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It is good at this time to pray for the leading of the Holy Spirit to bring us into all Truth.

Pray the following prayer.
 
 

"Holy Spirit of Truth please lead me into all Truth, AMEN"
 
 

Hearing the voice of God.

This is why you believe, because you heard God speak to your heart. You heard the Gospel or saw the Truth of God and God revealed Himself to you. You now know that God dwells within you. Many new believers fall back into darkness because they do not understand what has happened to them at the point of conversion.

God dwells within you, you have received the engrafted Word which is Christ. Christ means anointing or Spirit of God, this is the means by which God conveys all of His divine nature to you so that you become a new creation. The point of conversion is the beginning of your realization that God has been within you all of your life hidden by your old nature.

Now Christ is to grow to maturity and the old nature is to be surrendered completely. You can not serve two masters, you have decided to allow Christ to sit on the throne of your being to govern all of your affairs. You now realize that the old person who you thought you were has to die completely. The old nature is well established in your mind and heart and all of your nature or name has to be given over to God so that you can now take on His nature or name.

This is what we mean when we say in the name of Jesus. When we pray in the name of Jesus we pray with His name because we are the Christ now. We say in the name of Jesus because we are on the way to become the fullness of Christ and we must see Christ as being in us and not call on a power outside of us. This means that we do not say in the name of Jesus after a prayer but we say a prayer in the name of Jesus, in His power, knowing He is in us by His spirit, which is the nature of God.

We must feed the Christ within us and starve the Adam in us. Christ must increase and we must decrease, the identity that the world has given us must decrease. How do we know how to do this?

All we need to do is ask Jesus in us to reveal the spirits in us which are not of Him. This will begin as soon as we have had the Christ lodge in our heart and He is no longer just a mental belief.

Immediately Christ arrives into our heart the battle will begin and we will begin to doubt our decision to follow Him. Our heart is where the spirits dwell whether they be evil or of God. These are the spirits which we speak every day, these are what our heart is made of. The Bible says that from the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. You can always tell what is in a person’s heart by what comes out of their mouth. For example if a person is always criticizing people then it is easy to see that there is a spirit of criticism within that person’s heart and it is flowing out to fill the hearts and minds of others with criticism.

So we are to allow Jesus to clean up all the contrary spirits in our heart. We do this by asking God to reveal them to us. We say"search me Lord and see if there be any wicked way in me. When we say this we expect the Lord to reveal to us the spirits which are not of His Kingdom, the spirits of the world. This is when we need to hear His voice. Jesus says that His sheep hear His voice. When we really want to hear His voice then we will hear it. We hear His voice just like when we heard it for the first time when we believed in our heart that Jesus is Lord. His voice is like an impression or a knowing deep within you it is like an instinctive voice or intuition, something like a confirmation of something you already knew, a recollection of Truth that you knew in eternity, it becomes less strange the more you hear it.

The reason we need to hear His voice is so we can then hand over the offending spirits or thoughts to Jesus. These contrary spirits or thoughts have a voice of their own and they have been speaking to us at times during our life time. Jesus has shown us these enemies within us and we are now to put them to death. They have been in us and have been running our life without us knowing it or knowing how to get rid of them. Jesus is joint heir of the promised land and He wants to destroy all enemies within so that He can fully occupy the land with us. Jesus is preparing the temple for the Father to dwell there too. When all enemies are gone then it will be the Son and the Father in the land and we or ADAM will be gone because our new identity is Christ. Our body is the promised land where all of the enemies are located. We are to conquer all enemies and bring peace to the land.

The presence of Christ within us will bring a real battle to us and it will seem like we have embarked on an adventure that is too hard. This is only normal to feel this way and it is only the conflict in our mind as Jesus comes against the enemies within us. It is in this conflict that many new believers fall back and give up the race but knowing the victory has been won and Jesus is holding your hand should give you hope to conquer all too. He sends the thoughts to us to deal with them and at times it seems like there are many voices in our head. The old voices will want us to act in a certain way but Jesus says I want you to evict these spirits, put them on the altar of the cross. They are of ADAM and ADAM died on the cross.

We need to understand that it is easy to fall back and give way to the old thoughts and not move forward in the Lord. When this happens we start operating our life out of the old program of corruption and we soon see that we do need to get rid of the enemies within if we are to do the will of God and receive eternal life. It is wise to have the desire to rid the land of all enemies as fast as possible. God is a consuming fire and all offerings will be consumed revealing the treasure that is hidden in the darkness.

Many people do not know what is going on within themselves and they do tend to let things go until circumstances command that they do deal with these issues in their lives. Ignoring the knowledge of God and the Truth of God creates circumstances or trials in our lives which can only be overcome by the power of God in us. These trials come by the law of sowing and reaping, we sow out of carnal words and reap destruction in our flesh. Some people do not think that they need to deal with the enemies at all. They think that when Jesus returns to earth that all will be made right or that death will bring the perfection of everything. These false conceptions have given us a false security in Christ. We need to know that Jesus has already returned in us by His life giving Spirit and that we are to be fully reconciled within ourselves here and now. When Jesus has fully conquered with us all enemies within and we have fully put on the mind of Christ then we will not die, regeneration occurs and our body will never deteriorate again. We will be changed to a different state of matter.

So it is obvious that there is a war going on within us as we allow Christ to become revealed within us. The Bible says that the flesh is at enmity with the spirit, which means that all of our false identity or the carnal ways of the world which have established themselves in us are now fighting against the Christ, our real identity. Following is a piece of scripture from the book of Romans where Apostle Paul describes the battle within us as the law of SIN wars against our desire to do right. He gives us this as a lesson. It is for those of us who have just started to walk with God. Paul experienced this and he teaches us to expect the same and encourages us by his trials to know the principles of the law of life and the law of SIN so that we can move past this battle and overcome all things.

Rom 7:1-25

CHAPTER 7

1 Do you not know, brothers-- for I am speaking to men who know the law-- that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

2 For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

3 So then, if she marries another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is released from that law and is not an adulteress, even though she marries another man.

4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5 For when we were controlled by the sinful nature, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, so that we bore fruit for death.

6 But now, by dying to what once bound us, we have been released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

7 What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."

8 But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from law, sin is dead.

9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.

10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.

11 For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death.

12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.

14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin.

15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.

16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good.

17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.

