Christian Clarity e-Book: Real and Literal: You as New Creation in Jesus Christ: Chapter 4

Real and Literal: You as New Creation in Jesus Christ

Chapter Four

A Look Around: Saved into Christ from Sin

Ephesians 1:2-14 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

There is no counting the number of stories in English literature the substance of which is a person living a life under a poor circumstance and who is then, through a series of events brought into an inheritance of which they knew nothing and indeed are incredulous that any such thing as inheritance could be peculiarly for themselves. The whole of the story is what that inheritance does to that person or what that person does with the inheritance and the uncovering of those in whose care a child was placed for instruction, but who through lies attempted to turn the child against his or her actual father and family. Yet that is the old truth of the gospel being brought to a people and particularly to you: a truth of both rescue from tyranny and lies and of coming into inheritance as a new being in Christ, the truth of which none of the supposed caretakers knew anything.

Inheritance is not earned or taken/conquered, it is given by God and received by you. Inheritance has within it a plenty that awaits the you in Christ Jesus: the only real and eternal you.

Inheritance is a possession and environment its own that has nothing to do with what went before. Even among the rich, those who come into inheritance are not the same as those who are raised in privilege from poor circumstance. Some get enough to merely maintain a distance from poor circumstance all their lives. But that is not inheritance.

Inheritance is the wisdom. The Speech. Eternal Life in Christ/Word of God/Creating Speech is the eternal Wisdom of the total Trinity. The wisdom is the Presence of God in you as new creation. You therefore are a true child of God. For only the true children inherit the Word and the Wisdom. All else receive only gifts of the physical prosperity and distance from poor circumstance for a time. Only the children receive the Speech and only the children hear the Speech/Word of God and know Him.

John 10:27,28 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.

1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Galatians 4:29-5:1 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Proverbs 22:17-21 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

True sons and daughters know that there are times when they will have to fight the family over what is wise for all--at the risk of losing the money and position in the midst of supposedly not doing mere worldly emotion in such a manner as the family has been deceived is the 'ideal way' as if the emotions of the old heart were of any worth whatever. But such a son or daughter that does fight the family in honesty and truth has already obtained the inheritance and can well afford to lose mere money and position and all the mere emotional widgets the world has to offer. Such a son or daughter is the real thing and has come into something handed down by One and received that which is more important than either the fight or the passions therein. The fight is merely the proof. Such are families in the present circumstance.

That is what you have become in Christ as real and literal new creation: the real thing before God and of which, before He came and got you, you knew absolutely nothing concerning. There is plenty because what you have obtained has been given to you. It was always reserved to you by name and none have touched or used even the smallest portion of it. It is completely yours. It is God Himself. It is now and not 'later'.

You are God's inheritance which He has given to Himself out of all else that exist. Creating Speech/Jesus Christ/Word of God is the abundance.

Do not be deceived by the bondservants who stole from God. They stole nothing of true worth as they knew not what was truly priceless.

1 Corinthians 2:7-16 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, that hidden wisdom which God had predetermined before the ages for our glory: which none of the princes of this age knew, (for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;) but according as it is written, Things which eye has not seen, and ear not heard, and which have not come into man's heart, which God has prepared for them that love him, but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. For who of men hath known the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? thus also the things of God knows no one except the Spirit of God. But *we* have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things which have been freely given to us of God: which also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, communicating spiritual things by spiritual means. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; but the spiritual discerns all things, and *he* is discerned of no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, who shall instruct him? But *we* have the mind of Christ.

So many of God's children have been turned aside to those things which are certainly not valueless, but are not the inheritance. Do not be among them. Those true babes in Christ have been deceived that Satan and his demons/non-creating speech have the wisdom to know what was important to steal--that Satan is wise and knows something about God as God truly is when in truth Satan knows nothing of God at all other than His wrath.

When a thief breaks in to steal, it is an assumption that he will not ask the homeowner what is valuable so that he may steal the best. There is a presumption on the part of the thief (which is why he is a thief) that he is in possession of perfect understanding of what is valuable in the life he has and his whole energies are devoted to obtaining what in his own eyes is the most valuable item to be had by the act of thievery. He is not after wisdom--he is deceived he already has the wisdom and is using "it" to enrich himself. But Satan and his demons as planners and doers of theft are fools and know nothing of the true inheritance though they ransack the whole of the house and cart truck loads of items--to include flesh in the death of the flesh-- away.

