WRETCHEDNESS
I received the following e-mail, from a dear friend, who is seeing something different than her friend. I felt to comment in this short article in hopes that perhaps we can see another view of the flesh aspect.
"Hi, it's me again. To get right to the point. I have a really close friend who seems to have a hard time with some things you teach.
In your teachings you basically see the finality of who We are without mentioning the process there is we must go through to get to our Being. Some of the teachings she reads and receives directly are that of XXX's writings and the fact that we must go through death to the flesh to realize and all that we have to put off. In order to see who we really are in Christ, we must see the wretchedness of our flesh."
The main thought here is seeing who we really are in Christ. If we look at the wretchedness of the flesh, we will see it. If we see it, how can we see Christ? Christ is NOT in any wretched flesh. He is Holy, Undefiled, Perfect, Complete, etc. Christ does not dwell in Temples of corruption, yet we are told that we are the Temple of God. We are New Creations, in Christ. We are the Body of Christ. How can that ever be wretched?
Christians and Kingdom preachers, continue to preach processing and continue to speak a word of wretched flesh. The more this is done, the less we will see Christ. You cannot have your eyes on two. Either you have your eyes on flesh, or Christ. If flesh, you do not see Christ. If Christ, you do not see flesh.
NOW LOOK WE AT NO MAN AFTER THE FLESH, said Paul. Why do we continue to do so? If the preachers cannot see past the flesh, how can they ever teach others to do so. One cannot bring others to perfection, to completion, to the heavens of heavens, if one cannot see it himself first. If he is still seeing and looking at the flesh, then his eyes are not fully given to see only the Lord. Imperfection cannot bring about perfection. Like begets like. why do you think the Sons of god are NOT yet being manifested? Because the preachers preaching Sonship, do not yet see Sonship. Only partial perfection in process.
Ye ARE complete, in Him, says the Word. It does not say ye shall be complete, someday, but that you ARE, present tense, NOW. But we don't believe it, so we continue to look at the outward signs that prove we are not complete...flesh. Oh ye of little faith. If ye would but have faith the size of a mustard seed, ye could move mountains. If we continue to listen to preachers telling us we are still in sin, we are still in process, we are not complete in Him, we will never reach what already is. Preachers who look to a process, are like those that look to the rapture, which most of the processing preachers do not believe. They wait for the process to end, like those who wait for the rapture to begin.
Well you and they would say, just look at you. You are getting old, you have sickness in your body, cancer, diabetes, etc. That proves you are still processing and your flesh is wicked. Ah, my friends. We are not our bodies. We have a New Creation body, given to us when we came into an understanding of who we are. If we maintain that the flesh is the natural body, then we have a New body, which is Christ. In that Christ, there is no sin, no condemnation, nothing defiled. It is perfect, for it is the Body of Christ. A living Temple. If we maintain that the flesh is in the mind, well, my friend, we have put on the Mind of Christ, when we born again, or reconciled into the understanding of the salvation message. That Mind is still undefiled, still complete, still without sin. We cannot have two minds and be in the Body of Christ. Christ only has One Mind.
Let us look at the concept of how Christians see the Blood of the Lamb. It is supposed to cleans us of ALL sin. It is supposed to cover ALL unrighteousness and remove it, as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our iniquities. So how does God see us? Perfect, complete, sinless, no wretched flesh, etc., because He sees the Blood. He does not see anything else, but Spirit. The Christ body is a spiritual Body, that we are and that God sees.
What is the difference between the one who murders another, or rapes another, and one who sees wretchedness in the flesh? Nothing, but degree. Is a white lie as bad as murder? Degree. It is degree in the mind. The one who commits a murder, may not even believe what he did was wrong. The one who commits a white lie may haunt him to his death. Degree. Flesh is all degree, be it natural or in the mind.
But the Mind of Christ has no degrees in it. It is fully complete in all its perfection. It is the Mind of God and that Mind cannot Be anything less than the Fullness of the Godhead in ALL its Glory. That is the Mind YOU have in you.
When you stop looking at the flesh body or mind, as being wretched, then you will be seeing as God sees you, through the Blood/Spirit. When you can look at the rapist and see nothing but God in him, you will be able to transform that person from being who he thinks he is, a rapist, to who he really is, God in this realm. You will have brought him into the understanding that ALL things are reconciled to God. But if you see him as a rapist, he will know it and sense it and your love will be as false as your mind. you will not Be coming from the Christ Mind, but from the mind you want to be rid of.
Some would say that that is processing. Yes it is until you stop it. And most of Christendom and the Kingdom are still processing. I do not believe in it. It is there to those who want it to be there, just like the rapture. Remove the beliefs in the rapture and you remove the rapture. Remove the beliefs in everlasting punishment in hell, and you remove hell. Remove the belief in processing and you see with the Mind of Christ, perfectly, completely, undefiled, without sin and as God. As long as you continue to believe in processing, you will continue to process and not come into the fullness of the Mind of Christ. A double minded man is unstable in ALL his ways, says the Scripture.
But you say, I believe that, but it is all in Gods timing. Well Gods time is all in the NOW. He knows no other time. Everything to God happens NOW, so as the old TV jingle goes, "why wait for spring, do it NOW." You have the Mind of Christ in you. You choose this day whom you will serve. You can believe you are the person you think you are and still see wretchedness, or you can believe God, who says you are complete in Him.
Why do some see completeness NOW and others in some unforseen end? Belief. Nothing more, nothing less.
YE ARE COMPLETE......NOW.
Namaste
Sirius