Colossians
3:3
"For
ye are dead, (like that seed we just read about, we have died
to that old Adam-Satan nature, it dies and the seed of Christ hidden
within us will spring up in) and your (New) life
is hid with Christ in God."
Before
I get into this study I want to look at just what Israel and mankind
was dead in. You see there is an area of our being and mind that is
to be cleansed and given clear vision for God's purposes. This area is the same area that He
said in Genesis 1 states that man would be created with in one word and that
word is simply “image,” or put another way with God's
imagination. Man over the centeries has been in a perpetual process
of ever increasing iamagination. In fact to days sciences tell us
that one side of our brain is dedicated to imagination, the other side
to knowledge or rationalization. Our deadness is in the side of
imagination as it is hindered to reach forward to God and is the area
most perverted by sin. Do not get me wrong here as both areas are
perverted but it is in the imagination area that we are most blinded
to God and the heavenly things. Jesus as the Son of man made a
consciencous decision on His way into the widerness and that was to
decide to allow the Holy Spirit now received into His flesh to work
unhindered by His flesh. Being very God through this operation of
choice. We're going to use circles as a way of deminstation (a series of three circles each just a little smaller then the next and one inside the other), here we
are way down in the recesses of the Godhead. Out here at the outer
circle we have God the Father, and in the inner circle we have Christ
the Son, and here we are way down in the middle. Now there is
nothing that can touch any one of us as believers, without coming all
the way through the Father, and the Son, it’s
impossible. When the revelation of Christ is perfected within us
or we become mature in Christ and He in us nothing can penetrate our
covering, Christ. Because we are hide In Christ or as stated clothed
with Christ our new covering. Isn’t that comforting? That’s
where we are NOW at this very moment. With our imagination reverse
this new image and we have our flesh as the outer covering, our
soul/heart/spirit the second layer and the Godhead is our new core
being, whereas in the old nature this core was darkness, sin and
death to God.
When
did this change come into being many may ask? Well it could have been
at the time of mans building the tower of Babel. Because it was there
that mans tongue and words were confussed by God. So it could well
have been our tongue it tied to both areas of our brains functioning.
If we think about what would make this world better then we may well
be worldly and earthy in our minds thinking processes and thereby
remain carnally minded with both sides contaminated unable to
function and see clearly.
I've
used the example of the black walnut, as we have a lot of them around
here. That big black walnut with that thick outer green shell, turns
black when it falls to the ground and that no one wants to fool with
really. But if you want to get to the meat of that walnut, you’ll
clean that outer shell off, and then you’ll get to the hard part,
that hard shell of the walnut. We almost have to put them on a piece
of concrete and beat them with a sledge hammer until they crack. Then
down in the crevices is where the meat and goodness is. So every time
I break a black walnut I can’t help but think, "That’s
where we are in God." We are hidden in Christ, and Christ is
hidden in God, and we're in Christ and listen, there’s no way
possible for us to get out of there once you’re in there. A lot of
people have never really gotten there, but once they’ve really
believed Paul’s Gospel for they're salvation, God secures us
forever. We’re eternally safe, secure in Christ and nothing can
touch us, because we are hidden in Christ in God. That’s what the
Bible says. That’s our position, not my opinion, our position
that’s our safety, our security once we become true believers. When
both sides of our brain are properly functing again as God designed
us to function.
Colossians
3:4
"When
Christ, who is our life (the One who not only saved us, not
only keeps us, but now He gives us eternal promises),
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."
Romans
8 is enough to even excite young people. I know when we were young we
had our life ahead of us, and the hope of ambitions of being
successful and having a family and all that. But as rotten as the
world is becoming we hope that young people realize that there’s
not much of a good future left on this planet, so we’d better start
looking at Eternal things. This took us over 40 years to realize and
OH! we're so grateful that He never forsook us. It all started for us with a change of mind as a triggering process.
Romans
8:14-15a
"For
as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
(renewed or born ones, the God-child through the reformation) of
God. For ye (if you’ve been restored to God) have not
received the spirit of bondage (legalism, traditions of
religion or of the world) again to fear;…"
Have
you ever realized that every religion of the world (such as the
followers of Buddhist and Mohammed, Judaism and Islam and the others) are basically
scared to death. They’re superstitious about doing anything
contrary to their religionious ideologies, lest they lose the hope of
whatever they’re looking for. I don’t care what religion you get
involved in it’s going to be a bondage. Filled with rules and heavy
regulations designed to keep you in line to toe the make of someone elses thinking, opinion and words.
It’s
going to be a constant fear, even in Protestantism, Christendom and
Catholicism here in America, or any one of over 1500 sects. If
you’re going to depend on works for salvation there is that bondage
of fear that you’re not working quite hard enough. For those
who have a concept of eternal doom, they are scared to death in their
superstitious legalism, of their religion and consequently they can’t
have this liberty and freedom that we have. So if you’ve living
under bondage and fear you’re in a works religion, your in
spiritual idolatry and fornication. If your in some kind of
positive thinking thing, or a name it claim it kind of thing, or
even some kind of faith for this or that kind of thing you are indeed
in trouble. Why? Because most are based on some kind of tradition or
a blending thereof.
Romans
8:15-17
"For
ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear (see
the two go together) but ye have received the Spirit of
adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. (we have been placed,
by virtue of the Lord's Supper, death on through His ascension into
our salvation, into a position in the Body of Christ) The
Spirit itself
(Himself) beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are (not hope to be, but rather it’s a done deal) the
children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of
God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him
(as
those made light of, pushed aside, mocked, ridiculed and scorned),
that we may be also glorified together."
“If”
we’re His children, then we’re going to be glorified together
with Him. Because We’ve been reunited with Him, we are joint-heirs
with Him. Like a husband and wife today, and everything that is
Christ’s is ours and all of glory is going to be ours to enjoy.
There will be no limits. You know? If we want to go to Pluto we can
be there in a split second. We’re going to have that new
resurrected and glorified body that won’t be confined by time and
space, we’re going to have absolute freedom, and full knowledge. We
won’t need computers to project our travel, we’ll be able to do
anything that you can imagine, and we’ll have total freedom. That’s
just a little glimpse, with all that as a prospect, then for goodness
sake -
Colossians
3:5a
"Mortify
(put to death) therefore your members which are upon the
earth;…"
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