I must warn you - if you are not seeking to walk in the way of the living God and you are not ready to obey His commandments and are not ready to live in the reality of the kingdom of heaven, then do not read this book - for herein are the keys unto eternal life. And you will hence forth be made accountable for what you read herein.
Bless all who hunger and thirst for they are seekers of righteousness and they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6)
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THE UNFOLDING OF MAN
SIN, FLESH, AND THE NATURE OF MAN
HEAR YE HIM
OH! AMERICA
BOOK ONE
THE UNFOLDING OF MAN
INDEX
Chapter Page
Preface ………………………………………………………………………………4
1. Attaining Salvation……………………………………………………………… 5
2. The God of Recompense…………………………………………………………6
3. The Motive For Seeking God…………………………………………………….7
4. Sons of God - The End Result……………………………………………………8
5. Life, The Result of Firey Love…………………………………………………...9
6. A Way of Life……………………………………………………………………10
7. The Christian Life………………………………………………………………..11
8. Risen Life Only On A Dead Self………………………………………………...12
9. Liberation………………………………………………………………………...13
10. God' Sovereignty and Wrath……………………………………………………14
11. Adultery……………………………………………………………………........15
12. True Sin…………………………………………………………………………16
13. Christians - Saints – Sons…………………………………………………....….17
14. Risen Life On A Dead Self………………………………………………....…...18
15. Joy Is The Motor…………………………………………………………....…...19
16. Slowly to Calvary………………………………………………………...….…..20
17. Seeking Perfection……………………………………………………….......…..21
18. Reality……………………………………………………………………....……22
19. The Race Of Time And Flesh…………………………...……………...….…….23
20. Popular Gospels And Perfection……………………………………………..…..24
21. Sons Are Made……………………………………….…………………….…….25
22. Prayers And Answers…………………………………………………………….26
23. Is He First?.............................................................................................................27
24. Salvation - The End………………………………………………………...…….28
25. Self-Righteousness…………………………………………………………...…..29
26. The Way Of Aloneness…………………………………………………………..30
27. Face Reality - The Justice Of God…………………………………………….…31
28. Dedication And Faith, Not Works………………………………………………..32
29. Destiny……………………………………………………………...…………….33
30. True Worship………………………………………………………………..……34
Epilogue………………………………………………………………………………35
Preface
A man who walks this earth may oftentimes feel lonely, in despair, and discouraged; all for lack of a real purpose in his life. Many a man has come to the end of his own strength. Some have become so disheartened that they can no longer cope with the falsities they must fight each day. They see no truth in anything. There seems no hope and most important no way in which they can change the course of events which has brought them to this point of utter despair and hopelessness.
Man, being a social creature, not by nature but because of generations of environmental indoctrination, tries to hold on to someone else so as to elevate his shortcomings, an idol if you please. If such an idol does not measure up to a man's image then he sinks into greater despair.
All mankind is the same in these respects - The individual only differs in degree of self-strength, determination and fortitude. All mankind has thus become, or is, dependent upon one another to provide security and stability to some degree. It is for this reason that man tends to create an image of God, for in a creation such as God, man can have all his security and dependence and thus can he be assured of the stability he lacks in himself. (Romans 1:19-20)
He creates a God that demands his obedience, but forgives his disobedience. He creates a "good" God, yet he can be terrible - but never to him! (II Kings 17:33) Man determines to create a Satan with which to blame all his misfortunes on thus relieving himself of all his failures.
Having read the above dissertation, which could have easily come from a philosophy book which in its conclusion would have disproven the deity and true reality of God, as well as the powers of Satan - you may wonder why this opening in a book supposedly written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; because - if you have ever felt this way and have thought of God in this light you are ready now to see the true God revealed. For God is not created in the mind of man - nor are His ways. (Isaiah 55:8) You must now rid yourself of all your old inhibitions of what God expects of you - for now you are going to find out. Based upon His Holy Bible, for God will always give you a sure word, - He would not expect you to walk blindly upon this earth. (II Peter 1:19) Neither does God expect any who have been shown light - to walk in darkness. (Revelation 1:21)
WARNING: I must warn you - if you are not seeking to walk in the way of the living God and you are not ready to obey His commandments and are not ready to live in the reality of the kingdom of heaven, then do not read this book - for herein are the keys unto eternal life. And you will hence forth be made accountable for what you read herein.
Bless all who hunger and thirst for they are seekers of righteousness and they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6)
Chapter One
ATTAINING SALVATION
"God's people are those who love Him and they are those who keep His commandments." (John 14:21) Many today say, "Lord, Lord." (Luke 6:46), but they follow not in the footsteps Christ set down for each man to follow in. He truly is a loving God - why else would He have come down unto earth to bridge the gap between mankind and God, their creator and also show by His life how man can attain unto His full sonship which is prepared for all who love Him. (I Timothy 2:5) (Romans 8:28-29)
God's people have long since been taught forgiveness of sin - to live under grace and to obey the commandments of their God; but when has man been shown how to be perfect and how to attain unto the perfection that Christ attained unto as a man? (Hebrews 5:9)
Mankind has drifted far from the reality of God in the life in Him that was experienced by so many throughout the history of man. God's chosen ones were chosen and called because they had learned the secret of how to please their creator. (Matthew 22:14) They learned how the creator of the universe could be moved and how they, as servants of His, could do His bidding without regard for their own person.
God has not only shown these few "great" men, but He has shown all men. Christ's life on this earth was the culmination of all the points that He taught each of His saints. He used each incident in His life to dramatize what it is to walk as a son of God.
Today God's people must learn that salvation of their souls is an earned entity and that He requires obedience and total dedication to attain unto this goal. (James 1:12, 21) Many today do not preach His word - they give unto His people a fragment of His word - it is not His word. (Acts 20:27) For His word is a complete way of life - from birth to eternity - He shows man how he is to act in each incident of his life (John 14:6)
God has long since become a remote and distant God as is personified in the multitude of gospels today. (Jeremiah 23:23)
It is time that His people come out from underneath the weight of this mound of words and see the light that He created. (Ephesians 5:14)
Chapter Two
THE GOD OF RECOMPENSE
Man today is forever seeking ways to enhance his state and God is oftentimes only a means to achieving this goal of self-betterment or self-esteem.
The Almighty God was never meant to be a means but Christ is the beginning and the end of all things. Man must learn that unless he finds Christ first and ever continues to be of, and with Him, he will forever be striving for an elusive goal that will never truly be reached.
God created man in His image and likeness and gave him the right to gain the fullness of heaven. (Genesis 1:26) This is why man can not find fulfillment outside of striving to gain the crown of eternal life. This is the only end that will satisfy a man because it is what he was created for. (James 1:12)
(I John 2:25)
Enjoying what God has bestowed upon mankind is not wrong but each must ever examine by His Holy Spirit what has come from God and what has been concocted in the mind of flesh. Truly Christ has given man much to enjoy - but not all is able to be beheld by the human eye. Much is spirit. Peace, joy everlasting, fortitude, and faith just to name a few. These truly have worth beyond words and are truly good.
Let each man examine himself - for God shall judge each man accordingly. It is by faith and because of God's grace that man can attain unto the sonship prepared for him. (Ephesians 2:8)
Words and good deeds are for boy scouts - Christians who expect their great wonderful deeds to merit them the kingdom of heaven - shall find the gate is low and can not accommodate such highly lifted flesh. (Matthew 7:21) (Romans 3:20)
Good deeds are the overflow of life abundant within a Son of God, and are not a result of attaining unto maturity - but are merely the result of maturity and fullness. God calls His people unto Himself - not unto serving their fellow man. If all men were to come unto the Almighty God, what need would there be for any Evangelism? Truly there is a need today - but it is for all men to join unto God first, and draw all men after them. It is not for them to push men into the arms of their Father.
