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The Terminology of Light and
Darkness is very prominent throughout God’s Word.
The
discussion of Light and Darkness is very difficult to study because light and
darkness cannot really be seen, in their essence. It is hard to comprehend because it cannot be contained, in a
specimen jar, to be exactly dissected.
However
such is the reality and importance of light and darkness, that God Himself has
given His Definition of Light and
Darkness, whether speaking of persons or of realms. Because whether we are in light or darkness, shall determine our judgment of where we
shall spend eternity.
Genesis
1: 1-19 Isaiah 9: 1-7 Isaiah 45: 18-19 Job 18: 18 1 Peter 2:
17 Revelation 20: 11-15
WHAT IS DARKNESS?
Is it just Space - a place – a
position – a person ? We will see that it speaks of all of these.
There is
‘an Enormous Spiritual Dimension’ which is described as thick darkness, outer darkness and the blackest darkness.
The thick
Darkness, Moses speaks of as where God was.
The Outer
Darkness is where disobedient believers will be confined for Eternity.
The
Blackest Darkness is being reserved for false prophets and false teachers.
The
enormous Spiritual Dimension called Darkness is where the Principalities and
Powers, Rulers and gods are in. They are called Darkness because of where
they are, because Darkness is a Spiritual Realm which exists on the earth and outside the earth, yet is unseen and is
apart from God, who is Light.
Exodus
20: 21 Matthew 25: 30 2 Peter Ch. 2 Ephesians 6: 10-18
Ephesians 5: 8-11 Romans 6: 23
THE PURPOSE OF THIS MATERIAL IS TO
GIVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO ESCAPE
DARKNESS
AND DEATH.
MAN IS DARKNESS : Ephesians 5: 8-11
A lost man in God’s sight is one who does not give any
regard to God. He is seen as
darkness. He is under the power and
Laws of The Realm of Darkness, which produces its own fruit, this convinces us
of the existence of The Realm of Death and Darkness as we see that Darkness is
a power that can bind those of that mind.
Man is
Darkness because he has taken on what the darkness is, to the varying depths
and measures of darkness itself which can be seen in mankind today to the same
point, as in the days of Noah.
It is man
himself who must choose to want to escape from that domain of Spiritual
Darkness and all it stands for, or receive the penalty of remaining in that
domain, when darkness will consume itself in its own glory of a fierce
fire….The Lake of Fire, and will be its own destruction, bound for Eternity.
Genesis
6: 1-8 Romans 3: 23 Romans 2: 1-11 Revelation 20: 11-15
THERE IS AN ESCAPE: WHICH IS POSSIBLE AS IT IS IMPERATIVE.
While
God’s Word establishes that lost man is
darkness and a Captive of Spiritual Darkness, he continues to be created,
in the image of God. This is what gives
to man the ability to seek and to consider Spiritual Matters. Man therefore
is without excuse in regard to God’s existence and creation, due to being
created in the image of God. And again
because Jesus came to show man the way to know God.
Lost man may think on God and gain his own
concepts of Him, but unless one comes to know Him through God’s own Way of
escape, he will remain lost and receive
the Eternal Judgment for those who neglect such a great salvation.
Genesis 9: 5-6 Genesis 6: 1-8 John
14: 6-17 Romans 6: 23 Galatians 3: 22 & 14 Revelation 20: 11-15
GOD IS LIGHT AND GOD IS LOVE:
That
is the reason why there is an escape from Death and Darkness.
It is
God who calls to those in Darkness to come to Him, whosoever will.
We first
see God manifesting Himself as Light in The Tabernacle as The Candlestick which
displayed His seven Spirits as coming from One Source – Himself.
He
revealed Himself as THE
ONE AND ONLY ONE WHO IS LIGHT WHO DESIRES TO SHOW THE WAY BEFORE US, which
is illustrated in Exodus with the setting up of The Candlestick that it must
show its light before it.
NO GOD
WHO IS LIGHT, MEANS NO LIGHT TO THOSE IN DARKNESS:
There
is no one who is Light and produces and manifests Light as does The LORD GOD
Almighty…
God’s
Presence is Light. His Light is not His
attribute but what He Is. He is
Light, just as Lost Man is Darkness.
Anything
that is in the universe apart from Himself which gives light does so because
God has made it to be light.
While the
sun and the moon give us natural light, while candles and electric light give
us artificial light, if they were removed we would ‘see’ the darkness that we
are truly in. The lights that God
created, the sun and the moon will keep giving their light as evidence to His
promise of maintaining the door of the way out of Darkness. It is the absence of light which is to bring
conviction of man’s darkness.
N.B.
It could be said that the sun represents God Himself, while the moon
represents The Son of God whose light is the reflection of the sun – God The
Father.
It is
worthy to note that many civilizations have worshipped the sun and the moon
believing them to be God. While they
worship what God has created, this did not give them knowledge of God, or
entrance into Light.
They must
seek to know The Creator Himself to enter Light.
John 3:
16 Genesis 1: 1-3 1 John
Ch. 1 Exodus 25: 31-39 Revelation 1: 4-5 Revelation 4: 5 John 15: 26 Ephesians
1: 17 1 Peter 4: 14 Hebrews 10: 29 Romans 1: 3-4 Romans
8: 1-2 Romans 8: 15 Jeremiah 31: 35 2 Corinthians 4: 6
THE
LOST MAN’S JOURNEY INTO LIGHT:
The
participants are God and Christ and the lost believer. It is a Spiritual Journey, which must be
accomplished in this life time, in order to pass from Darkness into Light,
Death into Life.
