To accomplish the goal of making it through to the end of our journey of faith in Christ Jesus, we must:

-Surrender and take up our cross daily (die to our flesh = don't obey it)

-Feed on Christ in the New Covenant: His body and blood, and be washed by the water the flows from His side

-Remain crucified with Christ in prayer and in meditating upon His word to spiritually seek, find and know Him...in order to be changed in the ongoing born again process of our faith.

Passages:

John 3:3-7

1 Peter 1:23

Matthew 19:27-28

John 8:31

Matthew 15:8-9

Colossians 2:23

Galatians 2:18-21

The weight of this question falls heavily on the American church that calls herself 'The Body of Christ'. We are called to duty to test all spirits to determine whether or not they are truly from God.

Jesus set His face to go to Jerusalem to be delivered into the hands of religious, self-honoring men and be crucified...men who thought they knew God and were doing His will, but were in the throws of darkness. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross destroyed man's inevitable tendency to bring honor to himself (worship his own righteous image or form of godliness). A true disciple of Christ will surely face the spirit of antichrist that promotes the honoring of oneself that is pervasive in mankind. Jesus said, "Fear not, for I have overcome the world (the self-honoring spirit from the wicked one that seeks to kill, steal and destroy the kingdom of God.).

Passages:

Luke 9:41-62

Luke 10:1-20

1 John 2:12-29

1 John 4:1-8

John 9

Isaiah 40 & 41

John 1:12-17

Matthew 7:20-29; 17:17-21

Genesis 2:17; 3:5

Mark 4:36-41

Luke 8:5-18

Romans 10:4-17

John 16:6

Mark 16:15-20

This is our Sunday conversation for March 28, 2021. 

We read out of:

Proverbs Ch 4 and Ch 8

Matthew Ch 6 (Ch 24 is mentioned)

Daniel Ch 7

2 Corinthians Ch 10

Passages for studying about the 7 eyes or 7 spirits of God:

Proverbs Ch 1-8

Zechariah Ch 3

Revelation Ch 1-4

Daniel Ch 2:14-23

Ephesians Ch 1

Colossians Ch 1

The book of John has the Light of Jesus - the 7 eyes - woven throughout it's passages, in John's account of Jesus' working of miracles and in His teachings that He did to bring forth the kingdom of God upon the earth, which are the souls of men coming into the true knowledge of God, through faith in Him to be born again within by His 7 eyes or 7 spirits from above.

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In John 3:5 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again (of the cleansing water of the word of God and of the Spirit sent from above), he cannot see the kingdom of God.

There was no force of interrogation directed at Nicodemus that came out from Jesus. There was no attempt by Jesus to coerce or question him into making a right decision concerning Nicodemus having the knowledge (or spiritual vision) himself on how to gain entrance into the kingdom of God. Nicodemus’ interest and decision-making was all up to him according to his own willingness. This is a big part of the liberty of Christ that often gets overlooked. Nicodemus was free to take or leave Jesus' offer to freely receive life from God by the Spirit via the New Covenant of grace. (Note: The grace of God is received by way of the believer coming into direct, spiritual covenant with the Creator, not through adopting a proud theologian’s flawless, mind-crafted and man-beloved thesis work known as ‘the doctrines of grace’.)

The urge to become a member of Christ’s New Covenant way, or the order of the 7 spirits of God, has to come from within the person with ears to hear who will receive the revelation and prompting of the Spirit; not by a theological set of salvation steps or a soul-crafted gospel presentation of man’s polished words, and not by the pressurized urge of an evangelist or of one witnessing “in the name of the Lord.” Jesus is the Prince of peace because He and those of His kingdom do not operate by a compelling force, nor by a persuasiveness of fear, and neither by witchcrafts to seduce souls (as it is with false brethren and false evangelists who seek to find those who will obey THEIR words, thus making “converts” that are twice the sons of hell.).

When Jesus told Nicodemus, “marvel not that I said unto you...”, I believe He was instructing Nicodemus not to handle the word of God just spoken to him using the mere intellectual fascination of the scribes and Pharisees; something that had been ingrained in him in his temple upbringing and tradition training. Paul in 1 Corinthians 8 says this manner of knowledge puffs a person up with hidden pride because it comes from a source other than the Lord. (Truth be told, it comes from the kingdom of the god of this world.)

In John 2:23, it says many believed in His name (in who He was). Many believed that Jesus was indeed the Messiah or Christ sent by God. But what they had yet to understand was that in their act of believing (or in their faith), they were not just called to be mere admirers of Jesus and His works. They were called to have an open heart toward God in order to receive His word within them, directly from Him by the Spirit to become like Him in being born again or born from above. The ultimate intent or fulfilling purpose of Jesus was for His future followers to continue His works on the earth (ex: the removal of satan's influence from the earth) in behalf of Him (in His name): His kingdom come. We are called by the Spirit of the Lord to take up our cross (die to our flesh and our earthly generational ways) and enter into life in Christ Jesus and into the progressive and productive course of sojourning with the Creator from now on.

In John 2:25, Jesus did not commit himself to the temple order of the religious Jews, to take part in their religious system of indoctrinating men - one that uses the content of the scriptures to indoctrinate people intellectually. The problem or error in man’s way of intellectual indoctrination or abiding in temple order religion is 1- it’s not of faith and 2- it spiritually alters the word of God in the hearer. It becomes polluted by the intent of man. This renders the presentation void of the power and authority of heaven that’s vital for a person to become a true child of God who worships the Father in Spirit and in truth. (Think being seminary trained vs receiving revelation knowledge by the Spirit of the Lord.). The religious - those in Jesus’ time as well as man-indoctrinated Christians of today - may refer to themselves as God’s people, but in truth are likely bound in demonic spiritual darkness outside of the kingdom of God. First person fellowship between the Creator and the individual gets replaced with the doctrines of men and rendered spiritually cut off from God by the very system or religious order itself, the organization that proudly proclaims to be in the business of winning souls!

In John Ch 4, Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well also had a conversation. The woman more or less led the discussion with her keen interest to know who Jesus really was. Notice that in the course of their conversation (and the Lord's evangelism), that Jesus asked her zero questions - again, no interrogation! The woman's own rising faith and a heart to accept the truth fueled her quickened spiritual pursuit of God, as well as her own evangelism soon after!

The sin that John the Baptist spoke in John 1 was the sin which the Lamb of God would take away from the world. This sin is the unpersuadable force of iniquity (see Strong’s G545 - contumacious) and a hardened heart that the religious Jews manifested against Jesus and His followers. The Pharisees were unpersuadable because they did not want Jesus to be the Messiah unless He submitted to them and honored them in their earthly, wealth-seeking temple order that fleeced those of whom they “served”, while at the same time failed to bring the Jewish nation into the true and life-bringing, soul-saving knowledge of God.

With all of this laid out before us, there’s little doubt that the American evangelical church has a huge internal problem that must be divinely dealt with...and the hour is at hand!

(This episode is the audio from The Creator's Pearl FB Live on 02/28/21.)