(John 6:44)
For God draws only those willing to come the full distance. Many who witness to all men and find many failing to come unto maturity should truly see. See without the falsity of pride that these did not come unto God by His Spirit drawing them; but by the enticing words of philosophical men.
(I Corinthians 2:1)
"God's people have found Him not to be a vengeful God, but a loving God." - or so the popular gospels of today have for the most part portrayed Him. He has not changed since before the concept of time; neither will He change after its coming demise. (Malachi 3:6) (Hebrews 13:8) He is always the same and shall always punish sin. (Hebrews 10:30) Men see not His punishment because it comes not in the way that they would summise that God would, in their unworthy opinion, have acted. (Jeremiah 51:6) (Exodus 34:7) When will man come to realize that the Almighty God does all in His way and in His time and what may appear to be sin may indeed be but ignorance and the path unto heaven. (Isaiah 55:8) (I Timothy 1:13)
Judgment of a fellow man is always much more deadly for the one judging than the one so judged. For the Lord is merciful on the sinner, but His full wrath is ever kindled against him who doth place himself in the seat of the living God. Truly each man must learn forgiveness and not judgment. This is only accomplished by God's Holy Spirit and unless a man lives by His spirit he is flesh and can only accomplish sin and never righteousness. (Romans 8:4) For righteousness is only a product of the spirit of God - man has never any power nor ability to attain or create righteousness. (I Corinthians 1:30) Man must thus live in and by Spirit Holy in order to be of the righteousness of God!
(Romans 7:18)
Chapter Three
THE MOTIVE FOR SEEKING GOD
When a man finds himself turning to God, he must sincerely examine himself and ask "Why! Do I seek God?", for it is quite important. For herein lies the foundation of the Christian life. (John 1:38)
Is God sought because He is needed to stabilize a life or is He sought or called upon to being completeness unto ones being? One may say there be but a small difference in these motives; but if one will search by the Spirit that reveals the Spirit of truth, he will find that the one seeking security will be very unstable and so will his love of God. (Matthew 6:22) This man will be loving unto God when all else seems hopeless and he needs someone to lean on. (II Corinthians 5:14) He will be less likely to look to God when he is blessed and feels happy for a time. And so he lives the life of the roller-coaster-climbing high and then low - and using God as a force to climb higher again.
The man who seeks God to find fulfillment will undoubtedly be one who has ultimately found no satisfaction in this life and truly sees that he must find fulfillment outside of his orb, the natural. Such a man is the beginning of a son of God. But this is only a beginning. For a son of God by rebirth is not a full, ordained and crowned son; he must live the life of Christ, as He did, by the power of the Holy Spirit. (John 1:12) One must learn to become obedient unto Holy Spirit. This endeavor includes the complete elimination of self-will. (Romans 6:11)
The process of self-will elimination is the complete Christian life. (Luke 16:13) For this is how a man determines his destiny. All men have the potential unto sonship, but only those who eliminate their self-will are those who attain. (Philemon 3:14)
Self-will elimination does not mean giving up the world and becoming a missionary or doing some noble Christian work. (Matthew 7:21) Self-will elimination means doing the will of the Father. (Colossians 2:6) And the will of the Father is living the life of Christ. (I John 2:6)
How does a man live the life of Christ? By dying!, dying unto all that would not make him perfect before the Father's eyes. He has said deny, to forsake, all that would keep a man from living the life that was ordained for each. (Luke 14:33)
Giving up sin is easy. Giving up the ways of flesh impossible, except by the spirit of the living God. God sent His Holy Spirit unto all who truly seek to walk as Christ did walk - by faith and in the togetherness and oneness with His Father. Such a relationship as this can only bring victory overall flesh and its evilness. (Galatians 5:24)
Each man must learn this same togetherness and union for himself. No man can teach any man the way of aloneness with His God. Each must find Christ by himself. For the Christian way is a way of complete aloneness with God. (Mark 1:35)
This does not mean leaving the world unto isolation, but being isolated unto the Creator of all while in the world. Each must feel and have the power of faith to know that the anointing of God is upon him, herein is the reality of fulfillment. Each man was created to be with His God. Thus only with God can man be made complete. Thus as a man walks - if he walks not after God's Spirit's leading then he is walking unto the way flesh and then unto death. (Galatians 5:25) But he who walks in God's light shall find he is complete and God's ways are indeed his ways!
Chapter Four
SONS OF GOD - THE END RESULT
Sons of God are the result of the Spirit of God having the freedom to act in perfect accord with the mind of God. Thus it can and must be said, that a full and true son of the living God is not a man who lives by reason or his natural abilities, but is totally and completely at the mercy of the spirit of His God. (I Corinthians 2:14)
Many a false shepherd today does not preach the dependence upon God's Holy Spirit that each man must know and experience. Many use the proper words; but even proper terminology does not lead or give a person truth and light. God's Holy Spirit must be in direct control of both teacher and student for the transformation of the life giving process to take place.
Many a so-called man of God today does preach against sin, flesh and the devil, but where is the teaching of the life abundant? (I John 2:9) (John 10:10) It surely is not merely speaking on God's great and unfailing love for His people. These truths do not make a life. Life is the result of Holy Spirit transforming of truth into life. (Romans 12:1) Only the Holy Spirit has such power and ability. It is an obvious conclusion that if one is to be in the life process he must be absorbing truth and allowing that truth to become reality in his life, by God's Spirit. (John 6:63) Thus words spoken by an anointed of God can become the bread of life and a man has now gained the power to come from death unto eternal Life. (I Corinthians 15:26)
This may seem a strange process to some but indeed it is the way of thy God. Man cannot by any power or of himself do anything to present himself a worthy and acceptable fatling for slaughter. (Genesis 2:20) Yes! Man must be only this - one to be slaughtered - for only in the death of the cross can man be brought unto risen life. (Galatians 6:14) (Colossians 3:1)
All men must go unto Calvary, as the Father's true Son did. Christ made this the pure sacrifice and way a man could find his way unto the bosom from whence sin stole him. (John 1:18) Sons of God are not the beginning of the life of Christianity, but the end result. Know God is now revealing unto mankind many mysteries. Mysteries only because man has been too proud to be guided and taught by God's Holy Spirit. (I Corinthians 9:25-27) So, using intellectual knowledge and ability as did the Pharisees of old - man has been blinded to the truth. (Matthew 23:24) Today is again the time of great light. Christ's death and resurrection marked the end of darkness and now is the time of His coming to claim all that has been given Him. (John 6:37)
God's people are not those who have come unto Him - saying "Lord, Lord", - but His people are those who have walked the way of Calvary and have allowed the flesh to die the ignominious death before all men and have thus been raised from death unto everlasting Life. (Luke 6:46)
No man comes unto the life of eternity unless he has passed from the death of his carnality unto the ways of God's Spirit! This is the way the Father ordained and as was demonstrated through His only begotten Son, Jesus!!
Chapter Five
LIFE, THE RESULT OF FIREY LOVE
Mankind has longed for peace, tranquility and satisfaction. Nations have been created with these goals in mind; yet no nation has long survived with any lasting peace. Man has sought to go a-whoring. Man has sought these goals by his own abilities, his own power.
It is in being seated at God's right hand that a man shall find his perfect harmony and thus shall heaven be truly real to him. No longer will he have any of his desires. His only desire will be the love of the Father. When a man is totally in love and moved by such love he is indeed in seated life and though he may yet be upon this earth. For he has conquered it and all things are brought into harmony because He first became harmonious with the Ruler and Mover of the Universe, its Center. (Romans 8:37) (Revelations 21:7)
Know that no man can create peace that will abide the ages. Man cannot find this utopia he seeks because such does not exist in the realm of the flesh. Man will never know true peace, true tranquility and the like until he has learned to live in and with the spirit of the living God. (Romans 8:6)
God has long shown man that all he can create is war, death and sin. Man cannot create peace, love and freedom for they are part of the selflessness, and man is selfish. Man can find peace and true joy in his God and only if a man subjects himself unto his God can these so vital entities be attained.