To
accomplish this there is The Vital Work which must be carried out as so
described in, Romans 12: 1-2, Galatians 2: 20,
Colossians 2: 9-13, Romans 2:
29, Romans 8: 1-2.
There
is a Dark Valley one must cross, going through spiritual realms which have
Entrances and Exits. These must be
known, to go from Darkness to Light. God has said
so. Ezekiel 44: 5-6 Ezekiel 43: 10-11**
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE EXITS AND
ENTRANCES IN THIS SPIRITUAL JOURNEY
Colossians
1: 13-14 Matthew 13: 37-42 to Matthew 13: 47-50 Ephesians 2: 6 Hebrews 12: 22-24 Revelation Ch.22
God’s
Purpose and Plan, of Exits and Entrances must be emphatically known, if you
would enter Light, gaining complete reconciliation to God.
To be
told that when one comes to the cross, that one is Born Again, gaining
immediate entrance into the inner Sanctuary where God’s Throne is, is error,
because it overthrows God’s plan of Entrances and Exits and as to their purpose.
THE
JOURNEY:
In Ezekiel’s
Spiritual Temple plan as well as by the words of Jesus in The Gospels, we can
see the Entrances and Exits, from the world, to The Throne of God.
THE
STEPS: Exits from The World and
Entrance into The Courts.
1.
The lost man is to believe that he is a sinner
and repents towards God and believes Jesus as The Sacrifice for sins. As they desire to be free from Darkness
and its Powers and to long for Light, God will see this and draw him to
Jesus, who died as God’s Lamb for man’s Redemption.
Romans 3:
23 Acts 20: 21 Matthew 6: 31-34 John 6: 44 John 1: 29
2. He is
Given Entrance Into Christ’s Kingdom, that is The Courts, where Christ is The
Prince. (It must be understood that
Christ’s Kingdom is not The Body of Christ, i.e. In Christ, which is only
entered after Baptism with Holy Spirit.)
Matthew
13: 37-42 speaks of the believer coming out of the World and as a good seed and
is said to be put in Christ’s Kingdom.
This is not speaking of those in a Spiritual Heaven, whereas those in
Matthew 13: 47-50 is speaking of those who are in the heavens, according to
Jesus’ Word, therefore they are Baptised Believers because they are in The
Heavens.
The
believer receives the Spirit of Christ, given by God, making their spirit alive. They are
freed from The DOMINION of
Darkness in the kingdom of Christ – but they are still in The Spiritual Realm
of Darkness, the place of condemnation, as THEIR
BODIES ARE STILL IN DEATH AND UNDER ITS CONTROL. IT IS ONLY THOSE IN CHRIST WHO ARE FREE FROM CONDEMNATION.
Those NOT In Christ,
by Baptism need to get out of Darkness and its judgments. In order to do this the believers, in the kingdom of Christ, are
to love Jesus and do as he commands, i.e. Love one another, Forgive one another
and be Baptised with Holy Spirit.
Colossians
1: 13-14 Matthew 13: 37-38 Ezekiel 40: 13-17 Ezekiel 44: 3 Acts 5: 31 Colossians
1: 27 not 28 Galatians 4: 6 Romans
8: 10 not 11 Romans 8: 1-2 Mark
16: 14-16 John 14: 13-15 John 13: 34 Acts 1: 4-5 John 20:
23
3. To get out of Darkness into Light, the believer must first with
purpose and faith, gain entrance to
The Inner Court,
where they give themselves as a living sacrifice on the spiritual Alter of Burnt Offering.
This
is where they will know the INSTANTANEOUS
SPIRITUAL PROCESS.
It must not be
presumed that by believing on Jesus as Saviour that at that moment one is Born
Again.
This
error is prevalent and gives evidence of man’s Darkness which he is in under The
Power of Death and Darkness. When God,
who is all powerful, raised Jesus out of Death, He had to exert His Power to do so. So for us to
be raised out of Death, as believers in the work of the cross, one must go
through a Spiritual Work for one to be raised out of Death, to be severed and
circumcised from it by God Himself.
It is not to be
presumed that because Jesus died and was raised THAT THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC COVER
WHEN ONE COMES TO THE CROSS. It calls
for us to know the act of dying spiritually ourselves and being raised out of
Death by God, to say that we are ‘Born Again”.
Ezekiel
40: 23-46 Ezekiel 43: 5-17 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13
Romans 12: 1-2 Ephesians 1:
19-20
UNTIL THE WORK OF
THE INSTANTANEOUS PROCESS IS DONE, ONE CANNOT BE BAPTISED WITH HOLY SPIRIT BY
CHRIST AND SO SHALL NOT BE BAPTISED INTO THE BODY OF CHRIST, i.e. IN CHRIST, BY
GOD.
1.
Baptised into
Death, (into its depths) by Christ and raised out of it by God.
2.
Baptised with
God’s Spirit by Christ.
3.
Baptised by God into
the Body of Christ i.e. ‘In Christ’.
(This is not the person of Jesus but where all Baptised believers are
place into by God.)
Ephesians 4: 5-6
Matthew 15: 13**
These are three
separate works of an Instantaneous Nature and what we are to know.
It is because of the
Instantaneous (that is what it is), Potent (that is what it is), Spiritual
Process (a work that is done in order), which is essential to do, that one is
able to be Baptised By God’s Spirit.
Who is the only One who can put us In Christ.
This work is not
done by the work of the cross – but after and because of it. People are redeemed ‘in order to be able to’
ask for Baptism.
