God's explanation of the thing [faith] which is required to approach Him goes much deeper than most suppose. Christians usually connect faith with their own self, how it makes them feel and act is often the translator. Few actually look beyond their own concerns. This is only natural, as all that is of God is reveled by Spirit so then it must be perceived by spirit and men have self limited themselves in this area due to their own selfish introspection. Men have a very hard time with a faith concept as their awareness is wrapped up in themselves and their surroundings.
The key to understanding His Faith is in the knowing of our assurance of it. Man is predisposed to thoughts of his ego or self as to the defining quality of his life's meaning, again this is only natural. So how do we find the life He has for us within the faith realm? Well first we must come not only to know who we are by the Word of God but most importantly who we are not before Him, or who He has made us to be anew. A exclusive faith perception requiring a new mind which sees a new man, represented in Christ as example. We now are a completely new creature in God's own faith toward His Son, altogether, us inclusive in His contemplation of Christ Jesus.
This assurance or new perception is discovered as we become disenchanted with who we are in light of the scriptural explanation of who He says we are too be within His Son. In other words our own failure to be what we think and the Word says we should be as Christians. If we are satisfied with our current status we have already been defeated and missed His mark. Happiness, good social fellowship, service and tradition, if relied upon as a defining quality, are a misleading indicator of our Christianity and is simply often a cultural phenomenon.
Awareness by faith, as a power to define being, is concealed in the present moment. The ultimate purpose of God's action on earth and in heaven, on our behalf, is so that we might contain a new identity, as power and action, on earth to glorify Him. If we are not in the present moment a new creation in our mind, as taught by His Word, then we are confined to the self centered ego programed in the self conscious inner man. Only presence in His new life as a defining quality can free us from this ego-centric control. As a matter of fact presence in a new self perception, made for us by God, found by faith, will undo the past in us and thus transform our state of consciousness toward His will to become the image of His Son Christ Jesus, His design for us from the beginning.
This is a spiritual realization. Not the belief that we are spirit, that's simply a thought. Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am. That I cannot find myself in all those things which pass away. As a matter of fact Jesus said it best "Deny yourself" or negate [and thus undo] the illusion that we as self acting, self centered individuals, can please God in any way what so ever.
When God said He was "I Am" and His Son inferred that He was that same "I Am" on earth; He was saying that His essential identity was contained within His perfect all powerful presence as the God and creator of the universe. We by inheritance have access, through the veil, to His holiness by Grace, making us also incorporated in the great I Am of God by acquiring a sense of our essential godly identity as consciousness itself. But first must come need and then comes the trudging the long road of happy destiny. Few have the patience or endurance to make use of that worldly seemingly unrewarding process though.
How we prepare ourselves for the trip is all paramount to serving Him. Yes it's His road but we must read the signs along the way. Most Christian seem to be happy with the status quo. In other words they live and take their cues from the world and thus are relegated to the old inner ego man of the past. Only weakness and suffering will guide them to the turning. Be assured it will come, as God's intent for us, as fallen men and women, is held in the imagine [death] of His crucified Son. His judicial provision for His children, resulting in a new hope of; "I count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge [who and what He is and we have become by the word] of Christ Jesus, my Lord" Phil. 3:8.
Form and experience are the cause of the Christians lack of emancipation from the world system. Holding us back by the powerful force of our inner man in his pursuit of ego fortification. All that had gone on before the cross was based in Law and tradition, man was entirely destined to the earths requirements before the relief [our co-death as natural Adam men] of His Cross became available.
It seems clear that a great rectification was needed for the early Christians, as most of Paul's letters to them were of a corrective nature. They did not seem to know that they we freed from the requirements of form by a new administration of Spirit, which heretofore had never existed as a indwelt Spirit. Paul's efforts were to educate them and be a example to them of a new life which was wholly formless, a spiritual life of thoughts based on the faith in the accomplishment of another. The early church wasted little time in rejecting Paul's positional/identification teaching and they still do today as most efforts are of a cultural nature. The roman government church was the leader in our modern methods and we still follow it's example, despite the Reformation. Which was not really a change but a attempt to improve something already in existence as the word reformation connotes.