Proverbs 12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Yet there are many babes in Christ who effectively are deceived by Satan that what Satan tries to steal must be the inheritance because they really are deceived that Satan is wise and knows what to steal and their attentions are taken off of God as their inheritance to the mere items of God's old creation (that is being done away to make way for a new one entirely) as if anything of value lay therein. Satan only has wisdom to deceive--not enlighten and certainly not to create and grow. Satan is going to the lake of fire. Satan nor the things of the old creation are of any worth as a guide to the wise/those who have obtained God as inheritance. Satan is no guide to you at all but a fool thinking he is wise and so deceived he is wise he is perfect in his old creation heart/emotions and the display of certainty within it. He is so deceived that one hundred percent of all his energies are evil and to work evil and yet he thinks himself the good. Yet he not only knows nothing of value but has no power to effect the theft were he to understand what is most valuable: God Himself and His children.

Moving beyond the deceptions, pretensions and ways of death of the former creature that we once were, we go forward into total Trinity with the Father, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit as our guide to those gifts of eternal life which are given to us as inheritance in the present: here and now.

The baseness of the former creation is clearly seen from within the light. As God as Light shines out through us we see through God's eyes how and what things really are and we understand with God's Heart in the mind of Christ the worthlessness of the former things, not merely as a comparison, but as living that eternal life now and seeing how excellent is the Love of God. For immediately we see that we had been encapsulated in evil. Now being outside and free of that evil, we know that God has shown and is showing us His total creation, to include the evil and our conception of good for the here and now is purely as God through us fighting that evil and rescuing/birthing other real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ. For God says of the evil:

Job 41:12 I will not be silent as to his parts, the story of his power, and the beauty of his structure.

Indeed, God well declares the particulars of evil throughout His Holy Scriptures very plainly and unambiguously and strictly for us to understand and witness. For though Satan read the Scriptures a million times he not once understands anything about us as new creation (as he cannot even perceive that we exist and so denies that we do in the only speech he has and is...) nor about himself as evil and wicked. Do not be discouraged at this witness of evil, for God has shown many, and demonstrated to them in front of us the terribleness of evil as one of God's creations.

Indeed, the persecution by the flesh of the children of promise, the persecution of the non-creating speech of sin and Satan through the flesh of those deceived souls as are in the world now against those who are born again in Creating Speech/Jesus Christ is explicitly God's showing us His total old creation and that old creation's own witness that we are no longer of it. This persecution is not in any way pleasant, but works for our eternal glory. Witness Job, against whom evil came and not once does Job say that the evil was the source of his troubles but God alone as showing Job the darkness without making Job part of that darkness but indeed having rescued him out of the darkness and upheld Job when the darkness came against him. God speaking of Himself through Job and for Job in regard to Job, as new creation being forced to understand the darkness as a witness of God's total old creation:

Job 23:10-17 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

God will bring many things before your face that the old heart will mourn concerning. But the old heart of the flesh is only mourning its own demise and is no longer you. You will see everything. Because you will see everything as the real thing God says:

Proverbs 28:5
Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

The Sign of the Prophets Ezekiel and Jonah: Coming Out of Darkness

Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.

The sign of the prophet Ezekiel is our new birth in Jesus Christ. The valley of dry bones is the stomach of the beast that is the non-creating speech of sin. For God says as Creating Word/Jesus Christ of Bel, who is Belial and Marduk, the anti-Christ:

Jeremiah 51:44,45 And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall. My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.

The going out is the sign of Jonah, a sign already performed by God upon Himself as He went to Sheol and brought out many in His Own day of Incarnation.

Luke 11:28-32 But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation. The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

Bel is Sheol and non-creating speech, which cannot be satisfied because it can create nothing. It has swallowed all of the creation as it can, even as God newly creates over and over. But it will not always be so and whatever it has swallowed it must vomit back up--namely us as new creation.

