Deathlessness in an Immortal God

(Mortal) Man began to proclaim the reputation of the Immortal One (Immortality: Deathlessness)

To call upon the name of Jehovah is to acknowledge, praise, and declare that He alone has an immortal, incorruptible life that we are in need of. The fruits of death that manifest in our flesh is the result of a body that is dying.

1 Timothy 6:16 (About God)
16 Who alone has immortality [in the sense of exemption from every kind of death] and lives in unapproachable light, Whom no man has ever seen or can see. Unto Him be honor and everlasting power and dominion. Amen (so be it).

Genesis 4:26
25 Adam knew [Eve as] his wife again; and she gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, for [she said], “God has granted another child for me in place of Abel, because Cain killed him.” 26 To Seth, also, a son was born, whom he named Enosh (mortal man, mankind). At that [same] time men began to call on the name of the Lord [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].

Call: "to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim"
קָרָא qârâʼ, kaw-raw'; a primitive root (rather identical with H7122 through the idea of accosting a person met); to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications):—bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(-ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.

Name:
ם shêm, shame; a primitive word [perhaps rather from H7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare H8064]; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character:—+ base, (in-) fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.

Jehovah:
יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.

Acts 7:60
60 And falling on his knees, he cried out loudly, Lord, fix not this sin upon them [lay it not to their charge]! And when he had said this, he fell asleep [a][in death].

Romans 8:15
15 For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!

Galatians 4:6
6 And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, [a]“Abba! Father!”

Cry:
κράζω krázō, krad'-zo; a primary verb; properly, to "croak" (as a raven) or scream, i.e. (genitive case) to call aloud (shriek, exclaim, intreat):—cry (out).

Free from Fearful Judgement

Fear —> from knowledge of good and evil and humans not having the ability in their clay flesh to do that which is good or have the ability to provide life for themselves. Fear is result from not focusing on the Word of Life and “falling under temptation and falling into death”, just as Peter was walking on water with Jesus and took his eyes off of Jesus and began to sink. But remember Jesus still caught him..

Matthew 14:29-33 AMPC

[29] He said, Come! So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water, and he came toward Jesus. [30] But when he perceived and felt the strong wind, he was frightened, and as he began to sink, he cried out, Lord, save me from death! [31] Instantly Jesus reached out His hand and caught and held him, saying to him, O you of little faith, why did you doubt? [32] And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. [33] And those in the boat knelt and worshiped Him, saying, Truly You are the Son of God!

Fear is something that happens to us when we partake in Satan's belief system (effortlessly enslaved) and become conscience and ashamed of our own nakedness. Whether we are fully aware of it or not we come to a conclusion regarding our identity. Our hearts can condemn us and expect/ project outward judgement and punishment into our reality. Whatever that judgement entails that is what we are fearful of. Yet love, is stronger than our fear. Just think of all the countless stories of people fueled by love and faith and how they’ve overcome. In the Bible and even in the news:

Man lifts car to save 3 yr old daughter.

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.kansas.com/news/local/article1018475.html

1 John 4:18-19 AMPC

[18] There is no fear in love dread does not exist, but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment

Genesis 3:10-11 AMPC

[10] He said, I heard the sound of You walking in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself. [11] And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?

Genesis 3:22-24 AMPC

[22] And the Lord God said, Behold, the man has become like one of Us the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, to know how to distinguish between good and evil and blessing and calamity; and now, lest he put forth his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever-- [23] Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. [24] So God drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden the cherubim and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep and guard the way to the tree of life.

Revelation 2:7 AMPC

[7] He who is able to hear, let him listen to and give heed to what the Spirit says to the assemblies (churches). To him who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant to eat of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

What Paul preaches:

1 Corinthians 4:3-5 AMPC

[3] But as for me personally it matters very little to me that I should be put on trial by you on this point, and that you or any other human tribunal should investigate and question and cross-question me. I do not even put myself on trial and judge myself. [4] I am not conscious of anything against myself, and I feel blameless; but I am not vindicated and acquitted before God on that account. It is the Lord Himself Who examines and judges me. [5] So do not make any hasty or premature judgments before the time when the Lord comes again, for He will both bring to light the secret things that are now hidden in darkness and disclose and expose the secret aims (motives and purposes) of hearts. Then every man will receive his due commendation from God.

