Water Baptism revisited

This morning I was reading Matthew 3 and it struck me again how we often gloss over parts of a verse as they just don’t seem to pop out at us. Maybe its common language or our focus has been on other things but here I am again reading about baptism and something popped out that we already know but in a new way.
“I baptize you with[b] water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
15 Jesus replied, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John consented.
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
There is so much going on here but let’s stick to the main points.
Firstly- John himself states “I baptize you with[b] water for repentance. But after me comes one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with[c] the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Did you notice he states he baptizes with water but one coming after him Jesus baptizes with the Holy Spirit and fire. I love how the bible then goes on to describe how that fire will separate. Fire is one of those things try and describe it to someone who has never seen it. Thus try and describe the fire inside us when the Holy Spirit ignites us and purifies us.
Secondly- John did not want to baptize Jesus. His words were “I need to be baptized by you”
Thirdly – This is the key verse to the whole passage. Jesus said “it is proper to do this to fulfill all righteousness” What exactly did he mean by that. I know we would say he needs to be baptized as we all do and it fulfills righteousness in Him. I would suggest we read it another way. Jesus fulfilled all righteousness the bible tell us. The law was fulfilled in Christ, baptism was fulfilled in Christ and as Jesus said hanging on the cross “IT IS FINISHED” He completed all requirements. Think about it for a moment.
Until someone lived perfect before the law the law could never be completed. How can someone say I fulfilled it when they sin. Jesus never sinned and completed the law in himself. He paid the price and now had the right to make new terms. Such terms could only be fulfilled in the one who was above the law and that was Jesus.
So the progression of the bible reveals to us baptism was fulfilled and I love the next part.
Fourthly- At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”

What a beautiful confirmation of fulfillment and the statement of John saying Jesus will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus fulfills baptism and the Holy Spirit comes down from above as dove. The celebration of heaven as baptism was finally fulfilled in Christ.
Jesus was finally completing why He came and only He understood the importance of what was going on here. Only the God head knew that within baptism lies completed life. Jesus was the resurrection and the life. He was transitioning mankind into eternity with Him. Johns words were finally fulfilled right before his eyes.
SUMMARY- It always puzzled me why Jesus was baptized when he knew no sin. I always explained it away by saying he was showing us we need to do the same. Today I see even clearer the deception of such and the truth of such. Why do we have so much trouble reading the words of these great men. John clearly told us his baptism was going away and Jesus clearly tells us he is fulfilling baptism in water. The Holy Spirit arrives as John said He would and right in that water a new era began. It did not begin at Pentecost it began with baptism being fulfilled in Christ.
It is so subtle but so powerful and there is no better description of Holy Ghost life than that. I am enthralled by the scene here. Such an enormous change in life. The passing of one era to another and so subtly. As men we look at the day of Pentecost and love it. We have a natural attraction to it as men because of the visible deposit of power and manifestations. It to us has become a pivotal time but we are missing the key here. When we see the subtle baptism change and arrival of the holy Spirit we understand we too must be baptized into Christ like John said. With the holy Spirit and fire. When we climb into Christ and He into us the baptism is eternal.
Again as men we follow the manifestations instead of the lifestyle. We think we need water baptism and can we suggest that as the new testament progresses it become increasingly unclear if baptism in water is water of the Jordan or Holy Spirit water. Jesus knew the change man needed time to transition into the change. When I climb into the water with Jesus the Holy Spirit alights as a dove on our heads and now we never leave the water and as Ephesians 4 says I am now be being filled. I am baptized daily in Holy Spirit water that brings life.

Romance at its best - Marriage, church, life ROMANCE how do they all feed each other

It probably would be diligent to write a small article on romance. We have written so much and talk almost daily with people about God romance. One of the things that comes through so clearly is that many have never experienced true romance. So let’s discover a few facts and give some examples about romance.

But lets start by starting with a potentially inflammatory statement. Our relationship with our married partner is a DIRECT reflection of our relationship with God. How the romance is in our marriage is a direct reflection of our romance with the Spirit of God. Sound weird read on and you will understand a little maybe.

Firstly romance is not anything that can be taught or understood. If we understand romance then we have never had it. If we demand romance from anyone then we have no idea what romance is. If we crave romance we have missed it. Romance just flows when we allow life itself to ignite us in undiscovered love. Also if romance needs anything sexual to survive then it is not romance.

So we can never understand romance I think it is a movement of God through His holy Spirit to bring people together as an example of what He is to us and what church should be. Romance is completely about me while not being about me in the slightest. It is in true romance I can never say my needs are not being met as there is no psychopathic tinge in romance. It is completely about the other person and at the same time is completely about me. Not as a conscious act but rather as a flow of romantic love from within.

Romance gives no heed to consequences of time location or action. Inside romance we feel invincible and truly the love found inside romance is invincible. The Hollywood version of romance is completely psychopathic and greedy. It could not be more about me and my needs being met. Yes of course we want to meet the partners needs but only if my needs are being recognized. If I see me in the relationship I do not have romance I have infatuation. Infatuation is a greedy self motivated lust of desire that will always gravitate to the sexual as ultimately any lust based relationship will. Romance blossoms its best without sexual areas being involved. If sex is mistaken to add romance the romance is not present. Sexual areas do not bring romance but rather the contrary, so if sex is introduced at the wrong time it degenerates romance and makes it impossible to exist short of an act of God. Notice I said at the wrong time. Romance draws together and marriage is the height of romance. The marriage the bible says causes the two to become one flesh. Romance leading to marriage merges two individuals into one. The still are very much individual but are one. As marriage unifies as one, sexual union brings together to seal that union of intimacy. If romance is not allowed to mature into marriage then problems occur. If sex is used outside of marriage to try and bring union it tears apart it can never unite as those acting in such fail to grasp the spiritual side of intercourse. Sex outside of marriage is always about instant gratification for self at someone elses expense. Is it any wonder sex is such a powerful tool of control and manipulation. In the wrong context outside of romantic marriage all it will bring is guilt, fear, shame, self consciousness, everything that is the opposite to romance. Sex outside of marriage brings a quick counterfeit feeling of romance but in reality rapes the individual of romance.

