Being1inChrist

Isa 66:22  For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. 

Isa 66:23  And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 

Isa 66:24  And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. 

Mar 9:48  Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

When we look upon our past or when God hands us over to relive our past, is what these verses are meaning “their worm shall not die” and “the fire is not quenched”. We become consumed by how low we had been living in our earth, feeding off our carcases. Feeding off our carcases is feeding off our dead world. We can see it in the world where we recognize those who are still feeding off their own carcase. It is eating swine and unclean animals which represent unclean doctrines and motives we lived by. To forsake your life is to deny your life as ever having life in it. Seeing it as a rotting carcase where there was no life in it and we were dead to the truth that Christ was The Creator and we were separate from Him in thoughts and deeds. But, today we can rejoice because Christ has revealed The Father to us. We are now sons of God and heirs to the throne. We are being transformed from a dead corpse, (who must see himself as dead before he can live), into a life giving spiritual host who contains life and has become heir of all things. We have no life giving thoughts of our own and everything that does have life in it comes from Christ, Who is The giver of life. Thoughts of the flesh that do not glorify The Father are dead thoughts and must be seen as dead thoughts that cannot have eternal life. They are for the dead carcase and feed off the dead carcase. They are carnal thoughts from a carnal mind, they are temporal thoughts for temporal gratification of the flesh. We fed off these thoughts in our past and thought we were alive, but we were dead. The thoughts were worms and they fed off the satisfaction of the temporal flesh. Spiritual thoughts focus on eternity, where there is no death and all is for the glorification of God. The simple question to ourselves should always be, “how will God be glorified in what we are thinking or doing?” Every thought has a purpose, for life or for death – that which will glorify God and that which will glorify flesh. Christ has redeemed us from all filth, in the eyes of The Father and we are seen as Christ Himself, without fault. But, Christ is also in us, walking through our lives converting our world in us to present it to The Father blameless. It doesn’t take much comparison with the truth to see what is carnal and what is spiritual. Carnal thought is based on the flesh for the flesh with no thought of God being glorified or the other person. Spiritual thought is based on the glorification of God as God and Christ as Lord and the good of my Brother.

“For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.”

Interacting with those outside of truth is like Apostle Paul trying to interact with the mob at Ephesus because, unlike the world outside, we have no motive in what we say or do but to glorify God as God and Christ as Lord. Those who do not know truth are driven by motives for the flesh, they are still being eaten by the worms of their mind. All is for their physical life and every thought is carnal. It is fairly easy to see through them because we were them and they were us. Every motive that drove us was a motive for the flesh and the glorification of the flesh. Every word or action was for us to be seen by others – whether good or bad – whatever the motive was that was driving us to present ourselves to others. We still catch ourselves from time to time trying to lean to our own understanding, or trying to glean attention for our flesh when interacting with the world out there because we have a world within us that is still being eaten by worms. Some of our thoughts are still focusing on the flesh and we feed off our flesh. This is why the serpent was told that he would eat dust all the days of his life. Our carnal mind is a worm, a serpent that slithers through our earth feeding off our fleshly life. To be carnally minded is death and when we eat from it we will die.

“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

“And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:”

Eating from the carnal mind is eating from your knowledge of what is good for you and what is bad for you, with no thought of my Brother or God. It is the same as eating dust. The dust is driven by whatever false doctrine for self blows into my tree of the knowledge of good and evil. No matter what is presented to me in a day will be for The Kingdom of God or the kingdom of self. The word “carnal” means “flesh, stripped of skin” (stripped of a covering). So, we are being shown the carnal mind’s motives, “STRIPPED” of any covering. Covering being any thing that hides or covers the true motive of an action. A simple example is Ananias and Sapphira trying to present part of the sale of their property to the church but hiding part for themselves.

“But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in. And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.”

The motive in Ananias and Sapphira’s heart was to be seen one way but actually being another way. The Spirit of God in Peter removed the covering and exposed the motive and lie behind their attempt to appear to be good people. The same Spirit exists within The Elect of God and it exposes our true motives behind the things we do or don’t do. What is fully offered and what is held back for flesh. What is being presented as an unblemished sacrifice and what is being presented as a lame sacrifice. One is a sacrifice without blemish and one with blemish.

“A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name? Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.” 

If Christ is walking through our world preaching repentance then He is at the same time exposing the truth behind every sacrifice. We can admit to the truth or continue on with our lie and reap the consequences of eating from the dust of our earth, death. Sacrifice without thoughts of the flesh gaining from it or sacrifice something with the thought of gratifying the flesh. When we were in the world, even my own flesh would not be pleased with a half hearted sacrifice. I would push my flesh to the limits for the pleasing reward that I knew would bring about the best results. Physical exercise or denying my flesh for a reward. Making myself sacrifice for a good outcome in homage to my governor, my flesh, that governed me all my life. The carnal mind cannot present an unblemished sacrifice because it does something in hopes of receiving something in return, for the flesh. The carnal mind is at enmity with God, is against God, hates God because all the carnal mind wants is what is for the flesh. Sacrificing for God out of a pure heart can only come from a pure heart that has been changed by the Spirit of Christ in us.