For
the believer to come to the Instantaneous Process they are to come to Christ in
The Inner Court to where Christ is seated, outside the closed door of The Outer
Sanctuary. He is The only One who can
open that door, fulfilling his work as The Way to The Father, in his heavenly
work as Christ and Lord. This is The Life that Jesus spoke of giving;
The Baptism with Holy Spirit and Fire.
However,
before that door can be opened, the believer must know the work of the Altar of
Burnt Offering, which stands in front of the door.
The
work of The Altar of Burnt Offering is the equivalent to The Instantaneous Process, which work is the
means of escaping Darkness and entering Light.
The Instantaneous
Process occurs before Baptism. It
occurs at the time of asking.
The Instantaneous
Process work is done, then one is Baptised with Holy Spirit. The works go hand in hand.
The Instantaneous
Process is a Spiritual Work, during which the believer most possibly is not
aware of what Spiritual Work is happening when as the sacrifice, he is being
crucified with Christ, Baptised into Death and being raised and severed out of
death by God The Father. It will be as
this work is completed when the Believer is Baptised with Holy Spirit, that the
evidence of this work will manifest itself by God through the believer
confessing ‘Jesus is Lord’.
Romans
12: 1-2 Romans 6: 3-14 Colossians 2: 9-13 Romans 2: 29 Romans 8: 1-2
Leviticus Ch. 1 Leviticus 6:
8-13 Matthew 3: 11-12 Malachi 3: 1-4 John 4: 13-17 Acts 2:
31-36 1 Corinthians 12: 13-18 Ephesians 4: 5-6 John 15: 26 1
Corinthians 12: 3 Romans 10: 9
4. THEY
ARE IN LIGHT BECAUSE THEY ARE IN GOD’S SPIRIT.
Then God The Father Baptises them into the Body of Christ, where all those so
Baptised are placed by God, just where He would have them be placed,
Spiritually.
It is only by God’s
Plan and Way that man can escape from Death and Darkness and its judgement.
Ephesians
4: 5-6 Colossians 1: 27 now 28 John 14:
23 1 Corinthians 12: 13-18
THEY ARE NOW IN
CHRIST AND HAVE GAINED ENTRANCE TO THE OUTER SANCTUARY, where we see carvings in the walls. The carvings, prophetic to Ezekiel as was
the Spiritual Temple, that is now in existence. The carvings are very significant in that God Himself is strongly
against imagery of any kind. However
His purpose can be seen in the carvings, as they tell the story of Christ as
The Angel of The Lord, The Son of Man and the Coming King of Israel. These represent the full work of Christ, past and future and to enter into where they are is the confirmation
of The Full Work of Jesus, as Lamb and Baptiser with Holy Spirit, which is his
present work, as Christ and Lord.
To
the believer on reaching this Spiritual point, God Himself testifies to this
fact of entering Light by Himself declaring, ‘Jesus is Lord’, through the mouth of the believer, in tongues.
LET US BE AWARE. GOD WOULD HAVE US COME TO WHERE HIS THRONE
IS. NOT TO, IS TO HAVE CHRIST’S WORK
FAIL AS THE WAY TO GOD FOR THAT BELIEVER.
Although
the believer has gained entrance into The Outer Sanctuary, they shall not gain entrance into the Inner
Sanctuary while
believing Jesus to be God, sharing deity with His
Father.
God
has said, they can serve in the Temple, but they cannot come near to Him nor allow them to serve Him nor come near to any of
His Holy things nor His most Holy offerings.
As a result they will not grown in the Truth of God, because God as The
Spirit of Truth, will not teach the knowledge of Himself or His Son.
The
lack of the knowledge of God’s Will, will cause that believer to be
disinherited, because he must do God’s Will to inherit Eternal Life.
Ezekiel
41: 17-20 Acts 2: 31-36 John 15: 26 1 Corinthians 12: 3
Romans 10:9 Ezekiel 44:
10-16 John 16: 13-15 & 23-28 Matthew 7: 21-23
5. THE
JOURNEY CONTINUES: GOD’S PURPOSE IN US
BEING HIS LAMPS.
God
would have His Lamps, to shine HIS LIGHT, as Sons of Light, who are expected to
walk as Sons of God in the midst of those who are Darkness, under the control
of the powers of Darkness. As those who
are in The Light, we are to walk in it, in order to bring conviction to those
in Darkness by The Spirit of God in us, also to those in The Light who still
practice The Deeds of Darkness, who need to want to overcome The Darkness. For those who fail to be over-comers, they
will not inherit the promises of God.
This is love for
God, to obey His commands. For failing to do
The Father’s Will, judgement will be made by Christ.
Matthew
5: 14-16 John 12: 36 2 Corinthians 2: 14-16 2 Corinthians 4: 6 Ephesians 5: 8-21 Revelation 2: 7, 11, 17, 26-29 Revelation 3: 5, 11-12, 21 John 3: 19-21 Ephesians
6: 10 Hebrews 10: 29-31 Matthew 7: 21-23 1 John 5: 3-12
THE PARABLE OF THE
TEN VIRGINS:
Matthew
25: 1-13 Ephesians 5: 1-21 Ephesians 2: 6
The issue of this
Parable is the oil/Spirit as to its strength and amount.
IT IS A WARNING TO
THOSE IN CHRIST: who are Sons of God and Light, because they are Baptised believers and so they have
the Oil/The Spirit of God in them.
It is prophetic as
Jesus speaks of those being in heaven, whereas at his time of living, heaven was
closed. It is only those who are Baptised with Holy
Spirit who are in The Heavens Now. It
also confirms that those in this position are not to be falsely assured that
their position is secure. They will be judged by Christ as to whether
they inherit Eternal Life and sit at the feast of The Lamb/Bridegroom.