Probably the best example is my wife and I. When we first discovered each other we were delirious with romance. A young couple oblivious to the world around. Now sexual areas at no time motivated us as we both married as virgins. In those early days we would wake early to go swimming. At 6am my now wife would drive to my house and pick me up and we would exercise together. Then often we would go home get cleaned up and spend the day together. Maybe for 6 or 7 hours we would go with other friends riding motorbikes in the mountains or whatever it was. She would go home and after dinner we would talk for hours on the phone. One day her father asked rather frustrated “what can you talk about?” you just spent 7 hours with him and now another 3 on the phone”

I remember the day clearly when I knew I was to marry Lara. I watched her get in her car to drive home and could not bear it. For us marriage was not to fulfill sexual desires it was not to meet any personal needs. There was not a second of fear or a doubtful wondering if she was the one. Lara was 18 and I was 22 and I knew I wanted to wake up next to Lara and have her so close she would be me and I would be her. To be away from each other overnight was to be away for eternity it seemed. Now in over 25 years of marriage we are virtually never away from each other. One friend commented he has never met a couple like us if we are away from each other for longer than an hour we are calling as we miss each other so. We married as we complete each other in romance. We have traveled the world together, cried together, laughed together and loved together and we still do, thanks to Jesus in our lives.

Yes we still need to allow romance as it can be so easy to allow life to turn into a labor of love busy working for each other missing the fact romance needs to stay fertile. Now with seven kids and the crazy busy life that follows it can be easy to be so tired and distracted we could fail to stop and enjoy the trees and birds together. But does this same problem not present itself to us with God. I am certain as the bible talks about Jesus returning it says He is returning for His bride. That bride is not made up of denominations who have been separated from each other and God through knowledge that causes division. That bride is united in romantic movement and just as Lara and I had to be together such is Christ and His bride. One day He will look and say I cant bear to be away from this complete bride, come and be with Me. Jesus will not return for the motive to condemn and destroy. He came the bible says that we may have life abundantly. Nothing better than romance to feel alive.

So I am certain people reading this will say I missed it or I don’t have romance or it was not like that for me. But praise God all is not lost. Romance is still alive it just waits for us to enter. We don’t feel worthy we feel inadequate and have no idea what to do or how to respond and here is the heart of it. There is no correct way to respond to romance. To try and be romantic kills romance. Just be you and respond. Let me assure you romance begins and ends in Jesus. The day of Pentecost in the bible was about romance and man made it about religion and set up church. Men who have no idea of true romance bring people in to churches every Sunday and give people knowledge of love devoid of romance. In the book of Acts the God romance caused people to meet daily in each other’s homes. But can we teach romance? ABSOLUTLY NOT! If I teach romance all I have is Hollywood replacing romance with infatuation and lust. Romance begins by responding to the romantic wooing of God Himself towards you. Yes those wooing are there we just fail to see them as such. Yes true Holy Spirit inspired church is me being me. As I live romance sin drops from my life struggles with this world disappear and LOVE is romantic love is not a labor of love. Just be you and let Jesus love you by being with Him in thought deed and presence. Not inside a church building but in life. Let God romance blossom around your life and watch life become true life.

Let me give you an example. When I first noticed Lara I would wait for her to come out from the place she worked and I would bump into her to offer her a ride home. At that time we were just meeting and she would say no. She was oblivious to romance but as time went on she noticed me and romance blossomed. My wooing penetrated her life and romance sparked. So to it is with God He constantly is wooing us and we are oblivious to it. In church they turn the manifestations that are wooings into lust and infatuation to market God and miss the romance of the wooing. In life we all get gifts and the bible says every good gift comes down from above. Gifts in our life are God wooing us and how foolish we are when we turn these gifts into self righteous greed. Like a business person with a gift for business thinking he or she has skill and not seeing the skill comes from God wanting to get his or her attention. God wants to gift our lives and have us live in the gifts but we must enter the romance and then as we enter romance with God, romance will flow right through our lives into our marriages or potential marriages. Romance begins with God and is fulfilled in Him. Is it any wonder the attacks on marriage and relationships are so rampant. The world motivated by demonic culture wants to steal intimacy as inside intimacy is security and peace . The peace of God!

So no matter what mistakes we have made, no matter if we have never had romance. I can assure you right now God has romanced you and when you respond to Him romantic natural life will follow. God is crazy about you just the way you are! Problem is we don’t see how that can ever be. Just relax talk to Jesus and let life BE!

Many times people end up with a concept of marriage that is more like a partnership. They are married by name but partners in life. Their family is often run as a business with decisions being made that are like business decisions. They make decisions based on knowledge of an end result. I guess in such a situation a lot can be achieved but it is always at the expense of intimacy and romance. You see when romance is present anything is possible and I like how the bible talks about this when talking of synergy. It says if one can put a thousand to flight two can put ten thousand to flight.

It is inside romance I don’t want independence it is inside romance I make myself totally vulnerable and not by a conscious act but rather by a merging of two people into one. If I expose my weakness then inside romantic marriage I expose my partners weakness as while having total individuality I have no individuality. This really is the nearest description or manifestation we will ever see of the Godhead on earth and truly what we are when in Holy Spirit church. People go to places of worship to try and fabricate intimacy or fertilize intimacy as they crave it but in reality it is only as we understand Pentecost and what happened there that we realize “I am church” and all who enter romance with God merge together to become what the bible calls the bride of Christ. If that bride is not romantically inspired through the pure and unadulterated love of God then it is a harlot bride a counterfeit from true God intimacy. What a travesty that our man created systems attempt to replace romantic intimacy. I would call such another Jesus. The bible talks about people following another Jesus and through romantic Jesus love we can catch a glimpse that a Jesus of taught love is a fraud for Spirit life.

The Godhead comprising of God the father God the son and God the Holy Spirit are three total individuals who have no individuality as they submit identity to each other they are each other. They are married in a spiritual way man can never understand in his head. Is it any wonder God said he hates divorce as God knows the broken intimacy is suffered from the abuse of the world devoid of romance. Is it any wonder people struggle to grasp Holy Spirit church from Acts in the bible when their natural marriage has issues with being partnerships rather than marriages. They run separate bank accounts and separate lives to maintain independence. In such a case there are always trust issues from the past and a complete lack of romantic love. It may have begun with romance and may still have flashes of it but the romance will always be subject to self. Sounds a lot like modern day religion, always having a motive and can never get enough. God romances us and we add it to the partnership we have with God. The manifestations are about validation and justification of self not romantic intimacy. Such people will never understand statements like "We do not prophecy we are prophecy" manifestations are not about actions they are about identity. They will always "be from their do" not "do from their BE" Just like in natural marriage we chase manifestations of love craving for romance and miss the fact it is not what we do it is who we are. Romance is not what we do it is who we are, we just need distractions of carnality removed so we can relax and BE. We don't remove the distractions by religious works we just allow romantic distraction. In marriage just be distracted and let romance have life, remember romance is not about sex it is about "being."

