Words of Life For This Generation

HAVING OUR STEPS BEING ORDERED BY THE LORD PART 3

As long as we allow the spirit of condemnation to govern our lives, the power we need to love God, our self and others cannot take place because; we make the cross of Jesus Christ of non-effect in our lives. Condemnation is the enemy that stops us from experiencing God's love and hugs that we need daily. Only a deep loving relationship can change our countenance to be like Him. When we allow the spirit of condemnation to control our thinking processes, it affects our soul and it's like us committing spiritual suicide. When we put condemnation on each other, we actually are committing murder. This is one of the most damaging and serious things we can do in offending God and one another.

Proverbs 3:11-13 says, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord. Neither gets weary of His correction. For whom the Lord loves, He corrects. Because, God as a Father delights in His children. Happy is the man that finds wisdom and the man that gets understanding."

As we are being influenced by God's Righteous Spirit, we begin to understand that, God's Spirit of chastisement is a protective hedge or a safety net that He puts around us, His children. He did the same for Adam as He walked with him in the Garden of Eden. The word for garden means a protective hedge. God's way of instructing us is that of a visionary. His chastisement is He showing us how much He loves us and how much more we can become in Him. This is what should be motivating us to walk in obedience to His will. His unconditional love and promises cannot be obtained by us living in fear that, He is going to beat us up or condemn us. He wants to set us free from all of the things in our life style that hinders us from having a healthy relationship with Him.

We have to look at chastisement as a spirit that we walk in, just as we breathe air ever day. This is what walking in the Spirit is all about. It was Jesus who fought the fight against sin for the world and as He died, He said, "It is finished." We need to be constantly looking at the cross and be reminded that, it is not our struggle for perfection that motivates God to move on our behalf, but it is His mercy and grace. By us not giving God permission to discipline us, we act like illegitimate off spring and not true sons and daughters. There will be times when God will be disciplining us and we will not be feeling joyful, and we will think, this really stinks. However, after we go through these seasons of growth, we will reap a greater understanding of how to walk in God's Righteous Spirit. We will have a better understanding of God's purposes, thoughts and actions. Unless we are having fellow feelings with the Holy Spirit, we will never know God's true feelings for us.

7.) They are preserved forever; however, the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The word for preserved is shama: meaning, hedged about, guarded and attentive in all situations. The word for forever is loam: meaning, hidden, never out of mind (past or future) and without end. The word for seed again is zera: meaning, to sow, to yield, to bear fruit or to conceive by receiving an inheritance. The word for wicked is rasha: meaning, to be morally wrong, feel condemned and guilty and un-god like. The word for cut is karath: meaning, be destroyed or consumed and to make covenant with a loser. The word for off is al: meaning, against in all aspects. Putting it all together, it reads.

"God's saints which are born again believers can be guarded and protected by God with a hedge round and about them in every situation of their lives. It is God's intention to deliver us from all of our fears by letting us know that, our concerns are always his concerns. It is His intension to keep us constantly pregnant with His total wealth and presence so that, all of our needs are met, physically and emotionally. When we think in terms contrary to our righteousness in Christ and do not participate with God's righteous Spirit, what we do is lean to our own understanding and what we put our hand to can never prosper. What we do is make a pact or agreement with the devil in some form or another. This separates us from all aspects of God's favor because we hold Him at a distance from blessing us." (How plainer can God make this.)

In 1John 3:1-10 John the Apostle talks about the difference of us being righteous or unrighteous. I will paraphrase. "Do we see what an incredible quality of love the Father has given us, that we are called His children? The reason why the world system doesn't recognize us is because; they didn't recognize Him when He walked the earth. We are now the children of God and a work in progress and are becoming more like Him every day. When we see Him, face to face we will be just like Him. Every one who understands their righteous position in Christ is constantly being purified from their dead works of unrighteousness. This meaning, they stop living in guilt in any form.

Everyone that commits sin is focusing on breaking laws and it is causing them self to not flow in their righteous position in Christ. Christ became a man in Jesus to die on the cross so He could take away our sinful nature. Their was no sin in Him and He had no blemish of any kind.