The First five are believers who failed in
revealing God’s Spirit, who must be free to move through and out and in the
believer, so that when His work through the believer is accomplished, He continues
to fill up what has gone out. So the
call for the Baptised believer to be continually filled with God’s Spirit is
because of ongoing ministry and service to, for and by God. These 5 believer’s lamps reveal the
quenching of the Spirit of God by the lack of ministry in Spiritual gifts, or
faith in God for His help in daily situations.
Those who are In Christ and found not to be ready, due to a lack of
consistent walk, shall be judged by Jesus (The Bridegroom) and shall not
inherit Eternal Life in The Kingdom of God.
God has made us to
be Lamps, that is His Spirit must burn brightly, because He dwells permanently
in us by His Spirit. Believers who fail
to do God’s Will, are of the First Adam and like him they shall not inherit.
The other five
virgins, in contrast DID NOT NEGLECT TO BE WHAT GOD WOULD HAVE THEM TO BE AND
DO AS SONS OF GOD. THEY ARE WHAT GOD
EXPECTS OF SONS OF LIGHT.
They
maintained and added to what they had been given by God, overcoming the powers
of Darkness, by the Power of God, confessing any defilements and gaining
cleansing of their garments by The Blood, because of confidence in the full work of the Blood.
They
continue to be Filled with The Spirit of God because of being obedient to the commands
of God, trusting in Him as God alone, with NO Idolatry, as this is the only way that The Father will operate FULLY, because they are free to enter the Inner
Sanctuary where God’s Throne is. Ephesians 3: 10-12
Remember,
that at all times God The Father, who by His Spirit is in us, over us and
through us, is The Light in us, will not be able to shine if there are any
hindrances to His working.
It
is for those In Christ that Christ comes, to judge all as to who will inherit
and sit at his feast. He will judge
them all. Both will receive their just
reward.
The third group is
conspicuous by its absence of being mentioned.
ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THEM, THEY ARE A LAMP WITH NO
OIL BECAUSE THEY ARE UNBAPTISED WITH HOLY SPIRIT.
They
are a lamp with no power or authority of God.
Because of neglecting Baptism with Holy Spirit of God by Christ, they
have no power to overcome the powers of Death and Darkness. The Bridegroom does not come for them,
because they are not In Christ. They will
wait till the very end for
judgement by God unless they go NOW and know Christ’s Heavenly Work as Baptiser
with Holy Spirit, or they will know the judgement which is for those who are in
Christ’s Kingdom…Unbaptised with Holy Spirit.
Because of this they
will remain in Darkness.
1. Matthew 13: 47-50
1 John Ch. 1 Colossians 1:
28 John 14: 23 Ephesians 4: 4-6 Matthew 25: 14-30
Mark 4: 21-25 Ephesians 5:
18 Hebrews 10: 29-31 Hebrews 6: 1-3 Job 18: 5-21
Colossians 1: 23 Luke 12: 25-40 Mark 15: 32-36
1
John 1: 7-10 John 12: 35 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 2 Corinthians 5: 10 Matthew 7: 21-23
2. Romans 8: 17 John
12: 36 Galatians 5: 22-26 John 14: 10-12 John 10: 38 Matthew
25: 14-28 1 John 1: 7-10 2 Peter 1: 3 Ephesians 4: 5-6
Ephesians 5: 18 Ephesians 3:
14-19 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Revelation 19: 6-9 2 Corinthians 5: 10 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 2 Timothy 4: 8
Revelation
2: 7, 11, 17, 26-29 Revelation 3: 5,
11-12, 21
3. Matthew 13: 37-42
Galatians 4: 6 Romans 8: 10 not 11 Colossians
1: 27 not 28 Revelation 3: 14-21
Revelation 20: 11-12 Mark 16:
15-18**
6. AS SONS OF LIGHT – The Journey is not finished yet!
THE LIGHT OF GOD BRINGS US GOOD
THINGS. GOD WHO IS LIGHT SAYS
Proverbs
3: Keep my commands in your heart.
The love for God is to keep
His Commandments.
RESULT: They will prolong your life many years and bring
prosperity.
Let love and faithfulness (to
God) never leave you.
RESULT: Then you
will win favour of God and man.
Trust in The Lord God with all your heart, don’t lean
to your own understanding (darkness).
RESULT: He will make straight your paths.
Fear the Lord and shun evil (darkness).
RESULT: This will bring health to your
body and nourishment to your bones.
Galatians
6: 7-10 Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Please his sinful nature, he reaps destruction. Please The Spirit, he will reap Eternal
Life.
1
John 2: 21-25 Isaiah 61: 10
LIGHTS IN THE MIDST
OF DARKNESS:
It is to understand
who is ‘OF LIGHT’. It is to understand
who is ‘LIGHT’.
From
the time of The Fall until about 250 years later men began to call upon the
name of The Lord. God credited them
with righteousness because they
believed Him and did as He said.
As
they called to Him, God revealed Himself giving them words which to them was Light as David said “The Word of The Lord is a Light to My Path”. They were men who lived in Darkness
but were ‘of light’ but not a light, as God by His Spirit did not yet live in them.
These
righteous men, when they died, were place in Paradise, as Heaven was closed. At the time of the death of Jesus they were raised up and went
with Christ when he returned to heaven : Light at last, into an open Heaven.
Paradise
became empty at the resurrection of The Holy Ones. The thief on the cross who repented and believed in Jesus was the
first to enter it now and where those who have come believing to the cross but
fail to be Baptised with Holy Spirit, will go when they die and will wait
judgement by God for failing to receive their inheritance promised by God. They were to enter heaven spiritually, in
their lifetime.
