a simplified epistle of the new covenant: “has god said…?”
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A SIMPLIFIED EPISTLE OF THE NEW COVENANT:
“HAS GOD SAID…?” The Work of the Internal Kingdom
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A Simplified Epistle of the New Covenant: “Has God Said…?” The Work of the Internal Kingdom
Who Controls Our Will?
“Now the serpent was more subtle than any other beast of the field which the
Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, ‘Yea, HAS GOD SAID…?’” 1
Temptation: With the Devil and his minions, the argument and strategy is always
about God’s Word. Your SOUL, and more specifically, the organ or mental entity of your
human WILL, is the prize. If Satan wins consent to control your WILL, he possesses the
keys to control the various parts of your physical BODY, through your CARNAL MIND.
Your WILL is an organ of your SOUL, which enables a specific function of your
Observer Mind. The support minds of IMAGINATION and EMOTION are also organ-
minds within your SOUL. Get to know and understand your SOUL, and you can better
understand how both forms of God’s Word – Rhema and Logos – can “save” your soul,
as you “WORK OUT your OWN salvation” day-by-day, “with fear and trembling,” as
you receive into the heart of your Soul, your “DAILY BREAD of Life” – God’s instant
PERSONALLY-TO-YOU WORD. 2
The entire conflict between God – Theos – and Satan, in this world/age where
Time and man co-exist, is a matter that concerns “who” will control mankind’s WILL.
That is it! Nothing else. And the ENTIRETY of that conflict is fought within the human
SOUL. Salvation is a work that involves exclusively the conquering of your own Inner
1 Gen 3:1 2 Phlp 2:12-14; II Cor. 4:16; Mat 6:11; 4:4; Jn 6:33, 48, 51, 63.
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Kingdom – your inner self – brining it under subjection to the Living Word of God,
taking Authority over your own being, and then surrendering each new territory gained to
your LORD. Creating a “kingdom of God” on the earth. “Your Will be done” IN me, so
“YOUR kingdom [can] come” INTO me. “Know you not that YOU ARE [present tense!]
THE TEMPLE OF GOD, and the Spirit of GOD DWELLS IN YOU?”3
Satan’s intent is to rule YOU, and he wants to rule, deceive, or influence other
souls through YOU. Your heavenly Father wants YOU to rule through His Authority and
Power, as you were created by God to exercise dominion over everything in the earth,
EXCEPT ONE THING – OTHER PEOPLE! We are not to act as “LORDS OVER God’s
heritage, but examples of the flock,” being “subject ONE to ANOTHER, and be clothed
with humility” – “meek and lowly of HEART [inner self].”4
Satan attempts to FORCE you, and for you to exercise various devices of FORCE
– shame, peer-pressure, humiliation, fear of being left out of the group, etc. – to
overcome the WILL of others. God seeks to emPOWER you. There is a vast difference in
the meaning of the words “force” and “power.” All men –even Christians – are rendered
victims of “life” because they lack SPIRITUAL understanding of those differences.5
3 I Cor 3:16; II Cor 6:16 4 I Pet 5:3-5; Mat 11:29; I Cor 1:26 5 Eph 4:18; Is 5:13; Hos 4:6
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We Must Use God’s Word to Fight Satan’s Attempt to Control Our Will:
Satan possesses all the advantages of the worldly realm. He is the literal “god of
THIS World/age.”6 His advantages and powers are all earthly, sensual, and devilish,7
whereas the believer’s weapons are “NOT carnal [of this world], but “mighty
THROUGH God.”8 We know that the Spirit of God dwelt inside of Jesus’ being,9 and
today my dear Christians, that same Spirit of God dwells in those of us who accept and
believe in Him.10 Knowing this fact, we can change the armament of our spiritual
warfare; for our weapons, our armor, and our strategy IS C-H-R-I-S-T, who is IN us –
indivisibly joined with our human SPIRIT – and who STRENGTHENS us!
Christ, dear Christian, is the Absolute “GLORY” of God Himself. Reflect on that.
He is the RADIANT... BRIGHT ESSENCE OF GOD FLOWING THROUGH YOUR
HEART, SOUL, MIND, AND BODY! At your initial union with Christ – the confession
of your mouth that Jesus Christ is your LORD – His Spirit and your human spirit become
joined together, “married” into ONE Spirit. By receiving that engrafted Word into your
SOUL with meekness, your SOUL is “changed into His same IMAGE” from the likeness
of human glory, INTO HIS GLORY. Your SOUL is changed into His likeness. You must
6 II Cor. 4:4 7 Jas 3:15 8 II Cor. 10:4 9 Mt 3:16; Jn 1:32-34 10 Mt 10:20
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DO the Word, not only HEAR it. When the Presence of Christ inhabits the whole of your
SOUL, your whole tripartite being will be His abode11
Now, ask yourself… WHAT advantage does Satan have? None... once you have
matured into your God-given, “Authority over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
shall BY ANY MEANS hurt you.”12
You hold two weapons: the defensive SHIELD of [THE] Faith – Logos, and the
SWORD of the SPIRIT – Rhema Word of God. Logos – previously spoken Word of God
– enables you to “quench ALL the fiery darts of the wicked .” Logos is recorded in ink as
scripture, and is PUT INTO YOUR MIND/SOUL as you learn it through studying or
attentive hearing, as it is ministered before or to you through the words of a preacher,
teacher, etc... It becomes “recorded” or PUT into the supporting Mind of Memory which
is a compartmental Mind of your SOUL.13
Rhema is your offensive and DEADLY weapon. It is that Word of God
instantly written upon your Heart – your human spirit – as God's Spirit speaks
directly to you “in the hour/instant you need it.” Remember that YOU are the Temple
of God. He does not have to speak from “far away.” “For IN Him we live, and
move, and have our being.”
