Being1inChrist

We have a calf named Mandy. She was born a couple months ago and came from our cow named Freckles. To make Mandy different from the rest of the herd we started weaning her from her mother so we can halter train her and socialize her around humans. At first we separated them into different pastures where they could see each other during the day and put the mother back in the evenings. We did this for about a week. Then we separated them into different pastures and left them apart. They could see each other but could not be together. The mother called all night and so did the calf. They cried for one another and walked around looking for each other. They can see each other but cannot get to each other. Again this process is for the good of the calf’s future. She will not be just a pasture cow out in the field being dominated by other cows, even her mother, but set apart in her own pasture with like-minded calves and cows who have been haltered trained and socialized. The separated herd get more attention and learn to be calm and friendly. Whereas the pasture herd are half wild and have a pecking order. Bigger ones get more food and some are picked on. They are running in the woods and back pastures where they forage on anything they come across even briars and nettles. They get ticks and are subject to other pests and risks associated with the “freedom” of being strictly a breeding or pasture cow. Whereas the selected ones have a shelter, a stall, kept clean and brushed and fed treats from the hand, and have all the amenities that would keep them more comfortable. These cows are worth far more than a pasture cow. But you can’t explain that to the calves who have been chosen to be set apart for taming as you wean them from their mothers. Nor can you explain to the mothers that their calf has been selected to be taken out of the herd and given a far better life. They are beasts by nature and unless pulled out of that world they will be taken and destroyed.

“But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”

“But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption”

They cry and moo for hours and days because they do not understand the purpose of being separated from their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, herd of cousins and friends. They do not understand the purpose of this separation. They resist bathing, combing, brushing that is meant for their good. They resist any touch or attempt to be touched. They just want to be thrown back into the wilderness to be with their family. Ever since Christ began to separate us from our herd we have kicked and bawled like Mandy. We have been slowly weaned from the life we once lived where we were infested with the ticks and lice of the world but we still desired to go back. We lived on the roughage of the world we lived in. But like Mandy we did not understand that we were being pulled out of the world of the beast into a world where we were going to be treated like kings. No more eating the roughage of the world, now we get grains, clean water, are bathed, combed, brushed, and taught the mannerisms of being a child of God. We are being taught how to act and taught how not to act. It’s funny because if we were able to see the end result we would jump the fence to get into where we are now but it took literal pulling and dragging to get us to where we are today.

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” 

The word highlighted “DRAW” is G1670 and this is the definition “Probably akin to G138; to drag (literally or figuratively): – draw.” We literally have to be dragged by The Father to the kingdom of God. We don’t run to the kingdom, we are dragged. Like Mandy when we first put the halter on her, she started running and bawling as though we were killing her. She did not want to learn godly etiquette and be molded into a new creature, she wanted to stay with the herd and her mother. Look at Israel when they left Egypt, they bawled the whole way. That’s us. We get mad when we are taught a better way of life, when we are told to deny whatever we have learned and lean on Christ only. But Christ is The Good Shepard and He is calmly, slowly and methodically separating us from even our thoughts that are contrary to the truth. It’s comparable to what happened to Joseph – snatched from the wilderness and put upon the throne. He first ended up in a hole, then a slave, then in prison, then from there to the throne. Each step was a weaning process to get him to where God had planned he end up. He was made for the throne and didn’t even know it. So, we as Mandy are made to be separated from the wild herd of the world and placed into the Father’s care where we are learning to act totally different then we have ever acted and be totally different then we ever were or could be. Before the flood of Noah’s time the beast’s were not afraid of man and man was not afraid of the beast. They lived in so-called harmony together. Our inward world/mind was at peace with all of the beastly thoughts roaming around within us, until finally that beast nature was all there was. It had come to its fullness, a beast thinking it was a man that had ascended into greatness…scripture describes it as “the man of sin.” It also describes it in a myriad of ways as the 4 beasts of Daniel and the beast described in Revelation. All of these are describing one and the same thing – our state of depravity as a beast. After the flood the beasts were scared of the man and were then used for meat. This is what has happened to us after we have been flooded by the spirit of God. Our beast is now afraid of us and we are to eat the flesh of it. We must die to the flesh/beast and be born again in the spirit. To eat your flesh is to consume its dead carcass. That means daily we die to self and the new man feeds on the carcass of the old man. Our carnal mind thirsts for the milk of the world and does not want to deny its influences. Our flesh cries for the littlest drop of milk from the world. Weaning is not an easy job because the calf has to first get used to the halter around its face. Then it has to learn to be led by the halter. It has to be taught that when you resist, the rope gets tight but when you walk towards the person holding the halter the rope loosens up. This is what we are being taught. When we resist, the trial gets harder, but when we walk towards Christ the pressure eases up. But the mother cow is always calling for us. The world is constantly calling for us to come back to the teat of its safety. This is the same as drinking from the cup of Babylon.

