The Garden-part 5

Bodies-Jars of Clay

     Let’s return to the beginning, or go ahead to the end. For when you get to the end, then you start a beginning. Time is not the primary factor in eternity! The Alpha is also the Omega; the beginning is also the ending. When I finish this sentence I then begin another. The “I Am” is Eternity! This is simple, is it not?

     In the beginning God said, “Let there be Light”, and then there was Light. In the third day God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit whose seed is in itself upon the earth,” and that’s what happened. The peach tree has a peach with a peach seed in itself in order to continue the species. The apple has the same. The human has the same. The invisible Spiritual Seed (the Word) has the same. In order for the Word of God to become Life in us, we must “see” that we are the earth that is to bring forth, you and I. We are made of earth. Our spirit and our soul dwell in this house (body) of earth, or dust. Our natural, human birth is passed on to us from the “father” of this first generation, Adam #1! Adam is a Hebrew word meaning “red earth”.

 

Buy the Field

     The “Treasures” which we are to pursue are contained in these earthen vessels, or “jars of clay”, our bodies. If you believe that the treasure is in you, then you will give all that you have to obtain it. The Kingdom of God is likened unto treasure hid in a field (you). When a man finds the treasure he hides it, and goes and sells all that he has to buy the field, with joy.

     It is dark deep in the earth, so you need a “Light”, a true Light. The Son (Sun) is the true Light, the “Daystar”, the Bright and Morning Star. The Son (Sun) Who has always dwelt in the heavens (Spirit) has now come to dwell in the earth (Natural) also; in you O jar of clay.

 

Rule the Field

     Your field contains your spirit and your soul and the body, and all that comes with that. In your patience you possess your souls for this race is not to the swift but to the patient. The soul contains your will, the intellect, the mind and the emotions. Emotions were not given to us to rule our lives. Yet they basically have been the controlling influence in human existence. Who controls your thinking, you or your thoughts? What have you been thinking in the last hour or the last five minutes? Do you know? If you don’t, more than likely your thinking controls you rather than you controlling your thinking. Therefore your emotions can take rule over your solar system, spinning haphazardly out of control while it seems that you are in control. If your plan-its don’t revolve around the Son, than you are not on your course in life! Your destiny in this life is to rule as a king, first over your own solar system, and then your influence will enable others to learn how to rule over theirs. The only way to do this is to hang out with the King of kings, your King, Conqueror, and Creator Who loves and cares about every aspect of your life. If you haven’t given your all to Him so that He might possess your life so that eventually you will possess your life, than your life will fail miserably. Truth is sometimes harsh but it is to the point without doubt and without compromise! If you hang on to your own life you will lose it, but if you lose your life for the sake of Christ and the Gospel you will save it unto eternal life, Case closed!

EMOTIONS

     Emotions were not given to us to rule our lives. Yet, as humans, they basically have been our controllers:

1.     Sight- I see it, I like it, I want it, I need it, I yi yi, yi yi!

 

2.     Hearing- gossip, backbiting, negative speech, and a hunger for bad news are a few.

 

3.     Smell- Umm, that smells scrumptious. I want some! So we continue to enable and strengthen the desires of the carnal, temporary man. I’m not saying to deny yourself everything good. That can go too far also. But deny your self some things when you want them too much and they’re really not for your benefit, but you want it because Gary Smith has it. Try fasting, dude!

 

4.     Taste- eating controls many. Eat, eat, eat, and tomorrow or sometime later the sensation is gone, and the stuff we ate comes out in the waste. I realize that sometimes I am blatantly blunt. I do that to drive a point home! Eat some more! Believe me I’m not against good food. I myself make a mean “spaghetti & hot sausage “ dish. I’m just aiming to put the need in its’ proper perspective. If it doesn’t get any better than crabs and beer I might as well be dead.

 

5.     Touch- Look at her, look at him. I like women as much as the next man, and also have a great respect for them for many good reasons. We men have many conveniences that women don’t have concerning our bodies, but most take these conveniences (the ability to stand while urinating, no monthly bleeding, no menopause, no pregnancy, etc.), and women for granted. As men we should aim for care and respect of the female.