Today as never before man is trying to learn to abide with his fellow man - not by love but by destroying that which is not like himself.
A hippie does not like the world of his father so he seeks his own radical way of life; but in the process he brings about chaos to his father's world. And the father - not trying truly to understand his son's rebellion seeks only to destroy, because he hates what his son is trying to do to the world the father abides in. So too with nations - races - men and women, all are changing - but changing only unto self destruction. They have forgotten who created this world and man out of love, an unselfish love. Human love, however good, is selfish and can bring only destruction and never life and peace.
Life is the result of God's love and the fire of His Spirit. There is no other way to attain unto the life the Father has awaiting man. The qualities of God's abundant life are peace, joy... they are awaiting all men. (Galatians 5:22) Christians are not God's only people - all who are have been created by God and are thus His people (Galatians 6:10).
Christians (I do not use the term lightly) are those who have received a measure of God's life and light and are now walking in that light. (Romans 8:9) They are not those who cry "Lord, Lord", they are those who do the will of God and not their own, however good and godly their own will may be. They are totally God's and have forsaken family, friends, all, to follow after their master. (Matthew 7:21)
Today is the day the walls of Jericho are to fall. The walls of churches today which preach salvation is an altar call and merely, the forsaking of that which man - moral man, has deemed immoral are falling because they lack the corner stone, Jesus. They preach against which is nothing but doing that which is in the heart of every man, openly. They cannot preach purity; for they have failed to keep their eyes on Him who is pure, Jesus. All must learn that unless they walk after the spirit and by the power of the spirit, immoral men tho they ARE - no matter how self-righteous they may pretend to be, hell is their reward. Man is a sinner and until he - has completely been captivated, is led continually and knows no other love but that for God, a sinner he will ever remain and peace and joy shall never be lastingly his until he returns to God completely.
Christ leads all men to become washed and walk with Him. This is His cry in this last hour. (John 6:53) For all men to wash and abide with their God! (John 13:18)
Chapter Six
A WAY OF LIFE
Sons of God are not made by doing good and noble deeds, they are begotten and transformed into the complete nature and character of the first Son of God, Jesus. (Hebrews 2:10) (Romans 8:29) The Father sent His Son, Jesus, unto His children to show them what a true son of His is like and how each man must and can attain unto the completeness of glory that His Son. Jesus the Christ, did.
Sons of men live by the ordinances of nature. They live by intellect, emotions, logic, and reason. They rely heavily upon experience and other men to aid them in securing the proper safety and peace they can hope to find and create for their stability.
Faith would indeed be a curious attribute for such a man to have, yet faith is a necessary ingredient in attaining unto sonship. For faith, true faith, is not of this world, it is of the Spirit. (I Peter 1:15) Thus to have faith in God, it is necessary that a man go beyond the natural, the earthy to attain the perfection of peace, of a full son. For without faith it is impossible to see God. (Hebrews 11:6)
God's Sons are born unto Him, dedicated. Thus they become the embryo from whence a man will someday come. But the embryo is not the man, neither is the man the embryo. (I Peter l:7, 9) The embryo is but the start. Each day, each trial, each encounter with life and the earth is a means of aiding that first bit of life, the embryo, to attain unto the fullness of life.
It is for each man to truly examine the daily routine and see, "how much like Christ was I today?" Each happening either brings one closer to eternity or one step closer to hell - there is no stagnation in the life of man. A man is either becoming a Son of God by exemplifying the Spirit of Christ in every thought, word or deed; or else he is creating sin, death and destruction of himself and those around him as a son of Satan. (Romans 8:10) (Revelation 3:16) (John 8:44)
The moral man of today believes the forsaking or not doing that which he considers evil is what it is to be a "good Christian". (II Corinthians 11:12) Where has God told His people to be moral? He told them not to sin, and sin is not only the being immoral. Sin is anything that does not manifest the character of Jesus Christ. (I John 3:4)
Man can never hope to attain unto the crown of life by living a moral life. For man is yet a hopeless sinner. He is still human, thus living by the means afforded a human being. He can not attain unto the Spirit of a living Son of God by living in this manner. (John 10:30)
Only as a man learns to live in togetherness with the Spirit of His God can he become free from this earthly life. As he learns to become so enwrapped, so captivated, so in love with His God, that he can do nothing without knowing the perfect will of His Creator. This is true freedom! (Revelation 14:4)
Man was truly created to enjoy the fullness of God's wealth. However, only that which is pure can enter and lay claim to the inheritance of the Holy City. It is therefore only the man who learns by, through faith and because of faith he who has learned to enjoy each encounter and each daily trial as a means afforded into attaining any full sonship - who can enter the kingdom of God. (I John 3:3) The way of God's Christ was a complete walk of a son of God, who was made a manifestation of the glory of the living God only because he was faithful unto death. Jesus Christ's Faith never wavered; and he was raised unto the fullness of glory to be seated as a full, crowned Son of His Father because of his faith. (Philippians 2:8) (Mark 16:19)
Unless a man lives as the first Son, Jesus did, there is no fullness of life awaiting Him. (Ephesians 4:21) Only the pure shall see God and thus only those who have cleansed and live by faith can attain unto the fullness of heaven, which be in God Himself!!! (Matthew 5:8) (Ephesians 4:18)
Chapter Seven
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
When a man comes to God he must ever remind himself that he is no longer his own, but that He has now come under the redemptive blood of the Lamb. (I Corinthians 6:19) This price makes him the Fathers and no longer should he continue in his old, self-willed ways. (Ephesians 2:2)
Many a man has opened his mouth and said, "unto thee, oh, Lord", but unless there is a true desire in the heart these are mere words of the mind. (Luke 8:15)
For the heart is either the dwelling place of God or, the seat of disillusionment. Disillusionment in that a man who ever continues to confess Christ with his mouth yet walks after the dictates of his selfish desires, shall find that the gate of heaven is closed. (Matthew 5:20)
The gospels of today preach that salvation is a crying unto the Father and recognizing Christ as Lord. But Christ must be Lord, not in word, but in deed.(James 1:22) A man who has made such a confession must now embark on the journey unto heaven, known as the Christian life. This life is a total relinquishment of the self desires for the will of God. (Luke 9:58) This is not an easy road to walk and is in fact impossible without the Holy Spirit's power emanating and constantly being drawn upon. The Holy Spirit is an active power that must be yielded unto in order to live the life of true Christianity.
(I Peter 5:6)
Christianity is more than giving up of the vices and immoral sins and going to church on Sunday. To be a complete Christian one must be completely led by the Spirit of God. (Romans 8:14) This means activity daily, moment by moment seeking the will of God in every and all circumstances of the daily life no matter how trivial. (Romans 8:30) The Father's Son, Jesus - His only begotten Son, was His only begotten Son because He was completely and totally dependent upon the Spirit of the living God, therefore, He was united, one with His God, His Father. (Hebrews 5:5) (John 5:19) (John 14:10)
(John 17:22)
Mankind today, as was even the case since his conception, is to be as Jesus, walking and talking with His Father, God in Spirit. (Ephesians 5:19-20) God is real, but a man can be the only one to make Him the reality that He should be in his life. (John 14:21) He is God and He is ready to abound in the life that is truly forsaking, and thus willing to acquire more of the Godly characteristics so necessary and indispensable to enter heaven. (Luke 14:33) (II Peter 1:4) His way of attaining unto perfection is but the subtraction of the human, self-willed spirit: His Holy Spirit can thus renew and rejuvenate any who truly desire to walk a godly path. (Titus 3:5, 6) The way to heaven and perfection is truly marked by many hardships and trials. But these trials are only because man has made such necessary in order to shatter the self will within himself.
