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God is not a “No” God to those who know God.
Christ is our YES and our AMEN, and in Him we are made holy and entire, lacking nothing – we are made perfect in HIM. You or I or anyone cannot get any more holy than we already are – don’t confuse what you are with what you do – our holiness is imputed to us along with every other manifestation of grace – not by works lest any should boast. The only reason why people act as if they are unrighteous is that they do not comprehend the truth, for if they KNEW THE TRUTH, then the TRUTH would set them free from the lies they have bought into of attaining or achieving perfection and holiness through dead works.
Jesus said, “Be perfect then, just as your Father in heaven is perfect”. We must conclude that to be such is a present and an available potential of grace in us, that we might so manifest the greater works and declare THE REVELATION OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD, by which shall all the world be set free – PHEW! He loves us as His own dear children – the more you and I get that, the more we will manifest it before others and they will see the Power and the Glory shining in and on us like a light in the darkness.
17. This that I have thus planned, why, did I do this so as to vacillate? Or, why, did I plan these things according to the flesh? Because it is our duty to have our yes be yes and our no be no.
18. Faithful is that God whose Manifestation to you is not our yes and no.
19. For the Son of God is Jesus Christ, who preaches to you by our hand, through me and Silvanus and Timothy; there is no yes and no with him, except there is just yes in him.
20. For all the kingdoms of God are in him, He whose affirmation (yes) is the Christ. Because of this, by His hand we are given Amen to God's glory.
21. He is God then that has sent us among you through Christ. He who anointed us,
22. And perfected (sealed) us and gave us the prize of the Spirit in our hearts.
23. I, however, testify concerning God on my own behalf, it is because I did not wish to rebuke you that I did not come to Corinth.
24. It is not as if we are the masters of faith, except we are supporters of your joy. For it is through faith that you stand.
"Be therefore mature people, like your Father in heaven is Mature. Matthew 5:48 VA Aramaic
Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. NKJV
For that Hope, then, shall represent wholesome works, so that you will be devoted and lacking in nothing. James 1:4 VA Aramaic
But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. NKJV
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you. 1 Peter 5:10 NKJV
For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:12 NKJV
It is in the getting over of that which keeps us from comprehending the Truth where suffering is found – it is in and against all that arrays itself, assailing our minds and hearts to keep us from the Truth – to keep us from realising so great and complete a salvation and from appropriating this grace and extending it to others. Most (western) ‘believers’ live a dualistic life of maintaining external appearances contrived to belie the inner conflict between opposing desires. This is why God has access to us from the inner man as well as externally, so from His searching gaze there is no place left to hide. It is no use trying to maintain and project an external visage of propriety hiding that which lurks beneath, as eventually all will be revealed. There is no use crying out for breakthrough when what we really want is salvation on our terms – everything would be OK if we could just win the lottery once – but faith without corresponding works is dead.
It is funny how that we are much more attuned to the concept of God graciously working out His plan of redemption in us and in seeing ourselves as being worthy recipients of grace while still retaining a measure of contempt, resentment or ridicule for others, all the while not realising that God is as much in them and working toward bringing them into the kingdom of His Son as He is in us – same God, same measure, but to each is given grace according to their APPRECIATION OF CHRIST.
This is why we must never measure ourselves by others or compare ourselves – as the only constant is Christ and the value of our lives is found in the appreciation of Christ. This may translate or relate to actual manifestation of wealth or influence where we are concerned and accrue to our earthly benefit and spill over to benefit others, but even in this we dare not boast, lest we thwart the blessings by claiming some measure of the attendant glory.
There is a denial which is common to most that are sick, in that they do not want to confront or deal with their own sickness. Similarly, we often do not want to confront our sick attitudes but instead paint a pretty picture of how we perceive ourselves and we artfully airbrush out the blemishes and imperfections as a parody of how Jesus Christ presents us spotless before the Father. One is a form of denial, the other is the truth. It is often more comfortable to feign a form of godliness and pretend to love others than to first deal with our own sickness and bring it before Jesus and ask for His grace to heal us so that we may be more effective servants of grace.
