The teaching that reaches our mind is not what changes us, if we are just a hearer of the word and not a doer of the word we will forget what we hear.
The word we hear with our mind must get into our spirit. The word reaches our spirit through the revelation of the Holy Spirit. When the Lord reveals a word to our spirit, we can feel the Holy Spirit in it. When the word reaches our spirit, when it touches our spirit, it becomes alive in our spirit.
Every word from God that we hear in our spirit becomes a spiritual principle we are to live by. We are to live by every word that proceeds from God’s mouth. We need to practice the word until it becomes a way of life.
When the word is preached under the anointing of the Spirit it imparts faith to those who have ears to hear, it imparts a measure of the Spirit of God into the heart. To the extent that our spiritual ears are open to the revelation of Christ, to that extent we will be instantly transformed and changed while we are hearing the Word.
Just meditating upon the word will not bring forth fruit; we have to meditate upon it until the Holy Spirit reveals it to us. In the revelation there is an impartation of the Spirit. When the Lord reveals the word we experience God in that word. It is what our spirit absorbs, that we can walk in. And when we learn how to walk in that word, it is written upon our heart, because that becomes the way we respond. It is only what we absorb that we walk in.
When we hear a word in the Spirit, we are moved in our heart. We may not be able to consciously remember it, but a deposit of God was made within our heart, and the Holy Spirit is able to bring that word to our remembrance. By the Holy Spirit we will be enabled to live by that word. As we learn how to live by each living word we hear, an accumulation of God is built up in us. This is how we grow in the Spirit. The more open our heart is to the word we hear, the more it changes us and transforms us.
We are to love the Lord with all our heart, and it is in this intensity that our growth is accelerated.
We are not to be a separate entity from the Lord; we are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory. Jesus is being reproduced in us.
Romans 8:29 tells us that He is to be the firstborn among many brethren. He is not ashamed to call us brethren, because He that sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father (Hebrews 2:11). God is bringing forth one spirit, one integral essence, in the earth. This is the miracle of the new birth.
If we do not understand and believe to take on the divine nature, then we do not understand why Jesus took on the human nature. He took on our nature and paid the penalty for the individual sin in that nature so that we could take on the divine nature that he grew in and walked in.
God emptied himself and took on the first nature of Adam before the fall, he was the last Adam. There are only two men recorded in the bible the first Adam, and the second man, speaking of Jesus after the resurrection. Never once did Jesus draw upon his own divinity, but He grew as he appropriated the divinity of the Father through the ministry of the Holy Spirit to Him.
Never once did he draw upon his own divinity, but as the Holy Spirit revealed the nature of the Father to him, it was transferred into him and he walked in it. He responded to and moved in the revelation of the father to him through the Holy Spirit.
What he saw the Father do through the eyes of his spirit, he did. What He heard the Father say through the ears of his spirit he spoke. This was accomplished through the ministry of the Holy Spirit transferring the nature of the Father to him.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Faith comes by hearing what the father says, and seeing what the father does. Faith works through the intimacy of the love of God flowing into our spirit and out of our spirit towards others. We grow up to be exactly like the Father that was reproduced in the first manifested son of God. Jesus attained son ship on the human level.
When Jesus walked in the earth in human form, he had all the authority that was given to the first Adam. When Adam fell, the earth was subject to futility, but Jesus had authority over that futility that the first Adam would have had if he never fell.
Jesus came to reveal what God is like in human form. Then on the cross, the sin of the entire human race was put upon him and he experienced that sin and all of its devastating consequences. Sin is the result of individual, demon inspired action. And Jesus partook of all of it on the cross.
When we act independently of the Spirit of God, we give place to demon spirits and through sin we partake of their nature. We become filled with the essence of evil-that which is not like the Spirit of God.
Jesus on the cross became sin, that we might partake of the divine nature in him, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. When Jesus was raised from the dead he became the second man. The second man has not only authority on earth that the first Adam had, but has all authority in heaven and earth. Because of his total, absolute submission to the Fathers will, he has now inherited all that the Father has.