So yes life has a way of stealing intimate romance but in reality only if we let it. As I worship God like the bible say in spirit and in truth it is not about a conscious act once or twice a week it is a flow of romance and let me say this when romance flows it spreads to ever area of your life and every relationship. Granted many relationships are scared of what they sense in you as they cannot categorize it according to the systems of this world and cannot control it. The romance born of God in the spirit of a person is the fulfillment of the bible verse that describes believers in saying “in honor preferring one another” Not as a religious act but as a flow of who we are.

What a shame we turn romance into sex as it steals intimacy and pollutes us with a fear of intimacy. Romance in a married relationship has a physical dimension for sure but Holy Spirit romance is both horizontal to man and vertical to God. Nothing weird about it, what is born of God is pure and not according to this world. It is church and as mentioned we see why the believers in the book of Acts met daily as the romantic God blew them away with romantic love they had to come together to bask in who He is in them and who they are in each other through the Spirit of God. The bible called this manifestation of church KOINONIA!

Its not bipolar - liberated life in the Spirit

The twice dead. In Jude there is a passage that speaks of the twice dead. For a while we just could not grasp what this passage was referring to and then it came to life. You see without Christ we are dead in sin. That part is easy for us all to grasp but the next death maybe not so easy. So lets build a background before talking about it.

We have had so much of religious teaching puffing up our heads many times we can only see through rose colored glasses as they say. We tend to think of salvation as like having a procedure done at the doctor and once it is done we are all finished. We arrogantly think we did or do something to find Jesus Christ and totally miss the fact He finds us. Many pray a sinners prayers and now their spiritual journey takes on new meaning but lets look at something else that may be offensive to our views on becoming a Christian and it comes back to the psychopathic carnal or natural man.

Many become Christians with a whats in it for me mentality and if we are honest never progress from there. We think I found God and He will help me, guide me , …me, …..me,…..me, etc and it is in this psycopathic me life many often fail to change defaults. They mistaken the manifestations of God around their life as validation of who they are and fail to grasp all the manifestations are is a romantic God wooing us into a new spirit default. A default that was bought to us at Pentecost and should now be who we are when he comes to us. You see most all of us have had a lifetime of romantic wooing form God and we more often than not fail to understand such. Many times we turn these wooings into religion of self righteous works. Of course as medical science tells us a psychopath can never see they are that way and only with a spirit default coming alive in us can we ever see how “me” centered I am. Now we can serve and do so many great and noble things they may even put us in the newspaper for our wonderful deeds but as long as there is a root in the carnal natural man all we are doing is validating ourselves to ourselves. Or validating our Jesus to ourselves. Another Jesus!

Such we have all been or currently are. These people have a knowledge of Christ and have even received Christ into their lives maybe. But lets be real unless there is a total abandonment of life we can never enter new life. As long as I think I have something of value in me all I am is showing is how far I am from Christ. Now we delude ourselves into thinking after Christ I am doing this for Him but let me tell you God DOES NOT NEED IT - YOU DO!!!! If that’s how you think. We want to pay the bills and serve Jesus and all He wants is us to BE. A BE that can only come from the great “I AM”. You see koinonia is a love feast. As Sspirit brethren dwell together in unity it commands a blessing a blessing of life like no other time.

As people receive Jesus and work for Jesus and strive to validate themselves to themselves they think their actions in some way have value and these people are blemishes at our love feasts, eating with us without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

They are twice dead as they saw Jesus as a conscious decision and never allowed their default to be changed. Maybe Jesus never came to them they came to him and as long as I came to him I have control and are psychopathic. I may have been wooed and romanced but unless I surrender and allow Sspirit life to BE all I have is carnal psychopathic religion trying to use and manipulate God to validate myself.

For example there was a young man here who was romantically wooed by Jesus. He had no prior knowledge of Christ and as he was living a dirty life of cheating and sin Jesus came to him without him even looking for Jesus or knowing he was lost. Of course after this amazing spiritual experience the immediate thing he did was turn up at a local spirit filled church preaching revival and repentance, running prophetic schools and healing schools etc. Now we watch this man as he dies again, by the grace of God may that slow death be reversed and we hold out trust it will. As religion superimposes a religion of knowledge and works the romantic wooing of Christ takes the back burner for a program of getting ones self sanctified. Each time we see him we see he is progressively dying being absorbed by shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.
Dying a death to romance and following a labor of love. They learn Sspirit by schools of the prophetic and learn how to heal by healing schools and in so doing are in danger of being twice dead. As their leaders feed only themselves subtly these Christians lives become about self for Jesus. This validates actions based in self that are horrendous and odious to God and others in Sspirit. As true worshippers only ever can worship in spirit and truth.

They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever. These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage. But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.

Our natural instincts are from a psychopathic carnal man what a shame many today live the second death. So this morning a man called me with some statistics he heard form Brazil. It stated that there is a 750% increase in people leaving church. They still love Jesus but refuse to be part of the system. These my friend are once dead not twice as they refuse to drink the cool aid poison of religious death. One local pastor recently stood and whipped the people stating people still love Jesus but refuse to come to church. Such pastors and leaders, men and women are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

The twice dead feed themselves and as walking zombies they feast on the souls of other men. Ezekiel refers to these religious prophets as soul hunters. They give death where there should be life and life where there should be death. They give life to a God of knowledge and kill Pentecost Sspirit life. Foolishly to such Pentecost becomes about manifestations and knowledge disguising the fact Pentecost is about lifestyle change. It is about koinonia, about being part of the Godhead. Something a carnal believer will always struggle with as it just wont fit into their head. Is it any wonder the churches are full and God allowed it for no other reason maybe than to frustrate the plans of men. As people sit in pews the carnal vomit of knowledge that is spewed into our ears serves to do nothing but cause 750% of people to up and leave. In leaving they are being found by Sspirit church something that is a total enigma to the religious leaders of today who masterfully learned in their bible schools about the bible and have seminars to equip on the things of the Spirit. They love to showcase the gifts of the spirit in their lives or their gift of knowledge and persecute the 750% as in their eyes they are lost. Please let me stay lost if that is the case and dear God let it be 751% with me and 752% with you.

