Being1inChrist

Joh 3:1  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: (This man is me. There was “A MAN” of (Anthropos-G444, mankind), an individual of mankind who saw himself as “victorious among his people”, other anthropos (meaning of Nicodemus G3530). Not only did he see himself as better than the rest of mankind, he was a “Pharisee” of the people. He was a “separatist” from among the people. He was an individual from the rest of the human race. He was religious. Every human is a Pharisee because every human believes he has made himself what he is, separate from all other people and he rules his own life.)

Joh 3:2  The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. (We come to Christ at first, in our own darkened thoughts of individualism, “by night.” We are given enough understanding to know Christ is Who He is but we still can’t shake our own darkness in the way we see life and the way we think. We think we live and move and have our being by our own works. We are still thinking the miracles are fleshly healings of the blind, deaf, dumb, lame, sick and even dead. We don’t see that these miracles are testimonies against who and what we are, and that we need to be healed spiritually. We see them as fleshly miracles for the flesh. We don’t see that we are in darkness, without form and void of any truth, whatsoever. We, as Nicodemas, can acknowledge the physical miracle but we cannot see beyond the physical. We cannot see into the kingdom of God. Christ tells us that we are still not seeing clearly because we are not yet born again and still seeing the miracles for the flesh and not for what they are in the spirit – healings of our spiritual infirmities. In the healing of their/our literal ailments, Christ is telling us that He came to heal us spiritually.)

Joh 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (To see the kingdom of God is to understand the kingdom of God is spiritual and within. To understand the kingdom of God is to ascend up to heaven in our thoughts, go beyond the firmament that separates earth from heaven. The firmament is a parable of the chasm between the natural mind who sees everything from a beastly standpoint of being our own god, and the spiritual mind that has no boundaries and sees all things from our Creator. This means we see Christ is in control of all things and we do not have a will or a single thought independent from Him. This is spiritually understanding the kingdom of God: to not give the flesh, the carnal mind, any credit for what it is, was or will be and to know everything is a creation by Christ, for Christ and by Christ do all things consist. Heaven is in our mind, our perception of what is real and what is not, what we see naturally vs spiritually, between what is celestial and what is terrestrial. To be born again is to see the truth that Christ’s miracles are a testimony to where we all are in the first creation. To see spiritually is to see ALL THINGS are a parable of a truth in understanding God as God. No man can ascend into this knowledge but Christ Who has descended from this knowledge to give His Elect the healing of their blindness, to give them Light.)

Joh 3:4  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? 

Joh 3:5  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (To be “born again” is to be able to perceive between what is fleshly/water and what is spirit. We cannot ascend into the heavens unless we can perceive the difference between the two. Men are made of blood and blood is unclean. Men, in the flesh, are as water because they are unclean in their thoughts of God and because they are as unstable as water. “Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh. Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.” ; “For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.”)

Joh 3:6  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 

Joh 3:7  Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 

Joh 3:8  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (We must be born again in our understanding of God to rise above fleshly understanding into spiritual understanding. The flesh cannot understand the meaning behind the Spirit’s words. It hears but cannot understand where it comes from and where it is going with its thoughts. The thoughts of the spirit are foolishness to the flesh, just like being “born again.” The spiritual can understand both where the flesh is coming from and where the spirit is coming from, where the flesh is going with its thoughts and where the spirit is going with its thoughts. But the carnal mind cannot understand the spiritual. It only understands naturally as a beast.)

Joh 3:9  Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 

Joh 3:10  Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 

Joh 3:11  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. (Christ is telling the flesh that it cannot understand these things even if they are explained to the flesh in a fleshly parable.)

Joh 3:12  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? (Christ is saying “I’ve explained it to you in a fleshly parable and still you are not able to understand it unless you are spiritually born from above.”)