Romans 7:23-25 AMPC

[23] But I discern in my bodily members in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh a different law (rule of action) at war against the law of my mind (my reason) and making me a prisoner to the law of sin that dwells in my bodily organs in the sensitive appetites and wills of the flesh. [24] O unhappy and pitiable and wretched man that I am! Who will release and deliver me from the shackles of this body of death? [25] O thank God! He will! through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One) our Lord! So then indeed I, of myself with the mind and heart, serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 8:1-7 AMPC

[1] THEREFORE, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. [2] For the law of the Spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus the law of our new being has freed me from the law of sin and of death. [3] For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice, [4] So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit. [5] For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Spirit. [6] Now the mind of the flesh which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit is death death that comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter. But the mind of the Holy Spirit is life and soul peace both now and forever. [7] That is because the mind of the flesh with its carnal thoughts and purposes is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.

What Spoon?

Have you ever thought yourself crazy, unvalidated, or misunderstood for seeing something that no one says they've seen or felt? Whether it was a testimony of what you've seen from an event, perceived, or something you've heard? You're not the only one. We all are living our lives shaped by our own reality (what is real to you) and your experiences in this world. Of course there are facts that we take in from the five senses, but those facts need to be interpreted for it to be "real" to your experience -- in science we know our brains function in interpreting the world through someting called the Reticular Activating System (RAS), which is a bundle of nerves in the brain stem. This tells us what the facts that come in actually mean and it's basic function of survival.

So believe it or not there's a filter by which you process what's happening in the world that determins what becomes conscious to you. Don't believe me? Well, have you ever bought (or began using) a new car and for some reason began seeing the same car all over the place? Would you say it is because everyone just so happened to buy or start driving that same vehicle or would it be because that car now has some meaning or value to you? (That's your RAS aligning with what you see and with what value or meaning you have attached to the car you have.) This isn't to say no one can share some of your values, but our experiences in life are so unique and often what we see are often filtered by how we value and attach meaning to ourselves, people, the things around us, and even God.

"Neo: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge bullets?

Morpheus: No, Neo. I’m trying to tell you that when you’re ready, you won’t have to." - Matrix, 1999

There’s a difference in trying to dodge all the “bullets” in our own strength with the knowledge “powers” of our true identity that we we’re maturing in.. but there’s an understanding of who we are that causes all bullets to fall and incapable of harming us. 

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"Boy: Do not try to bend the spoon; that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no spoon.

Neo: There is no spoon?

Boy: Then you will see, it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." -Matrix, 1999

After Neo died and was raised back up, he seen the whole world differently.

That understanding is called the Spirit of God, the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), the same vision and wisdom and perception Jesus viewed the world by. This does the work for us by giving us eyes to see clearly, through unveiled eyes. If we can see clearly, then we’d be able to see that there’s nothing capable of taking away our life.

"For we walk by faith, not by sight.." in other words.. " we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk not by sight or appearance." -2 Corinthians 5:7. 

It’s always been simple, one thing that was needful for eternal life, to sit at the feet of Jesus, (Luke 10:39-42) to see ourselves as who we are in relation to Him. (Gen 1:27) 

There and only then, we will be able to see clearly and find ourselves saying, "what spoon.. what bullets... what word that I'm not already like God"?

Would you like to see through the eyes of truth? 

You can be confident that it is the will of God, and honoring to his name, for us to see things the way God sees thing. Just ask and be filled with confident hope of eternal life, God's quality of life is our rightful inheritenace as sons and daughters. (1 John 5:14, John 14:13, John 16:23). 

Who Persuaded Who?

"And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."  Gen 3:12

Thomas’ dramatized translation of Gen 3:12:

And the man said to the One Whom he came directly from, defensively, “Okay, so the woman that YOU gave me to be my helpmate, to be a reflection of who I am, to reflect that I came from you, by being “like me” in identity, for she came from me, gave me of this knowledge and wisdom of what is acceptable and not acceptable. She came to me talkin’ bout, “Hubby, you’ve got to eat this delicious fruit!”. I looked at her shaking my head; I knew what that was. I wasn’t deceived into thinking that it would make one wise or that it even looked good to give me your quality of life God, but... I decided to partake in the tree anyway. I felt responsible to rectify! I was created as head of this creation and this woman was a part of me, I wasn’t gonna leave her like that. I decided to provide, a carnal form of, salvation in this relationship so I therefore partook of the tree. I know you instructed not to eat from that tree but I so felt like it was up to me God, to be like you God, to provide life for the one formed out of me seeing her partake opposite of what you instructed. Thus, I went in after her without looking to you for help. 

