Paul the Apostle in Romans 13:7-12 says this. "Keep out of debt and owe no man anything,
except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor [who practices loving others] has fulfilled the Law [relating to
one's fellowmen, meeting all its requirements]. The commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you
shall not steal, you shall not covet (have an evil desire), and any other commandment, are summed up in the single command,
you shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody]. Therefore
love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law. Besides this you
know what [a critical] hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For
salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ,
the Messiah).The night is far gone and the day is almost here.
Let us then drop
(fling away) the works and deeds of darkness and put on the [full] armor of light. Let us live and conduct ourselves honorably
and becomingly as in the [open light of] day, not in reveling (carousing) and drunkenness, not in immorality and debauchery
(sensuality and licentiousness), not in quarreling and jealousy. But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah),
and make no provision for indulging] the flesh [put a stop to thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to
[gratify its] desires (lusts)."
If we read and interpret these scriptures
with a legalistic mind we would be evaluating our behavior to see if we are guilty of committing any of these acts in our
lives. When I say legalistic I mean us judging ourselves with our conscience with a right and wrong mentality. When God gave
Moses the Ten Commandments to deliver to the people, it made them feel guilty because they knew that they were breaking God's
laws. This was God's intent in the first place in giving Moses His laws. No one can keep the Ten Commandments back then
or now because the Levitical Priests had to offer unblemished animal in the temple once a year for the sins of the people
because no matter how hard they tried; they kept breaking them. When we function with a legalistic mentality, we become aware
that we are doing something wrong and became self conscience not God conscience.
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John 4:19 tells us that, "we love God because He first loved us." Unless we have this relationship operating in
our life with Him and are allowing God to love on us, we live with an obligated mind set and the born again believer can not
rightly divide the word of God through the Holy Ghost with the mind of Christ he received, when he became born again. This
is what Paul tells us in 11 Cor. 5:17 when he states. "When we became born again we became a new creature in Christ and
our old way of reasoning has been put away." This new creature that we became; can only be motivated and empowered by
the Righteous Spirit of Christ with his love.
The loving Spirit of Christ who
lives in us is a completed work that we received from Him at the cross and when we allow His Spirit to rule our lives; we
don't have to toil in our endeavor to measure up or feel obligated to do works for approval by God our Father. God's
main priority for His children is for them to rest from their laboring and enjoy their fellowship with Him at all times. This
legalistic mentality is a sin consciencness of right and wrong thinking which robs us of our choices to choose each day with
freedom that we will follow, God or our own selfish needs.
When Paul tells us
to drop (fling away) the works and deeds of darkness and put on the [full] armor of light. This is an inner decision on our
part to let go and let God flow His righteous Spirit through our entire soul which is our mind will and emotions as God did
with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before, Satan deceived them to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
When this happened they began to have a sin conscience mentality and began to think in right and wrong in judging their behavior.
In the Garden there was also the Tree of Life which is God Himself. This is the fellowship that God
intended for them when He would have fellowship with them by weaving His Spirit as a strong wind daily through their mind
and body which gave Adam and Eve a quick understanding of His love as they lived in it daily which; made them whole in their
mind, will and emotions.
Nothing has changed and God still is enticing His children
to not lean towards their own understanding and feel free to come to Him for all their needs and wants. We must come to understand
and be deep rooted in God's holding power of love if all the outward behavior contrary to our Saintly living is going
to come to an end and us learning to focus on a expectation of God showing up at all times as a loving Father wanting to take
care of his children. We must be free to make an independent choice to hunger after God not for the consequences if we don't
but because of the pure pleasure of enjoying a joyful life style of God's presence and friendship at all times.
We need to stop trying so hard to clean up our act for acceptance by God and others.
Scripture tells us that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus Himself. Jesus our brother
who was the first born again believer was righteous in God the Father's sight and He was looked at as being blameless,
free from evil with in Him, set apart from the contamination of ungodly behavior and was an heir and extension of God the
Father's own life.
! SO ARE WE!