Today as never before God calls all men unto Him. It must be a total commitment unto God. No longer can a man praise God on Sunday and watch T.V. on Saturday night. (Ephesians 4:1) The life of a Christian must be complete and without thought of self-indulgence. (II Corinthians 6:17) (II Corinthians 7:1) The only pleasure in a true Christians life is knowing each moment that he is in God's perfect will. (Galatians 5:16)
Look unto thyself and truly examine thyself. Test each motive, each action - judge thyself in order to come unto thy God and receive His abundant grace and be ever endowed with His Spirit Holy. (II Corinthians 13:5) (I Corinthians 11:31) Only a proud man does not question and examine himself. God will allow no self, proud man into the realms of perfection, for they are incompatible. (Romans 5:2) (Acts 5:22) Heaven is the place of the perfection of harmony. Perfect Harmony because all is attuned unto the Perfect Will of the Father Almighty.
Chapter Eight
RISEN LIFE ONLY ON A DEAD SELF
Today as never in the history of the world man doth seek to elevate himself unto a godly state. Man no longer wishes to limit himself to the common abilities and thus remain in his present dissatisfied state. Man is envisioning a super state or heaven on earth in which all will be at peace and harmony, even nature. Man does even seek to change nature to produce better results. Today man wants to have dominion over all that he surveys. He no longer wishes to be at the mercy of environment, society or even nature. Everything must be brought unto harmony.
Each man dreams his dream of such a world in which he should enjoy everything that is good. The only problem: no two men can agree on what is truly good. God, the Creator of the universe is the only good. Thus it is impossible to attain unto goodness without attaining unto God.
Christ has made provision for man to attain unto the Father, by living the life of complete dedication unto the will of the Father's Spirit. (Colossians 2:6, 7) It means death, but also risen life. How else can man hope to attain unto his heavenly reward without following Christ's example. (I Peter 3:18) Look in God's Holy Bible, for it does clearly state, "no man comes unto the Father, but by Me." (John 14:6) (I Peter 4:1) Thus each man must alone endure the hardships that Christ, his Lord, endured. (II Timothy 2:3, 4:5)
Jesus has given each man who would draw nigh unto Him, His abundant grace. (James 4:8) Each man has the ability, by the Spirit and the energy to attain unto God; it is only his willingness and desire or lack of which keeps him coming unto or away from His God. (Jeremiah 29:13) Jesus fainted not on His way to the death of flesh only because of the Father's grace and power of His Spirit. (II Corinthians 12:9) So too with each man. Each can always receive the power to walk the way unto Calvary, but he alone can will and truly desire to walk the way.
Utopia on earth, Heaven filling the earth, truly such will never fully be until each man has come unto Calvary and passed from death unto risen life. (Ephesians 1:20) For in risen life alone can a man ascend unto His God and become seated. (Colossians 3:1)
It is being seated at God's right hand that a man shall find his perfect harmony and thus shall heaven be truly real to him. No longer will he have any of his desires. His only desire will be the love of the Father. When a man is totally in love and moved by such love he is indeed in seated life and though he may yet be upon this earth. (Matthew 22:37) For he has conquered it and all things are brought into harmony, because He first became harmonious with the Ruler and Mover of the Universe, its Center. (Romans 8:37) (Revelations 21:7)
Chapter Nine
LIBERATION
Every man today, however suppressed he may find it, even from himself, has an overwhelming desire to be free and liberated to the point of doing anything that pleases him. This means no restrictions, no interference and most of all no guilty conscience to interfere with that which pleases him.
Man today is suppressing as never before his so-called conscience. What he failed to realize is that his conscience is God's still small voice unto him. Yes, far beyond what the so-called fundamental, doctrine would ever believe, it is Jesus Christ, God, who does ever speak to sinner and saint alike. (Matthew 5:45) Religion today does not allow the sinner for he is too unworthy, to ever come into the presents God. This also, in contrast, makes the saint self-righteous enough to pass judgment on his less fortunate brother. (Matthew 5:20) The only difference between the so-called saved man and the unsaved man is that by God's grace he has come unto the realization that that still small voice within is God, the sinner does not realize this. It is not for a man to come unto the living God and judge why He does choose to bestow His abundance upon some; while others are poor and downtrodden. For many times it is not the perfect will of the Father for such to be the case, but man himself has chosen his own state of degradation. Yet it is for each man to be at peace in what ever state, not to judge God! (Ephesians 4:19)
Jesus Christ came to lift all men unto the Father, thus it is necessary for each man to be willing to be drawn unto Christ. Willingness and maintaining this desire through all manners of trials which - are only to benefit the individual being tried is of basic importance in attaining unto Christ. For God tries men only to perfect them and the only way to perfect men is to first shatter this self made security and cause them to ever build upon the foundation of Faith in Christ. (Matthew 5:45) (Psalms 51:17)
Faith is spiritual, thus God uses the natural to destroy the natural and causing men to draw from the Spirit to create faith in God, who is Spirit.
God tests each man in perfect wisdom, using that which is sought by man to destroy a man’s security, desire for and that by which he is tied to the natural. (Luke 14:28)
When will man learn freedom comes from being liberated, not from the law, but by being lifted above the laws of nature unto the spirit. (Romans 8:2) Only as a man does come unto God and learns to abide in Spirit Holy and no longer looks unto this fleshly realm for anything can he be truly liberated. (John 15:4) (Colossians 3:1) Liberation of the natural man unto the spiritual is done only by yielding unto the power of the living God. Only by sitting in the presence of His Holy Spirit can a man be transformed. (I Peter 1:5) For no man is to become free from the flesh that binds him by anything he can do. (Luke 10:42) He must live by Spirit power and thus put flesh power to death. (Galatians 5:16) (Romans 8:13) Drawing nigh unto God is the only way a man can truly become a liberated man!!
(John 1:18)
Chapter Ten
GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY AND WRATH
When shall man learn that God is sovereign and that He does not expect obedience of man, He commands it. Many false gospels and churches today have promulgated an all forgiving and loving Father who is ever so thankful to have another sheep come into His fold. (Romans 11:22) Does not man realize God is the same God that has scattered Israel for almost 2000 years? That He is the same mighty power that created the universe, destroyed almost all of mankind with His torrent of rain. (Genesis 7:21) God is no sugar daddy - His awesome power is to be feared and respected. Mankind has no right to heaven, eternity and wonderful gifts God has created. It is only by grace through Christ that man has received this privilege. (II Corinthians 6:1)
This privilege does not come automatically when one cries "Lord, save me." It comes the same way Christ inherited it. He earned his reward (that of being seated at the right hand of the Father) by a life dedicated unto the Holy Will of the Father and no other way. (Matthew 10:25) (Luke 22:42)
Mankind, because of the false churches and gospels today has become extremely lax in the belief in hell fire and punishment for sin. Man believes that as long as he calls upon God, heaven is assured and he is pure and righteous. (Luke 12:15) (Matthew 25:30, 46) Nothing could indeed be farther from the truth. Until flesh has been put to death, there can be no resurrection of Spirit until the deed of Calvary is reach or flesh still alive and no flesh can enter the kingdom of heaven.(I Peter 2:19) (I Corinthians 15:50) Flesh is not merely a mortal body. (II Peter 2:19) Flesh is obeying the self-will instead of living the life of faith and being led by the will of the Father which is His Holy Spirit. (Romans 6:16)
Today as never before man must truly look himself truthfully in the eye. No longer will self-righteousness be taken for true righteousness. No longer can morality pass for purity and godliness. (I John 3:3) The Spirit of the Living God is moving upon the face of the earth as never before. Now! is the time for God's Holy bride to begin to prepare herself. A bride saint is not merely one who belongs to a church or has called upon the name, of the Lord. (Revelations 19:10) A bride saint is a pure soul - consecrated and dedicated to living the will of God. Such a saint has forsaken doing his own will no matter how noble and pure his will may be. (Titus 2:14) (II Corinthians 7:1) God does not call the moral unto His marriage feast. God calls the pure. Only the man who has become so close as to know only the will of his God and he no longer obeys the dictates of his own heart obeys not out of fear such a man knows God. Though he knows that; but out of love, is a man who knows purity. Once a man has passed knowing God's wrath, he is now ready to go unto His love which is a culmination of all God is: His justice, mercy, wrath, anger, tenderness... (II Corinthians 5:14) (Romans 2:4) All God is, is fulfilled in His love and until a man knows all that God is - he cannot know His love.
