Coming Out Of Darkness Part 2 - Gary Sigler

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CALVARY’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart" (Eph. 4:17-18).
Alienation from the life of God in us is a great problem in the Church. All of us are still, to one degree or another, alienated from that life we have within us. And the only thing that is going to bring us into more of an understanding of that life, and prepare us for what God is about to do on the earth, is to have most of our concepts of God which we have been taught in the past by our forefathers torn down. They have to be uprooted, because what God wants to bring to the earth through His people is the Gospel of reconciliation. This is the only Gospel that Paul ever told us we need to preach. The people of the earth must be told the magnitude of Calvary’s victory.
Very few of God’s people are aware of "Calvary’s Emancipation Proclamation." I think probably most of us know what the Emancipation Proclamation was; it was the proclamation that freed the blacks from slavery. And oh, if we knew the benefits of Calvary’s proclamation! That is the reason that we are not moving in the power of God. The Church has so little power today. I know there are a few men who are operating somewhat in the power of God, and that it is flowing through certain ones in the gifts of the Spirit. But we haven’t seen anything yet, because when God by His Spirit comes to maturity within the Church, we will see the power of God such as never has been seen before.
In these days we must understand the heart of God. There is coming such an awesome power of God to the Church, that if you don’t understand His heart, and walk in the love of God, you will take His power and bring judgment to His people. You will cause them damage and harm. God is bringing judgment to His people, but it is a righteous judgment. You have to know the heart of God. You have heard it said that the Apostolic and the prophetic anointing of the early Church is going to be restored to the Church, and there are many men of God today who are prophesying and teaching that the Church as we knew it in its beginning stages is going to be restored. But that Church didn’t make it the first time! And I am not so sure that if the Apostolic anointing and power came back to the Church as it was in the early days, the same thing wouldn’t just happen all over again, unless God’s people begin to understand the heart of God. I don’t think such restoration is the answer. I think the only answer today for God’s people is to really understand, and have unveiled to them, the heart of God.

All Shall Be Made Alive
In the first message, I shared with you a passage which has become very controversial in the Church, and I want to pick up with that again. That is 1 Corinthians chapter 15, beginning at verse 20 and going through verse 23: "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming."
You remember I asked the question earlier, is the "all" in Christ any less than the "all" in Adam? Because if we can take that verse literally, just as it is spoken, "as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive," the question is answered. And to understand how this could possibly be, how we all died in Adam, and are made alive in Christ, we need to go back to the very beginning of creation to see what God’s original purpose was for creating man.
I know we have all heard this, but God’s original design, intent and purpose was to create humanity to contain and express His life on the earth. That was His intention from the very beginning. "Let us make man in our image, and let them have dominion over the earth." So man was created to have the very life, nature and character of God, and then to be a possessor and take dominion over the earth. But we all know what happened: For as in Adam all died . . . What caused Adam to die? Every one of you could tell me that when Adam chose the wrong source for his life, it brought to him death, and then that death passed to all mankind, because we all came out of Adam. That is what the Word says. So that means that you had no control over this life of sin and death when you came into this world. When you came from the womb, you had absolutely no control over the life that Adam gave to you. Now religion gives us a totally different picture. Religion tells us that you are a free moral agent, and God has given to you a free will, therefore you have the capability to choose right or wrong; you have the capability to choose either God, or a life of self; you have the capability and the free will to choose. We do have the freedom to choose, but as we will see, our will is bound up in the fall of Adam.

The Knowledge of Good and Evil Brings Death
When I was a struggling Christian with many bondages in my life, I was told, "The devil doesn’t make you do the things you do. You have a choice, and if you will choose to do what is right, then that will enable God by His Spirit to work in your life. But you have to make the right choices." And you know what? I never made the right choices! I often tried making the right choice, but I found that I seldom had the power to carry through with it. Now I know a lot of people do, but I didn’t have the character, nor the strength. I wanted God, but I also wanted the life that I had which was not compatible with the Christian life. I know a lot of people live at that place where I was. But all I was told was, "Gary, it’s up to you. You have the free will to make the right choice."
Then one day God revealed to me that my choice was made by Adam! Romans 5:12 says, "Therefore just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so in this way death came to all men, because all sinned." Now I have to ask you again: What brought Adam into death? What in the world did he do that caused him to die and caused me to die with him? God placed him in a garden with various things to eat and gave him very few instructions. When God created Adam He didn’t give him a rule book, He gave him just a couple of words. He said, "Of every tree in the garden you may freely eat. But the day you eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you are going to die." That is what brought death to humanity. I have been teaching this for years, and I still do not have the full realization of it; I still don’t have the full experience of it. But I’ll tell you this, that the root of the darkness, and the alienation in our minds from the life of God, is the fruit of this tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Now consider: "Knowledge of good and evil". Think about the teachings of Christianity, or any religion in the world. What is the basis of their teaching, if it isn’t based upon the knowledge of good and evil? I know of no religion in the world, including Christianity, that does not base almost everything it teaches on choosing the good over the evil. Yet God says, "The very day, Adam, that you begin to eat that fruit, the very day that you begin to discern the difference between good and evil, is the day that you will die."
Why did God call it a death? It is because when God created Adam, He breathed into him, and we know that the word "breath" is the same word as "spirit," so what God breathed into Adam was His very own life and His nature. It says there was a Tree of Life in the midst of that garden, which simply means that Adam could have chosen to depend wholly and solely upon the life of God that was in him, the life that God literally had breathed into him (and there is so much in that life of God!). The life that God breathed into Adam was simply everything that He was. He breathed into him His energizing, quickening life. He breathed into him His power, His authority. Adam was an example of everything that God wanted on the earth. And God said to him, "Don’t partake of the knowledge of good and evil, because the moment that you begin to eat of the fruit of that tree, you will die." You will be cut off from My life. Your consciousness will be separated, and you will become in your consciousness separated from Me, as a separate entity. And you will begin, then, to live your life not by the knowledge of the life that I placed within you, for that will be cut off, and you will have nothing left but a knowledge of good and evil. You will struggle all of your life trying to discern and trying to choose the good over the evil, but you will be cut off from My life. And then you will take this nature that is separated from Me, and you will produce sons in your own image." That is what happened at the fall, and that is what the Bible says. Adam and Eve then produced sons after their image. They lost the image of God.
What was the very first thing that Jesus did on the day of resurrection? The Word says in John 20:22 that on the eve of His resurrection, He appeared. The doors were closed, but He appeared in the midst of the disciples, and the very first thing that He did, it says, is He breathed on them and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." That act restored back to those men what Adam had lost in the garden! Jesus once again, as God did in the beginning, breathed His life into them. 1 Corinthians 15:45 says, "Christ was made a Life-giving Spirit." And that’s why Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. Do you really want to live by God? Then you have to know how to eat of Me. Do you really want to live, do you really want life?" He said, "As the Father has sent Me, and I live by the Father, whosoever will eat of Me will live by Me." That is the promise—if you eat of Me, if you learn to assimilate My life, you will live by Me.
This is why Paul said, "Don’t be as the gentiles, walking in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God." To be alienated from the life of God means that you believe in your consciousness that you and God are two separate entities. To be in death simply means that you cannot possibly even imagine that you and God are not two entities, but one. But that is how it was in the beginning; Adam was a full replica of what God wanted in humanity. That is why he was called "the first Adam," and Jesus is called "the second Adam" and "the last man". Jesus fulfilled that which Adam failed to do. Jesus restored man back to the Tree of Life. Humanity can once again live by the life of God, instead of trying to choose the good over the evil.
Now, not only did Adam make a fatal choice, but here is where Christianity as a whole has made the same mistake. Very, very shortly, just within a few years—in fact even beginning within the lifetime of the Apostle Paul, men began to revert back to the knowledge of good and evil, rather than learning how to discern and live by that life that was breathed into them by the new birth. Religion tells us this: "God loved you so much that He sent His own Son to die for you on the cross." And we are told that for the joy that was set before Him, Jesus endured the cross. But the magnitude of that victory, in the Christian’s eyes, is so limited, because we have been fed for two thousand years from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. "If you are good, God will bless you; if you aren’t good, God won’t bless you." The magnitude of Calvary’s victory, according to the religious eyes, is that, yes, Jesus died for the world; He suffered on the cross, but His victory is limited only to those who, first of all, receive Him as Savior, and then after that learn to live by His rule book.