11 Rom 10:9-10; I Cor .6:17; II Cor 3:17-18; Jas 1:21-22 12 Lk 10:19; Rom 8:29-39; Eph 2:5-6; 18-22; Is 54:17 13 Eph 6:16-17; Heb 8:10.
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Satan's forces will obey your statements and positioning of Logos – your
shield. But demons FEAR Rhema, for Rhema is that Word that Jesus spoke of in
Mat. 4:4, that proceeds directly FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. The Holy Spirit is
the Mouth of God, and out of that Mouth proceeds the SPIRIT OF TRUTH. The book
of James, chapter three, contains virtually all the information and hidden Wisdom
you need to align your own MIND with the Mind of Christ, which is IN you, and to
bring your own tongue into useful SUBJECTION to the SPIRIT of Truth. Jesus said
in Jn 15:7, “IF you abide in me, and MY WORDS [RHEMA] abide in you, YOU shall
ask what YOU WILL, and it SHALL BE DONE UNTO YOU.” This is not by the
Word of Logos, but Rhema. Through YOUR human tongue, subjected to instant
Spiritual Truth, which only and always directs according to the Will of God.
Rhema is able to penetrate and pass through all realms, including the realm
and law of Time. Time is a realm of “illusion.” It only has power over man within
and through the CARNAL Mind of man. Your SOUL abides “between” the material
and spiritual realms. Spirits – God, angels, demons, and even your human spirit are
not at all subject to or influenced by Time. There is no Time in. eternity – only spirit
“BEing.”
When Jesus was tempted by the “fiery darts” that proceeded from the mouth of
the Devil, He quenched each arrow before it could affix to His SOUL. Jesus said, in
each case, “It is WRITTEN... “ Logos is past-spoken, recorded Word of God.
Jesus testified by His words that GOD had once “said.” God's once-said
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words were written, or “on record” in three places: (1) On stone, parchment,
paper, etc... (2) In the ether of Universal Consciousness, and (3) Upon Jesus '
SOUL, in the form of Memory – an organ/mind of and within the SOUL. All
three “locations” are repositories of in POTENTIAL. Those three mediums await
perpetually to be “inscribed.”
The stone, paper, parchment, even the SOUL of a human, lies ready to be etched
by the hand (or tongue – pertaining to SOUL) of man, as the Mind of that Soul conveys
its content upon the medium. Jesus studied the Logos of scripture for nearly thirty years,
before He received the Anointing as the Messiah. That Logos became etched upon His
SOUL'S Memory. He was able to SHIELD [of Faith] Himself from every temptation
Satan cast at Him. Each confessing statement He uttered drenched and rendered
powerless the words of the Devil. You can do the same. Death and Life are in the
POWER of your tongue.14
These responses came from Jesus' soul, AFTER Jesus received the Anointing
of the Holy Spirit, and its Voice – the Spirit of TRUTH. At the moment of
temptation, Jesus' Observer Mind the “True” seat of “I”dentity – was quickened BY
the Spirit of Truth. “It is the spirit that quickens;”15 (Read and understand Jn 14:26;
15:26; 16:13-15). This quickening of the mind or understanding is foretold in Is
11:3(1-3). The Spirit of the Truth “illuminated” specifically WHICH Logos Word
that was appropriate to quench each phrase, sentence, or thought of the Devil... each
14 Prov 18:20-21. 15 Jn 6:63
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temptation.
That Anointing of Is 11:2, that descended upon Jesus after His baptism,
entered into Him. He “breathed out” that exact same Anointing from His Mouth,
upon His present body – the church – on the evening of resurrection day. He told
them to “receive” it into themselves - “even as” His Father sent Him... with an
Anointing.16
Knowing scripture is not in itself a defense against Satan. Satan can quote
every verse you know, and likely many more. Verses do not scare him. His
“seducing spirits” preach them from many Christian pulpits in churches all over the
world and earth. He has effectively decapitated many churches – replacing the Head
with human organization.
You may have noticed that after Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit,
He was “LED up of the Spirit into the wilderness. “17 Mark says that the Spirit
“DROVE” Him.18 That leading or guiding is the primary purpose of the indwelling
Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is given to prepare you for spiritual warfare against
spiritual enemies. “For though we walk IN the flesh, we do not war AFTER the
flesh.”19
16 Jn 20:21-22. 17 Mat 4:1; Lk 4:1 18 Mk 1:12 19 II Cor 10:3(3-6); Eph 6:12
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While the leading of/by the Holy Spirit is freely available to every believer
who will turn towards and rely on it, the POWER of the Spirit must be “earned.” As
your physical body must be properly fed, cared for, and strenuously exercised to
make you physically strong, agile, and athletic – prepared for competition - so
must your Observer Mind/Self be managed.
