Treess in the Garden 3

 QUOTE = Some would say that the good in man, having been corrupted by the fall, has lost its element of goodness. This is altogether inaccurate.

The truth of this can be seen in the very ingredients in the fall! When Adam sinned, of which tree did he eat? Why, the tree of the “knowledge of GOOD and EVIL.” Hear this! The elements of that tree were not only the elements of evil; they were the elements producing a knowledge of both GOOD and EVIL! The tree ministered to man a KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD as truly as it ministered to him a KNOWLEDGE OF EVIL.

Thus, the fall of man introduced him to a realm of duality, of admixture; good and evil. The fallen man is both good and evil.

How prone we have been to declare the unregenerated man to be ONLY EVIL! It is true that the element of evil in man PREDOMINATES in the natural man, but we cannot say that the good in man has been corrupted to the point of non-existence. It is for this reason that the philosophers and psychologists have discovered that within man are some “illustrious virtues” and “innate goodness” etc. and have reached the mistaken conclusion that the nature of man is good. They have merely discovered that within fallen man there is still the principle of good which naturally causes us to want to do good.

The problem is that when man came into the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL he did not come into a better condition. Man came to know “good and evil” but he didn’t come to KNOW GOD! He now possesses a knowledge of the good and the evil but he does not possess the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD! Man passed into the knowing of good and evil but he did not BECOME HOLY! He merely added evil to his good producing a mixture of the two, but in so doing he forfeited THE LIFE AND GLORY AVAILABLE TO HIM IN THE TREE OF LIFE. He chose good and evil – but missed LIFE! He chose good and evil – he missed GOD! --- END OF QUOTE.

How at times my hEARt grieves when I think of my past and yet For God so loved us He sent!!!!!!!!

My babel of a hell, a lake of fire which shall burn one forever only REJECTED THE LOVE OF GOD!

I was but a devil just as the Apostle Peter was when he rebuked Jesus for doing the Father's will!

But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me. For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men. Matthew 16:23

YES IN MY MIND I HAD ONLY THE THINGS OF MEN!

Be it as a teacher for MYSTERY, BABYLON or be it as a husband! I had IN MY MIND the things of men and I acted upon only what was IN MY MIND!

How merciful and loving and full of grace is my Father who sat on the front porch waiting for me to return home. BACK TO THE COOL OF THE DAY TO HEAR HIS VOICE OF LIFE! Now my desire is to do His will and nothing else. Ohhhhhhhhhhh don't get me wrong I do at many times look more like a devil than Jesus the Christ but that is what is called MATURING IN Christ!

“What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the pasture and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders, comes home, and calls together his friends and neighbors to tell them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep! In the same way, I tell you that there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous ones who do not need to repent. Luke 15:4-7

I am so much grateful my hEARt has turned my His light to the Word of life and that fruit is producing IN me the CHRIST LIFE!

When the hEARt of one is opened that one will realize that the lie “the life of God” is NOT WHAT HE OFFERS but that GOD IS LIFE

“And this is the record, that God hath given unto us eternal life, and this life is IN HIS SON. He that hath the Son HATH LIFE” I John 5:11,12

YES! I have in my spirit His life! For He IS life!

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. John 14:6

The Word of life is the candle within my spirit and as I grow so does this flame of Him who is a consuming FIRE!

YES ... YES ... YES! Many can point to my yesterday and say "You did this" You did that" "You were like this!" But my Father only points to the cross and shows me by the blood of the lamb my yesterdays are WASHED away and my future days are ALSO WASHED AWAY!

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from ALL sin. 1 John 1:7

ALL! ALL! I don't know about you but when I think of ALL I know ALL is cleansed away as long as I WALK IN THE LIGHT!

Ohhhhhhhhhh reminds me of a story I read how a man was standing in his bedroom room rebuking the darkness away and another one walks in and turns on the light and there was no more darkness!

How I was rebuking the darkness away and He came in me and turned the light on!

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Psalm 18:28

I did NOTHING to deserve this nor do I claim any of it. HE GAVE IT AND HE DESERVES ALL I SAID ALL THE GLORY!

