RENEWING OF THE MIND

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I want to explain a statement that I made in the last part of this study: I ask that throughout this entire study, that you keep in mind, MY meaning of the word "Christ". I AM NOT TALKING ABUT THE MAN, JESUS. to me, "CHRIST" means, GOD'S LIFE FLOWING THROUGH A PERSON. This way, I won't have to type this explanation every time I use the word, "Christ".

I am not asking that you believe as I do, I just want to make it clear, that I am receiving in what I BELIEVE. This IS NOT saying that MY BELIEF is the only way to believe.

 

OK, we looked at the definition of the word "illusion". An illusion can look and seem so real that it fools people. As we will see, this is what has happened to mankind. As we have noticed, the Plural God is called, Lord God. Remember this:

1Timothy 3:16, "And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; GOD MANIFEST IN THE FLESH..... " if you go on and read the rest of this verse, you will see that IT IS GOD WHO IS DOING ALL THAT THE VERSE TALKS ABOUT, it is NOT talking about the flesh man, Jesus. What it is doing, is telling us WHO JESUS REALLY WAS! HE WAS GOD, in the disguise of a man. It was part of the PLAN for God to become man and lay a pattern for us to follow. When Jesus was born, God was born into the flesh realm, IN AN INFANT level. SO WERE WE. And we have been moving, ascending, from realm to realm, level to level , in our understanding. We are now, maturing. MORE OF GOD IS BEING SEEN, AS US. I wanted to put this scripture in , so that without a doubt, all that read these words, will know that Jesus was a form of a man that God stepped into. Jesus was the soul of Elohim. The soul is the visible realm of the unseen God. Now, remember what Jesus/God was called, as He walked the earth?

1Timothy 6:15, "....which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.."

He was called, the Lord of Lords! Now, don't let the punctuation throw you, by seeing one "Lord" capitalized and the other "Lords" not capitalized. When the bible was written, there were no capitalization, no chapters, and no verses numbered. The translators CHANGED THAT, amonge the many things that they changed. But, if He is Lord of Lords, WHO ARE THE OTHER LORDS?. Well, my Lord, hello, it is you and I.

And not only are we Lords, but we are also:

1Peter 5:2-4, "Feed the flock of God (of= out from within) which is among you (in your midst) taking the over sight there of, not by constraint, but willingly: not for filthy lucre, but OF A READY MIND; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock. (we are not to try to do or teach something, because we have heard it from someone else, or MAKE ourselves study, if we feel like it is a burden on us; but only when we KNOW that the mind is ready to receive and give out. But we are to be the example of Who we know we are. As that Voice spoke to me, "you cannot KNOW a thing until you EXPERIENCE that thing. When you are open and seeking it will come, and you become an experience of what you find, and as so, you are to be and example to others.) And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." Now, this is an example of what I was saying, about the bible being written in the "cultural understanding of that day". In that day, sheep was a vital part of their cultural living, so they USED sheep as a way of telling a parable. But when the chief Shepherd shall appear is when we RECOGNIZE our True Identity, and He is seen AS US.

 

Revelation 1: 5-6, "And from Jesus Christ (God) the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth . Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and HAS MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS, unto (into) God and his Father ; to him be glory AND DOMINION for ever and ever. Amen." So what does that mean? WE ARE NOT ONLY LORDS, BUT KINGS!!!! Whether anyone wants to accept this truth as truth, is up to each person who reads it. Because of the illusion that we have been living in, we have not accepted these things as truth. We have believed that, "when we die and go to heaven, we will be all this". NO, NO, NO. What did we see in John 1:16 "of his fullnes have we all receivED". Can you see what I am saying, IT IS ALL IN WHAT WE BELIEVE!! IF we cannot believe HIM, who can we believe?

So, I encourage all of you to start recognizint the man , Jesus, for Who He truely was, Elohim. Did we need to learn about the man Jesus, of course we did. But we are not to stop there, that is the salvation realm, we have entered a different dimension, and we need to THINK in that dimension. And ask yourself, IF we are Him, and we are, then how can we be OUR OWN FATHER? See what I mean. It is religion that has taught us that He is our Father. He isn't, HE IS US!! Boy this sure takes all the religion out of it, doesn't it? IF you are not in this dimension, then call Him what you want, but, it will come, the truth always does, He isn't a Father; especaillly if HE IS ALL THERE IS!! Once you hear something, and you take time to think about it, it shows what "infant" versions of Him, we have been. But, we had to start from the beginning.

Now, let's get back to our past, the Lord God. Ok we looked at the Lord God FORMING the man, that Elohim created.

 

Now, let's think about this for a little while. We have been taught that the GOD breathed into us and gave us life, right? What was and is the Lord God? He is SPIRIT. SPIRIT does not need air, breath to live. Have you thought of that? A Spirit Being does NOT LIVE ON AIR! Air is what is needed for the natural, PHYSICAL body to exist. Now, remember, at this time, God had not come to dwell in people. There were no people to indwell. Up until this point, EVERYONE was a Spirit form of the invisible God/Elohim. We were ALL Plural Him, or Plural Elohim. We were IN GOD. We did not need air, to breath. But, since the Lord God was creating HIS OWN BODY (this is all of us), this body WOULD NEED AIR, because it was a PHYSICAL BODY. We were/are the SOUL of ELOHIM/GOD. The soul realm represents the carnal or literal , physical US (or as we have THOUGHT ourselves to be.) But keep in mind throughout this study, no matter what we have THOUGHT we are, it does not change WHAT AND WHO WE TRUELY ARE.