Joh 3:13  And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. (No carnal thought or “man” has ever ascended (had a thought) that can understand the spiritual realm/heaven. But Christ has come down in the form of thoughts from the spiritual/heaven into His elect. (Heb 1:1) “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man (G3762-not even one- no carnal mind, not even one, can receive the truth, we must be born again to receive the truth.) receiveth his testimony.” The fleshly mind cannot ascend above its flesh. The flesh must die to its fleshly thinking before it can be born again to perceive heavenly thinking. The kingdom of God and heaven are synonymous. Christ tells us that nothing in us, no man, has ascended above their earth into the kingdom of God but He, Himself, Who has come down from the kingdom of God to explain these things to the Elect so that we can be born again. Born again means our thoughts become childlike and we realize and thus confess we know nothing of God – like a child who has no knowledge or experience of the world and relies solely on its parent, we must be taught everything from a spiritual standpoint. You must throw out everything you’ve ever learned or think you know and see everything new. This is being born again. A person cannot make themselves be born again. Christ must enter them and this is how the new man is born. When this happens, the spiritual language and thus the kingdom of God is opened up to our understanding. Spiritual language is parabolic. “But without a parable spake he not unto them” and so a tree is not a tree, it’s a man/doctrine. A rock is not a rock, it’s Christ. Dirt is not dirt, it’s flesh. Water is not water, it’s unclean thoughts. A beast is not a beast, it’s the unconverted flesh. The Great Whore sitting on a beast is not a great whore sitting on a beast, it’s the spiritual state of the Elect before we are converted. The Dragon is not a dragon, it’s the antichrist spirit that resides in us. So on and so forth. Anything and everything has a spiritual meaning and speaks a spiritual language. And just like in a natural language where the same word can have multiple meanings, in spiritual language symbols can have multiple meanings. When we are born again and begin to see through spiritual eyes, the Holy Spirit which is Christ within us, teaches us to understand the spiritual language. This is what “speaking in tongues” is actually describing.

Joh 3:14  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 

Joh 3:15  That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. (Moses was told to make a brass serpent to hang on a pole for the people to look at and be healed from the bites of the serpents. God sent the serpents as a chastisement for their complaining against Him about the journey they had to take leaving Egypt and the manna they had to eat. The serpents that were sent by God were a fleshly parable revealing how God sees these thoughts as poisonous. Their complaining came from the serpent within them that always is concerned about the flesh, “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Before we are converted, all we are concerned about is our flesh. We must spiritually look at what has bitten us when we have a complaint about the life we are being told to live as we get farther from Egypt. Christ has become our unbelief and to look upon Christ on the cross is to look at what has made us and is remaking us. Christ is seen by the flesh as the serpent that has bitten our flesh because Christ is The Creator Who has called us out of Egypt and has made us to eat manna, to eat His flesh. To eat His flesh is to walk in the spirit and not be so concerned with the flesh. To eat the spiritual meat is to be content with whatever the day brings and not try to change it into an Egyptian meal that would feed the flesh. While walking in the world as fleshly beings we lived by the bread of our own minds, what was learned by experience or by our own carnal wisdom. This bread was sweet to us and filled our fleshly thoughts, our spiritual dead bellies. But we have been called out of our Egypt and told we are headed for the promised land. The journey is through the desert, filled with days of thirst for the flesh and hunger for my own ways based on my own experience. It is the time where we are taught the spiritual. We are taught to look unto Christ Who created us for this time and to be recreated into sons of God. Everyone who looks to Christ as The Creator of every minute of every day is healed from their serpent thoughts of individualism and healed from a carnal mind that lives and moves and has its being in itself, eating itself, like the serpent eating its own tail, we eat from our own wisdom. If we are given to look to Christ then we are healed and are entering the promise land, a new world where the lie of individualism is destroyed and oneness with God is shown.)

Joh 3:16  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 

Joh 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (God loves the world within His Elect that sees Him as the All in All, so much so that He has sent Christ to die to Himself so that we can live unto God. Christ has given up His life so that we can have life….by following His example and dying to ourselves. Christ has shown the life of a spiritual being in contrast to an earthly being. Christ came to this earth in a fleshly body, born in the lowest state, in a stall with animals (which is a parable of Him entering into flesh, which is a beast, which is the unconverted flesh.) He was laid in a manager which is the parable that He would be the “food” or “bread of life” to all Believers – we must eat His flesh and drink His blood to live – a parable of the Truth He would reveal to His Elect that in Him only is life.) He came in the flesh and lived a life He knew was totally dependent upon His Father. When a man said he wanted to follow Christ, Christ told him “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” He did not have a home here on earth, meaning He did not feel at home encased in a fleshly body, around carnal earth-bound thoughts. His thoughts had no home among the dead.

Joh 3:18  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

There is a world inside of the Elect who are walking out of Egypt/the world of the flesh into a heavenly world and are beginning to see God in ALL THINGS. He that does not see God in all things is condemned already because he has not seen His life as a creation of Christ but a creation of choices made by his own flesh.

