Weapon of spiritual warfare

Course XII: Weapons Of Our Warfare

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First we must understand the kingdoms of this world and the god of this world system.

2 Corinthians 2:11 says,

So that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

The progression of Lucifer, Satan and the devil

Lucifer in the Garden of Eden as tempter:

Ezekiel 28:13-17 says,

“You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.  “You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering:

The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you.  On the day that you were created they were prepared.  “You were the anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you there.  You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.  “You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until unrighteousness was found in you.  “By the abundance of your trade you were internally filled with violence,

and you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane from the mountain of God.  And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.  “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.  I cast you to the ground."

The fear of the Lord is the start of Wisdom.  Lucifer was lifted with pride in the splendor of looks.  This caused the decay of Wisdom or fear of God.  Satan thought that he could be like God.  Genesis 3 says, Lucifer told Eve that she could eat the tree with the result of God likeness.  Really this is what Lucifer wanted to control mankind and hold God to His unchangeable character to judge man according to His promise.  They ate the tree and Lucifer took authority as the god of this world system.  Adam and Eve were created on the sixth day and they had their first children around one hundred and twenty.  This is when the transgression took place time wise from the 6th day to one hundred twenty years.

God told Adam that he has authority over the Earth.  Adam is a type of the Second Adam which means that the authority is really for Jesus to come.  Lucifer takes the authority from Adam in the fall.  Satan is known as the god of this world system and the prince and the power of the air at this point. Palms 94:20 says, Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?  The throne of iniquity is operating using the Law to judge.  What happens one the sin is committed.  God cursed the ground, mankind and the serpent (Seraphim).  God took the Garden of Eden off the Earth.

The Garden was comprised of three compartments:

The Holy of Holies or the place of the throne

The Holy place or Abraham's bosom in the Earth as the compartment of souls trusting the Gospel prior to the cross

The Outer court or hades also known as the world outside the gate of the temple

Luke 16 says, that Lazarus went to the holding place and the rich man went to hades. There was a great gulf fixed to where no one could pass from one place to the other. When Jesus goes into the Earth for three days it is in Abraham's bosom to lead them on into the spirit realm when He rises (Ephesians 4:8-10).

These are all the Old Testament saints that found grace looking to the Gospel prior to the cross.  Once mankind sinned,

What To Expect As New Christian

Course VIII: What To Expect As New Christian

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Luke 9:23-24 says,

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

This is to reject yourself in this nature of sin to kill it through turning away from your life to turn to take the new life in Jesus.  Taking the cross is spiritual regeneration into the crucifixion of Jesus and rising with God in the likeness of the resurrection.  You remain in God from sunset to sunrise following until you leave this Earth.

Luke 9:57-62 says,

And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.  And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.  And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.  Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.  And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.  And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

One says I will follow you wherever you are.  I am without any place to rest my head.  You willing to have no place to rest your head.  Another told Jesus.  First let me go lay my father to rest.  Jesus said, let the spiritually unregenerate lay to rest the spiritually unregenerate.  You preach to those that are still alive that are unregenerate to get spiritually regenerate to live eternally or they too will perish.  Another says first let me say farewell to my family that are unregenerate.  Jesus said no one that puts their hand to the plow the field for a harvest for the kingdom looking to the cares of this life is fit for the realm of the kingdom of God in the spirit.  The cost of following Jesus is that you are crucified to this world system and this world system to you.  If you love the world, then the love of God is not in you.  God is at enmity with the world and the world to God.  We are in this world as light, we are not of it.

Unless you are willing to forsake family for Jesus then you are not worthy of Jesus.  Christ came not for peace, to separate a father from a son and on and on.  They are of the world and we are of God when you are saved.

Acts 16:21 says, And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.  Acts 17:6 says, that they turned the world to chaos not listening to Caesar saying there is one king Jesus.  The apostles were using ecclesia to tell Caesar that they were called out of this world into the spiritual realm.  They only serve one king Jesus.  The point is that the kingdom of God is not of this world system.

We are to continue to follow God.  John 8:32 says, So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.

A disciple is one that learns. What does it take to become a disciple? Luke 6:13 says, that Jesus called to Him the Disciples and also named them apostles. Discipleship consists of:

Call

 

1.) The Call of Salvation

God calling one out of this world system into His kingdom. Another scripture says to call one out of darkness into light. I John 1:5, says,

Worldview

Course III: Worldview

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Most people teach that a world view is the lens through which you view the world.  The truth is that they are flat wrong.  There are two realms. 

The realm of this world and the realm of the spirit.  God refers to the world as temporal and the spiritual as the eternal.  Your world view is either worldly or eternal. 

I will show the history of God's work as it relates to the world and the eternal and then the way the scripture states that we are to view things form God's perspective in the spirit.  Here is a systematic chronological view of the temporal and eternal.

For example:

The Law, Temple and its articles were of this world according to the worldly Temple for the unregenerate from the first Adam that are flesh.  They were serving their purpose of looking forward to faith for those confined under sin to perform its service until the time of reformation (Hebrews 9:23-24).  The eternal was looking to the Gospel of faith to come. 

Galatians 3:8 says that Abraham trusting in the gospel prior to its coming.  He with all the others of faith went to Abrahams resting place until the way was made in the resurrection (Luke 16; Ephesians 4:7-10).  The Old Testament was types, pictures and shadows of things to come pertaining to Christ.

Hebrews 10:1 says, For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Context states that the things performed yearly would could not perfect.  Jesus comes with a body that is without sin to condemn sin in the flesh once and for all as the personification of the types, pictures and shadows.  Hebrews 11:1-2 says, Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good report.  Christ is the substance of the things hoped for to come and the evidence of the things that were not seen. 

The next verse states: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.  This is the same thing that Romans one states saying that man is without excuse for not trusting in God with the evidence of creation as general revelation.  Here it is showing you specific revelation that Jesus is the God that framed the worlds manifested in the flesh. 

Jesus rose as a spiritual body as a forerunner into the Heavens for us to follow through faith.  Mark 2 says that Jesus told them you will kill me and I will raise it as a temple without hands.  This is a reference to spiritual temple for us to inhabit through faith.  Jesus says that I will build house of Me (not ecclesia church) and the gates of hell will not prevail against it (Matthew 16). 

It is critical to understand that Jesus took on the material in flesh that was without sin.  God is 100% Man and 100% God for the purpose of redemption of all the earthly realm in the future consummation of all things.  Mankind touched God, Looked upon Him and walked with Him (I John 1). 

The atheist should know this point.  Jesus ascended into the heavens for us to follow through spiritual regeneration into His spiritual Body seated in the spirit through faith.

The first aspect is complete God manifesting in the flesh for redemption man and the Earth.  The resurrection as the head of a spiritual race for preeminence over those that follow the forerunner called out of this world system in t...

What is the origin of leadership? Where does hierarchy come from? Who is the ultimate authority?

Legalism

Course XV: Legalism

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What is legalism?

What we will learn:

We will show that it is the cross that saves and we are a new creation as a spiritual race.

We will explain the spiritual race is true spiritual Israel not the false Old Testament type.

We will teach the liberty in the spirit.

We will teach about false teaching of legalism that tries to pervert the gospel of the cross.

Cross

Hebrews says that Christ was offered for sin once and for all.  Christ came to remove all consciousness of sin.  Christ is the only sacrifice for sin. (Hebrews 10) 

Paul says that Christ sent me to preach Him crucified.  Paul says that Christ sent me to preach the Gospel lest the cross be made of no effect. (I Corinthians 3)  It is faith in the cross and resurrection of Jesus that we access grace for salvation as a gift of God not of works. 

Philip asked Jesus.  What work must I perform to inherit eternal life?  Jesus says to trust in the one that sent Me and My finished work. (John 6)  When we come to Jesus we cease from our labor for salvation resting in His finished labor.  This is Sabbath Rest. (Hebrews 4)

We are a new creation of spirit as spirit race

We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.  Old things passed away and all things are new. (2 Corinthians 5)  It is not I who live, now it is Christ that live in Me. 

The life I live I live unto God.  I am alive to God in Christ.  My life is hidden in God. (Romans 6) 

Circumcision of uncircumcision is not what avails a new creation (Galatians 6)  We are partakers of His divine nature. (I Peter)  We are regenerate of the seed (sperma) of God. 

We are literal children of God in the Literal Son of God.  Our old nature is crucified in His crucifixion cutting away of the flesh through circumcision of Spirit.  (Romans 6; Colossians 2:11)  We are raised with Him in the likeness of His resurrection to the newness of Life. (Romans 6) 

This takes place in spiritual regeneration into the resurrected spiritual body (Spiritual Temple: Mark 2) in the spirit.  Our body has perished and we are His Body in Christ. (Many members of one Body: I Corinthians 12)  We receive the Spirit of God in us when our spirit identifies with His spirit in faith to receive spirit of adoption as children of God. (Romans 8) 

We receive the mind of Christ. (Philippians 2)  God cuts out the heart of stone through the circumcision of heart through the spirit not the letter.  We are now spiritual Jews.  For a Jew is not a Jew on the outward, they are one inwardly. 

The true Jew is the one born of the spirit in Christ through faith as God's true chose people not the Old Testament type. (Romans 2:25)  Not all of Israel is Israel, only those that are of faith in Jesus. (Romans 9:8)

Conclusion:

In Adam all are flesh, In Christ all that come to Him are a spiritual race. (Romans 5; I Corinthians 15)  Those that come to Christ are a new creation of spirit.  We are in His Body, with His mind, His Spirit in us and a new heart.  All things are made new. 

Jesus has cleansed us of all sin and unrighteousness. (I John 1:9-10)  If we would sin, Jesus our advocate is in front of the throne saying continuously in Greek I paid for that sin. (I John 2:1)  He who is born of God does not continue to sin, since He is born of God. (I John 3) 

As Christ was in this world, so are we now in Him. (I John)  Christ made us perfect.

I JOHN CHAPTER TWO VERSE FIVE But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

I JOHN CHAPTER TWO VERSE FOUR The one who says, “I have come to know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I JOHN CHAPTER TWO VERSE THREE By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

I JOHN CHAPTER TWO VERSE TWO And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

I JOHN CHAPTER TWO VERSE ONE My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.