The book of Ephesians talks about the eternal purpose of God. The eternal purpose of God is that man would live from the flowing of God’s life within him. Paul mentions several times in the Book of Ephesians, especially in chapter 3, the "mystery" of the gospel. We all know that if something is a mystery, it is sometimes not that easy to figure out. The Gospel is a deep and hidden mystery, especially from religious eyes, especially from people who have been trained all of their lives to discern the difference between good and evil. Now I know that there is a verse in the Bible which says that some have exercised their senses to discern both good and evil. But it doesn’t say that they have learned to discern the difference between good and evil. It says they have learned to discern good and evil, yet both are from the same source! It’s not too hard to discern evil, but it is very, very difficult to discern the truth about good sometimes. The truth is that you can be very good, and still not have God’s character and His substance formed in your life.
If what the Word teaches us is true, just as sin entered into the world by one man, and through that sin death passed to all men, then what passed to all men was that seed that Adam took into him from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We are born into this life with that seed in us. I know this is a repeat, but we must hear this and clearly get an understanding of it. Before God’s people can ever grasp fully the reconciliation that He wants to bring through them, they have to understand His heart, because if you don’t understand the heart of God, and you do become filled with His authority and His power, you will use it to judge, and you will not judge righteously.
God is coming to judge the earth, but He is a righteous judge. God knew, and it wasn’t a surprise to Him, that His creation was going to fall. Every man that was born after Adam was separated in his consciousness and his awareness from that life that was in his spirit, and every man was then left with nothing but the discernment to choose between good and evil. Man was cut off in his spirit from the knowledge and the life of God, and because of it he had nothing left but the knowledge of good and evil. Therefore some men would become very good, and other men would be very evil. The people of the world as a whole, looking only through eyes of good and evil, would see that there was a group of good people and there was a group of evil people, and they would imagine that all the evil people needed God, but all the good people were pretty much OK. But listen! In God’s eyes, every man that is born, is born in death. He is alienated and separated in his mind from the life of God that is in his spirit. He is left only with a knowledge of good and evil.
John 1:9 says that Jesus was "the true light that lights every man that comes into the world." Proverbs calls the light of man, the spirit, "the candle of the Lord." So every man that comes into this world has a spirit, has hidden deeply in his being that candle, that spirit from the Lord which needs to be ignited. And we can go to men, and we can tell them about the Gospel; we can convert them, we can even get them to believe intellectually that Jesus is the Son of God. But then we begin to teach them how to live according to the Bible, to choose the good over the evil, and we have done the same thing that Adam did in the very beginning. Even within ourselves we try to choose the good over the evil, rather than learning how to contact and live by that Holy Spirit of God that has been placed within us.
Can’t we all see that? That is what is happening! We do not have, especially in the Church in America, many godly people who are manifesting the life and the character of God to a lost and dying world. We have many good people. And most of them think that because they are good, they are OK, and they are always trying to convince the one who is evil to change his ways so that God can help him—not realizing that good and evil are the same tree. We need the light of God to see this! Whether you are very good, or whether you are very evil, it is the same source of life that is cut off from the life of God.
Look again at Ephesians 4:17-18. "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you walk not as other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart." This is the situation today. We have people all over the earth who have been regenerated by the Spirit of the Living God, who have never learned other than to discern the difference between good and evil.
Let’s go back and take another look at Calvary. God realized that because of Adam, the whole human race would be raised with a concept of knowing only the good over the evil. And He knew that it was absolutely hopeless. Paul told the Ephesians that before Christ, they were alienated. They were not members of the same family. But through the cross, God put into one both Jew and Gentile. Now one has to understand the mindset in those days, which was that the Jew was very "godly," and the gentile was the "ungodly." So Paul says that God by one offering put both the Jew and the Gentile into one body, thus bringing peace. The Word says Jesus was "the Lamb of God slain from before the foundation of the world." The question we have to ask —and this is a hard one to fight, this religious concept—is this: Is the magnitude of Calvary’s victory limited only to those who are able to choose the good over the evil?
I questioned God about this for years, before I came into the understanding that I am sharing with you. I used to question God, because I was so full of the lust of the flesh, as a young person, and even as a Christian! I loved God. I used to cry at night over my condition. But I wanted the things of the world. I wanted everything that you are not supposed to want. And I went through hell on earth as a man living to the full extent the experience of Romans, chapter 7. And the only reason we go through that is because of having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God that is in us because of the blindness that is on our hearts. We have to realize the magnitude of Calvary’s victory. The Emancipation Proclamation from the cross of Calvary was that you are not guilty.
You are living your life by the knowledge of good and evil if you are not one who has the ability and who has learned how to exercise your spiritual being so that you can live by God’s life. It makes no difference how good you are, or how evil you are, your life source is still coming from the wrong place. In God’s eyes, there is no difference. In the man or woman who is not living by the life of God, there is no difference between the good and the evil. It is all from the wrong tree. And all we have had for two thousand years, in Christianity, is religious teachings, trying to teach us how to be godly, trying to teach us and warn us to choose the good over the evil.
We need to read again Romans 5:12-21. You see, God understands our condition; we don’t. Because of our religious traditions, we think that we deserve all the guilt, we deserve all the shame. But I didn’t ask to be born having all the lust and wanting all the wrong things. I didn’t ask for it; that was Adam’s gift to me. And so because Adam made a mistake, religion tells me that I came into this world constituted and filled with the character and the nature that loves to sin, or maybe I’m fortunate and I have been born with a character which is good. But religion will tell me that because I inherited a life that loves to sin, and loves to do all the things that I’m not supposed to do, I somewhere have to find within myself the power to put that down and to choose to live right, so that God can bless me and I can someday die and go to heaven. Yet the very first thing that was said of Jesus by John was, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" I can testify that if you cannot overcome sin no matter how hard you try, if you will continue to seek after God, He will eventually grow within you, and you will overcome! The Christian life is not a matter of will power, but a matter of the Spirit of God flooding every area of your being, and that takes time. We are as "newborn babes" and it takes some of us many years to be transformed.
Church isn’t a happy place today. Why? Because we are under so much guilt and condemnation. When we get together, there are times when we break through and we touch the Spirit of God, and there is some rejoicing, but it is so limited! It’s so limited, because when you have the slightest—and I mean the slightest—bit of guilt in your consciousness, it separates you, and you can’t break through to the Spirit of God. The very first thing John said was, "Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!" Did He do that? If you are religious, you will say He did, but you won’t believe it, because your religious concept says, "Yes, He took away the sin of the world, but only for those who say, ‘Jesus I receive You,’ or only for those who learn to live and choose the good over the evil." Calvary is only beneficial to those who learn to make the right choices—that’s what religion teaches us! And so we have multitudes of people all over the world who genuinely have been regenerated by the Spirit of God, but they never have been taught how to live by that life of God that is in them. All they are ever taught is how to choose the good over the evil. And when you do that, it alienates you from the life of God in you, and you become like an unbeliever, having your eyes blinded.
You see, an unbeliever has no consciousness, no awareness at all that they have the Spirit of God in them. But if you have been regenerated, you do have that consciousness. At times you will experience the flowing of God, but because of your concepts, when you sin it will cause a blockage, for guilt cannot enter into the presence of God! The only people who enter into the presence of God and live there are people who know how not to be guilty. As long as you are in the flesh, I can guarantee you every day of your life you are going to err and miss God. Since 1969 I have avidly, every day of my life, sought after and hungered after God. In 1969, when I had the experience of being caught up into the heavenly realms and of experiencing God flooding me, I became extremely hungry for God. And I have spent literally hundreds and hundreds of hours on my face and in the Word of God, hungering and seeking after God. I have been one of the most hungry-after-God people, yet I still make mistakes every day. It is because I have not learned how to live fully by the life of God within me. And, in fact, it is not even a matter of learning. It is a matter of God’s life growing, it is a matter of the Spirit of God maturing within me. It is a matter of my seeking, every day of my life, not after something which is in a distant heaven, but that which is within—learning how to contact the reality of the Spirit, the energizing, quickening spirit of God, so that every day I can enter into His presence, and I can feast upon the spiritual manna. From that experience, I am energized and quickened and enabled a little more to walk in the life of God. But when I begin in my consciousness to choose the good over the evil, I am separated in my consciousness from God, alienated from that life. And I am left as Adam was again, to struggle around in darkness trying to choose the good over the evil, trying to whip my flesh into line.
Jesus did say, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me." But that has been so misunderstood in the Church, because there is no way that Adam, your carnal man, can put himself to death. It cannot be done! And that is why the Apostle Paul said in Romans chapter 8 that if you through the spirit put to death the deeds of the flesh, you will live. The Christian life is totally a life of learning how, through the spirit, to live godly. You will never do it in your own strength. You will not live long enough to learn how to live godly. All you will be is condemned because you can’t make it. The flesh cannot live godly.