“To every thing there is A SEASON, and A TIME to EVERY PURPOSE
under the heaven:”20 In Eccl 8:5-6, we read:
“Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a WISE MAN'S HEART DISCERNS BOTH (1) TIME and (2)
JUDGMENT. Because to EVERY PURPOSE THERE IS TIME and JUDGMENT, therefore the MISERY OF MAN IS GREAT
UPON HIM.”
Why is there grief and suffering on the earth? God has given to man this arena to
exercise us. “I have seen the travail, WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN to the sons of men
TO BE EXERCISED IN IT. He has made every thing BEAUTIFUL in HIS TIME;
also He has set the world [not earth] in their HEART, SO THAT NO MAN CAN
FIND OUT THE WORK THAT GOD MAKES FROM BEGINNING TO END.”21
Careful meditation upon these scriptures will go a long way to helping one to
understand all things within and without you. “A WISE man' s heart DISCERNS” two
very critical divine factors that concern every condition, event, or circumstance
20 Eccl 3:1 21 Eccl 3:10-11.
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“UNDER the heaven.” For Time occurs or rules under heaven, not in heaven.
Judgement occurs in TWO realms: (1) in the Mind of God in the highest heaven, and
(2) within your human SOUL. Wisdom is of two kinds, and from two ends of the
spectrum of “knowledge” – above and below.
A wise soul's heart DISCERNS (listens carefully) from the CENTER of his
tripartite being, his Observer Self/Mind, to identify the NATURE of thoughts,
feelings, or urges. That Wisdom that enters your heart from BELOW, is “earthly,
sensual, devilish.” That “Wisdom that is from ABOVE is FIRST pure, THEN
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated [you do not have to “think” or construct it],
full of mercy and good22 fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”23
Jesus said, “In the world you shall have tribulation: BUT be of good cheer; I
have OVERCOME THE WORLD.”24 And you are to overcome the world AND
TRIBULATION ALSO! The fundamental of the Christian victory is that you were made
to be “MORE THAN A CONQUEROR'' IN THIS LIFE TODAY.25 But you are NOT,
designed to AVOID OR TO RESIST EVIL OR TRIALS. Temptations... yes – Resist.
Tribulation or travail... NO! CONQUER THEM BY DISCERNING TIMING AND BY
JUDGING THE SOURCES OF YOUR THOUGHTS, URGES, OR PROMPTINGS!
The point of trials and challenges is that we must come to realize that human
effort, human ways, and human intent, cannot overcome the world. Christ would not have
been needed if man could exercise dominion over life on earth. Christ came to restore 22 Ps 23:6 23 Jas 3:15, 17 24 Jn 16:33 25 Rom 8:37(29-39)
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man' s position of Authority over Satan – the GOD of THIS WORLD. Satan is not the
god of the EARTH. Man was given dominion over the earth. Satan did not take that
which GOD decreed belonged to man. God’s Decrees ALWAYS stand! Satan merely
causes CONFUSION in man’s inner self – his mind – and becomes DISORIENTED.
Christ brought us that which is able to lead us by the hand, through the darkness
of our ignorance. We now have God's “HAND” extended INTO the domain of our own
tripartite being. The Holy Spirit – God's HAND (or “fingers,”26). There is a time for all
things that you see in the earth. The body of Christ is the Agent of God IN the earth.
Jesus did not heal every person He saw who needed healing. In John chapter 5, there was
“a GREAT MULTITUDE of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the
moving of the water,” at the pool of Bethesda. Jesus selected one man of that multitude
for healing. Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit. He did not judge or decide, but was led by
the Spirit.
The church is equipped with spiritual gifts, and by these gifts, the mature in Christ
can destroy every work of the Devil. “For this purpose the Son of God was
MANIFESTED, that He might destroy the WORKS OF THE DEVIL.”27 Are the
devil's works still being manifest in the earth? Certainly, they are! Did Jesus FAIL in
HIS WORK? Absolutely not! We, church, are the ones who are failing. We
are overall failing to MANIFEST JESUS IN THE EARTH! Where the SPIRIT of the
LORD JESUS is, there is LIBERTY, NOT BONDAGE.28 When our heart remains
26 Lk 11:20 27 I Jn 3:8 28 II Cor 3:17-18
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steadfastly fixed toward and into the GLORY of the Lord, WE are CHANGED INTO
THE SAME IMAGE.
True Christianity is not ritual performances a couple of times each week. It is
not an outer or “surface” work AT ALL. It is an INNER CHANGE from one manner
of creature into a totally different being. It is a work which begins with seclusion or
separation from the outside or secular world, as the caterpillar spins a cocoon around
itself to shut out all the influence of its natural, first-born world. It does not attempt
to become a butterfly by changing its outward appearance. It puts itself into an
environment where it is not distracted. The caterpillar sort of goes to sleep
concerning the old world, and focuses on that new Life-force that flows from a
“deeper” part of itself – from the depths of its belly. It is that gentle flow of “New
Life” that transforms the earth-BOUND worm into a glorious butterfly. It is called
metamorphosis.
There is no true “Christianity” without the Greek “metamorphoō” of one's
SOUL. Your SOUL prior to the engrafting of the incorruptible seed of God, is the
first (fallen) Adam repeated. You nor I can MANIFEST CHRIST TODAY by
learning a new language from the church, and by cleaning up some bad habits.