Chapter Eleven
ADULTERY
Adultery is a common place phenomenon today. Why? because each man and woman, however pure in their own eyes, have lusts or desires they are trying to find complete happiness. They look to sex since it is the highest form of physical excitement a man can experience, to be their fulfillment. They are not wrong in seeking fulfillment and happiness, but they do sin greatly in the means to find this fulfillment.
Christendom looks upon adultery as a vile sin and utterly condemns it and usually condemns those who are involved in such an act. But what so many of today's churches fail to see is that they are in worse adultery than the man and woman who commits the sinful sex act. They who know not that when they fail to preach and obey God's entire word and are thus not led captive by His Spirit that they are thus led captive by their own lusts. (Acts 20:27) (Romans 6:19) (II Peter 2:19) They have come to lie down with a whore. Yes, the orthodox religions of today preach against sin, but the very thing they talk against, they do.
Mankind today does not wish to know what is right and wrong, though this is a necessary teaching in its place, they want to know how to become free. Free from the tension and pressures that bind them and they want to find fulfillment and be at peace. Peace is a strange word to unite with the man or woman who commits adultery; but peace is the end to which they do seek through their sin. In such they find release and for a brief moment are captivated so as to find utter release from the reality of their world which frightens them. Yes, men who use drugs, sex are frightened men who are seeking peace. Christians seek peace in saying "Lord, Lord." Thus Christians vent themselves of their tensions by placing them upon their God. Where else should a man's burdens be? Christ would say upon his God, but a true Christian and complete has no burdens? (I Peter 5:7) For burdens are the result of flesh trying to live a good and moral life, based upon the doctrines men have devised and called the code of morality. (Galatians 5:1) However much this code may be based upon the word of God, it is of man. The full Christian lives by H.S.
The Holy Spirit came to give all men the power to live the life of Christ. He was sent to free mankind from the trials of trying to live up to God's standards. (II Corinthians 4:11) For no man can fulfill the law and standards of God. Only by the Spirit of God and His Spirit's power can a man be the very life of Christ. (Romans 7:11) Mankind was called to be perfect and thus it takes the creative power of God by His Spirit to create the perfection of a life dedicated unto Him.
All men commit adultery in one form or another - one is no worse than the other, in fact spiritual adultery has a more profound effect than the physical act. So it is not for any man to judge another. It is for all men to know that each is seeking peace, and true and perfect peace only abounds in a life controlled by the Spirit of God (Matthew 7:7) (Romans 8:10)
How does one know he is in the will of the Father? Unless a man cares nothing for himself and cares for all men as if they were Jesus he can not be in the will of God. If he had completely eliminated his selfish desires for the will of the Father, then Holy Spirit can be in perfect control. (Galatians 6:10) Thus each man must ever examine and test his motives and actions. Each man must ever come unto his God and fall prostrate and confess his iniquity, never his perfection. (Proverbs 28:13) The man who looks upon his goodness shall find no peace and shall not find God, only the man who sees his iniquity and casts himself low at the feet of Jesus shall indeed enter Paradise. (Luke 10:42) For the peace of God shall indeed come unto him who is meek and humble and never unto him who would elevate himself!
Chapter Twelve
TRUE SIN
Where does man think he will spend the eternities? Ask most men today and a vast majority will say heaven. Why? Because the so-called Christian churches of today have blinded man from knowing what sin is.
Today as never before churchianity, the orthodox and some spirit filled religions have failed miserably in defining sin. Oh, they find no problem in pointing a self-righteous finger at the man who commits the so-called socially immoral sins, what truly is sin?
Sin is not merely immorality and such vices - sin is any deviation from the perfect will of the Father Almighty. Anything that is not in the perfect will of God is Sin. (Romans 3:23) Thus a man knows not sin unless he knows the perfect will of God. The will of God is for all men to be perfect worshipers of Him. (John 4:24) This entails a complete sacrifice of body, mind, and soul unto the Father. (Romans 12:1) It means a Calvary for each and every man, in order to attain unto the eternity of the abundant life as did Jesus. Unless each man spends his entire effort to coming unto the glory and shame of Calvary there can be no resurrection of the spirit from the death of flesh. For without death how can there be a resurrection from the death? (Galatians 6:14) (Galatians 2:20) (II Timothy 1:10) (Hebrews 12:13)
Today man must learn as never before that God demands, not merely desires, a total commitment unto Him. (I Timothy 1:12) A total commitment to do only His will and be perfect in His love. (Ephesians 1:4) A total commitment, to be used of God and not to do great and noble humanitarian or Christian deeds.
God expects each man to come unto him as a lamb led to the slaughter with no will of his own, merely, following the shepherd's leading without any hesitation. (Romans 8:36) Sons of God are the very example of humility and submission. (II Timothy 3:10) Humble in the true sense. Humbly means being broken of self will and following the leading of God's Spirit. (John 3:37) Men must learn that the Father has sent His most Holy Spirit with abundant grace to make it possible for man to know and to follow. (John 1:33) (John 16:16) His will is contingent and mandatory that each man know the leading of the Spirit in his life, for himself.
Those who claim to lead men unto God know not the ways of His Spirit. Each man must indeed walk a Solitary Life, the Christian Life. No man can lead another unto the fullness God has intended for each individual. (Mark 1:35) A man must walk alone in the light of God's Holy Spirit. Thus being led each man can know fulfillment and find the reality of heaven!! (Galatians 1:17)
Chapter Thirteen
CHRISTIANS-SAINTS-SONS
Saints of God are not made in easy ways, neither is a son of God. (Luke 13:24) This statement implies that there is a difference between sonship and sainthood, and so there is. Sons of God are those saints who have passed beyond knowing the Lord, they have come unto the realm of being like Jesus. Saints are those who have forsaken all that is temporal for that which is everlasting. Saints are truly above those who may be called Christians. Christians are those who have accepted and come unto God. Saints are made: This denotes a transformation of character. The process is called sacrifice and sanctification. It is through the sacrifice of one's flesh and fleshly ways, that a person of God is made a sanctified saint of God. (II Thessalonians 2:13) It is truly a master plan of the Father (who does yield his sovereign will unto the Father) the characteristics of a saint and more, those of a true son as the Father's beloved Son, Jesus. So many of God's people today have begun to stand still along the path to heaven. They stagnate thinking themselves either pure enough or there is no farther to go only more knowledge is to be gained. (I Thessalonians 5:16, 17) Man must learn that until death of flesh separates us from this mortal (Philippians 1:16) body that one must ever continue to walk in the light, transforming. For Jesus doth shine upon those willing to walk in the knowledge and not remain sinking in a pool of self-righteousness. (John 8:31)
The walk of a Christian must be as the word means: Christ in one. How else can man ever come unto the reality of "Christ in us the Hope of Glory." (Colossians 1:27) For mankind there truly is no other way than the walking in the footsteps of Jesus. Where else can man hope to gain the crown of eternal life? (I Peter 2:21) This crown is not merely given unto those who are so-called saved, but unto those who have fought and won the good fight of faith. (James 1:12) (I Timothy 6:12) Sons of the living God must, therefore be gods. They must have the same nature and character as did the first born of the Father, Jesus. (II Peter 1:4) In order for flesh to become godly, a transformation of being must take place. This is truly done only by yielding unto the power of God, His Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit of God is the only creative power that can from a human, fleshly being create a god. How? by putting to death all that is not godly. (Romans 6:6) For all men were made in the image and likeness of God. It is for the Holy Spirit to put to death the covering which hides and suppresses that spirit. It must be concluded that man has no active part in putting to death ungodliness and creating godliness. It is only necessary for a yielded saint to break and shatter his own selfish ego, by the grace of Jesus!
