The truth, the light of scripture, is taught received and treated all too often simply as information to soften life's turmoil. Our Adamic mind sees it as fresh air yes, even beautiful, but in the earth mans mind and ego he lacks the light to view His Word as life apart from seeking comfort, at least without the Words spiritual enlightenment. Why is this? Because our inner self-centered thoughts hold sway over all that we may appraise, which intern determines our self identity; by those self-centered thoughts. Which are then most often sought to address our earthly needs. The reason for this is we are not convinced by faith alone that we are to apply His Word as the very life within us, a perfect life, a spiritual life, a new identity entirely. That of Himself, Christ Jesus!
We do not know, and most have never learned, or been taught, that we have been transformed into new beings simply by His will. A truth which is only made know to us by His Word. It teaches about a new life for us, in the Fathers eye's, which is applied to His Son, as our new life's representation, in His eyes. We are in Him by spirit or thought, God's thought of us, a new creation. But first we must, to live this new life of freedom, become able to re-identify with our actual presence within Christ just as the Father sees us there, a new position of a Christ identified spirit. As Paul said; "I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me" Phil.3:12.
Unless our new creation life is filtered by a intelligent faith however we have little chance of a positive re-identification of and in Christ's Spirit, as we lack clarity of who we really are. True most know we will never manifest His likeness and grow to the full status of His accomplishment in our earthly form yet works prevail within institutional Christianity. But not enough is known of His Spiritual truth; that we can grow to the measure of His fullness [conformed to the image of Christ] in the form of a new consciousness of spirit or thought. Or so the Word tells us, and thereby altering how we think of ourselves. It does little good for a pastor to teach about the Spirit without first teaching the new creation identity, as so thoroughly taught by Paul in Romans ."And we all, who with unveiled faces [having spiritual knowledge] contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit". 2 Cor. 3:18
Unfortunately many who listen to the teachers encouraging message are content with the first glow, have settled into a comfortable place, or have simply compromised with the world; or worse they struggle greatly and expect Him or hope He [God] will make everything better. They ask Him that they might feel something new or good, a emotion, or perhaps that they may just behave properly.
The problem is one of nature. We want a new life, expect a new life, but are loath to pay the price to receive it by the biblical perception of death to all that is of the earth. We seek Him with our own strength hoping to be a better man. What we simply will not do is struggle, even wrestle like Jacob, until blessed: thus redefining ourselves. But in order to become our true being the mentally conditioned Adam ego must be set aside; for a life of dependence and confidence, all provided only by faith in what He has said of us as identified within His Son. There is nothing, no other thing given for our spiritual provision, to know His life inwardly than that! "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of [Adam identification] slavery" Gal. 5:1
The lack we have in our Christian life to meet Him in a spiritual heavenly life is not however due to the circumstances of our life or even poor teaching, but the conditioning of our mind. We approach all that He has given with the ego, the Adam mind, the man of the earth who always wishes for more. This is our nature and cannot be done away with, while we occupy these bodies at least. So what must we do?
We must come to know our earthly consciousness as just that, of the earth. Then reach out in a intelligent faith to find our grace given true path or the new man we are by spirit. Paul clears the way in Romans 5,6,7, and 8; we are to have no conscience of sin what so ever in our new creation mind. In other words we as Adam men of the earth are annulled in the Fathers sight. This is God's desire for us His children. How can that be when we know full well [so subject too] what we are by condition?
Really it involves surrender; not to a story of what we have done are what we are in the flesh but to a reality of who and what we are before God and what He has done for us wholly within His Son. We must discover in and of ourselves, we are completely unacceptable to God. Yet He has accepted us by Grace. His acceptance being within the personhood exclusively of His perfect Son. So our acceptance of our unacceptableness is a surrender given us by grace; so that we might apprehend our freedom before Him, within the identity of His Son. How is this accomplished?
First we must take into account the Illusion of form, the doing, and its effect upon us as Adam men of the earth. Paul has encouraged us to make a shift from identification with form...the thought or emotion...to one of being. Recognizing ourselves [by weakness suffering and Adams recognized death] as that which has no form; we are after all only seen in spirit in the Fathers contemplation as a new spirit creation, no form required. We must on a human level surrender to faith, a trust in the unseen but established by a intelligent belief in His Word. "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, [the Adam identity] and I to the world" Gal. 6:14.