You simply need to behold the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world! You have absolutely no problem with God except in your religious mind. God’s people have a hard time believing the goodness and the loveliness of God, because we feel that we have to be justified in His sight by what we do, rather than by what He has done. Yet I can go to anyone on the street, I can go to a prostitute in the gutter, and I can say to her, "Lady, you have absolutely no problems with God, absolutely none." And I can guarantee you that when I begin to speak this way, the words that flow out of me will begin to generate in her. I will say to her, "Little lady, there will come a day in your life when you will fully reveal and manifest to the world the glory of God." There will come that day!
Another verse we need to look at says that the last enemy to be destroyed is death. What is God’s concept of death? It is living not by His life, but by a life of good and evil. God’s concept of death is having the consciousness of being separated from Him. If you are separated from God, then you are in death; so for the last enemy, death, to be destroyed would mean that there would not be anything, anywhere, in any place that was not reconciled to Him—for if there were any place, anywhere in the universe, that was not reconciled to God, then it would be in death.

Coming Out of Hell
You all are going to have to bear with me on what follows, because it may take a long while to teach and to reveal all of the misconceptions in the doctrines that we have learned. And I am just going to touch on one of them now, the subject of hell. I will cover this in more detail as we go on in this work. There are many other authors who have covered this subject in the true light of God’s nature, and I would be happy to recommend them to you.
The biggest question in people’s minds is the question of hell and the seeming teaching in Revelation about the eternal torment of hell. Let me just give you a little concept of what hell is. Hell is a literal place. Hell is a place that probably most of the world, and even probably most Christians, are going to experience at one time or another. Let me give you an example of hell. Do you remember a few years ago when the man heading the biggest ministry the world has ever seen confessed publicly, before the whole world, his sin? That man went through hell. Not only did he go through hell because he was caught and had to publicly confess, but he also suffered under the opinions of others—especially Christians. And I want you know that when I first heard about that, God revealed to me the heart of Jimmy Swaggart. He showed me a man who was not a hypocrite, as the world and as most Christians assumed, but he was a man caught in the web of the knowledge of good and evil. He had the largest ministry the world had ever known, and had probably spoken to more people than any other man at the time, but his message was very judgmental and critical. If you ever heard Jimmy preach, you know that he was a hell-fire and brimstone preacher. Why? Not because he was a hypocrite, but because he hated so much what he had inherited through Adam, and he struggled so desperately with that thing. He didn’t want anybody else to ever have to suffer what he suffered; and he did not understand, nor did he know, the extent of the love of God.
There is a book I wrote called Coming Out of Condemnation. Right after this happened to Jimmy, God revealed to me that he needed intercession. I wept and I groaned and I travailed for that man. I felt his suffering. I felt his agony. And God said, "It is time that My people understood that they don’t need to feel condemnation." (I wrote the book, and please get one—not because I wrote it, but because I can guarantee that you, too, suffer under condemnation, and you need to read that book.) And God said, "Write that book, and send it to Jimmy Swaggart." And of course you know how we all think. I thought, "Well, you know, he has this big ministry, and he’s in the middle of this; how can I even give it to him?" But I just addressed it: "Jimmy Swaggart, Baton Rouge, Louisiana," and I sent it off. Within a few days, I got a letter from Jimmy thanking me for sending it.
I’ll tell you, Christian, you just haven’t been caught. Now I realize that in Adam, in our natural character, there are some who are very strong-willed, and they are able by their self-effort to be very good people. However, they will condemn you something fierce, because you are not able to do what they can do. And they will preach hell-fire and brimstone to you and have your ears smoking. Yet God has men and women positioned all over the earth today who understand what I am telling you. Judgment is coming, and I believe it is coming quickly. Hell is coming to the earth. The fiery indignation is coming to the earth in a fully righteous judgment. The fires of God are coming, and the Word says that our God is a consuming fire. I have been judged by that fire many times. Do you think that Jimmy Swaggart didn’t go through a burning? Can you imagine what it would be like if you had your deepest sins revealed to the world? How about even to your family? (Now I know this is not still true for all of us. Right now I don’t have a problem like that, but years ago I did. I would have been absolutely humiliated to have the world exposed to my sin.)
Yet you know that Revelation says that there is a day coming when we shall stand before God and the books will be opened. Do you know what that book is? Paul says that you are living epistles, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God. Each of us is a book. There is coming a day for everyone when their book will be opened. But let me tell you something: the fire of God, the judgments of God are never vindictive! We are taught a doctrine of eternal punishment. I will provide more detail later, how the concept of eternal punishment all happened. I will tell you now that it began basically with the Roman Church. It began by men, leadership in the Church, who wanted to instill fear into the hearts of God’s people. We know that the Bible says that perfect love casts out all fear, but yet the churches, almost everywhere in all denominations and in all sects, have within their Gospel and their teaching, fear. If we need to fear anything, it is the carnal self life that keeps us separated in our mind from the life of God in our spirit.
You have heard this expression: "If you really do love someone or something, let it go." Let it go, because if you try to hold onto it, if you keep it in bondage, there can be no genuine love flowing. God’s people today need to be set free. Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world! If the religious concept is true, the victory at Calvary was a very, very small and a very, limited victory. If the religious concept is true, when this thing all winds up, there are going to be a few on God’s side, but the devil is going to have the masses of humanity. That is not a great victory. Even common sense tells us that.
God knew that when He brought you forth into this life you were going to be separated and alienated in your mind from His life, and there are people who live seventy or a hundred years, and for one reason or another, they never, never, hear someone preach the true Gospel to them. Oh, they hear the religious gospel. But they don’t want that. They don’t want to hear, "You’ve got to change your life. If you want to be used by God, you can’t do that! Do you want the blessings of God? You can’t do that!" They don’t want to hear that, because they are just like you, they are selfish. Self wants what self wants. But when God regenerates your spirit, then you begin to want the things of God.
If people begin to realize the extent of God’s love, they will flock to Him. Can you imagine what it would be like for a prostitute to walk into a church where everybody knows she is a prostitute, yet they would love her, they would minister to her, and they would draw her into worship? Can you imagine how long she would be a prostitute? (And even if she was, that’s God’s business and not yours.) Do you have enough conviction in your knowledge of God and in the words that you speak to believe that you could speak life into her? Because if you can’t, she doesn’t need your church. If she only hears how she needs to change her life and clean herself up, it is useless. She can’t. She doesn’t need to hear that. If you will love her and minister life to her and not the letter of the law, she will begin to grow and change.
Let’s go to Romans 5:12-21. "Therefore just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men because all sinned. For before the Law was given, sin was in the world, but sin is not taken into account where there is no law. Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by the breaking of a commandment. (These verses are so plain!) As did Adam who was a pattern of the one to come. But the gift is not like the trespass, for if the many died by the trespass of one man (and we know "the many" was the whole world) how much more does God’s grace, and the gift that came by grace of the one man Jesus Christ overflow to the many (Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin.) for judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. (That doesn’t compute in our minds!) For if by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. (The next is a key verse:) Consequently just as the result of the one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of the act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men."
How can we separate those two? How can we say "in Adam they all die, but in Christ they are not all going to be made alive"? We would rather read it that "condemnation was for all men, so the result of the one act of righteousness was justification to those who receive Jesus and begin to walk in obedience to His commands." It doesn’t say that. And I know that sounds right. What am I saying? Do I have the liberty to live any way I want to live? Are you telling me that I can do anything that I want to do, and that eventually I’m still going to be OK? If your attitude is, "If what you are telling me is true, then I am going to go live it up," then my answer to you is this: you do not know God, and you desperately need to be saved. But I will tell you this, you do not have a free will. Adam took care of that for you, and he bound up the human race into the will of the flesh. You do not have a free will. We can obtain freedom in our will only by learning how to contact and fellowship with God in our spirit. By spending time in God’s presence, and learning to live there, His Spirit will flow into our natural will and transform it into His will.
The Pentecostals love to say, "We are filled with the Holy Ghost." Well, let me tell you something: If you are really filled with the Holy Ghost, you will be a holy person. But you cannot be that way by trying to be that way. Trying to do the right thing doesn’t work. If you are full of the Holy Spirit, you will be controlled, moved and motivated by that Holy Spirit. But you can’t work for it. You can’t "live right" for it. You can’t try to choose the good over the evil for it, because that puts you into the works of the flesh. Trying with your Adam nature to choose the good over the evil puts you in that category of being alienated in your mind from that life that is in your spirit. You can’t make it that way.
