The things of God seem foolish to the world; the beliefs of the world system put the world’s wisdom above all, but God says the world’s wisdom is earthly, unspiritual and devilish (James 3:15). We are seeing the fruit of the world’s wisdom now and it is the good and evil of satan’s tree, calling evil “good” and calling good “evil”.
The astute mind of the Mind of God is not human wisdom at all. We ask and receive the Divine Guidance of God through Jesus the Christ “through childlike people who are foolish enough to TRUST God’s Wisdom and the supernatural equipment of God” ~Oswald Chambers
“The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are FOLLY to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned” 1 Cor 2:14
Those who are spiritual are often mocked, scoffed at, derided, rejected, even hated, but Jesus told us the world hated him first so don’t be surprised that the world system of government and religion of the god of this world hates God’s True Government and True Religion through Jesus and found in Christ, Whom God made the new Source of new life of a born again new spirit and new mind, heart, and will, and new body temple where His Holy Spirit begins to dwell, making you a new temple of the Holy Spirit WITHIN YOU that you have from God.
Just as you ask and receive Christ in you, Who brings through the Word, Will, and Spirit of God, every good endowment and every perfect gift from Above, from God our Father, the Father of Glory, the Father of lights (those who have Christ in you, the True Light of God, the True Light of Christ’s Resurrection Life, making you cities of light set on Christ’s Hill (Matthew 5:14), salted with fire (Mark 9:49), new lampstands full of oil and fire and eyes to see (Revelation 1:4b, 4:5b, 5:6b), arising and shining for God through Christ Jesus, as the light and glory of resurrected, ascended, glorified Christ Jesus at the Right Hand of God our Father will rise upon and in you, as Jesus is ever praying and interceding as High Priest in the order of Melchizedek for you to come to Jesus, yoke, learn Christ, rest in God and receive the Holy Spirit who intercedes in you beyond words:
another Comforter, Counselor, Teacher, Reminder, Remembrance of what Jesus did ONCE for ALL, Counsel, Advocate, Guide, Spirit of Truth that guides you into ALL the truth, Spirit of Holiness making you holy = set apart for God, Spirit of Righteousness making you perfect = lacking nothing in the righteousness of Christ and Christ in you, Spirit of Life replacing the spirits of sin, death, and the works of the devil; Spirit of the Lord upon you, anointed, Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, Spirit of Knowledge of God and HIS GLORY; reverential AWE of ascended Christ as Jesus NOW IS, revealed by the HOLY Spirit, the ONE REVELATION of the book of Revelation IS the Lord Jesus Christ as he is NOW and is to come: glorious, blinding, crystal-clear, fiery, mind-blowing, heart-changing, falling to the ground overwhelmed by HIS righteousness, holiness, purity of his Presence and Power; delivered from evil and unbelief, open eyes to SEE, beholding the glory of the Lord with UNVEILED face, changing into his image and likeness from one degree of glory to another; for THIS comes from the Lord who IS the SPIRIT (2 Cor 3:12-18), to KNOW and have the Son, the Life of God, the fullness of Christ, grace upon grace, abounding in grace and the free gift of RIGHTEOUSNESS to reign in life THROUGH the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17), dead to sin and alive to RIGHTEOUSNESS (Romans 6:11; 1 Peter 2:24);
under the True Guardian and True Shepherd guiding your soul; the True Avenger avenging the enemy of your soul. Proclaiming the Year of the Lord’s Favor for his beloveds submitted to God, and the day of vengeance of our God against evil, darkness, wicked deception, control by fear, manipulation, sorcery, witchcraft, bewitching, beguiling, bothering by assignments of the enemy with unclean, demonic, antichrist spirits.
But IN CHRIST and Christ IN YOU, out of God’s Perfect Will, from the Word of Truth, we are brought forth as a KIND of first fruits of the First Fruit, the Lord Jesus Christ resurrected, the First Born from the dead in the New Covenant (James 1:16-18). Eating of the Word, drinking of the Spirit, we become what we eat and drink continuously!
