Who among us is there, who seriously wants to know about life as it should be? Who is he/she, who doesn’t want to just be consoled about what he knows or thinks about him/herself, but rather, is out for knowledge on what his/her real self is, why it is, how it should be applied, and what one will achieve as the end result? Are you one of them? If yes, then you are right here receiving that information. If you want to understand it thoroughly well, then, assume you are hearing about yourself and life for the first time- Mat.18:3. Set yourself free and read like one who is readily seeking to know and not to defend what one knows already. After getting all the information herein, come back to yourself and compare what you know about yourself with what the author says, then judge for yourself and go for what is true and right, correcting and changing yourself where necessary. With this said, let’s go to it please. We are a very busy generation. Everyone is seriously planning and executing the plans in an effort to establish for him/herself a comfortable, leisurous, and excitement-filled peaceful living.
Now, if we may critically wonder; what is it that we want to achieve by attaining these desired qualities? Yes, after acquiring comfort, leisure, excitement and peace, what do we want to use them for? I ask, if it were possible, and we find our lives having all that we desire, what will be next? In other words, what are we living for? Brethren and friends, it’s not sensible to believe in a creator-God, and to believe that the records in the bible are his own spoken words put in writing, and that they are His given-manual for our learning, reproving, correcting , for our training in what is right, so that we may be complete and fully equipped in good doing-2 Tim.3:16-17; Prov.3:1-3,16, and then after that, we go ahead and reject those instructions, and instead, we deduce for ourselves, imagined ways from our sensual thoughts-Mark.7:8-9. Am here addressing those who acknowledge God and his word ( the bible).
So, if we acknowledge Him and His word, it means, we will do nothing outside what He teaches us. If you don’t harbour this acknowledgement, please, this message is not for you. So now, what does God say we should live for, which is the key reason for all our daily struggles? To begin with, lets bear in mind this very vital point, that, man doesn’t have the power to produce knowledge; that his mind can only store as its knowledge, what it acquires from without- 1 Cor.2:12; or, Eph.2:2. The above quoted verses are talking about two different sources of knowledge from which, man can choose and apply it for all his living arrangements, and the knowledge he chooses is the one that determines, what one will live for, yes, which goal one will pursue for a destiny. But, how come there are two sources of knowledge, and we know of only one creator, who alone gives life to all things-Job.12:10?Where does the alternative knowledge come from?
MADE OF TWO DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
Who among us, and according to God’s-given information, knows that, in this physical life, we have two differing and opposive systems operating in us? Please my friends and brethren, I am speaking some wisdom, which can’t be found in any institution of this present age-1 Cor.2:6. It can’t be found in schools; the world leaders know nothing about it-1 Cor.2:8; scientists and the most technologically-advanced men have no idea what it is; even the so called churches who carry the bible everywhere they go have never heard of it. The creator-God and Him alone has it, and He teaches it from no other place except the bible. This is why I begun to say; please, empty yourself of any harboured knowledge before you read this, so that you may go through it without any contradicting thought, and God will give you understanding.
Back to point please. It is God who created us with these two systems in us. What for? God is a spirit, and He wants a man who is like Him-Gen.1:26. But from what we are now, it is a believable truth that, man’s creation is not instantaneous, but a process (see details in our message, “Man’s creation process”). We are here saying that, the physical beings we are now is the first stage in that process. But why the process? What is wrong with an instant creation?Know and understand for sure that, we can’t be gods if we don’t freely choose to be. Yes, we can’t be gods if we don’t see the goodness, the greatness, the mightiness, and the perfection in godliness, which is more valuable than anything else. This I say because, man goes for what is greater and more valuable.
Christ confirms this through the parable of the hidden treasure-Mat.13:44. This man had a farm which was to him very valuable. But after discovering another one with an hidden treasure, the one he valued most became less valuable and so, he sold it to get the more valuable one. Friends, we are talking about how one arrives at choosing to be like God more than anything else. It’s not possible until one sees some value in it which supersedes the alternative way. God created the two different systems in us because at the time he was creating Adam, the two were at work on the earth. Excuse me please. Where did the other system come from, and life is only from God alone?