No one who habitually has fellowship with Him commits sin. If we are still sinning then in reality, we don't really know Him as He really is. Let no one make you believe that you have to do things to be or stay righteous. If you are righteous because God says you are then, you are righteous. Now if you sin and commit evil, you are being influenced by the devil because the devil constantly violates God's divine laws. Jesus came to set us free from this addiction. No one who is born again (deliberately and knowingly practices sin) because, God's divine seed or sperm remains permanently with in them. In turn, he can not sin because he is the offspring of God."

Many of you reading this and me saying that, God does not look at us as a sinner will think that this is blasphemous. Now here is the core problem with in the born again believer. Just looking at this from a simple physical example is very revealing. Let's say your last name is Jones. You are the offspring of Mary and Joe Jones. You were made with your father's sperm and the egg from your mother's womb. As an offspring from these two people, no matter where they roam and how long they live, you will always be a Jones child. As you grow up, you will take on your parent's characteristics and general appearance.

You could eventually go to court, change your name, and have nothing to do with your parents but, no one on this plant can remove the D.N.A. with in them and make them an illegitimate child. When the born again believer does not walk in their permanent position in Christ, they have been persuaded that, they are illegitimate in their own minds. This is what happens when we function as I said in a sin conscious mentality. Sin conscious people are those that live by rules, regulation and denominational traditions. When this happens, they never grow to become independent and they cannot make free will choices, because they are afraid of God in some form.

We see her that God's seed is Himself. He wants to sow life experiences after experiences with and through us as we flow in our heritage. If Jesus went to the cross as an unblemished sacrifice or with out spot or wrinkle as we have said, then when we accepted Jesus sacrifice at the cross and were adopted into the family, we are looked at by God as unblemished too.

Scripture tells us that Jesus was the first born again believer among many other born again believers. Jesus is our brother and God the Father is His Father as well as our Father. When unrighteous thinking prevails in our heart and mind, we cut our self off from participating in our right standing with God the Father. Therefore, I hope we are beginning to see that we have to understand the core of the problem and allow God to show us who we really are. You cannot hang out with the Holy Spirit and not have your outward behavior changed and secure your position in Christ.

8.) The righteous shall inherit the land and live therein forever. We have already stated two times that, the word righteous means, God looks at us as blameless, free from evil and set apart as His own handy work. Now we need to come into agreement with God on how He sees us. This will cause us to rightly interpret the scriptures with the mind of Christ that we received, the day we became born again. The word for inherits is yaresh: meaning, to occupy by driving out previous tenants or to seize and take possession absolutely and completely. The word for land is erets: meaning wilderness world.

We said the word live means, to reside permanently, to lie down and rest, and to rise every morning with a new awareness. The word therein is al: meaning, in all aspects of a spiritual walk with the Lord. We said earlier that the word forever meant ordered by God to live forever.

Putting it all together, it reads. "If we look at our selves as God sees us being blameless, free from evil and set apart as His own handy work, we will be able to turn back or defeat the Devil's tactics who's spirit occupies the atmosphere in the arenas of our lives and, we will have the power to drive him out. We can do this because; we are resting in God's accomplishments and not in our own accomplishments. This takes place as we allow the Holy Spirit access to totally weave His Spirit in and out of us at His will. This is our inheritance from God that allows us to live forever connected to Him."

This forever tied to Him condition; no matter how hard we are being lead to believe that some circumstance can cause this relationship to be broken is a lie right from the core and pit of hell itself.

Matthew 4:1-10 roll models for us the Christian walk by Jesus Himself. I will define as we go along. "Jesus was led into the (wilderness by the Holy Spirit) to be tempted by the Devil." This word wilderness means a solitary place of habitation in the seasons of our lives here on earth. You will also notice that, Jesus was being lead by the Holy Spirit. You see it was Jesus plan to get alone with His Heavenly Father to get away from the distractions of life and find out what his Fathers perfect will was for His life. "When Jesus had fasted and prayed for forty day and nights, He became hungry."

Then the tempter (the Devil) came and said, "If you believe yourself to be the son of God, make a miracle and command these stones on the ground to become loaves of bread to satisfy your hunger."