Due
to neglect of Baptism, they will never enter heaven, nor The Eternal Kingdom of
God. While they had gained Light by The
Spirit of Christ in their spirit and they had been set free from The Dominion of Darkness, they are still in the Realm
of Darkness, but are without excuse because of Christ in them.
Genesis
4: 26 Matthew 27: 51-53 John 3: 13 Hebrews 9: 15-16
Ephesians 4: 7-10 Ephesians 2:
18-20 Hebrews 9: 24 Luke 23: 43 Ephesians 2: 6
Matthew 13: 37-42 Galatians 3:
14
Revelation
20: 11-12 Galatians 4: 6 Colossians 1: 13-14 Romans 8: 10 not 11 Mark 16:
14-16
THESE RIGHTEOUS MEN
WHO LIVED IN DARKNESS BUT WERE ‘OF LIGHT’ ARE GREAT TO BEHOLD.
When
God spoke to Abraham, that was light and wisdom. When God spoke to Moses, this was light and wisdom. God’s Light was manifested when Moses spoke continually
with God that his face shone so much that he wore a veil.
Enoch,
Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Daniel and
Zechariah are but a few examples who were lamps but not lights themselves, even
while they spoke for God, because He did not dwell in them
permanently, as He would in men from the time of the giving of His Promise
Spirit at Pentecost. People who became
Lights because God’s Spirit was in them.
Exodus
34: 29-35 2 Corinthians 3: 12-18 Hebrews Ch. 11 Acts 2: 4 Acts 2: 31-36
Galatians
3: 14 John 14: 23
THE PATHMAKER FOR
LIGHT:
John
the Baptist was not The Light but was a Lamp who burned Light as it was given
him, Jesus said this.
He
was the prophetic picture of Elijah, Jesus said this.
He
was given light and wisdom about Jesus from God, but
it appears that he did not understand as to the full meaning of Jesus as Lamb
of God and Baptiser, when he prematurely asked for Baptism before it was given. He knew
Jesus was God’s Light in order that men could become Sons of God. He would have gone to Paradise at his death
and have been raised at Jesus’ death : a quick stay.
Malachi
3: 1 Luke 3: 1-19 John 1: 29-34 Matthew 3: 1-17 John
5: 35 John 1: 6-8 Matthew 27: 51-53 Hebrews 9: 24 Ephesians 4: 7-10 Ephesians 2: 18-22
THE DISCIPLES OF
JESUS IN THE DARK.
The
disciples of Jesus such as John, Peter and James the only light given to them
would have been by adhering to The Law of God as taught in The Temple. It was at their Baptism into the Spirit of
God, at Pentecost that they became Sons of God as Sons of Light.
John, The Divine – when he became a light, was used by God to write A Gospel
and Epistles and The Book Revelation, which gave light to The End Times, when
The War between Darkness and Light will climax.
He
understood what Light and Darkness
was, as God gave him Light with His Truth.
Peter before his
Baptism – he in
John 13: 6-10, when telling Jesus that he was not to die, Jesus rightly rebuked
Peter saying “I rebuke you Satan”, for Peter’s comment was complete Darkness of which Satan is a Prince.
John
12: 35-46 Matthew 16: 21-23
It
can be noted that Peter thought he was saying what was good rather than evil, because he had received
before this, revelation from God Himself (Light) that Jesus was Christ The Son
of The Living God. Jesus said that only
the Father could have shown him that Truth, which at that stage of Jesus’
ministry, would have been an amazing statement to make. It was this experience of Light that may have
given him a misplaced, presumptuous authority to speak out, instead of waiting
for Light on the matter. This is what
all Sons of Light are to learn, to discern what is of God and what is of self,
as Jesus did.
It
is without doubt that because of Baptism, becoming A Lamp a Light of God, Peter
grew quickly into Spiritual maturity, learning to make his ideas to be tested
as to whether they were of God or of himself.
Acts
2: 4 Romans 8: 17 Revelation Chps. 17-19 1 John 1: 6-9 John 16: 23-28 John
16: 13-15 1 Corinthians 2: 10 1 John 1: 1-3 John 12: 36 John 16:
23-25 John 12: 49-50
JESUS AS GOD’S
LIGHT: John 5: 31-47 John 8: 12
Jesus
grew from infancy to boyhood in the knowledge and wisdom of God. That is, he grew in The Light of what God
told him, learning the difference between good and evil.
The
Light of God to Jesus, would have gradually given him understanding, of where
he had come from and of what he was to do.
The only Light that Jesus
had during the course of his ministry as The Son of Man was what God gave to
him.
He
fought strongly against the
principles of darkness that sought to destroy him, which intensified after his Baptism with Holy Spirit of God
Himself when he became Immanuel, a Light to The World as God by His Spirit, dwelt in
him. It was God in Jesus who performed
the miracles, healings and deliverances, during his ministry as The Son of
Man. God continued to be in Jesus, by
His Spirit and as Jesus died on the cross God by His Spirit in Jesus was reconciling the world to Himself.
God
by His Spirit, made Jesus alive and Jesus spent three days in the underworld,
till raised by God The Father out of Death.
The
power of Death and Darkness was overcome by The Power of God as He exerted His Power in order to raise Jesus
out of Death. Victorious, Jesus finally
went Home to Heaven to His God and Father, seeing each other face to face
again, and took up his heavenly position as Christ and Lord.
Jesus knew that he
must die and why, so that judgements would be carried out by man as Sons of God
upon the Powers of Darkness.