Jonah 2:1-10 And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah his God out of the fish's belly; and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice. For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes, Yet will I look again toward thy holy temple. The waters encompassed me, to the soul: The deep was round about me, The weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth closed upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, Into thy holy temple. They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah. And Jehovah commanded the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

For having placed Himself in us as He has Said:

John 14:20 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

God plainly nows brings us out of our former place and says through us:

Psalm 139:15-24 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men. For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Now clothed with a flesh that is still corrupt and in which the anti-Christ/non-creating speech of sin/Belial lives, we battle very plainly not against flesh and blood but against those powers of darkness that have taken up residence in the flesh and blood of our own present tabernacle as well as all others. We do not fight against the souls of brothers or sisters but the evil in their flesh which to this very hour they cannot pronounce or articulate even exists. Is it not very plain that Belial will say that we DO fight against our own brethren as it denies it even exists in them through them as their only speech? Is it not plain that you will be cursed at (but not spiritually harmed) through the mouth of your brothers and sisters who do not as yet know themselves? Belial will curse, but God through you will bless and raise your brothers and sisters from the grave, birthing them as real, literal new creations in Jesus Christ, not as some 'evangelical method' but on the spot when and where God chooses in His time. It will be and is your every day life.

While we hope never to offend, we still battle our own flesh. It is very plain that in the apostles Belial was in their flesh. For God says through them:

James 3:2-18 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Indeed, only Belial, the anti-Christ is shown to claim 'freedom of speech' as being condemned by God:

Psalm 12:2-4 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Understand in the mind of Christ in new creation that you are in Christ, that Belial will always speak so as not create anything, (but will be given the appearance of it at the end of days by God in order to deceive the world:

Revelation 13:11-18 And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon; and it exercises all the authority of the first beast before it, and causes the earth and those that dwell in it to do homage to the first beast, whose wound of death was healed. And it works great signs, that it should cause even fire to come down from heaven to the earth before men. And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image of the beast should be killed. And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead; and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name. Here is wisdom. He that has understanding let him count the number of the beast: for it is a man's number; and its number is six hundred and sixty-six.

). That is, he will speak as if he were the only speech in total reality and that he and you are 'doing exegsis' and 'discussing' the Word of God as piety and religion IN BELIAL AS SPEECH--as if you were not new creation at all and indeed as if no such thing is even possible. For he himself knows nothing of the Truth/Love/Word/Spirit of God.

Job 28:12-14 But wisdom, where shall it be found? and where is the place of understanding? Man knoweth not the value thereof; and it is not found in the land of the living. The deep saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me....

Job 28:20-24 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

Belial will always reply to himself no matter what God says through you. For Belial can't stop talking.

Proverbs 27:20 Sheol and destruction are insatiable; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Proverbs 30:11-16 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother; there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness; there is a generation, --how lofty are their eyes, how their eyelids are lifted up!--a generation whose teeth are swords, and their jaw-teeth knives, to devour the afflicted from off the earth, and the needy from among men. The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough: --Sheol, and the barren womb; the earth which is not filled with water, and the fire which saith not, It is enough.

God as Word Speaks to us. Belial as non-creating speech speaks to himself from one to another in the pretense that he is the fundamental identity of the soul and spirit. You will hear him as lying spirits and thoughts. You will feel him as the heart of the flesh--but he is not your new heart in Christ. He will pretend to have perfectly understood what God says through you while simultaneously lyingly showing what God does through you to be the same as he himself can speak. Be not deceived and in the Name of Jesus Christ, cast him out of your flesh, even though it will be a life-long task. For wherever you go in the world, he is already there and as the native speech of the fallen creation. Send the lying spirits (spirits as words, as music, as feelings, ALONG WITH ALL THE DEVICES THEY HAVE MADE IN YOUR FLESH --or the flesh of one or many for whom God is praying through you) to the pit of Tartarus, command them to stay there bound and IN SILENCE until the day of judgment of God at the end of days and in the Name of Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:1-6 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby ye know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses Jesus Christ come in flesh is of God; and every spirit which does not confess Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God: and this is that power of the antichrist, of which ye have heard that it comes, and now it is already in the world. *Ye* are of God, children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. *They* are of the world; for this reason they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. *We* are of God; he that knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

In being newly born as new spirit and new heart with a saved soul, and being indwelt by God, God has placed you in eternal life now, with an on-going fight with the flesh and in on-going fellowship in heaven with Him and all His saints. The peace of God in Jesus Christ be with you.

Phil 1:3-6 I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you, constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy, because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now; having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen