OUR JOURNEY
1/3/06
AND TWO IDENTITIES
Part 2
Most of us, this group that has been on my email list, and I've come to know,
have gone through the two identities thing. But, for the sake of those who
don't, I'd like to say a little about it.
We all started out thinking that we were in some way separated from God. We've
listened to teaching that we are human and He is Spirit and we just are not good
enough to be a part of Him. One reason this belief has lasted so long is because
we've been taught to focus on our flaws and try to change them. We've worked so
hard to be something that God would accept. But, it never worked. Each time we
thought that we had done a change, another flaw would raise up within us. Some
came to the place where they just thought, "you know, this religious stuff isn't
for me.". And actually, those folks are better off, than the ones who have kept
on trying to work out what didn't belong within them. Because it can't be worked
out of them, ONLY, the REMEMBERING of What is inside the, can make the
difference.
Then, we find out that Father's Spirit lives within us. Us and Him. Well, surely
we can do it now. But, sometimes it seems that it all got worse. We were really
aware of the flaws now. Then we became aware of something else working in us,
guilt. Sometimes we felt so guilty, that we were ashamed to even TRY to talk to
Him. So, on and on we went.
Then one day or night, HE leads us to hear someone speak. And we hear that there
is no US, just HIM. We wonder, "what have I got into?"
So, we let it go. BUT, THE SEED HAS BEEN PLANTED. We can't seem to forget those
words. Then, we begin to hear Father say things to us, that causes us to really
want to know about all this. We have fought this thing as best we can. At first,
we think, "that's blasphemy". We sneak around and read anything we can get our
hands on. It never enters our mind to go directly to the Source, Father Himself.
But, this thing really has a hold on us. That, my friend IS FATHER. He is
awakening us to "our" real identity. We have finished with the works and many
times HE set us off by ourselves. And that leaves no one but Him to teach us.
WOW! What a blessing, which at the time of going through this period, we wonder
if it's a blessing or a punishment!! Oh, the imagination.!!
Jesus said to the people of his day,
“Verily I say unto you, There be
some standing here which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man
coming in his Kingdom.”
This scripture holds many different beliefs. Each of us have the understanding
that Father's Spirit showed us, at different places in our walk.
First of all, it made us awaken to the fact that ALL that concerns God is within
US. The word "Kingdom" in the Greek means an authority; the authority is our
Father and it IS within us. You see, WE were given His Authority when we
resurrected with the man, Jesus. What does that mean to us?
In a kingdom, the authority belongs to the king. The prince, in a kingdom, can
do nothing without his father's authority. The flesh man, Jesus could do nothing
on His own, it was His Father, in Him that did all and said all. It's was His
Father's authority that raised the dead; healed the sick; and worked the
miracles. But what we did not understand was that the Son was the Father. We
thought, "well yes, Jesus could do all this because He was the Father's anointed
One. But, then different things started catching our attention. We read verses
like:
John 1:12, "But as many as received
him, to them gave He power (or the right or privilege) to become sons of God,
even to them that believed on His name (nature)."
John 1:16, "And of His fullness have ALL received, and grace for grace."
We receivED. Past tense, ALL of His FULLNESS! We didn't and couldn't earn it, He
gave it to us, because of His Love for us. And we have been given, past tense,
the privilege to be His Son. So, then we became awakened to the FACT that we ARE
HIS SON. Then again, the imagination started her thing. "Well, IF I am the Son
of God, why am I not doing all the things that Jesus did, as the Son. Again, we
learn that IT WAS THE FATHER that did the works that was done. And Jesus had to
HEAR and SPEAK all that Father said through Him.
There are those that believe that the works and greater works that Jesus did,
will not be done, individually. And I agree with that in some respects. It will
be a collective Body, but, each member of that Body will be individual
expressions of Father. Yes, we will be ONE, but yet individualized. You see,
Father EXPERIENCES HIMSELF through each of us, even though it is ALL of us that
make up His Body. We each have the NATURE of the Father. We all are the same
Christ.