Ephesians 6: 10-18
He knew what the
price of redemption meant to God and himself and the purpose of it, so that
believers could receive the Promised Spirit of God.
He knew God’s love for himself and The Holy
Ones and His determination by His Word to bring them to The City He had
promised them.
He knew of The
Spiritual Temple, in which those called His Body (Sons of God) should live in!
N.B. There were things Jesus did not know, because God had not given
Light on the matter.
When
would he be returning for the church, those In Christ? When shall Jerusalem be restored? Where shall we all sit when around The
Throne of God? He did not really know
the glory that God had planned for him after his ascension.
Isaiah
7: 14-16 Luke 2: 52 John 17: 5 Luke Ch. 4 Hebrews 5:
7-10 John 12: 49-50 Colossians 1: 19-20 Hebrews 9: 14-15 1 Peter 3: 18 Romans
1: 3-4 Acts 2: 31-36 1 Corinthians 8: 6 John 12:
20-25 John 9: 39 John Chps. 14-17 Hebrews 11: 39-40 Hebrews 11: 16 John 2: 19-25 Ezekiel Chps. 41-47 John 5: 17
THE CHURCH – THOSE
IN LIGHT - WHO ARE LIGHTS
because they are
Baptised with Holy Spirit, who fail to do
God’s Will,
shall not inherit what was promised.
Because
they are In Christ, they will be raised first to be judged by Christ and not by
God.
Matthew
7: 21-23 Matthew 13: 47-50 Colossians 1: 28 Ephesians 4: 4-6 2
Corinthians 5: 10 1 Thessalonians 4:
16 2 Corinthians 3: 7-18 Luke 8:
16-18 2 Corinthians 1: 21
THOSE NOT IN
LIGHT - WHO SHOULD BE:
Those
who have been to the cross and have received the Spirit of Christ. They
are Sons of The Gospel of The Kingdom, potential Sons of God, but not In
Christ.
They know the
work of the Blood but not that of The Spirit of God.
They
are condemned, because they remain in Darkness, which is condemned already. When they
die they shall wait in Paradise to be raised for Judgement by God. They
will not be raised when Christ comes as he comes for those In Christ.
Their
judgement will be either, The Fiery Furnace or Outer Darkness.
Not to obey God is
Darkness.
John
1: 29 Galatians 4: 6 Matthew 13: 37-42 Colossians 1: 27 not 28 1 Peter
1:2 not The Spirit. Matthew 25: 30 Mark
16: 14-16 1 Corinthians 6: 11 Matthew 15: 13 Romans 3: 25 Revelation 20: 11-12
THE PRESENT WORK OF
THE REALM OF DARKNESS:
The
lords and gods of The Realm of Darkness, are God’s enemies and they are taking
mankind into days like those of Noah by their own Gospel of their Kingdom. All
Gospels are not Good News and must be tested.
Matthew
24: 9-14
Since
the creation of The Gospel of the Trinity, its false Prophets have caused those
who are Baptised with Holy Spirit to be robbed, from serving The Father, who is
The One True God, because of the guilt of idolatry, of Jesus as God.
It
is required of the Christian to read God’s Word, to have men who are Lights to
teach them until they too become Lights when Baptised with Holy Spirit. This is when they can ask God Himself to
teach them.
Because
of The Trinity Darkness, this is generally not being carried out as God
intended. We require God’s Light so
that His Truths are open to us and understand such writings as Daniel and
Revelation. God’s Wisdom is His Light
that can show and reveal from the most mysterious, to the understanding of the
common place, as to the doing of His Will, as we know the reality of His spoken
Word as one walks in fellowship with Him.
The
False Prophets, the disciples of the Gospel of the Trinity are like The
Pharisees, in that they have prevented many who have been to the cross from
being Baptised with Holy Spirit. They
claim that the work of the cross is all sufficient, and it is; but only for the
work that God has designated it to do…..
The False Prophets
have given potent centralisation of sin, in the work of the cross. It is true that it was because of sin, which
was Adam’s disobedience to God that created the need of the cross.
But God was
demonstrating by His Son, a life that was totally submitted to God’s Will and
Purposes.
This is the emphasis
which must be the message of the cross to those who would know God, that we are
to submit ourselves to Him in that we sin not.
It is those who are not submitted to God who will continue in sin. The centralisation of Sin is that man has
been concentrating on that issue rather than coming to God through Jesus which
is essential in order to know God’s Will and submitting one’s total life to Him
as Jesus did. While Jesus is seen as
God, they will look no further. All
that can be seen is their SIN.
The
false prophets have perverted the work of God’s Spirit by claiming that for one to speak in tongues is to
be speaking by demons.
False prophets of
every generation, since Pentecost have prevented believers from entering where
they themselves would not go. They
shall spend eternity in the Blackest Darkness.
The
work of The Church today, calls Sons of Light to fight against all the enemies
of God who are in The Realm of Darkness.
The church is to be the manifold
wisdom of God to deal with these enemies.
But the lack of the power of God has hindered their ability to do so. It is required to have on the full armour of God, beginning with the belt
of Truth. However, because of Idolatry,
Truth as to who is God and as to whose armour we are to have on, has hindered
God’s purposes for the church, and will be the reason why the Realm of Darkness
will appear to be in control, at the time of Jesus’ coming, of not only the
world but also of The Church.
