Get Over Involvement with the Flesh: Jesus, Neville et al, and Rehnborg's Secret of Life in the Kingdom of God
The world as you know it - end it. That is, give it up. Give up the striving to win in the world and devote yourself instead to God. To your fellow man. Because the kingdom or rule of God is the natural order in states of devotion to God. End addiction to the pleasures of this carnal world and enjoy instead the spiritual world. Which are you focused on? You cannot love both simultaneously.
That is what I get from C. F. Rehnborg's summary of his analysis of Jesus' faith in Jesus and the New Age of Faith. Whatever Jesus there was was dedicated to preparing for the coming Messiah or for becoming the Messiah. In his devotion he became aware of the kingdom or rule of God in the natural order. This kingdom (power of the Consciousness which is the Imagination of the Ineffable) works beneficially for man, especially for the man or woman of consciousness. God cannot be anything but Love, which is "beneficent." He can't stop handing out.
Life is like layers of states accessible to man's mind. We are involved primarily either with the flesh or the spirit. Any ratio from 100 carnal to 0 spirit, or 0 carnal to 100 spirit. I call it the Law of Reciprocal Compensation. We "pay" with our interest and devotion. It is not works, for we do not have to do anything except submit and accept what is to be rewarded. But our minds have to actually be there. We get the whole kit-and-caboodle of God's attention in one wonderful swoop when we "pay" by entering a state of not-carnal, all-spirit attitude.
We can go from all-out rejection of anything to do with God, to mildly interested but still serving the flesh, to seriously devoted and trying to mortify involvement with the flesh. Jesus died 100% to the flesh, but was seen alive in revelation (that is what 'Galilee' means) afterward. We have myriad examples of dedication, devotion, and spiritual reward (and of the consequences of not taking control of our own minds and keeping them devoted). Moses slipped, but Joshua conquered Canaan. Abdullah, Neville, Joseph Murphy, and Ernest Holmes are good examples, but I especially like T. L. Osborn and Smith Wigglesworth. They had real singleness of mind. Real no-nonsense attitudes. Brave to do anything God called them to do.
Rehnborg says this is the natural order we are missing because our head-balls are unrepentant of our involvement with the flesh. Sex, food, and warmth are about the only things we really think about, and two-dimensional pixel displays. Dedication to love and prayer and sharing and helping people and serving and teaching the poor, etc., etc., is so much NOT a part of our thought. We cannot expect much reciprocal compensation if we make no contribution.
We cannot just say it or think about it; the state has to be a reality. Has to have become a reality. We “owe” God a perfect life, a complete perfect life, return payment for the one he gave us - his - at the fall. There is no way we will ever be able to come up with one, a sinless life, in a human lifetime. Ours is always ruined from the get-go. HIS perfect life in exchange for ours is what YHWH as Jesus provides to us as a free gift for the joy of saving us. Provided that we accept it. If accepting it ruins your doctrine of without works; well, hey, suck it up. It’s his offer in the state.
That is what I get from C. F. Rehnborg's summary of his analysis of Jesus' faith in Jesus and the New Age of Faith. Whatever Jesus there was was dedicated to preparing for the coming Messiah or for becoming the Messiah. In his devotion he became aware of the kingdom or rule of God in the natural order. This kingdom (power of the Consciousness which is the Imagination of the Ineffable) works beneficially for man, especially for the man or woman of consciousness. God cannot be anything but Love, which is "beneficent." He can't stop handing out.
Life is like layers of states accessible to man's mind. We are involved primarily either with the flesh or the spirit. Any ratio from 100 carnal to 0 spirit, or 0 carnal to 100 spirit. I call it the Law of Reciprocal Compensation. We "pay" with our interest and devotion. It is not works, for we do not have to do anything except submit and accept what is to be rewarded. But our minds have to actually be there. We get the whole kit-and-caboodle of God's attention in one wonderful swoop when we "pay" by entering a state of not-carnal, all-spirit attitude.
We can go from all-out rejection of anything to do with God, to mildly interested but still serving the flesh, to seriously devoted and trying to mortify involvement with the flesh. Jesus died 100% to the flesh, but was seen alive in revelation (that is what 'Galilee' means) afterward. We have myriad examples of dedication, devotion, and spiritual reward (and of the consequences of not taking control of our own minds and keeping them devoted). Moses slipped, but Joshua conquered Canaan. Abdullah, Neville, Joseph Murphy, and Ernest Holmes are good examples, but I especially like T. L. Osborn and Smith Wigglesworth. They had real singleness of mind. Real no-nonsense attitudes. Brave to do anything God called them to do.
Rehnborg says this is the natural order we are missing because our head-balls are unrepentant of our involvement with the flesh. Sex, food, and warmth are about the only things we really think about, and two-dimensional pixel displays. Dedication to love and prayer and sharing and helping people and serving and teaching the poor, etc., etc., is so much NOT a part of our thought. We cannot expect much reciprocal compensation if we make no contribution.
We cannot just say it or think about it; the state has to be a reality. Has to have become a reality. We “owe” God a perfect life, a complete perfect life, return payment for the one he gave us - his - at the fall. There is no way we will ever be able to come up with one, a sinless life, in a human lifetime. Ours is always ruined from the get-go. HIS perfect life in exchange for ours is what YHWH as Jesus provides to us as a free gift for the joy of saving us. Provided that we accept it. If accepting it ruins your doctrine of without works; well, hey, suck it up. It’s his offer in the state.
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