The devil who has studied human nature from the beginning of time knows how to manipulate our fleshly appetites by getting us to get our needs met by our own initiatives or our own efforts. You notice that, he tried to influence Jesus by questioning Him to doubt His position as God's son. When we act on the Devils temptations, we operate in unrighteousness and disobedience, which we said is evil.

Jesus answered, as He was directed by the Holy Spirit. "Man must not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God" This word for bread in the Greek is artos: meaning, the implication of how a loaf of bread rises. The Greek says it means to expiate sin or the power of atoning for our sins as a weight being lifted off our souls. We received the bread of life the day we received Jesus into our hearts. We must now go on, develop a symbiotic relationship with the Holy Spirit, and walk in obedience of ever word that comes out of His mouth.

Jesus was put on trial by the Devil and was trying to get him to focus on the word of God in right and wrong concepts rather then His righteous unblemished position in the sight of His heavenly Father. The devil will also put us on trial in our temptations to focus on right and wrong thinking and lean towards our own understanding in our own minds rather then listing to the Holy Spirit and understand our righteous position in Christ. This happens because we truly do not recognize our position as God sons and daughters. Because the majorities in the body of Christ are in the baby stage and are ignorant of God's ways, it causes them to try to help God out by doing things in His service of unrighteous endeavors that have no eternal purposes. Jesus said that, "we do not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the Holy Spirits mouth."

We must have our spiritual ears opens and have a healthy right interpretation of what I am saying here. My discernment tells me as I reason with the scriptures that, there is a great spiritual stupor on people and they have to be set free to finally interpret the word of God only as the Holy Spirit teaches it. This concept of understanding is found in Romans 3:19 and says. "We know that what ever the law says it speaks to only to those who are under the law. = (The Ten Commandments). Therefore, now that we know the law, no man or woman can make an excuse for his or her behavior and the whole world will be judged by God's written word. Where there is no written law the people have their own value system that they live by with in themselves. Now no man will be justified or made righteous, acquitted and judged acceptable in God's sight by observing the works proscribed by the law."

The real purpose of the law was to make man conscious of breaking them. Not only conscious of sin, but they will have a more acquit awareness because of their participation in their physical behavior of sin. It is this process of our awareness of sinning that makes man aware that he needs to repent and believe on Jesus, which causes our outward character to change.

! Now in order to be righteous in God, we have to become independent or free to make un-obligated choices and stop trying to be good!

However, the Old and New Testament goes hand and hand to bring God's perfection to its full maturity in our lives. To be righteous as God sees us, we must put our trust in the finished work of Jesus, at the cross-alone. Since all have sinned and fallen short of walking in God's glory, all people who are saved are looked at by God now as being blameless and guiltless and in right standing. This happens when we become born again and we continue to experience it as we live in His grace. The law was a school master or a tool God used to make us aware that we had broken a God given law.

When God gave Moses the law, it was never given to be kept in the first place. It was given to minister death to those who were kept under it until the Christ would come to reveal the true heart of His Heavenly Father, who also is our Father. The law said the soul that sins will surely die! We had no strength in ourselves to over come temptations when it pricked our souls or inner emotions to violate God's decrees. That was why Jesus died so we could

Walk in God's power, receive His nature, and live to do the same acts He did but only by God's Righteous Spirit on the earth.

As born again believers; we have received His grace and have to learn how to walk in it if; we intend to be people functioning in God's Kingdom. Where sin or un-righteous thinking flourishes in our lives, God gives more of His grace to offset this tendency. His grace is His Righteous Spirit. Let's get some spiritual discernment working here and finally recognize that, you can only sin if you are still thinking you need to be measuring up to religious traditions and following rules of obligation and garbage doctrines being influenced by the Devil. Since we are born again believers, we are no longer to live under laws. Therefore, we only sin when we go back under a law mentality. Being a Christian in the process of maturing is not a sinner, just because they are still messing their dippers in some area of life.

What happens when we sit under influences of right and wrong teachings of behavior, ingest in our minds and think in these terms? We come back under the law and we fall under God's judgments of breaking laws. This is a concept that non-saved people live under and at one time, we used to live under, but we are no longer since, we are born again believers. God's decrees of healthy thinking were set down by Him from the beginning of time. If we are ignorant of His plan of righteous thinking, our trust in Him is unstable. If you're in a church teaching this right and wrong concepts of life, run for your life and walk in the freedom God's gave you when you became His son or daughter.

