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The Incorruptible Seed
Part Two
We have been taught so many things that we have accepted as
truth, that has hindered the awareness of our true nature and identity. I want
to say again that every seed must produce after its own kind. The seed when it
produces, and what it produces, is not anything different than what it is. In
other words, again using the illustration of a melon, the melon seed you could
say is a three part being. It starts out as a seed, it has the meat of the
melon, and it has the rind, but it’s still one. The seed is the melon, the meat
is the melon and the rind is the melon. The seed of God in us does not reproduce
anything but an incorruptible being. It does not produce a fallen soul and a
corrupted body. We have believed and been taught for years that we are
corruptible. This is why the Apostle Paul told us "This corruptible must put on
incorruption. We do that through revelation and changing the perception of
ourselves from a corruptible being to an incorruptible being.
The mentality of being a corruptible being is "the seed of
the serpent", because the serpent sowed that thought or that seed in God’s
field that caused us to believe we are something other than what God made us to
be. The darkened, alienated, carnal mind is "the tare". And God said,
"Let them grow together until the harvest, and the tare will be pulled and
burned." Well guess what, it is harvest time. And the tare, our human
consciousness is (if it is not now, it shortly shall be) in the fire that will
consume everything in our consciousness that is not according to God. The seed
of our true nature will not be consumed because that seed is an
incorruptible, indestructible seed.
I want to look at Colossians chapter one again. We read in
verse twenty-one, "And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in
your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled." I don’t think
that we can emphasize the point enough, actually in reality, you have never been
alienated from God. You were taught you were, so you believed you were, which
gave you a wrong perception of yourself so that became your experience. You see,
again, that is the seed of the serpent, the consciousness that makes you feel
that you are separated and alienated from God, but that is only in your mind.
That is the veil that was cast over all nations to keep them from the reality of
Christ in them. "You were sometimes alienated in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh, through death, to
present you holy, unblameable and unreprovable in His sight." Calvary
says that you are not a sinner separated from God. Calvary says that there is no
such thing any longer as anyone who is separated and alienated from God. Calvary
says that there is only one man in the universe. There’s only one life in the
universe, and that is God’s life. There is no other life! You perceive
another life, but there is no other life. Paul says, "The mystery
which has been ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His
saints". I do believe that when Paul wrote this that he had the reality
of what he spoke. But just like Eve in the garden, she was a type of the church.
The church is a picture of Eve, a picture of the bride of Christ. And just as
Eve was the deceived in the garden, so the church of Christ was deceived again
after the Apostles left the scene, in fact even before the Apostles left, you
can see that Paul says all in Asia had turned away from him. And so as Eve was
deceived in the beginning, the church, the New Testament church was once again
deceived by the serpent, with the same lie. And they became darkened in their
understanding. And that’s why Paul told the Ephesians in chapter four,
"This I say therefore, that you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity
of their minds, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the
life of God which is in them." Here again we can see, it was only in the
mind.
If we walk in the natural mind thinking that we are separate
from God and less than a son of God, then we do not understand the magnitude of
Calvary’s victory. We then are alienated in our mind from the life and nature of
God in that is in us.
This is why Paul said, "Let this mind be in you which
was also in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5 He also said, "You have the
mind of Christ." How do we let that mind be in us? Ah, it is through
practice. It is learning how to discern that which is of God, from that which is
from the natural mind. And I believe this is the only warfare, really, in this
day and age that we need to be concerned about. And that is the warfare Paul
talks about when he said, "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal."
