Names of the Spirit, continuing on with

Picking back up with the course of thought.

I said earlier that John reveals part of the mystery of Christ and that I'd share it elsewhere, here it is:

1Jn 4:1-6
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets (religious men which are types of anti-Christ's) are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. We are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is not of God hears not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.”

2Jn 7-8
“For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”

2Jn 9-10
“Whosoever transgresses, and abides not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father and the Son. If there come any to you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed.”

Here's what Paul says as taken from 2 Corinthians:

2Co 11:10-15
“As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Wherefore? because I love you not? God knows. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

2Co 4:2-7
“But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.”

Now we'll look at the term of the Comforter because of what was said by someone on one on my post sites as a comment to something I had said or shared. This person said that they followed a lot of our postings but they thought I portrayed the attitude of a “know it all” and that much of what we've said was hard to understand or comprehend. To which I apologized. Because this is not what we're about at all. Then this morning while it was still in darkness of night, the Lord told me to write to this person the following: He said to give this illustration;
“Draw a picture of them standing before you, on the sea shore and draw a line in the sand with your foot.” Then He said, “No, make it a sand dune in a desert, (explaining that the sand is a metaphor, allegory or in parabolic language for humanity for those trapped in religion or crimes against God). Then He said that they were to picture it being at night in total darkness outside the influence of any city lights and to then look up into the heavens as this was a metaphoric language for those who come to trusting faith in Him.
Then the Lord said, “Have them cross this line in the sand but, with each step forward the line also moved forward, in other words they will be unable to cross the line drawn.” He then said that the line represented Him and that what could not be scene with physical eyes was a mirror or “looking glass” like that found in the story of Alice in Wonderland. The looking glass was invisible to the physical eye but when one was able to pass through it they disappeared from view. He then said that all who profess to love Him and attempt to give glory to Him on their own are of the world without understanding. And are the people outside of the kingdom and are unable to pass through the looking glass or even to see it. For His kingdom is all around and will become within us but is invisible to mere humans.

Then He said that when a person cries out for mercy for redemption they are heard and redemption is bestowed upon them. Then they are given the right or power to become a son of God (John 1:12)but have not yet become one. Then while the Comforter is doing His assigned job of revealing Christ to that person, as Jesus did after His first ascension, when He open the followers understanding of Him within the Old Testament scriptures and their hearts burned within them. That person would find a crisis of life experience and how they handled that crisis would determine if they could pass through the mirror or looking glass. He then said that “IF” they would partake of His Last Supper with the understanding that to eat of the lamb (Old Testament), bread and drink of the wine (New Covenant) and then go to the garden and take of the cup in the same fashion as He had done by saying, “For this reason I came into the world, never the less not my will but Your Will Oh God be done”. That the person then would be seen in Him on the cross, burial, and resurrection of His ontological essence of Spirit restored in them. Through which we're raised in Christ's essence to the presence before both the Father of spirits and the LORD of spirits and become ambassadors of the kingdom to bear witness of Christ restored in our flesh. They then could lift their foot to enter His kingdom of the New Covenant wherein God does all through Faith and Grace in Truth restored to them. We then have entered His Salvation wherein God requires us to sit under Him while He reveals all the mysteries of Christ as He is wisdom and knowledge. He is also Grace, Truth, Life eternal, the Way into the kingdom and a whole lot more.

Then He said that the world has many schools of higher learning of mans creation and design but that they don't have His approval. That He's not part of or to be found in them but His university is from above while we sit under Him. We'll learn patience, longsuffering, and will inherit the promises of God in the New Covenant. Because we now live within the New Covenant as the old has passed away from view. It's at this point that we are now sons of God through the willingness to suffer the loss of worldly things by turning our backs towards them and our faces toward God. God then circumcises the heart and cuts away the old deadness of flesh (sin, crime and religion) and gives us a new heart of receptivity (Grace working in us) restored by faith's operation of receiving from Him. That while we remain within this area we'll remain His but “IF” we turn away from Him there remains no more repentance for us which were the warnings of Paul to the Galatian-Christians and to the Hebrew-Christians and this is also the warnings of Revelation.

Now here's what else was learned. That while Jesus was on the cross suspended between heaven and earth that He suffered the excruciating pain of separation from the Father. But to this He then said that it was not as we might suppose but that it was the pain which Adam suffered when woman was separated from him after she ate of the fruit because he stood right in front of her and she disappeared from his view of sight. Then He said it was this pain of separation that caused him to also eat of the fruit because he did not want to be separated from her. In other words his love of woman was greater than the love of his creator. This is also born out in that woman is the most used to entice man into crimes against God. Religion is figured as a harlot, whore, idolatry, and other such descriptions of seduction, which hinder God's activity. That is why in Isaiah the Lord gave them over to a “familiar spirit” because this spirit was before the times of Enoch and Enoch speaks of them, as does Jasher and Jasher is spoken of by Joshua and in 2 Samuel.

Here's what we can draw from this.....the Comforter, as the Spirit of Truth will led us into a greater understanding of all that Christ is and has done. He starts this at the moment of our coming into redemption when we are given the Holy Spirit. In what we've called our first estate of blessing through which we're to learn from Him. Then we must understand that Israel as the chosen people through whom God would manifest Himself in visible form as the son of man ie....Jesus, Immanuel. Came to bring the promised salvation and restoration of all things but as foretold through Moses, Psalms and the prophets they rejected both their Messiah and God in their Messiah. Why? because as stated elsewhere they had become idolatrous and wicked above all other people groups as the Maccabees letters show. The prophets warned of their pending destruction and Deuteronomy tells them of it and what would become of them through it all. But as a nation they were in denial because of the familiar spirit ie....religious spirit that hinders God. God in Christ judged Israel as a nation as He did all humanity of its sin nature. In so doing the law required mans death of his flesh because it housed the essences of the evil one. In the death of the righteous one, God reversed to process through Jesus a righteous man. A man not guilty of sin's nature as there was no gall in His heart, He had only righteousness and integrity within Him. That is why He could say that Satan had nothing on Him or no place within Him. He, Jesus as Christ was made guilty for us in our place and God when we accept our place in Christ because of the crisis of life. Which comes after the Comforter has had His way of bringing us to the Light and Truth of our nakedness, unsoundness and bankruptcy and in desperate need of His Salvation. For only then are we become the willing in the willingness which God requires to accept our own guilt and deaths penalty. Then through it God circumcises the heart in the cutting away of that sin nature of flesh and by His power gives us a new heart of unity to Him, sins stain is removed as is the guilt or bitterness and resentment of gall and we become a new creation in Christ.

It's through all this that we become a Christ-one, a son of God's rule or dwelling, we're no longer of this world system of darkness, dysfunction and chaos. Because when we speak it is as if Christ is speaking through us which causes the world not to receive or understand us, just as they did not Him. But Christ wants all to hear us clearly because the mysteries of God have been opened for understanding in these days (Rev. 10). And that they (His mysteries and scriptures) are not subject to one persons revelation but for all to receive and believe. Because the Comforter is given for all. We're all of One Spirit and thusly one understanding by that same Spirit.

There is enough for one more days posting so this is where I'll take a break until the next post.