“And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns (All of this is inside us). And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

Her cup is filled with the doctrines, the milk we had consumed that taught us how to survive, how to self worship, how to get attention from others of our own kind, how to be the dominant member of the herd, how to make decisions based on doctrines of the great whore. Mother Babylon cries for us, like Freckles is doing for Mandy. Everyday, all day she cries for us in some way to try and get something for ourselves, the smallest drop of milk that we can get. But Christ has taken us from the herd of the world, separated us unto Himself and is teaching us how to be led of His Spirit. We must be tempted and tried because it is through this interaction do we stop hearing the world calling for us.

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

This process continues until the temptation is not a temptation anymore and we are not led away by our own lusts to be like the world or be liked by the world. Christ was led to be tempted but overcame any pull of His own flesh. We who are being separated now have to overcome our original world, our entire fleshly, selfish identity created by God Himself for us to be put through the process of overcoming it – again all by God. Nobody can overcome anything. Only God through Christ can overcome the world within. It was created by God to ultimately be destroyed and overcome and rebuilt by God. This is what Christ was explaining to the disciples by declaring the outward temple would be destroyed brick by brick but He would rebuild it in 3 days. He was describing out world within with all its beastly beliefs and doctrines we took in from birth. He would destroy this world and create a new heavens and earth from the rubble. We were created by God’s design, a wild beast who desires the things of the world. In James it says we are not tempted by God because God tempts no one but we are tempted when we are led by our own lusts.

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

We must continue to be tempted of the devil in us until the devil has lost his power and we are able to overcome any “mooing” of our old world. To exist in the world but not be of the world. There is coming a day when we will no longer pay attention to the moos of our old mother. We will hear her but pay no attention to her. She will conceive another child and her attention will then be on it and leave us alone as we eat clean provender, the meats of the kingdom of God. If I would have read this a few years ago my devil in me would not have been divided against itself and would have concluded that I had already achieved this separation because I didn’t do the bad things the world did. But what I did not know was that I was in my worst state. The devil in me had convinced myself that I had already attained. The temptation now is to not live by the SPIRIT of the law. If the outward is kept then my devil has concluded that it has done all that is required and I am already standing in the garden of Eden. The true test comes when you do something for someone else because it is the love of the spirit that moves you to do it, not because it’s a law, but because it’s your desire. All the law is fulfilled in one law, love your neighbor as yourself.

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Living by the spirit of the law is where we are actually separated from the old world inside us. Desiring to live for my brother/sister is living by the spirit. By this will the world know we are disciples of Christ. “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

The cries of the old world comes in a legion of ways. Like the man on the island of the Gadarenes who when asked the name of the devil it said its name was legion because there were thousands of demonic devil doctrines in him and he is us. What cast them out of the man? The love of God in Christ to love His neighbor as Himself. The man couldn’t do it for himself, it took Christ to do it and the same applies to us. We must cast out the fears, anxieties, and lusts of the world out of each other by loving one another as Christ loved us. My old world’s definition of love starts with me not you. Like the old worldly saying of “you’ve got to help yourself before you can help others.” My fears are cast out when I feel the love you have for me and the same for you. When you see my love for you in action it casts out any fear you may have. My fears are based on lies and it is your love that casts them out. But if I know you are in need of my power to cast out your demons and do not feed you but choose myself over you then how do you know I love you? This is what these verses mean in parable.

“If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food (not literal food but spiritual), And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? “

Saying good things and not doing it is not fulfilling the love of God. Apostle Paul gives a good parabolic meaning to this in these verses talking about things offered to idols.

“Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. But if any man love God, the same is known of him. As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak. For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol’s temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols; And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.”

We should know that it is not speaking of literal meat, but spiritual meat and meat is used as a parable for us to gain a deeper understanding and to blind the mind of the masses to keep them from the tree of life with a flaming sword, a mirage.

“Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: 

Mar 4:12  That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.”

“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

Having a desire to always be looking for what the other one needs as daily food is what the spirit of Christ in us will have us do. When we are walking in the spirit we will not be fulfilling the lust of our own wants but putting the other one above myself. If I live my life always putting you first then the lusts of my flesh will die. The mooing’s of my old world will stop because the spirit of Christ has weaned me from the selfish world in me. We will not pay attention to the calls of our old mother because the love of Christ in us will drown any self desire out. Our desire will be for the other’s needs not our own. The other may still be under a false doctrine but it is our love of knowing that there is no God but One that will overcome their false doctrine and eventually they will no longer hear the mooing’s of that false god. But it is dependent upon us to help the other overcome their false god through love, not angry judgment. Our old world calls us in many ways from our past lives of living in the world: the way we interacted with people, the way we dressed, the way we talked, any and every way to get attention and our emotional and physical needs met at the cost of everything and everyone around us, running our world in a delusional state as if we are God. Some may say they never lived this way but that is a lie they have been deceived by because scripture says everyone came into the world this way, everyone. No one is exempt, except Christ.

