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Eternal life

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on May 27th, 2010

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1 John 1:2, “the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us–”

The word “eternal” in the above verse means, ‘without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be.’ The Greek root means ‘perpetually, incessantly.’ His life energy is perpetual, constant and incessant in us. And we don’t have to conjure it up. Thank God. If I conjure something then it is me ‘trying.’ In doing so, I may be rebuilding the old me and its attachments which are dead, Gal. 2:18. This trying also reflects motive.

Man, do I ever see this life energy thing about the Lord. It is good. I perceive and feel it a work, at the mall, with my friends, reading the word, thinking about Him, praying, looking at nature, and so on. It is by grace and revelation. This life does not stop or cease, but is ever existent in us! It it exponential. It has to be if it is His life. He is the Life, John 14:6, Col. 3:4. He is the hope of glory in us. He is, he is, he is. This energy life comes with motive. The motive is His willingness. This willingness and life diffuses into our essence making our flesh and being intrinsic righteousness, Rom. 3:21-22, by the regenerative work of the Holy Spirit, Rom. 8:2,4,6,10,11.

Romans 8:13, “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.”

Quote from I forgot, “I believe this is why I forgot I quit smoking because it was no longer important to me. Something dead is dead. It cannot come back to life unless I actively remember it. If I actively try to forget then I am not forgetting, but trying to erase a memory.” Another blog, No wonder I keep remembering.

I believe we are not called to crucify our flesh, Kicking a dead horse. Simply put, how can something dead be killed again? It is dead. I believe through the Spirit our motive changes by His life in us, 2 Tim. 1:1. In Him, we are not who we were or even who we thought we were, but are new creatures in Him according to the unveiled truth of Him in us, Gal. 1:16. This is who we really are and always have been by this awesome life He has freely given us! Eternal life is not necessarily future tense, but also present and past tense.

Stop being offered

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on February 7th, 2010

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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.

Need for approval

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on January 1st, 2010

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09/21/09

The need for approval has the potential to create vain imaginations. If I fail to meet approval then an idea must be created to counter the failure to approve. Vain imaginations can potentially entangle us, but the just shall live by faith. Vain imaginations are not real and substantial. They cannot save. I cannot save myself. Otherwise, Christ’s death was in vain.

Do we still have to prove or test God?

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on October 28th, 2009

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Do we still have to prove or test God?

No.

Old Testament quote: Mal. 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].”

If we do then we are not ministers of the New Covenant. The letter (Old Covenant) kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Cor. 3:6, “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

We have the Father’s Son now. He has us. He is revealed and His faith dwells in us now. Hebrews 1:1-2, Eph. 3:17.

His faith and willingness makes us righteous. Therefore, there is NO condemnation and we do not have to prove anything. The experience is not the proof, but because of the proof in us the experiences are manifested and created. Truth does not prove itself because it is truth. Light does not prove itself because it is light.

So, what about giving? Give because you want to. Read Supporting the Levitcal Priesthood.

If I am compelled by a need for approval then I am putting myself back under self-imposed law. The word says, “No flesh shall be justified before God by the law.” Romans 3:20

Christ has fulfilled all the law in me according to the revelation of Him in me. The just shall live by His faith in them by grace.

No wonder I keep remembering

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on October 13th, 2008

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Hebrews 10:2-4 (Aramaic NT) says, “– because now not being troubled in conscience with their sins who one time purified them: — but in them, by their sacrifices, they remembered their sins every year. For the blood of bulls and goats is not able to purify sins.”

Here is my paraphrase of the red, bold, underlined text.

If I have to earn my approval, God’s approval, or any other person’s approval by my self-performance (or works), then I am reminding myself of the guilt and or penalty of my sin.

The three previous blogs touched on the purged conscience or chief witness, which address the guilt of sin.

Under the works of the law, I will remember my guilt of things I have done or even the thoughts or imaginations themselves. My work of self-strength is a reminder I can’t forgive or make myself whole. The Greek word for salvation means to make the spirit, soul, and body whole without anything lacking.

My self-performance and self-achievement will actually excite, stimulate, provoke, and enliven the old sinful nature inviting an increase of guilt, shame, corruption and death.

Romans 5:20 (ESV) says, “Now the law came in to increase the trespass…”

Romans 11:6 says, “And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.”

Both grace and law cannot be mixed, Luke 5:36-39 (NIV).

Christ is the Testator of the New Covenant under grace, Heb. 9:16-17, John 1:17.

The following are some blogs that talk about how the law brings the old nature to life and the effects of it upon the church.

Cease, Desist, and Rest

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on October 9th, 2008

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Hebrews 4:9, ” There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.”

The word “remains” can be translated ‘reserved for’. The word remain is in passive voice also.

The word “rest” has its etymological roots in the Hebrew word “shabath.” Shabath means ‘to cease, desist, and rest.’

Here is my paraphrased version of Heb. 4:9,

“According to His promise and purpose in Christ, an inexhaustible power not from man or by man, of ceasing, desisting and resting has been reserved for those elected by grace.”

If this rest has been reserved in eternity for me in Christ by grace, and God doesn’t lie or arbitrarily change His will, then this rest has always been. Hebrews says Christ is our High Priest after the order of Melchisedec and not Aaron, Heb. 5:10.

His rest is. His rest has always been. He was and is the lamb slain before the foundations of the earth.

I am in His rest all the time. Rest from my dead works.

Dead works are works without true purpose. The purpose of something dead is not to live.

Good works are accomplished, performed, and lived by His faith in me! His faith or Him in me, not me. Good works galvanize global redemption and give the Father glory. Good works are not able to manifest in, by, or through me if I am not in His rest by grace.

Naturally speaking (not spiritually), Newton’s first law of motion states, “An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.”

His rest is more than Newton’s law.

If I am in His rest then I stay in His rest. If His grace compels me into rest then I am compelled into His rest and stay in that rest.

As I grow in His sanctification, I metamorphosize into the pattern of the Last Adam. In this process, I am growing from glory to glory over and over with no end. I am becoming me in Him. Paul says, “to reveal His Son in me.” As I become me, I no longer have to try to be me. I am sanctified spirit, soul, and body. I just am.

My keyboard is being sanctified each time I type the keys for this blog. The keyboard is being set apart to do and be what it was created and designed to do and be. As I type, you could say a good work is manifested. The good work being manifested would not be possible if the keyboard has not power. Its power is manifested when it is in its purpose.

An engine in a car is at rest when it is running. The engine does not try to run because it does not have to try to be an engine because it is an engine.

“Another gospel” not the “Gospel of grace, tells me, “I gotta do this. I gotta do that.” And if I don’t there is something wrong with me even though there is no condemnation in Christ.

In Christ, I only DO because I sincerely want to. Otherwise, it is a unfulfillable, daunting, predictable, merry-go-round, dead work orchestrated by “another gospel.”

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