18 I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.

19 For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do-- this I keep on doing.

20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.

21 So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me.

22 For in my inner being I delight in God's law;

23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

25 Thanks be to God-- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

(NIV)

We can see that the law of God is spiritual and we are carnal or made of the earth. God wants us to have the law within us but we can’t keep the law by our carnal ways or our worldly way of thinking, to try to do so is SIN. We need the law written on our hearts and in our minds. The law given to Israel exposes SIN and we do want to do what God wants for us so we try to keep the law. We try to keep the law because we know that God’s law must be in us so for us to become a new creation in Christ Jesus.

We need to get rid of SIN so that the law of life will remain in us. How do we do it?

By the Grace of God, God has given us His grace, Truth and time to allow His law of life to be written on our hearts and in our minds.

Eph 2:8-9

8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--

9 not by works, so that no-one can boast.

(NIV)

John 16:13

13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

(NIV)
 
 

Eph 5:15-1

15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise,

16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil.

(NAS)

Jer 31:33

33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

(KJV)

Heb 8:10

10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

(KJV)

Israel are those who believe by faith in Christ Jesus Just as Abraham believed God and birthed Christ in worship. In Isaac is the seed counted. Which means as we believe by faith in Christ we will as Christ receive the promises made to the seed in the covenant to Abraham. Remember God did not make the promises to the ADAMIC man but to the seed of CHRIST.

Rom 9:6-8

6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

(KJV)

SIN is transgression of the law. What law are we talking about?

We are talking about the law of life which God wants to write on our hearts and in our minds. This is the law of God which controls the universe, which controls all that is made. We are now under or beneath the law of life and we are subject to the law of SIN which brings death but God wants us to be over all that is made. He wants us to be as He is, which is in control of all things, we are His offspring. He wants to be in us in fullness by His spirit of life, He is life. So how did we transgress the law of life and fall into the law of Sin which brings death? We need to go back to the book of Genesis and read about the original deception and see how man was tempted and how he fell into SIN and death.

We read in Genesis that God had created man in Spirit, in the same form as God himself. The Bible says that God is Spirit and that He put the Spirit within man. We are Spirit clothed with the dust of the earth.

Zech 12:1

1 This is the word of the LORD concerning Israel. The LORD, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares:

(NIV)

Prov 20:27

27 The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of his heart.

(NKJ)

The Bible also says that the spirit of man returns to God when He dies without obtaining perfection of his soul. The spirit has a tendency to ascend to God. The Bible also says that God formed man from the dust of the earth. Man was made in the image and likeness of God.

Eccl 12:7

7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

(KJV)

Gen 1:26-27

26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

(NIV)

We see that the Spirit of God has now been clothed in a form made from the earth so as to give him a form or a visible shape able to be seen with the naked eyes.

Gen 2:7

7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. ( SOUL)

(NIV)

The dust of the earth has a tendency to return to the earth.

Gen 3:19

19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

(KJV)

When we can see the that plan of God is to make a new creation out of Spirit of God and out of particles or elements of earth. We can see that we need to allow the God in us to put all that is made in subjection to the Spirit. The dust of the earth that we are made from needs to be put in subjection to the Spirit of God so that we are completed by the Spirit, being changed into the new creation man. (A Son of God is a male or female who has surrendered their spirit and soul to Christ.) This is where the law of life comes in, it has always been God’s plan to build the man and bring the law of life into him, making him perfect incorruptible and immortal.

What went wrong?

Has it always been God’s plan the way things are?

ADAM decided to allow the law of SIN to operate in his being and by so doing he stopped the flow of the Spirit of life. ADAM had free will and he could decide for himself how his vessel of clay was to be filled. He was innocent and had not yet eaten of the tree of life. God had given him the commandment and had directed him to not be filled with deception or duality, which was in the spiritual food of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Apostle Paul says in Romans 7 verse 12 that the law is holy and the commandment is holy.

Rom 7:12

12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.

(NIV)

So everything God wanted to give to ADAM is Holy, good and righteous. Let us look at the commandment.

Gen 2:16-17

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

(NIV

So we can see that ADAM knew that he was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and he knew that he would die if he did eat of it. So here we have a man made of Spirit and earth who knew not to be eating of this type of spiritual food. What type of spiritual food is that then?

It is the type where he is tempted to decide for himself what is right or wrong or what is good and what is evil. It is conceiving in his soul spiritual information that is not from God. Listening to another voice and believing the voice. Conceiving of another spirit or believing something outside of God forms an image which is not of God and builds a false self image. We already know that the law of life is Holy, good and righteous and that man has been commanded not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. ADAM knew that he would die if he ate of this tree even so he chose to live his life by the law of SIN which brought death rather than live his life by the law of life which brings perfection, incorruptibility and immortality.

When we read the book of Genesis we see that it was EVE who sinned or it was EVE who was deceived and not ADAM so what happened? How was EVE tempted into SIN?

In the book of 1Timothy it says that EVE was deceived.

1 Tim 2:13-14

13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

(KJV)

EVE transgressed or went beyond the bounds of the law of life, not knowing how to behave. She did not have God speak to her. Only ADAM was commanded not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. EVE was in ADAM when God commanded ADAM not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil but now she was separated from Adam.

Gen 2:21-22

21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

(KJV)

The word RIB used here in the Hebrew means a rib in the wall of the temple. We are the temple of God and it really means that God divided the DNA of man and made a female and a male just as God is male and female. He removed the female from the man ADAM who was made in the image and likeness of God.

EVE had recollection of what God had said to ADAM but it was not the same as hearing directly from God. EVE needed the flow of information from her husband to direct her actions and so EVE was open to deception. Let us look at the deception in Genesis.

Gen 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
(NIV)

     
     
     
EVE was unsure because when she told the serpent or considered within her own mind what God had said she got it wrong. She said within herself or to the serpent within her earthy nature.

Gen 3:2-3

2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,

3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"

(NIV)

God had commanded ADAM a different set of instructions. God said nothing about touching the fruit. So EVE had unclear instructions because she had not heard God herself. God spoke to the Spirit of ADAM’s heart. EVE being the soul had heard it from ADAM’s heart but needed confirmation at the time of doubt or questioning. Below is the commandment of God to ADAM.

Gen 2:16-17

16 And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden;

17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

(NIV)

So we can see that EVE did not really know what God had said to ADAM.