NOW this is church

Definitions: S=Gods Spirit and s=mans spirit. Sspirit=Gods Spirit and mans spirit co-joined

Yesterday I was reading Acts 5:42
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

This verse is a wonderful example of the difference between spirit and natural church. Lets state why and then give some modern day now examples of what is happening. Firstly a person who is natural in default will admire Peter and the other apostles approach here. They would read how daily they were in the temple and in every house and they would aspire to copy such. They would see this as a verse for house church or such and totally miss the spirit in the verse.

If we are going to talk about the Sspirit in this verse we best use the example of someone here. As Fred went about his life he was visiting his uncle in England he had not seen in many years. His uncle now has dementia and a bunch of health issues. Basically the uncle is fighting death and was waiting for its cold grip to overpower him. As Fred sat making small talk he noticed the many theological books on the book shelf and commented how he had read many of these himself but now sees them as useless as they are just a gathering of knowledge. Fred went on to share with his uncle about romance of the Sspirit and how is surpasses knowledge in-fact it is the knowledge of God that limits us. His uncle seemed to snap back into being a coherent man and it was as if there was no dementia . Fred had been speaking to the man’s spirit and his spirit came alive. His uncle called his wife into the room and was so excited telling her Fred had just given him the missing piece he had been wanting his whole life. Fred and his uncle wept together as now this man had finally arrived home and joined the true church of Jesus Christ, made up of those who worship him the bible says in Spirit and in truth.

Really truth is something to many that is so subjective and transitory. But when approach in Spirit truth is absolute unchangeable and life. We can never know truth in our heads as our heads are so influenced by life, circumstances, emotion and this world. But when in Sspirit church, truth is who we are and walking in truth is life. If one thinks he can worship in truth by attaining knowledge of what God wants he is a fool. There are so many denominations spouting the truth of their persuasion. Yes of course each is equally more correct than the other as they have Spirit that brings truth. The problem is the Spirit has been relegated to knowledge in their lives. Knowledge of the bible, knowledge of rights and wrongs and so forth. They live in the law and profess to be free taking pride in their years of gathered experience and knowledge. Such are deluded by the default of the carnal natural man.
But here was Freds uncle with a degenerated mind. The mind of a man who had received Jesus in his life previous and spent a lifetime gathering knowledge of what that means. Now beyond the debenture decay of his natural mind the Holy Spirit spoke and life IS.

Next he was in a religious commune his parents live on and the Sspirit life that flowed there was amazing maybe you can ask him to share. He drove literally from house to house visiting old friends and family. In each place he had Cchurch. Not by plan or organizing anything he just was being Matt and Sspirit IS. He sat in the airport and students sat with him as he shared Sspirit. Now understand sharing Sspirit was not knowledge it is who Matt IS. You see modern evangelism says share about Jesus but Sspirit evangelism says be Yyou and lives are changed. He flew back in from England and two days later ended up in Chicago visiting another brother. Being stuck in the airport Fred spent the day again sharing his life with whoever came along. Oddly enough it was students again who were drawn to him and they sat and spoke of life. Sspirit came up as how could it not when it is who you are.

The next day he was sitting at what some would call his work. The trouble is Fred collects no pay. He goes to a work place as that is where God puts him some days. He stopped paying himself months ago really. He is just there as that is where Sspirit life takes him, his boss is being romanced by Spirit and Fred longs for the day he surrenders control relaxes and enters true life. So now he spent his first day back sharing with a woman about Sspirit life. This woman was trying to understand Spirit in her life and the light came on. She wept and left a new woman now understanding the God wooing to romance that she had been experiencing.

Fred had been away for a few weeks and spent his rent money. I remember when he left his comment was God will take care of it. He even told his landlord he had no clue where rent would come from. Well I guess money turned up in his account and his rent got paid.

I could go on and on but you get the idea. Fred is church and the world is his chapel. Really we could say the world is his church and a Sspirit koinonia person is life wherever they go. Church is being discovered in ways we have never seen before or imagined and as we refrain from making patterns and formulas of the carnal life IS. Yes the religious are always looking for ways to control such and let’s be frank they have controlled Spirit so much look at the mess we have now. They cry and wine for God to fix the mess, they struggle to understand why the results of their sacrifice have not been greater and are completely blind to the self righteousness they live in the default of. Yes they may have bottoms on seats in pews but are devoid of a Sspirit lifestyle and they know it. These folks are program orientated as they constantly needs challenges and action around them to get validation from. Validating themselves to themselves they are what Jude says
These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.

So lets talk Spirit church to a natural defaulted person they would come to visit us and say these people have nothing going on. To a Sspirit defaulted person when visiting there would be a celebration like no other as the happenings called life are astounding our natural man.

The Sspirit life flows coming in are from an excited generation of koinonia changing the world by being Mme. If you want testimony you miss the point the testimony is called , Fred, Matt, Scott, Daniel, Joe, John,etc

Tattoo's of religion

Definitions: S=Gods Spirit and s=mans spirit. Sspirit=Gods Spirit and mans spirit co-joined

Chewing on something this morning. We have talked about Lucifer wanting to be like God and Adam and Eve wanting to be like God and we to this day in our religion strive to be like God. We strive to be better but the underlying drive is to be like God in some way. We even do evangelism to make people like God. The self righteousness that was present with Lucifer in heaven defines mankind even to this day, even inside religious acts. So here is a major difference between spirit and carnal or natural life.