ONLY CHRIST CAN BE CHRIST! The Last Adam – Jesus Christ – is not a
SOUL. He is a Life-Giving SPIRIT that causes a transformation, change,
metamorphosis WITHIN/OF YOUR SOUL. You are to BE CHRIST IN THE
EARTH!
Blasphemy? No. You, your old or first-born self, are no longer to BE at all!
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For you are DEAD, and your true Life is hid with Christ IN God.29 Paul said in
Galatians 2:20, that it was no longer his own “self” that had active Life within His
SOUL. He said, “Christ LIVES IN ME.”
The Greek word metamorphoō is used four times in scripture – twice
concerning Jesus, as He was “transfigured,” in Mat 17:2, and Mk 9:2. The other two
concern believers. Our metamorphoō is achieved through our adapting to our
SPIRITUAL MIND. We are to be “reNEWed” into the image of our NEW “MAN,”
our “INNER MAN,” who is indistinguishable from CHRIST. The believer's human
spirit has literally become ONE WITH CHRIST. Now, it is up to me to exercise
Christ's Authority over my own soul's Will, if my SOUL is going to morph from the
glory of human man, into the Glory of a/the mature SON of God.
Metamorphoō is translated as “changed” in II Cor 3:17, and as “transformed” in
Rom 12:2. They both refer to the SPIRITualization of your identity. You are to
transform or change your “i”dentity in to the “I”dentity” of Christ. You cannot
destroy the works of the Devil, but a mature YOU IN CHRIST, is STRONG
because the same Word that was in the beginning WITH God, and which WAS
God, fully abides in the mature soul. The mature SOUL has already
“OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE.”
The mature in Christ SOUL, does not judge after his or her eyes or ears. Nor
29 Col 3:3(1-5)
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is human logic and reason the basis of determination of what is good or evil. Evil
cannot be appropriately judged by the human mental powers. All things were “good”
by God's declaration of creation, but God created Adam and Eve naked, and called it
“good.”
“The Lord sees not as man sees; for man looks on the OUTWARD
appearance, but the Lord looks on the [inner] HEART.”30 “Neither is there any
creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are NAKED AND OPEN unto
the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.”31
By the eyes of our INNER MAN, “New” Identity, we are enabled to see as
God sees. I Jn 2:20, reads, “But you have an unction (anointing] from the Holy
One, and “YOU KNOW ALL THINGS.” Rom 15:14 says that you are “FILLED
with ALL knowledge.” Col 3:10 declares that your “NEW MAN is reNEWed in
KNOWLEDGE AFTER THE [exact] IMAGE OF HIM THAT CREATED
[the NEW MAN] him.”
Not every unpleasant or ugly act or condition in the earth is supposed to be
stopped – that is, not until after the purpose of God, “Who works ALL THINGS after
the counsel of His OWN WILL.”32 “ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR
GOOD... according to GOD'S PURPOSE.”33
Your New Man is effectively the “MIND OF CHRIST.” Why would one
continue to think and judge by the same mind he grew up with, when Christ's literal
30 I Sam 16:7 31 Heb 4:13 32 Eph 1:11 33 Rom 8:28
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MIND is IN him? There is a totally different Mind given to every born-again soul. It
is a Mind in your spirit, NOT in your SOUL. You must learn to recognize and use
it.34
Through the Mind of your New Man... new “I”dentity, you will be able to
“DISCERN BOTH (1) TIME and (2) JUDGMENT” concerning “the MISERY OF
MAN [that] is great upon Him.”35 Keep in mind that Israel, the first [type of] church,
went into and out of judgment continually. What about Paul and the church turning
certain believers “over to SATAN” for the destruction of their fleshly life, or that
they might learn now to blaspheme?36 In I Cor 11: 27-32, read of sickness,
weakness, or death in the body of Christ for those believers who failed to judge or
discern their own selves. Verse 32 makes it clear that weakness, sickness, or
premature death, CAN BE (not always!) the chastisement of THE LORD. Also read
10:26-31.
The most common reason for the theft and destruction of the good and
goodness of the kingdom of God in earth, is spiritual ignorance. “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.”37
Isaiah 5:13, and Hosea 4:6, declare that GOD's PEOPLE – not specifically the
34 Heb 5:14 35 Eccl 8:5-6. 36 I Cor 5:5; I Tim 1:20. 37 II Cor 4:4
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lost – are destroyed or taken captive because of ONE THING: LACK OF
KNOWLEDGE. A mind deals with only KNOWLEDGE, and if the Observer Mind
of your SOUL cannot “see” the Light of true knowledge that radiates/shines from the
Mind of Christ in one's human spirit, the Observer Mind has only the earthly,
sensual, and devilish knowledge which the scripture refers to as “DARKNESS,” to
guide it.
According to II Cor 4:4, the “glorious GOSPEL OF CHRIST” shining
into/onto the Observer Mind of a soul, would stop the Devil's method. We've had a
Gospel preached worldwide for centuries, yet it seems that chaos and instability in
the earth is increasing exponentially. If the Gospel is so powerful as to cause the god
of this world concern, why is he seemingly able to ignore it? More accurately,
why is the Devil able to blatantly ignore Christ's church today? Because of the
emphasis placed on CONTINUING TO PREACH A DIFFERENT “GOSPEL”
THAN JESUS PREACHED!
