Difference between revisions of "Be Born Again 7"

Latest revision as of 21:13, 16 February 2011

When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (John 19:30-NIV)

When the Lord Jesus cried "It is finished!" He was speaking of the entire first creation.

Because we do not understand the Kingdom of God consists of new creations we are attempting to make Adam pleasing to God. Our Christian liturgies and activities are proceeding on the assumption, and leave the impression, that God by "grace" will save the Adamic creation by bringing it to Paradise in the spirit realm. This is not the case.

Christ did not come to save Adam. Jesus lived as Adam and as Adam died on the cross, bringing to an end the adamic creation. He who emerged from the cave of Joseph of Arimathea was not of the first Adam. He was the Beginning of the new creation, the Beginning of those who will serve God in holiness and righteousness forever. He was the First of the sons of the resurrection, the First of those who are to be begotten from the dead.

The true purpose of the Christian assemblings is to support the individual as he learns to enter the closet of prayer and to commune with the Lord. It is the personal communion that is lacking today. Apart from personal communion with the Lord the new Life that has been born is not nourished properly. It withers and finally dies.

Believers are active in churches, in some instances, but they do not always know the Lord. They know the church and its functions but they do not know the Lord. There is no time during the day when they enter close personal fellowship with the Lord. They may pray on the run or have a good attitude toward God. But this is not what is required if the development of Christ in us is not to be aborted.

It is not our religious practices that are important except as they minister to the new person that has been born in us.

When believers do not have a daily experience with the Lord, communing with Him, feeding on His body and blood, the Life that was conceived in them perishes. The process of being born again is aborted. Soulish attitudes and practices, including the desire to build large churches, dead religious works such as aggressive, presumptuous "faith," and the worship of music in place of the worship of God, can abort the Life of Christ in the believers.

At some point, when the believer is in the process of receiving Jesus as his Lord and Savoir, the Divine Seed is planted in his heart. A new man is conceived in him. Prior to this time his personality has been unified in that he has had a physical body, a human soul, and a human spirit. Now that he has received Jesus his body remains human but his spirit is being joined to the Holy Spirit. A new life, a new person, has been conceived and is being formed in his soul.

He no longer is a unified personality. In his animal body there are two persons striving for control and pre-eminence. The one person, his living soul, came to him from his mother and father. The other person, he who was conceived of Christ, came from God in Heaven.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place , the cloud filled the temple of the LORD. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple. (1 Kings 8:10 -11-NIV)
+When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. (John 19:30-NIV)
-With the exception of the Apostles of the Lamb, we have few saints in Christian history who can compare with Abraham or Moses, David or Daniel, Elijah or Elisha. Why is this when, according to the Lord Jesus, he who is least in the Kingdom of God is greater than the prophets? It is because we have turned what is designed to bring deliverance to the Jews into a Gentile religion that has little to do with God. This is why we do not see Divine interventions on the same scale of power as those that took place throughout Jewish history.
+When the Lord Jesus cried "It is finished!" He was speaking of the entire first creation.
-Consider the exodus from Egypt , the opening of the Red Sea , the cloud by day and the fire by night, and the forty year giving of manna, for example. After the resurrection of Christ and the ministries of the Apostles of the Lamb, which operated in the ranks of believing Jews, what can the Christian Church put forth that is on a scale with the events of Hebrew history?
+Because we do not understand the Kingdom of God consists of new creations we are attempting to make Adam pleasing to God. Our Christian liturgies and activities are proceeding on the assumption, and leave the impression, that God by "grace" will save the Adamic creation by bringing it to Paradise in the spirit realm. This is not the case.
-Into what Christian church building has God entered and found His abode as He did in the Tabernacle of the Congregation and in the Temple of Solomon ? The Tabernacle and the Temple were true houses of God. No Christian church building ever has been the house of God. Yet we refer to these steepled structures as houses of God. Are we not in error in this matter?
+Christ did not come to save Adam. Jesus lived as Adam and as Adam died on the cross, bringing to an end the adamic creation. He who emerged from the cave of Joseph of Arimathea was not of the first Adam. He was the Beginning of the new creation, the Beginning of those who will serve God in holiness and righteousness forever. He was the First of the sons of the resurrection, the First of those who are to be begotten from the dead.
-But, some will say, God dwells in our hearts, not in our buildings. This is our point. The true Christian religion is the entrance of God into the hearts of those who are part of the true Judaic revelation, including the elect Gentiles who have become part of the commonwealth of Israel . Christianity is not merely a different set of sacred buildings, religious symbols, liturgies, and observances.
+The true purpose of the Christian assemblings is to support the individual as he learns to enter the closet of prayer and to commune with the Lord. It is the personal communion that is lacking today. Apart from personal communion with the Lord the new Life that has been born is not nourished properly. It withers and finally dies.
-When God has moved during the Christian Church Era He has done so in spite of the church institutions, not in conjunction with them. Each time God has intervened the Christian institutions have risen up and declared the moving of God to be of Satan. A study of church history will, we believe, substantiate what we are stating.
+Believers are active in churches, in some instances, but they do not always know the Lord. They know the church and its functions but they do not know the Lord. There is no time during the day when they enter close personal fellowship with the Lord. They may pray on the run or have a good attitude toward God. But this is not what is required if the development of Christ in us is not to be aborted.
-When the Lord returns, many who have gained an advantage in the religious organizations will have a difficult time relating to Jesus because their life has been spent in gaining the approval of their fellow believers. Such believers are mancentered, institution centered, not Jesus centered.
+It is not our religious practices that are important except as they minister to the new person that has been born in us.
-The reason we have departed so far from God's program of redemption, stressing buildings, institutions, and the approval of men rather than the creation of Christ in the believers, is that we do not understand what it means to be born again. We suppose God has determined to reform and save the first creation, the Adamic creation, and we are attempting to place our Adamic personality in the best possible position.
+When believers do not have a daily experience with the Lord, communing with Him, feeding on His body and blood, the Life that was conceived in them perishes. The process of being born again is aborted. Soulish attitudes and practices, including the desire to build large churches, dead religious works such as aggressive, presumptuous "faith," and the worship of music in place of the worship of God, can abort the Life of Christ in the believers.
-We often do not understand or preach the fact that the first creation, the Adamic creation, is serving only as a support, a scaffolding for the new creation that is coming into view. God has no intention of saving us as we are. Salvation comes only through transformation from one kind of creature into another kind of creature.
+At some point, when the believer is in the process of receiving Jesus as his Lord and Savoir, the Divine Seed is planted in his heart. A new man is conceived in him. Prior to this time his personality has been unified in that he has had a physical body, a human soul, and a human spirit. Now that he has received Jesus his body remains human but his spirit is being joined to the Holy Spirit. A new life, a new person, has been conceived and is being formed in his soul.
+He no longer is a unified personality. In his animal body there are two persons striving for control and pre-eminence. The one person, his living soul, came to him from his mother and father. The other person, he who was conceived of Christ, came from God in Heaven.
 [[Be Born Again 8|Next Page]]