Music of heaven is us

A quickish thought for your night. And Jesus returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness being tempted for 40 days. The arrival of the Holy Spirit at the baptism of Jesus was as we have talked in previous emails a change of eras. Now the first act if the Holy Spirit after arriving as a dove is to lead Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted. My friend as offensive as this is I have to say it. Religion does the contrary, it teaches us to flee from temptation but today lets see this Holy Spirit principle. When the Holy Spirit fills us we no longer flee from what may be a temptation to us. The Holy Spirit leads those He fills toward temptation and through the other side. So religion tries to deny temptation and is in fear of temptation but Spirit beings no longer fear temptation they have a new strength a new resolve in the Spirit and yes they don’t see sin.

Jesus must have missed the intimacy of heaven and His position in heaven. Jesus was hungry and so here the devil tempted him with two things that potentially could have been an issue. Look at the temptation to be God. The devil says worship me and I will give you the kingdoms of this world. This is a great understanding of Spirit life. The devil and our carnality that is aligned with him can never give you power. It creates the illusion of power but as we walk in the Spirit true life is revealed. Jesus lived Spirit just as we live spirit.

It leads me into the next observance of Jesus. We think the church was formed after the day of Pentecost and here was Jesus giving us the first example of new testament church. Everywhere Jesus went he had a rolling church meeting. Now we think people followed him to observe miracles and yes some were like that. Others just followed the crowd maybe. But I submit the primary group of people followed Jesus just because Holy Spirit life was Him, just as it is supposed to be you and me. I am sure they walked in the crowd and talked with each other about the life they were sensing. It must have been a lot like some of what we are starting to see. People drawn to the fire and have no idea why they are there. They walk out on the work they walk out on their commitments and lose interest in the world just because Holy Spirit is there. They don’t know it as that but when they hear the resonance of the Spirit coming from a life that is one with the Spirit they can do nothing but listen to the harmonic music it creates. A music they have never heard before a music that is so enthralling they have cause to be near it and it causes life to come up as the longer they are near it the more beautiful the resonance. Such is Holy Spirit in us.

Such was the example Jesus gave us for Holy Spirit church. When we resonate Spirit by just being revealed the world comes to see. The religious come to see as they always like manifestations of God and just like the religious did with Jesus they will ask dumb questions and try to understand Spirit in their head. I can appreciate the Pharisee’s and the stupid questions they asked as I once aligned with the exact same questions when trying to be religiously smart. The crowd around who were hearing spirit resonance must have thought the Pharisees so dumb with some of the stuff they asked. The religious love Spirit they love being near Jesus the difference is they are not coming to humble themselves they come to take and come to teach and come to set straight. After all when in religion the Spirit is such an enigma.

So too today as we walk Spirit life as Jesus did, the sinners of the world the tax collectors and prostitutes and such hear a sound of peace they have no idea what it is and are drawn to it. The more we cease striving and relax and know He is God the more they come. While at the same time the religious act as the Pharisees and try to control, try to witness for Jesus, try to win the lost etc. They know there is something going on but cannot lay aside their religious identity long enough to hear the harmony. To the religious the music is the words but to a Spirit man the music is life.

Jesus showed us how to do new testament church, but who is interested anyway when it is so disorganized and dependant on Spirit. Dear God let us relax and BE spirit. Cease striving and know that I am God!