Of course, we are to minister the gospel that declares the death, burial, and
resurrection of the only begotten Son of God. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
I expect to bring these True facts to Light until the instant that I depart this earth. I
love, honor, and adore the Son of God. He is my LORD, and my SAVIOR! He and I
Worship the same... the ONLY TRUE AND LIVING GOD... who IS, and always has
been a SPIRIT, and NEVER A MAN OF FLESH.
God was IN Christ... who dwelled IN the physical body of “a” man – Jesus of
Nazareth. “Man” was created a little LOWER than Elohim – God. God is the
Creator. Man... all men... are the created. Elohim – the God who refers to Himself in
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the plural “us” - is SPIRIT. He as “Father,” is SPIRIT. He as His “Word,” is
SPIRIT. He as His Holy Spirit is SPIRIT.
Man is also triune. One part spirit, one part thought, and one part material.
God is a SPIRIT, man is a SOUL, animated by spirit, and dwelling in the material
realm in a body. The Living Word of God did in fact come forth out of God, and co-
existent with the Holy Spirit, “MAN”ifested God in the Person of God 's NATURE
in every way.
“For IN HIM dwells the FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD BODILY.”38 Even
so, Jesus declared that His Father is greater than He, and that only God is “good.”
“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, and saying, ‘The Time is fulfilled, and the KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND:
repent you, and BELIEVE THE [THIS] GOSPEL.’”39
What was the main point or subject of the GOSPEL that JESUS preached? It was not
about HIM, or about HIS death, burial, and resurrection... Yes, He did give teaching
about the manner and circumstances of those matters TOWARD THE END OF HIS
MINISTRY. But for three years He went forth preaching one fundamental point –
God has arrived on the earth. He taught this message to people: God is PRESENT
HERE WITH AND BEFORE YOU NOW!
Each time He sent His pairs of disciples out, He instructed them to preach that
“the kingdom of God has come TO YOU,” or “the kingdom of God is near TO
38 Col 2:9 39 Mk 1:14-15
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YOU,” or “the kingdom of God is AT HAND.” Jesus' only Gospel is that God is
PRESENT IN THE EARTH NOW, and that you must BELIEVE THAT GOSPEL
– GOOD NEWS. It is that belief which quickens one's MIND in the NOW, that God
is present with you to guide and empower YOU to act as His “Agent” to enforce the
Authority of heaven in the earth, in whatever Time and Judgment situation He has
placed before you or led you to.
Too many in the church who are living as “children” of God, are waiting until
they die for spiritual “perfection” to suddenly fall upon them without contending
with spiritual enemies in battle in THIS LIFE. II Tim 2:11 states, “...For IF WE
SUFFER, WE SHALL ALSO REIGN WITH HIM: IF we deny Him: [in THIS
moment], He will also deny us [in this moment]:”
NOW, in this life, is the time our Lord needs those that are His to REIGN
with Him. Not so much after you depart this life and earth. NOW are the
WORKS of a Holy Christ needed on earth! Who are you going to minister to
when you “GET TO” heaven? The Gospel of Jesus Christ for three years, was
that the kingdom of heaven and God have come HERE... at hand, NOW. This IS
the New Covenant. This is the Gospel that Jesus commanded us to BELIEVE, in
Mark 1:14-15!
The Gospel concerning the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord, is a
MUST also! For without the revelation of Jesus Christ Himself, the human Mind
cannot SEE, KNOW, OR BELIEVE in the immediate Presence of God's kingdom
on earth.
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Are you REIGNING over the area of your responsibility – your daily life –
that God has given you, or are you continuously “accepting” the limitations and
obstacles of the human race, who live under the rules of the god of THIS WORLD
(mere “human” life)? If you, as a Christian, accept the human race life as your lot in
life also, until your glorious day WHEN YOU GET TO heaven, you are not walking
in the GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. You are not “CONSCIOUS” of God who
dwells IN you NOW because of Christ. Though you may be living daily in the true
Gospel about the “MESSENGER” of God.
God has not left you in this earth to build a life/soul for yourself and yours.
Those are to be as the by-products and rewards for faithful service. But our service to
God is to continue the
work of His Son, as we are NOW God's Sons and Daughters as well. The mission has
not changed. We are the ones left on this earth to prove to the world that the New
Covenant kingdom of God is STILL “at hand, near to you, come to you” NOW, in
this age... IF YOU WILL BUT BELIEVE.
The Gospel concerning the MEDIATOR is hidden from the lost because Satan
has blinded their Observer MINDS. We preach that Gospel of Jesus' life, work, and
purpose concerning the manner of a re-birth. This Gospel is the introduction. Its
importance is immeasurable. Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life OF
“God” MANifest, or conveyed to the, likeness of a man so that we can have an
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example and assurance that living a life on earth that is pleasing to God is
POSSIBLE. How? As Jesus of Nazareth did... BY AND THROUGH THE
ANOINTING!
Furthermore, Jesus, who purchased our salvation through His own blood, has
never left us. He is available to us 24/7, through the indwelling Holy Spirit. But He
has not taken up residence within us to merely keep us company until we die. He is
not here to be God's BABY-sitter, but to lead His army of Holy Brothers and Sisters
in violent warfare against those darkness-clad enemies of mankind, who work day
and night to keep men bound in their ignorance of GOD'S Presence, and destitute of
Authority and Power.