THE CREATION-GROUND
When God was creating man, Satan was already ruling the earth, applying a so-called knowledge which rejects God’s life ( see more in our message, “why the physical bodies?”). Therefore, it is Satan who brought about the second system- Gen.3:4-6; Jerem.16:19, which our creator, who alone has knowledge tells us that, those who choose it will achieve death-Gen.2:17. It is because of this Satanic intervention, that, God created us in these physical bodies, which He made in that opposive nature of Satan- Gal.5:17; Rom.8:7,3; and one which, anybody who chooses God’s system of life must oppose and cruciy-Gal.5:24; Mat.16:24. So, this physical bodies we have are the creation-ground in which our choices are being established (whether the godly or, the Satanic one), with the body displaying them as our behaviours.
It is in the mind where the knowledge acquired from the system of choice is stored. So let everyone, for confirmation sake, read this message with a sincere-heart-searching aim, searching the mind to fully be sure of, what is stored there as knowledge, which is what one applies to live the way they do. So, for God to go into the second stage of creating man ( which is spiritual), man must choose against what Satan introduced. It is with this in mind that God is telling us:I want to make you a spirit being like me. But I won’t force it on you. This physical being you are now, is my starting point. There is Satan here, with his deceitful suggestions-Gen.2:17, and they are very appealing to the flesh. So, before I continue with my process of making you a spirit being, you have to tell me if you freely like it- Deut. 30:15-17-deduced from Gen.2:16-17. If you don’t like it, I will let you live according to the flesh as instructed by Satan, and you will destroy yourself and die-Gen.2:17, for the flesh takes no pleasure in life-Rom.8:6. But if you want to be like me, as it is my desired purpose for creating you, I will create you to completion, thus making you a spirit being-Deut.30:15; 1 Cor.15:53; Phil.3:21, and you will live forever with me- 1 John.2:25. What are we saying here? God has set the two systems before us, giving details of the direction of each one, and He is now waiting for us to choose. Which one will you take, or, have taken already?
THE PHYSICAL SYSTEM
Brethren and friends, know and understand that the word of God is the very life in which we are created, and in which, our further creation will take place, for, in the word is life, and this life is the light of man-John.1:4; Prov.4:22; 3:16. But this physical body is opposive to that life- the word-Rom.8:7. How then do we live and we are right now made of it? The answer is, we will live according to our choice, this physical body being one of them, and which God advises us not to go for-Deut.30:19.The life of this present world in which we live is the physical system-Eph.2:2. We are no longer talking about Adam. God is talking to you and me. The body is an instrument of the heart-occupying spirit- Mat.12:34-35. The world has chosen to live by this system, as taught by Satan.
Know therefore and understand please, that this system, though physically complete, was established on a foundation which is the greatest lie ever told in the entire universe, and neither will there ever be another of its kind, the lie that, because all that we need for this physical life is available, and it is the only life we need to live, then we are also complete, we are in need of nothing except for, to establish and uphold its standards. In summary, it’s the lie that,“ you are like God-Gen.3: 5”. Here, instead of learning from our creator, we chose to take a lie, and from that moment, we did away with our maker. Does God need help in anything, from any one? Surely no. So also, after accepting this lie, we live independently and plan our own lives, in the futility of our darkened ignorant minds-Eph.4:17-18.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS
If then, this system is our life-choice, what are we pursuing and where will that take us? Yes, what are we living for? The physical was created with its delicacies. We are wonderfully made. We have the senses of taste, of appreciation, of admiration. We are made with the ability to rejoice, be excited, get entertained and feel good. Now because we are cut off from knowledge, and these qualities are in us, then we ignorantly engage in them for our own destruction, which is what Satan wants, for his aim is, to steal, kill, and destroy-John.10:10; 8:44. Since it’s a lie,( because we are truly not gods) every time we apply it, assuming to get the good, we get the bad-Isa.59:8-11; 24:6.
