“We are complete in Him who is head over all powers and principalities”. There is nothing else, and no one else who completes us. You can fortify yourself against the objects of your fears, but they are still there. There is only one true consolation. The fear of dying is the ultimate enemy. Fear is the poison that kills spiritual growth. Death is not so much a one time event of being dead, but a life driven by fear, that causes one to be dead to the provisions from God Almighty, gifted to us by His promises in His Son, to be truly free from all fears because “he who fears has not been made perfect in love because fear involves torment”. That’s the fruit given to those who reject Gods covenental provisions. So they turn to the world for their comfort and forget the One who is in control.
We see the effects of fear in the parable of the unjust steward who collected funds from his employers accounts to protect himself against joblessness homelessness and fortify his retirement. He said “4 I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of my stewardship, they (my old customers) may receive me into their houses”. He was afraid to be without so He created a back-up plan, a retirement plan. This is the product of self-consciousness of those who do not know the gospel. We see a brick wall and we don’t know what is on the other side so we protect ourselves against this fear of unknown. “He who seeks to save his life will lose it, and those who lose their life for Christ sake will (have it) saved”. This is what we are talking about. When you run to the end of your abilities, your life is expired. But in truth, we can never deplete the resources of the almighty God who said “let there be light” and immediate it appeared out of nothing without resistance.
There are many who pursue to save the earth and are ignorant of Him who can recreate it with the same simple words. They spend their time and their estimation doing what they think is good when the good that they do is ignorance of him who did it all, who is the one who controls it all even now. Even in spite of all the “pollution” you deem to be bad. Those are presentations that have people “serving the creation over the creator” who will be damned for doing so because they reject God as inferior. He would not have rested the seventh day if you could alter, change or otherwise modify His word of “It is good, very good”.
Romans 1 says of these people 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Creation serves the creator just fine even now by mirroring to humans the conditions of their hearts. Creation cannot fall or be redeemed. It can only mirror back to humanity their own condition. And because man was made on the seventh day, you can see humanity as the recipient.
“If you understand Gods never ending love, and his inexhaustible resources, you can relax your grip on this age and fall into the hands of the almighty God who eagerly awaits you to do so. God said “I will never leave you or forsake you”. But some just cannot have solace in that. So they depart to look for another, or others, plural. This is spiritual adultery that causes blindness. How? because they cannot see Him who is “at hand”.
So speaking of the wise steward “For the sons of this age are more shrewd in their generation thanthe sons of light.9 “And I say to you,make friends for yourselves by unrighteous[d]mammon, that when[e]you fail, you may be receive you into everlasting habitations?” Nope! That is something money cannot buy.
Fear is the abscence of faith. Your faith has trade in value. But you must let go of your fears to recieve the exchange. If you truly trust God, you don’t need a dependance on back-up plans. And today everything as a warentees available to buy. However “you cannot serve God and Mammon. For it is God who said “I will never leave you or forsake you” need not come back in the flesh a second time as a man to fulfill His Word to us. That promise is retroactive as the first one to receive in the faith.
We are complete in Him, if you can receive it. The price was paid at the cross to reverse the curse and undo the fear based mind that started with Adam who said to God “I heard your voice and was afraid”. God knew this would happen. Adam tried to complete himself with a fig leaf, and people today are covering themselves with all kinds of promises and provision from contracts and authorization of writs, promising everything but eternal life. And the words of job was, Naked I came naked I go, blessed be the name of the Almighty God” was his confession of faith.
The truth is God sees through all of our fig leaves, coverages and coverings anyway. For the word of the Creator is sharp and Powerful sharper than any two-edged sword dividing even bone and Marrow joints and ligaments it is a discerner of the thoughts of the intent of the heart. And there is nothing hidden from the eyes of Him with whom we must give an account. Hebrews 4:12.
You cannot be afraid and trusting God at the same time. Consider the old women who donated her two mites, or in our culture her last pennies. That was all she physically had, but for us the elect? She truly trusted in God and was spoken of for our guidepost. Not that God is asking us to live without money, but not to put too much trust in the uncertainty of riches. Our trust being in His word who said to us the Elect “ask anything in My name and I will do it”. Was not telling us how to bully, but just that since God owns everything, and that “He has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness through knowing Him who has called us to glory by virtue”. And virtue being a description of our invisible part. He is let us know here what our new composition truly is.
The day we have the most money, and the day we have none should be equally joyous. Like the Widow with the two mites, she knew that the greatest joy comes NOT from without but from within. Just as it said it’s in the book of James That every good and perfect gift comes from the Father of Lights in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning.
