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Today,11/11/09, I was looking outside at the trees and I was reminded of Rom. 1:20. The weather was sunny, 70’s, no clouds. I could see the reflection of the sun on the trees. I could see the leaves and branches wave in the wind. I perceived the Spirit of the Lord say to me, “That is the glory of the tree.” Earlier, I was reading about the Greek word “doxa” which is glory in English. I’m still chewing on it, but am getting a better understanding.

I am also reminded of Luke 12:27, “Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Trees, plants, flowers, coral reefs, and the like do not toil or spin to be what they were created to be. They each have their own glory because of what they are. The Greek word doxa means,”to give a proper opinion or estimate of something and thus the glory of God expresses all that He is in His Being and in His nature, character, power and acts.” The root of doxa is dokeo or “to think.”

So, do plants think? They do live and exist and give life. They don’t have brains as far as I know?

Col. 2:7 mentions another Greek word, “rooted”. The fuller translation is “to cause to take root” in reference to being rooted and built up in Christ. I believe plants are “caused to take root”. By what though? I believe the plants take root according to Eph. 1:11, “him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” or Col. 1:17, “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” And lastly, Heb. 1:3, “and upholding all things by the word of his power.”

I believe the plants “take root” because it is God’s will that the plant take root and bear fruit. Scientist don’t know why the plant takes root. They can share a lot of evidential information from what they see and touch. Hebrews 11:3 says, “We have understanding by faith…” Not by science. Science does not impart eternal life, Christ resurrection power, or true forgiveness. It “puffs” the fleshly brain and supports more information, but it does not impart spiritual substance. Only the Chief Apostle, Jesus Christ, can impart Himself by His Spirit, grace and truth.

So, the trees take root and live. They express what they are to the world with no shame. They do not toil or spin. They just are. They take root and reveal their glory and beauty according to the will of the Father.

1 Thess. 3:13 has been in my ears lately, “To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

The word “establish” can also mean “constant.”

Constant can mean the following:

• not changing or varying; uniform; regular; invariable
• continuing without pause or letup; unceasing
• regularly recurrent; continual; persistent
• steadfast; firm in mind or purpose; resolute

So, the above verse could also read,

“Unto  Him establishing your hearts now (invariably, unceasingly, continually, always, resolutely) irreprehensible and blameless in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.”

2 Thess. 3:3, “But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep [you] from evil (malignancy)”

Been noticing lately that the verses in the bible read so much different in the Greek. They seem more in tune to what I perceived witnessed in my spirit.

“Evil” in the above scripture is πονηρός ponēros. It means, “bad in effect, malignant.” Another definition of malignant is “tending to produce death, as bubonic plague.¹”

“Keep” means “to guard or keep watch.”

The Lord, our faith High Priest, in the order of Melchizedek, “King of Righteousness”, Heb. 3:1, 4:14, 5:10, establishes us in Him by His grace, faith and revelation of Him in us. The establishment in His nature, even righteousness, guards us from the malignancy of the judgment and penalty of self-imposed law! He guards and keeps us from the effects of sin because of the completeness of His work that was before the foundations of the earth. He keeps us from death and condemnation because we have been separated according to the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus making us free from the law of sin and death, Rom. 8:2. Our inner man is ever-renewing now outside of time according to Him, His grace, Living Word and revelation of Him. HE ESTABLISHES US in HIM, in life, His life, in light which darkness cannot overtake or comprehend.

Some Pauline verses regarding establishment in Christ

• Establish according to Christ’s power
• Establish according to Paul’s gospel “in him” in Christ
• Establish according to proclamation or preaching of Jesus Christ
• Establish according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began
• Establish our hearts unblameable in holiness before God the Father at Christ’s second appearing
• Establish us in every good word and work
• Establish us according to the Lord’s faithfulness to keep us from evil

URL:

• https://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=stablish&t=KJV&csr=12&sf=5

1 Cor. 1:7, “So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation (in you) of our Lord Jesus Christ:”

Paraphrase: …Assiduously and patiently waiting for the revelation of Christ in you.

Another example of the Epiphany blog.

This verse talks about His coming. 1 Cor. 1:8, “Who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye may be] blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

1 Cor. 4:14-17, “¹⁴ I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. ¹⁵ For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. ¹⁶ Therefore I urge you, imitate me. ¹⁷ For this reason I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.”

The Greek word for “instuctors” is παιδαγωγός paidagōgos.

Paidagogos definition:

“a guide,” or “guardian” or “trainer of boys,” lit., “a child-leader” (pais, “a boy, or child,” ago, “to lead”), “a tutor,” is translated “instructors” in 1Cr 4:15, AV (RV, “tutors”); here the thought is that of pastors rather than teachers; in Gal 3:24, 25, AV, “schoolmaster” (RV, “tutor,”), but here the idea of instruction is absent. “In this and allied words the idea is that of training, discipline, not of impartation of knowledge. The paidagogos was not the instructor of the child; he exercised a general supervision over him and was responsible for his moral and physical well-being. Thus understood, paidagogos is appropriately used with ‘kept in ward’ and ‘shut up,’ whereas to understand it as equivalent to ‘teacher’ introduces an idea entirely foreign to the passage, and throws the Apostle’s argument into confusion.”