If we have been observant, we have discovered that, the body agrees with Satan without any struggle. God made it in that Satanic nature, for our training sake. He tells us, it is a body of sin and death-Rom.7:24; an enemy of the truth-Rom.8:7; and one that we need to crucify-Gal.5:24. Moses calls these physical delicacies, the fleeting pleasures of sin-Heb.11:25, because though they are good and sweet, if applied outside God’s instructions, they destroy. Look at it please. There is nothing more joyous and entertaining like sex. It is God who ordained it, and it is very good once applied according to God’s purpose. The physical mind knows it as an entertainment, and leisure-giving activity. Look at alcohol, and wine. It is very refreshing and gladdening, and it is God who gave it to mankind-psalm.104:15. In the same way, the physical knows it for joy-getting,So, in an effort to have that joy always, one becomes a drunkard. Think of anything physical, and you will find that, what we experience after using them is good. But why in most cases, are the after-effects, very negative and destructive?
Sex done outside God’s instructions is the biggest breaker of marriages, and cause of disorder in families. It’s the cause of all wrangles and fights and murders in families which has made the raring of children to be impossible, and so, the product is, the present chaotic and violent generation, because that is what they see and learn from their parents. Look at the efforts of owning wealth which God created for us to enjoy- 1 Tim.6:17; how it is bringing about, swindling, stealing, robbing, murdering and all sorts of life-destroying actions. Look at wine, and how it has destroyed the family social life, making a people who should be one, to become great strangers, living as though they were caught by force and put in a single cell. In general, trying to show to be gods, people hate, get angry, fear, fight in an effort to dominate, to get recognised, get feared, be supported, name any physical greatness. All these because, instead of allowing God to continue with what he begun, which is the physical we are, and is the very creation-ground, we detached ourselves from the process.
Every time we deal according to the physical, we are away from God, and away from knowledge and life, meaning we are destroying ourselves-2 Cor.5:6. Yes, every time we deal according to the physical, we obey the law of sin, thus abiding by this physical system-Rom.7:25. So, against knowledge, what is it that we will achieve by pursuing the physical? Since the physical, the very ground where the advanced creation should take place has been overthrown by Satan, and he is a murderer and a destroyer, then what we will achieve as the end-result is death, for, if you live according to the flesh, you will die-Rom.8:12. This is what the independent, self-relying human beings are pursuing, and is what the physical system is poised at. Is there any hope then?
THE SPIRITUAL SYSTEM
Even though it is God who created us in this physical, He had a good purpose for it, and this is what the gospel of Christ is about. After assuming the physical life to be all that we live for, and assuming we know how to run it, we have ended up in a very chaotic, violent and life-destroying way of living. But Christ is here proclaiming a hope-giving information. Listen to what He is saying. Come to me all you are weary and heavy-laden, and learn from me, and I will give you rest, yes- you will find rest for your souls-Mat.11:28-29. For whoever lives and believes in me shall never die, for he who hears my word and believes Him who sent me has eternal life-John.11:26;5:24. Isn’t this what everybody is looking for, a peaceful endless life? But because we believed a lie about ourselves, and are applying it, thinking it will lead us to this life and peace, we have remained to wonder whether life is worthy living.
God is love.
He created us in that love, to be like Him-Gen.1:26. Since from the beginning, God’s purpose is to make man a spirit being, then, this physical life should be lived the spiritual way. So the body should be the instrument of training and practising the spiritual- Rom.12:1-2.For this to be possible, a change of knowledge on how to do it must take place, meaning, a change of the indwelling spirit which inspires the knowledge must also take place. Pushed by the desire to make man what He created him for, He is here in Christ, opening the minds of as many as would want to understand themselves, and therefore enjoy the loving good life in which they were created.
Do you want to understand? Read and follow keenly please. What we are calling a spiritual system, is actually the true life which if applied, allows God to perpetrate His creation process, from where He left it after man chose against it. As usual, He will not force anyone to it. We must individually choose it before He can continue with His creation work. This is what He is reminding men who would love life. I am your creator. I am the Lord your God; who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go. If only you obeyed my commands, and heeded to my voice, then your peace would flow like a river, and your right-doing, like the waves of the sea-Isa.48:17-18. Is this what you want? If yes, what you are reading here is the needed information. Apply it and you will be right there. Let’s now get into the system please. As we said, this physical body is the creation-ground. It is the instrument of practice, which displays the system which one chooses, whether the life-giving, or the life-destroying. Where do we begin then?