They are not according to human reasonings. But, "the weapons of our
warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds", and
those strongholds are not devils in the airwaves. You see, many of us fought
devils in the airwaves for years, but he said, "Casting down the
strongholds, casting down reasonings, imaginations, and every high thing that
exalts its self against the knowledge of the Word of God." So how you
begin to walk in this mind of Christ is to begin to cast down every thought that
would try to enter your mind that speaks contrary to the truth and the word of
the living God. You see Calvary says, "There is no such thing any longer as a
carnal human being." Calvary says, "There is no longer any such thing as
a carnal mind." Yet because of our perception, we see carnality, sin and
death and all of these things. We see them around us. Well, that’s the lie. The
truth is, my old identity, my old carnality, everything that I believe that I
was in the natural was crucified at Calvary. You see, there is no such
individual personality by the name of Gary Sigler. Gary Sigler is a
manifestation of God on the earth, not as an individual, but as a cell in the
Body of Christ. We are members one of another. You know, the most fabulous thing
I think is science and technology in these days. And one of the things we’ve
learned to think about is cloning. And if you know anything at all about
cloning, you know that you can take one cell, Just one cell from your
body, and that one cell through cloning, will reproduce you, just that one cell.
Think about that – one cell of your being through cloning will reproduce another
human! Well, God has been in the cloning business for centuries. You see; it’s
not that we’re this big individual, "God on the earth". No, no, no, but we are a
cell. We are a member of His Body. And corporately, we make up the whole. And
that’s why it is so important that we connect a network amongst ourselves in
fellowship, and in sharing and in worship and in testimony. There is only one
life that exists in this universe, only one; there aren’t two. If there is, then
Calvary didn’t work. And again, I know how hard these things are to deal with,
because you say, "But look at the situation! Look at the carnality. Look at the
sin. Look at all of this." Yet the living abiding spoken Word of God says that,
that old thing was crucified at Calvary. If you’ll remember, I don’t know
exactly where it’s at now, but you’ll remember this instance. It talks about
Revelation about the beast that was wounded unto death, and yet he lives. He was
resurrected. Well "beast" in the scriptures refers to the human nature, to
humanity, the carnal human being. On the cross, that being was put to death. He
was wounded unto death. Yet he lives because of our perceptions. We keep the
image of ourselves alive through our thoughts, our speaking and our meditations.
And it is really not that difficult to totally have a mind-change. And that’s
what the word, "repent" means, and that is "to change your mind".
Repent, change your mind, for the Kingdom of Heaven is come. Isn’t it strange
that Jesus stood facing the Pharisees before He went into death, before He
resurrected, and He looked at them and he told them, "The Kingdom
of Heaven is within you." Because of the misconceptions, we have never
really learned how to apply that which we know to be the truth, because we tend
to believe that which we experience, according to the carnal mind.
Jesus answered Nicodemus, saying, ‘Verily I say unto
you except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." Peter
said, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by
the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
No man will see the Kingdom without this new birth. Well what
is this new birth? This new birth is your quickening, is the regeneration, is
that spark of life that you receive when you first experience in reality, God in
you.
Know No Man After The Flesh
After Calvary it is said, "Henceforth, we should know
no man according to the flesh" 2 Cor. 5:16. We should know no man
according to our human understanding and comprehension. Even Jesus! "We once
knew Jesus according to the flesh", the human carnal understanding as the man of
Galilee, but today we should not know Him according to the flesh. Almost all
of Christianity still sees Jesus according to the flesh, and they still worship
Him according to the flesh. On Christmas they put Him in manger, and on Easter
they put Him on a cross and resurrect Him, and the next year they put Him back
in a manger. We worship Him according to the flesh rather than according to
spirit, because when you begin to see the Lord as He is today you will be like
Him because to see Him as He is, is to be like Him. He is the head, we
are the body. The Body of Christ is not less divine than the head. He came to
give us the example, or to show us the way that we could be as He is. In fact
that’s what the scriptures say, "As He is so are we in this worl,"
1John 4:17. Well, do you think He’s sick? Do you think He’s any type of failure?