EVE heard the voice of the deceiver, it was the voice of one of the wild animals that the Lord had made and it was within the nature of man.

Gen 3:1

1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

(NIV)

Gen 3:3-4

3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman.

(NIV)

The serpent was speaking from within her and it was another voice. EVE not sure about the instruction from God and not having her husband’s attention listened to the deception and conceived it in the womb of her soul and believed it in her heart. She was now forming her own identity from the earthy nature from within herself instead of forming the image that God wanted to give her from ADAM and HIMSELF. ADAM was the source of Spirit to form the soul as they were one. Adam heard the voice of God. This oneness of ADAM and EVE represents the functioning of spirit and soul as our heavens within our own bodies. Had EVE now heard the voice of God for herself and recognized that her heart is the spiritual receiver and not her mind then the deception would not have occurred.

The image EVE was forming in her soul/mind was based on her own belief of reality because of the deception and duality that was within her. The image was fabricated or self made, it was a type of form without the spirit of truth. It was the lie or Truth distorted and reversed to suit oneself, the same form but lacking God’s spiritual reality. EVE became self orientated which is earthy and she only saw particles of earth rather than the spiritual realities of God. EVE had her eyes opened to the shadow of reality and she saw that she was naked, she now saw with the naked eyes. Eve now defined and limited her own understanding according to the illusion that she had created.

EVE created her own reality which was not the reality of God.

All of the animals that ADAM named are part of the nature of man and the serpent is just one of the animals or natures that are in man.

This nature is within man because man is made from the dust of the earth and the earth is made of particles of matter which are positively and negatively charged where as the spirit is only flowing one way. God is Spirit and single, earth is matter and double in polarity. Man in the natural has a tendency to be double minded. God is single minded. Even though God is single minded He has created both good and evil, light and darkness.

Isa 45:7

7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

(KJV

Even in the darkness there is hidden treasure for those who want the Wisdom of God.

Job 12:22

22 He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

(NIV)

Prov 2:1-6

1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,

3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

(NIV)

Prov 8:21-22

21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

(KJV)

Prov 3:5-7

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil.

(NIV)

Isa 45:3

3 I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name.

(NIV)

So what happened to EVE?

She was asked a question where she had to choose from the resources of her own soul/mind which had the tendency to be negative and positive. God said the heavens were to rule over the earth and not the other way around. At this point the earth was shaping the heavens of EVE’s soul because she did not have access to the spirit of God.

God said to ADAM not to choose good over evil or right from wrong. EVE became her own god and it meant that she was not listening to God who is spirit and who is single minded and already established in righteousness, goodness and holiness. ADAM was the source of life or the covering for EVE. Because he heard the voice of God and he was to be constantly sending this information to her so that she would respond according to the plan of God for man, they were one. ADAM and EVE were created in the image and after the likeness of God. They were like God but they fell into SIN thinking that they were not like God and they wanted to be God in their own right not believing what God their Father had planned for them to be anyway. This was the first spirit established in the mind of man it was the spirit of unbelief. EVE believed the lie and not God.

Let us look at what EVE’s nature said to her as she was in that vulnerable state.

Gen 3:4-5

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman.

5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

(NIV)

ADAM was not deceived but he decided to eat of the fruit as well. Why did he do this when it meant death?

ADAM represents the Spirit or the male spiritual component of mankind and EVE represents the soul or female spiritual component of mankind. They functioned as one, spirit and soul, before the time of separation. Both parts make up our heavens, we have spirit and soul, this is our spiritual make up as opposed to our earthly make up or our body. So we can see that we have our heavens, spirit and soul and our earth which is our body.

Our spiritual bodies are also male and female, our spirit is represented as ADAM and our soul is represented as EVE. God divided the earthy bodies to be male and female but both sexes have male and female in the spiritual. God made us male and female in the natural to multiply Himself in number. We are His offspring.

Our heart is the spirit giver and our soul/mind is the spirit receiver or womb, which brings forth or gives birth to what ever is conceived within it. We are to receive Spirit in our heart from our Father and make in our minds the image of His Son Jesus. Then we can bring to birth what our souls conceive which is Christ.

So EVE was deceived and she conceived a spirit in her spiritual womb, which was not from God. Her soul now sent this message to her spirit or her heart and she believed it, it was now in her heart.

EVE was now a different creature not of God but of self. She had fallen from the glory of God. EVE thought she was God in her own right knowing good from evil. EVE believed the lie of the serpent and she was lowered into a carnal or earthy realm. EVE was naked before, clothed with the glory of God but now she felt her nakedness and the glory was gone. She was wise in her own eyes and went to her husband and offered him the same fruit. EVE spoke what was now in her heart to ADAM. We have the first thought become word sent forth or birthed and sent to another soul to conceive of it.

ADAM was faced with a decision to either receive the spirit or reject it and listen to God. Now ADAM was Jesus Christ because He is the alpha and the omega, the first and the last ADAM. So the Spirit that was in ADAM was the Spirit of God or the anointing or Christ. ADAM knew that EVE was NOW the mother of all creation or the mother of the carnal mankind. He either had to be with her or not create at all and die. He knew that he would be eternally separated from His soul if He did not align himself with the woman. He knew it was God’s purpose to create His offspring and so he willingly ate of the fruit that she spoke to him. ADAM decided to keep the spirit and the soul together and he became SIN for us. ADAM became EVE’s first convert to the material world.

Gen 3:6

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

(NIV)

They lost their spiritual vision of God’s creation and they saw things in the natural according to their own understanding.

Gen 3:7

7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

(NIV)

Notice that these three lusts were in the temptation (1) Lust of the flesh, the tree was good for food. (2) Lust of the eye, and pleasing to the eye. (3) and Pride of the life, and desirable for gaining wisdom.

So we see that certain other spirits which are contrary to the Holy Spirit of God had already been set into the programming of mankind.

These spirits being unbelief, pride, wanting, lust, self identity, deception, disobedience, rebellion and shame.

The process of forming the soul was now reversed from God programming man, to the earth or the soul programming the heart.

The heart was being darkened or losing the light and glory of God. God said to ADAM why did you listen to your wife. This means why did the spirit now receive of the soul, which causes death. In other words why did the heart become darkened by what the mind conceived.