"As the result of the one trespass was condemnation for all men, so the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life to all men." So, can you live any way you want to? Yes. But here is the problem. You’re going to go through hell one way or another. God had a plan in the very beginning for every human being that was ever born, and that is why I have shared so often that the Word says we have been chosen in Him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. That is God’s design; that is His plan, and that is His purpose, and your little will cannot stop God’s purpose for your life. Absolutely impossible! I have done everything in my life but curse God. I have told Him, "Leave me alone! I can’t do it any more. I can’t make it any more." God would just say, "Too bad, it’s too late for you. You consecrated yourself to me and there is no turning back."
You see, the teaching of religion has gotten confused between the "will" and the "choice." Your will is bound up in Adam, and you are not a free moral agent. You are bound up to that will of the flesh. But you can choose to do what is right. Now again, this sounds like the man in Romans 7, which it is. He chooses to do that which is right, but he finds in his members another law, warring and bringing him into the bondage of the flesh. We will go through that struggle. That is what happens when you choose to live by the knowledge of good and evil.
Another way to look at this is through the law of sowing and reaping. God’s magnitude at Calvary took away the sin of the world, so you have no problems with God, but if you sow to the flesh, you will of the flesh reap corruption. If you are in the flesh, and you have been reaping the flesh, the answer for you is not to try to change and to choose the good over the evil; the answer for you is learn how to feed upon spiritual food. Again as Jesus said, "If you will learn to eat of Me, you will live by Me." He was even so bold as to make a further statement that very few have been able to understand. He said, "If you will eat the food that I give you, you will never die," and He wasn’t talking about spiritual death. He said, "Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness, and they died," and He obviously was talking about physical death. But he said, "If you will eat the Bread of Life, you will never die." You may say, "I haven’t seen any examples of that." I’ll tell you, there are men and women all over this earth—and you probably never met any of them—who have learned to eat the Bread of Life and have never died.
I am not talking about some "ascended master" or some of the New Age teachings; I am saying that God has people on the earth who have learned how, and are learning how, to eat the Bread of Life. They shall never die! They are about to be loosed to all of creation, and they are about to begin to bring reconciliation and restoration to all of God’s creation. And the sad, sad, thing is that all of Christianity is going to be in an uproar over a group of people manifesting the loveliness of God and the attributes of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Do you know what the Church is looking for? The Church is looking for the restoration of the Apostolic Church, saying, "You better be careful, saints, because the days of Ananias and Saphira are coming back to the Church." How many times have you heard that just recently? If you are motivated to serve God out of fear, you will find yourself in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. I have questioned God so much, and I wish God’s people would learn to do this. (Don’t be afraid to question God. Don’t be afraid to question the Word. We are taught in Christianity, "Oh, don’t question! Just take what the man of God says. Don’t question God." Please, I beg of you, you need to challenge God! He loves to reveal to you His secrets.) But all of us need our concept of God drastically changed. Our country, America, has not rejected God; they have rejected a Christianity which has given them such a low concept of Who God is. That is what they are rejecting. I rejected that God twenty years ago. I have not had the "Christian" concept of God in twenty years. I am a Christian, but that concept will kill you. How could you be a reconciler if you feel that people have to choose the good over the evil? How can you help someone who is constantly choosing evil? You can’t help them unless you understand the heart of God, and can be a reconciler.
God’s reconcilers are all over the earth. He is soon going to loose them, and they will go into churches, they will go into bushes, they will go everywhere, bringing reconciliation and revealing to God’s people the heart of God. That day will come and hopefully soon! But whether it is this Fall or next year, I do know it is coming very quickly. It has to be happening soon, because there is so much revelation, and there is so much coming to the Church that is revealing much of God’s heart.
All that has been written above can be summarized very simply: God truly does love humanity, and He does not expect you to choose the good over the evil, because He knows that you cannot. What you need is to discover the treasure of His life that is within, and to learn to live by that life. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us" (2 Cor. 4:6-7).

The Incorruptible Seed The Last Adam Part 3 - Gary Sigler

Last Adam

The perception of our outward man is perishing as we realize the truth of our being. The revelation of atonement makes us realize that the perception we have of our old man (carnal nature) was crucified at Calvary, and our inward man (our spiritual man) is being renewed day by day. We have known that we have the incorruptible seed within us, but I don’t think that we have fully realized that we are that incorruptible seed. It is not something we have; it is something that we are.
I would like to ask you the question again, who told you that you were a sinner? I can guarantee you that you have never heard God speak in your spirit and tell you that you were a sinner. We have only received and accepted that information because it has come from our religious teachers and leaders. If there ever was such a thing as a sinner being born, it was not possible after the cross. In fact it is impossible!
The only assurance we have that we are walking correctly and have a correct understanding of spiritual things is that we have to be able to discern for ourselves that which is of God, and that which is not. Jesus the Christ proves to us through the magnitude of Calvary’s victory that our sinful nature does not exist in reality. We are a new creation in Christ and are His sons on this earth. We may feel like sinners and be under condemnation because of living under the law of sin and death, but it is a lie. It may be very real to us, but only the truth of our being will set us free from the law of sin and death.
The scriptures reveal to us that the gospel is a mystery. In Revelation it says, "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." Rev. 10:7. When you begin to hear the voice of the seventh angel then the mystery of God in you begins to come into fullness. The mystery of God is fulfilled when you realize the kernel of that mystery is God manifested in the flesh, and not just in a man, but in all men. The mystery of God will be complete when every man is a manifestation of God in the flesh. When I use the word "man" I use it the way the scriptures use it. Man means "mankind". It does not mean "male." When all of mankind reveals, expresses, and walks, as God on this earth, the mystery of God will be fulfilled. When I say walk as God I do not mean some egotistical puffed up intellectual knowledge. I mean that we will walk in love. God is love. To walk in resentment, bitterness, hatred and divisiveness is to experience the ego in the fullest sense of the word. Walking in love does not mean walking with no discernment. It does not mean we cannot rightly divide the truth. It does not mean that there is no severity in God. Everything that God does He does because He loves us. His correction is to bring change in our perception of ourselves and others.
It seems as though everything in this so-called "physical" world that we see that is temporal, is against this manifestation of God in the flesh. You see, no matter how religious you are, no matter how much you love God, no matter how many times you go to church, you might fast, you might pray, you might do all of these things, yet there is something in this carnal mind that will not even suggest to you that you are God on this earth. It is that serpentine lie that keeps you in this state of perceiving yourself as something other than what God is. That was the lie in the beginning and it is the same today. You see the lie is that you are less than what God is so you feel the need to change or add something to yourself that will make you more like God. The reality is You are like God, You are His son, and as His son you cannot be anything less except in the wrong perception of yourself that you are a separate individual. This is what is known as "the ego," or "self life." The personal sense of ego is what causes all the negative forces in our lives. The scriptures tell us that Jesus was the "Firstborn among many brothers." Rom. 8:29. We are just as much a son of God as Jesus is. We have the same life, same nature, same abilities that Jesus has. As He is so are we in this world.
So who told you that you were a sinner? In I Corinthians 15:45, "And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul." Man was "made" a living soul is a very important point. He was not created a living soul but he "became" a living soul. The word made is the same word as became in Strong’s 1096 (ghin'-om-ahee). Man was created in the image of God but became a living soul.
"The last Adam (Christ) was made a quickening, or a life-giving, spirit." Now we all know if there is a first man, there can be a second man, a third man, a fourth man and an unlimited number of men beginning with the first man. But after the last man, there can be no other man. You see, there can be no sinners born after Christ. He took the first man into death and raised all of creation into resurrection.
There is a song I love titled, "I am not in Adam, and Adam is not in me." You see, Jesus the Christ, was the last Adam. After Christ there are no more Adams. There are only incarnations of God being born on the earth. I know we haven’t thought of ourselves as that. In fact that is the problem. But nevertheless you and I are incarnations of God in this earth. Jesus was the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world. We were not born sinners. We are born as inchristed ones. Our bodies are temples of God for the expression and dominion of God in this earth.
So if there cannot be any more Adams, if He was the last Adam, then who in the world are we? We cannot be anything but the incorruptible seed. Moreover, the moment that we are quickened by God, the moment we are regenerated, the moment we awaken to God, from that very moment we should never again accept the lie, that we are sinners. We should never have ever been told this in the first place. We should never accept the lie that we are sinners. We have never been such a thing! Since Jesus was the last Adam, He put to death that nature, that identity, that separation of a carnal identity. Also when He resurrected He brought into being a new creation, a whole new man. That’s why Jesus said to Nicodemus, "To enter the Kingdom of God you must be born again." To be born again is to have a totally new identity, and even a new concept about who you are.