In Sspirit life I am to relax and be Scott/Jesus I do that by resting in who He is in me. The disturbing part is we have made changes to please God which ultimately is a mask for trying to be like God. When living this way making changes all we reveal is self righteousness and then when self righteousness is revealed, sin will always follow as sin masks self righteousness. You can say self righteousness is a sin but it goes deeper than that, self righteousness is a state of being the foundation of all sin. If we struggle with sin all it reveals is a self righteous core and if we have no struggle with sin all it reveals is a self righteous core. Chew on that one in your head.
So how disturbing it can be when I have nothing I should be working on to make better. How disturbing when I have nobody to mimic and be like as a human being. Our carnal natural man in his very DNA wants to be unique while being like someone we idolize. You know how it goes, we love someone in our life we can be like and that someone we respect or idolize. Like the movie stars or sports figures or rich people or our dad or a romantic fantasy picture of ourselves or a pastor or a dead healing evangelist or Jesus or God. OUCH! Is that not blasphemy to suggest that last line? Absolutely it is to a natural mindset but in spirit let’s take a look at it.


The bible tells us identity statements like , “I am the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus”, “I am seated with Christ in heavenly places”, It’s no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me” and we can go on and on. These verses are not doing verses they are statements of identity. In Sspirit I do not try to be like Christ I am Christ as He is me. Blasphemy to a carnal or natural defaulted believer as they immediately go to their sin where their identity is or lack of sin where their identity is they have strived for and sacrificed to obtain. This type of person has identity in religious works from years of striving to be like Christ. They repeat the self righteousness of the Garden of Eden and Lucifer when in heaven. Yes I know they can use a huge amount of scripture to try and validate their works and this type love the Old Testament as they are a slave to the legalism of it and fail to see the law was put in place for one purpose and that was to reveal the self righteous core of a man. The law was set up to fail. God knew man in his self righteousness would never attain anything through the law and gave us a law to reveal how useless our works are in pleasing Him. The law was supposed to point us to Christ who Himself in His own words pointed us to Pentecost. Not to make manifestations we can add to our righteousness but to unite us with the God head. As John 14 and 17 lays out. Carnal believers pray more and read their bible more and fast more and go to church more and totally miss the default change. Sspirit defaulted koinonia are prayer and are a living epistle that still reads the bible as a mirror to help reveal who they are not what they should do.


Remember God wanted intimacy with us and through Christ Jesus we are now called His bride. Adam and Eve had to fall and God knew they would because until they had carnal identity to surrender they could never be koinonia with the God head. The God head is a perfect example of koinonia and as we are Pentecost life then mortality is swallowed up by life as Paul the apostle says. Then we are part of the God head and revealed in Christ as Christ is in us. Now we are more complete than Adam and Eve as to be in koinonia we cannot be robotically created we must have had separate identity from God that we surrendered by choice to Him. In horizontal and vertical koinonia I have complete identity while having no identity. Go figure and if you can explain the God head you can explain koinonia. If you can explain the Godhead you can now explain what the Pentecost church is. Now the carnal reads the bible from the wrong side as a formula. We think if we appoint elders and pastors etc God will move and miss the fact Sspirit church is being one with Him as koinonia and pastors and elders etc flow from Sspirit church. The systems we have created in our righteousness are apostate, they are anti-Christ and demonic, preaching another Jesus of works and knowledge. A Jesus we can earn or strive to be like and are void of Sspirit as those who worship must worship in Spirit and in truth the bible says.


To a Sspirit default person they are no longer a believer they now are part of the great “I am” and in so being they “I AM” To believe after salvation suggests we can decide on a something we now are. So let’s say it this way. I am Scott and I do not try to be more Scott I am Scott now I must enjoy being Scott stop making Scott like another and discover who Scott is. I don’t need to dye my hair and get tattoos and piercings. They do not change the fact I am Scott. Now when I surrendered my life to Jesus I became Scott/Jesus. We then do well to relax and let Scott/Jesus be Scott/Jesus. Instead we have spent a lifetime getting religious tattoos and piercings and hair dye to look like the Scott/Jesus we think we should look like. We tattoo our life with good works and like most with tattoos we then change our clothing to reveal our prideful tattoos. So we change our religious life to exhibit our religious tattoo. So if we have beaten a sin we exhibit to everyone how clean we now are in that area. At least until nobody cares anymore. They we get another tattoo of how much we pray until nobody cares anymore and another and another. Until we have no idea anymore what we look like spiritually. These religious tattoos and piercings and dyes have buried the real us. There is not a part of us without religious tattoos and piercings. Is it any wonder when we get Sspirit we try to be Spirit as we have a tattoo and piercing culture of religion built into our lives. It makes no sense to just be and as we just be Scott/Jesus the tattoos seem to disappear, some take time but we have given up looking at them and wake up one day to clean Sspirit Sskin. All these religious acts do is reveal we have no identity and although many times are co-joined with Jesus we still have not allowed Him to take our orphan heart.


What a precious day to start to see our baby skin again instead of the marks of religion that defile us. Now there is no validation of identity. All these ministers that work for Jesus reveal is the fact they are validating themselves to themselves. As upsetting as that is if we think we have a ministry we are tattooed and have more pride in our tattoo than in who we are underneath. So now in Sspirit we do not have a ministry we are ministry. We don’t prophecy we are prophecy etc. Oh yes for all us tattooed ones who take offense at that last line. You will prophecy but not as a choice but as a state. You/we are now Sspirit co-joined and we do not need to be like Jesus as we are Jesus. OUTRAGEOUS! Absolutely and loving it. Makes no sense to my carnal natural head. But you know that is OK now I am seeing what I have never seen before a Scott/Jesus of life being revealed and when you find your identity why would you ever go back to an orphan heart.

No apologies here!

Spirit guest or natural?