You see, there has been so much philosophy and human reasoning brought in
amongst us that we accept the lie because the truth seems so impossible for us
to grasp. We have been taught, some of us, that sickness is a blessing from God
to possibly teach you something. But I’ll tell you what; the seed is
incorruptible. The fruit is incorruptible. The incorruptible seed within me
cannot produce a body that is corruptible. But again, because we are a
manifestation of God on the earth, and we are as He is, we will become that
which we perceive we are in our thinking. If you believe that Jesus puts a
cancer or any other type of disease on you to teach you something, if you really
believe that, you wouldn’t try to get rid of it. You know, it’s like the
teaching of hell that so many of us used to believe in, this place called
"eternal torment". Yet we believed it intellectually, but we never really
believed it, because if we really did, and it really gripped us, you couldn’t
rest knowing that perhaps some of your family died without Christ.
Except a man be born again – the moment that spark of His
life is ignited in you through regeneration how ever you receive that, some come
to an altar. Personally, I knelt down in my bathroom alone one day and asked
Jesus to become real to me. I ask Him if possible, to come into my life and
change me. It doesn’t matter how you experience that. Some have experiences out
in the woods. Some have experienced it out of desperation. The most important
thing is that you have that experience of that quickening, that regeneration by
the Spirit and become a new creation man. All old things are passed away. But
see, we are so use to looking at our condition. We believe the scriptures but
our experience is more real to us than what God has said. So we live in this
darkened state; we’re living that condition that Paul told us not to "In the
vanity of the mind". Again he said, "Don’t be like the other Gentiles, being
alienated and separated in your mind with a darkened understanding." In John
chapter 1 and verse 12, "But as many as have received Him, to them gave He
power to become the sons of God, even to that believe on His Name Which were
born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God." Once the Spirit of God regenerates your spirit, if you were not
caught up into the religious teachings, you would learn to follow the anointing
within you. You would from that very moment in your life learn to trust the
anointing of the Spirit within you to teach you all things; the Spirit would
never deceive you.
If you were taught that, and you stayed away from religious
things, you would very quickly begin to manifest as a son or daughter of God on
this earth. It is our religious teachings that have kept us in bondage to
carnality. I don’t know about you, but I was never told that Jesus did not hold
me accountable for my sins. In fact I was told the opposite. One preacher told
me, he said, "Gary, you don’t work your way to the cross, but you better work
your way away from it. In other words, saved by grace, but then I have to work
and I have to be obedient and I have to do all of these things or I may
eventually be lost. But you see, if we were taught in the very beginning the
truth of this new creation-man that springs to life on the inside of us, and we
were taught only to do what we feel in our hearts to do as we love and
fellowship with the Lord we would not get caught up in all the religious
practices. However, we are taught Old Testament law instead of grace.
We are taught, "Well, yes Gary, you are born again, but look
at what you are doing. And don’t you know that the scriptures say that your
heart is deceitfully wicked?" Well I understand that is what the Old Testament
says, but I realized one day that that was a lie for me, because the New
Covenant is, I will take your stony heart out of you and I will give you a
heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and I will cause you to
walk in my statutes." Ez. 36:26-27. Where is man involved in that
statement of scripture? Where is our choice involved here?
Sin Has Been Dealt With
We weren’t taught that sin was fully dealt with at the cross.
We were not taught to not look at the sin, but look to the gospel. We were not
taught that God does not hold you accountable for sin. One of my favorite
scriptures is; "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not
holding them accountable for their sins." 2 Cor 5:19. Why? He sees
Christ in you, not Adam. Christ is that indestructible seed of God that you are.
I love the song that says, "I am no longer in Adam, and Adam is no longer in
me." I love that because it is the truth. As long as you perceive yourself
"as in Adam", and a sinner, one who is not pleasing God, and you
focus on your weaknesses and your failures, you will always be in bondage to
that image of yourself. Oh God, how we need our eyes opened to the truth of our
being. It would be good to pray the prayer in Ephesians, "That the eyes of
our understanding would be enlightened that we might know the hope of our
calling." How could we be failures? I tell you, all of us that are weak
and sickly among us are there because we have not rightly discerned His body,
because it’s impossible for His body to be sick. It’s impossible for His body to
be anything but perfect. It’s impossible for that incorruptible seed to
reproduce anything that can even in the slightest, remotest way able to be
corrupted. We have been seduced just as Eve in the garden, and we have believed
a lie instead of the truth. Eph 5:8, "For ye were sometimes darkness, but
now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"
Following Christ Within
I really, really have to cover this with scripture because I
know so many are saying to their own hurt that what is being taught here is New
Age. I long for the day when we can speak the words of God and not have to back
it up with scripture. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) How do you
think Paul convinced his followers? He didn’t have the New Testament to go to.
And that’s why they killed Jesus; He literally went against their written word.
In fact, He tried to correct some of their perceptions of God when He said to
them, "I know what is written in your very own scriptures. I know what is
written, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, you love
your enemies." Basically, what He was telling them is, "You have had a wrong
concept woven in your scriptures. "That’s not my Father." Well we have
the same situation today. We have to tell people, "Listen, I know what is
written in your Bible". But you see, that’s why it is so important for everyone
to become acquainted with the Christ within, because it’s impossible for that
anointing to lie to you.
John 14:26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you".
John 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to
come."
Do you know why most Christians do not know all things today?
They run to men for their instruction instead of learning to follow the Christ
within. They run to the arm of flesh to get their answers. That’s the truth.
There came a day in my life when I had to stop seeking the truth from a man. And
I had to spend a long time just seeking God for my answers. It took me quite
some time to where could trust my anointing. It took a long time where I could
be convinced that what I was hearing and what I was seeing was God, because it
went against everything that I ever believed and was taught. I knew I was a
failure. I knew that I was hung up in lust and all the sins of the flesh, and I
wanted God; but yet, when I began to hear God, I had to question whether or not
it was God because it went against everything that I was taught.
Who is in the Body of Christ?
Ephesians 5:10, "That in the dispensation of the
fullness of time He might gather together in one, all things in Christ, both
which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him." Well, are we
still waiting for that? I’ll tell you what. It happened at Calvary. Another
thing about not rightly discerning the Body of Christ; I realized one day that
it wasn’t just the Christians, it wasn’t just the man who ran to an altar, or
said "Jesus I receive you. Because of Calvary it includes all. If you’re walking
in a human body, you are a member of the Body of Christ only because of Calvary.
Paul told the Ephesians in chapter two, "Wherefore remember, that you
being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that
which is called the circumcision – that at that time you were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." In the Jewish
mind, the Gentile was the unbeliever, the unsaved, the dog, but now, in
Christ Jesus, you who WERE sometimes far off, are made nigh by the blood of
Christ. For He is our peace, who hath made both one," - Who is he
talking about" – the Jew and the Gentile, the saved and the lost! I’ll tell you
folks, when you begin to rightly discern the Body and not divide, but discern
the Body of Christ, you will begin to treat all humanity as they really are. And
you will change them by your perception of them. "He has broken down the
middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity,
even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of
two, (the Jew, the Gentile, the saved the lost), one new man so
making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the
cross." That’s why I can tell you in full assurance of faith, you’re
not Adam, and Adam is not in you! By the cross, every negative thing in the
universe was brought to an end, and by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
among the dead, the new creation man was brought into being. There is no more
old creation. But it is still living in our perception because we look, not
with spiritual eyes, but with eyes of the flesh. Oh we love God. We want God,
but we know it’s humanly impossible to be as He is. But, we are not human beings
we are spiritual beings. Yes, thank God, the veils are being removed from our
eyes to see that nothing can corrupt the seed of God within us. Nothing! It
is incorruptible and it is indestructible. Your body is the temple of God
"The double minded man is unstable in all his ways."
James 4:8. What is a double-minded man? What "double-minded" means is, "two
souled". As long as in your perception, you believe that you are a separate
entity from God, and you have a soul that has fallen and that soul is doing
everything in its power to become like God you are double minded. That is the
man in Romans chapter 7 who has this desire for God, yet he sees in his fleshy
carnal members that sin principle is still pulling him down into the law of sin
and death. That’s the perception that has to change. There has never been sinner
born since Calvary. We only keep sin alive by our perceptions. We have to have a
revelation from God.
I’ll never forget the day I awoke July 11th, 1982.
I woke up a new man after years of struggle. And I began to understand some of
these things. I John chapter 2 and verse 8, "A new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past,
and the true light now shines. He that says he is in the light, and hateth his
brother, is in darkness even until now." I know the religious mind will
interpret this verse, "You don’t treat another believer bad." Well, I’ll tell
you what: God is the Father of all of us, and we are all connected in spirit, to
one another. The darkness is passed and the true light now shines. You know
Jesus told His disciples two thousand years ago, "You are the light of the
world." And some of them caught what He said. The scriptures tell us God
is light. So really He was telling His disciples, "You are God in this
earth." Yet where are the people today who can boldly declare, "We are
the light of this world." Well there are some. We are coming into this
revelation of being Christ on the earth. It is only through this awareness that
all of creation will be restored and brought back to God, because as we
continually have these veils removed from our eyes collectively, it will change
the whole world.
I Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trump. For the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised
incorruptible, and we shall be changed." Listen folks; the dead people
are not those people out there in the graves. Jesus clearly taught, and the
scriptures plainly teach us that dead people are those who do not know God in
reality. But at the last trump, and that last trump could come for you at any
moment. Now we’ve always looked at this as a collective experience, and it may
be someday. But that last trump for you is when you hear the Word of
incorruptibility, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. "For this
corruptible must put on incorruption." Your unrenewed mind is a real
barrier to understanding this truth. This corruptible, this mind-set, this
awareness of being separate and alienated from God, this is what we consider as
"mortality".
"But this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal
must put on immortality." And we don’t do that through the Adamic mind. We do
that by hearing the Word, the voice of the seventh angel. Revelation 10:7, it
says, "When the voice of the seventh angel is heard, all the mystery of
God shall be fulfilled." Well what is the mystery of God, but God
manifesting Himself in the flesh? When you begin to hear that seventh angel
sound, you will begin to arise in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye and you
will totally be changed. And what changes is your perception. You were caught up
with Him in the air, in heavenly places where no longer will you rule from the
earthly plain. You will rule from the heavenly plain. You will begin to walk in
the experience of being seated in heavenly places, and operating from the realm
of the heavens rather than from the realm of the earth. You will no longer see
yourself as a mortal human being. You will see yourself as a spiritual being.
"So when this corruptible shall 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." Death, is the concept that
you are something other than what God has made you to be, will be swallowed up
and be no more. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is in the law."
You want to get people into bondage? Start teaching them law. Start teaching
them how that if they are not obedient, they can’t please God, and watch the
condemnation and the guilt and the shame come.
God is raising up a people on the earth today, after the
Melchisedec order. And we all know about Melchisedec, without beginning of days,
or end of life. You know that’s who you are when you have a revelation of the
incorruptible seed that you are. That’s why you can call no earthly man your
father. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9 and 10, "He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own
purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but
is now made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ, who has
abolished death, and has brought life and incorruptibility to light through the
gospel." But God spoke it to reveal to you the incorruptibility that you
are. When you realize you are a spiritual being you cannot be corrupted! But if
you believe you can, you’ll experience it only until the light of God penetrates
the darkened mind and explodes throughout your being. Then you will realize you
are not a mortal human being. Well, we need to look at Psalm 82. "But God
stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. How long
will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor
and fatherless: do just to the afflicted and needy, deliver the poor and needy:
rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they
understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out
of course. I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most
high. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes."
Why
will you die like men? Because you do not know who you are. The word gods here
is the word "Elohim". And when it says that God, Elohim, stands in the
congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods, the same word is "Elohim".