John
17: 3 1 Corinthians 8: 6 Ezekiel 44: 10-14 Luke 11: 52 Matthew 13: 52 John
16: 13-15 & 23-28
2 Peter Ch 2 Ephesians 6: 10-18 Ephesians 3: 10-12 2 Peter 1: 3-4 Mark 13: 3-31 Matthew
24: 4-14
SPIRITUAL GIFTS
ARE LIGHT:
They
are the power of God in us and through us and for us to do what God did through
Jesus as The Son of Man. John 14:
10-12
Those
who come to the cross are given Christ’s gifts, which are not spiritual, but speak of positions of
service rather than work. These gifts are either prophet, apostle, evangelist or
pastor teacher, all of which do the work of the named gift.
The
Spiritual Gifts, are given by God, to those at the time of being Baptised with
Holy Spirit by Christ and are therefore called Spiritual. They are chosen by God who gives to whom He
wills, placing them in The Body according to the gift. It is God’s plan that Christ’s gifts and the
spiritual gifts, given by God, work together.
The
gifts and spiritual gifts are God’s Light to the church, which relate to Light
being wisdom
and that of knowledge which is to be effective
with Power for whatever needs are to be fulfilled to any believer. e.g. Healing, Deliverance etc…. This work is done, by The Spirit of God Himself, just as He did in and
through Jesus during the ministry of Jesus as The Son of Man.
The
prophet’s gift is given by Christ, not to be a prophet but to receive a
prophet’s word, which is only operative by God Himself, as God is the Spirit of
the Prophets. It is necessary for the
believer to be Baptised with Holy Spirit for the gift and message given by God,
to operate. For God is the Spirit of
the prophet.
The
Spiritual Gift of Prophecy is empowered by God, but is a message from Christ, as Head of The Church. Christ is The Spirit of prophecy. To have only the Spirit of Christ, is not sufficient for
this to operate because the gift of prophecy is a Spiritual gift which is given
at Baptism with Holy Spirit.
Ephesians
4: 7-12 1 Corinthians 12: 3-11 1 Corinthians 12: 18 1 Corinthians 12: 27-30 John 14: 10-12 Revelation 22: 6
Revelation 19: 10
ARE YOU GUILTY OF
IDOLATRY?
With
the Gift of Tongues, interpretation is required, so that God’s
Word and the purpose of the Tongues is made clear. With healing and deliverance there is the requirement of knowledge as to how
to pray effectively by The Spirit, asking of The Father to heal or to deliver whatever may be the need.
The Spiritual Gifts
are not to be the only expression of God’s Light. It is to be
seriously considered that while one may operate fluently in Spiritual Gifts, this does not mean that all is well while there
is the Spirit of Idolatry of Jesus as God.
N.B. It is to be understood that the greatest sense of indwelling in
God’s Spirit is when He or Christ by their Spirit in us speaks through us into
all situations where it is required. To
pray without ceasing is when you do pray it is by The Spirit of God or
Christ. This is Light. This is not a gift, but a language of The
Kingdom of God, by which God would have all in whom He dwells speak.
In
our personal walk with God Himself which is to be paramount, to excel in The
Spiritual gifts in one’s ministry and not to be in full fellowship with God and
Christ is to be wanting ‘light’ – and will be found wanting when Christ judges the church as to
doing the Father’s Will. It is a
requirement to be in fellowship to know and to do what is God’s Will.
The reason for the lack of fellowship with God, will be due to the
idolatry of Jesus as God. For God has
said to His Priests (we are priests because of Baptism), that they may serve in
his Temple, serve the people, but cannot come near to serve Him or any of His
Holy Things or His Most Holy Offerings.
They will bear their shame, if they neglect God’s warning.
1
Corinthians 12: 10 Ezekiel 44:
10-14 Ephesians 5: 20 1 John 1: 3 Romans 8: 26-27
Ephesians 6: 18 1 Corinthians
14: 1-4 Jude 1: 20
THE WISDOM OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT:
While Man’s Wisdom is derived from our Laws and customs doing as they would
dictate correctly, it is Darkness.
Anything that is not of God is Darkness. Let us be careful how much of the realm of Darkness we look at,
think about and give attention to.
Ephesians
4: 17-32
Walking in The Light of God’s Spirit is to walk in His Light. This will bring us into a thinking and attitude that is like Him,
just as those who walk in Darkness think and have the attitudes of the
inhabitants of that world. It is His
will that we know His solutions, His knowledge, in order to know and understand
in depth all matters that may come to hand in our daily lives, both spiritual
and the commonplace.
As
Sons of God, as one grows in Light we gain wisdom and revelation from God and
comprehend it. As this occurs we are
transformed and changed. We can delight in that we know God.
This is God’s Wisdom which is ancient in its depths enlarging the glimmers of
Light that we already have through the facts of The Gospel, correcting any error held through assumptions
and incorrect interpretation of God’s Written Word before coming to know His
Truth, that He is God alone.
No
other One can teach us His Wisdom resulting in revelation.
God Himself is The Spirit of Truth, He is The Spirit of Wisdom and
Revelation. He teaches us of His Hidden treasures by
factual knowledge, digging deep into that knowledge, giving us comprehensive
understanding and appreciation, whether this is about Himself or His Son. Revealing the difference in their positions
and works, which are carried out in oneness of mind and purpose.
God’s Wisdom of His Light is from Himself and it is good.
He
seeks for us to know His Wisdom which manifests Himself and His Greatness, existence and
power.
That
we know Him, love and honour Him as Jesus did.
It is His command that He is worshipped as The One True God, because He
knows that there is no other to compare with Himself.
It is His Will that He is our Father and be all that ‘Father’ means.
