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The Foundation of True Beginnings 2 by Tony den Hartog Preached 11/07/10 A transcription of Tape 3053 Transcribed by Jackie Weber Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Now of course all these sayings that we read in Scripture like "the word of the Lord shall come from Jerusalem" we know that it's not coming from a pile of bricks in the Middle East. The government of God and the thing that God has ordained right from the beginning is that we will understand that we are actually the house of God and that we are coming back into a realm that God has ordained for us before the world was. We have forgotten who we were. In our humanity we can no longer really understand the spiritual government that God has ordained in Genesis 1. And of course we know also that when God saw what He had begotten out of Himself, it was perfect. And you were there—and there was no flaw in you. Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; You know that the Scripture also says that "My people are perishing because they have rejected the knowledge of God" (Hos 4:6). We have interpreted what we think God has ordained or done—and we enter into a realm of confusion. And God is not the author of confusion (1Cor 14:33). The pathway that we are walking in has to come from a central point which I would call the Presence. And in every one of us, regardless of your color or creed, whether you are male or female—there is something within us that speaks. And it will always say, "You are my beloved child in whom I am well pleased." We respond to this with thoughts that God must not know what we did or what we are thinking. But He says Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. "I have toward you only thoughts of peace, that all your happenings in this world, in your own life. . . ." —what we call our life, which is not really your life. You say it is your life, but it is really God's life. There is no other life. And that's the problem. Most people think that they've got a life of their own, that they've got a mind of their own and a will of their own. They think that they have a purpose in life by setting particular goals and achievement so that eventually we get to our destiny and we will be fulfilled. But let me tell you, you will never be fulfilled in your human destiny. The prodigal asked for his inheritance so that he could make a life for himself and be successful. This applies to every area of life, be it business or relationships. God gave us a whole new paradigm, as it were, that we might discover again the hidden mysteries, the hidden manna. And those that overcome the idea that we are simply humans and come to the conclusion that Jesus came to do away with everything that represents the belief that we were born in sin, that we were shaped in iniquity—because that is not true. I do agree that your humanity was "shaped in iniquity" but not while it was in the mother's womb. It began to be shaped in iniquity (which means a lack or understanding or a lack of righteousness) when we began to develop a personal sense—me, my, myself. The ego was formed, and we thought that we had some kind of wisdom. But the Scripture very clearly says that the natural man cannot understand or perceive. . . . And when I say the natural man, I'm also talking about natural people that call themselves Christians, Jews, Moslems, black or white. And if we think we have something that we call wisdom, we don't have it in our humanity. Really we don't. I thought I had some. And there were times when I really felt a despair. Now for 25 or 30 years I have been declaring righteousness. Righteousness is not just being good or that you obey the ten commandments to the best of your ability—and then you become righteous. You may think that is the way to go, but righteousness has nothing to do with our morality. Righteousness is a state that I arrived at when I knew that my life (or that thing which I called my life) was not my life. Now that life that I thought was my life Jesus bore in Himself when He was born of a woman. This is very significant because we have always thought that Jesus the man when He was born of Mary and Joseph—that that was the actual pattern or the Son that we should look at for our salvation. In other words, knowing Jesus "after the flesh" (2Cor 5:16)—knowing Jesus after human birth. There's always been a real conflict in people about this "immaculate conception." But something which is called spiritual birth is an immaculate conception. Immaculate conception has nothing to do with flesh and blood or human body or a woman's body (the thing that is born) because in our humanity we were all born in sin. So said Jesus and so said Paul. And it's not because sin is in the blood. That was the issue with Hebrew doctrine—that sin was in the blood and that the sins of the fathers would come upon the children even to the fourth generation. So something had to happen. And they believed that a Messiah would come who would be immaculately conceived by a virgin. Now I'm not saying that it didn't happen. But the thing that I emphasize would be is that everything that is born (I'm not saying born of a woman) or ordained of God is born of God. But we have forgotten that we were born of God, so we began to entertain a selfhood separate and apart from God and simply forgot who we were. And we didn't even know what God was anymore. We did not have the knowledge of God within ourself to maintain our lifestyle. We tried very hard, but the more we try, the more we see the