FUNDAMENTALS OF DISCIPLESHIP
RENEWING
THE MIND – XIII
THE WORD
OF IAUE - 4
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Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove
what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of IAUE.
So
far, in our study of renewing the mind, we have “reset” our basic understanding
of what the “gospel” actually is; and NOT what we have been told it is for the
past 1,700 years. We did this in order
to better understand what the Master’s expectations are of those who bow their
knees to him; which is something far different than what is produced by
preaching “Just ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and receive him into your
heart.” The only way to respond to “the good
news that Messiah has appeared” is to repent.
That does not mean to feel sorry for the bad things you have done. It means to turn away from all behavior that
is disobedient to the will of IAUE; to cease fighting against his dominion over
you; and to embrace his right to rule your life entirely. If this is not how we “think” about Messiah,
our thinking is still producing death within us; and we need to renew our
minds.
Having
reset our foundation, we began to examine the source of information upon which we
are to rely to renew our minds. It does
no good to change the way we think if we are still thinking incorrectly. We must learn to think with the mind of
Messiah, trained by the words of IAUE; and the Scriptures we study, regardless
of the translation, are to serve as a platform for listening to and hearing the
voice of the Spirit of IAUE teaching us all things and guiding us into all
truth.
Try to
imagine an infant at birth. That baby’s
mind is virtually a clean slate. He/she does not know the first thing about how
this world works, what money is, what government is, what arts and science are,
what history is, what mountains look like, what friendship is, what trees are,
what animals are, etc. The first thing
the child truly knows is hunger and the discomfort it brings. So, the very first thing that begins the
education of the child is the selfish demand for food. “I want!” “I want!” The
first thing the child learns is that regardless what else is happening around
it or around the world, HE/SHE IS THE ONE TRULY IMPORTANT THING THAT MUST BE
TENDED TO EVERY TIME HE/SHE CRIES. The
child’s experience actually bears this out as a truth…for a while. Then there is that day of awakening when the
parents let the child cry because they are not going to just jump every time
the child wants something. That is the
day the child begins to learn the art of manipulation, because it does not
learn in that moment that the parents are wise.
The child still believes its needs and wants are of the utmost
importance.
Now,
compound this initial experience of the child with years and years of living in
this world learning exactly how things work, what gravity is, what centrifugal
force is, what is the difference between hot and cold, what money can buy, what
it is like to have very little money or a whole lot of money, what ego is, what
acceptance and rejection are, what it is like to be popular or to be ignored, what
religion is, what hurts and what feels good, what sickness and injury are, what
doctors are, what is curable and what is not, what cruelty is, what kindness is,
what is the difference between joking and taunting, what it is like to be very
intelligent or just of average intellect, which animals are safe to be around and
which are dangerous, what fashion is, what it is like to grow old and the
effect it has on the body. Years and
years of training just how to get along in this world produces an encyclopedia
of information and experience that teaches us exactly what we can expect given
any situation or circumstance, and ultimately upon what we can rely to get the
results we desire. Welcome to the mind
that needs to be renewed!
When
we come to Messiah, our souls have been trained by the world. Imagine your soul as filled with books, a
literal library of material covering every subject. You have read every book, and you have cultivated
what you believe about every single topic.
Aha! There it is! You know what
you “believe.” What you believe is based
on the information you have collected and what your experience tells you about
what you know. Above all else, your
experience has been the cornerstone of your belief; so those aren’t just stale
books full of information in your soul.
They are the record of your philosophy of life…a philosophy that, until the
day you are born of the Spirit, had no input from IAUE.
Day 1 –
You learn you are forgiven. Most think
this means they are forgiven the bad things they have done, the things they
regretting doing or the things that produced a sense of guilt in their lives;
but that isn’t what they were forgiven.
The contemporary false gospel, however, leads them to “believe” that is
exactly what has been forgiven; and that belief does very little to bring change
to any of the recorded material in their soul’s library. Their worldly experience is still in charge
of their belief system, which is what rules their lives.
Day
Eventual – You learn that you were forgiven of your acts of rebellion against
the will of IAUE; and that you were created to do His will, not yours. The ramifications of that revelation
reverberate through your soul’s library; but no changes are made readily
because experience is still your principle teacher. If the Spirit says to give an amount of money
to someone that reduces what you have left below what you know you will need by
the end of the week, you disobey the Spirit because…you know how money works. And so it goes with everything you are led to
do by the Spirit. His words versus your
experience present a constant conflict.
This is why we see in the book of James:
James 4: 4 Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with IAUE?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of IAUE.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, IAUE resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
Compare
this with:
Romans 8:5 For they that are after the
flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against IAUE: for it is not subject to
the law of IAUE, neither indeed can be.
8 So then they that are in the
flesh cannot please IAUE.
Your
soul’s library is the indoctrination of the flesh. By choosing to comply with its teaching
instead of responding in obedience to the voice of the Spirit of IAUE, you are
essentially choosing the wrong side of a war, a war that your side cannot
win. The Spirit earnestly desires you to
choose Him. After all, He was given to
you for this very purpose: to teach you
all things and to guide you into all truth. Your former teacher was not at all interested
in that objective. The problem, however, is you are going to choose what you “believe.” That is why the command is given to renew
your mind; to recognize that your life’s teachers have been wrong from “Day 1”
and that what you have been believing all your life is based entirely upon
lies. The Spirit wants to rewrite your
soul’s library and liberate you from the lies.
He is, after all, called the Spirit of Truth.
This
brings us to the Word of IAUE. Do we “believe”
it? Do we really? Then why do we still choose to go with the
information contained in our soul’s library of worldly experience? If I were to ask churches across the world, “Do
you believe what the Bible says?” The
resounding answer would be, “Yes!” Some
churches would probably break into a praise and worship service given half an
opportunity to sing and dance around their confession that the Bible is true
and that they believe every word of it.
However, what about:
John 14:12 Verily, verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in
my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in
my name, I will do it.
John 16:23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will
give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing
in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall follow
them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with
new tongues;
18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any
deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover
Galatians 5:24 And they that are Messiah’s have crucified the flesh with the affections
and lusts.
Romans 6:12
Let
not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the
lusts thereof.
Hebrews 13:29 Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of Elohim,
and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an
unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth
unto me, I will recompense, saith IAE. And again, IAUE shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living Elohim.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 In every thing give thanks:
for this is the will of IAUE in Messiah Yahushua concerning you.
1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose
stripes ye were healed.
Philippians 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
These verses are
just the tip of the ice burg, so to speak, of the Scriptures we either do not
believe or just plain ignore. We do not
believe them because they are not what our experience has taught us; and we
ignore them because our selfish flesh does not want to yield to them. What do either of these reactions have to do
with the Truth? IAUE wants the Truth in
our inner man to rule our outer man. The
only way that is going to happen is to rewrite our soul’s library in faith…faith
that the Spirit of IAUE is the Spirit of Truth; and the Word of IAUE may be
trusted implicitly.
Kingdom
heart: a heart that offers no resistance to the
performance of the will of IAUE.