IF any one is IN CHRIST you are a NEW CREATURE; the NEW has come (2 Cor 5:17). “Behold I make ALL things new!” It is done! I am the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end; those who CONQUER have this heritage (Revelation 21:5-7): I am your God and Father through Jesus, and you are my beloved sons and brides, growing in personal relationship with My Word, through My Will, by My Spirit, growing and maturing into the Head of the One Body and One Spirit of God found in Christ and Christ in you; having My Spirit, Mind, Heart, Will, and Body, as the Bride, the True Church (1 Cor 3:9, 16-18, 6:13b-20; 2 Cor 13:5; Ephesians 1:20-23), accomplished IN CHRIST and Christ IN YOU. “In that day you will KNOW that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I IN YOU” (John 14:20). “Abide in Me, and I IN YOU” ~Jesus in John 15:4
“To the thirsty [hunger and thirst for RIGHTEOUSNESS Matthew 5:6) I will give from the Fountain of the Water of Life without payment. He who CONQUERS has THIS HERITAGE [co-heirs WITH Christ], and I will be your God, and you my son. But as for the cowardly [go along with the world system of lies, falsehood, deception, manipulation, and sorcery], the faithless, the polluted [old heaven, old earth, old seas], as for murderers [anti-life, pro-ungodly choices], fornicators [ungodly desires; perverted sexuality and confused identity and gender not of God our Father, the Creator and Designer of human beings in HIS image and likeness, male and female, restored by JESUS; so only APART from Christ is confusion as the enemy of our souls STEALS true identity, true gender, true pure holy righteousness of True Love of God, KILLS pure desire, DESTROYS true love and relationships married to the Word, Will, and Spirit of God and its reflection in physical godly holy righteous marriage as we were designed to live and apart from the new resurrected Life of the Son we live in sin, death, and the works of the devil that DESTROY lives, families, marriages, children, churches, communities, cities, counties, states, nations DECEIVED by sorcery], sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars [yoked with the father of lies, the god of this world who blinds minds, the spirit of error of this world system of beliefs, the prince of the power of air in the children of disobedience to the Word, rebelling against the Will of God, lawless under the activity of satan], their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, the SECOND DEATH” Revelation 21:5-8
“Blessed and holy is he who SHARES in the First Resurrection! Over such the SECOND DEATH has NO POWER” Revelation 20:6
“I have been crucified WITH CHRIST; it is no longer I who live, but CHRIST who lives IN ME; and the life I now live in the flesh, I live by FAITH in the Son of God who loves me and gave himself for me. Who has bewitched you?” Galatians 2:20, 3:1
“So you must ALSO consider yourselves DEAD TO SIN and ALIVE to God IN CHRIST JESUS” Romans 6:11
“Blessed are those who WASH their robes that they may have the RIGHT to the Tree of Life and enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters and every one who loves and practices falsehood. I Jesus have sent My angel to you with this Testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the offspring of David, the bright morning star. The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’ And let him who hears, say, ‘Come.’ And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires TAKE the Water of Life without price…Surely I am coming soon. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! The GRACE of the Lord Jesus be with all the SAINTS. Amen” Revelation 22:14-21
“To the church of God…to those SANCTIFIED IN CHRIST JESUS, called to be SAINTS together with all those who in every place CALL ON THE NAME of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: grace and peace FROM GOD OUR FATHER and the Lord Jesus Crhist…not lacking in any spiritual gift as you wait for the REVEALING of our Lord Jesus Christ who will SUSTAIN YOU TO THE END, guiltless…united in the SAME MIND AS CHRIST IN GOD and the SAME JUDGMENT [just and righteous judgment; just resurrected to eternal life in the glory in the Presence; the unjust resurrected to eternal separation, darkness, death]…Belong to Christ… Preach the Gospel…The Word of the Cross is FOLLY to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the POWER of God…God made FOOLISH the wisdom of the world…but to those who are CALLED…Christ is the Power and the Wisdom of God…Consider your call, brethren…God chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chooses what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chooses what is low and despised in the world, even things that ARE NOT, to bring to NOTHING things that are, so no human may boast in the Presence of God. He is the Source of your life IN CHRIST JESUS, whom God made our Wisdom, our Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption…in demonstration of the Spirit and of Power, that your FAITH may not rest in the wisdom of men but in the POWER OF GOD. Among the MATURE, the Wisdom of God is imparted, not of this age or the rulers of this age [world rulers of this present darkness; don’t listen to them or submit to them Ephesians 6:12; Romans 6:16: “Do you not know that IF you yield yourselves to any one as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey.” “For FREEDOM Christ has set you free, STAND FAST therefore and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery” Galatians 5:1]. But Holy Spirit imparts Wisdom of God, that God decreed BEFORE THE AGES for our glorification…God REVEALS to us THROUGH the SPIRIT…[IN CHRIST] we have RECEIVED not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit from God, that we can UNDERSTAND the gifts bestowed on us BY GOD…taught by the SPIRIT, interpreting spiritual TRUTH to those who POSSESS the Spirit” 1 Cor 1:2-16
Attain and acquire POSSESSION of all things PROMISED by God our Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. It is FOLLY to those who are perishing, but the things of God are resurrection Life to those who have the Son and the Son has you!
Wow! I love this!!!!
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in AWE of what God did for us through Jesus! a WOW for sure!
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AMEN, Yvonne. Great post!
Regarding one’s submission to the governing authorities, per the apostle Paul in Romans 13, he is referring to authorities who are also under proper authority to God, whatever their concept of God might be. In other words, Paul says these authorities are established by God which means they are subservient to Him. They must obey Him. In reality, this actually means they must obey the Lord Jesus. It means governing authorities MUST submit to the Lord Jesus to be qualified. Of course, since many of these do not know Him, the Lord judges their qualification by their attitude.
In verse 3 Paul says we should have no fear of the governing authorities if our behavior is good, and only those whose behavior is evil should fear them. He says if we do what is good we will receive praise from the authorities. Of course, this means everybody, not just Christians. Therefore, if one’s good behavior is seen as evil, it is because the governing authorities are evil, have an evil attitude, and are not subjected to God. In this case it is they who should fear because God WILL judge their evil behavior.
This is why Christians must pray first and not simply submit when they feel uncomfortable in doing so when their beliefs and convictions are violated, knowing they are being subjected to rebellious and evil authority.
In Acts 4 Peter said whenever conflict arises in the choice between obeying the Lord or obeying evil authority in rebellion against the Lord, when such authority is commanding one to disobey God, we must always choose to obey God. The Lord will deal with the rebellious authority in His timing in His way.
We must honor the governing authorities having confidence that they are using their authority properly, but we know this is not always the case. If we honor and obey the Lord Jesus FIRST AND ALWAYS I believe we are in the best place we can possibly be. He will then work everything out in accordance with His will for the benefit of His children.
Blessings to you
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Amen. Christ pre-eminent in all things! thank you RJ, God bless you more!
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