Consequently, this “knowledge and wisdom” I ingested then caused a feeling of lack in my spiritual body and identity because in the end I still felt inadequate and I felt like I still couldn’t fix the problem or prove or persuade myself that I was the acceptable person you made me to be to her, to you, or to myself. This feeling of not being good enough or acceptable took control over me.”

The man looks down, a more serious and sad tone accompanies the man’s voice in saying, “My eyes were opened and saw this unacceptablness, this “lack” even in my body, I was naked and totally exposed. I knew that you are completely acceptable, God, you are like the definition of what is good! I know this, all of creation does. I just didn’t feel that way about myself. I just wanted to hide any part of me that I felt vulnerable or weak about that caused me to feel unacceptable in comparison to you in your presence. It seemed like the only option at the time, but I don’t know, I just felt soo afraid even to the point that it tormented me, I was confused about what to do. I was desperate for anything to cover me and make me feel like how I used to feel when you would cover me, God. :’( *sad face emoji* ...sniff* ...I even tried these fig leaves to cover up what I was ashamed of, but they weren’t warm and soothing like you clothing me with your life. The fig leaves just didn’t work and so I just avoided you and your presence altogether. In my mind you became so distant. I became convinced that you didn’t even care about me, why would anyone, just look at me.”

Adam proceeds into complete balling. Eve is led to speak in verse 13 after God asks her her side of the story.

To be continued..

Letter from God

From God to His Beloved,

I know you feel accused and condemned by the actions or words of others, even your loved ones. I won’t ever dismiss that, it’s a real experience for you. I want to comfort you in my arms, with my love and truth in the midst of that. On top of feeling the weight of the world I see that you are feeling accused -- and this makes you feel that there is something wrong with you. I want to reassure you that you have always been blameless and acceptable in my sight. In my heart, you simply are as you ought to be. I understand that it may be hard for you to see this in the midst of the pain and suffering you are feeling, and in the midst of those who find fault with you. Let's engage in dialogue and reason together. My perception is illuminated by the light of truth, shaping my judgments which in turn affect my actions, thoughts, and words. If others do not share this perspective, how can their judgments, which also shape their actions, thoughts, and words, be considered as enlightened or true?

What this means for you is that you don’t have to live from the foundation of someone else’s judgment, evidenced to you by their actions, thoughts, or words, or from someone else's pain and hurt that could be clouding their vision. There's Grace for you, my Divine Influence upon the heart. I can open your eyes to see clearly, as I see. You can live in what I perceive and express—that you are innocent—and thus, in my presence, within my embrace, you will feel innocence. 

Allow me to shed light on that cunning, deceitful serpent, lest you forget about its cunning ways. This serpent excels at one thing: it aims to make you, all my children, feel accused and to prioritize people's opinions over my own. It will exploit any event, anyone's words, or actions to manipulate, persuade, or seduce you away from me and my truth, merely to sow seeds of separation within you. 

There could be more to say about this, but the serpent and its way of thinking have been judged and that judgment was pronounced on the cross, where both death and accusation were defeated conclusively. Understand that the essence of the serpent's existence and life is encapsulated in its name—Satan, meaning accuser or adversary! The cross serves as the ultimate declaration against any negative assertions made about you (signifying the cessation of death) and affirms your innocence (ushering in new life for you). This is evidence to believe, that I know to be true, and is for you to behold, of your identity as seen through my eyes—resurrected into a life of glory and honor.

The quality of my life is in my name, Emmanuel, God is with us. You can let go of the former things. This may take time, but I will comfort you. You'll see I will not leave you through it all --  and in time you will realize that you won't have to live a life of being defined by the pain, or the things that happened to you, or the actions or words of others. It may also take time for others, but people will come around if they will open their hearts to let me speak to them, just as I am speaking to you. My promise is to never leave you or leave you comfortless; remember I am with you. You deserve your beautiful heart's desires, the unique ways you experience life and the things that truly make you happy, feel alive, and experience everything in joy. My heart's desire is you, and I trust your desire will be me.

