Eyes receive light. Eyes do not produce light. Imagine how hard it would be to sleep if your eyes produced light. Same with ears; They receive (not produce) sound.

I think that faith is like ears and eyes. Faith is like the organ of the innermost being. It is the organ that receives the things of God. One must see to have faith and revelation is what is beheld. One must hear to have faith, and the Voice of the Shepherd is what is heard.

Thus being receptive, listening, etc. is all that is required when you have ears to hear what God is saying to the willing spirits of those predestined for redemption.

The difference between a GraceHead Christian and a LawHead Christian is NOT found in whether someone is capable of failure, but in how failure is handled when it happens.

If you stand before God holding Jesus in this bag and your deeds in another, how will you handle defeat? If you fall into sin, does it make you shrink back from God, or run to Him? How do you handle the failure?

The person that shrinks back from God when they fail reveals whether their faith is in their works or it is in Jesus. If bad behavior makes them feel as though they have less standing before God, then how can they say that their faith is in Christ? Are they not LawHeaded?

The GraceHead Christian handles failure differently, and therefore fails less often. Falling into sin for a GraceHead Christian is a catalyst for nearness to God. It causes them to run to Him as the Author and Finisher of their faith. They know that He will complete the work that He began in them, and they run to Him in their defeat. The resultant nearness keeps them from falling further, and in the nearness they know that they have every possible sin latently within them.

Is there anything that nearness to God cannot cure? Is there any reason to shrink away from Him when you fall, if your faith is in Christ alone?

• Today's Christ is Tomorrow's Worms
• GraceHeads and LawHeads
• License to Sin

"What is life without love, and where is love without the free will to choose love, for a gift commanded is no gift at all...a gift accepted is where you shall find life, love and salvation."

Isaiah 5:20 -
Woe to those who:
call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Psalms 109:5 -
Thus they have rewarded me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

Proverbs 17:13 -
Whoever rewards evil for good, Evil will not depart from his house.

Psalms 35:12 -
They reward me evil for good, To the sorrow of my soul.

Psalms 38:20 -
Those also who render evil for good, They are my adversaries, because I follow what is good.

Is it the weak, that contradict God? The unlearned? The not-so-bright? The young and immature? The ignorant? Is it they that oppose God?

Never.

Pride always opposes God. Weakness is always a prerequisite for God's grace.

Humility is not saying "I am nothing." It is saying that "I have nothing."
So, what is your boast? What do you posses? Do you HAVE that it takes to do anything of lasting value? ... or are you dependent/humble/needy?

If you have something that nobody else has, then welcome to the fringe of the Kingdom or worse. Welcome to the windy, dry, and cold pinnacle of the pyramid of your own boastful accomplishment, while the rest of us sit below as the lowly of the lowly. Right?

WRONG.

The grandiosity of piety knows no end, and relies fully on your strength. Ability is the boast of the proud.

Meanwhile, those that lack - will find. The weak will be strong. The needy will be filled. The gentle will be victorious. The burdened will have rest. ... for they have God.

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I think that Christians all want godliness. It has been said, and I agree, that there should not be any reasonable explaination for a redeemed person's activity other then that Jesus Christ is actually the cause of the activity, and anything short is wood, hay and stubble.

But, often the mystery is lost. We strap on a WWJD (what would Jesus do) braclet and take on divinity in human effort.

I saw Tiger Woods line up a ball around a tree from 150 yards away. He had the perfect back swing and the perfect follow through. And it looked impossible but he hooked it within 8 inches of the pin. So, I got me a WWTWD (What Would Tiger Woods Do) bracelet and lined up around the tree. I had the perfect back swing, and follow-through. The ball soared around the obstacles and hooked to softly land next to the pin - exactly 8 inches, right?

WRONG! That doesn't work, it never will. What Would Jesus Do? Give me a break!

The Man that did everything, did nothing. Everything that He ever did, was everything that He never did.

John 5:19
"I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself;" - Jesus

John 5:30
By myself I can do nothing; ... - Jesus

He said, "I can do nothing" and He said, "We will do greater." Do you think that you can rise to the challenge to do nothing? THAT is the mystery!

John 15:5
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." - Jesus

I firmly believe that the only things of which I will be rewarded is the very things that I did not do, because I couldn't do them.

What is wood, hay, and stubble? Is it any more then the good, bad and ugly of what man can make by the sweat of the brow? Is that what we want to face the fire with ... what a human can fabricate?

What is precious stones except that of which man cannot produce because it is impossible? This is what will make it when the quality of our works are tested ... the exact stuff that we could not make by our own efforts.

Let it not be said that we WWJD'ed on the day of our union. Let it be said that as the Father sent Jesus, so did He send us: totally dependent!

Romans 8:4
And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

If I poke my hand into a balloon, then a camera inside the balloon would show fingers stretching the rubber around them, and at some point you could see through the balloon and it would appear that my hand is inside the balloon. Though it is just that the balloon is shear, around my skin.