“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.”

To seek God in truth is to love my brother/sister in truth, to tell and accept the truth to my own hurt. To lie to my Brother/Sister is to lie to God. To deny them their daily meat is to deny God. To swear falsely to them is to swear falsely to God. To try and hide something from them is to try and hide from God. To know you are gathering attention from the world other than your spouse/Christ is to commit adultery against God. To try and cheat someone out of anything is to try and cheat God. To argue for your rights is to argue with God for your rights. In Christ we have no rights. We have one law and one law only, love your Brother/Sister as yourself and in doing so you will be feeding them their daily meat. To be weaned from the world in us is to be recreated into the image of Christ – weaned from all of my old world where I was the center of my world and following other gods that told me so. Following any false god is committing adultery against Christ. What is a false god? Is it following Allah or Budah instead of Christ? Is it paganism versus Christianity? No. Arguing over the legitimacy of religions or denominations is foolishness and nothing more than a red herring. Committing adultery against Christ is ANY belief you hold that pits itself against the truth that there is no power but of God. It is the false god of yourself. It is the false god of believing you know better than God in even the most remote corner of your mind. It is believing in the “power” of some created thing or being (including yourself) over the power of the Creator.

“And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.”

I must be weaned from the world where the attention of the world soothed my fears. When the world out there gave me attention then my world could rotate in peace. I could feel good about myself. I was important to a world that did not give a damn about me but I lusted for their attention and still do at times. To see or hear the moos of the world towards me gave me great delight and I felt needed. But to be one with Christ is to be rejected by the world inside me and out there. To love the attention of the world in me or out there is to be at ENMITY with God. Because if I am loving the world in me then I am neglecting you, putting my flesh first, which puts me at enmity with God. To be friendly to the world in me will put me at enmity with God because to be a friend of my old world means I am still desiring the world out there, the two are spouses and are one united Babylonian woman, riding high on her own beast, sitting upon many doctrines-waters. To be a friend of my old world or the world out there is to commit adultery against my spouse, Christ. To friend my world in me is to look upon another man, my old man, other than Christ. Like Israel did with Baal. Looking to another person other than our spouse is an outward manifestation of looking to another spouse other than Christ. Like the thought that Eve had before she ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. First a look, then it manifests outward in the actual eating of the fruit.

“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.”

“…Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

The weaning process starts with warnings. “And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” ; “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”; “For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” ; “But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”.

The Ark took years to build and as God promised, the flood came. We lived years upon the earth and our flood came. As the waters of truth got higher and higher they eventually drowned out even our thoughts, the fowls of our heaven, until there was nothing left for them to land on and they drown. We are being overcome with the baptism of the spirit where every man, beast, and fowl are destroyed from off our earth and a new earth begins to rise. It is the baptism of fire.

“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

“And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.”

It is a weaning process, a flood and a fire that produces a new man. The fire is hot and the trials are tough, but He has promised us that what He has begun in us He will bring it to completion. “Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.” HE WILL WEAN US one way or another. We can pull against the halter but, as a calf realizes, it does no good to pull, it only causes the rope to get tighter. Walk towards Christ and be led, not dragged. Christ is weaning us to give up our desire to love the world in us and out there and be united to just Him. He is creating us into beings who love Him in truth, not by law of works. We must be new creations. As more and more of my old, original world within gets exposed, I understand more and more the longsuffering and patience He extends to me as He works to wean me from that old world.

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

I recently heard someone say a nation that turns from God is a nation that will fall. They were speaking of the United States. But this is not true because the United States has never followed Christ in truth. No one nation has ever followed Christ in truth. This is why Christ came, no one seeked Him, NO ONE. The verses quoted from Romans 3 earlier shows that. Each person has a nation, a world within them and each person is either drawn by God to Christ to forsake their world or they are not. Mandy the calf was chosen by us to be drawn from the world she was born into but Mandy did not choose to do it, it was against her nature. Now she is friendly, lovable and easy to be around. All nations within us or out there will never follow Christ as their sole Husband and Creator unless they are drawn by God Himself to know Him. No man has a will independent and free from God and will only do what God has predestined they do or don’t do.

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

To want a “relationship” with any thought or idea that pits itself against the knowledge of Christ (that He is above all things and all that is seen and unseen was made by Him, for Him and through Him) is adultery. This is the parable of marriage and adultery.

We are being weaned from a world within us that would disdain such thoughts. We know that what we were in the flesh in years past and what the Lord manifested in our life outwardly was a manifestation of what we were in heart, a natural brute beast. Now the same applies. What we are today is what we are in heart, a new creation, created by our Creator for an intimate relationship.

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

We are being created in a way that we can be presented to Christ without spot or wrinkle. We are being weaned from trusting in our own world to trusting in Christ as our sole provider. He alone is The Creator Who has chosen to draw us out of the world within to Himself for fellowship. He chose us we did not choose Him. We love Him because He FIRST LOVED US.