Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God

John 3:1-3, 4-8, 9-15, 16-21 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that You do, except God be within Him. Jesus answered him, Verily, verily, I say, Except a man be born* again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (parallel passage; our first is an obscured passages in Deuteronomy 29:4, Jeremiah 5:21; John 1:13, Galatians 6:15, Titus 3:4-7; James 1:17, 3:17) [*After natural birth and before you can have new Life you must have passed from death through death to acquire Life. This is a supernatural operation done by the hand of God for the following reason.    
"Called and Saved by God...you get a Seal and a Mark..NOT called by God...you also get a Mark..." Sadly, we all carry the same seal or mark from our birth which is what we need to change. But are unable to change on our own, because it is a permanent sealing and mark, of our heart and not of our mind. This sealing and mark could be called a scale or shell, which is much like that which a fish or serpents scales look like.
When we learn of mans redemption brought about through God's coming as the Son of man, to bring about our redemption in mans flesh, as promised to of all people Adam. Who by the way caused mans heart to become sealed and marked in the first place. This scale and mark are nothing short of being separated from God, known as death. Caused by this scale or shell in the simple act of rebellion, sin. Redemption causes a kink or chink in the chain mail that is around our heart, begins to appear, in that armor.....when Jesus defeated the strongman this is what took place and is to take place within us as well. This is why He only bruised the serpents head, He did not decapitate him, and why we are to resist the devil and Satan by taking every thought to obedience through Christ. Keeping in mind that Adam said that the woman gave him of the fruit and he did eat....woman there being figurative of the voice of our flesh which dominates us. Adam cherished his flesh more than his union and relationship with his Father, the Father of spirits. Thusly causing mans mind and flesh to act in one accord. But when our heart has been released from its prison of chain mail through the kink or chink in the armor. The kink or chink becomes the eye of the needle through which a camel cannot pass, but Spirit can. IF this takes place within us we are then the righteousness of God in Christ.
This causes our march to a new drummer and if we stay the course, He does His works of Salvation both within and then trough us.
Our greatest battles are the heart mind, over the mind, for the heart seeks Truth for Truth but the mind only seeks truth when it feels good or better then the sensation of the high and rush of a chemical release caused by a lie. Mans Religion feeds this lie and builds upon it through resistance, and hostility towards God.]


Nicodemus asked Him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? To this Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say to you, Except a man be born of water and the Spirit*, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I tell you, you must be born again. For the wind blows where it will, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell whence it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (parallel passages; the first passages are obscure passages from Ezekiel 16:9, 36:25 and Zachariah 13:1; Matthew 19:28b, Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38, 1Corinthians 2:11, Ephesians 5:26-27,* Moses' and Jesus' name have the same root meaning, salvation through water.)

Nicodemus answered Him, How can these things be? Jesus said to him, Are you a master of Israel, and know not these things? Verily, verily, I tell you, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and you receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and you believe them not, how shall you believe, if I tell you heavenly things? No man has ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, the Son of man which is in heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whoever believes Him should not perish, but have eternal life. (parallel passages Ecclesiastes 11:5; John 6:52-53, 63-64, Romans 11:33)

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through (in) Him might be saved (to save from the evils which obstruct our reception). He that believes Him is not condemned: but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that does truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. (parallel passages John 3:36, 6:51, 57, 10:28-30, 11:23-26, Colossians 3:3-4, 1John 4:9, 5:11, where we find the word “light” think of the light used to illuminate the slide under a microscope, this light lightens from below and through the object on the slide to reveal what is otherwise hidden from view. This is God's Truth, this Truth is only received, as Light, or when it is believed and accepted as we eat of the flesh of some sort of food be it bread or possible even water or wine when drank.)

Form here I want to go into the further revelation of Christ and this kingdom now in operation within those who are become receptive ones, those who believe Him and are now one with God through Christ.        

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