There are many things necessary to conform the image of the Christian into that of Christ Jesus and our God will see to its doing. Suffering pain weakness all conspire to place us in a position to better see the death of our old nature. The Word is the only sure guide to a new platform, from which to place our reliance upon a new nature. After we see the desperate loss in our own self, to be anything to the Father [including culture reform and service], we have a chance to find the new man in our self through His Grace and a new identity by faith. The moment we become aware of the old man or the ego's control the emerging awareness comes to light as to who we are beyond the ego. The true identity of Christ within us. The recognition [observation] of the false old man or ego is the paramount contributor to the arising of the true new nature. "If any man suffer as a Christian, let Him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this [the sufferings] behalf" 1 Pet. 4:16.
Awareness by faith, as a power to define being, is concealed in the present moment. The ultimate purpose of God's action on earth and in heaven, on our behalf, is so that we might contain a new identity, as power and action, on earth to glorify Him. If we are not in the present moment a new creation in our mind, as taught by His Word, then we are confined to the self centered ego programed in the self conscious inner man. Only presence in His new life as a defining quality can free us from this ego-centric control. As a matter of fact presence in a new self perception, made for us by God, found by faith, will undo the past in us and thus transform our state of consciousness toward His will to become the image of His Son Christ Jesus, His design for us from the beginning.
This is a spiritual realization. Not the belief that we are spirit, that's simply a thought. Spiritual realization is to see clearly that what I perceive, experience, think, or feel is ultimately not who I am. That I cannot find myself in all those things which pass away. As a matter of fact Jesus said it best "Deny yourself" or negate [and thus undo] the illusion that we as self acting, self centered individuals, can please God in any way what so ever.
When God said He was "I Am" and His Son inferred that He was that same "I Am" on earth; He was saying that His essential identity was contained within His perfect all powerful presence as the God and creator of the universe. We by inheritance have access, through the veil, to His holiness by Grace, making us also incorporated in the great I Am of God by acquiring a sense of our essential godly identity as consciousness itself. But first must come need and then comes the trudging the long road of happy destiny. Few have the patience or endurance to make use of that worldly seemingly unrewarding process though.
How we prepare ourselves for the trip is all paramount to serving Him. Yes it's His road but we must read the signs along the way. Most Christian seem to be happy with the status quo. In other words they live and take their cues from the world and thus are relegated to the old inner ego man of the past. Only weakness and suffering will guide them to the turning. Be assured it will come, as God's intent for us, as fallen men and women, is held in the imagine [death] of His crucified Son. His judicial provision for His children, resulting in a new hope of; "I count all things as loss for the excellency of the knowledge [who and what He is and we have become by the word] of Christ Jesus, my Lord" Phil. 3:8.
Form and experience are the cause of the Christians lack of emancipation from the world system. Holding us back by the powerful force of our inner man in his pursuit of ego fortification. All that had gone on before the cross was based in Law and tradition, man was entirely destined to the earths requirements before the relief [our co-death as natural Adam men] of His Cross became available.
It seems clear that a great rectification was needed for the early Christians, as most of Paul's letters to them were of a corrective nature. They did not seem to know that they we freed from the requirements of form by a new administration of Spirit, which heretofore had never existed as a indwelt Spirit. Paul's efforts were to educate them and be a example to them of a new life which was wholly formless, a spiritual life of thoughts based on the faith in the accomplishment of another. The early church wasted little time in rejecting Paul's positional/identification teaching and they still do today as most efforts are of a cultural nature. The roman government church was the leader in our modern methods and we still follow it's example, despite the Reformation. Which was not really a change but a attempt to improve something already in existence as the word reformation connotes.
There are many things necessary to conform the image of the Christian into that of Christ Jesus and our God will see to its doing. Suffering pain weakness all conspire to place us in a position to better see the death of our old nature. The Word is the only sure guide to a new platform, from which to place our reliance upon a new nature. After we see the desperate loss in our own self, to be anything to the Father [including culture reform and service], we have a chance to find the new man in our self through His Grace and a new identity by faith. The moment we become aware of the old man or the ego's control the emerging awareness comes to light as to who we are beyond the ego. The true identity of Christ within us. The recognition [observation] of the false old man or ego is the paramount contributor to the arising of the true new nature. "If any man suffer as a Christian, let Him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God on this [the sufferings] behalf" 1 Pet. 4:16.
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