corruption that is happening in the world because of misalignment to reality. In Genesis 1 God begot us of Himself, and we were immaculately conceived of spiritual reality that is eternal and immortal. It's invisible and it's incorruptible. It can never be taken away from God's love, God's hands, God's wisdom or God's peace. But we have so much turmoil in these areas what we today call religion. And everybody presents some kind of idea of what they think is the truth—this is the way we've got to go and this is how it happened. But these mind-formed doctrines that we have heard so many times of what we thought the truth was isn't the truth—because the human mind cannot conceive truth. It can have opinions. Like Nicodemus said to Jesus, "How can a man be born when he is old? How can he for a second time enter his mother's womb?" (Jn 3:4). But Jesus was not talking about the physical generation of a body out of the womb of a woman. We will never be "born again" in that sense. We were born from above when it came back to us by the Holy Ghost that I am not a human—that I'm a spiritual offspring of the living God, immaculately conceived of God in the beginning. And there is not one thing in the whole of creation that is not immaculately begotten. Even the leaves on the trees and the grass that you see growing—everything is perfect. And God saw that it was wonderful! And it still is wonderful. Long before man said "I'm afraid" and heard the Voice say, "Who told you?" There's no such thing as fear. There's only love. There's only ordination, and the ordination is that we should be fruitful. And the fruit of the spiritual man or woman is Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. So the moment that you come into the awareness of a realm. . . . Jesus said, "I am going to prepare that realm again for you" (Jn 14:2)—because it was already there in the beginning. Heaven was already there. The absoluteness of life was already there. Don't ask me where sin or fear came from. If God Himself doesn't know, why should we entertain it or try to build a regime of doctrines around it so that it becomes acceptable? That's what we have done. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is coming into a place of silence where the mind activity no longer races around trying to prove a point or trying to teach somebody something. You cannot teach anybody anything. As the Holy Ghost is bringing back to our remembrance the things that we have forgotten, the flow of living essence begins to flow out of our innermost being. Of course that applies first to the mentor, teacher, priest, minister or whomever—if he is anointed by the Holy Ghost to bring that back to our remembrance what we have forgotten when God said, "Let there be light." What is this light? Is it sunlight? God's light was there before the sun was there. What does light represent? Light is actually the logos—or the Word of God. The logos is the light through which everything came into being—birds, bees—everything that was perfectly begotten out of God. Everything is begotten out of God, even the rocks, planets, constellations, moon and stars. And it is all absolutely perfect. Science has discovered that there is absolute perfection in chaos. So we can never say, "God, you made a mistake. I need something. I need some improvement." No, you don't need improvement. You don't need healing either. What you need is to know God aright. Jesus said that you've got to know "the true God" (Jn 17:3)—not the god that you've been believing in, or thinking that it was God. That god we know today as Yahweh was a tribal god that was formed in the mind of people based upon the idea that we are separate identities from that living Presence that we call God. So we named ourselves. Right through the Scriptures all the names and the places, analogies and parables and examples never led to anything else but more confusion. But I'm still sticking to the foundation of righteousness without the law. Jesus said, "You will not leave my soul in hell." Was Jesus in hell? You must realize that hell or sheol (the Hebrew word for hell) doesn't mean a place of torment that you go to when you die. Hell simply means a place for the dead. And everybody who walks on the earth in their humanity are dead. And even some of the Christians (like Paul said to the Ephesians) Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Awake thou that sleeps in the realm of mortality, in the realm of physicality, in the realm of opinion, idea and the philosophy and the metaphysics and the orthodoxy of religious persuasions. You must rise out of that. We must 1Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. "What do you mean I don't have the knowledge of God? I've been reading the Bible for the last 35 years!" You're still not understanding what the Scripture teaches. I'm not saying that everything in the Scripture is ordained of God. We have canonized the Scripture, put them in 66 books and say that everything in them is inspired by God. I don't believe it. But every Scripture that IS inspired by God is for correction and for instruction in righteousness. 2Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: Paul said: Colossians 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; We know also that in the beginning was willed action. Everything that God willed in the beginning is perfect. If God willed you into being, you are perfect. I don't care what you think about yourself or about others—you are already that which God says you are. Therefore, we must come to the place where we are Colossians 1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; We all have experienced some of that some of the time. Longsuffering with joyfulness? That's not so easy, is it? Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (capable or able) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: Now that's a mouthful! You can stay with this particular Scripture for the rest of the year and begin to meditate on this—that we are already delivered. And that comes by acknowledgment. I have to acknowledge that God descended into the form of a man for the purpose of destroying that false sense that started when man said, "I'm afraid." Out of that fear came the whole regime of doctrine right up to Mark, chapter 1 where it says: Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; The beginning of the gospel. "But what about the rest of the book?" There is only one thing that is still real, and that is Genesis 1 and John 1. But we have tried to compile a whole regime of ideas and doctrines out of all these books in the Scriptures while all along somebody came. It was John the Baptist whom Jesus said was the greatest of all prophets (Luke 7:28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist). How could he be greater than Isaiah and Jeremiah and all these wonderful men? Yes, they all began to reveal a prophetic thing that was going to happen at a certain point in time. And John the Baptist said John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. He takes away the guilt, the fear, the torment of the human mind so that we can again come back to the house of God and be taught by the Spirit of God—because it is the letter that kills (2Cor 3:6). The letter is important in a lot of cases; so is study. But you can continually mental-ize that which you think is spiritual and you will fall down. You will not be able to hold yourself up anymore after awhile. And things begin to happen in your life. You say, "Why is this happening to me. I know so much about the Scriptures." And here comes this unlearned man who has been dragged out of the pit of alcoholism; and he begins to declare the counsel of God which is wisdom. I'm not referring to myself. But the wisdom of God does not come by the prudent and by the theologians or by the scribes and the Pharisees or the doctors of the law. Jesus said, "Let the children come unto Me, for such is the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 19:14). And when I say "children," I mean the ones that are not really educated. Well, they are educated—because education does not come from the outside. Actually, the word "educate" means to be taught from within. Something is happening to us that gives us the ability to be partakers of the inheritance. In our humanity we are all prodigals. I don't care what kind of church you go to. If you are a human being trying to promote the issue of humanity into the world, thinking that therein lies the answer—you are just the same as everybody else. And you will lose. I don't want to lose anymore than I've already lost. I know that we can be persistent in our opinion, our viewpoint. And eventually—this is the most terrible thing that can happen to any man or woman—you will lose your spiritual sense, or the witness of the Spirit within you that tells you that I am the child of God and I'm well pleasing in God's sight. It is so easy, especially for religious people that still have a sin consciousness—a feeling of guilt, a feeling of fear. "What's going to happen to me when I die?" Jesus said that all would know Him: Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. —because God has never known anybody after the flesh. He has never known you as a sinner. This is a very hard idea to understand. If God did not know about our sin, how can He come as a vicarious priest to deliver us from our human anxieties and the pangs of fear that come so often to us. "What is going to happen to me when I die?" Of course it's a mystery to me still, but I know that it is true that God descended Ephesians 4:4 There is one body [not Baptists or Catholics—that's not important], and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, That's the Spirit 2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is recognized within you as the counselor, as the paraclete, as the advocate—that is the thing that we have to know—when the presence of God is realized in our meditations after we have accepted that we cannot pull ourselves up by our own boot straps. So there had to be a vicarious priest. And that is not known in metaphysics or Christian Science and many other teachings. Although they have a lot more understanding about spiritual values than the average church teaching, they do not understand the vicarious. And I'm so glad that I have come to that place right from the start. I came out of death, out of hell—the place that I was in—and I was translated out of all the darkness of my own human mind into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (Rom 8:21). And I didn't even have to do anything for it except give thanks. That's all I had to do. Ephesians 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, I was captivated by my own ego, by my own feelings of guilt about what I had done to other people in my dark days, what I had done to my wife and to my children—I was captivated by this horrible guilt and I was terribly afraid. But now I no longer fear because I know that perfect love casts out all fear (1Jn 4:18). I don't have to be afraid. 