Gen 3:17-19

17 To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

(NIV)

We can see the curse put upon our bodies or upon the earth. We would now labour and toil and eat natural food rather than rest in the glory of God eating spiritual food from the tree of life. We would have many weeds grow in our gardens or souls as we received evil words from other people. This now would cause death and our bodies would return to dust, which was not the case before SIN happened which brought the curse. The law of sowing and reaping caused the curse because as we sow out of a carnal mind so do we reap corruption to the flesh.

Gal 6:8

8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

(NIV)

We can see that the spirits spoken to others and conceived in their soul/mind is shaping the world in which we live. Over the past six thousand years there have been many false spirits conceived in the soul/minds of mankind and believed in their hearts. This spiritual adultery has caused a downward spiral of decay, sickness, limitation, suffering, fear and death. The darkness continues to spread as long as we remain separated from the Truth of God. Truth is light and the light needs to be turned on within the hearts of mankind so that regeneration will come to mankind as a whole. There have been six thousand years of spiritual and genetic degradation since ADAM was created.

There are about six thousand different spirits which are contrary to the Spirit of God that have been found in the human race so far. All of these spirits have to be given over to Jesus and the Holy Spirit has to take their place within mankind. There are six billion people on this planet all subscribing to various combinations of contrary spirits and the Holy Spirit needs to replace them all.

EVE certainly was the mother of the fallen creation.

Gen 3:20

20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

(KJV)

It may be better to say that our soul is the mother of the fallen creation. Our soul without the Holy Spirit is open to all other spirits. We need the Holy Spirit now to re program the souls of the world. Mankind is the seed bed or the soul. God made man a living soul, a receptacle for the image of God to be formed within. If you like God made the soul like an egg waiting for the sperm. Spiritual adultery has occurred throughout history in the lives of all of mankind, living souls receiving man made spirits of evil.

God made man but man made gods. ( idols of the heart)

Mankind has made their own gods or idols by worshipping the creation rather than worshipping God in spirit and in TRUTH.
 
 

Rom 1:21-25

21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

(KJV)
 
 

The word LIVE is EVIL in reverse. ( LIVE<>EVIL).

Man had reversed the flow of life, which consumed him.

John 4:23

23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.

(KJV)

Lam 3:25

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

(KJV)

Prov 17:11

11 An evil man seeketh only rebellion: therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

(KJV)

Rom 3:11

11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

(KJV)

Our mind is like a spiritual data bank it contains the program by which we run our lives, it tells us how to function, our parameters of life and it gives us our identity. We have had a carnal or degraded program installed into our beings, which has limited us. We don’t know that we are limited, we don’t know our true potential. We now have a glimpse of how the program should be by understanding the position from which we have come, in eternity having the glory of God. We are like a computer only much more complex. Our DNA is capable of computing thousands of times faster than super computers of this day. Our DNA has fallen over 97 generations of deterioration and it is only using 3% capacity to operate our lives at present. There is continual work within our lives just to sustain our existence alone.

We are told not to be like other gentiles (people who are not Israel), we are told to not now walk in darkness like they do. This is a warning to Christians because even though we have received Christ there is a tendency to remain in darkness and not move forward.

Eph 4:17-25

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.

19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.

20 You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.

21 Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.

22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;

23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds;

24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbour, for we are all members of one body.

(NIV)

We are exhorted in the book of Hebrews( Hebrews are those like Abraham those who have crossed the river into another land) to not draw back but to go forward in the Lord.

Heb 10:38-39

38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

(KJV)

We are offered through Jesus a new program, which we can take onboard and dispense with the old program simultaneously. This program will bring power and reinstate the glory of God to our being, multiplying the computing power of our minds to infinity, we will have the mind of Christ, Christ is universal, we will have the universal mind of God. When we subscribe to this program by His grace, with time and diligence we can download the upgrade and upload the downgrade while remaining in life.

God made mankind as His temple, an outward form to house the invisible God. God wanted to turn us to destruction and subject us to the vanity of our minds so that all the particles of our earth would be reconstructed by our willing participation in His plan. God created this womb of time to reproduce Himself into a family of Sons. We are His offspring. Remember we are God in fallen form, we are made from His very substance. We are not our own, we are not a separate identity at all. He can do what He likes with us because, He is us. Everything is of God and by Him do all things consist. He wants us to realize that we ALL are one in Him and that we are His Son ADAM and His Son JESUS. We are to diligently seek the Christ to overtake the Adam to facilitate the metamorphosis where the two men become the one new man. God wants to resurrect Himself in us. Just as Jesus became as nothing, so mankind is to become as nothing to allow the reconstruction of our bodies, vessels fitted for eternity. We are to become beings able to transcend time and space having authority over all that is made. Sons of God, His offspring.

Ps 90:1-3

1 LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

(KJV)

Rom 8:20

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

(KJV)

So ADAM who was the Christ Jesus the alpha and omega subjected all of creation to the vanity of their minds in hope. What hope was that then?

It is the hope that all of creation will be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the sons of God.
 
 

Rom 8:21-22

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

(KJV)

This is the disruption of the world, this is when SIN entered the world this is when the nature of God was violated and the lamb was slain. Gods nature is that of an innocent lamb and when this death came to God in His creation, ADAM slew the lamb.

His blood flowed or He started to degrade physically and spiritually as mankind. History began. The lamb’s book of death started to be written and the knowledge of God was being lost, the genetic code was being removed by the curse of SIN. We are now to be in the Lamb's book of life. We are to become living epistles in the Lamb's book of life, small parts of the whole book.

God commanded ADAM not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God separated the soul from the spirit. The soul EVE was now vulnerable without the spirit ADAM. The soul EVE conceived of another spirit and believed in her heart, her spirit. EVE spoke the spirit to ADAM, he also took it into his soul and conceived it and believed it in his heart. They are both now in SIN. Separated from God cast out of the presence of God the Father.

Gen 3:24

24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

(KJV)

What is SIN?

SIN is eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, wanting to be God in your own right, thinking with a double mind of opposites and trying to choose the good over evil or right over wrong rather than believing the single mind of God which is spirit and Truth. It is trying to answer the questions that the deceiver speaks to us from within the nature of our earthern vessels that we are. SIN is thinking for ourselves rather than being lead by the heart of our Father. SIN is being double minded, SIN is the rational mind trying to make the best out of all the positive and negative thoughts that present themselves within us rather than trusting the voice of God who is pure Holy spirit, righteous, True and filled with goodness. SIN is the carnal mind controlling our lives. SIN is death. The Bible says that the wages of SIN is death.

