Before the
distortion of God's word by Satan, Adam and Eve were in a place of oneness with
God because they lived in the truth of who He is. After Satan distorted God's
character, causing distrust in man towards God, man no longer knew the truth of
who he was in God. Not knowing who we
are in God does this, and it propels us into a fear-based, works
orientation. We traded "knowing"
God to "knowing" good and evil.
Remember, "knowing" is an intimate relationship in the Bible.
God showed up in
the Garden. Their confusion did not
change God's ability or desire to show up.
It is important that we get this.
God is faith sensitive, not sin sensitive. Luke 18:8 asks this question: when He comes,
will He find faith in the land? God has
dealt with sin...His Son died...got us covered.
God is love. Everything in
scripture must be evaluated from this standpoint. I keep saying this for my benefit because the
lessons I got in the first two-thirds of my life, missed that standard of
love. Now, when I revisit the
scriptures, I see them with new eyes.
John 3:16 says
that God so loved the world that He sent His only Son and whosoever believes in
Him shall not perish. Even though Adam and Eve had been in a face to face relationship
with God, the delusion that Satan brought to them was so great that they no
longer saw Him correctly. It is this
spirit of delusion that we are still trying to get over. How do we get over it?
John 8:31.32 --
"...if ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed. And ye shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free." We can only
be disciples of truth, if we are continuing in His word. It is a must.
It is all about God's identity and our identity in Him. Jesus said that if we have seen Him, we have
seen that Father. Our only work is to
see Him clearly without the distortions that have come down to us by scribes
and Pharisees of our day. Jesus said to
those leaders of His day: "Ye neither know Me or My Father; if ye had known
Me, ye should have known My Father, also."
John 8:19.
Am I getting
it? The only truth I need...it is
foundational for all the others...is the truth of who God is, who Jesus is, who
I am in the Godhead. Colossians
2:9-10: "For in Him dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye
are complete in Him which is the head of all principality and power."
I find it
interesting that the struggle with spiritual darkness in Jesus' day was with
the religious people...the established church of that time. They had set up
man-centered religion, and that which was spiritual (Jesus) they crucified. It was the same in the Old Testament. In Ezekiel 13 (and many other places), God is
talking to Ezekiel about false prophets. Prophets are from the spiritual camp. They are not the outsiders. These false prophets were leading the people
astray. It is interesting here that we
are told what they should be doing: verse 5 -- they were not standing in the
gap for God's people, and they were not building a hedge around God's
people. This is an other-centered
work. The false
prophets...self-centered. This is a good
way to measure the prophets of today.
The above text
in Colossians says we are "complete" in Him. In the Garden of Eden the devil suggested
that we were incomplete because God was withholding something...something we
would be given if we disobeyed. Not
trusting that they were "complete" was the problem then, and it is
the problem now. For it is the
belief/feeling that there is something wrong with me...something I am
missing...something I don't know...that propels us into making fig leaf
garments.
Are the messages
that I am listening to suggesting "incompleteness." Are they fear-based? Or, are they building hedges and standing in
the gap? Are they telling you the truth
about the Godhead and about who you are in the Godhead. A young person that I know who has
experienced the truth about Jesus this year and has come to know Him as her
Savior rather than someone she can never please, told me that recently she was
listening to a program at church and that in those words, she suddenly felt the
old stuff of doubting her salvation creating tension in her body. She quickly realized that she was not the
problem...she was not incomplete...the message was. In Christ Jesus, we are complete. Anything else is a false prophet.
Isaiah 8:19-20
-- If they speak not according to this Word, it is because there is NO light in
them. 2 Timothy 1:17 -- God has not
given us a spirit of fear, but power, love, and a sound mind. Man's ways seem to promote fear. That is a control technique. The Lord is our Shepherd, we shall NOT want. We must see ourselves through Heaven's
eyes. God did not shed the precious
blood of Jesus over that which has not merit...His people and His
character. Thank you, Jesus!
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