The art of sowing and reaping
Paul spoke about sowing and reaping in 1st Corinthians 15 for something to be sown or buried corruptible raised incorruptible. First is the carnal body, second is the body of beliefs in the spirit. It is these little jewels that we find in Scripture that we sow in our hearts that we process in the spirit of our mind to be raised in understanding. This is our resurrection that is NOT a one-time event of the body dying to be lifted back up or raised back up at some end ties event, for it shall return to the dust. Even as we see here in 2 Corinthians 6 “ by purity, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by [a]sincere love, 7 by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8 by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true; 9 as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; 10 as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
So this is us putting on our new garments much like Joseph’s coat of many colors or like Isaiah “shake yourself from the dust of the earth and put on your beautiful garments. Because God is eternal invisible and immortal, it is as we put on these things displayed for us by word, we become more God-like or godly. So, when Paul says that “since we then be risen with Christ (as a foregone conclusion), which if you believe that scripture, you are too. Then the resurrection is a foregone conclusion. Now that we are risen, we should seek the things that are above” to acquire and put on in the loins of your mind as if to dress your thoughts where this takes place. These are your new garments. As the New Covenant frequently instructs us to “put on Christ”, lest we be found naked.
It as we look into the law and the prophets and the feast and the ceremonies, that we learn and understand of the invisible attributes of God in the way that he relates to us and our humanity. God is Not going to become a construct of time and matter again. Oh contrare. We transform, meaning transfigure into Him who “in the begging was the Word. The word was with God and the word was God”, and for us to become His Word, is to become godly, which has nothing to does with piety or religion. This type of renewing is our whole purpose of faith. As for your physical body? It returns to dust.
With “the strength of death being in the Law and of the Law era? And Christ put an end to the law era by bringing in the New Covenant founded on better promises that gives us eternal life while we have our physical processing mechanisms of logic (from logos meaning the “Logos of God”called “the Christ” and savior who did His mighty work at the cross.
Let us clarify. The fall of mankind happened when Adam and Eve had a discourse (a spiritual intercourse) with another that affected a DNA. Not so much of the flesh but a way of thinking. Having a polarity reversal from faith to fear, Adam and Eves way of thinking was turned inside out and upside down. We call this the fall. And much like a bird on a perch to fall while remaining in tact to the thing on which he stood. But now everything was inverted. The result of this is that the harder it tried to get up it was really trying to go down because of an inversion of perception. But this too is just a parable or an analogy because in the real, all the bird would have to do is let go. So this analogy only works if there is no gravity. But never the less, you get the point.
Now to apply this to Adam and Eve. They felt fear for the first time. This became their go to interpretation and motivation, That is why First John teaches that those who fear have not been perfected by (in) love because fear involves torment. Torment is the reward or automatic outcome for that struggle against sin. As Paul said “oh wretched man that I am. Who shall deliver me from the law of sin and death?” Then preaches the saving of Christ. So we can understand that those who operate of the old fallen fear way of thinking, can never rise above their circumstances no matter how hard they try and no matter how hard they try to get help from other sources be they doctors or psychiatrists because fear still exists. You know that faith works because as soon as we quit fighting the man in the mirror by trying to fix what you see. You then realize that your problem was your expectation and outlook based upon experiencing failure. And through repeated failure you became your own worst enemy through your doubts and fears that were the proof of your polarity reversal. Much like with electricity. And much like with travel. Like the bird flipped on a perch going up found itself to be going down to think that to just try harder it would get better but only gets worse and worse.
So, we are not stuck in our humanity waiting for more help as the second coming seekers suppose. Our physical body is perfectly capable of experiencing the fullness of the Godhead because Christ who became man, did so to show us how to do it because the first man Adam had it and lost it. Christ showed us the way by the renewing of the mind. Our mind being a greater expanse than the external heavens with the capability to interact fully with the spirit of God, and the word of God of which we call communion.
Communion is to be one with God, to have all things in common to co-mingle with Him. And we do this with His word. And we having confessed out what we could, we now profess as a positive affirmation that “Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life (as if Christs bodily death happened to us!)
And God forbid that we again fall short of providing these re-sources.
, “We are a new creation, old things having past away and all things become new in our understanding by sowing and reaping. And the things we have in common with him is him. In this way we are heirs and Joint heirs with Christ. The forever things are unchangeable, always new, never fading. We are te change agents and the change is inside Creation fades. Creation will be burned for the eternal to remain. (2 Peter 3.10 ) Let us be found “in Christ” “clothed and seated in our right mind” like the demon driven man to be re-newed like what we have said, by what we have reaped from the other side of death while the doors are still open.
And Not! We Repeat, NOT at an illusive “second coming” a saying not found once in the scriptures
What can’t be seen with the human eyes can be seen through God’s holy word. And understanding this is the place of our transformation, our Golgotha, which means the place of our skull.
We see him as he is, we become like him. We become pure even as He is pure. Pure meaning invisible. That is why John the Apostle in his first epistle said “the world does not know us because it does not know Him. And the part about us the world does not know is the part about him they could not know carnally. They reject the invisible attributes seen in the Son. We accept them and receive them. And it is these invisible attributes that we received that they reject because they want to see Him again with their physical eyes because in the Spirit of their minds, they deny Him.
“No man has seen God at any time but the Son declares Him”. And it is written of the Holy Spirit that “will take what is Mine and manifest it to you”. Yes, but not in a carnal way. Christ said “he who has seen Me has seen the Father”. This thing we are talking about is seen with a different set of eyes and ears than of the composition of time and matter but our new eyes and ears. “To him who has eyes to see and ears to hear” of another nature. LET THEM SEE AND HEAR. So we do.
And the sowing that we do, and the reaping that we do is in our hearts. These things are not planted in dirt. This becomes our Garden of Eden, in the spirit of our hearts and minds that our Heavenly Father is enamored with.
Paul, in his discourse of sowing and reaping in 1 Corinthians 15 used a term “each one in their own order” showing us that it has nothing to do with a collective time called a 2nd coming. Those who wait to transfigure in that way are neutralized and side lined from their growth and don’t understand that we are to “follow those who through faith and patience inherit the promises” is your transfiguration because they may say “look here! Or look there! But nay! Do NOT go after them for “The Kingdom of God in within you.” And for those who think the inheritance is later? They are confused. For it is “the slothful steward who says the Lord delays His coming”.
The Kingdom of God is at hand