Rom 6:23

23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(KJV)

James 1:15

15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

(KJV)
 
 

Rom 8:6

6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

(KJV)
 
 

2 Tim 1:10

10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

(KJV)
 
 

SIN is.

SECONDARY INDEPENDENT NOTIONS

 Secondarymeans (next after the first order, belonging or relating to a second order, division, taken from something else, derived, not primal or original.)

 Independantmeans (not under another’s control or authority, not depending on someone or something else for existence, operation, help, support. Self sufficient, refusing to accept others for help or support)

Notionmeans (general, unclear or imperfect idea of something. An opinion or belief, fanciful or foolish idea. Whim. Becoming aquainted, conception, not real, imaginery.)

SIN is when we receive, conceive and believe notions which are positive and negative that come to us that are from our own fallen state, from our mind, from our polluted heart and from the other people in the fallen world. ADAM was able to live forever, he was innocent, he was mortal. He only brought death to mankind when he became SIN for us. SIN was there to show us the need for the law of life. The law of life is needed to overcome or transcend the earthern state of our bodies so that we become sons of God and sons of man.

We ask God to bring us His voice and to fill us with Himself so that we have the Spirit of life operating within us, transforming our earth into Holy ground.

We need to know that the first voice we hear is the voice of God when we ask for Him to speak to us. We are not to be deceived or tempted. Deception only happens when we double guess the answer that we hear in our heart. God speaks to our heart and over writes the lies of the enemy in our minds with His truth. We need to be single minded and have a pure heart for God.

2 Chr 16:9

9 For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

(KJV)

Even though we will face many battles within ourselves daily unto perfection we need to trust God and know that He is for us and not against us.

Jer 29:11-13

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

(KJV)

Prov 23:7

7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:

(KJV)

We need to ask Him for all that He is and rid ourselves of all opposites in our mind and heart. This is reconciliation within ourselves as Paul said be you reconciled unto God and to do this we need to be at one with God. We can not be one with God if we are filled with earthy opposites or if our mind has not been made the mind of Christ.

2 Cor 5:17-21

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:

19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

(NIV)

God has balanced the books in Christ and we are free from any debt of SIN that ADAM has given us. Remembering that Jesus was the last ADAM on the cross and He was also ADAM in the beginning of creation. Jesus was the first and the last ADAM.
 
 

Rev 1:11

11 Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and

(KJV)

As ADAM in the beginning He was the lamb who was slain from the disruption of the world and we are all a part of that ADAM. WE all have slain that lamb as we all came out from that ADAM, we are one with ADAM in the flesh.

1 Cor 15:22

22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

(KJV)

As ADAM was made a living soul so then was Jesus made a life giving spirit.

1 Cor 15:45

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

(KJV)

Jesus returned to mankind as a quickening spirit or living word able to save the soul of man.

James 1:21

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

(KJV)

The spirit of Christ returned to mankind on the day of Pentecost fifty days after Jesus resurrection and He was received into the cloud of hosts, those gathered waiting in Jerusalem for power.

Acts 2:1-4

1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

(KJV)

Luke 24:49

49 I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high."

(NIV)
 
 

So we can see that when Jesus returns within us we have power to defeat every enemy within us and the fire starts to consume the useless stubble in our lives.
 

Jesus light the fire so we can fight the liar.

Matt 3:11

11 "I baptise you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

(NIV)

Jesus is A jealous God and He won’t allow any other spirits within your soul once He enters.

Deut 4:24

24 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

(KJV)

Deut 9:3

3 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.

(KJV)

The lord wants your body as His temple or habitation and it must be cleansed fully before He will dwell fully in it. This is the fire that burns within you to consume every enemy within. The Kingdom does not come by any outward change but the work starts from within.

Jesus said that the Kingdom of God is within us and that the Kingdom comes without observation.

Luke 17:20-21

20 Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation,

21 nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."

(NIV)

We can see that there is no code of conduct that we must follow to enter the Kingdom nor is there any outward sign of His coming. His coming is within us as we put on the mind of Christ and make His image appear within us and we will be like Him.

I Jn 3:2

  • Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

  • We are to see Jesus with our spiritual eye or the eye of our understanding and not with our natural eyes.

    Matt 6:22-23

    22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

    23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

    (KJV)

    This changing of our vision from the natural to the spiritual is shown here in this passage of scripture where it describes the twinkling of the eye or the moving of our perception of reality. It describes those who will not die because of this shift in their understanding. It tells of those who are already dead to self by self sacrifice who will be made incorruptible and who will become immortal. It tells of the victory we have through Jesus as we allow the shift in our vision to fill us with the light of His glory. By the single eye or vision we overcome all darkness and we conquer the grave.

    1 Cor 15:51-57

    51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

    52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

    53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

    54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

    55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

    56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

    57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    (KJV)

    God is able to save our spirit, our soul and our bodies by His self sacrifice in Jesus Christ.
     
     

    1Thes 5:23-24

    23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

    (KJV)
     
     

    In the book of Hebrews it states that Jesus made a self sacrifice once for SIN as the Last ADAM but to those who eagerly seek Him he will appear a second time without SIN. He appeared in us by our natural birth as ADAM.

    John 1:9

    9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

    (KJV)

    So we see now that He will appear in us without Sin as CHRIST and this is our new nature as perfect as He is. At the same time we must continue to sacrifice our old ADAM nature to the cross. If we be in Christ then we are a new creation.

    Heb 9:26-28

    26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

    27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

    28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

    (KJV)

    I Jn 3:9

    9 No-one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

    (NIV)

    Jesus tasted death for every man. We now choose to die in Him as the Last ADAM. We need not die, the grave is conquered.

    Heb 2:9

    9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

    (KJV)

    As we remake our concepts of our identity and learn to see with spiritual eyes again and realize that we need to undo all the work of the generations before us then we will reconcile ourselves to God through Christ.

    WE also when we reconcile ourselves within ourselves by the sharing in the sufferings of Christ, become one with Jesus the new man. It is our worship to God to put our lives to death on the cross with ADAM by becoming a living sacrifice to God. WE must be able to say I want to put my ADAMIC nature to death on the cross when God asks us to and He will ask us all.