9.) The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom and his tongue talks of judgment. The word for mouth is peh: meaning, as a means of blowing, to take sides with, two edged and to be spoken. We said righteousness was the blameless condition God sees in us. The word for speaks is hagah: meaning to ponder, imagine, to meditate or study. The word for wisdom is chokmah: meaning, being constantly learning and skilful in using wisdom. The word for tongue: is shonah: meaning an ingot, a fork or flame, a cove of water or a wedge. The word for talk is dabar: meaning, to appoint command, name, teach or subdue. The word for judgment is misrah: meaning, an empire and to govern and prevail as a prince.

Putting it all together and it is a mouthful to ingest, it reads. "We who are righteous; by knowing how to live in our righteousness in Christ; will be studying and meditating on God's word day and night. Our understanding of God will increase and we will know how to function in God's authority as a prince because, we are being trained by the Holy Spirit and are becoming molded into a vassal that can stand the heat of battle in our role to take back what the Devil has stolen." It is my hope that you are beginning to see that when we vacillate between looking at our self with a judgment eye verses our spotless condition as God sees us, it will be impossible to take our authority and do the works of Jesus on this earth. It is that old love limerick, He loves me; He loves me not that causes us to live in double mindedness.

In James 1:5-8 He states, "If any of you is lacking in Godly wisdom, let Him ask God who gives to everyone generously and without fault finding and he will receive it from Him." Unless we allow the Holy Spirit to deliver us from this faultfinding mentality with in our selves, we will continue to lack Godly wisdom because, we don't accept ourselves in our God righteous position. As I said, we are eternally righteous after being born again. However, we have to believe that we are, if we are going to function with God's power. It is us speaking and testifying the Holy Spirits thoughts that create a protected hedge around us as we travel in a Devil ordained atmosphere of being influenced by unrighteous thinking. God's thoughts and ways have to become ours.

An ignorant Christian; is unstable and in bondage to their fleshly desires, constantly leans toward their own understanding in living the Christian life. In John 5:24 Jesus states with great emphases "I most solemnly tell you, the person whose ears are open to my words, who listens to my message and believes and trusts on Him who sent me (possess now) eternal life. Because of this, he does not come into judgment and come under condemnation because; he has passed over out of death into life." Unless we, who are called to pass judgment, as a prince of God, on this planet and are proclaiming God's way of judging, we will be doing more cursing and bringing more death than life to others and ourselves.

10.) The law of God is in his heart and none of his steps shall slide." The word for law is torah: meaning, a precept, to teach or to inform. The word for heart is leb: meaning the center of everything, our intellect, will and emotions, or our mind. The word for steps as we have said is companionship on a daily basis. The word for slide is maad: meaning, made to not shake, slip or waver. Putting it all together, it reads. "If God's attitudes and feelings are being followed as we are having fellowship with Him on a daily basis. We will have the inspired confidence that we can succeed because, we know that God is true and someone that we can totally trust."

You will notice here that, this verse points out that what really counts is our relationship with Him. The word step is not us planning our own security and out-word manifestations of unrighteousness or righteousness works. Real security in one self with total independent thinking comes by, us hanging out with the Holy Spirit and letting Him point out to us how important and favored we are as God's children.

Our total focus is us knowing God, not from the benefits of knowing Him. This for me at times has become a trial that has me wrestling with myself of dying to self from taking care of my own needs rather then focusing on allowing God to love and take care of me. If any thing is desperately needed with in the body of Christ, it is us learning how to let go and let God love us. I have become convinced that God set a plan in order in the universe that, as we go through seasons of our lives, these seasons are there for us to discover His mercy and grace. Everything in life has His mark on it and leads us to Him.

In Psalms 38: David the King, who was a man after God's own heart, cries out to God from the depth of his own heart for His mercy and grace and God heard him.

When we know we have a heart like God's, it's only then that, we focus our attention and passion on finding him.

