “His faith is the substance of things hoped for.” I have hope because of faith. In this, a righteousness is revealed from faith to faith. Christ is our righteousness.

A good tangent. So, hope deferred is when I could see the “the manifestations of the flesh” occur. And they don’t have to. We have grace. I believe these manifestations of the old nature are fear-based and rooted in self-imposed law of the old nature.

Gal. 5:19-21. “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

Depending on the focus of the  phroneo affection1, soulish-disappointment can physically manifest through fear. Fear occurred possibly because a lie was thought to be true, Rom. 7:11, Gal. 5:1. The just shall live by His faith in them. We have not been given a Spirit of fear again unto bondage and a yoke of slavery.

In this soulish-disappointment, peptides are created. See blog Peptides are miniscule pieces of protein. Dopamine and serotonin levels in the body are effected. “Dopamine is also associated with a person’s mood and cognitive qualities such as attention.2” “When serotonin levels become unbalanced, a person may experience depression.3” “A psychological reward is a process that reinforces behavior4.” So, through fear and self-imposed law which creates the fear and empowers the old man the manifestations of the flesh occur. There is a potential for strongholds or yokes. In Christ, the strongholds and yokes are demolished. He nailed the power of self-imposed law to the cross. Our old man died with Him to the power of the law. Thank you Lord.

A psychologist cannot save me, but the High Priest in the order of Melchizedek does. Jesus means “salvation.” Salvation is triune: spirit, soul & body.

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