    Rom 12:1
     

  • Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-- this is your spiritual act of worship (NIV)

  • Only in true worship is the Christ birthed in us, even as Christ was birthed in Isaac upon the alter when Abraham sacrificed him in worship to God. Jesus is the son of Abraham.

    Gen 22:5-12

    5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."

    6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

    7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

    8 Abraham answered,"God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

    9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

    10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

    11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.

    12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

    (NIV)

    Matt 1:1

    1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

    (KJV

    What will you say when God asks you to give all that you are to Him as a sacrifice even unto death on the cross, your very life blood?
     
     

    Heb 12:4
    4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
    (NIV)

    Matt 16:25
    25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
    26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
    (KJV)

    Jesus knew that the old religious sacrifices were not able to take away sins and He said that God did not want sacrifice for SIN but that He wanted our body as a living sacrifice so that He could live in us by exchange of life for life. Jesus said that God prepared His body to perfection, incorruption and immortality.

    Heb 10:4-6
    4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
    5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;
    6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.
    (NIV)

     King David knew that God did not want sacrifice or religious practices in place of true worship.

    Ps 51:17
    17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

    Are you able to surrender all to Him? Your past identity, everything you hold in your life as being dear to you, every thought, every bad work you have done, every good work you have done, every hope you have, every plan for your life, every trust you have in this world to provide your needs, every enemy you have within you, everything you like doing that is against the will of God, every fear or anxiety for the future, every belief that you hold as being true, every thing that God has already told you, every part of your spirit, soul and body, every lust of your flesh, every lust of your eyes, every pride of your life, all evil, all wickedness and every thing you are that is not the spirit of Christ that is within your being, your very life?
     

    God will give you the power to take up your life again because you are now in Christ.

    John 10:17-18
    17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
    18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
    (KJV)

    Jesus is the resurrection.

    John 11:25
    25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
    (KJV)

    We were dead in trespass and sin.
     

    When God asks you this and He will how are you going to respond?
     

    The only things that are eternal are the unseen things, all things that are seen are to go from our imagination and we are to put on the mind of Christ or have the image of JESUS Christ in our minds.

    2 Cor 4:18

    18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

    (KJV)

    The things that we engrave into our minds that are not Christ are graven images and they are idols. We are to burn all idols of our hearts and have a clean heart. We are to ask God to create a clean heart within us and renew a right spirit in our being.

    Eph 4:23

    23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

    (KJV)

    We are to cast down all imaginations that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God.

    2 Cor 10: 5

    5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

    (KJV)

    The main imagination that has to be cast down is the self image or our self identity. Even the fear of deception has to be cast down because everything is of God and it is God’s plan to complete us and when we have fear of deception we will not open our heart to Him.

    2 Tim 1:7

    7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

    (KJV

    We are to put on the mind of Christ and in fact when we have received Jesus the word tells us that we have the mind of Christ.

    1 Cor 2:16

    16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

    (KJV)

    We are to strive and be determined to put on the mind of Christ daily going from glory to glory in God.

    Phil 2:5

    5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

    (KJV)

    When God questioned Job HE asked Job if he remembered in the beginning before the world began. God asked who has darkened your counsel without knowledge. Job had listened to others rather than listen to the spirit of his heart where God dwells. God called him back to remembrance of Truth in the eternal realm from where he came before the world began. We all have access to all Truth in God by the spirit of Truth within our own hearts.

    Job 38:1-7

    1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

    2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

    3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

    4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

    5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

    6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

    7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

    (KJV)
     
     

    We are His workmanship and it is His power that does the work.
     

    Phil 2:13

    13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

    (KJV)

    What is His good pleasure?

    It is to separate you from your mothers womb and reveal His Son in you.

    Gal 1:15-16

    15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,

    16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

    (KJV)

    When we know our calling we know it is from God and we are not hearing from our flesh or blood but we are conferring with the Christ within us.

    We are to become proactive or diligent in seeking God’s perfect will for our lives by that daily sacrifice of idols or other spirits or beliefs which are false, upon the alter of the cross. We are to take up our cross and follow Jesus daily. We are to become as nothing and allow Christ to become us.He is our true identity.

    Luke 9:23

    23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

    (KJV)

    Jesus is the way and He has given us a new and a living way through the veil of His own carnal victory. He has beaten the power of SIN in the flesh by the shedding of His blood.

    Heb 10:20

    20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

    (KJV

    All of this may seem too hard to do and it may be too much all at once but God will only burn on the altar what you place there. If you do not want to do it He will not force you to change. It is a free will burnt offering to the Lord and it is your acceptable worship. It is important to know that the fire will burn the idols but it will not burn you, even as Moses saw the fire in the bush but the bush was not consumed. If we do not change completely then we will die.

    A spiritual discomfort or torment will be in you and this is a sign that God is asking you to deal with some idol or spirit or hurt of the past that you are hanging onto. It is wise to ask God what it is so that you can willingly surrender it. We do have a tendency to want to hold things in and sometimes we do not understand what the spiritual pain is there for. So when you feel unsettled pray for a handle or a name or identification of the spirit to come to you so that you can hand it to Jesus. Once you can see that there is no value in holding onto it and you want to get rid of it because it is opposed to God then speak it out to Jesus and surrender it. At this point of time ask Jesus to release some of His divine nature into your spirit. It is like giving up darkness for light. His truth will take the place of the lie and you will be putting on the mind of Christ. Command the light to come out of the darkness. Say " let there be light. Say Christ arise in me and take control."

    Rom 12:2

    2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-- his good, pleasing and perfect will.

    (NIV)

    2 Pet 1:2-10

    2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

    3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

    4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

    5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

    6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

    7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

    8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

    10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

    (KJV)

    We can soon know what tree we are eating from by checking our thoughts, words and actions. This is called the fruit of our lives. God often referred to men as trees because trees bring forth fruit. God wants us to be trees of righteousness and bring forth good fruit which others will eat. What we become is what we give to others as spiritual food or fruit. If we eat from the tree of life in the midst of the garden of Eden of our consciousness which is the Father, then we will bear good fruit which gives life. If we eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil from the garden of Eden in our consciousness and in our degenerate mind then we will bring forth fruit that looks good but which has seeds of death within it. We can see in the Bible what the fruit of the spirit is. Let us look in the book of Galatians.