“When Christ, who IS OUR LIFE, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory” Colossians 3:4

STOP LOOKING AT THE SKY .... HE WILL NOT .... NOT ..... NOT APPEAR THERE! It is within the garden that He shall appear, for He is the LIGHT OF LIFE!

Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. John 8:12

When I ask myself "What does it mean to have life"? The Word of life answers me back "It means to HAVE GOD HIMSELF".

"... Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.” Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?       ......      Don’t you believe

Now as He brings me into His throne room I beginning to ask "Father what does it mean to manifest life"? And in the cool of the day the Father replies back to me "To manifest life is to manifest ME, for life is not something apart from Me"!

QUOTE = Let this truth sink deeply into your spirit. It is not enough to simply know that we have received life; we must understand that this life which we have received is GOD HIMSELF. It is God who is living in us. He is living out HIS LIFE in us. What do we manifest when we manifest God’s life, God Himself! Does this mean that we “live right,” “do good,” “go to church,” “pay tithe,” “keep the commandments,” “receive communion,” and be compassionate, kind and generous? No!

Because NONE OF THESE THINGS IS LIFE!

To do “good” and live out virtues is not life. Only God Himself is life. Thus to do good, even for God, is not to manifest life. If all the goodness, righteousness, and works we perform are not flowing out of God within us then they are not of life but merely the good of man – manifestations of the fall – of the knowledge of good and evil! Any goodness or virtue we manifest, unless it is the manifestation of the new creation life of God within us, is not life. We can no longer judge upon the basis of whether a thing is good or evil – we must know whether it flows out of, and is an expression of, GOD HIMSELF! ---END OF QUOTE

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12,13

YES .... YES!

I am now born of the Spirit and He is so am I .... A SON OF GOD!

You look at me you shall see AND know Him. BUT BUT I  can see you at times as that and that is NOT HIM. BUT I CAN REPLY .... JUDGE NOT BY THE FLESH BUT WHAT PROCEEDS FROM THE HEART!

There was ONLY ONE WHO WALKED AS GOD IN THIS WORLD AND SOON I TELL YOU MANY ..... MANY ..... SHALL BE SEEN WALKING AS THE SONS OF GOD IN THIS WORLD!

UNDERSTAND THIS and a son call you shall hEAR .... life is growth, while works are human actions.

Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature. 1Corinthians 14:20

When a baby cries and scream in hungry does one slap it? When a child does something wrong does one beat it?

NO ... NO .... NO

It is the same with us. When we miss the mark God does NOT beat us ... He knows His Word of life is maturing in us just as His Son had to mature!

And Jesus grew IN wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke 2:52

And it was He who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, TO equip the saints for works of ministry and to BUILD UP THE BODY of Christ, until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, as we mature to the full measure of the stature of Christ.

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head. From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part. Ephesians 4:11-16

Let me tell you that they who speak this Word of life do so for the building UP THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT WE WOULD ALL MATURE AS THE IMAGE (stature) OF CHRIST!

MY .... MY .... MY! The so called leaders of most of today's churches make sure their sheep know how to ACT GOOD .... HOW TO ACT CHRISTIAN!

I desire not to ACT  .... But I desire to MANIFEST HIS LIFE!

Anyone who wanders away from this teaching has no relationship with God. But anyone who remains in the teaching of Christ has a relationship with both the Father and the Son. 2 John 1:9

To have a relationship with both is to be IN LIFE!

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do NOTHING. John 15:5

Ohhhhhhhhhhh you may look good to everyone about you. You may be the one everyone says is a good person. BUT LET ME TELL YOU! IF YOU DO NOT ABIDE IN CHRIST NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE YOU ARE WITHOUT HIS LIFE!

Union with life is a union that shows who the LIFE IS! Good works only shows who the good worker is!

Time we stopped eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and we start to feast upon the TREE OF LIFE! For I tell you no where in the bible is it written that the sons of God are called unto a knowledge of “good and evil.” NO WHERE!