 

I want to say a little more about the word "Lords". Look at:

Suet. 10:8,9, (. I want to look at verse 17, but please read from verse 8 through 17. Read it carefully.) vs 17, For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward."

In this verse, the word "lords" means, #2962, supremacy, supreme in authority, i.e. (as noun) controller; by implication, Mr. (as a respectful title) :God, Lord, master, Sir. AGAIN, do not be thrown by the lack of capitalization. As I said, when the letters or scrolls were written, there were no capitalizations, or numbered chapters and verses, that changed when the bible was translated. Now this definition is of the word LORDS, plural. So this tells us what the LORD GOD was. (and still is). I know that this is all very different from what we have been taught, and this is why I ALWAYS ask that those of you who get my studies to PLEASE go along with your bible and study aid books.

 

Genesis 2:8-9, "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the SIGHT, and good FOR FOOD; the tree of life ALSO in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil......vs 15, And the LOrd God took the man, and put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it."

And so we see that the Lord God formed the man that God had created and put the man in the garden.

garden is number 1588 and it means, "fenced". The root word for garden is #1598 and it means: to hedge about; i.e. (generally) protect, defend. The Garden, dear ones, is our Christ or God Mind. It was and is protected because God knew the trials and errors we would make, in our experiencing and matruring in our True Identity. We are Him, but we are in the process of EXPERIENCING BEING HIM. Some have matrued more than others. That part IS UP TO US. We allow what we will let enter our Garden, and we choose what we will not be allowed to enter our Garden. And up until our awakening, most of what we have allowed in our Garden , has been RELIGION!! But that is changing. Halilujah!!!!

So really, the garden that the Lord God placed man in, is a place of THINKING. Remember Genesis chapter one and two are allegoric. It is a parable. Ok, let's look at some differences in God/Elohim, and the Lord God, the Plural Elohim. First of all, the garden that the Lord God planted, was not a literal garden. The garden is our MIND. Eastward is symbolic of the Son. Now this is the FIRST PLACE where we see anything that even hints to a realm of Sonship. We did not see it, in the creating that God did.

Now, let's look at verse 9.

"And out of the ground made the Lord God, to grow EVERY TREE THAT IS PLEASANT TO THE SIGHT", What part of us is "sight"? It is the soul. The place of the seven senses. This is in the natural, flesh realm. "AND GOOD FOR FOOD:" What are we? Spirit Beings, and Spirit Beings DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE NOURISHMENT of earthly, or fleshly food. But, we see here that the Lord God made the "trees" good for food. "the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, AND tree of knowledge of good and evil". WHAT???? The tree of what? The tree of knowledge of good and evil !!! Ok, now WHO made the tree of knowledge of good and evil ? The Lord God. Now, let's look BACK to chapter one, and look again at what GOD/Elohim made and what was the being of it;

Genesis 1:29,31, "And God said, Behold, I have given you every hert bearing seed, whi is upon the face of ALL the earth, and EVERY TREE, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; TO YOU IT SHALL BE FOR MEAT." Now, look at vere 31, "And God saw EVERY THING that he had made, AND BEHOLD, IT WAS VERY GOOD!!!!" oK, do you see the difference between what God created and what the Lord God made? Who made the tree of knowledge of good and evil? The LORD GOD did.

Look at something else that the Lord God made DIFFERENTLY than what God made it. Notice verse 15.

And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, TO DRESS IT AND TO KEEP IT." This is the same thing that we are told in the Book of Revelation 1:3

"Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and KEEP those things which are written therein; fot the time is at hand." #5647 to dress= to till, to work, to serve. In other words, the man was to really take charge and enjoy the garden.. to keek#8104= to hedge about (as with thorns), to guard, to protect, to attend to, beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self) keep (self) , mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), wait , watch. I don't think that I have to tell you what man was to do in the garden. It was to keep in himself, WHO HE WAS.

Now we see WHO it was that FIRST THOUGHT OF THE WORD, DEATH.

Genesis 2:16-17. You can read these two verses. It is where man was told that if he ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, he will surely die. Before this, death was not heard of, death of any kind. Now not only did the Lord God bring this word into being, look at He said next:

Genesis 2:18, "And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." Now, go back and look when God created the man, He made him male and female. And what did He say after He had created man? "It is VERY GOOD!!" But isn't it just like man/us, to change what God has done, or at least TRY to change it!! lol But, before we get too much, down on the Lord God, let's remember, GOD KNEW WHAT WOULD BE DONE. I think that He knew that some would TRY to act as though they had been Creators, experienced Creators, when they were not experienced; and that there would be some who would try to follow that Voice within themselves, but still would change things, into THEIR way. But, part of the PLAN was for us to learn, and that is what we can see now. We can see how we allowed other voices tell us things, and we followed those voices. BUT NOW WE ARE WAKING UP and looking back at what we created and are changing them. THIS IS THE TRUE MEANING OF "JUDGEMENT". CORRECTING WHAT IS INCORRECT, WITHOUT CONDEMNATION. Remember, through all of this, we are here to learn to BE WHO we are. And remember, we have always been ONE in GOD.

You will see, in verse 2: 19 that it is the Lord God who called the man, Adam. Another change. God called him, MAN.

Now while Adam named all the animals, or in true words, Adam gave natures to all the animals, here in verse 20, the THOUGHT that the Lord God had had, about it not being good for man to be alone, His THOUGHT COMES INTO MANIFESTATION. He is going to bring forth a woman for Adam.

to be continued......