έχω. είσαι. είμαστε.. αγάπη.

"I Am. You Are. We Are.. in Love."

Family,

Father, Son, Holy Spirit

What it doesn't mean about you.

It was a cloudy late Winter afternoon as I sat in a noisy cafe. I looked up at the person sitting at the other end of the table just as they uttered to me, "Umm, do you know what this says about you??". I looked back down at my hands, wrists, and arms, my body covered with what was an itchy rash, mysterious in origin. This means something about you. Those declarative words about who I was rang directly into my heart, as direct as a gunshot three feet away from me, a voice louder than the multiple conversations occurring simultaneously in the room, the people moving in and out of the cafe, the streetcars outside, or anything else happening around me. I couldn't muster the strength to speak an audible answer. I felt my breath, my life, being taken from me, slipping further and further away. I was lost in a sea of confusion about my life and my sense of self. I felt alone, uncomfortable, and afraid. What was most agonizing to me was a deep sense of fear and shame, fear from not knowing what would happen to me, shame for everything that was happening to me. I felt a shame for being in my own body, the shame of being what this thing that was happening was causing people to think and say about me. What's worse is that I felt like it was so clear to the world around me, I felt everyone believed what I believed at that moment...

Have you ever heard or felt those words: Do you know what this means about you? Whether it was something you did, an addiction you've struggled with, something that happened to you.. they can all be a voice of declaration about who you are. Clearly, you are what you do, you are what you think, you are what happens to you in this world, right? That's the way we learned how to form conclusions even from a very young age. But is it the way we were designed to form conclusions? Was this how we were meant to come to conclusions about our value, worth, and identity? If not, where did it come from?

We have all forgotten what we already know to be true intuitively and our place of reasoning and emotions hijacked. Our thoughts and ways have been turned over to animalistic form, just as Nebuchadnezzar in his mind has turned into a beast. (Daniel 4:16)

Isaiah 55:8-9
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
    neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
    so are my ways higher than your ways
    and my thoughts than your thoughts.

We have been designed to have the mind of Christ, given the spirit of Christ. We are daughters and sons of God. (Ephesians 4:23, Romans 12:2) It is time for us to re-learn what we already know in Christ, who we really are, how we really act. We are reminded of who we really are, think, and act when we look unto Christ, our perfect representation of one risen from the dead.

Freedom from Captivity

An excerpt from Break Your Invisible Chains by Brandon Telg, Dr. Jaron Jones, & Carly Barnes...

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"Whether you’ve been to a circus with loved ones or seen a circus act on TV, I’m sure you remember seeing beautiful gigantic elephants performing tricks for the crowd. Children are laughing and families are enjoying themselves, but did you ever stop to think why these enormous animals stay within the confines of the circus tent? 

Elephants are built to uproot trees using only their trunk, yet these circus elephants never try to leave. Elephants in their natural habitat would break free from their bondage and roam as they pleased. So why don’t these circus elephant simply walk out of the circus? It’s not like anyone would be able to stop them easily. The reason why circus elephants don’t escape is that they believe in false limitations. They believe in invisible chains. This belief of bondage begins when these huge elephants are babies, barely able to walk on their own.

Each circus hires elephant trainers that take these baby elephants and systematically force them to believe that they can never escape. To accomplish this, trainers will first take a baby elephant, when it is most vulnerable, out of captivity and into the circus environment. The trainer then takes a huge metal clasp and tightly closes it around the baby elephant’s ankle. That ankle clasp is then affixed to a heavy metal chain, which is hammered into the ground using a thick metal stake. It is at that very moment that the baby elephant’s instincts kick in. It tells itself that something is terribly wrong and it must break free.

The baby elephant notices that it is attached to this contraption and tugs at the chain, panicking as it realizes it cannot escape. An instantaneous tantrum occurs because the baby elephant knows that this bondage is not normal. The baby elephant tries to run. But it can’t. It gets snapped back by the chain. The elephant tries to escape again. It can’t. The baby elephant knows it’s not supposed to be chained down and that it is built to roam the lands. The baby elephant knows that the circumference of a circus tent is not where its story ends. So for two weeks, this baby elephant fights with all of its will, with all of its might, to escape from this chain, because it knows its truth. After two weeks, this baby elephant becomes tired, frustrated, and defeated. Its will has been broken. With a bloodied ankle, this baby elephant now feels it can never move beyond the distance of this metal clasp and chain. This baby elephant is stuck.

