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Sunday Aug 28, 2016
Path of presence - Transcendent life
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
Sunday Aug 28, 2016
AGE OF ADAM
Humanity was created in the image of God but of a lower order than God (Hebrews 2:7) and with many limitations so it was and is and always will be unable to live AS God. However it can rise to astonishing acts of love and compassion, but sink to atrocious depths of violence, fear and corruption.
Built into this being was the capacity to live with a blind notion that God was absent from its life. That is why Adam and Eve thought they could hide from God.
So their disobedience and their loss of innocence expressed what humanity was always destined to express in its falling short of the glory of God. After that act of falling short the essential humanity remained the same as always but with a new consciousness of darkness and an obsession with its separated self that could go in any twisted pathway it might choose. And it did.
AGE OF ISRAEL
God took a nation and blessed it incredibly by giving it wise and purposeful commandments that would offer it the wisdom and insight and encouragement to walk a straight path and to reflect something of the disposition of God as close as a limited humanity could do. Israel did not take what was on offer and like Adam it also lived a life as though God was not present, even rejecting the presence of the promised Messiah when he arrived.
AGE OF JESUS
Jesus was God and man and lived fully in the conscious communion and flow of the life of his father through the Holy Spirit that was resident within him. He lived AS God within that very same old humanity of Adam and Israel without being blinded. Jesus transcended his humanity and took it to a cross of death so that we too could transcend our humanity and take it to our cross. That has always been the destiny of that old humanity, what the Bible calls the OLD MAN. 2 Corinthians 5:14If one man died for all then all were dead…
AGE OF THE SPIRIT
Jesus was raised from the dead and all humanity was given the opportunity to receive that resurrection life from the Holy Spirit on and from the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:17). This was the birth of a new humanity. The Bible calls this the NEW MAN. We are all invited to put off (or transcend) the OLD humanity, that we still carry with us, like Jesus did. We are all invited to put on the NEW humanity by living in a new mindset of an ever present consciousness of the presence of God with us (Emmanuel). That is transcendence into true Being.
The OLD humanity could never be ‘fixed up’, or evolve into a perfect being that can live as God would. And while Godly Commandments of loving relationships and forgiveness, and well-managed psychotherapy can enhance moral and emotional functionality, there is no going forward to a state of compete wholeness for the OLD humanity. The OLD humanity can only be ‘transcended’ by shifting from an ordinary life awareness to a spiritual awareness through the practice of the presence of God by faith, and by constant correction of the straying from the wellspring of LIFE in the spirit.
Ephesians 2:1-6 God’s own life force has now been activated in you, lifting you out of the deathly void of self-absorption and self- gratification
2. which you once shared with the rest of humanity. We were driven by the desperate self serving attitudes and values of this world that are energized by the power of the prince of darkness, who still holds sway over people who don’t believe and who don’t know any better.
3. Once we were all trapped in that way of life, compelled to do whatever our mental and emotional and physical wants and needs demanded of us. Our entire disposition was one of being herded along with everybody else in a torrent of intense feelings that focused us in on ourselves.
4. But God, whose entire disposition is one of overflowing goodness and kindness and love toward us
5. Supernaturally activated the life of his son Jesus into our beings while we were still stuck in our self-absorption and not even looking in his direction. (God’s goodness planned and implemented your salvation)
6. Father gave us a place in heaven and a shared life with Jesus, which is available for anyone to experience.
7. And in this coming age it will be displayed for all to see the extravagance of his loving goodness and kindness to us that transcends all else through what Jesus did in becoming one of us. (CAV)
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