CAUGHT THEN DELIVERED

Caught somewhere between presumption and wishing

I realized and knew something huge was missing.

Having gone around this mountain so many times before

And never finding that "thing" I was looking for

Even repeating all the sayings that seemed so right

And yet here, all over again I'm having to fight

Through all the muck and the mire I presumed was gone

Asking of every step if this is the right path I'm now on.

Can't return to Egypt for there is nothing there for me.

I know beyond knowing that I've been set free

But why I ask over and over am I in this place?

Ever wondering what is in the morrow that I will face.

Why am I waiting for what I do not know will appear

Just to repeat the past failings wrapped in a big dose of fear

That speaks, "Did I not hear to the point of understanding?

I am just flying by the seat of my pants with no landing?

 When suddenly comes the oft heard whisper of despair

From the ancient but defeated prince of the air.

Lost and seemingly helpless is it time to give in

To the thoughts warring against the mind within?

I know, but yet have not wholly taken my eternal stand

That as an heir of promise I do inherit the land.

Then Truth speaks again, "Every battle has already been won".

And quickly as I release all my cares to the Magnificent One

Overcoming is not in some far away ethereal plan

It is now, it is here and it is ever and always at hand.

My heart and my soul breathe and take a giant leap

And from my enemy who seemed so near I hear no peep.

And with renewed vigor and zeal I look around and around

That enemy who seemed so real could now nowhere be found.

Yes, in the absolute of things and as foretold

By the prophets before and of ancient of old;

Yes, even written down over and over again

The God of all Life and Living will always win.

And now He comes speaking as in days of old

To remind us of what His voice in them told.

It now is the time to reckon as here what is to be

His promise alive and living within, alive to thrive in me!

THE DAY THE OLD MAN DIED

Recently it came to me that Jesus, while in the flesh, walked the earth in flesh but following after the Holy Spirit who was leading Him by His own sinless spirit and therefore He walked in obedience without sinning. However the big separation came on the cross when the Holy Spirit left Him because the Father put all the sin and sins for all time upon Him. Because the life of the flesh is in the blood and the flesh was dead to the Life of God that life of the flesh was poured out, first in the Garden of Gethsemane and then on the cross until the flesh died.

The sky became dark because the light of men was removed. But the Light returned, Jesus arose and ascended and returned to and walked the earth for 40 days as the last Adam, of the new Heaven and New Earth. He left with instructions for the disciples to go wait for the Holy Spirit to come upon them to put upon them and infuse them with this new thing.

They waited for ten days and then on Pentecost while they were waiting and praying, from Heaven came forth the New Earth’s first fruits as the Holy Spirit was poured out upon all flesh. The old man of the flesh was burned away by Love’s passion and those immersed into and birthed of the New Earth began to prophesy and multiply to replenish the earth which was void of the Spirit.

So now we too, whether we understand fully or not, have as God’s free gift new life out of God and are in the world but not of it. Christ is our all in all for “to live is Christ”. It is out of His very essence we testify and our testimony is true that we are forever new within a new and living way no longer separated but joined to Him. It is ours to give, as we are led out of the free flow of the Spirit, this same Life, Life Everlasting.

Rejoice! The old man is dead and all things are new!

I NOW SHOUT

Are we not yet aware? Do we not yet have eyes to see? Have we yet not understood? The one called our enemy after being soundly defeated and stripped of all authority, still speaks his untruths to the ever waiting ears that want to be tickled that they, in the words of the tired old phrase, “may have their cake and eat it too” (i.e. you can be your own god).

Having understood that the Law of Moses would not lead to righteousness for mankind but place ever increasing burdens and chains upon them, the enemy of God and man has convinced the populous yet again to create more laws over and over again to attain to the Ten Commandments. Yes the populous, because the popular opinion is ever more increasing that we need more laws to create “the perfect state of equality and fairness”.

And there are aplenty, those who have no light of the truth, who stand waiting to not only pass those laws but administer them to bring all into societal obedience to that fairness; although never seeing the end that awaits them, for the scripture is true and cannot be denied that, “There is a way which seems right to man, the end of which is death (separation from God and thereby Eternal Life).

When asked what law was the greatest, most important, Jesus said, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself for all the law and the prophets hang on these two.” Since we now know that Jesus fulfilled the whole of that law there is now but one law that we need and that is, “The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.” All now hangs on that Truth for out of the Spirit come the Truth that is Life, and the whole of it for holy living.

