The saga of "The Secret of GOD", as revealed in James, Peter 1&2 and John 1-3; with a renewed mind and our victory as foretold.

We are looking at the introduction to James as found in the Mirror Study Bible and we are picking up at "Born from Above."

John seed the same genesis. He only begins to write when he is already more than 90 years old. Unlike Luke and Matthew, he skips the genealogies of Joseph, he declares, "In the beginning was the Word, what GOD was, the Word was, and the Word became flesh. He sees that the destiny of the Word was not a book, but in human life! GOD finding accurate expression of himself, his image and likeness revealed in human from. Genesis 1:26. "If you have seen me, you have seen the Father!" "Unless someone is born from above (anouthen), they cannot see the Kingdom of GOD." The Kingdom of GOD (the reign of GOD'S image and likeness in human life, grace) is  made visible again on earth as it is in heaven; tangible in human form. (John3:3)

In John 3 Nicodemus discovers that his irresistible attraction to Jesus was because of this fact, our natural birth is not our beginning! We came from above! GOD knew us before he formed us in our mother's womb! [Jeremiah 1:3] If people did not come from above, the heavenly realm would offer no attraction to them. In our make-up we are the god-kind with an appetite for more than what bread and the senses can satisfy within us. We are designed to hunger for and feast from the Logos that comes from above, "the revelation of Christ," the petros. From a dimension where the original thought remains preserved and intact without contamination; the Logos that comes from his mouth is the unveiled mirror radiance of our authentic origin, quickened and sustaining the life of our design. "No one ascended into heaven, who did not also descend from heaven, even the son of man." (John 3:13)

Paul celebrates the same theme in Galatians 1:15, GOD'S eternal [1]love dream separated me from my mother's womb; his grace became my [2]identity. (1, eudokeo: his beautiful intention; the well done opinion. My mother's womb, my natural lineage and identity as son of Benjamin. 2, kaleo, to surname, to summon by name.) Galatians 1:16, This is the heart of the gospel that I proclaim; it began with an unveiling of sonship 1 in me, freeing me to announce the same sonship 2 in the masses of non-Jewish people. I felt no immediate urgency to compare notes with those who were familiar with Christ from mere historic point of view. (The Greek text is quite clear, "It pleased the Father to reveal his son in me in order that I may proclaim him in the nations!" 1, en emoi, in me, and 2, en ethnos, in the Gentile nations, or the masses. Later when Barnabas is sent to investigate the conversion of the Greeks in Acts 11, instead of reporting his findings to the HQ in Jerusalem, he immediately finds Paul, knowing that Paul's gospel is the revelation of the mystery of Christ in the nations. Colossians 1:27, No wonder then that those believers were the first to be called "Christians," or the Christ-like!)

Paul reminds the Greek philosophers in Acts 17 that we live and move and have our very being in GOD; humanity is indeed the offspring of GOD. He is quoting from their own writings. [Epimenedes 600 BC and Aratus 300 BC] The incorruptible seed of our sonship is as much in every person as the seed is already in all soil, even in the desert, waiting for the rain (grace) to awaken and ignite its dormant life! Humanity only has one Father! Matthew 13:44, the treasure was already in the field before it was discovered! Corinthians 4:4 & 7. GOD wrote the script of every individuals innermost being when he knitted us together in our mother's womb; the code is "Christ in you!" Colossians 1:27.

Jesus has come to reveal that the son of man is the son of GOD. "If you have seen me you have seen the Father! (For me personally this took place in the autumn of 1971.) Matthew 23:9, "Call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven." He says to Peter, "Flesh-and-blood cannot reveal to you who the son of man is, but my Father who is in heaven; blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, I give you a new name that reveals your original identity: you are Rock! (petros, hewn out of the true Rock, petra, (Isaiah 51:1, Deuteronomy 32:3-4, 18). This revelation is the rock foundation that I will build my identity upon, (my image and likeness, grace) and the strong gates of Hades, (ha + ideis, meaning not to see), that trapped humanity into the walled city of the senses will not prevail against the voice that surnames and summons humanity again. ( Matthew 16:13, 17, The Church, Ekklesia, is from ek, denoting source or origin and klesia, from kaleo, to surname or identify by name.)

Therefore, Paul did not immediately consult with flesh and blood. He deliberately avoided the opportunity to get to know Jesus from a human point of view by visiting the eleven disciples who were still alive and living in Jerusalem. They could have informed him first-hand about the life, ministry, parables, and miracles of Jesus. (Galatians 1:18-19) One is not surprised to discover that the first believers ever to be called Christians were the Greeks in Antioch who sat under Paul's ministry. (Acts 11)

After his encounter with the risen Jesus James writes in James 1:17, that the Father of lights (spirits) brought us forth by the word of Truth! When anyone hears this word, he sees the face of his genesis as in a mirror! "for he sees himself!"

What James, Peter, and Paul had in common was an understanding that their flesh and blood birth did not define them. Jesus came to reveal and redeem humanity's authentic spirit identity.

Next time we shall, the LORD willing, look at "humanity share three births."