I don’t know if I can explain this adequately or not, and some of you may know this, but you are affected by the mass-consciousness of this world. People say, "If we’re not sinners, why do we experience this separation from God?" It is because everyone in this universe expects you to act a certain way. Furthermore it also has to do with the tare, the seed of the serpent that is sown in you at the time of your birth. Now what is the seed of the serpent? The seed of the serpent is the human identity, which is the ego, and what we’ve always been told is the human nature. It is the Parable of the Sower that sowed in the field, the wheat. In addition as the wheat was sown it says the enemy came and sowed the tare. Well, the wheat is the Christ-nature, the seed of God, and the tare is that false identity, that false concept of yourself that says you are alienated and separated from God. The Carnal religious mind will tell you that although you are saved you must clean up the human nature. When we realize the truth of the magnitude of Calvary’s victory, that human nature will not be there to bother us any longer.
The scriptures clearly teach us about Calvary, and Christ being the last Adam. It is absolutely impossible for sinners to be born in this world. So who are we? We are the seed of God on this earth. You see, we’ve bought the lie about being born separated and alienated from God. Peter tells us that we are born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the living, abiding Word of God. So that seed that you are is an incorruptible seed. The incorruptible seed cannot reproduce anything in you other than Christ. Anything in you that you perceive is not Christ is temporal and subject to change when you learn to put on the mind of Christ.
You might say, "Well Gary, are you saying that we don’t need redemption any more? Are you throwing out the cross?" Absolutely not! The Cross it the centrality of this message. It is because of the cross and redemption that we are one with God. You have to understand that your redemption took place two thousand years ago. You were forgiven and made a new creation before you were born. However, as long as you feel separated as well as being alienated in your mind, and you still feel like something other than what God is, you will never come into the fullness of what has been provided for you in the atonement. The Cross of Calvary and the resurrection of Jesus are the most important events in history. Your Christian experience will never be full until you have a complete revelation of what happened at Calvary and the resurrection. The whole world has been redeemed and belongs to God. What we need is to be awakened to this reality.
Some of God’s people are fighting against this concept of us awakening to our true nature and identity. But you know the apostle Paul said, "Awake you who are sleeping. Arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine on you." Ephesians 5:14. If you are not walking in the realization of being a son of God on the earth, then you are sleeping and you need to wake up. When you awake, you awake in His likeness. I’ll never forget on July 11, 1982, not that many years ago, I awoke with the realization of many of the things that I’m sharing today. I had sought God and studied for years and God had been leading me to this realization that I am His son NOW not someday. Things that had been bothering me for years, habits and lusts, when I awoke in His likeness, those things fell at my feet.
Many of you have heard me share how that for thirteen years as a Christian I was horribly addicted to nicotine, moreover there was no way that I could break it. I used to tell God all the time, "When you come" You see I wasn’t expecting at that time Jesus to appear within me, I was expecting Him to only come in the heavens, I would say to Him many times in tears, "I know that when you come, I’ll probably fall in shame before your coming because there is no way that I can give up this nicotine. I can’t do it." But on July 11, 1982, I awoke, and after years of struggling, with tears, with begging, with pleading with fasting and crying, I awoke in His likeness. Never again did I have the desire not only for nicotine, but for all of those other lustful things that had me in captivity. God had been revealing to me for years His unconditional love and acceptance and that is when I began to walk in some of the reality of being a son of God. I began to realize the value of Calvary. Also God began to reveal to me how He looks at us, that Christ was the last Adam. There are no longer two kinds of life in reality born on this earth. There are only incarnations of God coming to this earth. I know how that sounds to those minds that are conditioned by all the teachings about how we are sinners and separate from God.
The only things that are real are spiritual things. That’s why Paul says that we look not at the temporal things, the things that are subject to change, because if we look at ourselves as a sinful creature, we miss one of the most important revelations. Even though we are born again, many of us have this concept of ourselves as not being good enough, not being acceptable enough, and as long as you have that concept of yourself, it traps you in this alienation by separation in your mind. But if you have the revelation that the scriptures give to you about being a son of God, the incorruptible seed in you can only reproduce a soul that is in the image of God. So when the seed of God is quickened in you, then the only thing that seed of God can do from that point, is reproduce everything in that seed, in your soul. But as long as you continue to buy the lie that we are not like God, that we can never be God, and when I say, "be God", I’m not talking about being the creator of the universe, I’m simply talking about a life. We have believed for years that we have a human life, and nobody gets upset when you say you are a human. But when you say you are God, people get upset because they don’t understand that if you are not God, then you are just human. But you are God in the sense that you have His life, His nature, His ability, His compassion, everything that God is, you are! You are as Jesus is, "a God man."
You are as Jesus is a divine human, and it’s not something you have to become; it’s something that you already are. The very moment we begin to try to become that which God has already made us to be, we are telling God, "We don’t believe your Word." I know you said to us that at the cross all of our sins were paid for, that we were raised a brand new creation. But God I want you to make me a better person." We keep pleading and begging for God to change us, when really what we need to be praying for is light and revelation that we might see that which we already are, because you can’t become it. The moment you are trying to become that which God has made you to be, you are in the wrong mind-set, because you are in the mind that is separated and alienated from God. You are trying to make that thing acceptable to God, and again, that keeps you alienated and separated from God. But with a little light and revelation from God on the whole magnitude of Calvary’s victory, you will understand that it is impossible for you to be alienated and separated from God, except by receiving the lie in your mind that would tell you that you are something other than what God is. This is putting on the mind of Christ.
Colossians 1:20 says, "And having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled. In the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight." That is how you are born! Yet we are told, also expected by almost all of creation, that we are born in sin, and are expected to be sinners. Because we have never been told the truth, we’ve accepted the lie. Thank God the lie is being exposed. "To present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight" is a present reality, not a future event. There is no one in heaven or in earth that can bring any guilt or condemnation to you. Once you realize the magnitude of Calvary’s victory, and understand that this humanistic life that you’ve been living all of your life is not the real you, but you are the incorruptible, indestructible seed of God on the earth. The more we have the realization of that, the more our inner man is strengthened day by day. This outward man; this man, that is lost in a consciousness that is full of defeat, failure, hang-ups and alienated from God, will fall at our feet without any effort on our part at all.
The spiritual life was never meant to be a struggle as it has been for most of us all of our lives. You see, people who view themselves only as a human being find it almost impossible to walk in the God-kind of life, because we believe ourselves to be that person that is separate from God. No matter how much we love God, if we are not willing to accept all that He has provided and what He has said to us, if we are not willing to turn away from that which we feel is real unto that which we know is real, we cannot experience these things. The mind that perceives itself as something other than what God is will not let us experience these things.
I know many have been Christians for years who love God, go to church, and do many good things, yet they do not realize that they still have a natural mind. That is what is killing us! One who learns to put on and live from the mind of Christ is one who recognizes and walks in the reality of the new covenant. Everyone today, has the mind of Christ within them. Everyone can learn and I use the word "learn" for lack of a better word. It is by practice and application that we can begin to walk in the reality of the mind of Christ, which we have. But we cannot practice the application as long as we still allow the thoughts to enter our mind to tell us the lie that we are separated from God.
"Having made peace through the blood of His cross to reconcile all things to himself." This message of God’s unconditional love and acceptance changes people. We had an instance where someone in a mental institution was given one of our books. By reading the book, "Coming Out of Condemnation," they immediately began to recover. There are a lot of Christians in mental institutions. Why are they in such a place? Because of a lie that they are sinners separated from God. They know what they are supposed to be. They know what their life is supposed to be, but they cannot measure up. I suffered under depression for a long time because of not being able to measure up. I know what it is like to feel separated from God and keep trying to do better. Guilt puts many in a mental institution. Thank God I never ended up in a mental ward, but many Christians do.
