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Established heart

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on June 18th, 2010

in blameless, foundation, grace, heart, made righteous and sanctification

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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…”

From the heart

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on June 7th, 2010

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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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on June 1st, 2010

in heart, mind and motive

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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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on February 17th, 2010

in faith, heart, motive and new covenant

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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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on February 5th, 2010

in heart and peace

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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.

Calloused

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on August 30th, 2009

in blameless and condemnation

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Heb. 3:7,15; Heb. 4:7, “To day if ye will hear his voice…” “…harden not your hearts”

Eph. 4:18, “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:”

Prior to Christ, the heart is calloused. KJV says “blindness.” Blindness due to callousness. A callus caused by constant abrasion of the judgment of the self-imposed law written on the Gentile heart due to a defiled or non-purged conscience. A conscience that is aware of the judgment and guilt of the law. This hardening of the heart could potentially hinder the light of the word if that were possible. Self-condemnation seems to be the instigator of the ‘hardening’ on the heart or legalistic self-abrasion. Self beating up self. Rebuilding the things which were destroyed. Our justification is by His faith in us.

This is the effect of the Word on our hearts,

Heb. 4:12, “For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

The discernment of the Word is according to revelation, faith and grace in Christ by hearing and hearing the word.

His will is that our hearts be established by grace and that our hearts be unblameable,

Heb. 13:9, “Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.”

The effect of a heart established by grace,

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

I believe His will is even to separate us from ourselves and the condemnation and even justification through self. He separates me from me to be who I really am in Him by righteousness, His nature and righteousness. So, this statement, “His will is that our hearts be established by grace and that our hearts be unblameable” could mean that our hearts are UNBLAMEABLE or irreprehensible even from ourselves!

Tablets of fleshly hearts

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on July 18th, 2009

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2 Corinthians 3:3 says, “Clearly you are an epistle (letter) of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.”

Now, God is in contact with humanity by His only Son, Heb. 1:1-2, the Mediator of the New Covenant, with these vessels of clay, 2 Cor. 4:7, our bodies. He is connecting and reconciling heaven and earth. He is reconciling all things to Himself by and through His Son, Eph. 1:10.

The Spirit of God imparts God’s will and nature into us. His will is to write on tablets of fleshly hearts and not stone. This contact between God and man by Jesus causes a metamorphosis in every aspect of our being and existence: spirit, soul, body.

The revelation and power God through His Son, Jesus, causes the dead to rise, deliverance from addiction, healing, miracles, signs, wonders and even transformation of our bodies at the DNA level. Isn’t healing a transformation of DNA? What is cancer? It has been called a “disease of the genes.” “Scientists surveying the human genome have found that many more gene mutations drive the development of cancer than previously thought.¹” I believe the revelation of Christ in us, according to His all-powerful word, mutates whatever it encounters to align with truth. Jesus said He is the truth. Sickness and even death are not truth according to God’s will. Otherwise, Jesus would not have resurrected. His will is that we be made whole spirit, soul and body. The Father sent Him to save us or make us whole and complete, John 3:17.

Paul says we are members of His flesh and bones, Eph. 5:30. How is that possible? It is possible by revelation of Christ in us by hearing the word of truth.

The bible says Jesus is our elder brother. Since we are His siblings we are like Him. He is also the last Man or Adam. He is the first and last pattern of who Man really is or should be: spirit, soul, body. This man pattern in Christ is also love because God is love and we were created in His image. Christ is God’s only Son. Christ is love. Christ is the exact representation of the Father’s being, Heb. 1:3. His essence and substance is like that of the Father. This pattern will and is manifesting again until it is at full stature, Eph. 4:13.

Inexcusable

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on May 15th, 2009

in conscience and curse

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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:

without defense or excuse
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.

Conquered. By what?

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on November 14th, 2008

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Matthew 6:21, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

What is most important to me is where my heart is. If the thing important to me is what I strongly desire in my heart then that is my treasure. When I have my treasure I am excited and stirred because of the effect the treasure has on me.

2 Peter 2:19 says,

NKJV, “…for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.”

NLT, “They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves to sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.”

Overcome in the Greek is hēttaomai. It means,

to make less, inferior, to overcome

to be made inferior

to overcome, worsted, to be conquered by one, forced to yield to one

to hold a thing inferior, set below

We were and are purposed before time existed to be servants of righteousness and love to God and Christ by grace. To be his free-willed bond servant. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. We are purposed to be servants of righteousness by His will in us which is our will in Him by revelation of Christ.

If I am a slave to self to my self-imposed will which is rooted in fear because perfect love casts out fear, then the fear of judgment of my self-imposed will is the conqueror in my life. I am inferior to it. I am forced to yield to it by fear and the yoke of bondage.

2 Peter 2:1 speaks of the word heresy. In the Greek, it means “a choosing, choice” (from haireomai, “to choose”); then, “that which is chosen,” and hence, “an opinion,” especially a self-willed opinion, which is substituted for submission to the power of truth, and leads to division and the formation of sects.”

This heresy or ’self-willed opinion’ is based on false teaching that Peter is addressing in 2 Peter 2. Paul calls it, ‘another gospel.’

What is the way out?

2 Peter 2:20, “…they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,”

Col. 3:3, “…your life is hid with Christ in God.”

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