Bokeh

Living out of the Realm of Spirit

We know all good and perfect things come from God who is Spirit. (John 4:24, James 1:17) When reading the OT. we see God, who is spirit, manifesting His will and good pleasure on earth through the men and women He chose.

  • On earth as it is in heaven – always invading darkness with light.

  • Pick any story and you will see light overcoming darkness

  • Good conquering evil.

Heaven and earth were never separated, God did not take His toys and go home because of Adam and Eve choosing another game to play with someone else. (Satan and the tree of Knowledge of good and evil)

  • Man was never truly separated from God except in his mind, when it became darkened and man was alienated, all in his mind, but not in reality. (2 Cor. 4:4, Eph. 4:18, Col. 1:21)

  • Man’s life became a lie and an illusion.

God set up a place where He could dwell on earth. - The Tabernacle, the Temple.

  • The Hebrew people would call this heaven on earth.

  • God’s presence was in the Holy of Holies.

  • Before the Temple, God was found in a burning bush, the cloud that followed them, the Ark of the covenant etc.

God was always manifesting Himself in Christ by His Spirit on earth from heaven, from objects (that Rock was Christ) to a building (temple) then He came in the flesh as Jesus.

  • God was no longer in the temple; He was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. (2 Cor. 5:19)

  • Then we see God moving with His Son into us. (John 14:20, Gal. 2:20, Col. 3:3) From objects to a tent, to a tabernacle, to a temple to His Son and to us.

The Tabernacle had the Outer Court, The Holy place and the Holy of Holies.

  • If you would lay man alongside the temple; our head would be in the Holy of Holies, the body in the inner court (Holy place) and our feet in the outer court.

  • God, who is Spirit, speaks and communes with our spirit, our minds (Soul) is set apart to hear and know the Lord. And our outer body, our feet are where we touch earth and manifest the inner to the outer. (Heaven on earth.

  • Luke 17:21 – The Kingdom of God is within

  • Eph. 2:6 – seated in heavenly places – dual citizenship – Phil. 3:20

What did the 12 disciples as well as all in Judea experience before Jesus arrived?

  • The climate, spiritual atmosphere, what did the church look like?

  • Matt. 23;2 – the leadership

  • Vs. 3 – Hypocrisy

  • Vs. 4 – Legalism

  • Vs. 5 Pride and egos

  • Vs. 12 – self exaltation

  • Vs. 13 – Keep man earthy from God who is Heaven, His spiritual kingdom

  • Vs. 15 – When you do convert, you make them twice as much a child of hell then yourselves

  • Vs. 16-22 – Their attitude, understanding and practices of the temple defiled the temple and all God intended.

  • Vs.23 - Pick and choose what laws to focus on (Hypocrisy again)

  • Vs.24 - Strain out a gnat and swallow a camel -

  • Matt. 7:3-5 – they would focus on the speck in your eye with a plank in theirs.

  • Vs. 25-27 – outside appearances (acting one way) inside full of dead man’s bones (Inside was contrary to the outside (hypocrisy)

  • Self-Righteous – Luke 18:11 – the 12 and the rest of the Jews knew how these religious leaders felt about them and they knew how they acted, and they didn’t go around them. (It was an us vs. them)

  • Now Jesus comes along and says “Follow Me” not the religious leaders.

  • Jesus goes to the common man on the streets not the temple.

  • God moves His glory outside the camp. (EX. 33:7)

  • Jesus is not excluding them (Matt. 23:37-38) He is trying to open their eyes, but they resisted and remained as the blind leading the blind (Matt.15:14)

What is this a picture of? Back to the temple and us as the true temple

  • Gal. 2:20 – it is no longer I. Man in his darkened mind, false identity, alienated from God in his mind looks like the pharisee’s and what they did to the temple in their separation.

  • Jesus is the mind of Christ, the Father’s heart, who we are in identity, who we were before the foundation of the world, who we are as spirit. (Our true self)

  • John the Baptist – I must decrease, and He must increase. John 3:30, No longer I, but Christ lives in me. Gal, 2:20

  • Man must put aside the old I, and see himself as the new creation, the new man, the resurrection in Christ, one, our union with, newness of life. (Col. 3:1-4) Put on the new man (Eph 4:24) put on Christ, our true identity.

Who we are is spirit, get our minds renewed, and we manifest as our awareness, our consciousness takes on a new way of seeing and living as sons, as divinity, as we always been before the foundation of the world. (Eph. 1:4, Rom, 12:1-2)

  • We are moving as spirits from the Holy of Holies (us as the temple) through our bodies (within the natural realm) to manifest on earth as it is in heaven. (Boots on the ground)

  • God is in our spirit (1 Cor 6;17) in our soul (mind emotions and will) and in our bodies (Eph 4:6) Our bodies are the connection to the natural realm. Our bodies are the result of our spirit. We are complete (Col. 2:10) what’s true on the inside is true on the outside

God’s design for the church, Christ the head and we the body, one in union, is to have our awareness to this new and living way (Hebrews 10:20-21) live out of the spirit and manifest it in and through our bodies.

  • Christ in us, as us and through us.

  • And like the disciples we can turn the world up-side down (Acts 17:6)