It is written though--->He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to EAT of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ Revelation 2:7

I hunger for the tree of life ... I am SICK of the other trees for so long I laboured for its fruit and found NOT LIFE! Life was not in any work ... Life was not in any church ... life was not in any doctrine, creed or tradition .... LIFE IS HIM!

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3

I desired to be a goody goody for the church. Ohhhhhhhhhh let me tell you men of God would stop in my life and do things that opened doors to a building where we had street ministry .... Men of God sent us to other buildings to teach and to be a Pastor. But I tell you no matter how many doors opened, no matter how many ministies called unto me ... IT WAS NOT LIFE nor did any of it impart LIFE TO ME.

I can recall being a baby IN Christ. I was not even one year old and the church I attended had a few rich people in it and one offered me five years of bible school and all my supplies. BOY I WAS SOOOOOOOooooooooooo happy. God .... You have taken this street drug addict and about to place him in a bible school to grow and learn more of You, so that I can SPEAK and be a GOOD man for You.

I took all the paper work and was filling it out .... Just about to sign that dotted line to give myself to God's calling AND ..... See you have to understand I was someone already .... someone dead on a street and God called this someone .... Not a man, Pastor, church, baptism or even a prayer. God DID!

He came to me in three dreams that woke me up from my grave and for months I wandered about asking anyone what these dreams were about ... Took one man. Yes one man God sent to me with six simple words "God's hand is in your life!" YES its all he said and I looked at that man and said WHAT ME A SIMPLE DRUG ADDICT WITH NO EDUCATION NO GOOD STANDING IN THIS WORLD. A sicko and chief of sinners.

Yes, the man replied "God's hand is in your life!"

The man invited me to his house for coffee and to talk. See all and I mean pretty much all my life God sent men into my space who had a bible opened with a verse highlighted and told me I had a question for God and God had given them the answer and I tell you THEY HAD THE ANSWER. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I run father away into drugs, booze, the deep streets of big cities to only find NOTHING!

Even DEATH ran from me for many times I tried to end it all only to face a new day.

But the simple words from a man that said "God's hand is in your life!" Made me want to know more so I went to his house for coffee. When I waked in and sat at the table I sat in the most wonderful, glorious presences I have EVER FELT BEFORE. I looked at this man who had his head bowed down and tears flowing and I asked him "who is here I have never felt such a peaceful presences as I do now." He lifted his head and said to me "I don't know why but the LORD is here"

From that moment I never lost that peaceful presences of the LORD. People would come to sit next to me or have coffee with me to feel His presences. People send me to their troubled children because of His presences. I tell you I was only 23 and could not hardly speak or read and yet I was called upon in churches and bible schools to share this wonderful presences of the LORD!

So here I sit ready to sign this piece of paper and be set for five years paid for to go to bible school and learn about the LORD when BOOM .... His presences lifted from me. I knew it. I felt it. I was alone, afraid and I trembled! Father ..... FATHER .... Why have you left me? At once in my hEARt I heard "This bible school is not of me if you don't go I will teach you Who I AM!"

I looked at the papers and I looked up at His presences that was no longer about me and I went back to the pastor and said NO!

I tell you my ministry in the church world ENDED that day. No one wanted me, everyone spoke against me. I spent months on my face weeping, crying and wondering if I made a mistake. BUT let me tell you through it all He was GOD! He took me under His wing and slowly taught me His plan and will for me and humanity. I tried to fit in with the religious crowd but once they got a whiff of His presences about me they shut their doors on me.

After saying all of this I say it to let you know our Father heart delight is to be the very life IN YOU! WITH YOU! ABOUT YOU!

“those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found IN HIM, not having my own righteousness (good) which is of the law, but that which is through the FAITH OF CHRIST, the righteousness which is of God by faith; THAT I MAY KNOW HIM...” Philippians 3:7-10

“That I may KNOW HIM!” “For the excellency of THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS my Lord!”

This is where the difference lies between the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. The tree of knowledge of good and evil can only impart to man a KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. Nothing more. The tree of life, however, imparts to men the KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST WHO IS LIFE! Let us exchange the knowledge of good and evil for the more excellent KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST.