How do we become a great and mighty nation and manifest that in the earth? The challenge that religion (Christianity) has faced for centuries is how to get the believer to align his/her soul (mind, will and emotions) by influence of spirt to Spirit interactions with Jesus, and then to manifest that fruit in the body…correctly articulating and manifesting the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Jumping right into the main text for this week’s discussion.
Philippians 3: 9-10 “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;”
We must continue to decode and extract out of Paul’s life experiences with Jesus’ principles that changed his internal configuration, allowing him to possess and walk in wisdom and insight like not many before him in his day. His position with God or ‘location’ in God changed. Our aim must be to uncork this Kingdom of God technology, download and decode Paul’s writings so that we may accurately comprehend. We must eradicate the old program (errors in our comprehension and understanding). Then, reprogram our faulty internal configuration. That upon a reboot we, like Paul, are able to possess and live from an internal position and divine understanding that was afforded patriarchs like Paul, Moses, David, and Abraham. If we can do this, like those that have gone before us, we can impact our generation, our family, our local community, city, state, and nation. It is through positions of revelation, divine understanding, realization of authority, correct application, and living by the Word and Spirit of God fully integrating our inner being that we will be fruitful and multiply (make disciples). Through God, His Word, and His Spirit, we are made a great and mighty nation.
To access these positions or the location in which we are living from, one must reconsider Genesis 3. After Adam and Eve had taken and eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God called to man, “Where are you?” We want you to see this with fresh eyes. God was asking Adam and Eve where they were located. You see Adam and Eve allowed their souls (mind, will and emotions) to align with a principle, concept, thought that was not aligned with the will, plans and purposes of God. Because of this single action of disobedience, sin was birthed in their hearts and made manifest in the flesh. They were no longer ‘at home’ in the location in which God positioned them. That location was prohibited to them and they had to leave the garden to live in a lower existence.
What do texts like Galatians 5:16-26 speak to us? Could the intent of the writer be to convey to us that we are to walk in the Spirit, and then we will not fulfil the lust of the flesh/soul. Consider, Galatians 5:17, for the soul desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the soul. They are in conflict with each other.
Taking into consideration how we just viewed the Genesis 3 experience, with this understanding in mind, we can see the script running in the background of Paul’s internal operating system. Paul throughout his life is debugging and patching his operating system, seeking to be conformed into the image of God. We see Paul in his writings continually testing the word for himself and then submitting himself to follow it. Seeing, hearing and reconfiguring the internal configuration of his soul to align or position himself with God. Paul’s accuracy was determined by his heart position, not his outward actions. His outward actions CAME FROM his heart’s location with God. Hearing God accurately is a key ingredient to Paul entering the next assignment in God and affecting the earth in the way that he did. Paul understood that hearing God was the most important resource on earth. This is why Paul made the following statement:
Philippians 3:1-16 “Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you. Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, lookout for those who mutilate the flesh. For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.”
When we look at the Christian Religious structure today, do we see this type of mindset in operation in us who say we are saved and have given our lives to the Lord? Do our lives display an example of one living under authority? Does our manner of life, honor our King? These are the million-dollar questions of the hour confronting many believers and have done so since Religion was birthed in the earth. It is the reason we see so many “Doners” exiting religious churches…You know…those that say they are “DONE” with the faulty structures in the church, just as Paul was done with institutionalized Religion of his day and had come to the location of a single pursuit in life. That pursuit was to hear and see Jesus, resulting in him walking in the image of God. Nothing else mattered as Paul sought to walk in and manifest the kingdom of heaven on earth. On a local and national level, Paul responded to the crisis and challenges of the day as the expression of the kingdom of heaven in the earth. Paul sought to do nothing else but the will, plan and purpose of God. He simply incarnated and embodied what he saw Jesus do and say.
We too in this hour must patch and debug our internal operating systems, taking authority over our souls (mind, will and emotions) and aligning with the will, plans, and purposes of God, so that our souls give birth to righteousness, resulting in the manifestation of the kingdom of heaven in the earth. Just as Paul in his day was salt and light and left the cycle of sameness (same old thing, continuing to walk in circles and never entering the promise land), we too, are the salt and light of the earth and must leave the cycle of sameness and thus inheriting the Promise of Transformation into the Image of Jesus.
Creation is crying out for the manifestation of the mature sons of God. The lives of true believers must be transformed into the expression and manifestation of the kingdom of heaven in the earth that the world will see Jesus. Building on a correct foundation results in the manifestation of the Ekklesia of which Jesus said He would build and that the gates of hell would not prevail. The Building of the Ekklesia must start with the Reconfiguring and Realignment of our understanding of the foundations in which HE LAID. We can no longer build on a faulty man-made foundation.
Lord, help us to fully integrate Your true image…Your presence and Your word so that we can demonstrate Your Kingdom.
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