YOU MUST SEEK CHRIST TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE IN HIM.

Paul says:
“When it turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”
“…we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are transformed…”
Note that just before Paul says this, he points out that that veil keeps people from seeing the Bible. Not even the Bible can help without turning to the Lord.

This is the entire pattern Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 3:
1. Turn your attention to Christ.
2. The veil (flesh) is removed.
3. You see Him.
4. You are transformed a bit more into His image (It’s from one level of glory to the next and the Holy Spirit is the One Who performs the change.)

The Bible talks about Christ in you. The Bible also talks about you being in Christ. If Christ is in you, how is that different from you being in Christ?

The moment you’re born again, your spirit is conformed to the image and likeness of Christ, and you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. Part of your mind or soul is also transfigured because you yielded to the Holy Spirit to the point of obedience. As the Holy Spirit continues to lead you and you yield to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit progressively transfigures your carnal mind into the same mind that is in Christ Jesus. Your converted spirit and mind are Christ in you. That’s what Christ in you means.

However, you are also part of Christ, the body that is in submission to Christ, the Head in heaven. Christ is a body on earth in submission to our Head in heaven. You are in Christ, the body. You are a particular member of the body. Your ministry is Christ in you. The other members of this body also each have ministries, and their ministries are Christ in them. Each one only has a part. You aren’t complete on your own. Just as with the human body, they eye can’t say to the hand, “I have no need of you.” And the head can’t say to the foot, “I have no need of you.” In the same way, every part of the body has need of every other part. In fact, the parts that are more hidden are actually more vital to the life of the body. That’s what it means to be in Christ.

How do you see Him. You see who you are in Him. You see Him in your Christian brothers and sisters. You see Him in the body of Christ. You see what is and is not the body of Christ. You see how you fit into the body of Christ. You see what He is leading you to say or do as a member of that body.

This is why you cannot know who you are without seeking Him.

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The Self-Willed Life Must Die

Scriptures Showing the Self-Willed Life Must Die

Romans 6:6 — The old self is crucified.

Galatians 5:24 — Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh.

2 Corinthians 5:15 — We no longer live for ourselves but for Christ.

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Scriptures Saying Your Own Will Cannot Save You

These passages show that human will is insufficient, unreliable, or spiritually powerless.

• John 1:12–13 — Those who are born of God are born “not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” New birth is not produced by human will.
• Romans 7:18 — “The willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.” Human will wants to do good but cannot produce it.
• Romans 8:7–8 — The flesh (human will apart from Christ) cannot submit to God and cannot please God.
• Jeremiah 10:23 — “It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.” Human will cannot guide itself rightly.
• Proverbs 3:5–6 — Do not lean on your own understanding; God directs the path.

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AN IMMATURE CHURCH

You need to live, move, and have your being in the utterances of Christ as He leads you. If you do that, you’ll eventually know where to fellowship. You’ll know where God has set authority on earth. God is restoring the church. The church is now immature, but God is moving. The church is in disarray, but God will bring order.

Organized religion is most often human-organized rather than God-ordained. Much of the church operates in non-Biblical forms and rituals. The church is dragging along artifacts of apostasies and abominations that crept into the church during the first several centuries of the church’s existence. You will find it easier to spot these disorders in other churches. You’ll have trouble seeing them in your own church. You get used to disorder, and disorder gives the illusion of order if you’re accustomed to it.

Many refer to themselves as “called and ordained.” Some of them, God didn’t call or ordain. God didn’t send them. They sent themselves. And yet, God did call some, and they are walking in that calling.

God doesn’t overwhelm you. As God leads, teaches, and corrects you, He’ll continually give you little flashes of a vision of this holy body of Christ. He’ll show you what it will be when He finishes it. He’ll form it without spot or wrinkle or any such thing. It’s an unfolding revelation. As you discern this body and submit to the authority of this body, the Holy Spirit will continue to transfigure you from glory to glory.

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See the Vision

When God speaks and you listen, He also gives you a vision of reality. In each moment, God reveals Himself. It’s as if you’re looking at a mirror.

