THE SPIRIT LETTERS

Message Twenty-One - Book Five - SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF

There is substantial biblical evidence that the term “Spirit” refers to Creative Spirit Energy, the source of which is GOD the Father of all things; who is HIMSELF a Spirit (Jn. 4:24) — actually THE SPIRIT “above us all, through us and in us all! It was GOD’s supremely powerful Spirit Energy that raised up HIS Son Jesus Christ from the dead: and if HIS Spirit dwells in a man, that Spirit shall quicken those mortal bodies in which it dwells (Rom. 8:11). His Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are HIS children (Rom. 8:16). Therefore if we are GOD’s children, we are heirs of  GOD, and joint heirs with Christ the Son of GOD, granted the opportunity to suffer with Him, that we may be glorified together (Rom. 8:16-17).

A Psalm of David — dedicated to the “chief Musician”, Asaph (who some understand to have been an earth experience of the Son of GOD) – advises that GOD is able to renew the spirit in a man at HIS Will: to create in him a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10.). This referred the spiritual rebirth process which so radically changed Saul of Tarsus from a persecutor of Jesus’ followers that he changed his belief and ways and went off serving his newly acknowledged Lord Jesus Christ. No longer a spiritual vagrant, Paul subsequently confessed that he had before been a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, but that he had obtained mercy because he had done what he did ignorantly in unbelief — that the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus, for which reason he, Paul, had been granted mercy in order that in him, first, Jesus Christ might show a  pattern to those who would thereafter believe in Him to life everlasting (1 Timothy 1:13-16).

The risen Christ’s supervening spiritual power over heaven and the earth given to Him by GOD His Father (Mt. 28:18), leaves no doubt but that Spirit is a powerful Energy Form, which has been demonstrated through the ages by, for example, the power of fervent prayers (Jas. 5:16). The Bible records an instance in which the prayers of Jesus even restored to life the deceased body of Lazarus (Jn. 12:1-3). In that case it was evident that more is involved with prayers than the simple act of praying words: a transfer of Spirit Energy from Jesus to Lazarus was also a part of the saving process. As Jesus later declared: “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profits nothing: The words that I speak to you, they are spirit and they are life” (Jn. 6:63).

It is evident from the above verses that Spirit is a form of GOD-activated Energy that moves through space: that prayers are a form of such Energy, so that an individual in one area of the world can bring about positive changes, or negative ones, to someone at that time residing in a distant area of the earth. Those who pray for the good of others, do good things for themselves and others: whereas those who send out negative curses seeking to harm others, under karmic laws place themselves at risk. Those who condemn others actually effectively condemn themselves. For example, those Arabs who seek the destruction of Israel stand to attract spiritual forces that militate against themselves! This is why Jesus Christ the Son of GOD’s New Covenant of Love, Truth and Righteousness is to critically important: GOD the Father is the force behind HIS Son, and as Jesus taught: “Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven” (Lk. 6:36-37). And He added: “The disciple is not above his master, but every one that is perfect shall be as his master. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (Lk. 6:40-41).

Jesus was well aware that it was ncessary for Him to be slain and then raised up into heaven and empowered: “And no man has ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man, which is in heaven. For as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up; that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. For GOD so love the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but haverlasting life. For GOD sent not his Son into the world to condemn the worls; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believes in Him is not condemned, but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not blieved in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This principal was expressed in Mt. 28:18, where it was written: “And Jesus came to them (His followers) saying, ‘All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.’”

It is understood from this spiritual empowerment by GOD the Father of HIS Son that the Spirit Church of  Christ is not necessarily always found in “churches of stone” on earth, but rather in heaven where the Son of GOD now resides at the right side of GOD the Father, who is a Spirit existent “above all, through all, and in us all” as noted supra at (Jn. 4:24). Thus the spiritual-religious believer in Jesus Christ who earnestly and fervently prays to GOD and to HIS Son while in a quiet place may expect to have his prayers received and acted upon by the Holy Ghost, who often appropriately intercedes on man’s behalf to bring to his mind all things Christ has ever said to him. As Jesus testified while He was incarnated on earth, “When the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Sppiit of truth which proceeds from the Father, he will testfy of me. I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear to hear them now. Howbeit when he the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak; and he will show you things go come. He shall glorify me; for he shall receive of mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine therefore said I that he shall take of mine and show it unto you. (Jn. 15:26; Jn. 16:12-15).

Jesus promised His followers that a day would come when He would return for them, so they would be able to join Him in heaven: “Let not your heart be broubled: ye belive in GOD, believe also in me. In my Father’s House are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I do to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you you unto myself: that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and The Way ye know. (Jn. 14:1-4).

At one point during His Ministry, Jesus counseled His followers: “Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the Light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not there he goes. While ye have the Light, believe in the Light, that ye may be the children of Light.” (Jn. 12:35-36). Even though Jesus Christ the Son of GOD has been raised up to GOD’s right hand, there is still time to find His Light and follow it to where He is!

