To add to the last blog entry.
As an example of Holy Spirit life we have to die daily.
Think about it for a second
how can a carnal man kill a carnal man? The Apostle Paul did not say commit suicide
everyday and in the choice of his words suicide is never mentioned in dealing with
carnality. If I can work to kill my carnal man then all I have is a sideways shift of self righteousness. It
does not matter what we stop doing if it was achieved through a carnal work all
I have in return for my investment is further separation from Sspirit life by
self righteousness. Yes we usually see ourselves as humble in that as well because we worked through fasting or
prayer or bible to stop. It is worthless and counterproductive as the carnal
man is too greedy to be suicidal. To narcissistic to hurt itself and everything
the carnal man does ultimately lifts himself up.
Religion always has a focus
on the death but Spirit has a focus on life. So churchianity will always have
you trying to get better. Put to death the carnal man, you know we have
probably all done it. Fast, pray, read your bible and you will be a better Christian
and stop sinning. The focus is death and self and it does not release life when
approached from this angle. We can help people see their sinful ways but in
reality there is a better way a way of life that brings life.
Focus on the Spirit of God,
focus on where He is working in a life and let life join with your life to
release life. The apostle Paul says I die daily. Now in religion that means
self flagellating in some way. Find the sin and die to it, maybe remove the
lust or action in some way and religion tells us we can win. Trouble is we will
win 9 ties out of 10 and then we fail. If on the off chance we win 10 out of 10
then all we get as a reward is self righteousness that highlights our orphan
heart.
As I live Spirit life. As I
become aware of His spirit and do not look for a purpose, I just rest in that.
As I allow the life of the Spirit to permeate my being and flow through my life
then and only then death happens while life IS. Paul says it in Corinthians this
way “mortality is swallowed up by life”.
That carnality which demands such a focus falls away and truly we die daily.
Now out of that life is an increase. My carnal man is being put to death not by
an action but rather by a state of existence of life.
Can we see religion would
make the verse Paul gives us on putting to death the deeds of the flesh as
about action. A Sspirit individual understands there is no action outside of
the flow of life. When I rest in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. When I am
koinonia with Christ and others I will by the very nature of who I am see
carnality put to death. I will never make a focus of carnality for if I do I am
carnal. I will walk by the Sspirit to not carry out the lust of the flesh.
So the reason the Apostle
Paul never talks suicide when referring to dealing with carnality is because
there is another person at work within a believer. The identity of the Spirit
man and as he lives life a death happens to the other and all his desires. If
we struggle with sin all it should do is reveal our self righteousness to ourselves
as truly any sinful act is mere self righteousness. As the tree of self
righteousness bears the fruit of sin. Yes, we do know Jesus stripped the tree
of its fruit and sin no longer exists to a Sspirit individual who walks
according to the spirit and not the flesh.
Be life, be life, be life,
become aware of the Spirit of God in us and submit our ways to the Spirit not
by deed but by positioning. Not by religious works but by a flow from our
spirit and as we become aware of that flow all we will get is life, life, life.
In our finances there will be life in our health there will be life in every
part of our life there will be life. Now if I attach a purpose to that then all
I have is self righteousness and I have removed a Sspirit state and made it a
spirit work. So now something that begun in the spirit is being perfected in
the flesh and Paul talks about that.
To us as Sspirit koinonia people
we can only come to one conclusion. Any system that promotes a carnal
humanistic approach to God is apostate in nature. The Holy Spirit brings life
and is life and outside of that life is a harlot system that tries to replace
the true bride of Christ with a false intimacy called works. To such a harlot system
Sspirit intimacy becomes a lustful desire to please. A harlot church is narcissistic
by its carnal default and the humanism it promotes is an intercourse of death,
as with any harlot.
We are the bride of Christ
and the bible tells us true worshipers will worship in Sspirit and in truth.
That does not mean as a work but rather
as the state of being! I cannot teach anything, as teaching or knowledge puffs
up the bible says. But I can teach Spirit and now life is revealed. Spirit
teaching is about revealing life, carnal teaching is about increasing
knowledge. Maybe one of the worse things that happened was when we created
bible schools to teach God and Sunday services to give knowledge of the maker. Probably
why the Acts church was koinonia it is not understandable to the natural mind
and is a flow of Sspirit life. You can’t teach what happened in Acts it must be
entered, not as a manifestation but rater a lifestyle revealed. What the church
has called the revival of Acts was not revival it was Sspirit koinonia and what
any in koinonia will see around their life in various ways and revealings.
OUCH!
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