Beyond keeping a human SOUL lost, or ignorant of Christ, there is one thing
that Satan strives to blind CHRISTIANS’ Observer Minds to. If a SOUL does accept
Christ, he or she is no real danger or threat to Satan as long as that believer remains a
child. Better yet, even an INFANT spiritually. For he can still govern the affairs of
their lives.
What Satan does not want you to know and actively believe, is WHERE
GOD TRULY RESIDES, and that you do not have to “SEND” YOUR
PRAYER OUTSIDE OF YOUR OWN HEART/SPIRIT TO “HOPE” HE
MAY, BY CHANCE, HEAR IT!!
When a person is having a dream, events seem “removed” or distant. Most
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Christians have not been fully awakened from the slumber of their human mind's
slumber OUTSIDE of the originally created state of SPIRITual consciousness. Their
awareness of God and Jesus is more like a dream than wide awake, exciting reality.
Satan, the god of this world, is fully responsible for that blurred haze that causes
heaven to be “far off” in SPACE, and “far off” in TIME. A Christian who does not
WALK WITH AND LIVE WITH GOD NOW is no threat to Satan's kingdom IN
THE SOULS OF MEN!
Preach about Jesus and God all you want. Satan cares little, he has vast
numbers of "seducing spirits" preaching daily in Christian pulpits. Whatever sermon
they can come up with that further buries the Gospel OF the PRESENT/NOW
kingdom of God which Jesus was sent to preach as the BACKBONE of God's
present covenant with man, they will pull from the scriptures.
Knowing scripture/Logos does not give you authority in the spirit, or against
spiritual forces. A display of specialized skill with scripture does not signify
possession of divine anointing or possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a
substitute for evidence of holiness or Wisdom from God. Even if he accurately uses
or quotes a few scriptures, Satan is a liar, and his purpose IS ALWAYS TO
EITHER DISTRACT YOU FROM, OR BLIND YOU TO GOD'S TRUTH –
which is a SPIRIT, in itself.
When God "said" anything, it was appropriate to a specific moment and
circumstance, and according to God's specific INTENTION in that situation. That is
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a definition of upper-case "T" Truth. That Truth may contain a PRINCIPLE of God
that may apply to millions of moments in the earth, but the mature Son or Daughter
will never take that for granted that the principle is a stand-alone just because God
once said it, or said it 25,000 times in similar circumstances. The wise heart discerns
BOTH the TIME, and JUDGMENT, knowing that God alone determines both.
When you see the word "truth" in the Bible, keep in mind that Truth IS a
SPIRIT.40 The useful-to-the-kingdom mature offspring of God is proven to be able to
"rightly DIVIDE the Word of Truth," from that which may be merely "true," or even
lies. God's mature Sons and Daughters are no longer the "children" of God. Read and
understand Heb 5:10-14 (and 6:1-2), and Jn 2:12-14; Rom 8:14; II Tim 2:15.
Notice their difference in meaning from Rom 8:16.
God's kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, not an earthly kingdom. His "kingdom"
exists in only ONE PLACE – the Hearts of people. Too many of God's people have
settled for the weak and spiritually effete kingdoms of religious ORGANIZATIONS;
headed by mostly well-meaning men and women. That is not to say that they are evil
or against God. They are simply SPIRITUALLY blind. When Jesus' disciples met
some who worked in Jesus' name, but did not walk with them, He said, "Forbid him
not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak
of me. For he that is not against us is on our part."41
40 I Jn 5:6 41 Mk 9:38-40
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There is only ONE HEAD of the living-on-earth physical body of Christ.
Though the body of Christ has a physical presence or manifestation on the earth,
the actual body "OF" Christ – the CHURCH – is 100% SPIRIT. We are all ONE
"IN" Spirit. The spiritual entity is yet a literal habitation of Christ THROUGH
the physical bodies of those born again on earth.
When your Observer MIND is fully congruent with the MIND OF CHRIST
which dwells within your human spirit, and you do not waver in that attitude, the
core and crown Jewel of your Soul/Self – your human WILL – becomes the Living
Will of God in your instant moment in Time, the "world" where Satan rules as
the "god of this age." Satan is defeated by the Authority that is in Christ, as you
STAND IN HIS STEAD! IF you resist the Devil by standing STEADFAST AND
UNMOVABLE, under the direction of your HEAD – Jesus – Satan will flee from
you; for a more convenient time.
When Jesus of Nazareth reached maturity, at the age of thirty, His mind was
firmly set upon unwaiverable commitment to “every Word [Rhema] that proceeded
out of the mouth of God.” This human vessel, made of a woman, was fully MAN
(though prepared by God as a One-of-a-kind man, lacking the “seed” of fallen
Adam). Jesus laid down His personal WILL to God’s purpose, SYMBOLICALLY
entombing it in a watery grave in the Jordan River – that river that marks the
“crossing-over” from an old life, and the beginning of a new one. That empty-of-
SELF/PERSONAL-will man, raised His BODY up from that grave of the “old man,”
to create a space for GOD to dwell.