So Elohim stands in the congregation of the mighty and He judges among the
Elohim. How long will it be before we deliver the poor and the needy, those who
walk in darkness? Well we can’t do it as long as we are walking in that darkness
with them. The same word "Elohim" is used in Genesis chapter 1 when it says,
"Let us make man in our image." We have been in so much darkness. Take it
not lightly to be in tune with God. That is your heritage. "I have said, you are
gods; - - but you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." -
Because you believe you will, because you’re walking in darkness. We’ve had the
scriptures for two thousand years, and rather than learn how to follow that
anointing that is within us, we’ve run to the arm of flesh for our instruction,
and They have only kept us in darkness and bondage to keep us under their
control. Thank God that is coming to an end!
John chapter 10 and verse 33, "The Jews answered Jesus
saying, for a good work we don’t stone you, but for blasphemy; and because that
you, being a man, makes yourself God. Jesus answered them saying, is it not
written in your law, I said, you are gods? If He called them gods, unto whom the
word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of Him, whom the
Father hath sent into the world, thou blasphemest; because I said I am the Son
of God?"
I
think the scriptures are so clear that they can just grab a hold of us and stop this mind that is always speaking
contrary to what we know the truth is. Ephesians 5 says in verse 30, "For we are
members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." We are members of His
body, of His flesh and of His bones. Well is that true? If it is true; how can
this body be sick? How can this body be diseased? I’m talking to myself here as
well as anybody else. But you see, it is time that we awake out of sleep.
"Arise
and shine, for your light is come. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee." And I’ll tell you, nations shall come to the rising of God within you,
within His people in these days. No longer do we have to go out and get them,
Bob. They come to you. When you have the living, abiding Word of God that will
change people’s lives, they will run to you, when you won’t gather them unto
yourself. You’ll simply teach them that which they have within them. I think a
Christian maybe needs to go to a class of few weeks to get a clear understanding
of that incorruptible seed, a clear understanding that they have an anointing,
they don’t need another man, ever again, to teach them, just a few weeks, and
leave them alone; and them we come together and fellowship.
We really don’t need
a man to stand up here and teach us, because we have the teacher inside of us.
We have the anointing within us; and when we come together; there will be such a
flow of His life. Any who come in among us would be healed. Any who come in
among us walking in the darkened understanding of their mind would receive the
light of God. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Don’t you
know that? Well I have known that for years. But today I’m beginning to really
understand, learning how to cast down every thing that would point the finger
and say, "Look at you! How dare you say that your body couldn’t be sick! Look at
you!" I can laugh. I’m just reminded of Abraham. Whenever the accusations would
come into my mind, I’d simply remember Abraham who considered not his own body
as -?- and dead. Ah, but he considered Him faithful who had promised. You see;
if we look in this direction for results, I don’t believe it will ever happen.
We don’t look to the flesh.
We can’t grasp this with our human understanding.
But we are members of Christ. That means if you touch someone, Christ is
touching them. Ephesians 1 says in verse 22, "He has put all things under His
feet, (meaning Jesus) and has appointed Him the universal and supreme head of
the church. (A headship exercised throughout the world church)" (This is the
Amplified version. So let’s start over. This is Amplified.) "And has put all
things under His feet, and has appointed Him the universal and supreme head of
the church (a headship exercised throughout the church) which is His body, the
fullness of Him Who fills all in all (for in that body lives the full measure of
Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fill every thing everywhere with
Himself." That’s the truth! Yet we’ve believed a lie, just as easily the lie of
the serpent. And do you not know that Jesus had to go through the same lie.
I
think religion has even painted an unclear picture of Jesus. We have the crazy
notion that He was so perfect that it was impossible for Him to sin. I don’t
think so. Otherwise He could not have been tempted in all points. Someone said,
"Well if you are who you claim you are, let’s see you walk through that wall and
let’s see you raise the dead." What did Jesus say to that? "If you are the Son
of God, command these stones to be made bread." If He did it, it would only
prove that He missed the mark. He was tempted in all
points. And the only reason that He did not fail - if He had a clear, precise
understanding that He was the Son of God. And when you and I have a clear,
precise understanding that we are what the Word says we are, then not only will
we be as He is, we will act out of an experiential walk of being Christ
on the earth. In this body lives the full measure of Him who makes everything
complete. This is the Word of God. – "And who fills everything,
everywhere with Himself." Some things, no, all things!