Fast-forward 10 years: this baby elephant has grown to weigh over 6,000 pounds! Even though it is a massive and majestic animal, the circus elephant forever believes it is trapped within the circus tent. Now the trainers only need to tie a small woven rope around its ankle, just tight enough for the elephant to feel its pressure. When the fully grown elephant senses this rope, it believes it is still that same baby elephant. It doesn't know that it can break free. The elephant is bound by invisible chains."

Reflection:

1) What invisible chains have falsely claimed victory in your life? 2) What stories have people come up with about you that causes you to feel "pressure" and temps you to believe you are bound?

We were made in the likeness of God to believe and have those beliefs "bring forth" into the world. He is passionate about us and will not take that likeness of Himself away from us, even if what we are believing is producing the fruit of death (hurt and pain) in our lives. 

Like an abused animal, we sometimes can be limited in what we see and even lash out on anyone and anything that attempts to come near us, especially near our wounds or our hurt. When we are like this we are essentially afraid for our lives. We are in a state of conditioning to believe that our life is is in danger, that we need to find ways to preserve ourselves, lest we be found naked, ashamed, and ultimately without life (the life we innately feel and know we were destined to have). Your Father can show you that He is not the darkness in this worl, that He won't hurt you, that he will handle you delicately, and that you can trust Him to cloth you still with His life. 

We may often feel saddened of our condition that we find ourselves in. He is not condemning you for having been held captive or deceived by something so dark and treacherous (satan and his lies in this world). He sees exactly how you have been hurt and wants to carry you through the healing process in his arms. He understands that this world is the valley of the shadow of death and with his compassion He wants you to be persuaded and set free believing that He alone is your salvation and your gateway into an invincible and never ending life filled with no pain and hurt but love and joy.

At any given moment you can choose to embrace the likeness of God in you by looking, as if in a mirror, the glory of God. You are created with beauty. Let yourself accept this as truth and nineties fact; may your mind and inner being be illuminated with the union of His life, that the person who created the universe chooses to unite himself with you, freely! Allow yourself to see and believe the truth of who you really are: a significant and substantial being meant to experience life on earth and eternity with happiness in your heart.

 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord."  

Luke 4:18-19

 "Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." -2 Cor. 3:17

Source: http://frank.jou.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/booksample.pdf

Living from love rather than the lie of lack

Living from love.

Focusing our eyes on Jesus, not on ourselves.

Living from the lie of lack.

Living from the lie lack will cause you to never feel complete.
If I felt like I had enough would I be searching for things that could make me "better"? Wanting to become better is different than desiring growth. Situations and things experience "better", however, humans (as living things) experience growth. A sapling is still a tree, but a dog will never become a bear. Growth acknowledges the identity that is already yours and the life you choose to embrace. Better implies that you are a "thing", that you are not good, and that you need to be REplaced.

Living from the lie of lack will cause you to never feel like you have enough or are enough.
The best sales strategy is to create a sense of "I don't have" or "I am not" within a person. If someone/thing can convince you that you are missing something in your life than that same person/thing can then proceed to tell you how they can be or provide the thing that you are missing. When you feel like you have enough and are enough the real things you learn and receive from things and others in life are simply reaffirmations of what you already have and what you already are. It's an experience of unlocking of joy within yourself that will allow you to appreciate life for what it really is.

Living from the lie of lack will drain everything and everyone around you.
When you don't have what you need for life, you will seek to get it from other and from things.

Conclusion

You simply were not made to look and evaluate yourself by what you see and come to an accurate conclusion about yourself.

The judgments you think about yourself will not contain itself to just you, you will be silently judging (or admiring) others by the same criticism you use against yourself. This is why when you judge another you are also condemning yourself by establishing a standard for a human to be measured by.

Self-analysis + judgement = criticism = Behavior analysis of another + judgement = condemnaiton.

Self-awareness illuminates the things and lies of this world that may be preventing you from experiencing the beauty that is yourself.