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Jesus of Nazareth was the first MAN of God’s New Covenant with man. The
human will is the commander of the SOUL. By emptying His SOUL of personal
WILL, Jesus’ Soul became the FIRST HOUSE OF GOD ON EARTH. Jesus’ SOUL
and His human SPIRIT became indistinguishable from one another. The very
“fulness of the Godhead” – Father, Word, and Holy Spirit – dwells IN Him
BODILY!42 Jesus of Nazareth was declared the “SON OF GOD” on that day.43
It is important to note here, that after this event of God tabernacling within the
very being of MAN in the earth, His presence has never visited any earthly structure
or “temple” since. The ONLY time that God’s personal Presence is in a building of
any purpose, is when a man or women bearing His Person is within the building.
YOU, saint, are the Temple or House God DWELLS IN.44 For this very reason,
Jesus preached that the kingdom of heaven/God is LITERALLY “AT
HAND…NEAR…COME [already] TO YOU.” YOU ARE HIS DWELLING
PLACE.”
After Jesus’ baptism and the tabernacling of God within Him through the
“Body” of God – the Holy Spirit – Jesus did in forty days what even the most
spiritually-awakened and devoted of us can achieve only through years of
temptations – most of which result in our failures. Those failures will be
temporary IF one remains focused upon Christ in the inner man.
Throughout His temptation by the Devil in the wilderness, Jesus responded
42 Col 2:9 43 Ps 2:17; Act 13:33; Heb 1:5, 5:5 44 Act 7:48, 17:24; I Cor 3:16; II Cor 6:16; Eph 2:21-22; I Pet 2:5
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from His Observer Mind with a word of scripture (Jesus Himself being the vessel of
the Word OF/FROM “GOD” - NOT “scripture”). He did not simply “quote” a
verse of Logos from memory. He was not only “LED BY the Spirit” INTO the
wilderness, but He was also LED BY the Holy Spirit as to exactly which Logos
Word to SPEAK, converting that Logos INTO Rhema - the SWORD of the
SPIRIT OF GOD!45
This is made clear to us through Jesus' first response to Satan's temptation.
Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY RHEMA THAT
PROCEEDS [in the instant moment out of ONLY ONE PLACE/MOUTH] OUT
OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.” The HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONLY
MOUTH/BODY OF GOD THAT IS MANifest IN THIS EARTH.
“God” is a SPIRIT, therefore God's “Physical” BODY... mouth, hands,
finger,46 feet, etc., IS Spirit. For this reason, Jesus taught us to “take no
THOUGHT what you shall speak. For IT IS NOT YOU THAT SPEAK, but the
SPIRIT OF YOUR FATHER WHICH SPEAKS IN YOU.”47 How much plainer
can God make it to us, yet believers still depend upon the construct of their OWN
intellect to speak in God’s behalf?48 Also, when the Old Testament prophets
said, “Thus says the Lord...,” the anointing Spirit Himself actually directed the
tongue of that prophet, as Samuel stated clearly in II Sam 23:2: “The SPIRIT of the
45 Eph 6:17 46 Lk 11:20 47 Mat 10:19-20; Mk 13:11; Lk 12:11-12; 21:14. 48 See Is 30:21; 59:21; II Sam 23:2
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Lord spoke BY me, and HIS Word was 'IN' MY [!]TONGUE.” Paul declared this
same thing in I Cor 14:14-15, saying, “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, MY
SPIRIT prays, but my UNDERSTANDING is unfruitful,” or that his intellectual,
mental processes were useless and uninvolved. Every believer today who prays in
tongues will testify to this same thing.
ONLY by the Living Word of God can you sever the power of Satan, and
ONLY through winning petition BEFORE GOD'S THRONE within your
spirit/heart, can you receive the grant of a decree of divine Authority OVER the
Devil's authority which he won by trickery, deceit, or just plain brute force over
another human SOUL.
Read this from verse 18 of Ephesians, chapter six. “Praying always with all
prayer and supplication IN THE SPIRIT, and watching there unto [in the Spirit]
WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL [or “other”
individual] SAINTS.”
Defeating temptation is the crux of maturing in the Christian life. The tempter
is Satan – the same who spoke to Eve in Eden. He comes “to steal, and to kill, and to
destroy.”49 He can come threateningly with a startling roar of a lion, arousing a spirit
of fear in the hearts and minds of God 's spiritually immature children, or can appear
49 Jn 10:10
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as an angel of light, ministering in sweet, alluring words from a pulpit, where the
seriousness of internal spiritual warfare “AGAINST principalities, powers, the rulers
of the darkness [spiritual blindness] of this world, and wicked spirits in high places,”
is not taught. Study II Cor 11:13-15, carefully. Also, I Pet 5:8-10; Eph 6:12 (10-
18).50
“But every man is tempted, when HE IS DRAWN AWAY OF/BY HIS
OWN LUST, AND ENTICED.”51 What about this “lust”? Do not be lulled by the
Devil to perceive “lust” as being some super-strong urge within only your physical
BODY. Yes, it can be that irrepressible and overpowering force. But that which is lust
and more deeply hidden, or less obvious, is the subtle and innocent appearing wants
of the I, me, mine Voice of your carnal mind of your SOUL. It can be as simple and
disguised as that impulse to buy that really ingenious or cute gadget that SHOUTS to
you from the T.V. screen.