I have to be frank here. Religion when out of control is devastating. Wars are fought all in God’s name as men are totally convinced God wants them to kill and plunder etc. But on a lesser level we are starting to understand the exposing of religion shows an attitude of its all about me. In carnality we demand but in true spirit we don’t have to demand it is given. When we demand we reveal our carnal default. In Sspirit we rest and life IS. Needs are met! A few examples we recently had someone turn up for a bbq at our house and nearly 4 days later they left. Now that would be OK except for some of the events surrounding. Granted this person was searching and had been impacted by the Sspirit life. They were drawn to it but being religious struggle with how to respond. They had tried to manipulate our family and had done many inappropriate manipulations to try and get their way. Those manipulations took away from the active life of the Sspirit being manifest, the same spirit this person was drawn to that caused them to stay. Granted we enjoyed having them to a certain extent and even found the situation a little humorous. The person responded to the Spirit wooing by thinking they were supposed to live with us and flat out asked both my wife and I to allow such, at separate times. The person was operating in a carnal/ natural mindset, but how could they not really? You see religion reinforces the orphan heart a heart looking for love acceptance and validation. It was became all about this person and everything they did was to feed natural desires. They missed the point it was all about them but as soon as the natural religious part responded the Spirit took a back seat. They never stopped just in plain decency to ask if what they were doing was OK as deep inside they knew it was not. You see if it is Sspirit it’s not about me. Or while being totally about me it’s actually about you. Unexplainable Spirit truth. For people such as this person who crave the spirit community they cannot at this point rest and see God. They see the benefits of koinonia and want the intimacy but because of not surrendering their carnality it ultimately becomes about their needs above all else. This person would say how they loved the community they had experienced in our midst. They had been a joy and blessing to us in the past but are struggling to relax and let God be God. Wanting the fellowship of the Sspirit so bad they push to get it. The failure is seeing koinonia is not you scratch my back and I yours. We love this person but such behavior is just no acceptable in spirit life. Others are gravitating to spirit had struggled with the same. They could never understand why when asking for us to do things for them we would not. They struggle with attitudes towards me I think, and see me as a bad pastor as I do not help when needed. They just can’t see their default it comes from yet. I am pastoring them without them knowing as I refuse to do things that are coming from the natural expectation. Now if the tasks and requests were coming from Spirit life I would be there for everything but as they struggle to grasp Sspirit sometimes what feels like hate is actually love. Some cannot see their default is “its all about me” sure they can be nice and loving but there is always a request. A request we many times would have enjoyed helping with but as they are being pastored without knowing it they cannot see yet their carnal origin restricts other spirit koinonia folks from helping. Oh yes they help me and are very caring and loving and perhaps even demonstrating in their minds what they think I ought to be to them . But beneath it all was a default of “me” You see in natural life a default that says, you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours and this is not Godly it is not Sspirit initiated. A lady we know told her family God wanted her to fast contact with her kids and grandkids for 3 weeks. It truly was a sacrifice for her but like all religious acts they totally fail to take into account anyone else. They fail to take into account there are lots of small grandkids who need a grandmother and her own kids may need her. Religion is all about self in God’s name. We can fool ourselves into thinking it pleases God and in actuality all it does is reveals how much hate our natural man has for Sspirit life. Just like the wars religious folks fight God has always told them it is OK but they fail to see it is religion birthed and lived in carnality. It’s all about them and spirit koinonia it’s all about life and revealing life in others not bringing death. The religious want to kill bad in themselves and others and the Sspirit wants to reveal life in themselves and others. Jesus paid the price and does not require sacrifice from us. You see religious folks will always be drawn to the old testament and live in there to validate who they are. They may have Sspirit but are choosing to live carnal validation of such. Pastors will isolate from others who do not think like them or agree with them and cannot grasp it is carnal/natural. Anyone in churchianity has experienced teachers who hold them hostage to the old testament. Tithing is a good example, in-fact everything that entails sacrifice is old testament and carnal in default. IN Sspirit life it is not a sacrifice it is life being revealed and comes across like that to all around. In New testament church it is not about what we do it is about who we are. The bible is a book that is life it is being written in you and I. Like a child in infancy we cannot live back in time at 5 years old. The child grows and the bible as the inspired word of God grows in us. I must live after Acts in the bible in Sspirit and in truth. Yes the bible is there for us and is the inspired word of God but the bible tells us we are a living epistle known and read by all men. So one tell tale sign of a person stuck in religion is their immediate ability to spout old testament legalism and sacrifice. The confusion comes as they mix it with Spirit and try to validate themselves to themselves with it. Truly the world is more open to God than the religious as the world lives honest knowing their deeds are worthless. The church world loves their deeds drawing their own righteousness from their deeds that in their eyes make them holy. But God told us our good works are as filthy rags in his sight. Just be Sspirit revealed, cease striving and know that I am God. Remember God called Himself the great “I AM” not the great “I DO” if we try to be like God we repeat the filthy crappy self righteousness of the devil and Adam and Eve. We can never be like God and in so trying we reveal we are repeating the error of Adam and Eve. We cannot be like God as we are co-joined with Christ and now it is no longer I that lives but Christ that lives in me. A Sspirit individual is not an individual he is koinonia Christ. He is Christ and Christ is Him not by the great “I do” but the great “I am” and then he will do from his BE. Not be from his do.

Perplexing Sspirit life

Talking about life in spirit today. It should amazes us all the indifference we have towards spirit life. Talking to John we tried to define some of what is going on and in so doing we immediately limit. What is being revealed is a greater Sspirit life. Honestly everything we have done has been and is for self. Not going to spend time trying to explain that. You either 100% agree with that or you don’t and it is not my place to influence either. Spirit life just is and in talking with Patrick today I was blessed to listen as he explained how God had done things in His life well before he had a knowledge of Christ. Right down to $4000 supernaturally appearing in his life in an amazing way. As Patrick just lived life he was free to enter and be Jesus life. He never knew Jesus and had no concept about such and that is the beauty here. Had he known he would not have seen the same measure of Revealed God life. The hand of the almighty was and is on him and without any knowledge of such he was romanced into Jesus. Even now the religious ignorance that Patrick has serves to ignite us all. Patrick is just Patrick! Another who challenges us all in this is Matt. Matt is just Matt, take him or leave him and many take but more leave him probably. To be honest the religious defaults run from him and the world people are attracted. Matt just is Matt he does not put up any front and will say what comes from within. He does not prophecy he is prophecy and many times has prophesied and later asked what was that. I once replied “well the church would call it prophecy but we would call it life or living” As he just lives life spirit oozes out of him and he has no clue most times that it is even going on. Never having had or experiences Spirit filled religion he has no measure to limit. Patrick says himself he never found God and never wanted to be a Christian. God found him and romanced him into being in love. Never having been to church the freshness is beautiful. But Patrick is the first to tell you he never wanted God, God wanted him. It is the Matt and Patrick’s of this Jesus world that reveal life in you and me. I start to understand as I just rest in spirit life and let it be me and sit in the creative peace that brings, then amazing creation happens. I sit in a house that is testimony to such and the house is far beyond what I ever would have grasped in the past. The perplexing thing is I have no ownership I have not grasped but I have complete ownership and live in the fullness of. As we abandon the world and its desires then heavenly conditions are attained and maintained. Eternal and infinite states of the I AM. Sound crazy, oh I hope so! If it makes sense I have totally missed the mark but in the Spirit man we leap as we are revealed in the Sspirit man we say YES I see. Jesus said. “the fact you can see shows you are blind but if you were bind you would see. Spirit life is a new reality a reality that is eternal and life giving. It brings life to our mortal being and everything around. As we sit in the fullness of life implanted in our spirit by His spirit then how can we not create, how can we not see the amazing. If I strive to work and provide I have created a God for myself of a need or self. Oh yes I can fool myself into thinking I am being responsible and doing for God but I am delusional and have lived a facade of life created by this world. Such people will never see miracles as they look for them. When they find one they dissect it and explain it away in logic the same logic that would attempt to control and understand an infinite God. As Sspirit life entered us we do well to become aware of who we really are. You see we have lived an identity superimposed on us by the system and God of this world. It is not that I just BE who I am in spirit life, as in reality we have no clue who we are in spirit life. It is as I sit in Sspirit life that is in me. Not mortal life as mortal life breeds death. As I sit in Sspirit life then truly anything is possible as we are finding out. Maybe we can say it this way the more I say yes the less I say Yes in living my spirit identity.