In his resurrection, he appeared to his disciples and breathed into the disciples his eternal life so that they now had that life in their spirits. The light of that eternal life opened up the eyes of their spirit, so that he could begin to reveal to them the mystery of God in the words that he spoke to them (in his ministry on the earth when he walked and talked to them) and all the inspired words of Moses and the prophets, that contained the revelation of Him.
He said all authority in heaven and earth has been given me, go and therefore make disciples of all nations, reproduce your selves through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. But first wait for me to ascend to my Father and sit down on the right hand of the throne and then I will send The Holy Spirit to come upon you, so that you have the gifts and abilities of The Holy Spirit, so that you can do the works that I have done on the earth and even greater because of the authority of heaven to pull down the principalities and powers that operate over the cities, controlling the atmosphere and blinding people’s minds to the truth.
When Jesus was raised from the dead he became the second man, the second man is the new creation, a race of people that never existed before, the body of Christ in the earth. The second man not only has authority on earth but also in heaven. Through the resurrection Jesus was able to universalize his Spirit through the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is not just one man sitting on the throne in heaven, but is a many member body all partaking of the same spirit and the same divine nature of God the Father. This is the second man. We have been raised with him and seated with him in heavenly places so that as we begin to partake of this inheritance we can enforce it upon earth.
We were crucified with him, the old man; the offspring of the first Adam was done away with upon the cross. In Adam all die, but in Christ all are made alive with the eternal life and nature of God.
In the eternal realm Jesus was crucified (he became the last Adam) before the foundation of the earth and the creation of the first Adam. When he shed his blood in the time realm it became an eternal event, the freshly slain Lamb of God, whose blood can be applied to our hearts today.
In his crucifixion he became the last Adam, the last of a race of people that lived in independence of God, he became identified with our old man upon the cross, he not only died for our sin but we also were crucified with him. In His resurrection he became the second man, a race of people who have the eternal life of God in them who grow and develop in that life.
The fall of the first Adam or the first man created was foreknown by God before he created him. God wanted to reproduce himself, so he first of all created the angels who were ministering spirits, created to serve him and the sons he would produce. The angels were created to serve, they were not given a choice, so their obedience is more mechanical in nature and not the result of the love of God growing and developing in them. The angels were created spirits, so when a third of them fell their spiritual state was fixed. Their spirits became evil and unchangeable.
The first man was created not as a spirit, but as a soul which is the result of the union of spirit and body. When God breathed into a body made of the earth the soul was produced. The breath of God was mans spirit and as it gave life to the body made of earth and the soul was produced. The first Adam became a living soul. The body of Adam was an earthly body not a spiritual body.
The first Adam was given a choice, that the angels were not given. The first Adam was given permission to disobey God and in so doing he would experience the knowledge of evil. He was given the choice to decide for himself what he thought to be good. He was given the choice to eat the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. This knowledge was the freedom to live the way that he chose to. God was not the source of this kind of knowledge, it is the knowledge of a life that is separate from God’s life which is not eternal, but is passing away. It is going in a way that seems to be right but the result of these decisions is death; it is not the eternal life of God. When Adam partook of this tree, his body became mortal, subject to death.
The first Adam became a living soul with the freedom to live his own life the best way that he chose. To decide for himself what was good for him. The first Adam experienced the result of a life of independence from God which is death. By eating of the tree he partook of the nature of Satan. By partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he gave place to the evil spirit and experienced a spirit of fear, shame, guilt, the essence of the evil spirit that entered into him. He became aware that he was naked; he lost the sense of the presence of God in the atmosphere that covered him.
The lord killed an animal, and Adam had revealed to him, that another had to die, a price had to be paid to provide a temporary covering for his guilt and shame, but he was no longer given access to the presence of God in the garden, and had to now work hard because the creation was subject to futility, but with the promise of a deliverer, the Lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world.
So the fall of man was not an accident, we were created a living soul so that we might learn how to trust in God and not in our selves. But in order to enter the kingdom of God now upon the earth, we have to be born again, we must receive the eternal life of God in our spirit so that through experiencing that life, we taste of the nature of God and become willing to listen to the Spirit of God and allow him to govern our life. The kingdom of God is life in the Spirit where the Holy Spirit becomes the governor of our life.