The lust propensity is that never-ending cry from that part of you – your
CARNAL self – which knows only that which is OUTSIDE of itself, and perceived from
the experience of the physical senses, whether immediate, or by memory. The overall
intention, motivation, and alignment of the CORE OF THE CARNAL MIND, is to
survive in THIS WORLD by getting and controlling that which (or whom) it finds
pleasurable. A bully receives pleasure through hurting or controlling his or her victims.
Therefore, do not misdefine what is “pleasurable.”
50 Study II Cor 11:13-15; I Pet 5:8-10; Eph 6:12 (10-18) carefully. 51 Js 1:14
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The Observer Self – your True, “accountable” Self – is “DRAWN
AWAY” INTO THE CARNAL sELF, BY the enticer, who can “take one captive
at his will.”52 Your carnal mind, carnal “old man,” is literally the “WORLD” that the
Devil rules. He is not the god over the earth.
What is “the WORLD”? It is an expression of “organization,” as designed
through the perceptions of man’s MIND, and implemented and orchestrated through
the various cultures and philosophies (which are collectives of minds of men,
amassed to produce the result of a “super mind,” that exists by its own life,
OUTSIDE of the minds of the individual SOULS through which it draws its
energy.
Having said that, the most important “world” a Christian should become aware of,
is that which has been created BY his or her I, me, my Old, long-time self. BEFORE...
in the speed of the thought world, or “speed of thought” BEFORE the True You
Observer Self can acknowledge that a thought has “entered,” that thought is already
very, very “old.” Any thought. Every thought.
Actually, if you are not attuned to the Voice of the Spirit, every thought you
“receive” has already gone under a very lengthy, detailed, and complex “processing” by
the supporting minds of your SOUL – sensory “interpretation,” logic, reason,
memory, etc., AND THE FILTER OF THE MIND OF YOUR FLESH. This
52 II Tim 2:26
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occurs within approximately 1/10,000 of a second in “real” time, but is without
any perceived lapse to the Observer You.
Keep in mind that the core of your carnal mind' s ONLY concern is getting
and controlling (owning) that which satisfies, even potentially, its own desires. The
issue here is “MY WORLD,” or “MY WORLD.” My WORLD places an automatic
premium VALUE upon MY family, not yours. MY daily sustenance (“My” always
includes MY LOVED ONES!) has more meaning and worth to ME (family included)
than does the daily sustenance of that janitor who works at night at the grocery store.
These examples are endless.
If we are not attuned to the Mind of Christ within us, we do not see True
Reality. We only see the “WORLD.” This is the world that we are repeatedly warned
throughout the scriptures to avoid. It is impossible to see what is before you in the
earth without the Spirit of GOD'S eyes. The “world” is your world INSIDE YOUR
SOUL!
We are told in Gal 5:16, “Walk [through your life] IN THE SPIRIT, and
you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.” The Spirit will remind you that you do
not NEED that impulsive gadget or cute thing that you WANT, and. if you hold
on to that money, that same Holy Spirit will reveal to you someone that HE is
looking at and hearing, who is in a desperate NEED of that money. Who. knows? It
may be even you yourself who can 't afford to increase your credit card debt!
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Satan is the god of the world created by the minds of men. He works in broad
sweeps by placing the most deceitfully corrupt men or women in positions of
authority within world systems. Yet he works through his rulers of the
darkness/ignorance of this WORLD, in the daily lives of individual persons. The
carnal mind of every SOUL is Satan's ally – even his child.
Jesus did not speak idly in Jn 8:43-44, when He said to “those Jews WHICH
BELIEVED ON HIM” (vs 31), “Why do you not understand my speech? Even because
you cannot hear MY word. You are of YOUR
FATHER THE DEVIL, and the LUSTS of your father you will do...” Jesus
used the word “Truth” four times in verses 44-46, and said in verse 47, “He
that is of God HEARS GOD’S RHEMA: you therefore hear them not,
because you are not of God.”
Any believer in Christ who takes his pursuit of knowing God seriously, knows
that even though he is born again, there is STILL an “old” side of himself actively
pursuing dominance within the SOUL. Paul spoke plainly of this war going on within
his SOUL, even after years of faithfulness at Christ's side, in Romans 7:23 (14-25).
Those Jews in John, chapter eight, believed on Jesus. Yet Jesus declared to
them that the Devil was their father. What defined their condition, according to
Jesus? Two things: (1) their LUSTS and resulting deeds and (2) their inability to
HEAR the Truth, which IS spirit in source and nature. Jesus called Truth “God's
WORDS” - Rhema - in verse 47
Both the natural man and the new man reside within each born again
believer. That will not change until one departs from the body. “But the natural man
[carnal mind] RECEIVES NOT [because of Rom 8:6;7] the THINGS OF THE
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SPIRIT OF GOD: for they are foolishness53 unto him: neither CAN HE KNOW
THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED.” Truth, God 's
Living, in-the-instant Rhema, must be discerned through the “SPIRIT of YOUR
MIND,” which is your Observer Mind/Self. 54
Your Observer Mind/Self is positioned BETWEEN your Mind of Christ, and your
Mind of the flesh – carnal mind. You CAN “hear” God's Voice – the Spirit of Truth – if
you learn to look INWARD, away from your normal, first-born, old mind and its
prejudiced view of that which is presented before you in the EARTH. Listen for God's
“still small voice,” which is always gentle, as described in detail in Jas 3:17.
53 Rom 1:21-22 54 Eph 4:23; I Cor 2:14
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