Paul
must have been a lonely man in his day, to have this revelation. And he
could stand before a congregation of people and say, "Don’t you know folks, you
are complete in Him? You don’t need anything else. You don’t need to change
anything about yourself. You are complete! In Him, you are complete! You just
need to repent, to change your mind about who you think that you are, because
who you think you are doesn’t exist in reality."
You know; the Christian Science
people have been mocked for years because they say things like, "Well, there’s no
sin. There is no sickness. There is no disease." But folks, I tell you what:
until you believe that, until you have an understanding of that; that’s what
Calvary was all about! My "old man", that old concept of being a human being,
alienated, being separated, being a sinner, living a life of sin, that whole
mess went to the cross. God became a man. And He took that man, representing all
of the misconceptions; He took that man into death. And that’s why He came. Oh
yes! "If I be lifted up – If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." Now
another thing about Jesus, He used the word "me" in places but He
never took any credit from His human existence. In other words He said, "I in my own self - I can’t
do anything." Now stop and think about this. Here was a man who was the perfect
man, without sin, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin. This man
said, "I can’t do anything of myself." What makes us think we can? You see,
religion will teach us to try.
The Word and faith preachers would teach you to
go out and heal the sick and raise the dead, and you do it by just praying for
everybody. And occasionally you might hit it. God, right today, fills
everything, everywhere with Himself. Oh if you could see that! At Calvary -
you can never hear this enough until you can see it plainly, and boldly declare
it. SIN IS NO MORE! God does not hold man accountable for his sin, because he
realizes he is living in a mistaken identity that is not even real. His concept
of himself, her perception of himself is what he receives from Adam. And once
you have awakened, once you are regenerated, that old is no more. He never was,
but you come to realize it through regeneration.
In Colossians 3 and verse 10,
"And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge", - Boy that’s a
good one, "renewed in knowledge". You know Jesus said, "My people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge." Yet it goes on to say the reason they were destroyed for
lack of knowledge is because they rejected knowledge. You can hear the living
Word of God spoken from the mouth of His servants today and reject that Word,
and be destroyed for lack of knowledge, not because you haven’t heard it, but
because you’ve rejected it. We need to be renewed in the knowledge, after the
image of Him that created Him. Oh boy that’s good! We have, "put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him:" This is
the knowledge that we must put on. This is the incorruptibility that we must put
on. This is the immortality that we must put on. The renewed knowledge has been
created in the image of God, and we have never lost that standing with God,
except we have become alienated and separated in our minds. And that’s why Paul
said, "You must be renewed in the spirit of your mind, because until you mind is
renewed, you will always think you are something other than what God is. And
when your mind begins to be renewed, it is so easy for you then to believe what
God has spoken to you. When the anointing within you begins to operate, and you
begin to hear and follow that which is in your heart, you will be free from
all control. You know, the people who are really free today, are those who
have weathered the church, because to them, freedom is rebellion. Yet a free
man, a spiritual free man, is one who is in bondage to no man, will be
controlled by no man, will not go to the arm of flesh for his answers; but he
knows that the anointing abides within him, and will teach him all things,
and will bring to remembrance all things. We don’t have a clue what we’ve
forgotten – Elohim in the very beginning, and put on the new man, which is
renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him. We are neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, or -?- bound nor free, but
Christ – listen to this: Christ is all and in all, not Christ will
someday be all and in all, but right today we have put on that new man that is
created in the image of Him who realizes that there is neither Jew nor Greek nor
sinner nor saved nor lost nor male nor female nor bond nor free, but is all
and in all. And we have the privilege of going to people and speaking life to
them instead of death, freedom instead of bondage, hope instead of despair,
because we see Christ in all men. Our perceptions are changing. And no longer do
we see male nor female, bond nor free, sinners and saints; we see Christ is
all and in all. Amen.
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