    Gal 5:22-23

    22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

    23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

    (KJV)

    So when our natural way is to bring forth this kind of fruit without any struggle even in times of confrontation and testing then we are sure that we are eating from the right tree. We also know because we are hearing the voice of God constantly and we are aware of many changes within our spirit and soul. To know that we have started on this journey we need to see miracles to confirm that God is at work in our lives. God does show us special little miracles in the way of answered prayer and other signs as we grow. This is faith building and it lets us know that we are on the right track of learning to walk before God and becoming perfect.

    In the same way we can also see the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil in our lives, which needs to be recognized as being the wrong fruit. We are not to dress this fruit up and make it look acceptable to others or pretend that it is not there by faking it. We know when we are bearing bad fruit and we are to not eat of the tree, which produces it.

    Matt 7:17

    17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

    (KJV)

    Here is an example of bad fruit.

    1 Cor 5:1-13

    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles-- that a man has his father's wife!

    2 And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

    3 For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed.

    4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

    5 deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

    6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

    7 Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

    8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

    9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people.

    10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

    11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner-- not even to eat with such a person.

    12 For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?

    13 But those who are outside God judges. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

    (NKJ)

    Rom 1:28-30

    28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worth while to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

    29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

    30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;

    (NIV)

    Here are six things that God hates.
     
     

    Prov 6:16-19

    16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

    17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

    18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,

    19 a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

    (NIV)

    In the book of Revelation we see what will prevent a man from entering the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

    Rev 21:7-8

    7 He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

    8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practise magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-- their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death."

    (NIV)

    1 Cor 6:9-10

    9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

    10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

    (NIV)

    These are the obvious wicked ways of man but the Bible is much more concise on the corrections that are needed within us to become perfect. God does not just leave us in the dark without a way to salvation. These bad fruit examples are written in the Bible to show us what is the wrong way to live so that we may know to make changes and learn what God wants for our lives. God knows that these things will be in our lives as a natural result of SIN. He knows that we are born into a body of death not knowing where we come from. God is a just God and He justifies the ungodly. There is no condemnation in Christ so He does not condemn us for being in this state of darkness but He does want us to come into His light once we have heard the Truth.

    Just to summarize this first part let us look briefly at what has been revealed.

    We are Spirit, we have a soul, we are in a body made of elements of the earth, God is making one new man out of spirit and dust, SIN reversed the flow of life, we are made in the image and likeness of God who is male and female in nature, we are male and female in the natural as man and woman, we are each one of us male and female in our spiritual make up, our heart is our spiritual receiver and it writes our identity, our soul/mind is our conceiver of spirit and our spiritual womb, we speak spirit to others, we receive spirit from others, we are not to conceive from the corrupt spirits, we are to speak only what we hear from God, we were created before time began in the spirit, we are in darkness inherited from our forbears, our true identity is Christ, we don’t know our true identity, we are lost, God has planned this all perfectly, we are the female part in ADAM or the soul, we are the bride of Christ He is our husband, we are completed when we receive the life giving spirit of Christ, we become Spirit and soul a new creation married as one in the body of Christ universal, we are to surrender all to Christ to take on His nature, there is hidden treasure in the darkness of our flesh, we need to turn on the light to make the darkness flee, change won’t happen unless we seek for Truth, God chose us and we responded, God is all powerful, God is love, God is wisdom, God is everything, We are to be reconciled to God, We are the temple of the invisible God, God works through His Sons, we are His Sons in Jesus.

    Earlier it was mentioned about receiving spirits from other people and how we had inherited this darkened state we all find ourselves in. We had mentioned about sowing and reaping, how as we sow thoughts, words and deeds from our carnal nature then so do we reap destruction or corruption to our flesh. This Law of sowing and reaping is what brings about curses or blessings. We can sow to the flesh or sow to the spirit. The power of life and death is in the tongue.

    James 3:8

    8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

    (KJV)

    Prov 21:6

    6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

    (KJV)

    Prov 18:21

    21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

    (KJV)

    Prov 15:2

    2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

    (KJV)

    Gal 6:8

    8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

    (KJV)

    Matt 12:37
    37 "For by your words you shall be justified, and by your words you shall be condemned."
    (NAS)
     
     

    It is now understood that everything starts with a thought and goes on from there. A thought becomes an emotion when we entertain the thought, it develops into a concept or is conceived in our minds. Then this idea or concept becomes a desire, we want to make something out of it. We want to reap something from the thought. The next step is to put this concept into action either by words or actions so we speak or act it out. Then this is formed into a habit or it becomes our nature, then it is well etched into our character and becomes who we are.

    We can see that a thought becomes an emotion, which becomes a desire, which becomes an action, which becomes a habit, which becomes a nature, which becomes our character.
     
     

    Let every word that comes out of your mouth be a blessing and not a curse.
     
     

    The Bible tells us of our birthright, our blessings and the promises of God. It also tells us of the curses, which will come when we go against God. Here is the blessing that God gave to Abraham and his seed who we are.

    Gen 12:2-3

    2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

    3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

    (KJV)

    This is the covenant that God made with Abraham.

    Gen 17:4-8

    4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

    5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

    6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

    7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

    8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

    (KJV)
     
     

    So we see many promises and blessings for all who are in Christ. God also warned of the SINS of the fathers who have been before us bringing curses to us.

    Exod 20:4-5

    4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

    5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

    (KJV)

    Deut 8:19-20

    19 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

    20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

    (KJV)

    Jer 31:29

    29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

    (KJV)

    We can see that the actions of our forebears have caused curses to be in our lives. The burdens that we bear today are a direct result of our parents SIN and idolatry, worshipping other gods. It seems unfair that we are suffering because of someone else's actions. The Sins of our great great grandparents have caused us to have lust, hatred, unforgiveness, sickness, anger, darkness, fear etc in our lives. This seems unjust but it is the way God has set things according to His laws of the universe. We also when we SIN are cursing our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Knowing this we need to now think of them and how we can undo all of the mess and get our lives cleaned up to release them from future bondage.

    It is by the speaking of evil words or careless words that we curse others. We are to be pure in thought, pure in word and pure in actions. A child or another person conceives of evil or destructive words and these words grow to become a power or belief within them which causes death.

    The Bible teaches us to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ so that we have only pure thoughts. We can only do this as we discern which tree we are eating from and what our motives are as we think. Are we thinking from the mind of Christ or are we thinking from the carnal mind. The thoughts we think also influence others without us even speaking. This means that we are not even to think an evil thought because it is sent to others in the spiritual realm.

