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Teaching -
Word Of The Week
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Written by Pastor Judy Sky
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Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:00 |
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CHRIST IS OUR LIFE AND OUR ONLY HOPE OF GLORY:
‘Let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus, who thought it not, too great a thing to be one or equal with God.' (Philippians 2:6  )
The Father sees you, for the last 2000 years, not as bad, unclean, defective, defeated, evil, shameful, guilty, sinful, but He sees you through the blood of The Lamb. It was the most profound event and most powerful. It made us clean and victorious... as Jesus Christ successfully and victoriously went to and through the cross and defeated the power of sin and death and moved into and through resurrection life... and He is our vehicle and we are in Him.
He did all this and even before the resurrection, He said' ‘It is finished'. This is His Finished Work. He did what we could not do, and when we enter into His Finished Work, and become one with Him in His death, we also become one with Him in His Resurrection Life.
- Many people are not experiencing the benefits of what He's done because they don't know about this good news, or they don't know to ‘reckon the old man dead'. Some have forgotten what He actually did, or they are tricked and deceived by the pit to let go of this rich blessing and inheritance.
- Many have forgotten His benefits and don't write checks on this great storehouse of mercy.
- Many have never experienced this great peace and this option for The Joy of The Lord to be their experience.
- Many will not let go of their own guilt and shame and let it be absorbed by The Blood of The Lamb.
- Many are deceived to hold onto their own guilt and shame and condemnation as if it were the right thing to do... they do not honor The Blood of Jesus.
He paid the most tremendous price to see that we could be washed and clean and forgiven and available to contain, express and manifest His Presence and Power and Spirit on the face of the earth. It is to ‘be on earth as it is in heaven'. We sit at the table full of the feast and we don't eat but we are starving and crying. We are wretched and blind and poor in that condition.
The word miserable comes from the word ‘miser' which is defined as one who will sit in the presence of great wealth and luxury, but not able to enjoy it as they are too busy worrying about poverty... sad, but true. That may be the sad but true picture of those of us who really have it all, but because we are thinking with the wrong mind... some other way... we are being robbed of all that has been set before us.
THE MIND OF GOD tells us that he sets a table for us in the presence of our enemies.
We can be so distracted by our enemies, by our giants in the Promised Land, that we are not able to think like Joshua and Caleb... who saw that ‘the grapes were as big a pomegranates'. The others, with a carnal mind only saw themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of the giants.
If you are not seeing yourself as washed in The Blood of Jesus Christ and forgiven of your sins, and empowered by The Holy Spirit, with a hope and a future and a plan for your life... you may not be seeing with His eyes, or thinking with His Mind.
Once again: God is love and Love believes the best of everyone. Love sees potential. Love also may have correction in it and Love is able to raise the dead. Every now and then Love wipes out everything, re-plows the garden and begins a new season. That doesn't mean that something is wrong. That means that seasons have changed. When we are trusting in The Lord with all our hearts we don't have to experience the trauma of seasons changing. In Him there is not shadow of turning. God is our source of Light and Hope and Wisdom and Life.
Considering Lazarus
WHAT IS HE THINKING????
WHAT IS ON HIS MIND?
WHAT IS HE SEEING?
WHAT DOES HE WANT US TO KNOW?
BABYLON IS FALLING.
BABYLON MEANS CONFUSION. IT IS A SYSTEM OF RELIGION BIRTHED IN THE EARTH, A PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY KNEW GOD BUT THEY WERE NOT HAVING THE MIND OF CHRIST.
I hope that you are not identifying with Adam. I hope that you are identifying with Christ, because He is available to you.
I hope you are not thinking thoughts of Adam:
I'M JUST A FAILURE. I HAVE THE OLD MAN STILL DRAGGING ME AROUND... I CAN'T CHANGE, I'LL NEVER CHANGE. I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING, I'M A WICKED OLD SINNER...
MAYBE, SOMEDAY, IF I COULD, MAYBE I WILL...
THE SINFUL NATURE CAME IN BY QUESTIONING THE MIND OF GOD.
THE MIND OF GOD HAS COME TO EARTH IN THE FORM OF JESUS CHRIST.
WHEN WE ARE QUESTIONING AND DOUBTING AND CHALLANGING THE MIND OF GOD, BEING EXPRESSED AND MANIFESTED AS THE MIND OF CHRIST, THAT IS RECORDED AND IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE IN THE WORD OF GOD..
THE WORD OF GOD IS THE EXPRESSED MIND OF CHRIST WHICH ARE THE THOUGHTS OF GOD AND ABOUT ME SEES:
- THE SINS OF THE WORLD FORGIVEN.
- ME PROSPEROUS AND HEALTHY
- MY SPIRIT MAN IS A SON OF GOD
- I HAVE A FUTURE AND A HOPE
- I HAVE BEEN GIVEN EVERYTHING THAT PERTAINS TO LIFE AND GODLINESS
- GOD IS FOR ME AND NOT AGAINST ME
- THE MIND OF CHRIST IS AVAILBLE FOR ME TO CHOOSE MY THOUGHTS
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