Being1inChrist

There is no power but of God. All power in any form is from the hand of God. The power of good and evil is only God’s, the power to make sick and the power to heal, the power to give life and take life belong to God in Christ alone. He puts kings, presidents, governors, congressmen, senators, sheriffs, billionaires, paupers, murderers, thieves, drunks, nuns, priests, atheists, Hindus, Methodists, Greeks, Jews, Koreans………and so on infinitum into existence by his decree, through His word. There is nothing seen or unseen in existence with an ability to create or exist outside of God. God is the only existing ONE. Everything else, seen and unseen, is a manifestation of God’s will. No thing or person has the power to exist outside of Christ. No thing or person can live, move or have its being without God’s Spirit. God gives His Spirit and we/it (name any created thing) lives, God removes His Spirit and we/it dies. There is no other power. Every person alive today is a creation of Christ through God: “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”

Every human is exactly where God has ordained they be at any given time, whether in the highest office in the world or the lowest prison in the world. Everything and all things are being created and were created for The Creator. Everything and everyone is flowing exactly as The Creator has ordained and His will has never, nor ever will be thwarted by anything or anyone. We are created from clay, clay that is created by Christ through God. Every detail of every life is a creation of its Creator. Every detail of every living thing is a unique creation by The Creator whether human, animal, fish, or plant created and living now, in the past or whatever will be created in the future. Everything is uniquely created by The Creator for The Creator. There is no matching fingerprint in the world. The vastness of God is beyond human comprehension. Every bird has, will have and has had unique feathers for that bird…every bird that has ever been created! Every bug of every kind is uniquely created and never a copy of the exact bug. Try to think of the enormity of such thoughts. Stop. Look down at your hand. There has never been another hand exactly like it, EVER created or will be created. Out of the countless innumberable people alive today and have lived there is not another you, identical to you. Everything is being sustained as we speak by Christ. Nothing lives of its own will or volition. You cannot keep yourself alive nor can you keep someone else alive, nor can you take your own life or the life of another. As I sit here I look around in this room and see a couch, a chair, dressers, rugs, vases, flowers, clocks, fireplace, lamps, pictures, doors, walls, and windows. Everything I just listed was made by God and is being held together by Christ. His creative ability actually keeps things together in a shape and form. Without Christ as The Creator there is no shape or form. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” He splits waters into two. He creates sight, hearing, taste, feeling, and smel or He takes them away, at His word. Even the very thoughts we have are a creation of God. “The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.” To know these truths is to have sight, the ability to see The Creator. To not know them is to be blind and not know The Creator. To know Christ as your Saviour is to be lifted out of your world of darkness and given the priviledge to see God The Father in truth. It is the priviledge of eternal life because there is no more death to you. Death is to not know truth. Truth is to know Christ and to know The Father Who sustains all life. To be in darkness is to not know God. To be in darkness is to see something outside the will of God. Why did Christ rise from the dead? Because He knew that His Creator was the only creative force and life and there was no darkness in His thoughts of His Creator. His death was for The Elect, Whom Christ has chosen to know The Father. Our sin of unbelief, created in us as natural beasts is recreated into belief by the life of the blood of Christ. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” ; “In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins”. Christ’s life of knowing The Father has covered our sin of unbelief. His blood, His life, has given us life – A spiritual blood transfusion. No physical life can live without blood, which is a parable that no person can have eternal spiritual life without the blood/Spirit of Christ running through them. The blood of Christ running through us is having the same thoughts as Christ did about The Father. “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” Drink the life that Christ has given us and that life is that “there is no power but of God”. I don’t have a power, a will, a thought that is not predestined by The Creator. I am not a god with a freewill that worships God from a contrived notion within myself separate from The Creator. If I know Him then I know that He alone is The Power of everything. He alone is the beginning and ending of all things, The Alpha and The Omega, not me, not you. To know this truth is to have life and to drink the blood of Christ, which is to shed my own thoughts of individualism and see myself as a creation of The Creator, not a creation of myself. Christ said He did not a have a will separate from The Father and that whatever He saw, He spoke. So, the same goes for The Elect. We are being taught, recreated, formed into a creation that can receive The Light. This then is the light , “…in him we live, and move, and have our being”. To live is to know this and to die to our own desires and wants that come from a created beastly nature that thinks it controls its own destiny. “And I (speaking of me) stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast (saw my beast) rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw (which is me) was like unto a leopard (camouflage-hidden from the eyes of others what I am), and his feet were as the feet of a bear( I tear everything up ), and his mouth as the mouth of a lion (roaring of my own thoughts and supposed will): and the dragon gave him his power (the serpent in me is the dragon-see Rev.20:2), and his seat, and great authority (the dragon is the satanic nature I am born with). And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him (who or what can make war with belief in my individuality, authority, knowledge, wisdom) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them (overcoming truth through unbelief): and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. And all that dwell upon the earth (all my earthbound thoughts) shall worship him (worship myself and my judgments), whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any man have an ear, let him hear (If you can see this and hear this about yourself then you’d better listen). He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.” It takes patience to go through this transformation and to walk away as Enoch did. To know that Christ is all power in every second of every 365 days of the year is to live 365 years as Enoch and to literally walk away from death and live with Christ for eternity. If we come to live our lives knowing that Christ is The Only Power then we have drunk His blood and eaten His flesh because God The Father has ordained it be so.