Spirit life Vs Natural carnal life

One thing that is increasingly clear is the separation of natural and spiritual. Our natural man has created its own reality we expect the spirit man to fit in with. To emphasize this we find everything we do in worship of God comes back to manifestations. Those manifestations could be supernatural or knowledge or blessing etc. It is obvious a lot of what Christians do is for such and in doing such we add spirituality to our natural life. Instead of being that life. You know how that goes I was with a young man recently who told me their ministry wins people for Jesus and makes money as without money they cannot exist. That is a perfect example of one who is struggling to live spiritual. They have one foot in the supernatural and one in the natural. Of course it would never be seen this way but when it becomes about what God can do for us we have missed the mark. When it becomes about what we can do for Jesus we have missed the mark. We work to keep something we use for Jesus and in reality we are working for ourselves as we fear God may not pay the bills. In reality if God wants us where we are, that building or whatever it is will have a life of its own. It will BE when we walk spirit and if it disappears let’s be honest our fear is God may not want it and we need it to validate ourselves. We live carnal and fool ourselves if we think otherwise. We have fear we can’t manipulate God or God has us working for His ministry. That is just a flat out lie and deception, in spirit life if we relax it will come. People struggle to grasp the fact there is no such thing as building a ministry or having a ministry. To seek a label for the life we live suggests failure of identity. So we have a body of believers winning people for Jesus and working in ministry for Jesus and running this and doing that. Failing to see it is not what we do it’s who we are. When it’s who we are it will be. So in the same vein an interesting life is developing. It was in moving to this house it became apparent the house has a life of its own. The Holy Spirit was at work and there was no prayer I could pray, no action I could do and yet here we are living beyond any blessing I could ever have lived in my ability. It was in this I start to understand our natural ways have limited the Spirit lifestyle in our lives. We are insecure about how much God really loves us or cares. We struggle to see why we deserve the blessing we get maybe and miss the point we don’t deserve. Everything we have done has been for manifestations but as we step outside this carnal natural default and let Spirit be spirit then we see spirit life manifest. It is the sin we entertain that bolts us to the carnal. As where we are looking we will go, what we are entertaining will entrap us to this world. Yes Jesus set us free and gave us the default of the holy Spirit but as we have made this life a manifestation we have stepped outside of life and into mortality, a limited existence we call life. We use manifestations to justify and validate who we are and what we are doing and fail to understand the bigger picture. Manifestations are not validations they are invitations and wooing to spirit life. The problem becomes when we run with manifestations we fail to live our spiritual state. For example prophecy is something the modern spirit filled church thrives on. When someone uses prophecy as a manifestation it is in danger of being hijacked by their natural man. It becomes about validation of one’s self to one’s self. If it is not what I do it is who I am, then we do not prophecy we are prophecy. In being prophecy we will prophecy but probably more of an act of who we are than what we do.