    Jesus said that if we think about committing adultery it is as if we had already committed adultery. If we hate our brother in our heart it is as if we have already murdered him. So we can clearly see that all spirit or thought is to be kept under control by our mind and when Jesus is on the throne of our lives then He is in that position to guide us in all things.

    Here are some helpful tips to help you learn to pray and to hear the voice of God.
     
     

    Ask God to teach you to pray.

    Ask God to teach you to hear His voice.

    Ask God to teach you to become the person that He wants you to be.

    Ask God to bring you the prayers that He wants you to pray. Listen to the prayers that He brings you by His spirit and follow that direction for your life.

    Ask God to bring you the words that He wants you to say, you need to speak out of your own mouth the powerful words of spirit that He brings you so that you hear the living Word of God in the spirit.

    Ask God to bring you the questions that you need to ask Him to grow each day. Ask God to answer the questions

    Ask God to raise you to a higher level of spiritual understanding each day.

    Pray to God on the spot, do not wait to pray some time later. Expect an answer.

    When you find it hard to pray, pray anyway, push through the flesh barrier until it is easy to pray every moment.

    Ask God to open the eyes of your understanding. Ask God for wisdom and knowledge and understanding of Him and His Kingdom.

    Ask God to reveal to you in scripture answers to your questions.

    Ask God what it is that you need to know or understand now.

    Ask God to teach you all Truth.

    Ask God how can I reach the world for Your Kingdom.

    Ask God what is the calling for my life.

    Ask God to bring divine appointments into your life for wisdom from others or for speaking wisdom to others.

    Ask God everything.

    Ask God to teach you to listen to Him

    Ask God to direct your steps every day in the morning as you arise.

    Ask God to empower and equip you.

    Ask God to turn up the fire in your life to burn off all the rubbish.

    Ask God to reveal any curses in your life. Ask God to take them from you . Ask God for His nature.

    Ask God for every part of His nature to come into your being.

    Ask God to teach you as you sleep.

    Ask God to glorify you with the same glory that you had with Him in the beginning before the world was that you might glorify His mighy name.

    Ask God for His divine love, peace, joy, faith, hope, mercy, grace, wisdom, power, justice, righteousness, light, might, forgiveness, humility, meekness, patience, longsuffering, life, Truth, peace, every divine attribute that you know or see in the Bible, ask Him for it every day.

    Ask God for His seven fold spirit, ask for the spirit of the Lord or the adoption spirit of sonship to be upon you, ask for the spirit of wisdom, the spirit of understanding, the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, the spirit of knowledge and the spirit of the fear of God.

    Ask God for the feast of Pentecost.

    Ask for every spiritual gift

    Ask God for the feast of Tabernacles.

    Ask for the fullness of the spirit of Christ having the spirit of God without measure.

    Ask God …ask God…seek God …knock and the door will open to you.

    Ask God to reveal to you the spiritual offerings to offer up to Him as your acceptable worship as you sacrifice self to Him.

    Ask God for His angels to ascend and descend upon you, burning the tares of your mind and bringing new life.

    The Bible says that the angels are the harvesters. They come and cut and bundle and burn the counterfeit wheat or the weeds or tares that the devil sowed in your field or garden of your life.

    As we name the old lies or false beliefs in our hearts and minds then we offer them to God as a sacrifice of self or our old nature. We speak these messages and they are sent as angels to God, they are burned from our being, the angels ascend from us to God. Then we ask for angels to descend upon us these are ministering spirits which bring new information which we absorb into our belief structure. We now take on the divine nature of God.

    All the lies that the devil has sowed into our garden through the careless thoughts, words and actions of others will be burned by His consuming fire as He purifies us. We are told to purify ourselves even as He is pure. We are told to be perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect. We are told to judge ourselves as God judges us and to avoid the great day of His judgement. God chastens those whom He loves and there will be a heightened awareness of error in our lives as we ask for the fires to come to purge us. The lusts in our lives will become highlighted and we will be tested in all points until we are able to overcome all things. Once we know this is what is happening then we welcome the trials and testings and we ask God to turn up the heat, to challenge us until we are completely pure and Holy.

    Soon we will be able to say I AM even as I AM is I AM. It will be no longer I but Christ who dwells in me. Christ is our identity and as He is perfect and without SIN then so are we. When we acknowledge that we are Christ then we know that we have defeated death and the grave. We are no longer a sinners but we are saints. We know that heaven is in us and the Kingdom of God is now. We don't die bodily.

    Rom 8:13

    13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live,

    (NIV)

    Jesus has abolished death.

    2 Tim 1:10

    10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

    (KJV)

    This is our hope that we will overcome death and receive our inheritance, which is the redemption of our body. Our hope is the hope of Glory Christ in us. Hang onto this hope and run the race set before you, overcoming all enemies within you until you become a manifested Son of God a brother to our Lord Jesus Christ who is the first born among many bretheren, the first raised from among the dead, the new man, the head of a new creation. Christ means anointing, or spirit of God or the spirit of Truth. We are in the Christ or the God family. We are the expression of God on this earth. We are His offspring.

    ADAM was one and became many, Christ is many and is becoming one. ADAM came from eternity to time and Jesus came from time to eternity. We are all one body, we are in ADAM or we are in Christ. The body of Christ will not be complete until we are all surrendered in the last Adam and made the new man Christ. We won't all be saved until we all come to Christ as He is one body and He is to be all in all one new body in the earth. All will be delivered up to God when all are reconciled in Christ, all people past and present and all things. Then God will be all in all.

    The key for us all is to cast down every high thing that exalts itself above the knowledge of God, taking every though captive to the obedience of Christ. Diligently seek Him. Forgive every person who has hurt you, forgive all generations back to Adam and Eve. Repent, change your mind about the way you think, eat from the tree of life. Surrender yourself to Jesus. Ask God for His divine nature. Love God with all your heart, mind and strength, love your neighbours as yourself. Pray daily. Listen daily to the anointing within you. Read the Bilbe prayerfully. Overcome death. Seek purity. Seek to know God. Have a single mind a single heart for God and put others before yourself. The Kingdom is now. Now is all that there is. Say I AM and know that you are Christ. I AM.
     
     

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