When one responds to Abba
YHVH’s Love, going to His Throne
naked and alone, to turn all that he has over to His Creator and in
return is filled with His Set Apart Spirit, has this man changed?
The answer to this question depends on whether one is looking at the
flesh or the spirit.
In the flesh, this man most certainly has changed.
The Truth has set him free!
Free from the bonds of the ruler of this world.
Free to pursue the Perfect Truth of his Creator.
As such, he most likely no longer attends the church he was
once a part of, for unfortunately, the Truth he is seeking cannot be
found there in these latter days.
As he continues to seek his Creator with his whole heart, he
spends time with Him in His Word, following His Set Apart Spirit
into all Truth. This man
may no longer devote his precious time to some of the activities
that he once enjoyed, for the closeness he is experiencing with his
Creator far surpasses any momentary pleasure gained from these
former pursuits. As this
man continues to learn the Truth, many of the traditions that he
innocently practiced in the flesh are revealed for the vulgar
abominations that they are, and his love for his Creator prohibits
him from participating in these s@t%nic forms of worship.
As he begins to share His Truth and Life More Abundantly, that is
found by all who undertake this wonderful
journey, with those around him, some, who he once considered
friends, even close friends, begin to hear His Truth and rebel, no
longer eager to be in his presence.
It is as if he somehow has betrayed those whom he has loved
for all these years.
This man realizes that those who are rebelling are not rebelling
against him, but against His Word.
It is they who have chosen to distance themselves from
him, not he from them.
But has this man REALLY changed?
Was man’s flesh born of his spirit, or was man’s spirit born
of his flesh?
Bereshit (Genesis) 1:26-27 And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…”
And Elohim created the man in his image, in the image of
elohim He created him – male and female He created them.
Bereshit 2:7 And
YHVH
Elohim formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into
his nostrils the breath of life.
And the man became a living being.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 48:13 “My hand has also
laid the foundations of the earth, and My right hand has spanned the
heavens: when I shout, they all stand up together.”
Tehillim (Psalms) 82:6-7 I, I said, “You are
elohim, and all of you are sons of the Most High.
But as men you die…”
Yohanan (John) 10:34-36 Yahoshua
answered them, “Is it not written in your
own Torah, ‘I said, “You are elohim”’?
If He called them elohim, to whom the word of Elohim came –
and it is impossible for the Scripture to be broken – do you say of
Him whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are
blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of Elohim’?
His Word clearly shows that man’s spirit was with Him from before
the beginning of creation.
Man was made in the image and likeness of his (man’s) own
spirit, not the image and likeness of His Spirit!
Man in the flesh is an exact representation of the angel that
he is in Heaven. As promised in Bereshit 1:26-27, He also made
Himself in His Own Spirit, and we know Him in this form as our
Messiah – Yahoshua.
Remember that the earth was created to cast s@t%n out of Heaven –
Yeshayahu 14. His Love
has placed us on this earth for His Good Pleasure.
As we go about His Business, the calling being without
repentance (remember Jonah?), we have but one simple choice to make
– whom will we follow
– our Creator who placed us here for His Good Pleasure, or s@t%n,
the ruler of this world.
It is with His Love for us that he gives us this choice,
testing us and allowing us to be tested along the way, so that when
those who have chosen to follow Him have their veil lifted on the
Eighth Day, we can be confident that we have passed the test and
therefore will not have to walk on eggshells for the rest of
eternity, wondering when we would also be cast out of His Glorious
Presence.
So when this man responds to his Creator’s Love, THIS MAN HAS NOT
CHANGED! He has simply
taken the first steps on a lifelong journey, lead by His Set Apart
Spirit, to reveal to this man’s flesh that which his spirit has
known since before Bereshit (the Beginning).
Dale