The Apostle Paul said, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek". Romans, 1:16. The only thing that will really set us free is for us to hear the living and abiding Word of God, for us to receive that Word, and then just let it settle in our hearts. Meditate on it. Think about it. I’m not asking you to just receive everything that is said in this writing. Put it on the shelf if you have to, but meditate on it; go to God with it. Once the light of God penetrates in us and out of us, we realize that we are everything spiritual that we want to be. Everything that you desire, you already are in the new creation. But we have to have the veils removed from our eyes. It is tradition that tells people they are born sinners. Yet the Bible teaches the very opposite thing without using those words. At the cross the old creation ended, and a new creation came into being. That’s why Paul said, "If any man is in Christ, he is a brand new creation. Old things have passed away." Well, have the old things passed away in your life? If they haven’t, you’ve heard the gospel but you haven’t heard the gospel. You’ve received a "mixed" gospel, one that tells you Christ is in you, but you still have this old nature and this old Adam to deal with. So you get into that striving and struggling to make this old image of yourself into that which you believe God is. You see, again, that’s the lie of the serpent. If we really believe the scriptures and what is revealed in the New Covenant, we will be set free from the lie of being in an old creation. We cannot try to make of ourselves what we already are in reality. Oh God, give us a revelation!
In I Corinthians 15:47-49 it says,47 The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49 And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven. (from New International Version)
In other words, you have been born into this physical world by natural parents, furthermore you’ve accepted this consciousness of being a human being that is really separated from God, and unable to do that which your heart longs to do. That’s the earthy man. That’s the man in Romans Chapter 7 that has born the image of the earthy. He may be born again but still views himself as separate from God. "As we have born the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." You know that is really a promise. I’ll never forget when I first saw that. This verse literally says, "If you have born this image of the earthly, if you have born this image of being an Adamic human being living in this world of separation, sin, sickness and diseases and all of the stuff that goes with it, if you have born that image of the earthy, you shall also bear the image of the heavenly - absolutely no conditions on that. If you have been born in the earthly image in this consciousness of sin, separation, defeat, failure, disease, heartache, anger, resentment and bitterness, if you have born this image of the earthly Adam, you shall also bear the image of the heavenly man, the man who knows that he is God’s son on this earth. This is the man who knows that there is no longer any such thing as sin, sickness, disease and death.
What are we going to do with that? Are we going to look at our body, or are we going to be as Abraham who considered not his own body as good as dead, but believed Him who promised? God promised Abraham a son, and that son came through no effort. That son came through a word of the Lord. Moreover that son would come to him in due time. But the son of the flesh Ishmael represents the Adamic man. Isaac represents the heavenly man. So Abraham in his own way, in his own carnal thinking, produced an "Ishmael" believing that it was what God had promised him. Abraham got so upset and said, "Oh God I would that you would bless Ishmael." He wanted God to bless the work of his hands. Well God said, "I’ll bless Ishmael, but my promise is still to Isaac." Ishmael, the man of the earth tries by works to become an Isaac. You see, in Isaac everything comes to you by inheritance. As a son of God, as the incorruptible seed on this earth, you receive by promise, by inheritance, everything that God is, without any struggle, without any prayer, without any fasting, without all the religious jargon. Just because you are a son of God, you receive everything that He is. That is not to say we should not do those things as the Lord leads.
Colossians 2:13, "And you, being dead in your sins, being dead to the things of God, being dead in this Adamic human consciousness, being dead in your sin, and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He made alive together with Him, having forgiven you of your trespasses." When did that happen? – Two thousand years ago. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross; having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in the cross. Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days;"
Two thousand years ago, sin ended at the cross. We keep it alive because we look at that which we can see that is temporal rather than believe that which God hath spoken. Who told you, you were a sinner? Who told you, you were just a human being? I want to mention this one more time. It can never be mentioned enough. But remember the seed of God is the incorruptible seed. Every seed always produces after its own kind. It is impossible for the seed of God in you to reproduce a carnal human being. It produces in you the fine uplifted resurrected humanity of Jesus. It produces in you the indestructible life of God. You cannot plant a seed of God and reap only a carnal human being. You see, that is the lie that we’ve accepted. Because it seems so real to us we’ve believed the lie.
Hypnotism is a good illustration of this Adamic person that we think we are. Most of you are probably familiar with hypnotism. Have you heard the story of the man who was brought onto the stage and hypnotized, then told there was a white dog at his feet? So this guy went through all the actions because he saw the white dog. All of a sudden, the guy that hypnotized him said; "This dog now is a mad dog and he is trying to bite you." The guy literally ran all over the stage, he panicked trying to get away from this dog that was trying to bite him on the leg. With a snap of the hypnotist’s finger, the man woke from his dream and realized there was no white dog.
I’m telling you folks, when you wake up, you will realize there was never any such thing as a sinner in the eyes of God. You’ve been hypnotized by accepting the lie of the serpent. Oh, but we are waking up! Who told you that you were a sinner? Ephesians 1:3 – Paul begins to tell you in Ephesians chapter 1 who you really are, and what you really have. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love." Is that truth? It’s before the world began. It’s before the disruption of the world. God chose you in Him! How could you be a failure? Only if you have not really accepted, or had a revelation of these words. Now some people teach that there are only a few people that this is meant for. All of us were chosen in God before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love. The cross made that a reality for you. Christ was the last man Adam, and there will never be another one.
You are born as Christ on the earth. If you had never been taught anything else, and you were raised expecting that as you grow in Christ, everything in you would begin to manifest that which God is, you would quickly see this whole planet redeemed from the bondage of corruption. Men’s perception of themselves would be changed. "But are you saying again we don’t need the cross, because it sounds like you are offering salvation without redemption?" No I’m not! You have been redeemed! You don’t need to be redeemed again. You need to awake out of this stupor of sleep and hypnotism. The Apostle Paul says "Awake unto righteousness and sin not." It is simply a matter of knowing there is nothing we can do in ourselves. God today is speaking that living and abiding Word of God that will cause your spirit to arise out of the darkness of that serpentine lie and come forth a shining example of what God is on this earth.
Matthew 16:24, "Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." You see, as soon as you are willing to turn away and lose this personal sense of an "I", this personal "ego" thing; that is what has to fall into the ground and die. As long as you cling onto your earthly humanistic existence, you won’t find your real life. But as soon as you find within your being the Spirit of God arising, you begin then to turn away from all that which is mortal, all that which is humanistic in your thinking, all that which is failure and defeat. You begin to turn and focus everything upon that which you are, the incorruptible seed of God on this earth. When that inner man begins to arise, the outer man begins to fall dead at your feet. It is not that difficult.
If we were told that we need to pray for about three hours a day for a year and read ten chapters a day for five years, and by doing these things you will be just like Christ, and we really believed that, we would do it. However it’s not necessary to do anything. The work has been done. The work, it is said, was finished from the very foundations of the earth. That’s Hebrews chapter 4. It says that "there is a rest" for the people of God". The rest is because they begin to have a realization with an understanding that the works are finished from the very foundation of the world. How else could you rest if you did not know that everything that you could possibly need, is already accomplished for you. If you are constantly being concerned about your condition, about your health, about all of these things, how can you rest? But if you know that all things were finished from the foundation of the world, and you have been born as an incorruptible seed on this earth, and everything in that seed will reproduce in you everything that you need, you can rest. Whatever happens to us in the natural, if we can learn not to focus our attention on that, but look unto Him who has spoken, we cannot fail. Overcomers aren’t made; they are born. We have seven promises to overcomers in the book of Revelation. You cannot be anything but an overcomer once you awake to being a son of God. The Spirit of God in you cannot do anything but overcome. You are born an overcomer.
"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness." The cross is the answer for our condition, for the world situations, all the sin, sickness, disease, and heartache. The problem is that we look at the appearance instead of the cross. I’ve often shared that if you take a rose and cut it off the rose bush, that rose looks very much alive. But the moment you cut off its life source it is dead. Well two thousand years ago, the life source of the Adamic man was cut off. He may look very much alive to you. The appearance of evil may be all around you, but I can assure you, it is only a false image because the Adamic man was dealt a deathblow at Calvary. Christ was that last Adam. The vision of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us, which are saved, it is the power of God! Why do we not experience the power of God in our life? It is because we have not had a revelation of the cross.
We love Jesus. We worship Jesus. We go to church, but we do not know the value, the magnitude of Calvary’s victory. The cross put an end to everything in the universe that is ungodly. We can walk in the knowledge of that, or we can walk in the knowledge of what we sense is our alienation and separation from God. Many of us feel that way because we don’t feel like we measure up. Colossians Chapter 3 verse 1 teaches us, "If you then be risen with Christ. We are already resurrected in Christ. We have the resurrected, transcendent life of God within us. So "if we be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affections, your attention, your heart on things above, not on things of the earth." Don’t look with this carnal mentality. "For you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God. And when Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory." I think we all know where God is appearing, don’t we? He is appearing in you and in me. We need to be ready to give up that false perception we have of ourselves, and be as Abraham, who considered not the things that he saw, but he considered Him who had promised as one being able to do that which He promised.