To look upon a tree covered in leaves and KNOW that each leaf is a unique leaf from all the other leaves on that tree, that each leaf is a new leaf, never before created. To know that the tree did not create the leaves or itself but Christ did, is a close understanding of us as the people of God. Scripture says we are trees or compared to trees as a parable. So, to look upon a tree is to get a parabolic understanding of who we are. We are literally helpless and inert without God creating us to do whatever it is He wants us to be, do and think. Like a tree, we don’t plant ourselves, we don’t grow our own leaves by willing it to happen, we don’t grow by our own power or will to do so, nor do we lose our leaves by our will to do so. Everything that goes on regarding a tree is outside the tree by God. And so it is regarding everything in creation, whether seen or unseen creation. Nothing lives or exists of itself. Scripture also says we are beasts, rocks, water, fish and so on – each a parable to glean understanding from. We were created with the world, i.e. distraction, in our hearts for the purpose of blinding us from understanding Who God is, was and will be. “He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.” ; “…lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: 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.” To know truth is to shed your own blood, which means shedding your will to fight to deny this truth and instead see your life at the throne of God, being directed as He sees fit. Everyone and everything, down to the smallest particle, is under the power of God and all is created, directed and moved by the hand of Christ. There is no power but of God. There is no man, beast, bird, atom (Adam)…no thought (all that is seen and UNSEEN) that is not controlled and directed by the power of God in Christ.

” And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?”

“Whatsoever the LORD pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places.”

“Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being”

“For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.”