BEING MADE GODS
If we will understand, and benefit from what God in Christ is teaching us, we must first accept that we are not gods, that we accepted a lie-Jerem.16:19, and so, we must put off all that we have as knowledge, and start from Zero-Eph.4:22; Mat.18:3. After that, we must be aware of the two systems contending for our minds, with each continually passing some information and, with you having to choose the one to listen to- Rom.7: 23. Now that we have chosen God’s information, let’s know nothing else about ourselves apart from what He will tell us. Let’s start. Even though God wants a spirit man like Himself, He has decided to make him so through a process.
Christ, the only example of what we will become, is the word of God- Rev.19:13; John.1:1-3. What do we understand from this? If in this physical lives, we will live rightly, then, we must know that, we are the word of God-in the making, for in the same way Christ is the Rock, a living corner-stone- 1 Cor.10:4; 1 Peter. 2:6, so also, those who have chosen God’s system are living stones, being built into spiritual houses- 1 Pet.2:5. By being built, it means that, right know, we are not ourselves. What do we liken our present selves with? Yes, what are we in this physical bodies? ( our message, “ who are you?” has more information). We are like a house being built, which the builder has the end picture of what it will look like once completed. Though the picture of the completed house is there, it doesn’t mean the house is already built. A construction process will take place before we come to what we see in that picture.
Brethren and friends, am talking about us human beings. From the bible, we have the full picture of who God is and what He looks like. He is our picture, of what we will be once completed, for,we will be like Him- 1 John.3:2-3; Phil.3:21. But right now, we are not yet there. So, being a construction in progress, we can’t position ourselves in anyway. Those who were before us understood it, and so acknowledged that, in this physical, we are nothing-Gal.6:3; a mere shadow; a passing mist-James.4:14. So, what are we now, and how should we live to be on the right path?
GOD’S WORD
Christ came to set us an example of what we are, what we should be doing as living, and what we will become after it all. As we have seen, He is the word of God. God tells us, in Christ, all things were created, and in Him, all things hold together-Col.1:16-17. What are we saying here? We are nothing else apart from the word of God. If we have to live, we have to be the word, for, in it is life, and the light of man-John.1:4. The picture of what we will become is God who is spirit. Therefore, though physical now, we don’t know ourselves as, or conduct ourselves in, the physical way-2 Cor.10:3-5. This is because, we are not yet what we were created to be, and if we make a mistake of knowing ourselves according to the flesh, the physical, we get blind as to what we are meant to be and so, we disconnect ourselves from the process, which makes us to feel at home in the now-life, and so, we see no need to become anything else.
God has shown us clearly through Christ that this physical stage is strictly a training ground and so, it shouldn’t be our aim of living, for which reason, we neither uphold, nor defend it, but instead, because we are the word of God like Christ, then we hold the body captive to obey what we are, that is, the word- 2 Cor.10:5; Gal.5:24.Since we have the picture of the building we will become once finished, until we become it, we have nothing else between here and then to abide with, neither do we have a resting place. All that we know about ourselves, and is what we strive never to lose is, living the word, because it is what we are made of, yes, what we are- nothing else. Our witnesses are telling us, brethren and beloved of God, as aliens and strangers, abstain from passions of the flesh, for they wage war against the spirit (against the word which is ,we)-1 Pet.2:11. Why aliens? For we were not created for this flesh on which the present world is build after accepting a lie- 1 John.2:17. Being in the construction process, and being ones who are geared at a glittering glorious spirit life, we are likened with those who are on their way to some place, who can’t rest until they get to their destination.
Our witnesses continue to furnish this proof when they say, for we do not have a lasting city (bodies), but are seeking for the one to come from heaven- Heb.13:14; 2 Cor.5:1. What we are saying here is, in God’s system, everything is what God’s word says, and can only operate in the word which is spirit-John.6:63. This is why, though in the flesh, we force it to live and walk in the spirit, in the word, for the word is our life- Gal. 5:25; prov.4:22. The Church is a people in a spiritual womb, in that process of developing, in readiness to be born-Gal.4:26. So, being the word of God, there is nothing else we live for, or defend and uphold, except that word, apart from which, we know nothing and have no value for life. Once we do and uphold the word, we will be upholding, even the physical bodies, for they are built in that word.