"Beloved now are we the sons of God. 1 John 3:2. It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." I love that verse, because when you see Him as He is, you will be like Him – why!? – Because you will see Him as yourself. You will see that there is no separation, there is no distinction, there are not two entities in this world, there is only one, and it is Christ. We are one with Christ! That’s why Paul said, "He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." People talk about the human spirit as though it is something separate from God. But your spirit, has been joined to the Lord, if it has been quickened by the power of God, if you are awakening in His likeness, there are not two spirits; there is only one spirit. Think of it, folks. If your spirit and the Holy Spirit are one spirit, how could you be a mere carnal human being? When the full realization of this hits us, how could we be less than what He is? When Christ shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. This is for NOW, not a futuristic event.
The man of sin that we perceive ourselves to be is the problem. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 3, says, "Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God." You see; the man of sin is your human identity sitting in the temple of God, really not admitting the truth of your being, as well as governing your own life, and running your own life according to the knowledge of good and evil. "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now restrains will restrain until he be taken out of the way, and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him, who’s coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion." What is the delusion? That the cross really wasn’t effectual. Oh we believed in it, but the delusion was that we are still independent beings operating apart from God. Even some of our songs, and I thought of one particular song that says, "You are God in heaven, I am here on earth." It is a beautiful song, but it shows that even in our worship we have an Adamic mind-set. You are God in heaven; I am here on earth. That has been our concept. If your spirit and the Holy Spirit is one spirit, how could God be in one place and you be in another? Paul said, "We are seated with Christ in heavenly places" not someday, not after you leave this earth, but right now! So thank God we are being awakened to righteousness. The only reason we manifest all of the traits of unrighteousness, is because we do not understand Calvary. I guarantee that, if you understand Calvary as well as understanding God is not holding you accountable for sin, that alone will release you from its grip and its power. It is only in you trying to overcome with a carnal mind-set that gives strength to that power of sin in your life. The more you try to overcome it, the more it will have you in its grasp. That is why Paul said, "The strength of sin is in the law." 1 Cor. 15:56 Do you want to give strength to sin? Put somebody under the law and tell them they can’t something. It gives strength to the sin in your life.
Who is the man of sin? It is not a man coming some day to rule the earth. The man of sin is that nature that sits in your temple, the temple of God, who declares himself to be God, and who opposes God. You may say, "Now wait a minute. That’s not me." Well, the man of sin will never let you see who you really are. That false identity, that religious mentality that might be lodged between your ears, would never let you see the reality of being Christ on this earth. That is what dethrones the man of sin from our temple. When He (Christ) shall appear, He shall destroy that man of sin by the brightness of His coming. When the Lord begins to arise in you He destroys that false concept that you have in your mind of being alienated and separated from Him in any way. The false image that is only in your mind will begin to fall at your feet. "For the mystery of iniquity does already work, and only he who now restrains will restrain until he be taken out of the way." What is restraining the appearing of Christ? It is that false image of yourself, your ego. When that is taken out of the way, Christ shall appear in you. "And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming: even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved."
This man of sin, this one that’s lodged between our ears that takes the place of Christ in us, can be a very religious person. Just because some are out here performing all kinds of miracles, signs, and lying wonders in the name of Jesus, does not mean they are a spiritual person. Remember what Jesus said to some. They said, "Lord, we’ve cast out devils in your name. We’ve healed the sick; we’ve raised the dead; we’ve done all these mighty wonderful works". And He said, "I never knew you." We have not had a proper revelation, or understanding of this man of sin. Anything in your being that is not according to godliness, anything that you are doing even for Him that’s not out of His life, nature and direction is antichrist. The scriptures say, "With all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth" – What is the love of the truth? The love of the truth would be to accept everything that the scriptures tell us about ourselves is truth. The scriptures tell us that we have no guilt, no condemnation, because everything that we thought we were, all the alienation, the sin, all the separation was put to death at the cross, and we are now simply God’s sons who are manifesting God on this earth. What else could we be? If He is the head and we are the body, could we, as this body, be any less divine than the head, as far as life and nature goes? There could be no difference. The same life, nature, compassion and ability that is in the head, is in the body. My head is not something other than what my body is. So we have to put down the lie that we are something other than what the scriptures, and what God reveals to us we are. "Because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved, for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" What is the delusion in the lie? It is that you are something other than what God is. That is the greatest deception this world can have, for you to believe that you are something other than, or less than what God has said you are. Who told you that you were a sinner?
If you are not willing to see the truth of your being, if you reject the word of who you are, or you reject the thought that you are gods on this earth, or that you are a manifestation of who He is on this earth, the only thing left for you is that strong delusion of the lie that you are a just human being. You may try the best you can and go to church as much as you want, do all the right things, do everything right, and you will still be living in that delusion of being separated and alienated from God. Even trying your very best through the knowledge of good and evil to get back to that place in God where you can be one with Him. That is the delusion. The work has been done. It is finished; it’s over. When you begin to live out of a Christ-identity, out of that incorruptible seed, you tell me that Christ needs processing. You tell me that Jesus needed sickness in His body to process Him into the kingdom. I don’t think so. Yet we have accepted the lie! I’ve done it myself! Thank God, we are learning not to look at that which is seen through the physical eyes. For that which is seen is temporal, subject to change. But that which is unseen is eternal, everlasting. 2 Corinthians 4:18
I’m going to repeat this one more time. It is impossible for the incorruptible seed to grow up in you and produce a carnal human being. The incorruptible seed can only produce God on this earth. Are you willing to receive that? Many times I’ve cried out to God. I’ve spent weeks praying to God, "Open my eyes. Oh God, open the eyes of my understanding." I knew these things before I ever began to walk in them. Now I say, "Oh God, open my understanding. Reveal to me that the same power that is in Jesus Christ now dwells within me. I know it, but I want to walk in it." I did not realize for a long time that to walk in it, I had to deny everything that I thought I was in this human carnal person. That’s what Paul meant in Romans chapter 7 when he said, "If you do that which you do not want to do it is not you. You see, actually - - as long as you identify with the habits of sin, the problems, the lusts, as long as you identify with that and say, "That is me", as long as you identify with your sickness, no matter what it is, as long as you line up your identity with that which is humanistic, you will not experience walking in the kingdom of God in a practical way. I am not just a human being on this earth; I am the indestructible, incorruptible seed of God. That seed of God cannot produce sickness, disease, separation, heartache, bitterness and resentment.
"Because they would not believe the truth, they were sent a lie, a strong delusion that they should believe a lie." Now let’s stop believing the lie and believe that He is faithful Who has promised. He is faithful Who has spoken, "I have chosen you before the foundation of the world. And you are holy and without blame. I have seated you in heavenly places. I have given you rule and dominion and authority over all that is in your realm." He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Well we know who the Lord is, Jesus Christ. But He is the Lord of Lords. We are His Christ on this earth. Let us go forth in that reality. Amen.
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The Incorruptible Seed Part 2 Gary Sigler

The Incorruptible Seed
Part Two
We have been taught so many things that we have accepted as truth, that has hindered the awareness of our true nature and identity. I want to say again that every seed must produce after its own kind. The seed when it produces, and what it produces, is not anything different than what it is. In other words, again using the illustration of a melon, the melon seed you could say is a three part being. It starts out as a seed, it has the meat of the melon, and it has the rind, but it’s still one. The seed is the melon, the meat is the melon and the rind is the melon. The seed of God in us does not reproduce anything but an incorruptible being. It does not produce a fallen soul and a corrupted body. We have believed and been taught for years that we are corruptible. This is why the Apostle Paul told us "This corruptible must put on incorruption. We do that through revelation and changing the perception of ourselves from a corruptible being to an incorruptible being.
The mentality of being a corruptible being is "the seed of the serpent", because the serpent sowed that thought or that seed in God’s field that caused us to believe we are something other than what God made us to be. The darkened, alienated, carnal mind is "the tare". And God said, "Let them grow together until the harvest, and the tare will be pulled and burned." Well guess what, it is harvest time. And the tare, our human consciousness is (if it is not now, it shortly shall be) in the fire that will consume everything in our consciousness that is not according to God. The seed of our true nature will not be consumed because that seed is an incorruptible, indestructible seed.