Christ “has delivered us “who all our lifetimes had been subject to the fear of death”. We fear no more. And this fear of death is not a one-time dying but the continual dying and losing of self and the things we seem important. Do not be deceived we will all lose this body we eroniously call ourself and all its physical attachments. Every promise and provision from the god of this age will fail. You cannot stay here. You will lose that self by degree one death at a time. Or you will grow in the Spirit by degree one revelation at a time until “you are complete in Him who is above all pricipalites and powers. And it is Gods word that is our food for our transformation. That we may be participators of the things the God. It is the gods of this age that competes with the things of “hath God really said?” For our intellect to challenge. And if God said it, repeat it over and over until you get it. This is your struggle. It must become you.
Every time we come to this point in our inner dialogue where fear reminds us of our frailties, it is here that we can grab a hold of something Eternal by faith, or turn in fear and fortify the thing that’s dying. Everything that we do for health care and for retirement to fortify our position here are provisions for “the God of this age whocome to nothing”.
James says “5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you!2 Your riches [a]are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire”. Who knows my friend if you will be around to spend your retirement. It may temporarily give you peace of mind, but that might be all you get. We are instructed to “store up things not on Earth where moth and rust in thieves steal, but the store up our Treasures in heaven”.
For the Elect? “We have a more enduring inheritance in heaven”. And “Those who love the world, the love of the father is not in them. When we put on the things that God has given us, we see in His Son, in ourselves and are completes in doing so.
So when the scriptures say that “Christ came to deliver us from the subjection of the fear death? We put this promise on “the loins of our mind”. This is how we appropriate Gods promises, one at a time untill we are complete and the threats no longer cause any fear. At that moment of fear, we step on that fear and replace it with a word of faith. We reiterate the promise that “we have a more enduring inheritance in heaven.”
If this more enduring inheritance was only something to be experienced later, then it wouldnt be enduring but time bound and be harder to hold out for later. But because Christ suffered at the cross for us, having taken away all the criticisms and condemnations aimed at us from the law, he shows for us here that because the payment is rendered in full, the gift is activated. Gods Word has no time lapses in coverages. For this very reason not only does the fullness of the godhead body dwell in him, but we are complete in him who is the head over all principality and power. Meaning we are not waiting for something to come later. We are not exchanging one physical element for another physical. No these things are sewn corruptible raised Incorruptible in the spirit of our mind, which is the place of our new existence. “That which is flesh is flesh, that which is spirit is spirit. You must be born again. This is how that happens.
And as we’ve spoken many times before that the heavens that are carnally known as being filled with stars and galaxies, is not as large as the expanse of our mind which grows bigger and bigger by the expansion of the Holy Spirit. And even as a catapillar cannot understand the life and flight of a butterfly, so too those who are driven by fear and controlled by fear and fortify themselves from that fear, cannot know or understand the life in flight of those who were born of the spirit.
Christ said “7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Such are we. We are not fortified here of the promises of the God of this age for the supplements of this age, oh no. Every time they reveal a fear, we offer up to God his Son, the only sacrifice that is acceptable to The Father. His son is Word. He was the word broken down fore the promises of God in Scripture to find root in the linings of your heart and soul.
When the fears come, you offered that promise to God showing you are the offspring of God. In this way we are shown to follow the spirit of God and confirm our identity as belonging to Him. He came “to deliver those who are all their lifetime subject to the fear” and “the fear of death, we no longer fear those things. We no longer spend our time fortifying our self against the inevitability that we will lose our external self. Even now we participate in the richness of our inheritance of the things of God which empowers us.
So if we lose ourselves in Christ, we gain everything Eternal. For what profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul? Nothing
It is those who have gained everything of this age that have nothing in the other. It is those of us who have no realiance in this age that have everything in the other age now. And it is us as well who can enjoy what we experience here without using jealousies and fears. Just as Christ was seen by some as a peasant on a donkey riding up to Jerusalem. He was filled with the fullness of the Godhead.
It is we who are walking incognito, who have Gods things that “the glory and the essence (we participate in) may be of God and not of ourselves”. Even as scripture instructs “since you have put off the old man with his deeds, 10 and have put on the new man who is renewed in (and by way of) knowledge according to (being just like) the image of Him who created him, 11 where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised” (or other visible distinctions. We are renewed in knowledge to be just like Christ in our understanding. Don’t let the peasant fool you.
We have traded physical things for invisible things and only those of us who are Spirit born again can master this. For those who are looking for a physical mastery? It doesn’t happen. So many would say to us as well, who are you? And our answer to that is, not the man. Not what you’re looking at. These things are hidden from your site. Go on and sleep, the time is near.
Even now, The Kingdom of God is at hand, is a promise retroactive to the time before time because of “the Lamb slain from the foundations of the world”. Check your status.