8 . . . When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive,and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? I may have experienced a low part of the earth, but Jesus experienced the lowest part of the earth. The lowest part of the earth is the depth of hell. That's where He cried out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mt 27:46) and "You will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption (Ps 16:10-11; Acts 2:27-28). Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. This is what I believe to be the Gospel. I have experienced the Gospel. I know that it's real. I may have applied it wrong sometimes and even preached it wrong sometimes; but there is something that always brings me back to the beginning where I was immaculately conceived of the Father. I did descend, but that was not God's will—although some preach that it is. I do not believe that God caused us to be lowered into a pit. The Scripture doesn't say that. It says that by one man's disobedience death reigned, sin reigned. Romans 5:19 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. People talk about the evil of a righteous God. They really believe that God applies evil to teach you. And this is where so many things went wrong. They believe that in Genesis 2 God created the serpent to become a teacher—something like a mad dog on a leash to teach you so that you won't fall altogether into the pit of hell. That is false doctrine. That's not ordained of God. God never lowered us and did not send some kind of serpent (Satan) to tempt and test us—because the Scripture says very clearly James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: It is actually your false beliefs, your desire, or your own lust for knowledge (that is not on the right pathway) that causes you to be tempted and tested. And if you are in that realm of falsities and you are living in error—I'm talking about error as far as the truth is concerned—yes, you will begin to experience all sorts of things that you don't want in life. Like it says in the Scripture, your own backsliding will test you. Jeremiah 2:19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: It's not God that's testing us or trying us. I don't believe it; I've never believed that. I've always been against that teaching. It's very rampant in the United States and various other places in the world—this belief that God tests you, that God puts something on you to teach you lessons. It's not true. Ephesians 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) It says in the Scripture Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. This applies to every human who has been born into this world. This Jesus is now the spiritual dimension, a heavenly understanding that this omni-active, omnipresent and omniscience that we can actually in meditation begin to hear the still small voice. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. They that wait upon the Lord (which is the Spirit) shall renew their strength. Have you ever seen an eagle when he loses his feathers? Some of us may have lost our feathers. And we are sitting there not sure about what's going to happen. To get encouraged, be still even though all things around you begins to happen—you might even get things in your body or circumstances, in your family or whatever it may be. Sometimes we get very disturbed about things like that. Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; —begin to grow or bring back to you the memory of self-containment, self-sustainment—because originally we have been given the dominion not only over the conditions of what we call the world (which is not God's world at all), but also to maintain the integrity of the willed action of God that brought about a wonderful, eternal, immortal and invisible creation. The thing that God made was out of the invisible. So, actually, the real thing is invisible. Those that can see the invisible can do the impossible. But if you keep on looking at and feeling the things that you can see, you'll be troubled. So don't look or judge by any appearances (or what you see). I know that it can sometimes be very trying. When I begin to experience some things in my body, I have to become still. I have to wait on the Lord. And now I will begin again through this meditation and silence to begin to hear from the Father. I call it "the bubble" to be in the place that Jesus prepared for us—far above all heavens, above all principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness. In this world Jesus has prepared a realm for us where we can be safe. And doors open. We must enter back into the place of safety by the recognition of the finished work, or I could also say the finished kingdom. When was the kingdom finished?—when God saw that it was good. It was perfect; He rested from all His works. If we are really sincere and believe what God says, there cannot be another thing added to it after He said that it was good (perfect) and He entered into His rest. If we believe something else is going to happen after that, we are in error. Go to John 1 and read of the perfect creation, the invisible, incorruptible creation of God in which there is life and in which there is no death. 1John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; What was that which was from the beginning? v 2 (For the life was manifested. ... What was the manifestation? Perfection and love. Sometimes we might tell people that God loves them, but do we love them or do they love us? Do you understand the implication? The issue lies not in whether God loves us, but rather in whether or not we love one another. Do I love only those who agree with me or who are nice to me? Only those who harmonize with my ideas? No, we have to love unconditionally. It doesn't matter who or what they are because Matthew 25:40 . . . Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. If I speak anything about anybody, I've done it unto the one that's called God—or Christ. 1John 1:2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness [of that life], and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) John 3:3 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it’s not possible to see what I’m pointing to—to God’s kingdom.” 4 “How can anyone,” said Nicodemus, “be born who has already been born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your mother’s womb and be born again. What are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’ talk?” 5 Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the ‘wind hovering over the water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom." Nicodemus didn't understand even though he was a ruler of the Jews and a preacher in the synagogue. The same was true of Saul of Tarsus who knew more about God than God did. He was trained under the great Gamaliel (Acts 5:34). He was a teacher. But later on he said that he considered everything that he had ever learned in that religious realm but "dung" that he might win back the understanding that he needed to know about the finished work and to realize that he was crucified with Jesus (Phil 3:8; Gal 2:20). Anyone who has been indoctrinated and laid a foundation not based upon the truth of what God said can get side-tracked. There are two pathways. If you are on the wrong one, you will finish up in outer darkness where the gnashing of teeth will be (Mt 8:12)—because we cannot deviate from God's perfect order. It's the order of Melchizedek (Ps 110:4). It's without father and without mother (Heb 7:1-3). So that Son of God, the High Priest of our confession and profession (everything that we do) (Heb 3:1) is after the order of Melchisedec, the order of an endless life. I want to be an administrator of this life, don't you? Not arguing about doctrine or agreeing or disagreeing. For that only brings more confusion and separation. I want to stay in the way of righteousness. I want to be thankful to a loving God that has ordained me in the beginning; and He has never deviated from His will towards me. It's our own perception of things that causes so many problems. And we say, "Why is this happening to me?" The Scripture says Galatians 6:8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. What is sowing to the flesh? It's not just committing adultery, getting drunk or whatever—which is really the outworking of sin. When the Greeks were in an archery competition and the contestant would miss the target, they would yell out "sin." Every time I hear something that is not true according to the Word, I say, "Sin!" It misses the mark; it goes in the wrong direction. It will create disturbance and disharmony amongst the brethren and is not good. Jesus said that we are to love one another and know that we are one. John 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 17:11 (KJVS) And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. . . . 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. The oneness is not in compromise either. It's not the oneness of getting a bunch of people together with their different ideas. Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, This is a wonderful aspect of the Gospel. Mark 1:1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God; —has made the old order obsolete. Well, is all that is written in the whole Old Testament obsolete? You must remember that it is like the aborigines with their tribal story-telling of events that have taken place thousands of years earlier. In the Hebrew days the elders would sit around the campfire and tell stories about Adam and Eve and the snake and all that type of stuff—which is really a story about a dream state. It's not a story about something that is real. It's an imaginary realm that God never ordained. And this is where all the trouble is. You must go to God and ask Him what is real. "What I spoke in the beginning is real." And THE LIFE was manifested—that thing which is called the Son of God was seen by Peter. Remember? Matthew 16:16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. That was the shift from the old Hebrew idea to a new vision—something that man began to see on the Mount of Transfiguration. And do you know what Jesus said to those three disciples who were with Him there? He said that they should tell no man the vision—for the time is not yet. For the new heaven, the new order, the new world, has to be revealed (disclosed). Mark 9:9 And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead. We are still looking "through a glass, darkly" (1Cor 13:12). But eventually, when we return to the Spirit, there will be emancipation and freedom. 2Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. We are being changed from one degree of glory to another. What is this glory? What does it mean? John 17:5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. What does it mean "before the world was"? Didn't God create the world? No, He didn't. Jesus said John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. So you know that the Hebrew idea of God, man and the universe wasn't real. If God created this world, it would be real and Jesus would have been sinning by overcoming it. Jesus came to do away with what I would call the knowledge of this infamous tree which is an allegory of a development of a knowledge that was not the knowledge of God. So Jesus gave us another knowledge. People perish because they have rejected the knowledge of God (Hos 4:6). No longer can you be a priest or a minister of this thing because you would put people under law by even speaking to them. Now if we do not have operating in us the mind that was also in Christ Jesus, we put people under law. We are going in the wrong direction. But people are beginning to awaken to righteousness again. 1Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. There is an awakening taking place, but not awakening to more knowledge or some fantasy. There are many things being taught that have no bearing on anything God did or said. John 3:5 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re not listening. We aren't listening because we have something in our minds that is set in concrete and must be loosened by the Spirit, by the oil of the Holy Ghost. John 3:5 (MESSAGE) Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person [every one of us—everyone that lives] submits to this original creation—the ‘wind hovering over the water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom." Why would Jesus say "original creation"? Is there something that is not original? Yes, Genesis 2 is not original. It's not a spiritual development. It's simply a dream state that started and brought women that we know today (as Islamic women). . . . Because of that belief, darkness came upon all the world. Think deeply about this. It's not God's ordination that women should be subservient to men—because we are all one in Christ. Matthew 19:3 The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? [This is serious business. Even now in Islam a man can kill his wife if she displeases him.] 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning [the original creation] made them male and female, Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. Christ, which is your true identity, which is really the true order of what you are (the new creation man or woman); and you are complete in yourself. You've got the Self of God operating, and God is not male or female. God IS. Yes, God is the manifestation of male and female. So you can be just as spiritually minded and have the same spiritual integrity as a woman as I have as a man. That's what I am—I'm a man. In my body I'm a male. Everything that lives has a male and a female counterpart—simply for procreation. But that's not true for the new creation: Galatians 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. This is a whole study in itself if you want to go that way. But I think that we have put too much emphasis on that and have not realized that the emphasis should be on the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, that the emphasis should be on John 1, not in Genesis so much—because it can create a lot of differences of opinion and confusion. And where there is confusion, there is every evil work (Jas 3:16). There is disturbance and separation, and it really doesn't do anybody any good. So let us stay in that way of righteousness where we have been established in the present truth. "Freedom is an inherent aspect of my God identity, and it is constantly insisting on being realized." This inner Christ is insisting that you realize It—because there is only one body; there is only one Christ. There is only one spiritual wisdom, understanding and knowledge—that we all shall know him, from the least to the greatest. Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. And that's happening. But it's not happening in a lot of tumult. It's happening in meditation, acknowledgement and submitting ourselves to the original idea. And the original idea is that you should have dominion, that you are of God, that you are not born of flesh. It says in John 1 that the Hebrews rejected but we have accepted and understood and to them gave He power to be the sons of God. John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. We are born and regenerated of the original seed, which is Christ to whom the promises were made. So I rest my case. And I'm not God's lawyer, either. Father, we thank you for your love that you have bestowed upon us that casts out all fear. Just as certainty and the wonderful sense that we now have that Jesus came and experienced the thing that Adam has caused through fear—that you completely took upon Yourself as the vicarious priest and dissolved it into its native nothingness. And now we can stand again in Your Presence. And that You have given us access by one Spirit to that place that you have ordained for us to be in the beginning where we had dominion over the whole of creation and that you instructed us not to be faint-hearted but to come to the understanding that this is the ordination of the living Father. John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask . . . . —whatsoever you dwell upon as the living Word of God, as the manna that you will be receiving and the understanding that you now have of ME and of one another that you will not violate the spiritual realms of harmony and perfection that I have ordained that you should walk in it. Thank you, Father, for Jesus and the revelation of your Word that's coming to us as you inspire us to go on and lay down every imagination and every high thing that exalts itself against the true knowledge of God and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And we give you thanks in your lovely name. And everybody said: AMEN! THE END