     Getting back to “touch”, we cannot afford to be controlled by the need to have a few moments of sexual gratification at the cost of my losing my pursuit after the true riches of “eternity”. I may not lose the “Life”, but I would be thrown off course. If you slip, get back up and continue in your pursuit of God. He’s not condemning you. He knows about your flesh. But if you’re caught up in the vice and controlled, get help now. Confess to a friend or confidant and get help and be accountable to someone for those actions. Then you will win against these powerful enemies of your soul. You will get the Victory and be able to help others also.

     These emotions have ruled and reigned in our lives and this is the reverse of the way it should be. God gave us “emotions” for our enjoyment, but to truly enjoy these benefits we must control them, not the reverse!

 

     In Joshua chapter 10, Joshua warred against “five” great kings and their armies. After defeating these great controllers by the Grace of God and obedience to Gods’ Word, Joshua commanded his leaders to put their feet on the back of the necks of these defeated kings. Representing victory over them. We must do the same but you have to receive Grace and operate in “Power” in order to do this. This power is at your disposal. It is within you!

     These are not just historical stories but these incidents have practical application to your life today. The Word of God is “deep and wide” as the old campfire song “Michael rowed the boat ashore” states. Read for your personal use. At one level of depth these “five kings” represent the five senses that have ruled and controlled the lives of people who don’t control their thoughts. We learn in Christ how to rise above the emotional realm, not allowing them to be our head, but placing and pursuing Jesus to be our Head having the emotions under our feet. We learn to be controlled by the Spirit of Life thereby controlling our thoughts and emotions as we enter into one=ness with the Mind of Christ.

     After the kings were placed under the feet of the leaders, Joshua said, “Fear not, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the Lord do to all your enemies against whom you fight” (mainly thoughts, not Joe Brown). You cannot have a victory without a fight. If you are being overcome by something that rules you get some help. Joshua didn’t do it alone. Fight against thoughts and emotions that are not from the Lord, and in time you will win. That’s a promise. Don’t just let yourself get beat up and thrown down. You can’t win if you don’t fight. And rest at the same time. Amen! The fight is actually a yielding of ourselves to the Mind of God within us!

Practice meditation! Quiet your mind! Be still and know that I am God!

 

     Another story that can pertain to the emotions is in John chapter 4. Jesus and the boys went into Samaria and He came to a well at high noon. Noontime can represent a time when there is no shadow but total sun (nothing shady but a clarity, clear understanding).  He sat on a well that used to belong to Jacob. His disciples went into town to get food. A woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus asked her to get Him a drink, and she was amazed that a Jew would talk to a Samaritan, and a woman at that. Do you know that God will receive everyone who comes to Him? While drawing this woman to Himself, the Well of water that springs up unto everlasting life, she was opened up and she asked Jesus for this Living Water. He told her to go get her husband, but she answered that she had no husband. Jesus said that she was telling the truth, because “you’ve had five husband and the man you’re living with now is not your husband”. Now, He had her number and that thrilled her. This story is true but it, like all other stories, can be brought home to use in your life. These five husbands that she had been married to were the five senses, like the souls of all natural man. And the sixth man that people fool around with is the sixth sense, or psychic hot line. Now here is the Man, the Selfless One, calling the soul (the woman) to join Him, the Spirit Man, in a true relationship, the only one that God would honor. God is calling you to let go of the husbands that produce no lasting fruit and join yourself (your soul) with the Lover of your soul (the inner man, not the outer). Your emotions will lead you down a dead-end street, and psychic hotline will do the same and empty your pockets at the same time. Don’t you think emotions have ruled your life long enough?

    

     These rulers of the natural life must be put under our “feet” (our walk in life). We can do this by functioning from our “Head” (the Government of the “body”). In this “new life” Jesus (the Word of God) is our Head! From the Word, made alive by the Spirit, we get the “power” to do this. The Government is upon the “shoulders”, in the “HEAD”. That’s the verse you hear at Christmas. This is Christmas. Merry Christmas! Christ-mas means “more Christ” in Spanish. His name is called “Immanuel” (God with [in] us), and the Government shall be upon His shoulders. Get be-headed. Let the old head of self and ego be made dead, for it really is, it’s just that most don’t believe it. We have a New Head and the new One is all-powerful and all-knowing and it is the Mind of Christ, and we have it. We just need to believe it. Believe it! It’s true!!