Joh 3:19  And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 

Joh 3:20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 

Joh 3:21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. My new man, that has been created in the image of Christ, is being made free from the place of the unknown, he is known and is beginning to know ALL THINGS. He is freed from condemnation because he has been born from above. He is made to see that what he is, was and will be is, was and will be a creation of Christ for the glory of God. The opposite is to hate The Light and stay in the darkness of your world, void of form and be condemned into the abyss of the unknown. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” To stay in the darkness where we are void of truth and without form is to love the darkness of our own judgment. To love your thoughts as a free being unencumbered by anyone or anything is to hate Christ, Who is The Light. The carnal mind hates Christ because when we come to Christ He explains to us what is carnal and dark about our thoughts. We do not want to be reproved by seeing what Christ sees in us. We would rather stay hugging our lies of individualism and carnal wisdom than come to Christ where we can be shown that everything we have ever been, are or will be is, was and will be a work of God and not our own,”are wrought in God.” To the new man, this is “good news” indeed but to our old man, our old serpent, it’s death. In Christ’s words “But he that DOETH TRUTH cometh to the light, that HIS DEEDS may be MANIFEST, that they (HIS DEEDS) are WROUGHT IN GOD.” See Christ on the pole and our serpent bites (fleshly thoughts of godhood) won’t hurt us. See Christ as The Creator and not myself and I am healed from whatever takes place every day. “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils (refute false doctrines, lying thoughts); they shall speak with new tongues (spiritual language, understanding parables as explained earlier); They shall take up serpents (overcome/be victorious over the lying doctrines of goodhood represented by the serpent); and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them (no longer hurt by the lies of our old man/serpent nature) ; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” (our new man, Christ in us, touching our old man with the truth and healing the many parts of us still in bondage to the deadly doctrine of self worship.)

With spiritual eyes, we can look at the story of Paul on the island of Melita and understand what Christ is teaching us about the battle being waged inside of a believer. Here is first layer of understanding:

“And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks (representing the Barbarians because men are trees), and laid them on the fire (the fire of right judgment of God), there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. (the heat of judgment drives out the false doctrines residing in our carnal mind represented by the serpent) And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. (This explains the Barbarians’ false belief in works – retribution and recompense based on good and evil works, “what goes around, comes around.”)  And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. (Their false doctrine has no affect on Paul because he knows the truth that it is Christ Who created him to do and be everything he is, was and will be.) Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.” (When their false doctrinal expectations aren’t met that based on his works, on law, he should have been killed by the serpent, the serpent nature in them slithers to yet another false doctrine – creature worship, hence the “to and fro” thoughts of the serpent nature. The serpent’s curse of eating dust as long as it shall live is a parable of how our thoughts cannot go any higher than the earth, or enter the kingdom of God, before Christ enters us and we are converted. To the carnal/serpent mind ALL things are a result of some other element in creation, thus eating dust. It worships the creature rather than the Creator and it will slither to and fro until it lands on something that makes sense to the “wisdom of men.” And when one doctrine fails, it moves on to something else – “ever learning and never able to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”

Now we can take this same story and use the spiritual language for even further inward interpretation and explain what goes on inside of a believer, inside the kingdom of God. Christ, represented by Paul, gathers bundles of false doctrines together that are within us and brings them to the light of judgment, Who is God, Who is a consuming fire. Fire represents the truth of God that He is working all things. The lies of the serpent that reside within us try very hard to get us to take credit for our own works, seen by the serpent attaching to Paul’s hand – our hand representing our works. But when Christ gives us to see that it’s not our hand but HIS hand, the result is more faith and we are able to shake off the lying thoughts of our own godhood into the consuming fire of God’s love and we’re unhurt by them. This is looking at the serpent on the pole and being healed. Yet the Barbarians within us, watching all of this, are the parts of us that are not yet converted meaning anything about ourselves that we’ve not yet stopped taking credit for creating or having created. We’ve not yet been given the faith to see Christ clearly in those areas. We still have the blind living among us. In these areas of our life, we are still worshipping the creature (ourselves!) because we see even our faith as ours and thus worship ourselves as a god. We give ourselves the “atta boy” for our knowledge that Christ is the Creator and all is of God….even the understanding itself, the serpent will try to steal for himself because as scripture says “…even the devils believe.” We have no ability to believe or not believe anything. All must be given to us from God through Christ.