(Romans 6:11)
Man must now realize that he is not a sanctified being until he has come unto God and turned away from all that is of this life. (Philippians 3:8) And a sanctified saint is not a Son of the Father in completeness until all flesh has been put to death and Christ is in total rule. Thus it is no longer the saint who lives but Christ! (Galatians 2:20)
Chapter Fourteen
RISEN LIFE ON A DEAD SELF
Sons of men are truly in for a reawakening unto what is demanded of the man who would indeed dare to call himself a follower of the Son of God. (Galatians 5:24) (Matthew 5:45) The time is shortly to come upon man when he would seek to find a hole to dwell in. For he who would not stand and be counted among those who profess Jesus and live by the power of God, shall indeed need such a refuge. (Revelations 6:15)
The power of God is demonstrated through a life dedicated and consecrated unto the heavenly Father. Man today sees very few such dedicated and consecrated men of God, who are the power of God's Holy Spirit. The reason why, is because oh!, so many men call upon the Lord yet choose to walk after their own thoughts. They fail to totally yield to the leading of the spirit and it is usually the case that such are not ready to shed their blood and to crucify their OWN flesh. (Philippians 3:18-19) (II Corinthians 10:5) Many follow the good things of Jesus but, oh!, so few follow Him to Calvary. Sons of men shall ever remain such until they come to the realization that to be the Son of God that all mankind is looking for, they must be transformed into the power of God, by the power of His Spirit.
(Romans 8:19)
Such men are not easily made - for death must first ensue and ever be a portion of the truly dedicated life. (II Corinthians 4:11) For not until flesh has been put to death can the glory of the risen Christ shine in an individual. (I Corinthians 15:36) (I Peter 3:18)
Today as never before mankind is searching, seeking to find those who have truly been changed. Seeking these who have found a lasting peace a life abundant and are so vastly different that they actually by this very characteristics torment the carnal man. For a time this torment will seek only to cause a greater hunger and a thirsting for the only Beloved, Jesus. (Revelations 11:10) For he it is who has indeed caused the life - for the treasure of beyond value, or seek a hole to dwell in. (Revelations 6:15) Those who will not give up their carnality must destroy those who torment. (Revelations 11:7, 8) And so those who refuse to be numbered among the carnality of Babylon, the Holy Mother Church, shall indeed find their earthly lives one of persecution and pain. (Revelation 18:14) (Revelation 17:5) Such pain and suffering shall indeed seek only to make pure faster and shall indeed be a hundred fold rewarded in eternity. (Revelation 13:7) (Matthew 5:2) (Daniel 11:35)
Eternity has no end. Is it not then worth all that a man has to possess, that which is everlasting, to that which provides such finite pleasure. (Mark 8:36)
Entry into heaven has never been easy for those who wish to walk by flesh, though they may be praising God. Lo! only on a dead self can a spirit enter the gates of eternity and only through the constant sacrifice of one's will can one inherit the Key unto the Holy City. (Psalms 118:27) (Hebrews 10:7)
So sons of men must now choose - either to remain sons of men and seek to dwell in holes or to die and find everlasting glory in the bosom of the Creator Father. (John 1:18) (John 13:23)
Chapter Fifteen
JOY IS THE MOTOR
Saints and men have long dwelled upon this earth. Yet few men have taken notice of a saint of God. Why? because any acknowledgement of saint-hood would mean acknowledgement or exposure of sin and their selfish ways which are so contrary to the life given to God.
A saint of God is one who has totally yielded unto the Father and now the Father's will is in the place of the self-will. (Romans 6:18) Man can only desire and walk after the dictates of his own heart. (Romans 6:17) He has no other guiding light unless he has become one of the Father's fold and given himself and heart over to Him. (Jeremiah 17:9)
The man who may very well call upon the name of the Lord with regularity will still be walking in sin and lust until he has succumbed unto the way of submitting his will unto the Father. (Luke 22:42) (Psalms 51:18)
It is not an easy process to break and bring to death the self-will. It caused Jesus to sweat drops of blood. Will it cause any other man less? (Matthew 10:24) Christ was and is our ever shining example of what the Father expects and demands from any person who would wish to be made perfectly whole in Him. (1 John 4:9)
Sons of men have for too long hidden away the life of God within them. They have covered up this life within by their desire for goodness and the ever constant seeking of temporal joys. Thus negating the example of Christ's diligent sacrificial life. (I Peter 2:21)
Joy, from God, is a necessary attribute of the life in Christ. One could not hope to walk one step along the road to Calvary without joy in his heart. The Christian life is from the birth in humility, to death in humiliation on Calvary. (Hebrews 12:2) Each man must walk a life which leads to Calvary and then the complete burial of all fleshly ways so that the power of God can arise. The spirit is now made pure; because it has become released from all that is temporal and sensual.
Joy is the motor which enables a man to ever walk unto Calvary. Calvary is truly a place of death, but also a place of great joy. For on the cross is now put to death all that would hinder and keep a man from attaining unto purity. (I John 3:3)
If a man chooses only to walk to Calvary only to put to death an arm or a leg, know the pain is great and he must now live the life as a maimed person. God calls all men to be made whole, He gives each man new life by His Spirit as Christ is given birth at each Bethlehem and ever walks with a man working miracles and, putting trials before him until at last, Calvary. (Galatians 6:14) It is not for man to go from Calvary maimed, but to be completely put to death. If complete death is reached no longer can the self life have any power the man is now moved only by the spirit and enacts the actions of the Spirit.
Each man, for himself, must judge whether he would rather remain maimed or put to death all the self-life, all that be temporal. To bury the self-will so that only the power of God has rule and His will is the only sovereign entity in the life of one given over fully and completely to his God!
(Acts 26:19)
Chapter Sixteen
SLOWLY TO CALVARY
Today as never in the history of mankind man is searching for the pleasure and fulfillment he has never been able to experience. Man today will not settle for that which was his "father's" portion. Each man is striving to gain more power, prestige and wealth. In short, to gain utter and complete satisfaction - to want for nothing. What mankind has failed to realize is that God is the only completeness in the universe. Unless one is totally in God, he will always lack. (Deuteronomy 33:27) The world may be his oyster, but he will ever lack fulfillment until he is utterly God's.