Sometimes surrender also means giving up trying to understand each and every doctrine, and even remembering scripture; which is often done in a attempt to make our retention of words into a ground to self prove His grace. Really perhaps even a form of self-righteousness. Or the reliance on dogmas [firmly held positions] which often simply serve to bolster our self confidence and personal felt righteousness. And most importantly our self righteous prepotency to equate duty, morals, works and even biblical intellectual pursuit with a form of godliness. This must be put down to Adams rule and a kingdom [the hope of] on earth in this dispensation. Really what is self righteousness taking form to make us into a justified [self made] Adam man: this being however is a man who can never be present in God's sight, the Adam man of the garden that is. Really the Christian, in his Adamic personality's collusion with the world, cannot abide in fellowship with the Father in any way of honored recognition as to His complete Love. For He is only Glory, found only in Glory, and only by faith, as His children inhabiting the new creation we are seen in perfection in God's view of His Son. This is our faith proved identity. "Your life is hid with Christ in God" Col.3:3.
The Christian today walks often in a spilt personality of sorts. On the one hand he has the Spirit of God within [in his salvation] on the other it is himself who prevails. We are occupied with a mental image of ourselves formed by ego, no other living creature, plant or animal is so restricted. Effectively by denying our life's identification as that of Christ solely by faith, we will succumb to being dominated by form; what we are as Adam men. The problem is found in our thoughts not solved by our actions.
When we perceive our spiritual life though pre-programed thinking of form and experience we cannot sense nor do we have the intuition to know the difference between our pre-programed Adam thoughts and God's new thoughts of us. We are relegated to form, content, feelings in that natural strata. We have really reduced God to a commodity who regulates our presence on earth, our feelings and experiences. However this is far from the Godly perception which we are encouraged to adopt by His Word, entirely by faith. "Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God" 2 Cor.3:5.
Faith is designed by God to bring about a shift from the conceptual world of material and form. Leaving behind dependence upon the minds pre-programed images, which are always dominated by thoughts of oneself and things of the earth. But by faith we enter a realm of the un-preconditioned consciousness, as His thoughts, in true effective definitive action, are all of the unseen and Spiritual. Entirely inclusive of us within His Love for His Son. This is Spirit and has no worldly [natural mans condition] defining properties at all. " I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, [through a new conscious identity] becoming like him in his death" Phil 3:10.
We have a very hard time with the spiritual because of our Adam creature conditioned status. We were made for the earth. To walk in the Spirit is to have the Lord Jesus as actual source of all that arises in us, all thoughts and feelings as to our true nature and heavenly reality." The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death Rom". 8:2. This law of life is solely relegated to the faith realm, for the Lord Jesus is the only object that can satisfy God or man and He is in Glory, not here.
If we have a mind with the Fathers thoughts [apprehended only by faith in His Word] we then have a new conscience, one mind with God. We become spirit partakers of the divine, imparted by the Holy Spirit and we now will be capable of entering into the deepest thoughts of God as we read His word with new eyes.
Our nature will always cling to something present however our wants and need prevail. But in order for the father to unfold His Son in us the father has made it necessary that we suffer within [weak in our worldly identity] our earthly existence in order to walk by Spirit. We must come to rest in the fact that the Word has told us we have the liberty of heaven even while on earth based upon that very weakness “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me" 2 Cor. 12:9. Our thoughts of ourselves are the key to discovery in Spirit of our true identity!
The noise of our mind is a barrier to Spirit. If we rest in His nature however, by His Word, in a positional intelligent faith, we may find a new place never visited by most Christians. The sense of separation is cast aside by His power in His thoughts of us when we apprehended them. Let nature be our example it waits quietly, even suffers the storms, with no thought of itself. As we take His place for us in the counting of what He has done in His Son as ours now and forever. It will soon be His thoughts, His conscience, that becomes our life. Who's way will we choose we all must ask ourselves.