GOD’S WORK
Can a building construct itself? Does it know how the constructor is going about building it? If no, then, there we are. It is God who is creating us, for, we are His building, His workmanship, being created to be made gods- 1 Cor.3:9; Eph.2:10; Col.3:10. In so many verses, God clearly tells us how it is impossible to live the now-life by ourselves-psalm.127:1-2; John.15:5. For this reason, having accepted to be His word, and knowing nothing else apart from what the word says, then, we don’t question it when it commands. By the word- psalm.33:6, and by doing what it says, God is furthering our creation. Therefore, we don’t think, or wonder what happens, what loses or gains we get after obeying it, for we cant know how God is creating us and what He is using to do so, apart from what He tells us in that word- prov.3:5; 19:23;Jerem.10:22;18:1-6.To those whom He is further creating, He has put his spirit in their hearts, which is His word in action- Heb.4:12; John.6:63. Now, this spirit is against the flesh and the flesh against it- Gal.5:17.By it, God is in us doing the creation work-Phil.3:12, and as long as the spirit is working, the flesh is captivated with its desires and suggestions.
So it becomes an instrument of displaying ( not its evil desires) righteousness- Rom.6:19. As we saw previously, the flesh is an instrument of whichever system we choose to live by. Each system is determined by the spirit that occupies our hearts-James.3:9-12; Mat.15:19-20. Brethren, this message is talking about a new chapter in those who aspire to live in the spirit and so be accomplished in God’s creation-plan. A great darkness has covered the church of God as I write now, and almost all of us are asleep, and they are not aware that they are spiritually sleeping. We have all the knowledge of God’s word, which should be us, and our lives. When we meet in fellowship, we share it so well with each contributing rightly. But whenever a circumstance arises for us to practise that word, and confirm our faith in it, we put it aside, and go back to the self-centred way of handling issues. Though we now have the full information through the word, we do according to, the another word(law), which is of the physical system-Rom.7:23.
It does everything with self-concern in mind. It even uses God’s word in fellowship, in arguments, even in doing things, with self-saving in mind. This is why the today’s fellowships have become a place for show, not for the purposed edification of one another. What does this mean? The church has found some value in the self- Gal.3:3, which means, the lie of Eden, that of being something ( a god) has returned into our thinking. So, with all the truth, but allowing the self to take the stage of our hearts, we are using the word of God for self-gain, be it for exaltation, or even for, merchandise. For this reason, we have made the word to be of no power by talking about it while what we do is of the flesh, denying Christ once again.Let me be frank with you friends, as long as this is our condition, let no body deceive themselves that he/she will enter the kingdom of God. We are practising in totality, what can only make us self-righteous, which has nothing to do with what God is creating in us-Rom.10:1-3. The new chapter is about us, waking up from this sleep, to rise from the dead, that Christ may give us light-Eph.5:14. It is only those who will know themselves as God’s word, who will strive with the help of God’s spirit, to live it, and it is them who will be made spirit beings, and who will meet Christ in the air when He comes to rule over the whole world. Remember what He told Pilate, which is why we were born, and why we are in this life.
We are kings, and it is for this kingship that we were born, and are in this life now to develop the life of that kingdom, as we become a testimony of it to mankind ( I am putting it my way)- John.18:37. Christ is here telling whoever will believe, that there is no other purpose for this physical life except for, to train in godliness, being the process by which God is creating us to make us spirit beings.His unchanging desire is that, He makes us spirit beings and have us rule over the earth, and lastly, over the entire universe, after we have become His spirit-sons and daughters- Gen.1:26; Heb.2:5-12.This brethren is the new chapter which is, the going back to the faith which was given once and for all to the saints. Who has ears? Let’s hear and wake up, for the dawn draws very near. How Christ, with the same love that He had on the cross, is not resting, continually sounding the alarm in that desire that we all be there, when the saints go marching in!
wonderful truth.