Recognizing Who and What the CHURCH is!
People who who have exchanged their self life for Christ's life are known as believers who collectively are the Body of Christ, the Church. This relational journey we are now in with Christ is a progression where we get to know God as Jesus came to revel Him to us. The activity of the Holy Spirit is to empower believers to overcome the enemy so that we can enter into a greater dimension of the fullness of His provision so that Christ will be fully formed in us.
As we travel this relational journey with God, there will be some very traumatic experiences in our life.
There are three dimensions within our spirit that are discernible. One is intuition, another is communion and the third is conscience. Your spirit was a slave to your soulish realm until the Word (Jesus)...not the Bible...that is sharper than any two-edged sword divided asunder soul and spirit. This happened when you were born-again. That is why joy comes, the spirit is no longer a slave to the soulish realm.
The world lives in the soulish realm. And sad to say, but the religious world, although at conversion were set free from soulish domination, has allowed the soul to again become dominate. Most religious believers have allowed the soul to get back on the throne and control their spirit. They are controlled by the mind, will and emotions. To be overcoming believer we MUST keep the spirit on the throne, for it is in the intuitive part of our spirit that God's Word (Jesus) is made alive.
There are many things happening within the building where the Church meets that is WRONGLY called "The Church", that do not belong in the body. These things may be good in and of itself but it does not belong in the Church. The World must know that the Church is not a building, but a body of people through whom Jesus is revealed. Anything that is done in the assembly of God's people, singing, preaching, teaching, etc. that is not out of a heart of relationship and love for God is of the self-life, humanly manly, and does nothing for the spiritual man. It cannot be the means of manifesting the Grace message of the resurrected Christ to humanity who are not God conscious .
What the enemy has been successful in doing is to blur everything until you don't know what is spiritual or what is carnal. The institutional church feeds the carnal man of the believers in its grip that God desires to be destroyed (having no control over the believer). The building you worship in is not the Church no mater what name tag is over the door. The Church is the candlestick (Body), but the light is Jesus. The Church is the Church because it has the life of Christ within. If you have the most elaborate edifice and call it the "First Church of Jesus Christ" it is still not The Church. When Paul wrote to the Church he wrote to the believers.
The devil's business has been to keep the Church in the realm of the carnal and He has had a high degree of success. People, you have to die to self and denominational elitism and come alive unto God! If you do not die to self or get rid of denominational traditions the revelation of Jesus will not progress to a higher level in your life than what you already have.
If the carnal, self life is dead, the more Jesus will be revealed to you and the more He will speak to you. Do you realize that pastors and leaders ruin nearly everything God tries to accomplish because of carnality. If as believers we would be totally given over to God, God would pour out His Spirit and through His grace do a work in our day through the believer that is unparalleled. God is preparing individuals within the organized denominations to receive what He wants to do to accomplish His purpose in the community of humanity through His redeemed community, this is causing spiritual dissatisfaction within institutional ranks. That is one reason denominations are losing ground and fighting to hold on to the people they have through manipulation and fear mongering.
Matthew 17; 2; And His appearance underwent a change in their presence; and His face shone clear and bright like the sun, and His clothing became as white as light.
Jesus was transfigured before them and His face did shine as the sun and His raiment was white. This transformation was caused by the life that was in Jesus as a result of communion with His Father, became so powerful that the physical body could not conceal the glory of that life that was in Him.
It broke through so bright, the majesty and the glory of His presence was so great, that it was white coming through His garments.
The majesty of this same life that was in Jesus is in the life that is in you. When we are born again, it is just not that our name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, but we have an indwelling of the life of the Father through the miracle of the new birth. God is going to take people that will move far enough into Him and reveal His Son through them until every action of their life will be a portrait of Jesus.
Jesus' whole ministry was an expression of eternal life in action to meet human need. The supernatural life of Christ within needs to be expressed through activity meeting man's inward cry.
The adverse circumstances of humanity is an opportunity for the Christ life within you to be manifested and flow through you meeting the needs of humanity.
As we travel this relational journey with God, there will be some very traumatic experiences in our life.
There are three dimensions within our spirit that are discernible. One is intuition, another is communion and the third is conscience. Your spirit was a slave to your soulish realm until the Word (Jesus)...not the Bible...that is sharper than any two-edged sword divided asunder soul and spirit. This happened when you were born-again. That is why joy comes, the spirit is no longer a slave to the soulish realm.
The world lives in the soulish realm. And sad to say, but the religious world, although at conversion were set free from soulish domination, has allowed the soul to again become dominate. Most religious believers have allowed the soul to get back on the throne and control their spirit. They are controlled by the mind, will and emotions. To be overcoming believer we MUST keep the spirit on the throne, for it is in the intuitive part of our spirit that God's Word (Jesus) is made alive.
There are many things happening within the building where the Church meets that is WRONGLY called "The Church", that do not belong in the body. These things may be good in and of itself but it does not belong in the Church. The World must know that the Church is not a building, but a body of people through whom Jesus is revealed. Anything that is done in the assembly of God's people, singing, preaching, teaching, etc. that is not out of a heart of relationship and love for God is of the self-life, humanly manly, and does nothing for the spiritual man. It cannot be the means of manifesting the Grace message of the resurrected Christ to humanity who are not God conscious .
What the enemy has been successful in doing is to blur everything until you don't know what is spiritual or what is carnal. The institutional church feeds the carnal man of the believers in its grip that God desires to be destroyed (having no control over the believer). The building you worship in is not the Church no mater what name tag is over the door. The Church is the candlestick (Body), but the light is Jesus. The Church is the Church because it has the life of Christ within. If you have the most elaborate edifice and call it the "First Church of Jesus Christ" it is still not The Church. When Paul wrote to the Church he wrote to the believers.
The devil's business has been to keep the Church in the realm of the carnal and He has had a high degree of success. People, you have to die to self and denominational elitism and come alive unto God! If you do not die to self or get rid of denominational traditions the revelation of Jesus will not progress to a higher level in your life than what you already have.
If the carnal, self life is dead, the more Jesus will be revealed to you and the more He will speak to you. Do you realize that pastors and leaders ruin nearly everything God tries to accomplish because of carnality. If as believers we would be totally given over to God, God would pour out His Spirit and through His grace do a work in our day through the believer that is unparalleled. God is preparing individuals within the organized denominations to receive what He wants to do to accomplish His purpose in the community of humanity through His redeemed community, this is causing spiritual dissatisfaction within institutional ranks. That is one reason denominations are losing ground and fighting to hold on to the people they have through manipulation and fear mongering.
Matthew 17; 2; And His appearance underwent a change in their presence; and His face shone clear and bright like the sun, and His clothing became as white as light.
Jesus was transfigured before them and His face did shine as the sun and His raiment was white. This transformation was caused by the life that was in Jesus as a result of communion with His Father, became so powerful that the physical body could not conceal the glory of that life that was in Him.
It broke through so bright, the majesty and the glory of His presence was so great, that it was white coming through His garments.
The majesty of this same life that was in Jesus is in the life that is in you. When we are born again, it is just not that our name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life, but we have an indwelling of the life of the Father through the miracle of the new birth. God is going to take people that will move far enough into Him and reveal His Son through them until every action of their life will be a portrait of Jesus.
Jesus' whole ministry was an expression of eternal life in action to meet human need. The supernatural life of Christ within needs to be expressed through activity meeting man's inward cry.
The adverse circumstances of humanity is an opportunity for the Christ life within you to be manifested and flow through you meeting the needs of humanity.
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