We
are to commit ourselves to Him as provider, healer, deliverer, counsellor,
comforter and as our God and Father, loving Him as Jesus said, with all our
heart, soul and mind – His Will being the uppermost intention of our lives. Then we shall know Him, to be our WISDOM AND LIGHT,
to know what is good, to do it and to walk in it.
It is as Sons of God, as Sons of Light that we are to learn to discern
the difference between Good/Light and Evil/Darkness. We are to do that which is good and abhor that which is
evil. We are to condemn evil and to see
it as useless. We are able to eat of
The Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil with the wisdom of God. The eating of this tree that was not
permitted to Adam and Eve was because they had not grown in The Wisdom of
God. As Sons of God, by the Wisdom of
God, we are to
eat of it, in order that we grow in righteousness.
It is only God’s Wisdom, being our Light, that we can know faith to
know that His Will is good, and by this faith, by our determination our minds
are renewed and our bodies transformed, because we are in God’s Light.
Ephesians
3: 14-18 1 Corinthians 13: 12 Jeremiah 9: 24 2 Corinthians 4: 6
John 16: 13-15 John 17: 3 1 Corinthians 8: 6 Isaiah 45: 1-12 Isaiah 40: 25 Exodus
Ch. 20 Mark 12: 28-34 Ephesians 6: 10-18 Psalm Ch.103 2 Corinthians 3: 17-18
Hebrews 5: 13-14 Ephesians 1:
17 1 Corinthians 2: 10 John 8: 15 John 10: 38 Genesis
2: 15-17 1 Timothy 4: 1-10
THE SCENARIO OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS, LIFE AND DEATH.
What we must do to strengthen and to deepen Light and to Produce its
Fruit, 1 John
2: 17,
Is to “Love not the world”, and to gain the Fruit of God. Galatians 5: 22-25.
LIGHT AND DARKNESS PRODUCE FRUIT
BY DOING LIGHT, righteousness – THE EVIDENCE OF LIGHT IS SEEN.
BY DOING DARKNESS, unrighteousness – THE EVIDENCE IS TO BE SEEN.
BOTH PRODUCE FRUIT, AS EVIDENCE OF IT BEING DONE.
IT IS ABSENT DUE TO THE ABSENCE OF IT.
THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO PRODUCTION OF IT. IT IS SEEN AS NOT BEING DONE.
If
you are in
light and there
is no evidence of it – then??
If
you are in
light and there
is evidence of darkness
then??
If
you are in
light and there
is the absence
of darkness,
then you are doing well.
If
one is in
darkness and
does appear to be good, there will be no fruit unless you are in light.
For
not to be in light
creates the absence of it.
Not
to do
darkness
creates the absence of it. It is seen
as not
being done.
This
is how Light
and Darkness is
produced in us and is to be accountable to God.
This
is how we
are being seen as Light or Darkness.
The
absence of its fruit produces its absence, just as the doing of it produces the fruit
and so the presence of it.
The
fruit of Light
or Darkness is
the evidence of its presence and the production of being produced.
The
fruit of Light
and Darkness
will not be present as evidence, if it has not been produced because of
doing it. It is the fruit that is the evidence of fruit, that is the presence of it, or the absence of it.
NO LIGHT PRODUCES
FRUIT OF DARKNESS
NO DARKNESS PRODUCES
FRUIT OF LIGHT. The absence of Fruit,
is the evidence of having no fruit, of either Light or Darkness.
No
fruit of darkness means production of Light. No fruit of Light means production of darkness, and that is what we are!!!!
Light is of God’s Righteousness ; related to His Goodness, and not man’s idea of it.
Darkness
is of the Kingdom of Darkness, that is evil because of unrighteousness.
When
we were in
Darkness, we did Darkness. We continually produced fruit of
Darkness, by doing Darkness.
Now
in Light we have the power to do Light and to continually produce
fruit of Light. This is how we grow as a tree of righteousness, by God’s Spirit.
This is our transformation and how it takes place, affecting our mind,
souls and bodies.
Those
in
Darkness have
no power to produce anything than the fruit of Darkness.
Now
in Light,
it will only be
by doing Light that will produce the fruit of
righteousness of Light. Only this will
override the production of Darkness (some of which still lies in us) and the fruit of Darkness.
The absence of the fruit of Darkness confirms the lack of doing it, i.e. of the person that is in Light and is to do righteousness.
Seen
by God as
Lights, because
we are in His Spirit, through Baptism into His Spirit by Christ….into God who is
Light, we must
willingly go on to produce Light, the fruit of Light, to gain the absence of the
darkness of the World and to be stronger in the presence of The Light in us. Ephesians 4: 5-6
Eve produced fruit in herself before eating of the tree of Knowledge of
Good and Evil, by doubting God and His goodness to them and by disobeying His
command. WATCH THE SEED
THOUGHTS.
She
went further, by taking the fruit which took her further into the production of darkness. The power of the production of the fruit of Darkness carried
her forward into disobedience to God which is the essence of darkness.
By
Adam
agreeing with her,
it would appear that Adam just did not think.
He simply, took her reasoning, rather than standing still and thinking
first
what God had told him would happen if he even thought about that : which takes one into the fruit of darkness, giving it presence. So they fell into Darkness
The
power of their creation sought to be greater than their Creator. This is Darkness.
The
power of The Creator is greater by far than the creation. This is Light.
GOD IS LIGHT. IF YOU ARE NOT IN
HIS SPIRIT, YOU ARE NOT IN LIGHT, BUT DARKNESS.
LOVE NOT THE WORLD NOR ANYTHING IN THE WORLD FOR IT IS DARKNESS.
THE MAN WHO DOES THE WILL OF GOD WILL LIVE FOREVER.