BE LIKE GOD???? email chain

From: P. D####### [mailto:d#######.###@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 2:23 PM To: bostonndrc Subject: Re: lessons from the Vikings I think the religious and those who regard themselves as The Faithful, and The Born Again (all caps, gothic script, angelic hymns in the background), read in search of answers. I think they look for where they went wrong, why they feel like failures for not trusting, how they can 'fix' themselves or others, reasons for what is and what isn't, in short, instructions! Understanding. Churchitarians, whether they realize it or not, preach "God is good. You aren't." In practice, there is no way to NOT fail. We're human. I think it's the HUMAN that determined we should be constantly aware of our shortcomings and constantly trying to emulate God. What arrogance! Emailed reply: I would only add to that the core of the problem. We try to emulate God and anything we try and do is self made religion of carnality. I don’t understand it but our Spirit man is complete and one with Christ when we surrender our carnality to Jesus. That does not now mean we work to be Him in means we allow who He is to be revealed in us. You are right it is COMPLETE self righteous arrogance to even think we can understand God and think we have ability to copy who He is. In such a case we repeat the self righteousness of Eve and Adam, thinking we can be like God. Eat the fruit God put there and you can be like Him. We repeat Eves righteous foolishness in our church systems daily and teach it to others so lovingly (sick). God put the fruit there only to reveal to us how self righteous we really are. He knew they would eat it as we eat, prophecy and miracles and words of knowledge to become like God. Adam and Eve ate and so do we, we just fail to see we are naked and keep eating with no shame. Timothy says their glory is in their shame. We should be ashamed but instead we glory in it. The apostle Paul talks of walking by the spirit in Romans 8 and you will not carry out the lusts of the flesh. Walking by the spirit is about positioning and revealing and relaxing, it is identity and who I am in Him. We have made it about trying to make our carnal man something our spirit man already is. Very disheartening for a carnal works orientated Christian to finally realize they have nothing of value to offer. Everything we are is of no use to God. As the bible says unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies it remains by itself alone. We have to allow carnality to die so we can live and we do that by entering Christ and allowing Him to enter us. So Christians say I asked Jesus into my life so I died and now I am justified in my works. They miss the point the growth of the spirit man is koinonia and Philemon 1:6. I said it this way once which bewildered who I said it too. Carnal love is carnal hate to the spirit man and often Spirit love will come across as hate to the carnal man as he cannot manipulate and get his own way. Each could accuse the other of self-righteousness, but a God righteous person would never pause for such. But in reality the only self righteousness is as you said a works orientated person. A God righteous man lives Spirit life and great things are revealed. We have created a culture of Spirit manifestations to validate our self righteous man. Those manifestations we see as validating our lives actually we limit when controlling it by our carnality. Walking Spirit truths we can only ever be called self righteous as a confidence and strength comes from the Spirit man that is arrogance to the carnal. How can it not be as God righteousness is not negotiable and is absolute. We just have no control over manipulating it. When we stop trying to teach people Jesus and show off the Holy Spirit like a parade then, as we are seeing already lives are changed by revealing of Christ at work. Funny thing, it is the pastors and ministers that struggle with it the most. They have a lot to lose and cannot see have everything to gain. They know the pieces of what we say but have taken the fragments that they can apply to carnal religion and run with them. Failing to see the positioning or lack of positioning only reveals self. They hunger to validate their ministries needing bottoms on seats and preaching engagements and meetings and .. and…. And… Of course we say it is for Jesus and He has us doing it. What a travesty we have mixed carnality and spirituality. It causes the church to call good evil and evil good. They make good and evil about knowledge and miss it is about life, perfect love casting out all fear. I hear of people teaching koinonia and it adds to highlight the foolishness. It reveals how little we have koinonia revealed. How can I teach romance I can but make a romantic atmosphere and let the lover come. The Godhead is in perfect koinonia and we can’t teach what that looks like. We called it a trinity and had all sorts of crazy analogies to try and teach it. IMPOSSIBLE! The Godhead is perfect koinonia romance of Acts 3 & 4 at work. As are we when we enter Pentecost and see it is about revealed life not just manifestations. In teaching it all we reveal is our foolish carnality of works and knowledge. It becomes a labor of love not a romantic lover. Probably why many today have never experienced romance only what they call love. Welcome to churchianity, a labor of love called harlotry. Mark my words koinonia will be the catch teaching soon and bible schools will have modules on it. We send our young to bible schools to educate them and in reality we instill a carnal knowledge of God mixed with the Spirit yearning for revealing. Now their quest of works for approval begins and they can never be satisfied by what they do. Remember for the first 30 or more years of the early church they had no epistles. They were the living epistle and any spirit individual is a living epistle. The word is near then and in them and reading the bible only confirms what is going on in them already. Damn the knowledge of the bible we spew so self righteously, damn the bible colleges and churches who teach Christ. Can we not say as the bible suggests they teach another Jesus a Jesus of carnality devoid of spirit lifestyle. Yes people find Jesus in there and see manifestations. Instead of seeing such as an invitation to step out in romance they see it as a validation of works and dig in deeper. Any wonder the church has stagnated and is not seeing increase in life. They turn to flashing lights and works programs to keep people around and never see they are a harlot church of carnality. Prostituting true Spirit romance love for self lust. A lady stood in our house and wept a few days ago as she started to see her works have been hard work and of no value to God. Our good works are as filthy rags in God s sight the bible says. The religious howl at this point with indignation. The Spirit individual realizes when coming from Spirit life, our lives are a good works. Talk soon

Perfect LOVE casts out all FEAR

Catching thoughts

Perfect love casts out all fear the bible says. Can we for one moment expect to understand this verse? It was said recently that as mere men we do not know how to love we are only in love with the concept of love. True love is something that we can only be amazed at as we enter the life of Christ in a new and big way. 1 Corinthians is the closest passage we have to reveal love and as we try to be such we highlight the fact we have fear of falling short running our lives. I cannot read this passage and try to attain such, if I am I reveal I am standing on the wrong side of the bible. I am standing on the carnal outside looking in and admiring the words. It is then in fear and rejection we try to attain change. When inside the bible looking out by the Holy Spirit lifestyle afforded us at Pentecost I am able to understand all 1 Corinthians 13 is doing is describing who I am and what is being revealed in me. Not by my conscious choice but by the essence of who I am.

Perhaps we do well to focus on the latter part of the verse that probably we do understand. “All fear” is probably something we are all accustomed to living from. You know how it goes we get a pain in our big toe and the thought comes it may be the dreaded lugumba disease. Or we are short on money and fear comes to tell us we are going to be homeless and living under a bridge.  We have fear of saying the wrong thing to the wrong person or not being accepted and it goes on and on. So I think it is fair to say we understand fear and it is fair to say we have absolutely no idea what perfect love is.

It has been the last few days this verse has been going over and over in my head. I began to understand where the position of perfect love is. And as we abide in the perfect spirit of perfect love we live separate to this world its carnal desires fears and responses. Perfect love is a state not an action not a place of nirvana that we attain. It is a constant state that is revealed in us as we walk by the Sspirit. Now what better to reveal to us our true state of religion than the absence of fear. Paul tells Timothy to test himself to see if he is in the faith and it is with such we can test ourselves to understand and have revealed our true state. You see there is no better deceiver than the carnal man and as believers we do well to allow God reveal the separation of such in our lives.

So lets get more specific. When was the last time fear grabbed our lives and debilitated us. When was the last time fear whispered its foul voice in our ear telling us we have some sickness coming on that will lead to something horrible. What ever the fear is we do well to ask ourselves what was our response? Now there are a few responses we all have. Those without Christ go into a denial or just surrender to the fear. But most with Christ try to make a conscious act of surrendering the fear in some way. But is there another way a way of total peace and perfect love. You see the verse does not imply any action on our part. It is the love that casts out the fear not any action on our part to position ourselves or work at it. It is within the perfect love I find the absence of fear.

Recently this was highlighted in the koinonia and the understanding that our carnal actions feed, align with and motivate the fear. It is in the carnal man we are distracted from perfect love. When we surrender to carnality we align ourselves with the source of fear and choose to not walk perfect love. Granted the love never changes butas carnality distracts we often surrender our strength to such. In perfect love I do not pray about peace, I do not fast, pray and strive to enter the peace. It really is simple I just be perfect love in the Sspirit of who I am. I just abide in who I am and that abiding goes beyond my consciousness and just is.

If God is love and perfect love casts out all fear then I am completed in being the understanding it is no longer I that lives but Christ who lives in me.