The fact is; Galatians 2:20 says you have been crucified with Christ. That means you are as dead as Christ on the cross. And the only life you have now is Christ, you nolonger live but it is Christ that lives in you as you. How many different ways can Christ come out of believers? As many different believers there are. It does not matter your ethnic background, your culture, the way you were raised, or where you come from. If you are a believer you have Christ in you as your only life and he uses your knowledge to live as your creation. The mind of Christ has to have your mind, there is no other way to live.
That needs to roll around and resonate with those that are ready to move in God. If the Holyspirit leads you to see Christ as life and how he lives then the believer must move. Most do when lead of the Spirit because if they are not ready they will not move. We can't move until the Holyspirit moves you, but when the door opens you must go through it.
The feeling that you were somehow cleaned up and ready to go for God with the same old life you had made better, that is a trick of Satan. You were never cleaned up, you were never made better, you were killed out in Christ, all in Adam dead in Christ. The cleaning of you, if will, is a new life (Christ) and you live by that new life just like you lived by the old life. You are not the same person anymore unless you're mind stays the same. The mind is where all activity takes place after you are saved (birthed). Once you are born again your understanding is what will make you who you are. The birthing made you who you are, but unless the mind gets that information of how to live life, it struggle's along trying to live some kind of life we feel is presentable to God. Most go into some form of law keeping (doer religion of self effort) like doing to be. That is the harshest type of living there is for a born again believer because they have Christ in them as their only life and they still operate as a self for self being.
Have you ever felt that loneliness of just a dry time in life. What is that? That is the Lord working solitude into your new life. What is solitude? Solitude is a believer that needs nothing but Christ to live. You didn't hear that! It is your father fixing in you a great depth so the believer comes to full Understanding of Christ as life. It does not matter how many valley's we go through or how many mountain tops we experience. What matters is you come to understanding of why you were created, and what you do with it.
You have the word, you have the message not just any old message but THE message of God for humanity! It's the cure if you will, you are like the man that discovered the pearl of great price, nothing matters to the believer at that point. Only thing matters is like Paul said "I'm with you in fear and trembling." Paul had a main concern and that was to stay true to the message of God. He knew what everyone else believed he had been there, either as a Sanhedrin or in his new life he knew. He and the other Apostle's were used of God greatly in the book of Acts. Handkerchiefs were taken from Paul and would heal the sick, his very shadow healed some. He was no stranger to great miracle's but he would relate everything he knew as dung compared to his revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of the living God.
Fact is the book of Acts is a wonderful look at how God was still dealing with Israel as a nation to come to the Messiah. He pulled out everything, all the stops were taken away to try to reach Israel one more time before the gospel went to the gentiles. It did not matter to stiff-necked Israel they were determined to keep what they had.
So the plan of God before the foundations of the world would go into action. Israel as a nation would be put on hold and the gospel of grace (Christ in you) would be the plan of God to work out until the end of that age. Glory!
That needs to roll around and resonate with those that are ready to move in God. If the Holyspirit leads you to see Christ as life and how he lives then the believer must move. Most do when lead of the Spirit because if they are not ready they will not move. We can't move until the Holyspirit moves you, but when the door opens you must go through it.
The feeling that you were somehow cleaned up and ready to go for God with the same old life you had made better, that is a trick of Satan. You were never cleaned up, you were never made better, you were killed out in Christ, all in Adam dead in Christ. The cleaning of you, if will, is a new life (Christ) and you live by that new life just like you lived by the old life. You are not the same person anymore unless you're mind stays the same. The mind is where all activity takes place after you are saved (birthed). Once you are born again your understanding is what will make you who you are. The birthing made you who you are, but unless the mind gets that information of how to live life, it struggle's along trying to live some kind of life we feel is presentable to God. Most go into some form of law keeping (doer religion of self effort) like doing to be. That is the harshest type of living there is for a born again believer because they have Christ in them as their only life and they still operate as a self for self being.
Have you ever felt that loneliness of just a dry time in life. What is that? That is the Lord working solitude into your new life. What is solitude? Solitude is a believer that needs nothing but Christ to live. You didn't hear that! It is your father fixing in you a great depth so the believer comes to full Understanding of Christ as life. It does not matter how many valley's we go through or how many mountain tops we experience. What matters is you come to understanding of why you were created, and what you do with it.
You have the word, you have the message not just any old message but THE message of God for humanity! It's the cure if you will, you are like the man that discovered the pearl of great price, nothing matters to the believer at that point. Only thing matters is like Paul said "I'm with you in fear and trembling." Paul had a main concern and that was to stay true to the message of God. He knew what everyone else believed he had been there, either as a Sanhedrin or in his new life he knew. He and the other Apostle's were used of God greatly in the book of Acts. Handkerchiefs were taken from Paul and would heal the sick, his very shadow healed some. He was no stranger to great miracle's but he would relate everything he knew as dung compared to his revelation of Jesus Christ the Son of the living God.
Fact is the book of Acts is a wonderful look at how God was still dealing with Israel as a nation to come to the Messiah. He pulled out everything, all the stops were taken away to try to reach Israel one more time before the gospel went to the gentiles. It did not matter to stiff-necked Israel they were determined to keep what they had.
So the plan of God before the foundations of the world would go into action. Israel as a nation would be put on hold and the gospel of grace (Christ in you) would be the plan of God to work out until the end of that age. Glory!
