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Greetings,
I hope you had a great week. We had another great time together yesterday as a church family. God’s presence was in the house and Pastor Jonathan gave another great word concerning the process of finding our true identities. God is surely good.
God’s presence in our lives is not for the sake of right information to us. God’s presence in our lives sets the boundaries of our lives. Those boundaries are not measures of control. They are measures of inspiration from within our hearts. We must live in and from God’s presence and allow Him to saturate the substance of who we are as sons and daughters of God. His presence will give us His desires, His wisdom, His understanding, His counsel, His might, His knowledge, and His awesome purpose in life. This is the testimony of the sevenfold Holy Spirit working in us. This is the testimony of the kingdom of God working in our hearts and minds.
The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. These are internal realities that affect the external expressions of our lives. The kingdom of God within us empowers our external kingdoms to be kingdoms of our Lord and Christ, Jesus the Savior of our world.
The law was and is an external control, but Holy Spirit working in us is as internal inspiration. If we seek the knowledge of good and evil by some external measure, we can only apply a law that blinds us from finding the liberty of true love. The liberty that comes by a revelation of God’s love is the testimony of a new covenant. This is the testimony of a new and living way in Christ.
2 Corinthians 3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. 16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
The testimony of Moses was the control of law. It was an external influence to mankind. The law cannot transform us; it can only restrain us. Only the Spirit of the Lord can transform our hearts from within. The Spirit of the Lord brings true liberty. Liberty is not a measure of freedom that we simply receive. It is a transformation that happens in us that empowers us to give life to others. We are changed to be sons and daughters of God who give life to our world even as our heavenly Father gives life, breath, and all things. We are able to live for the wellbeing of others by the Spirit of the Lord working in us. Liberty is not about what we can get but rather what we can give to others.
1 Corinthians 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s well-being.
Sons and daughters of God live to give life to others in their world. Even as Holy Spirit is the helper in our lives, we become able to help others by the power Christ within us. We are being perfected from the inside out to bring life to others. The light of Christ is within us and is shining from the inside out to transform every area of darkness to light. This is the hope of glory – Christ within us!
2 Corinthians 4:6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
The excellence of the power is of God and not of us. Christ in us gives us the desires, wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, and purpose (as in awe of God) by which we live for the wellbeing of others in all things. By this we do the works of our heavenly Father and we destroy the works of the devil in the kingdoms of our world.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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Thank you Pastor Ted: Transformation is the process of becoming who God says we are. Unless I experienced this I would not know what you are talking about. The experience of transformation happens line upon line as deep calls to deep practicing my new nature in Christ and refusing to be blindsided by the world, the flesh, and the devil. I remember in Christ Life training you said that “thorns and thistles” do not cause you to depart from, “The Way.” I thought that was impossible–not to react to the world, the flesh, and the devil. But, because I have experienced transformation, and recognize first hand what you write about in your books and blog-I celebrate you and your ministry and pray for your continued strength, provision, and more. Thank you for the impact you continue to have in my life each Monday. Love, Sally