     Put on that Mind which is in Christ Jesus, for we have the Mind of Christ!

 

     I mentioned earlier that at times we would roam from the Garden, which is what we just did. We strolled into the “Body” realm with its’ Head and shoulders and feet, etc. No harm done for we can instantly go back to the Garden. I want you to know this for this is where God is now bringing us, for the Word has been scattered into verses but we are now putting the puzzle together in order to “see” the Kingdom of God. God hides Himself but kings search Him out and find Him. We are revealing Him to the world. That which has been scattered is being dished out in a form where those that will receive as a child can see, eat, and understand, not by trying to understand, but just by eating And digesting the Word (the Bread of Life).

 

Religion; hard ground

 

     Two days ago (two thousand years ago; one day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one “day”) the Word came unto His own people, but they would not receive Him. It is difficult for the “Seed” to be placed into “hardened ground” (soil). Also people who think that they have it together don’t receive easily because they pretty much know it. It is “hard” to get through to know-it-alls. His own people (the Jews) did not recognize Him though they had been waiting for Him to show up for a long time. He didn’t come the way that they thought He would, which is the way it is with us also. Many times He comes into our lives and situations in a form that we don’t recognize. How vain we are to think we know how He should come to us. They had become “religious”, set in their own ways, with their traditions & laws. It’s the same today. He’s been thrown out of most churches where He wanted to manifest Himself. Religion and churches that run on tradition do not receive him. Traditions of men stop the Word of God from moving in that place. The minds are closed and blinded to anything or Anyone who does not conform to their set way of thinking, to the rules and regulations. Once we become set in our ways in any area, death sets in spiritually in this area. They try to earn their way into heaven through obeying the law and through good deeds while teaching that we don’t live under the law. It is blindness! It is death!

     No man can keep the “whole law”, and if you break one of the least commandments you’ve broken them all. Being made of “flesh”, the seed of fallen man (1^st Adam), we were made subject (under rule) to vanity and fleshly desires in our own selves (self).

     If we could earn our way into heaven through good deeds, or by keeping of the law, there would have been no need for God to send His only-begotten Son to be tortured and killed by the likes of us. Jesus already paid the Price for our freedom and entrance into Heaven! We just need to receive the “Free Gift”.

     Concerning the Jewish people, descendents of Abraham after the “flesh”, we who have received the free gift are to honor them although we are to honor all men. If it were not for their unbelief and their learned way of thinking we “gentiles” would not have been able to be grafted into the “Olive Tree”. The Jews will be restored unto God as will all mankind for all things will return unto God from where they came that He might be “All in All”. Amen!

 

A Process

     But to as many as do receive Him (the Word, the Seed) He gives the power to become the Sons of God (His Seed, His Offspring). It’s a process. When you are born you are not a grown son or daughter. You are a baby, and then need milk, nurturing, teaching, etc. It’s the same in the spiritual. We start out as babies but are to grow into sons and daughters of God by eventually getting weaned from the milk and eating meat. The organized church mainly feeds milk and therefore keeps the babes in the pews or gives them some little religious task to make them feel like they’re doing something. In this way the tithe can continue to come in and the church (so-called) can stay running. The bible says “woe unto them that give suck in those days”. Most of the pastors don’t even realize that they’re giving suck. They stand up in front of the congregation and wind up thinking that they’re somebody special but to God they’re a stink in His nostrils. Woe unto them. Woe!! To see someone sitting in a pew week after week for twenty years is truly an abomination. Their growth has been stunted, their hearts hardened, and they’ve become hard of hearing. God sends them someone to tell him or her of the problem and the person is ostracized as a false prophet. Manifest Your Greatness O Lord and let their works come to naught that the true Church of Jesus Christ may be seen in and on the earth. Amen!