This is really what fighting the good
fight of faith all is about. We MUST allow the Holy Ghost the freedom to persuade us that God looks at us the same as He sees
Jesus. Jesus example was the ultimate example of love because He laid down His life while we were dead in our sinful nature
and living an obligated life style of trying to obey God with a weak will and no power with in us to obey the Ten Commandments.
Scripture tells us "Greater love has no man then this that he lay down His
life for His friends." I have become convinced over the hundreds of born again believers that I have met over some forty
years that, they have no awareness that their body is the temple of the Holy Ghost and God Himself lives in them because;
they have a concept and deception that God is somewhere out there in a church building or in heaven and they do not know how
to have intimacy and the freedom to enjoy His company at all times. Anything contrary to this type of relationship is an obligated
life style of abuse.
It is as we obey Math. 6:33 that tells us to "Seek
first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything we need in our lives will be met" When we are in a place
of walking in obedience to this commandment God's holding power makes us recognize how desperately we need to rest in
His power which is at work in us so we can rest in His grace (unmerited favor) and love.
How much clearer can Paul say it when he says, stop thinking about the evil cravings of your physical nature]
to [gratify its] desires (lusts). The battle of our warfare starts in our mind and when we meditate on God's word day
and night through the Holy Ghosts leadings; it keeps us focused with a clear vision of how God's kingdom of love works.
Unless the born again believer is practicing a meditating life style which should be like breathing air in their lives, they
end up as Adam and Eve living in the Garden of Eden which means a protected hedge in the Hebrew Concordance, but they allow
the devil to mess with their mind and make them doubt their security and total completeness in God their Father.
We first have to get a vision and believe this and then we have to ask God to continue to save and
sanctify us with the continuing miracle power of our initial born again experience. A mediator is one who has a prayer life
conversation with the Holy Ghost where they allow Him to give them a word of wisdom from Him at any time day or night. I hope
you can see how totally foreign this is compared to living by rules and obligated church membership or prideful fleshly motives
to save face or being in bondage of; I have to do this or that or worrying about the consequences if we do or don't.
In 1 Cor. 1:2 Paul address these people among many other places in the bible when he says. "
To the church (assembly) of God which is in Corinth, to those consecrated and purified and made holy in Christ Jesus, = (
Sanctified ) [who are] selected and called to be saints (God's people), together with all those who in any place call
upon and give honor to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours." A person who is living in their
sanctification state is constantly being reminded by the Holy Ghost of their blameless appearance that God sees them in because;
their mind is constantly taking a bath with the washing of God's word and their mind is constantly being renewed daily
in understanding and receiving God's love at all times.
Now in closing
and there is no closing in having a living relationship with God through the Holy Ghost. It is the mind of Christ that we
received when we became born again that keeps our communication and ear alert and hearing God's voice telling us to turn
here and don't turn there in our daily walk with Him. We have Jesus promise that those who are His sheep they will hear
His voice and follow Him. As a born again believer you must separate your self from anything that promotes the spirit of condemnation
which wants to take hold in your life and have you be in bondage to a obligated spirit of I ought to or have to do this or
that mentality.
When a child of God sits under leadership that reminds them that
they are sinners and does not promote their sainthood and how God's sees them as blameless in His sight; the spirit of
obligation increases and our flesh is raised up and not the Lord Jesus Christ. When the spirit of love is being honored it
will cause a hunger in the believer to run to God always. Where the spirit of condemnation in any form shows up, it drives
the born again believer to run for cover as Adam and Eve did in the Garden and hide from God with their fig leaf aprons to
cover their shame.
I hope you who are reading this have learned how to live in
the light as God is in the light because; there is no darkness in Him. The end of this age is closer then it was yesterday.
Jesus is coming back for a church with out spot and wrinkle and with out blemish very soon. Most born again believers don't
believe that God already sees His children with out spot and wrinkle and unblemished therefore, He can come back at any time.
Let us not be ashamed of ourselves and learn to be at rest and comfortable with our relationship with the Holy Ghost so that
the peace of God will guard our heart and mind from anything that would distract us from receiving the love of God.