How does one give himself over completely to God? Orthodox religion has failed to clearly define how, for if it had, men would have found fulfillment and not be still striving, and today with even greater fervor. The reason why religion has failed to show man how to become complete in God is because it preaches a gospel which pleases flesh and does not crucify it. That is the whole issue. (John 6:33) Unless a man crucify all that is temporal, he can not be completely God's. (Luke 14:33) It is not an easy way to come, Calvary. The cross is never a beautiful sight; nor is it pleasant to the flesh. (Mark 14:50) God does not send a man newly coming into the awareness of life in him, unto Calvary. Calvary is almost the final step. Each day of life in Christ a Christian comes one step closer to his completeness in Christ. Fulfillment and being made whole is not the beginning process of the Christian life, it is the end. (I Corinthians 15:3) Christ was not seated with the Father at Bethlehem, but after Calvary. (II Peter 3:18) So to with the Christian, he must ever walk the life-long road unto complete death in order to gain complete life in Christ. This is the only reason why so many in churches today have no power to overcome their fleshly nature. (II Corinthians 4:4) Why there is so much evil and sin today. The gospels of today preach living with flesh not killing it. (II Corinthians 11:4) There is only one way to kill flesh. It is to starve it, not feed it: (Romans 8:13) Flesh thrives upon desires, wants, likes and seeking one's own way. (Galatians 5:16) Flesh is starved by living close to Jesus, sacrificing the self-will to do the will of Christ, praying without thought of self and living only to be near the Beloved of the Father. It is the way of the Holy Spirit.
Christ spent 29 years preparing for only three years of ministry. Who are we to think we can change one life. Only God's Spirit has the power to change a life. (II Timothy 2:4) Thus a Christian must ever yield unto the voice of the Spirit. Failure is not failure, if one is truly desiring to walk under the guidance of Spirit Holy. Each fall is only a step showing where not to walk again. (John 10:27) God has a perfect plan in mind for all men and it is for all men to CHOOSE to walk in this plan. To choose God instead of the self god. Anytime a Christian obeys himself or his wants, no matter how Christian they may be, he is feeding flesh and starving Holy Spirit. It is therefore mandatory to live by obeying the Will of God - thus kindling the Spirit and starving the flesh. (Revelations 13:14) (Revelations 15:3) No man can find fulfillment while he still lives according to his own wants and pleasure. Christ, the perfect example, sacrificed everything to do the will of the Father. (I Peter 2:21) He became seated at the right hand of the Father. Is a man who professes Christ going to obtain what Christ inherited by doing less? (Mark 10:40) (Philippians 3:14)
Chapter Seventeen
SEEKING PERFECTION
What is it for a man to gain everything he wants? Will he find perfect happiness? Never, because man was created to be perfect only when he becomes like his Creator. (Ecclesiastes 2:11) For all that a man can gain by his own efforts will pass when he meets the grave. So how can that be perfect? Perfect is a word that has only one word to be an adjective for - God. (Matthew 5:48) For only God is perfect. Thus in order to find perfection in anything, one must find God.
One can not find God in the way so many churches profess today. If He could be, why is there so much lack of Godliness in the lives of church goers? Are they not the same as they were yesterday or maybe worse? (II Timothy 3:5, 7)
Perfect peace, love, joy, happiness are in Christ; yet so many who profess His name have none of these, why? (John 15:4) It is because they have not come into dwelling with their God. They are still dwelling with self and calling upon the name of Christ. Dwelling in Spirit with Christ is the only way a man can find out who God really is. Knowledge about does not tell one drop in an ocean of what one minute with Him will. For Christians were never meant to merely know about Christ, they are called to know Him, in spirit and in truth. (Romans 4:24) Once a man has begun to experience the fire of living with Jesus, by the power of His Holy Spirit, no longer will he ever be the same. It is by dwelling, doing for God, that a life is changed. (Hebrews 12:29) (Philippians 2:12, 13)
The Holy Spirit is the only power that can be used to gain access to the realm of the Holiness of Christ. (Hebrews 12:14) No amount of working for God will ever make a man one ounce more holy. (Romans 4:5) In fact most times working for God will make a man more self-righteous and thus cause greater distance from God instead of drawing him nearer. (Luke 18:9) The Holy Spirit was sent to draw all men unto Christ by activating the desire to be God's in each man. Yes, all men are called and want to be God's. It is only lack of Holy Spirit that keeps a man separated from God. The amount of Holy Spirit and Holy Spirit control in one's life will determine how close one is to God and yes, how perfect one is. (Acts 5:32) For the closer one comes unto God the more perfect he must become.
For only the perfect shall see God. All men should see God. That is all men's destiny; but very few choose to come unto the race to gain such a crown. (II Timothy 3:16) Many prefer to be spectators instead of participants running the race, for they will not train enough to win. (I Corinthians 9:27) Paul says, unless a man run he can not be crowned and not unless he strive lawfully. To strive lawfully means only one thing, total dedication unto winning the crown of life, perfection. (II Peter 3:18) (II Timothy 2:5) Total dedication is only accomplished by giving up, by the power and guidance of Holy Spirit, everything that is not of God.
The Holy Spirit is not controlled by the will of a man, He is to control the life of a man who is seeking perfection. Only by coming with arms empty and recognizing the sins of a lifetime can man come in a humble spirit. For a proud spirit of a man denoted self pride and self will is yet in control and not Holy Spirit. Humility is the hallmark in denoting the activity of the Holy Spirit working in a life. And unless the Holy Spirit is in control, no man can come into the presence of God. (Revelations 22:14) And unless a man come in and dwell in the awesome presence of his God, he can not be changed!! (Matthew 6:6)
Chapter Eighteen
REALITY
It is contingent upon a man to know who he really is. Unless a man know himself, his abilities, his failures, his potential, he is like a ship drifting upon an open sea. (I Corinthians 2 10) Each man must define for himself his purpose in life. (John 1:38) What he wants to do. Yet, oh so many today are disillusioned, find failure instead of their dreams. Dreams seem to be what makes a man continue in the face of failure. But today with the pressures of life becoming more intense, dreams are no longer coming unto any sort of reality. Mankind is finding it too difficult to cope with such pressures and he dreams more and ever tries to escape reality. Dreaming has been the downfall of many a man. It has caused men to escape looking at himself and therefore not seeing the need for God. With reality now facing man with an ever colder shoulder, dreams should be more prominent and so they are tho through dreams. (For reality is too constant a figure today, and so is failure) Yet Man can no longer cope with the realities of life by escaping into dreams. For now such dreams can never come true and so what has a man if his dreams have become so obvious. Man has nothing, if he must depend upon such intangibles to maintain stability in his life.
Stability in a life is what all men want and desire. Some fear it; but all men need such in order to remain sane. Stability must come from another source than a man himself, because he is unstable by his nature and he has an ever constant desire to escape reality instead of facing it. God who created heaven, hell and man also gave us a rock, which is the unmovable Rock of the universe with which to find stability. If a man finds such a Rock he can find stability, or can he? The Rock, or Christ, is stable but the man is not stable, and neither is he the Rock. So merely finding the Rock and knowing of its whereabouts does not make a man stable, nor does it give him the power to stand and face reality. (Matthew 11:28-29) Each man must go beyond finding Christ and knowing of His existence. One must become one with the Rock in order to have the same stability as the Rock. (John 17:22)
Mankind can not hope any longer to try and cope with itself. It has been too long left to itself. Having its own way has now made control impossible by natural means. Power and stability in the face of reality is what all men seek and desire. All men are able to have these attributes, but only IN Christ, not in knowledge about Him. In order to become one with Christ, one must dwell in the interlude of His Spirit. The Holy Spirit was sent unto man to reveal the God that created man. Christ was the shining star sent to dramatize the Father's ultimate love and desire for all of His creation. In order for any man to find God he must first have communication between Christ and himself through the power of the Holy Spirit. (John 17:21) The Holy Spirit is who all men must come to abide with in order to come into oneness with Christ. (John 14:17) Dwelling with such a Spirit requires nothing more than allowing one's own spirit to be offered up in sweet interchange with the Spirit of the living God. What could be more natural than two spirits conversing? (Romans 8:16)
To release one's spirit in order to have such divine conversation - Flesh will be smothered beneath the power of the Holy Spirit if one will desire to tally and yielding totally unto the Spirit's leading. It is not for any man to smother his own flesh. It is for a man to offer up such unto the living God. (Romans 7:18) The Holy Spirit will accomplish what no flesh can do, kill it!
