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FUNDAMENTALS OF DISCIPLESHIP
THE
TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOUL – XII
2 Corinthians 4:6 For Elohim, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of Elohim in the face of Yahushua Messiah.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of IAUE, and not of us.
Messiah Yahushua came
as the last Adam to be a quickening spirit…a life-giving spirit. Messiah restores life to the spirit of man in
order to redeem man’s soul. So, you see, Father IAUE is looking for a soul that
loves Him and does all His good pleasure.
He is not looking for newborn spirits.
That is not His objective. His
true objective is not possible until the spirit of man is quickened by
Messiah. Then and only then can the soul
be transformed.
For
many weeks, now, we have been developing an understanding of the configuration
of man and of the nature of the release of the life and power of IAUE invested
into the newborn spirit of man from the Spirit to the Conscience through the Heart
to the Understanding through the Soul and, finally, to and through the Flesh.
We
have learned that doing the will of IAUE creates bridges, pathways through
which the life and power of IAUE can be released into an outworking in and
through our bodies, our flesh; and in the process our souls become transformed
into the likeness (righteousness) of IAUE.
Luke 11:28 …blessed are they that hear
the word of IAUE, and keep it.
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine, and doeth them,
I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Matthew 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in
heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
John 8:51 …If a man keep my saying...
John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John 14:23 …If a man love me, he will keep my words…
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
For
too long, the church has been accumulating “believers” and not “doers” of the
Word. The contemporary Christian church
values knowledge of the Scripture to the point that actually doing what we have
learned and know to do has lost all value.
Every Sunday morning, hundreds of thousands of church buildings are
occupied with millions of people who, if they are genuinely born again, and especially
if they are filled/indwelled by the Holy Spirit, conceal from the rest of the
world the very power that could proclaim liberty to the captives and change forever
the lives of the population around them. After the Sunday morning services are
over, these millions of “believers” go back to their own lives and think
nothing of doing the will of IAUE or of meeting the needs of the people around them. Why is this?
It is because they have never been taught about the release of the
spirit; and even more so, they have never been taught what is inside of them
that can be released. Oh, they have it doctrinally, but it is not
revelation knowledge to them. They know
it academically, but not experientially.
Let’s
imagine, for illustration’s sake, that you bought a house, and you have been
living in the house for many years.
Then, one day, you meet an elderly man who tells you a story. He tells you that he personally knew the man
who built the house and lived in the house long before you were ever even born. He just happened to know that the man who
built the house and first lived there was a miser who made a lot of money, and
he invested a lot of his money in gold and silver and precious jewels and he
hid his treasure away behind the wall in the master bathroom, behind where the
sink is located; and that the miserly old man passed away having never told
anyone else about his hidden treasure.
What
would you do? You would go straight to
your master bathroom and begin to tear down that wall to find the hidden
treasure. Why would you do this? It is because gold and silver and precious
jewels are deemed to be valuable to you.
They would have the ability to change your lifestyle. They could change your life. Having such a treasure would have the power to
alter your life in ways that you value. It would not be long before your
friends and neighbors and extended family members could see the impact of that
treasure upon your life. A new car...maybe
to new cars…maybe a boat, new clothes, your children going to private
schools. Who knows? If the treasure were great enough, you would
quit your job, buy a bigger house in an exclusive neighborhood, join the
country club, etc. Or, maybe if you were
so inclined, your family member’s debts might be paid for them, your neighbors’
hospital bills taken care of, donations might be made to homeless shelters or
adoption agencies. One way or another, people would be able to SEE that your
life has been changed by the treasure you uncovered.
Would
you break down the wall in your house if someone told you that they knew a
prior owner had hid several bags of marbles and a bag of rocks they collected
to commemorate all the places they have visited through their lifetime? These may have been treasures in the mind of
the prior owner, but not to you; so why bother tearing down the wall? They are just fine left alone where they are.
Well,
we have a treasure hidden inside of us; and it remains hidden only for one of
two reasons. One, it is because we do
not know it is there; or, two, we know it is there, but we do not value it (or
we regard the cost of uncovering it to be more costly than the value of the
treasure). So we have this treasure in
earthen vessels, but no one can tell we have it, because we have done nothing
to uncover it. We don’t consider that it
will change or impact our lives in a way that is materially better than the
life we are currently living; so why pay the price to get at it? This kind of thinking betrays our lack of
repentance; or it demonstrates that our faith in Messiah has been replaced with
confidence in having been born again to secure our eternal destination. Any mindset that is not hungry for the
fullness of what IAUE has placed within us, and desirous of doing His will at
all times with all the tools He places at our disposal is evidence of our not even
being in Messiah.
John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me,
and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can
do nothing.
6 If a
man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is
withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are
burned.
If
we have been taking on the challenge in this blog to give thanks unto IAUE in
everything, and to rejoice all the time, and to pray unceasingly, we have
experienced to some measure the release of the spirit. Some treasure has leaked out; and we have
experienced the joy that inescapably corresponds with our participation and
union with the life and light and power of IAUE that was released. This is but the proverbial tip of the iceberg
of the treasure that is in us.
Next
week, for the first time in this series, we will examine this treasure we have
in our earthen vessels and discover what it really is. Then we may decide that it actually is of
great value to us; and the impact and change that it will bring to our lives
might just have far greater and more desirable impact than gold, silver and precious jewels. Maybe then, we will find ourselves paying
whatever the cost to break down any walls or obstructions or interference that might
separate us from it.
Kingdom
heart: a heart that offers no resistance to the
performance of the will of IAUE.
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