 

     When we receive the Word (Seed) into our soil (soul) it sprouts and takes “root” in our hearts (spirit). We, as human beings, are made up of spirit,--soul,-- and body! Look at 1Thess.5:23. The Living Word entering the “spirit” of a person in turn makes the spirit of that person Alive! Yet the “soul” (mind, with its will, intellect, and emotions) must be made new. The soul must be “transformed”. This happens through a process called “re-generation”. Our mind begins processing New Data and is to learn how to walk according to the Word and Faith rather than by what it sees, for what you see is temporary and has no meaningful substance but the Word of God is Eternal, so the mind is to be transformed into a New Image, one that walks by believing and trusting in the Loving Heavenly Father rather than walking by our own false concepts, or others, of the way we think things are or should be.

 

     Our “generation”, stemming from Adam and Eve, is a fallen one. The soul (or mind) is carnal, earthly, temporary, and self-seeking. Regeneration is a transforming of the mind to a “New Way” of thinking. It’s a process! Our “spirit”, being made alive by receiving the “Living Word” into our heart, makes the Word alive. This living Word being continually received, will in turn transform the “mind”, with its’ will, intellect, and emotions, into a “New Way” of thinking, trans-formation.

It’s an “inside job”, working its way out! It’s an inside job!! It will be formed into Gods’ image!

“Let us make man in Our Image”! It’s a process!

 

One Seed produces a Garden

     Men and devils have tried to kill the Word but you cannot kill “LOVE”. Instead, through ignorance, they (we) hung the Word (Seed) on a Cross, put Him in the ground of a garden where the Seed sprang forth as a “Mighty Tree”, thereby producing a “Garden” of the same kind, us. The plan was fulfilled!

 

Words are Invisible!  Si! See!

     Throughout this writing I may reiterate or repeat that which has already been said in order to drive home the point. If I sound redundant please overlook it. One bit of a particular food is not enough to nourish. You’ll take another bite and then another of the same until you’re satisfied. Words are very much taken for granted. Although they are invisible the repercussions of them are manifest throughout life. What we want to realize is that the invisible things are more real than the visible. Just as the Word became “Flesh” and dwelt amongst us, we in the flesh are to become the Word. The Word (Spirit Man) came and became flesh so that the flesh man could become Word (Spirit Men)! Don’t allow this to become complicated for you. It is very simple for those with “child-like minds” to comprehend. But to the wise men and women of this world it is complicated, to the point of being foolish. If you are wise in the ways of the world and self, you must become a fool in order to become wise in the Eternal things of God, the Master Gardener.

     The Eternal Word is received, as a trusting child receives, into the heart (spirit, innermost part). What is received will in turn come forth from its container through the mouth (speaking the Word), and the result is believing it, or faith. When you speak the Word even though you don’t understand it, yet you speak it as if it is fact, then that is pleasing to God. You will surely understand it in time. God will make sure of that. But religious people want to understand everything before they believe it, just like the world. If you put paint into a jar and pour it out there will be results, or consequences. Put it in the right place and with practice you will enhance your surroundings.

 

     Faith is believing we have what is not yet seen, to the point where we speak that it is ours for God our Papa says it is, whether we see it or not. It means saying we are eternal although we don’t see it. But that’s how we become it. I’ve spoken Galatians 2:20 many times and had no comprehension of how I could be crucified with Christ when I’m right here talking to you. But the Word says I’m crucified with Christ so that’s the way it must be. As it becomes part of my system because I declare that this is so, then the understanding comes clearer and clearer as if I speak away the darkness for the Light to appear. The same thing goes for me saying I’m a king and a priest. I am!

     You tell your child that they are important even when they feel like a failure. You tell them, they believe it, and they become it. How much more so it is with God. We say what God’s Word says we are, not yet seeing or feeling it, and we then become what we believe and speak. The Word becomes “flesh”. Simple? Not yet? Keep going. It gets clearer as we continue walking through the darkness and into this Marvelous Light! It’s de-light!

 

LIGHT

     Light allows us to see that which is in the darkness. Light exposes darkness. The sun is our natural source of light. The Son is our spiritual (real) Source of Light, which is actually knowledge. Ah, I see. You didn’t see. You knew something. Ah, the light went on. Doesn’t it seem like we walk in the dark often if only once in a while we can say, ah! Our mind hears and trusts like a child, and opens the barricade of fear & mistrust, simply believing. Receiving, speaking, believing, and seeing may be the proper order. I’m just penning my experience that it might awaken the “Dormant One” dwelling in you that you might hear what you already know. You’ve just forgotten! Liker an amnesiac who is fed that which is familiar, to awaken the forgotten past, so it is with you. Arise, shine, for your Light is come, and the Glory of the Risen Lord is risen upon you!