I will paraphrase King David's heart from the Hebrew interpretation as we go along. He states, "Lord don't let me feel like, you are disappointed and angry at me. Don't inflict physical or physiological pain on me but, keep a reasonable time limit on your discipline and temper your displeasure on me for what I have done. There is no soundness in my flesh because, I feel that you think I am worthless and I have no peace of mind with in me. My thoughts of my sinful behavior have become a heavy weight upon my mind and I cannot carry this load any more. I have become spell bound and am focusing on my black and blue marks of me beating myself up and hating my self because, I am depraved and have acted like a man who has no understanding of your ways.

I am depressed and am feeling sorry for myself to the point that my stomach is upset and I am physically sick. I am becoming weaker every day and I am complaining with in myself because I have nowhere to find peace of mind. Lord, I am being transparent as I can be before you and being as honest as I can be. I am not attempting to live in denial as to my condition. My hunger for you has not left me but, I am fearful that I can't continue to hunger after you because, I can't hear or see you working in my life any more. I am also being judged by everybody around me as being a sinful man. The people that I love, my family and friends tell me that, I deserve what I am getting from your hand and more is coming. However, I have learned from you how to not repay back an evil judgment for evil judgment. I did not reprove these people because, my hope is and only will be in your justifications of my behavior and it's in you alone that I trust.

If you do not deliver me from my predicament, they will be proven right in their judging of me because, my feet are slipping and I am wavering in my commitment to you. My only hope is in me casting my entire being on your mercy and grace. Because of my hunger for you, I am suffering for righteous sake. Please do not forsake me. Please hear me and hurry to my rescue."

David was a man after God's own heart. He had learned how to be honest and transparent with his thoughts in his conversations with the Lord. What we had here was a man vacillating between his struggles with his flesh verses his righteous position in God. This trial as human beings on this planet is for us to finally come to the end of trying to measure up to some standard of perfection and recognize that God has a higher opinion of us then we have of ourselves. David said he was spell bound. This is demonic in nature to deceive and stop us from receiving God's love. These trials of life are common to all. There was no judgment by God on David for him feeling he had failed in life because, he was putting judgment on himself and was being influenced to believe these were God's judgments.

The conditions that David was living in are the trials of maturity. All of us are being conditioned by God through these seasons of growth. If you can't say that to yourself, I need to tell you that you are living in prideful denial and unrighteous thinking. This condition is not having a heart that functions like God's heart. In turn, your steps cannot be ordered by the Lord. It is a matter of life or death to live constantly throwing our selves on the mercy of the court for independent thinking and continually looking to God for a higher wisdom then our own.

Independent thinking people know that, they are not obligated to love God, themselves or anyone else. They willingly want to.

In John 14:23, Jesus says, "If a person really loves me, he will keep my commandments." Blind obedience without love will maintain order, (but does nothing to enhance a loving relationship.) Blind obedience without recognizing its value is destined for failure.

Love gives the reason to obey and gives us value and worth. The hungering heart will seek with Passion the kingdom of God. The self-sufficient heart will grow restless in his walk with God.

In closing and I am having difficulty doing this because; I don't want to close. Walking in the spirit is not obeying doctrines of right and wrong. If scripture tells us that we have become a new creature in Christ the day we received Him into our heart, we must be taught how this new creature needs to thinks and operate. Our behavior changes as we experience the symbiotic love relationship with the Holy Spirit. Unless you come to realize the difference between the chastisements of the Holy Spirit verses you judging yourself by a standard of living with a spirit of obligation, you will continue being ashamed of your self and grabble before God not knowing your position as a kingdom person.

A healthy person is like David the King, who had freedom to come before God and state his case of doubt. This is a man who was hungering and thirsting after his righteous position in Christ. David by confessing his doubts and pain qualified him for greatness. David had no defense mechanisms or fig leaf mentality. His passion and hunger drove him to vent his feelings and allow God to wash him clean. Let's remember Jesus said "I can't help the ones who are self sufficient, but I have come to help the sick and needy."

It is us recognizing and having a deep seeded passion through necessity that makes us able to hear His steps.

In Matthew 6:33, Jesus tells us, "those that hunger and thirst after righteousness will come to completion and wholeness." Walking in obedience to this command is what causes our steps to be ordered by the Lord.