For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does. ~ James 1:23-25

It’s like a spiritual mirror. You look into God’s perfect law of liberty. Since this is a spiritual mirror, you don’t see the natural. You see the spiritual. You have a fleshly nature, but you don’t see this flesh in yourself. Each of your brothers and sisters has a fleshly nature, but you don’t see this flesh in them. You only see Christ. As you walk, you see more clearly because of the maturity that comes with walking. You’re less easily fooled by the deceitful and desperately wicked fleshly mind. You more easily recognize what comes from Christ. You can’t work up this vision in yourself. The Father must reveal it to you.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. Although we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

He shows you who you are in Christ, how you fit into the body of Christ, what is and isn’t part of the body of Christ, and what He wants you to do right now. Your responsibility is to hear and yield your will to Him. Then, He will say His words and do His acts through you.

Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:12

It may seem as if we can hardly see or hear in the Spirit, but keep walking. As you walk, you will mature. The Holy Spirit will form Christ in you more completely. Your rebellious sinful nature will die away. Believe God that He will complete His work in you.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when He appears [phaneroo], we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He is. ~ 1 John 3:2

You are already the children of God. However, God hasn’t yet unveiled the fullness of what He has in store for you. However, as He becomes visible, you’re transfigured to be like Him because you see Him as He is.

The Greek word “phaneroo” means “becomes visible,” and Christ is becoming visible to you and visible in you. You see Him as you discern the body of Christ. You see what is and is not part of the body of Christ. Although some theologies put this Scripture off to the future, it’s for you right now. As Christ becomes visible to you, you shall be like Him for you see Him as He is. How is He? He’s a Head in heaven and a multi-membered body walking in submission to His righteousness on earth.

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LUKEWARM

Many choose the middle ground. They don’t want to be hot or cold. They stand between totally depending on God and depending on intellect, emotions, and the culture. They are religious and may even be radical. Instead of following Christ, they follow doctrines, organizations, persuasive leaders, or something else other than Christ.

We are fast approaching a day where it won’t be possible to be lukewarm. No one will be able to stay on the fence. Everyone will have to make a decision.

Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes. ~ Amos 6:1

Today, Zion refers to the church. It’s possible to settle into complacency in the church and be at ease in Zion. Many know about the promises in Scripture but have no desire to partake of the power and authority Jesus purchased on Calvary. You probably wouldn’t bother reading this post if you were among those who were at ease in Zion.

The Lord’s abiding presence, His parousia, is coming in His people. This isn’t the bodily return of Christ to the earth but the conclusion of God restoring His church after the great falling away from God’s patterns and ways. Saints from every denomination and division of God’s people are learning to discern God’s voice from all others. They’re turning from their double-mindedness and their favorite sins. They’re turning from idols such as entertainment, human intellect, pleasure, and possessions. They’re turning from religiosity to the living Christ: Christ in you the hope of glory.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth. ~ Hosea 6:3

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Satan’s goals

Sexual sin has been one of Satan’s goals following the pattern set by Balaam. Satan knew he could destroy God’s people if he could get them to follow sexual sin and destroy the family. It started with something called “free love” in the 1960s. No real love is involved. The so-called “free love” is freely using others for personal gratification with no commitment. “Free love” is one of many forms of sexual perversion.

“Shacking up” became normalized. Then, the perversions continued in wave after wave of one perversion worse than the one before. They created a great-false-prophet message-control system to brainwash the public and manipulate weak minds to promote ideas that can’t work in real life. The result is a lack of fulfillment, happiness, success, and goodness. It’s part of why the world is so crazy.

Sexual sin is an act against God’s order of the family. God established the order of the family. Satan has been working on destroying God’s orders from the beginning. However, he made tremendous progress toward his goals in the 1960s and since. Now, you see the occult and Marxism rising. The false-prophet system has control of every lever of power and influence. And it’s part of a larger plan to wipe Christianity off the earth. It won’t succeed, but life could get rough.