The Christ was in this world, even having it wrapped around Him, but He was never OF this world. He was the visible image of an invisible God. God descending from His realm into ours ... taking on the appearance of man ... all the while ... if you looked around the back-side ... you could see that there is a tether to the Father ... like an umbilical chord up to Eternity, and then you would discover that this man standing before me is from above and we are from below. We are of this world, and He is not of this world. He is God with us. His shape / His body ... is the temple of the Father. Jesus is God by the Holy Spirit that is in Him ... God's Life flowing to Him from eternity ... though we see the shell that we call Jesus, so that we can discover what this invisible God is like. We would not be able to see God in any other way.

Here is the mystery. That tether, that chord, was choked off ... so that we could join ourselves to the Christ. Now if you look behind me .. you will see that I have a tether, a umbilical chord stretching up to Jesus Christ the Lord. His Life is my Life. So, that I am no longer of this world, I belong with the Vine. Indeed, it is as I am sitting with Him in the heavenlies, even as I am here on earth. I am part of His body and so are my spiritual brothers and sisters. We are all part of His body on earth ... like branches grafted into a vibrant living vine. Our vital signs are beginning to match His, and the Vine is producing fruit that we might bear. All in accordance to His strength and power, through the Spirit that is within Him and imparted to me, and was that of the Father as the Christ descended into creation (like a hand stretching a membrane of the balloon around it.)

He joined Himself to a Body (the church,) after He was forsaken by the Father (this on the cross.) We pierced Him with our iniquity, but we did not pierce the Father. By His wounds, we are healed. In the near future, Christ with ascend to the Father and consummate His marriage to His purified Bride. I will be with Him and all the other Sheep ... a bride for the wedding. We will dwell in Eternity for the last day will have come and gone, and no more any counting of days.

As we are One with Christ, He will again be one with the Father. Creation will see the last day, and the redeemed will see Eternity.

So, "Did the Son join Himself to and become part of the creation?"
In short ... "Not exactly. He brought forth a harvest of His sown Spirit-seed in the field of creation, through the mystery of godliness which is Christ in us!"

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From Letters From God and His Christ.

2/24/06, From God the Father. A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.

Thus says the Lord your God: Harken unto My Word, oh house of Jacob. Listen, all you captives in Israel, and all in the isles have understanding. Hear the voice of the Lord God, the only God, all you people in the desert and desolate lands, even all unto the bitter ends of the earth. Hear the Word of the Lord, you who dwell in the fenced cities, where satan dwells... come out, and humble yourselves before your God. You have forgotten Me, and denied My name, the name of the Lord given to Him who I have sent to you as Savior, Christ the Lord.

Harken, says the Lord. I am come... a fury of judgment shall blaze before Me. Woe to you, oh mountains... woe to you, oh giants...woe to you, all hidden and dark places... you are not hidden from the eyes of the Lord, nor have you escaped My judgment. You have forgotten Me, having went out parading your whoredoms.

Hear the voice of the Almighty, the Holy One of Israel: I have not forgotten and I have remembered your evil-doings, and that which you have surmised is not hidden from Me. I have left you desolate, none having heard the voice of the Lord in all the land, save those I have sent to you. All have went out seeking, yet none have found even one spring of living water flowing from the mountain in purity... all is corrupt and decay, dry bones in a wasteland of iniquity and sin, great and evil sins. None harken, all cry, ‘Cast these shackles from us. Let us go our own way. Our knowledge has reached past Heaven. Our egos reign!’

Thus says the Lord: The mountains and all high places shall crumble before the quaking footsteps of the Lord. All giants shall fall by the sword, by their own sword which they have wielded in bitter arrogance and greed, having given heed to every evil desire and temptation of the evil one. All, that is hidden, shall be seen, and all the dark places shall not escape the glory of the Lord.

Take up a lamentation, My children, and I may yet have mercy on you. Cry out to the Lord, saying, ‘We have done an evil thing. We are desolate, starving, and in bitter thirst. Heal our wounds, oh Lord. We have eaten up all the bread, and broken every stave, and defecated in the springs and pools of living water you have given us to drink from. Save us, oh Lord.’

Thus says the Lord, your God, the Redeemer of Israel, to all those in the hills and mountains and those who are afar off: I have saved you already, having sent the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. He was come into the world, and you would not receive Him. Blessed are they, who have received, for they know Him. He is come again, and He have I poured out on every nation, yet you are offended in Him. Blessed are the thirsty, who have drunk deeply... they are filled with His glory. He is yet come again, and you will neither see nor hear Him. Blessed are they, who see and hear Him, for they shall be gone from the earth, and none shall find them; for they have both accepted and received of My cup filled with the blood of atonement.

Now must you, My insolent children, also drink from yet another cup I must pour out... and yea, all shall drink from it, all those who would not harken unto Me. It is the chalice of My reckoning, and it shall eat you up. Even so, blessed are all those who call on the name of the Lord in that Day. They shall be saved and shall not want, for I shall be with them... what is impossible with man is possible with God.

Listen and give heed to the watchmen, for the Lord dare not stay silent anymore, lest all perish by the way, having tread upon the wide path to destruction. The voice of the Lord is sent out and sounds in the ears of the watchmen and the hearts of My witnesses. They shall lead you out of the storm; and they shall endure, even unto the end, for the sake of the remnant.

Watchmen, hear the voice of the Lord and give heed, and obey all I command of you. Give unto this strange people your testimony, and a testimony in your bodies upon every Sabbath day, the seventh day of each week. Not on the first, nor on the second... yea, the seventh shall you eat no foods of any kind, nor any drink, save pure water. Let this be a testament unto those who are near and those who are afar off, for during the light you shall honor My command, and fast. Drink only water that is completely pure, for I have poured upon you the fullness of My Spirit, the very Water of Life, which you have received in Christ Jesus the Lord. And so that by which you have drank shall you share with all those who seek after Me. The Bread of Life was sent, and has already been broken for all. Eat not any earthly bread... receive of the Bread from Heaven, and pour upon the desolate that which you have drank. Watchmen, this shall you do as a testimony and a lamentation to the people every Sabbath day, until again the Lord has come. Then shall you fast never again, having received the True Bread and Water from Heaven that shall sustain you unto eternal life, being both in you and with you, forever and ever.

The whole world is in famine, eating from the table of lies...
yea, a feast of abominations, leaving them starved and dying.
Listen, My children... your Redeemer lives, and shall feed all who have eaten of His body and drank of His blood.
These shall be gathered, and nourished for one week in the house of the Lord.
Woe to the house of satan... your children shall be meat and drink for the birds of the air and beasts of the
earth, in the great and terrible Day of the Lord God Almighty that comes quickly.

I have belonged to alot of cults. What can I say ... I guess I am a sucker for them. They are alluring to me. And, though I hate to admit it, I have been a part of heaps of cults.

I bet you did not know that. However it is true, but what am I calling a cult?

Cults are not defined by their system of beliefs. A cult is a cult because of their attitude. The cultish attitude is this: "You have to do things the way that I do it, and you cannot go outside the boundaries that I set up. I strip your freedom from you, and you have to do it the way that I say that you have to do it. God has to work in your life the way that He worked in mine."

Did you know that Jesus Christ was into something completely different? Christianity is about freedom, and those that abide in Christ will find out that as they abide in Christ they are agents of freedom. They will say, that "God will work in your life different then He worked in mine, and I won't strip your freedom from you to make you like me." Instead they celebrate uniqueness, and want God to work within your uniqueness in a special way.

As soon as I fashion a mold for others and try to press them in it so that they become as moldy as me, then I am operating a cult, and am not functioning within Christian freedom.

I can be released from all of the cults that I have found myself a part of, because of freedom. How? By adopting a new attitude: "Thy will be done."

So, I don't want to have plans for you, and how you can wind up like me. I am not particularly concerned about all of that, because I don't know. I don't need a plan, because my plan is to welcome God's will. So going left or going right is not the question for me. My question is to abide or to not abide, and what difference does it make if while abiding I go right or I go left? The point is that I am abiding, so it will go great if I go either way. How can I take a bad step when my steps are wrought in God? How can I think that you can take a bad step if your steps are wrought in God? So I don't want you to follow my steps! I want you to abide in Him and let Him direct your path. I would hope that you find freedom, but I won't twist your arm to make you take it, and neither will God.

Some will say that a life like that won't work, but my answer is "Fine! Alright, but don't drag me into your unbelief." Maybe that is true for you, and the God that you have wouldn't let that work, but I don't want your God.

With plans and goals come all kinds of manipulation, because we have to see that our plan is brought about. But, without a plan, I am free from a cult's mindset. As I remain restfully available, I don't need to fix the world around me, and fix the problems that come against me. Rather I can let problems fix me, and the problems drive me into God's presence.

I am through using the force of my will to manipulate those around me to conform to some notion of fulfillment that I made for them. ... but I might need to remind myself of that tomorrow. ... the cults are calling me.
;-)

• "Oneness, not Sameness"
• Why God allows my ignorance to persist.
• MANIPULATION 101
• ... because I already am

In some ways it is fitting for me to become unteachable and in some ways it is fitting for me to become more teachable. Some deep groanings of Truth are within me and as I learn to put them to words, I find that the concrete is setting up solid around them, and I soon won't be able to move away from them.

You will never convince me that God depends on me instead of me depending on Him. That is pretty settled in my mind.

You'll never convince me that I can sway God's love either toward or away from me. That is something in which certainty is growing every day.

You will never convince me that I need more then Christ. He is the highest revelation, and if I have Him, then I will never need anything more, and I will never ever have to get by with less then His sufficiency. There is no way, loving or cruel to move me from that.

I will never be convinced that one can stand in Christ alone, and at the same time be under condemnation. I have seen that is impossible.