Are you More at Home in the World or in the Spirit?
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“The righteous redeemed remnant are completely at home in the Spirit away from the gravitational pulls of the flesh and the world””
The answer to this question is an indicator if we are truly ready and waiting for our Savior’s return and promised righteous Kingdom. “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.” (1 John 2:16) It is written, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” (1 Corinthians 15:50) Yahshua (Jesus) said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God … That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:3,6) Our Savior’s infinite love caused Him to sacrifice His life to redeem us out of the flesh, out of the world, to become a spiritual “new creation” that by Divine design is able to live in the holy atmosphere of the eternal Kingdom of Heaven. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
Those who are truly supernaturally “born again” “new creations" are filled with the Holy Spirit, the Helper, who gives the love, the grace, and the power that motivates them to gain an intimate relationship with their beloved Savior. (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 14:26) “[They] are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8) This is the righteous redeemed remnant who are spiritually alive; “their lives are hidden in Messiah” and they are completely at home in the Spirit away from the gravitational pulls of the flesh and the world. (Colossians 3:3) The earth and its inhabitants are under Satan’s dominion, the spiritually “born again” “new creations” are under the authority and rulership of Yahshua’s (Jesus’s) Spirit and they are “citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven.” (John 3:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Philippians 3:20)
“Our Savior pronounced a death warrant on our flesh nature, it is under arrest by holy decree””
Messiah said this of His righteous redeemed remnant, "They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.” (John 17:16) We must be supernatural spiritual beings to grow up and bear our Messiah’s holy identity that qualifies us to live in His Kingdom. As an analogy, a fish cannot live out of water, humans cannot live on the moon, and flesh and blood cannot live in the Kingdom of Heaven. Our Savior pronounced a death warrant on our flesh nature, it is under arrest by holy decree. He emphatically proclaimed, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, this is the one who will save it"” (Luke 9:23-24) “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41) The denying of the self is the dying process of the flesh and the flesh does not want to die, it has a strong survival instinct that wants to continually live. “For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another …” (Galatians 5:17) The flesh nature fights against the Spirit, the Holy Spirit in and through us compels us to “fight the good fight of faith” and “put to death the deeds of the flesh” by denying its desires and unruly nature that wants to be free to do whatever it wants. The big problem is, if we do not follow this basic fundamental mandate, we are walking in disobedience and rebellion that leads to denying Yahshua (Jesus) instead of denying the flesh. Ultimately, this will set us up to deny our Savior in the face of persecution and rejection that is prophesied by Yahshua (Jesus) to come our way inevitably, and even more so in these last days. (see John 15:20)
“Yahshua (Jesus) wants us to be one with Him in the Spirit as “He and the Father are one””
Those who truly have a consuming love for Yahshua (Jesus) must be surrendered and obedient to the Holy Spirit to be found ready, in an intimate union as one with their Savior Bridegroom. As it is written, “On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I in you.” (John 14:20) Yahshua (Jesus) wants us to be one with Him in the Spirit as “He and the Father are one.” (John 10:30)
“The true gospel message requires suffering and this is the primary reason, for centuries, that much of Christianity has been filled with apostate counterfeit believers who have chosen an easy grace gospel message, which is nothing less than a counterfeit deception of Satan that most people prefer. It allows the self pleasing flesh to remain in dominion over their lives””
Yahshua (Jesus) was a suffering Savior and those who want to follow Him must be suffering servants. He said, “Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.” (John 13:16) We have to learn “to walk as our Savior walked” and “although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered.” (1 John 2:6, Hebrews 5:8) “For to you it has been granted for Messiah’s [Christ’s] sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf, …” (Philippians 1:29) So if you discredit this foundational requirement as important and pertinent to your walk, then you are following a counterfeit Yahshua (Jesus) and a counterfeit gospel message and it is the “broad path that leads to destruction.” (Matthew 7:13) The path of our Savior is narrow, the other path, indulging the flesh is the broad path that the people of the world take and the counterfeit believers are filling this path up, while singing hymns to Yahshua (Jesus) the whole way. The true gospel message requires suffering and this is the primary reason, for centuries, that much of Christianity has been filled with apostate counterfeit believers who have chosen an easy grace gospel message, which is nothing less than a counterfeit deception of Satan that most people prefer. It allows the self pleasing flesh to remain in dominion over their lives.
“ If we don’t discipline ourselves, then our Heavenly Father will discipline us so that we will learn to no longer give in to the flesh and it’s stubborn inclinations. It is written that “stubbornness is the same as idolatry.””
Yahshua (Jesus) is to have His rightful dominion over our purchased, redeemed, and surrendered lives, as we faithfully learn to walk under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We need to keep drawing close to Yahveh, reading and meditating on His word, and denying our selves to follow Yahshua (Jesus), our one true love. You have to lose your identity in the natural to gain your identity in the Spirit. If we are not firmly established in biblical truth, with a wholehearted desire to walk in surrendered obedience following our Savior, then inevitably we will swerve off the “narrow path” of righteousness and “fall from our secure position” in the Holy Spirit with Yahshua (Jesus). (2 Timothy 2:18, Matthew 7:14, 2 Peter 3:17) The Holy Spirit gives us the grace, discernment, and the power to say, ‘No’ to the flesh as a parent would say, ‘no’ to a spoiled unruly child. If we don’t discipline ourselves, then our Heavenly Father will discipline us so that we will learn to no longer give in to the flesh and its stubborn inclinations. It is written that “stubbornness is the same as idolatry.” (1 Samuel 15:23)
Yahshua (Jesus) proclaimed, “…let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one [Satan].” (Matthew 5:37) Messiah is saying we need to be so established in His word, will, and under the control of the Holy Spirit, so that we are using the power and authority in His name to say, ‘Yes’ to our God, ‘Yes' to our Savior, and ‘Yes’ to the Holy Spirit and ‘No’ to our own flesh and ‘No’ to other people’s flesh and ‘No’ to the enticements and standards of this temporary world. There is no in-between, anything in-between is compromise because one is light, one is dark, one is holy, one is unholy. Feed the Spirit and starve the flesh, no wiggle room. The flesh has to be silenced and put in its proper place under the rulership of the Holy Spirit. It is called the “fruit of self control.” (Galatians 5:23) It is impossible for the flesh to counterfeit the fruits of the Spirit and the fruit of the Spirit is the only way we can glorify our Heavenly Father, which is what Yahshua (Jesus) in us, by His Spirit, longs to do.
“Yahveh our God is going to make a marked distinction at the end of the age between those who serve Him and those who do not””
There is a necessity to know the will of Yahveh by being in His word and finding out what pleases Him so we can do it. If we don’t have that baseline and foundation we won’t have any way to recognize that we are walking in opposition to the truth, which is what the flesh does by nature. When Yahshua (Jesus) comes it will not be good for us if He finds us in the flesh, in the world, and out of His Spirit. Messiah is crying out, “Flee the world that I lovingly and passionately gave My life to deliver you out of! Don’t go back or you will be under the same judgments as the people of the world who never knew Me.” We must ask ourselves, “Who am I serving? If you are not serving Yahveh you are serving self and the world. Yahveh our God is going to make a marked distinction at the end of the age between those who serve Him and those who do not. (see Malachi 3:18)