On the other hand, a remnant company of saints is seeking God seriously. They’re listening to His voice and responding in willing submission and obedience to His righteousness. The Light of Christ is growing to maturity in them as the flesh loses control. It’s the time of the wheat and tares. It’s the time of Joel’s Day.

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come. ~ Joel 2:2

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Trying to Fit into the Worldly Systems?

The meanings of liberalism and conservatism persist to the present from the beginnings in the French Revolution. And both can be found in the Church. Neither wants to be led by the Holy Spirit and yielded in obedience to Him.

The liberals want to eliminate or distort the Bible. The conservatives want to follow the Bible as dead letter. But what about those who do seek to follow Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the meaning of the Bible? The liberals call them conservatives. The conservatives call them liberals. They don’t fit into the worldly systems.

In the 1800s, Satan built on the foolishness of liberalism with false science and false intellectualism to cast doubt on the history in the Bible. Satan then worked to weaken the church and teach the church to walk without the leading of Jesus Christ, without Wisdom and Truth that flows from Christ.

The conservatives tried to put God’s flowing River of revelation into cisterns for safe keeping, but they were broken cisterns that couldn’t hold the River of God.

Since then, Satan has promoted sexual sin, envy, covetousness, murder, stealing, disobedience to parents, disrespect for authority, and disrespect for God. You see it all around you. Those have been active in the fallen human nature since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, but they are now coming to the maturity of evil.

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MAKING UP STUFF-CALLING IT TRUE

Modern rationalism fully bloomed in the 1600s with Descartes who said, “I think, therefore I am”, Spinoza, and Leibniz. This line of thought led to liberalism and the bloody French Revolution of the late 1700s. It was a revolution against the authority of kings but also against the Catholic Church. While Martin Luther and others protested against the Catholic Church in the 1500s for spiritual reform, the French revolution was different. Very different! The French Revolution went as far as trying to de-Christianize the world with guillotines.

At the core was a belief in human reason versus Christ. The rationalists avoid thinking about the pitiful inability of the human mind to reason to truth. They refuse to think about the fact that reason without truth consists of making up stuff and calling the made-up stuff “true.” Of course, the Church has always been subject to putting human reasoning over divine revelation. Notice the warnings against false prophets in the Old Testament along with the promise that God would speak to them if they would stand in His presence.

And the conservatives who opposed the liberals weren’t looking to press onward with Christ. They just wanted slow or no change.

In 1789, during the early stages of the French Revolution, the Estates-General met to debate the future of France. Delegates had to choose sides—not just figuratively, but physically—on where to sit in the assembly hall. On the right sat the conservatives. The liberal radicals and revolutionaries sat on the left. This division was so clear and symbolic that newspapers and politicians started using “left” and “right” as shorthand for political leanings — and it stuck!

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SATAN’S MESSAGE-CONTROL CABAL

Satan has been working through a false-prophet cabal. This cabal consists of schools, all types of media, fact-checkers, and others. It creates a solid wall of coordinated messaging that is extremely effective for propaganda. The cabal has normalized many perversions. It made many corruptions popular.

First, Satan introduced rationalism, the notion that the human mind can self-generate knowledge without the benefit of observation, experience, or divine revelation. Satan used Plato to promote the idea that eternal truths are grasped by reason, not the senses.

For a man who denies the Almighty God, this would seem to make sense. after all, we can’t get outside ourselves to be objective. We interpret everything we take in from our senses, and we need knowledge of the truth and wisdom to accurately interpret any observation or experience. Where does that knowledge and wisdom come from if the human mind can’t self-generate truth?

After all, people who don’t know God are able to design buildings and cars that work. Plato didn’t know about cars, but the people of his day did design things that made sense. Plato’s error was that he didn’t consider the God option. Here’s what he missed. Jesus Christ is the Light, and He gives of His Light (wisdom and knowledge) to every person.

Some people refuse to thank God or give Him the glory. They take the glory for themselves. However, they gradually lose the distinction between the wisdom and knowledge Jesus gives and the lies demons and the carnal, deceitful, and desperately wicked human give. Eventually, they can come to the point where they can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman.

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