In the death of flesh can a man find oneness and completeness in Christ. To find stability and power to face reality and no longer depend upon dreams to escape, but to be able, by drawing on the power of the living God, to stand unmoved by the harshness of the world. This is what it is to be made into a Christian. To face all enemies with out being moved, because of the stability of Christ, not the strength of flesh. For flesh will always, sooner or later, fall. (Galatians 6:8) Christ will never fail!
Chapter Nineteen
THE RACE OF TIME AND FLESH
Time for generations upon generations was for man. Today time is the enemy of flesh and the carnal man. For ages of history man was allowed to walk in his own glory and to ever drift away from the center of life. (II Corinthians 6:14) Why?, because God wanted only those who saw with the keenness of desire unto God to separate themselves from this worldly way and come unto Him. (II Corinthians 6:17) But there was never any "hurry", for man had a whole lifetime and generations upon generations lived by thought, saying - "Oh, oh! Tomorrow!". Well tomorrow has come. Man is no longer at liberty to have a whole life of coming unto God. Now a man must spend a whole lifetime in God, in order to enjoy what God has for Him. Why this drastic change in the statis-quo - because man has finally run the gamit. Man has come to the end of himself. Man now, as never before in history, is furthest from God. He has become so steeped in his own glory, "God is no longer necessary." If God is necessary he has to confine Him into a coffin-life mold so as not to disturb the walking in the lust of man's flesh. The glory of man is what has driven man from the center of the universe unto the end of time. For now God is truly preparing a people who are not looking to live a life pleasing unto themselves, but one pleasing to God. (II Corinthians 7:1)
What pleases God? How can a man in these last days of human despondence and degradation please God? (II Timothy 3:1, 7) Men have failed thus far. To please God it is only necessary to look at Jesus for surely He pleased God. God, the Father, sat Him down at His Own right hand. (Romans 15:3)
Yes, it is necessary in order to please God to live the life of Christ. One must suffer the loss of all things. Family, social engagements, friends, relatives, security, wealth, homes, everything; all must be given up unto God, to live a life free of such entanglements. (Luke 14:26) All the "joys" of this life must be but dung in a life which is pleasing unto God. (Philippians 3:8) God must be all in all and the world and everyone and everything in it must be but secondary, a distant second at that, to love of the will of God. (I Corinthians 15:28)
His will must become the only will in the life of a man who would be pleasing unto Him. (I John 12:17) Christ was glorified because from His humiliating birth to His degradation upon the cross, He pleased God. Can any man do less than Christ, and receive the same crown? No! Each man must run the race, the race against time and flesh in order to be crowned the victor. (Revelations 3:21) Victory was Christ's and the power of any flesh to defeat it. (I Corinthians 9:25-26) Only if a man lives thinking not of tomorrow or of yesterday - or even today is he living by the Spirit. A man in order to be led of the spirit must be led in the each moment of time he finds himself. (Romans 8:14)
There is no time for the man who lives in spirit and time is made void by a life dedicated unto doing only the will of God. Thus is a man justified and found pleasing unto God!
Chapter Twenty
POPULAR GOSPELS AND PERFECTION
Those who wish to see God, purify themselves. (Matthew 5:8) This is a basic principle in the life which is striving unto perfection in Christ. Do not believe the gospel that says, "you cannot be pure, neither can you attain unto perfection." (I Timothy 5:23) The Bible clearly states that such qualities are the mandatory attributes necessary to gain entrance unto the inner sanctum.
How then is one made pure? How does one attain unto perfection? Again it is necessary only to look unto Christ, our example. For Christ did attain unto purity and perfection as a man, by the power of the Spirit of God. (Hebrews 5:9) Christ first learned humility by his humble birth and life in general. He learned submission unto the will of the Father by becoming the servant of all men. (Luke 22:27) He so loved, not man, but His Father that He would do anything for man because of the Father's love for His creation. He sacrificed, suffered persecution, death and finally God sought to raise Him up. Because of His life long dedication not unto doing the will of self, not the desires of humanity.
This is truly not an easy way to walk. It is not at all impossible as some of the popular gospels today portray the life of holiness. Yet don't believe that you can live after the desires of your own heart and call upon the name of the Lord and attain unto purity and perfection. Such will never be the case. Only in seeking, ever constantly seeking the face of thy God, and forgetting everything, being overwhelmed with the desire to be with the Lord no matter the cost, this is the nature of one attaining.
Some would say that life of this amount of dedication is too much and no man should be asked to give up those things which are so good and godly. (Romans 15:3) Christ knew only one God. (Genesis 2:17) He lived not to pamper His desires. He lived to put flesh to death. (I Peter 3:18) Finally at Calvary all was culminated there, but His whole existence upon this earth was one battle after another - fought tooth and nail ever conquering the self life, all that would keep Him from attaining unto the face of His Father.
There is no perfection or purity in the life of a compromising Christian. Any who compromise sacrifice, discipline are sacrificing the love of God. (Jude 2:1) For only as one does conquer the self life, by death, through the power of the Holy Spirit can one come to attain unto the fullness of God's love. Some never gain more than a thimbleful of the Almighty's love, because they wish to receive without earning the crown of life as did Jesus. He went through hell to gain heaven. So too with all men. All must pass through the fires of hell to gain unto purity and perfection. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the living God. If He can not make perfect that which is imperfect, then mankind had better cry because there is no God!! If man is left to himself he can only destroy that which can come unto the presence of God and be a god himself.
Chapter Twenty-One
SONS ARE MADE
Sons of God are made not born. Men must come to realize that after the new birth each man has the great potential to enter the kingdom of heaven in its fullness as a perfected son of the living God. (John 1:12) It is not for any man to assume because he has made a profession of faith and lives a superficially moral life that he shall indeed enter the kingdom of the living God as a true and perfected son. (II Matthew 5:8) Christ did not. Christ was baptized by John and received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of His ministering for the living God. It was not the beginning and completion of his ministry. It took Christ three more years of struggling. Three more arduous years of painfully walking the path the Father prepared for the one He called His Beloved and His only Begotten. Christ had to attain unto Calvary. It was not Calvary then the ministry. It was the other way around. Those who fail to realize that death of flesh is a life-long process will find that these will be those who worked iniquity while working for God. (Matthew 5:20) (Matthew 7:21)
No man cannot work for God. God needs no help in bringing all men unto salvation. His Holy Spirit is more than able to save all who would permit Him to have free reign. Men must “work” at only one thing, the saving of their souls. It is not that a man is not saved upon his profession of faith. It is that he has but begun to come unto perfection. (Colossians 1:28) (Philemon 2:12)
"Only the pure shall see God." (Matthew 5:8) Not those who live by fleshly wantings, professing God's name. The man must be transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the very character and nature of God as Christ, the glorified Son of God who sits at the right hand of the Father. Unless a man overcomes the fleshly nature in himself - he can not come unto glory, by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Revelations 3:21) (Revelations 2:7) Flesh loves flesh and will not put it to death, only the Spirit of God can release man from the bondage of flesh. (Romans 8:5)
Sons of God must be those who have accomplished what the First Son did. It is mandatory that each man submit himself to doing only the will of the Father. This in no wise means forsaking a job, family, etc. to become a missionary or a preacher or the like. Nothing is more fleshly and self-righteous. Each man must fulfill his life as God intends. God means for all men to submit unto His will and put the dying flesh at last to complete death. Allowing the Spirit of God to create a man who would serve only God and no longer his own temporal desires is attaining unto Calvary. This is h