“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh (in our sacricing to God a blemished sacrifice); but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit (a true unblemished sacrifice). For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be (offering an unblemished sacrifice of self). So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God (with a blemished sacrifice where the thoughts of personal fleshly gain is in mind). But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

To be carnally minded is to be eaten by worms. Thoughts feeding off the flesh and for the flesh in every sacrifice. It is a burning hell to live in this state because you are always trying to get something for your flesh, even in your denial of flesh is still for flesh. Knowing what you want is not good but at the same time your flesh hates God for holding back what you want, which causes a blemished sacrifice.

“From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil (your devil, your serpent that lusts against God), and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. “

“Enmity” against God means we are at odds with Him. What is good as an unblemished sacrifice is an evil against our carnal mind and it makes us feel deprived. We feel our flesh’s wants are not met so we become angry and at enmity against God and give a blemished sacrifice of self. We know we are wrong but the desire to have what we want is so strong we attempt to offer a partial sacrifice in hopes it will satisfy God. Then when that fails we slither into another angle, another shape, to attempt another try at getting what we want. Wolf covering itself in sheep’s clothing. To The Elect we begin to see our serpent trying to slither so we kill it before it takes us too far. We struggle to uncover the serpent who is so slick that he even fools himself at times and we fall for his lies. But Christ who creates all things for the church uses these times to teach us what we did not see. It is never a loss. Our dead, inside us, rises to the surface and are resurrected and the parts of us that are already alive rejoice at the resurrection of our dead, our total sacrifice. We do not have to mourn as others over the plight of our dead/sacrifice because we believe that Christ is going to recreate all of us. There are parts of us that we will not know have been recreated until we have walked away from this temporal shell called a body and reunited with a WHOLE new man, a WHOLE new world.

“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

There is a world inside of us that will be recreated into the image of Christ. A world full of religious Jews and gentiles alike that God so loved that He sent His Son to die for. Both seeking to rule the world. Both are lost and both are dead. But as Apostle Paul mourned for his literal Jewish brothers so we mourn for our religious brothers who have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. Because the religious Jew in me is always trying to establish his own righteousness through works. And my gentile in me is always trying to consume something for his flesh. This principal is layed out in Romans 1 and 2 where the gentile is shown as an idol worshipping beast and the Jew is shown as a religious man judging the gentile yet doing the same thing the gentile is doing showing he is not a Jew but an uncircumcised gentile at heart. Every person ever created has both of these in him. Both have to die to be made alive and neither can stay the way they are. Not all of me will be saved, there are parts of me that will never repent and will be lost in the world of the unknown. But, from their rotting corpse a new seed will grow and their dead bodies will act as fertilizer for the new ground. A new man rises from the dead and we rejoice in what God is creating. If we make friends with it then we are enemies of God.

“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

To snuggle up to my flesh’s world is to be an enemy of God Who created the flesh to die for a new man to rise from. The flesh is a fertilizer for my new man and a fuel for the fire. The worm feeds on the old man and the old man is the fuel for the fire, his words are the ignitor that sparks the fire.

“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

The worm feeds on him and poops him out making fertilizer for a new ground. Just like a worm bed is made to make good fertilizer so the old man is used as compost for a new heaven and a new earth. We can look upon the carcase of our old man and understand what he was and why he was what he was. His worm will never die while we are still encased in these fleshly bodies because he will always be a reminder of what we were. As long as we are still encased in these fleshly bodies the fire of truth will continue to consume him. Every day he must be consumed and we can never make friends with him. Every day we are being taught to ask for the spirit of Christ to create a giving heart within us to sacrifice ourselves for each other with no blemish. This is a pleasing sacrifice, a pleasing unblemished sacrifice to God, a denying of the self centered, self consumed carnal mind that is always trying to give a little and get a lot. Like Ananias and Sapphira, trying to offer a little to get a lot. It’s ALL or nothing in an unblemished sacrifice. Like Christ Who gave it ALL. A blemished sacrifice is blemished because the flesh is corrupted with the worms of our carnal mind. We cannot stop thinking about self, therefore God withholds what we ask for because He sees our heart is still focused on the flesh, feeding on itself. But again, Christ is walking through The Elect’s life coverting these dead in us and recreating a new world where everything is done in honor of God and for our Brother. Everything is for us and not against us. Nothing can stop Christ from coverting the world in us that The Father so loved. All is for us and all is ours.

“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.”

“Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and they redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”