There come now those who want to disparage the preachers of “Grace” and claim that what they teach is heretical and that “believers” as taught by them are led to believe they can have their proverbial cake and eat it free of charge without “doing anything”, the same phrase twisted just enough to cause confusion and dissension in the ranks of the yet immature. How can it be so misaligned, regardless of any monikers attached, that grace would not be now-grace, the unconditional favor given out of an omnipresent God?

The spirit of the world would also have us believe in a yet to be baked cake. Oh, they say all the ingredients are there, but you can’t have it yet because the cake is not done never mind that Jesus said, “It is finished”.

Who I ask has their tongue and their allegiance? Who is it that would make the Word of God of no effect? Certainly it is not those speaking out of the Spirit of Truth. Like the Pharisees of old whom Jesus rebuked not only for not entering the kingdom themselves but also preventing others who wanted to.

                Thus it now rages, the same age old battle, though the war be won,  between those who have the Truth unto maturity (at rest in Christ) and those who through ignorance or rebellion want not to abandon the way of fleshly indulgences (sons of disobedience). Some fully believe they can do as they will and still receive a crown of glory in “that day”. In the saving of the soul by grace through faith they are not yet at all acquainted. If they were they would immediately be shaken that they have not embraced every neighbor and especially their brethren and thereby not demonstrated the Love of God.

                So I urge NOW put aside every encumbrance, come now and seek the One who is the “Perfect” and through grace gives to every seeker His Perfect Law of Liberty. He will in no way ever refuse those who come to Him. Why would He refuse, for is it not His Father (and ours) who draws?

                I NOW SHOUT - Come NOW to the mountain of the Lord, established in truth and grace and all that is of righteousness, and sit at the feet of the One who in the cause of Love shed His own blood and brought to all a new and living way, the way of the Spirit who is sent to guide all into the fulness of Life Eternal within the Father and the Son!

You have just got to know He has a NOW place all readied for you! Come NOW and take your seat!

THINK LARGE

We need to think large, bigger, higher, and deeper, than we’ve ever even hoped to. That means we need to exercise the new way of thinking, “for we have the mind of Christ”. We have received through the grace of God within Christ all (and all means all) that we need in order to fulfill our individual mandates, our callings. First however, we must let go of past reasoning and thinking as the world thinks and reasons in order to come to know that His presence goes with us.

            Let me give you a for instance. When Jesus was told that His mother and brothers were outside and wanting to speak with Him, His response was not as the world thinks for He said, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” Pointing to His disciples He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother."

            And in another place Jesus defines further His mind, complete within unconditional love for the brotherhood, for He says if you sheltered, fed, gave a drink, visited when sick, came to those imprisoned, even the least of these (humans) you did it to (for) Me. He came in the form of a human (the Word made flesh) to reveal the heart of God toward those whom He foreknew and predestined to be conformed to the image and likeness of His son.

            Being now joined through baptism into oneness we now no longer know men after the flesh but out of the Spirit which is Christ (the Lord is the Spirit and the Spirit is the Lord). And that my friend is “thinking large”.

I AM - FINISHED

I am truly saddened today by all this bickering about whether we do or not out of “our own free will”. Before He presented Himself in this realm as the last Adam he was a “human” in the “flesh” and in all ways was even as we, “human”. However, different than other humans who had at that time only been given the “law of Moses”, Yeshua “in the fullness of time” came out of the union of flesh and the seed of Holy Spirit (the Word made flesh and ‘unless a seed falls to the ground and dies…’).

In addition to the spirit within Him, at the appointed time, The Holy Spirit came upon Him and never left Him. To this Spirit He yielded His soul for His Father caused Him “to will and to do out of the Father’s good favor”. And further, although being in form (within) as God, he lived as a man (human) and suffered even as we suffer, in the flesh. But ever yielding His soul to the mind of the Spirit He never missed (sinned against) God the Father but acknowledged Him in all His thinking, speaking and doing becoming as it were the exact expression in word and deed of His Father in order that the Father be glorified through His “humanness”, the manifested effect being that He was a prophetic walking out of who we (in the fulness of time) would each be later in but no longer of the time line.

The new covenant was “cut” on the cross and humanity as frail as it was died and was buried. The new covenant for each of us was implemented when the Last Adam came back on Pentecost (as the Spirit of the Creator hovered over the formless and wasted land, darkness being over the face of the deep) to bring all of the family of God into the house of God’s abode as sons and daughters upon whom the Spirit of the covenant was poured out-even upon all flesh. We are now and forever the adopted, the covenant children of God.

We are now called, i.e. named, the sons of light; and “if your whole being be light you will be totally illumined”. We were immersed into light during our baptism into the Name as well as into the Way into the Truth within the Eternal God Life.