 

Spiritual Life

     The spiritual life cannot be figured out because it is much higher than human understanding. Analyzation will not produce the Life of God, or Spirit Life. Meditating on the Word of God day & night will. “Spirit Life” occurs when the True Word (the Son) is heard by the soul (mind, with its will), and enters your spirit. This joining of soul and spirit (mad alive by the Living Word) is an “awakening”, allowing you to see and remember that which has long been forgotten. My aim is to keep this simple lest the analyzing mind tell you it’s foolish, and you believe “it” rather than the Word of Truth. The natural, temporary mind reasons from what it sees, hears, and understands logically.

 

      The spiritual life comes from what you already have, and have had from before the foundations of the world! See! You’ve got to keep it simple. I may be sounding more complicated than is needed, but that’s because sometimes I think that I’m smart. Hmm! Actually you haven’t heard anything real deep yet. Get used to the deep because when you acclimate your self to this depth, we’re going deeper. The diamonds are very deep in the earth, much deeper than where we are at right now. They were formed through much heat and pressure.

    

The Spirit and the Letter

     Truth cannot be figured (mentally) out. The “revelation” comes from the Word going in and joining with the Word (&Spirit) already in you. The One Who wrote the book is already in you. He reveals Himself to those who obey what they already know to do. Not yielding to the truth or Word that you already have been given will cause blindness. But through continual seeking, more opportunities to yield & do will be given. Following the “letter of the law produces spiritual death. The reason for this is because the bible is not a “law” book, but a “Spirit” book. It can only be revealed through the Spirit, in your spirit. This gives us the “Mind of Christ”!

 

The Mind of Christ

      We have the Same Mind that created everything!! If you believe this and act upon it, and speak it, you will eventually see it, and know it (Him). Put “IT” on. There’s something that you have to do. Put it on! Shut down your intellectual thinking, your things that you have to do, your plans and dreams and goals, your busyness, and get quiet before the Lord. That’s how you put on the Mind of Christ! But I’ll be wasting time. No! You’re wasting your time by being busy and doing your own thing, whether it’s religious or secular. When you run around doing everything, you’re actually doing nothing. Jesus did the works of His Father. He didn’t do His Own thing. When He went up to pray all night He didn’t speak to the Father constantly out of His man mentality. He shut His thought process down in order to hear the “Thoughts” of His and your Father.

 

Nature Speaks

The “natural” is present to declare the “Spiritual! The sun, the stars, trees, clouds, the moon, earth, things under the earth like gold, silver, and precious gems, the heavens and all things visible are here to declare (speak of) the “invisible”, Spiritual, Immortal Life of God on the inside of YOU! But you will not be able to see that while you are running around chasing the wind, thinking that you’re accomplishing things. You’re running toward a grave. It’s not out here. It’s inside of you!

 

     The true heavens are not out here. They’re your spirit. The earth out here is to reveal to you the earth that is you. The expanse between the heaven and the earth (your body) is your soul. Heaven is come to earth by way of the soul. The Christ in your spirit has become one with your soul. It is the marriage. Our soul was married to the body but we recognized through the Cross that the body is dead because of sin, so we now have the right to be married to Another, the Spirit. This Union has sway over your earth so that your earth can do the things that will produce eternal quality throughout your being rather than following the dictates of your carnal, selfish life. Look at Romans chapter 6 & 7. The earth (your body) and heaven (your spirit) were separated by the huge expanse (your amnesiac mind who forgot who you are), but His Kingdom has come, His will is being done on and in earth as it is in heaven. The Spirit of God is become one with the soul of man through the Cross (a recognition that the old self died). There is a trans-form-ation taking place in your earth and therefore on this earth. The principalities no longer rule the expanse or the air in between heaven and earth, for those whose minds have been transformed by the renewing of their mind recognize the Kingdom of God as the Only Ruling Power in this or any other world. Heaven has kissed the earth!!

 

IT’S AN INSIDE JOB!