Being1inChrist

God desires us to worship Him in spirit and in truth. What does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth? Apostle Paul said that the spirit of God searches our hearts and knows what is truth within us. “And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” I may be asking God for one thing but the truth behind why I am asking is exposed before God. I may say one thing but in my heart I have another reason for why I am asking. It may be veiled in religous words but the truth of my intent is exposed before God. The spirit of Christ sees what is in my heart and He wants us to confess the truth to Him and in confessing the truth we are worshipping God in truth.

“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.”

The truth cannot be hidden. Everything is open and exposed before Christ, Who created everything.

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”

Truth before God is what God desires. In worshipping Him in truth we are confessing our thoughts and intents. In doing so we are not trying to hide anything from Him. Lies hide from the truth and lies cry for the rocks to fall on them to hide them from The Truth.

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? “

Truth quenches the soul and frees it from lies. Lies cause us to be thirsty, without hope. Water represents teachings, doctrines, words, thoughts that we live or die by. “The water of the word”. The truth is water, water is the word and the word is the spirit. Words, thoughts are spirits. They either minister truth or lies. The spirit of Christ searches our thoughts and intents and exposes what is truth and what is a lie. Christ is the source of all truth, of all water that quenches our soul from the drought of drinking doctrines of the carnal mind. The truth always ministers peace and frees us from despair. Hope in anything besides Christ will leave us thirsty. The parable below in the story of the woman at the well tells us how we drink from a well that does not quench our thirst. It is a deep well that has no bottom for it is a bottomless pit of lies and deception. It is where we all start off. But it is where we meet Christ and are relieved from drinking in bitter water that does not quench our thirst for peace.

“There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. (Truth doesn’t mix with a lie) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? (are you greater than the supplanter, Jacob, who supplants the truth for a lie? Trusting in a thing and not Christ.) Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. (Christ exposes her lies by a parable that she/us are not married to Christ because we are still trying to be married to anything other than Him.) The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. (The carnal mind does not know what it is trusting in, but truth is of the Israel of God, the true Jew. “And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.”) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Godisa Spirit: and they that worship him must worshiphimin spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.“

We cannot know the future. If we did we would hope in what we saw and not in Christ. But hope that is not seen is called faith. We are either given faith to trust in Christ or we are given over to lies that do not give us rest. I either trust Christ has my best interest in mind or I trust that my own carnal knowledge will guide me through life based on my own planning. We go daily to our own well, our own source of knowledge to make it through the day and Christ is sitting there on our well asking us to quench His thirst with our trust in Him. He is telling us to trust in Him and we won’t have to visit this well anymore. He will give us living water and here is some living water….

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: (our carnal mind)) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

The greatest thirst quencher is faith in God as our Father Who only has our best in mind. To trust Him is the best thing for us in all situations. There is no greater strength than God and if we are given to trust Him then all fears are taken away. When we fear anything besides God everything is hopeless and dark. God will not allow us to worship our own carnal mind if we are His children. We are to consider our old carnal mind as dead and we are freed from the laws of our carnal mind.

“Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.”

The carnal mind ties everything together in a nice little ribbon, trusting in its own thoughts of what is good for it and what is evil for it. If we have the spirit of Christ in us He does not allow us to rest in another man, our old man, because we are married to Him and He, Christ, is our husband. If we listen to the laws of our carnal mind then we shall die with it. If we are led by our new Husband, than we shall live. If we trust in our new Husband than we can rest in the truth that our old husband is dead and gone and we are free to serve Christ. As long as our old husband is alive in our minds, our old thoughts of good and evil, then we are still married to him and bound to him by his laws. But if we are free from the law of our old man then we are free from death and alive to serve our new Husband Who has promised us more than our old husband could ever give us. We are free from death and risen in Christ as the most blessed people that have ever walked the earth.

This is counsel in our heart, the deep waters/doctrines of Christ, like the woman at the well. These are the waters that if a man drink of he will never thirst again. When God gives us these truths they spring up in us as a well of water and we become peaceful and joyful in life.

“Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.”

“And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.”

“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.”

“And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

We hunger for the truth because the truth that Christ is The Alpha and Omega of every second of life creates a hunger in us to keep seeking His counsel. Any counsel from my old man leaves me thirsty and hungry but the counsel of Christ quenches my thirst and fills my hunger. Christ’s truth tells me that God is our Father and that our Father has predestined everything for us and that He has predestined we be conformed to Christ’s image. And if God be for us who can be against us? NOTHING!

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.  What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all (The elect who he foreknew and predestined), how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed (our old man) all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

So, what do we have to fear? What possibly can stand between us and God when God our Father created it all for us? The truth tells us that we are the most blessed people of all the people ever created on the earth from the beginning of time.

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.” 

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: “

We have nothing to fear because our Father foreknew us, called us and chose us out of all the families that have ever been on the earth to be His special people. Nothing can change that. Nothing can stop that. And nothing can keep us from our Father Who has predestined we be what He has called us to be, His children. The day of reckoning has come upon my old world and they are running to caves and calling for the rocks to fall on them. Christ has freed us and nothing in my old world or in the world out there or the worlds to come can stop what God The father has predestined. Let freedom ring and let the whole wide world in me and out there know that we are God’s people and Christ is the avenger of any ho would dare stand against US.

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. 

Isa_49:10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Joh_6:35  And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Joh_7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

Rev_7:16  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

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. 

Joh 18:35  Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 

Joh 18:36  Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 

Joh 18:37  Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. 

Joh 18:38  Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all.