If we NOW be one body with Eternal Life then where is the will or where is the choosing? From the head who NOW is Christ, comes the will and we then the body perform that which is willed by the head (for without Me you can nothing) .

Out of God you are NOW within Christ Jesus (the free gift) and what God has joined together (the true baptism) no man can separate. That means, “It is finished!”

ASK, LOOK AND LISTEN

As you walk the path chosen for you today keep the eyes of your soul now-joined with the spirit upon the light that is within the path. Each step taken into the light will be a step foreordained for you and will be steps of peace and joy in the spirit. The soul not fully submitted to the spirit will sometimes not be in peace to move.

                Peace is not necessarily the absence of conflict. But in Him, within the sphere that is Christ, the soul will find its rest even when moving from place to place.

                He is the one who keeps your spirit whole, entire, lacking in no good thing. It is the exercise of your will to now-join with the spirit. "He who joins himself with the Lord is one spirit with Him." This tells us that when we now-join with Him that we then "know the way" and we shall then walk with Him.

                It is with the heart, the innermost man of the spirit that we believe. When we move toward Him in our seeking, He moves toward us. As our mind is stayed upon Him our mind of the soul is now-joined to the mind of the Spirit which is the mind of Christ.

                Looking unto Jesus not merely our forerunner but also the author and completer of our faith for the good work that was started by Elohim Jesus has finished for all time; that is that the whole world be reconciled to Elohim by and through the Son Jesus  Christ. Therefore look not to the things that appear but to the completed work which nullified the things that were. Looking to Jesus who is our eternal life, who is our Way to the Father (Elohim) and the Truth that is established as the new heaven and the new earth.

                No longer citizens of the world but now of the household of faith we proclaim that the plan of God from the beginning had as its focus that all that was made and would remain would be made through the Son. And in order to bring all into submission to Him we have been freely given faith to believe that who He says we are we now in this age truly are. Not having to wait any longer on the time line but all who receive Him as their eternal life do in fact have eternal life now within Him and His authority to give Life.

                By observation of things made we can see that nothing that was made was made mature but little by little a man gains much and so it is with the life given us that it grows from within until we have served our time in the time line. You are not of the world but merely in it for a time in order to be light to the world. It is continually so for us who believe that "in the fullness of time God sends His Son".

                Have no fear for the love of the Father has chosen to give you the kingdom and its mysteries that were hidden in Christ. Why continue to ask for what is already given?  The urgency of the times calls to us to take that which has freely been given-Christ in you the hope of glory!

                The true gift has been given to all but it must be opened in order to avail oneself of its contents.      " Ask and it shall be opened"!

WITHIN HIM

Intently look upon the cross. Ask the Lord to fix your gaze upon Jesus on that cross and make real to you that the old man of sin that enslaved you was on that cross in Christ. Not just some sins, but all and for all time. Even as the Hebrew children gazed upon the serpent on the stake in the wilderness and were healed now understand that Elohim put all the nature of sin filled flesh upon Jesus and we all  were healed once and for all and delivered into eternal life within Christ.

                In the book of Isaiah we read and we so often repeat that prophetic word, "...and by His stripes we were healed". Mark quoted Jesus in chapter eleven of his book, "Have God (Elohim) faith". That faith, the very faith of Elohim which is given as a free gift by and through the Spirit, is now resident in your spirit because "out of God (Elohim) you are in Christ" and if you are in Him you are within that which now is and is forever.

                Restoration is available to all of all that has been taken through the great deception that says we can be our own god. When Adam and Eve believed that they could be their own god they in effect chose to separate themselves from God. There is continually before us two choices, our way which leads to separation from God's way or the Way - Christ.

                Paul said that above anything else he wanted to know Christ to the end that he (Paul) might be resurrected out of the death that is the flesh while still in it. How then can one know Christ like that? First and foremost as with everything else we must come to believe that our life is His to do with as He has planned from before the foundation of the world and go to Him without ceasing (commonly called prater) in order to "see" and "do" the plan.

                Jesus said without Him we can do nothing, which for me means outside of His plan for me I can accomplish nothing that is everlasting. My destiny is sealed in Him and therefore I must go to Him for everything I need or desire.

                When it was revealed to you that Christ was in you, you realized that you were one with Him, who is your real life. Now you must go(humbling self),  to Him (who is your real life) to spend time (which is not actually spent) in order to know completely what you have been given. You then will come to know that your trust within His being will be rewarded with a permanence you have not yet experienced.  

                Now faith  means that we in order to "see" and "do" have to have (possess) God (Elohim) faith and the only way to possess it is to take it for it has been freely given to us in Christ, who is our now life and all that pertains to now life. It is now that, within Him indeed we live and move and have our being within Him.