To Be Continued… 

Message Twenty — Book Five — SOMEWERE BEYOND BELIEF

Whenever we pause from our daily routines to ponder how we came to appear on this far-flung planet, expending our life’s time focused on whatever comes to mind, we at times are moved to ponder the origins of our existence; which to our finite mind seems so incredibly far off and impossible to comprehend as to leave us utterly at a loss to continue our search for knowledge and understanding. Where do we search for such abstract information that can be relied upon?

Science depends upon that which may be utilized to observe what man seeks to study — even using the most advanced highly-developed technical gadgetry, from telescopes to microscopes and beyond. But, alas, even the most sophisticated of these is unable to afford man an understanding of the causes or reasons for all he beholds in the vast universe that enfolds him.

The Holy Bible provides mankind with an understanding of man’s proportionate relationship to his Creator. Speaking of the miraculous powers of GOD, Job declares that hell itself is naked before HIM, and that destruction has no covering — that GOD stretches out the north over the empty place, and even hangs the empty place upon nothing (Job 26:6-7). And Job adds, “There is a spirit in man, and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding” (Job 32:8).

The Holy Bible explains that GOD’s Holy Spirit is a powerful Energy Form, capable of leading man safely out of spiritual darkness; which is the state of spiritual ignorance characteristic of man in the unspiritualized state in which he initially incarnates in flesh in the earth dimension. Until he attains to a spiritualized state or condition, he is a “natural man” as described by Apostle Paul:

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which GOD has prepared for them that love HIM. But GOD has revealed them to us by HIS Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of GOD. For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of GOD knoweth no man, but the spirit of GOD. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the  spirit which is of GOD; that we might know that things that are freely given to us of GOD. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy God teaches: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receives not the things of the spirit of GOD: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned” (1 Cor. 2:9-14).

In these above-quoted verses, Paul refers to himself and those who have also received the Christ Spirit — as he had on the Damascus Road (Acts Chapter Nine) – as those who have been enlightened by the Holy Spirit Energy of Jesus Christ, which the Son receives from GOD the Father of all things without any limit (Jn. 4:34). In their new condition, they are able to receive and understand the thoughts and ideas of GOD. 

In his time, the Apostle John noted that “except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD (Jn. 3:3). John knew that a man is born of water when he is born in the flexh during an earth incarnation, and that he would be consigned to the earth dimension unless and until he was able to acquire the Spirit of Jesus Christ — which is the Spirit of GOD the Father of all things. Man’s spirit birth refers to the spiritual rebirth process that occurs when the Spirit Energy of Jesus Christ enters into an incarnated soul, quickening it so it undergoes a conversion from a “natural man” into a spiritualized  man as described by the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 2:9-14). Paul understood how that spiritually metamorphosing conversion takes place because he had himself experienced it on the Damascus Road at a time when he was still a “natural man.(Acts Chapters 9 etc.) At that time he had received the Spirit Energy of the empowered Christ the Son of GOD, as well as that of the Holy Ghost, after which he began to visit the various tribes to divulge to them what he had learned. 

It is understood that GOD’s Holy Spirit is the Spirit Energy the flows from GOD into HIS Son, which quickened Him into a powerful Heavenly Figure at GOD’s own right side — the position to which He was raised up and empowered by GOD His Father after His remarkable sacrifice on the Cross. Jesus Christ received that converting Spirit Energy without any limitation — “without any measure” (Jn. 4:34). When this unique transmission of Spirit-Enegy of GOD the Father began to flow into HIS Son Jesus the Christ, it then began to flow also from Christ into whomever He chooses to imbue it. It is a closed circuit, so to speak; not randomly made available to every soul. Only those incarnated souls who Are acceptable to Christ who “talk the talk and walk the walk” with the Son Are able to attain to the spiritualization process, because man’s earth experiences are a test designed to provide a way to establish which souls will believe in GOD and HIS Son, and believe in and follow both in faith and belief, always obedient to their Will.

On one occasion while the Son of GOD was incarnated on earth as Jesus Christ, He said to His followers: “If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works that may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in HIM” (Jn. 10:37-38).

The process of spiritualization of souls by the powerful Holy Spirit Energy of GOD and His Son  is in some ways similar to the charging of a battery by a battery charger. To be successful, the battery being charged must be in a condition to receive the energy being discharged into it by the charger. In like manner, the soul of a “natural man” must be  prepared and susceptible to receive a powerful charge of Spirit Energy from the Son of GOD – which is the Spirit He receves from GOD the Father without any measure. When such a transmission takes place, the soul receiving Christ’s Saving Spirit Energy will usually be shaken by it, and undergo multiple manifestations of a spiritual kind. The Bible describes a number of such experiences: as in the case of Apostle Paul Himself. When the Spirit of the Lord the Son entered into Paul on the Damascus Road he was shocked into insensibility — as related in Acts Chapter Nine. And as other believers-in and followers of Jesus Christ underwent similar experiences, they also underwent testing by the Holy Ghost as they were converted from naural men into spiritualized men by the powerful Spirit of the risen Christ. This process continues in the earth dimension to this day, as souls incarnated in flesh continue to find and follow The Way Christ made passable from the lower levels of natural men, that leads to an eternal sanctuary in the Light of GOD and HIS Son above the bestial earth plane

Series to be Continued in Message 21 - Book Five — SOMEWHERE BEYOND BELIEF.