A  παιδαγωγός or paidagōgos cannot impart revelatory life-changing knowledge. No flesh shall be justified by the law. Paul was an apostle or messenger sent with full power of attorney to do the will of the Sender. The “instructor or schoolmaster” does not have God-given authority because he or she can only give  anecdotal doctrine that is not necessarily sound or hygienic. The “instructor or schoolmaster” does not impart himself by grace either, Phil. 1:7.

This blog builds onAccording to what you have.

2 Corinthians 8:10-12,

“10 And here is my advice about what is best for you in this matter: Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. 11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.”

I wrote this three months ago and read it again. Noticed something again in verse 12. The word “gift.” A sacrifice may not necessarily be a gift. A true gift is a gift and does not expect anything in return. A gift is given to bless the recipient. This blesses the giver.

Gifts are given by and according to His diffused willingness by grace through revelation.

In the Garden of Eden, man’s spirit was alive with God’s life by His Spirit. The Holy Spirit κοινωνία, koinōnia, or has a spiritual bond beyond full description with my spirit and enlivens it. Prior to salvation, sin came. In the Garden of Eden, prior to the law, the knowledge of good and evil came and the  knowledge infiltrated through the soul and defiled the conscience and the spirit died. It was separated from Life. Prior to the Fall, the conscience was pure. All things were pure to person of the pure conscience. The conscience was not aware of the judgment based on the law within Adam’s heart through the command of God to not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good (functioning, giving life) and evil (dysfunctional, separated from life). When Adam ate from the tree the expectation from the command given from God within Adam’s heart judged Adam. His conscience witnessed its judgment. The failure to meet the expectation manifested fear, but perfect love casts out fear. And perfect love does not and has not kept any record of wrongs ever. The manifestation of fear which was based on the expectation of the commandment motivated Adam to live his life on earth based on his understanding and self-strength. Adam sewed fig leaves to cover his newly discovered shame. He was attempting to self-manage his guilt by coping. Now, fear and the residual knowledge he had of love was mixed. He was living his life in the flesh and was unable to please God. He fell from grace. We can only please God through His faith in us. Now, Adam’s spirit was dead and soul was digressing from the knowledge of life and love. His flesh lost its immortality because his conscience was constantly aware of this judgment. Fear was in his soul and surged in his body’s tissue, chemicals, hormones and blood slowly leaking the life of God in him. The conscience was the separator from life through its awareness of the judgment of the law. The separation by the awareness brought death even prior to the law being given by Moses based on self-imposed law in his heart. Another Adam-like person needed to come to earth to be able to quicken the spirit, but how? By purging the conscience from the knowledge of the law’s judgment once and for all by an eternal sacrifice. According to the revelation, sacrifice, power, hope, grace, truth and faith of Christ, the Last Adam, my spirit is supernaturally quickened and made whole at salvation. My soul is being renewed daily by revelation. My body is quickened through the renewal of my soul. Fear of the judgment of any self-imposed law is abolished, obsolesced, obliterated and given to oblivion in my spirit. This knowledge is even apprehending my soul through the gate of my new purged conscience. My soul grows in the grace and knowledge of Christ, 2 Peter 3:18.

Had dream last night, 10/28/09, that I only remember a small piece from. My friend, Narcisso, and I were in an R.V. (recreational vehicle) traveling somewhere. Not sure where? I recall the atmosphere was filled with a sense of adventure and eager anticipation. I looked out the windshield and noticed a huge football or soccer stadium. It reminded me of the University of Texas Daryl Royal Memorial stadium. It was filled to capacity and the crowd was loud and excited.

The R.V. reminds me of Ephesians 4:11-13. The stadium reminds me of those who are predestined to be sons through Christ or the called out ones. The church.

Do we still have to prove or test God?

No.

Old Testament quote: Mal. 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that [there shall] not [be room] enough [to receive it].”

If we do then we are not ministers of the New Covenant. The letter (Old Covenant) kills, but the Spirit gives life.

2 Cor. 3:6, “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”

We have the Father’s Son now. He has us. He is revealed and His faith dwells in us now. Hebrews 1:1-2, Eph. 3:17.

His faith and willingness makes us righteous. Therefore, there is NO condemnation and we do not have to prove anything. The experience is not the proof, but because of the proof in us the experiences are manifested and created. Truth does not prove itself because it is truth. Light does not prove itself because it is light.

So, what about giving? Give because you want to. Read Supporting the Levitcal Priesthood.

If I am compelled by a need for approval then I am putting myself back under self-imposed law. The word says, “No flesh shall be justified before God by the law.” Romans 3:20

Christ has fulfilled all the law in me according to the revelation of Him in me. The just shall live by His faith in them by grace.