God has made everyone in unbelief. No one is born knowing God and no one has a freewill to come to know Him. He created us IN UNBELIEF and then opens the eyes of whosoever He desires to know Him. This sentence “for God hath concluded them all in unbelief” the words “hath concluded” means “G4788- From G4862 and G2808; to shut together, that is, include or (figuratively) embrace in a common subjection to: – conclude, inclose, shut up.” It means He has created everyone in a state of unbelief and unless He opens our eyes, like the man born blind in John 9, to see, we will remain in unbelief, blind and in darkness of the majesty of God. There is no such thing as “knowledge” apart from Christ. Any and all so-called knowledge outside of Christ is unbelief. This is the fruit which we are told not to eat. The tree of the “KNOWLEDGE” of good and evil (left and right) represents our serpentine slithering back and forth between thoughts…making decisions, weighing options, believing we have control and power to make free choice decisions based on our knowledge of good and evil…. Knowledge of what I see as good or evil for me as an individual, a family, a group, a state or a nation. How can I know what is good when I am created without knowing God, Who is The Only Good? How can I, who am a created being, know what is evil when I don’t know what is good? There is but ONE good and that good IS GOD. It is not me choosing what I think is good or evil. We are created in unbelief, not knowing God and, therefore, everything that comes from our darkened state can only be a creation of God. We don’t create anything, good or evil. To know God is to then resist the beast and all his senses. All of my beastly knowledge must be resisted as it is only a manifestation of unbelief in God as The Author and Creator of all things. “Casting down imaginations (thoughts), and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” When my old darkened thoughts come in of anything other than God having power, I must cast them down and be ready to refute them with the truth, all of which is a battle in my mind that is fought and won by Christ. I cannot do this of myself. I am merely a witness to the transition from darkness into the light of a single truth, that God in Christ is the only power in heaven and earth. We recently bought a tree from the nursery and the man began telling us about bag worms and how to control them. He explained to us that you must spray a certain pesticide From March to June to stop the worms from creating nests. He did not know where the worms came from: God. He then acted as a god in telling us to use a certain insecticide, which was another god, that would kill the worms that apparently were gods who just appeared. You see to the darkened mind, everything begins and ends in the natural. There is no knowledge of Who is at the Source of all things. It’s like a pig wallowing in mud, who cannot look up into the heavens, nor even wants to look into the heavens. His desire is for the earth, to burrow in the earth (myself and my knowledge) and be ruler of my earth. The knowledge we are born with, and take in from others, is a serpentine knowledge of thinking we are gods independent and separate from The God. This poision seeps into the very core of our being and we begin to think we know something. The tree is created by Christ. The worm is created by Christ. And it will Be Christ and Christ alone that either infects trees with something or allows the trees to grow without infestation, remembering we are trees. Insecticide is man’s knowledge of how to be a god and control things on our tree. There is no power but of God. Even the insecticide is a power of God given as a blindfold to keep people from understanding truth and then set out to establish their own righteousness. Insecticides are doctrines, supposed righteousnesses we think we have, we use to “correct” things in our lives or to make our lives “go smoother.” All supposed knowledge of the natural does is blindfold us from the Source of all that is – aka the righteousness of God in Christ. “he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.” Who created the bag worm? Christ. Why did He create the bag worm to infect that one tree? To give us a parable of the infection that we are created with and that He alone is the insecticide to remove the worms from our life. Worms are infectious doctrines, teachings, learnings from a world created in darkness. They feed on the tree (my darkened fleshly mind) until they kill their host (all flesh ends in death.) ‘This is the world within me that is without truth…”And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” We, The Elect, start off in parable as a worm, “fear not, thou worm Jacob…” And then we are transformed into the image of Christ, where we are taught how to love God with all our heart, soul and desire and our neighbor as ourself. There is no power but of God and we start seeing that truth as we are given sight. It is the same as when God said “let there be light”. We start seeing that we have never had power and have no power but of God. Before we are given this knowledge we are hirelings, working for a wage. But now we become as Christ to each other knowing that each other’s blindness is a power of God for the glory of God. “And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” To be blind, in darkness, is a creation of God…”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” And then to be given sight is a creation of God…”And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” No man turns that light on or starts seeing of his own will. God says, “let there be light”, not us. Like the blind man, God created him blind and then Christ recreated him to start seeing. Sight itself is only a parable of knowing God. To be blind is to be spiritually dead and not able to know where all power comes from, this is called a hireling. When things get rough with each other the hireling flees from kindness, gentleness, goodness and mercy because he does not see that being kind and gentle as part of his duties. He basically says “it’s not my duty to be kind and merciful when you don’t deserve it”. We are operating on earned wages, being hirelings to each other. Christ said that He laid His life down for the sheep and then said what we see Him do we should do for each other. He also said that this power to lay His life down was a power given to Him from His Father. It is not a power we have within us separate from God but a power given only to the elect. People are not born with it and don’t have it until they are given it. “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” The word “commandment” means “an order, command, charge, precept, injunction”. The power to lay down our lives for the other is a power given to us from God, it happens as a precept that comes with being an Elect. Christ was given this precept by The Father to act out for us and He is doing that within us daily. So, if the power of God is within us, Christ is in us, and we are being taught this precept daily, hourly and minute by minute. Like the meaning of the 144,000, 1440 minutes of each day loving God with all my heart and you as myself completes the 10 commandments. Each zero is another tenth added to 1440 minutes of everyday making 144,000. Loving God is a tenth and loving you is a tenth, two tablets. A zero added to the end of any number is a tenth, so loving God with all my heart is a tenth, “0”, and loving you with all my heart is a tenth, “0”. It is our tithe to God. These verses show this precept. “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” The question posed to Christ was what is “THE” single greatest commandment but Christ gave him “TWO” not just one! Christ said “and the second is LIKE UNTO IT”, like unto the first one, the same as the first one. The second commandment is the same as the first because how can you love God Who you don’t see and hate your brother who you do see. If you hate your brother then you don’t love God. If you are not kind to your brother then you are not kind to God. God is the power behind who your brother is and the power behind who you are. To know that truth is to love your brother as yourself AND love God with all your heart.

“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”

The power to love is a power of God. It is not created in me from my first creation. I am created by the power of God to be blind to truth. To live in a world with all its beauty, all the mountains, oceans, seas, seasons and people and to not see it all as a power of God is a miracle in itself. Man is so blind to the power of God that he even claims his own destruction as if it was in his own power to make himself what he is or is not. The only good is God and God only. There is none good not even one because not even one person ever born knows God, Rms 3:10-18. The power of God made us blind to good and evil so how can we then know what is good? We are created in darkness of the majesty of God. In this darkness we are created to follow the voice of the stranger within us, who knows nothing and sees nothing but thinks he knows all things. This voice is parabolized as a dragon, a serpent, a beast, a wolf, Leviathan and he is called the man of sin. He is uncontrollable. We cannot control him because he is Leviathan and cannot be controlled by man. He is the manifestation of the truth of what darkness is. He thinks he knows everything and yet knows nothing because he is in darkness and only operates in darkness under the thought that he is an individual separate from all power and influence and is a power of his own. He makes us feel pride, joy, happiness, and he gives us peace when we trust him and believe he knows everything. YET…he makes us feel pain, sorrow, depression, anger, bitterness and defeat when we don’t listen to him. This verse describes what we get when don’t follow our beast.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

This is the wolf we are to protect each other from, the beast inside us who was created on the 6th day, worships itself 6 and rests in itself 6, our number in flesh 666. We are to stand against the wolf in the LIGHT and defeat him with truth. That truth is that there is no power but of God in Christ. Christ is the only power that leads us to green pasture, to His light of truth. That light is that God is all power and we have nothing to fear. “I am The Light” Christ said and that truth will lead us away from the wolf within us. We possess no light of ourselves, all knowledge comes from Christ. “I know nothing but Christ and Christ crucufied”. The world within us has sayings that make us feel safe and feel justified in our actions, sayings like, “God helps those who help themselves”, “God does his part now you must do yours”, “You must look out for yourself first”, “You have the power within you”, “Believe in yourself”. Then the wolf tears us apart when Christ within us begins to give us the power to submit to the crucifixion of these self/flesh-preserving doctrines/thoughts. In a rage the serpent’s thoughts come in when we stop listening to him and begin following Christ instead: “You’re so stupid”, “you look like an idiot”, “you have no common sense”, “you’re going to fail putting all your trust in Christ”, “you have to be prudent”, “be smart about this” , “you know better”, “your experience has taught you better”, “you’ll be sorry for ignoring my warnings!” All fearful, angry thoughts that come from a darkened mind, which is an enemy of Christ. These are the prideful thoughts of Leviathan who worships himself as a god. Anything given power outside of the power of Christ is an idol and if you are an Elect it will come down brick by brick. Every brick in every Baal temple (of our mind) that we worship at, must come down brick by brick. This is every belief system built upon the sand over the course of our entire life since birth. This is the meaning of these words of Christ. “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.” Every thought of nobility, grandeur, self worship, self-preservation and knowledge of any kind must be torn down and cast at the feet of Christ as The All in all, as The Alpha and Omega of everything. When Christ is lifted up He will draw all in me to Him. “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:” ; “Then said Jesus unto them, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.” When Christ is resurrected within us He will consume the man of sin within us with the fire of His word. When the man of sin has crucified Christ within us and put Him to death it is God’s final blow to the man of sin. It is in this way God shows us what is in our darkened heart. He shows us the lengths we desire to go to to destroy what we see as an enemy to our identity, our pride, and our lives as a flesh and blood individual with rights. When this takes place then Christ will appear in our heavens, our thoughts, and He will consume the man of sin and the darkness we existed in. Light will be the fire that will cast the dragon within us into a lake of fire where he is tormented for a time until all his so-called knowledge is destroyed and Christ is seen as The Alpha and Omega of everything. Like Peter we will weep bitterly at our betrayal of Christ. Every idle (idol) word is judged if you are an Elect. This means if Christ is in you then you will stand at the judgment seat of Christ, daily, hourly, minute by minute, here on earth, while walking in flesh. When wrong words are spoken He consumes them with the light of truth and we repent. This process is as the literal sun rising every morning. Light slowly begins to manifest and the darkness fades away as Christ gets brighter and brighter. It doesn’t happen all at once but slowly. It is a good thing to stand in judgment, because Christ has taken our judgment upon Himself, so death cannot touch us. We learn to walk AND rest in judgment. “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” The prayer Christ said covers the power of God. “After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” Our Father which art in heaven. God Fathers EVERYTHING. God is in HEAVEN, not meaning a physical location above our heads but heaven being so far above what we can know and see. Heaven is a parable of something so vast that we cannot really comprehend it. And if you know that spiritual principle then only God’s name, His authority can be called “HALLOWED”. We ask for His kingdom, His truth, to come to us, His Will being seen by us in our lives as coming from something far and beyond what we could ever create. We recognize that we are created beings with no thought or will of our own. Christ gives us our daily spiritual bread of eating His flesh – a parable of how He sustains us daily with Himself as He forgives our daily unbelief and we are taught to forgive others’ daily unbelief towards us. Asking that Christ lead us not into the temptation of taking credit for anything because we are learning that to be delivered from evil is to be delivered from any THOUGHT that we are a kingdom or a power and we give all glory to God as The Author and Finisher of all things.