Now, we've been taught that we have within us, two natures. But, you see, that
just isn't possible. WE went to the cross with Him; WE resurrected WITH HIM; AS
NEW CREATURES. This New Creature, was resurrected and began to REMEMBER things
of our past. And we learned that the devil; the demons; the evil spirits and
such, were all destroyed by Jesus on the cross. He was the conqueror who
defeated the power of the enemy that has enslaved all of mankind for thousands
of years, liberating the captives and releasing those who have been imprisoned
by the carnal mind (as we allowed them to remain destroyed). The mind is a
powerful thing. Then, as we went along, we realized who and where the devil and
these demons lived. They lived in the heavens of the carnal mind. When we
resurrected, we found out that
WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.
(1Cor.2:16).
Now some teach that we are going to receive a new soul; and a new mind. But, I
can't find that in the written Word; which I know we will not find all that is
Truth of God, in the bible. Actually, we have made an idol out of the bible. The
bible is dead. Uh-oh, I can hear it now; "Did you hear what she said?" It is
the Spirit that shows us Truth, not the bible. The bible is just to LEAD US to
the Spirit. A lot of folks won't accept anything that they cannot find in the
bible, but, that's ok, because one day Father is going to speak a Truth to them
and they won't be able to find it in the bible. I believe that we were told, in
the bible, that the book could not HOLD ALL ABOUT HIM. And how can it, it is the
Spirit that draws us, and gives life, not the written Word. IF the bible had it
all, there would not be a trillion different denominations!!
But, we are told that we are going to receive a new mind. It tells us that it is
by THE RENEWING of the mind, that we are transformed. And a new soul? No, we
don't get a new soul. The soul is become new. As the mind is renewed, the soul
comes into balance with the Spirit. And it says RE-newed. That tells me that it
is going to be changed BACK to where it was, at one time. We renew our minds, as
we take HIM and hold Him close. As we listen and BELIEVE and walk in the belief
we received. When we don't, what happens? We just stay under the influence of
the carnal mind. We show not, the glory of God that we were given. We stay under
the believing that we have to see death. And as we believe that, we die; when we
don't have to. Jesus tasted death, with us, on the cross and that is the only
death that we appointed to. But, it just death of the flesh body, not us. So,
there's still hope.
Then we read Jesus' prayer.
John 17:21-22, "That they all may be
one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they ALSO may be one in us;
that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou
gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one;. I in
them, and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
WOW!! Meditate on this. The Father, the Son , us are all ONE! And we are made
perfect IN ONE. It is not us and Father, Father and us are ONE. That means that
there is NO US. But, we will get into this a little later.
If you remember the writing that I wrote about RE-HAPPENINGS, you'll like what
Tony den Hartog said;
"And God said, Let there be light"
Well, it is a RE-HAPPENING today. Light is being spoken into Being. Nothing is
new, it's all a RE-HAPPENING that is Lighting our way BACK to where we came
from.
Two natures? No. It is just the allowing the mind to fall down to the earthen
level of thinking, that we allow the nature of Father to fade. But, it cannot
and will not leave.
I was talking with Tony Messano. He said, "have you seen the movie, "6th Sense"?
The main character is Bruce Willis. He is dead but doesn't know it, so he keeps
on "living" his "old" life, just as if nothing has changed. " He said, " I
believe that we don't move into greater heights until certain issues in "our
life" is dealt with. Those issues seem to involve each other, including those
who have passed on before us."
This sure gives us something to think on, doesn't it? If you notice, in
Gen 1:1, it says "And God created
the heaven (singular).
And then in
Gen 2:1, it says, "Thus the heavens
(plural) were finished, and ALL THE HOST OF THEM."
Now, we have come to know that
the heavens is within us. We travel from one to the other. Paul said that he was
in the third heaven. These heavens are where we are RAISED to in our thinking;
in the renewing of our mind. And folks, we can tell when we allow our mind to
fall to the lower heaven; that "religious" way of thinking.
I just experienced it. And talk about being LOWERED!! It makes us miserable to
allow the lowering of the mind, when Father has raised us up from that lower
heaven. And notice, there are HOSTS of these heavens. All of them. It took two
brothers to who know Who they are, to raise me back up into the heaven that I
had been in. Once there again, PEACE. It was an experience with a lesson. The
higher the heaven, the clearer Father appears to us. It's the same that Tony
Messano was talking about. The issue that Father dealt with me on, was to SEE
from that higher heaven. I thank both of these brothers that allowed Father to
be heard through them.
We are going to deal with these "2 identities" in the next part.