The continuing contention between our inner desire to serve God in conflict with the desire of the flesh to serve itself means that we will be compelled to confront these issues as and until they are resolved and peace is established through the Victory which is in Christ. When we look at others and see the evidence of denial, deception and hypocrisy it is the mixture of Christ and antichrist in us which recognises the same in others. The more that we accord, align and identify with our true inner nature of Christ in us, the more we both see and project that onto others – and of course the opposite is true, in that we can and do project antichrist onto others.
Much of this behaviour among Christians is rationalized through identification with Jesus of Nazareth – with following the example of the “earth walk” Jesus instead of the risen Christ. If you do not understand the difference then you will continue to judge others as if you were He instead of realising that even though He had the right to judge, He gave up that right and instead bore the judgment of all. You will think, as I used to, that it is some kind of right to pillory the Pharisees and condemn the religious as if you have something that they do not. The only thing that we all have is Christ, and the only thing that we all need is His peace reigning in our hearts in righteousness.
Self-serving denial is perhaps the most exquisite of religious mimicry of Christ, impersonating and therefore counterfeiting Christ instead of imitating Christ, which is to be conformed to His image. It is the most subtle of all deceptions, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
God is not a NO God, He is a KNOW God.
In Christ the kingdoms of God are yes and amen – Christ is God’s GREAT BIG YES. Out of Christ is the realm of no, maybe, possibly, probably but inside Christ there is just yes – and you will ask what you will and it shall be done for you of My Father that your joy may be made full.
No is a human condition – this is why He said that if someone were to demand from us, that we ought no to go about establishing our rightness, but walk in the assurance of our righteousness in Him. This is not to say that you just let people asset strip you like a hoard of locusts – it is about maintaining an in-Christ walk so that He will walk us through the minefields of our own unremittable wrong judgments which you or I have established in the spirit in contradicting the Holy Spirit and speaking into existence functional realities which contradict Christ. These are unremittable, either in this world or the next, because we have used our God given creative mandate and power to speak in place of the Holy Spirit. They that are lead of the Spirit will not fulfill the desires of the flesh – they will be guided through any existing self-destructive behaviour patterns and also be prevented from establishing any new ones.
30. "Whoever is not with me, is against me. And whoever does not congregate with me, will be utterly scattered.
31. "Because of this I am telling you, that all sins and blasphemies may be forgiven to mankind; however, blasphemies against the Spirit shall not be forgiven (remitted) to mankind.
32. "And whoever says a word against the Son of Man, may be forgiven. However, whoever speaks against the Spirit, shall never be forgiven (remitted), neither in this realm, nor in the realm that is destined [to come.]
33. "Either you are (Functionally comprehending and identifying with and therefore manifestly) a beautiful tree and produce good fruit (The Tree of Life which is Christ), or you are a bad tree and produce bad fruit (The tree of knowledge of Good and Evil which is antichrist). For a tree is known by its fruits. (Compare the sheep and the goats)
34. "O, offspring of vipers, how can you speak of blessings when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart exudes.
35. "The good man produces blessings from a foundation of blessings, and the evil man produces evil from an evil foundation.
36. "For I am telling you, that for every idle word spoken by human beings, they will be answerable on the Day of Judgment.
37. "For according to your words you shall be blessed and according to your words you shall be held responsible."
The desires of our hearts come out of our mouths and shape our lives. If our desire is Christ and He is our Hope and our express image of righteousness then that is what we will speak out and it will be empowered to come to pass and there shall be no respect of persons. If we are instead given to eating of the wrong tree, then that too will be our governing reality – we step out of the “God’s will is yes realm of the Spirit, which is the kingdom” into the realm where we function by the sweat of our brow and the works of our wills – where there are an abundance of “gods” to say yes or no at their whim and want. Some people are very successful at this, largely because they are single-minded and focused, but what does it profit a man to gain all at the expense of his own soul?
Shalom, Ian.
To you it was shown; that you might know that the Lord Himself is God; that there is none other besides Him. Deut 4:35.
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