I want to look at Colossians chapter one again. We read in verse twenty-one, "And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled." I don’t think that we can emphasize the point enough, actually in reality, you have never been alienated from God. You were taught you were, so you believed you were, which gave you a wrong perception of yourself so that became your experience. You see, again, that is the seed of the serpent, the consciousness that makes you feel that you are separated and alienated from God, but that is only in your mind. That is the veil that was cast over all nations to keep them from the reality of Christ in them. "You were sometimes alienated in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy, unblameable and unreprovable in His sight." Calvary says that you are not a sinner separated from God. Calvary says that there is no such thing any longer as anyone who is separated and alienated from God. Calvary says that there is only one man in the universe. There’s only one life in the universe, and that is God’s life. There is no other life! You perceive another life, but there is no other life. Paul says, "The mystery which has been ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to His saints". I do believe that when Paul wrote this that he had the reality of what he spoke. But just like Eve in the garden, she was a type of the church. The church is a picture of Eve, a picture of the bride of Christ. And just as Eve was the deceived in the garden, so the church of Christ was deceived again after the Apostles left the scene, in fact even before the Apostles left, you can see that Paul says all in Asia had turned away from him. And so as Eve was deceived in the beginning, the church, the New Testament church was once again deceived by the serpent, with the same lie. And they became darkened in their understanding. And that’s why Paul told the Ephesians in chapter four, "This I say therefore, that you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God which is in them." Here again we can see, it was only in the mind.
If we walk in the natural mind thinking that we are separate from God and less than a son of God, then we do not understand the magnitude of Calvary’s victory. We then are alienated in our mind from the life and nature of God in that is in us.
This is why Paul said, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." Phil 2:5 He also said, "You have the mind of Christ." How do we let that mind be in us? Ah, it is through practice. It is learning how to discern that which is of God, from that which is from the natural mind. And I believe this is the only warfare, really, in this day and age that we need to be concerned about. And that is the warfare Paul talks about when he said, "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal." They are not according to human reasonings. But, "the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds", and those strongholds are not devils in the airwaves. You see, many of us fought devils in the airwaves for years, but he said, "Casting down the strongholds, casting down reasonings, imaginations, and every high thing that exalts its self against the knowledge of the Word of God." So how you begin to walk in this mind of Christ is to begin to cast down every thought that would try to enter your mind that speaks contrary to the truth and the word of the living God. You see Calvary says, "There is no such thing any longer as a carnal human being." Calvary says, "There is no longer any such thing as a carnal mind." Yet because of our perception, we see carnality, sin and death and all of these things. We see them around us. Well, that’s the lie. The truth is, my old identity, my old carnality, everything that I believe that I was in the natural was crucified at Calvary. You see, there is no such individual personality by the name of Gary Sigler. Gary Sigler is a manifestation of God on the earth, not as an individual, but as a cell in the Body of Christ. We are members one of another. You know, the most fabulous thing I think is science and technology in these days. And one of the things we’ve learned to think about is cloning. And if you know anything at all about cloning, you know that you can take one cell, Just one cell from your body, and that one cell through cloning, will reproduce you, just that one cell. Think about that – one cell of your being through cloning will reproduce another human! Well, God has been in the cloning business for centuries. You see; it’s not that we’re this big individual, "God on the earth". No, no, no, but we are a cell. We are a member of His Body. And corporately, we make up the whole. And that’s why it is so important that we connect a network amongst ourselves in fellowship, and in sharing and in worship and in testimony. There is only one life that exists in this universe, only one; there aren’t two. If there is, then Calvary didn’t work. And again, I know how hard these things are to deal with, because you say, "But look at the situation! Look at the carnality. Look at the sin. Look at all of this." Yet the living abiding spoken Word of God says that, that old thing was crucified at Calvary. If you’ll remember, I don’t know exactly where it’s at now, but you’ll remember this instance. It talks about Revelation about the beast that was wounded unto death, and yet he lives. He was resurrected. Well "beast" in the scriptures refers to the human nature, to humanity, the carnal human being. On the cross, that being was put to death. He was wounded unto death. Yet he lives because of our perceptions. We keep the image of ourselves alive through our thoughts, our speaking and our meditations. And it is really not that difficult to totally have a mind-change. And that’s what the word, "repent" means, and that is "to change your mind". Repent, change your mind, for the Kingdom of Heaven is come. Isn’t it strange that Jesus stood facing the Pharisees before He went into death, before He resurrected, and He looked at them and he told them, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Because of the misconceptions, we have never really learned how to apply that which we know to be the truth, because we tend to believe that which we experience, according to the carnal mind.
Jesus answered Nicodemus, saying, ‘Verily I say unto you except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." Peter said, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
No man will see the Kingdom without this new birth. Well what is this new birth? This new birth is your quickening, is the regeneration, is that spark of life that you receive when you first experience in reality, God in you.
Know No Man After The Flesh
After Calvary it is said, "Henceforth, we should know no man according to the flesh" 2 Cor. 5:16. We should know no man according to our human understanding and comprehension. Even Jesus! "We once knew Jesus according to the flesh", the human carnal understanding as the man of Galilee, but today we should not know Him according to the flesh. Almost all of Christianity still sees Jesus according to the flesh, and they still worship Him according to the flesh. On Christmas they put Him in manger, and on Easter they put Him on a cross and resurrect Him, and the next year they put Him back in a manger. We worship Him according to the flesh rather than according to spirit, because when you begin to see the Lord as He is today you will be like Him because to see Him as He is, is to be like Him. He is the head, we are the body. The Body of Christ is not less divine than the head. He came to give us the example, or to show us the way that we could be as He is. In fact that’s what the scriptures say, "As He is so are we in this worl," 1John 4:17. Well, do you think He’s sick? Do you think He’s any type of failure? You see, there has been so much philosophy and human reasoning brought in amongst us that we accept the lie because the truth seems so impossible for us to grasp. We have been taught, some of us, that sickness is a blessing from God to possibly teach you something. But I’ll tell you what; the seed is incorruptible. The fruit is incorruptible. The incorruptible seed within me cannot produce a body that is corruptible. But again, because we are a manifestation of God on the earth, and we are as He is, we will become that which we perceive we are in our thinking. If you believe that Jesus puts a cancer or any other type of disease on you to teach you something, if you really believe that, you wouldn’t try to get rid of it. You know, it’s like the teaching of hell that so many of us used to believe in, this place called "eternal torment". Yet we believed it intellectually, but we never really believed it, because if we really did, and it really gripped us, you couldn’t rest knowing that perhaps some of your family died without Christ.
Except a man be born again – the moment that spark of His life is ignited in you through regeneration how ever you receive that, some come to an altar. Personally, I knelt down in my bathroom alone one day and asked Jesus to become real to me. I ask Him if possible, to come into my life and change me. It doesn’t matter how you experience that. Some have experiences out in the woods. Some have experienced it out of desperation. The most important thing is that you have that experience of that quickening, that regeneration by the Spirit and become a new creation man. All old things are passed away. But see, we are so use to looking at our condition. We believe the scriptures but our experience is more real to us than what God has said. So we live in this darkened state; we’re living that condition that Paul told us not to "In the vanity of the mind". Again he said, "Don’t be like the other Gentiles, being alienated and separated in your mind with a darkened understanding." In John chapter 1 and verse 12, "But as many as have received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to 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." Once the Spirit of God regenerates your spirit, if you were not caught up into the religious teachings, you would learn to follow the anointing within you. You would from that very moment in your life learn to trust the anointing of the Spirit within you to teach you all things; the Spirit would never deceive you.
If you were taught that, and you stayed away from religious things, you would very quickly begin to manifest as a son or daughter of God on this earth. It is our religious teachings that have kept us in bondage to carnality. I don’t know about you, but I was never told that Jesus did not hold me accountable for my sins. In fact I was told the opposite. One preacher told me, he said, "Gary, you don’t work your way to the cross, but you better work your way away from it. In other words, saved by grace, but then I have to work and I have to be obedient and I have to do all of these things or I may eventually be lost. But you see, if we were taught in the very beginning the truth of this new creation-man that springs to life on the inside of us, and we were taught only to do what we feel in our hearts to do as we love and fellowship with the Lord we would not get caught up in all the religious practices. However, we are taught Old Testament law instead of grace.
We are taught, "Well, yes Gary, you are born again, but look at what you are doing. And don’t you know that the scriptures say that your heart is deceitfully wicked?" Well I understand that is what the Old Testament says, but I realized one day that that was a lie for me, because the New Covenant is, I will take your stony heart out of you and I will give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and I will cause you to walk in my statutes." Ez. 36:26-27. Where is man involved in that statement of scripture? Where is our choice involved here?
Sin Has Been Dealt With
We weren’t taught that sin was fully dealt with at the cross. We were not taught to not look at the sin, but look to the gospel. We were not taught that God does not hold you accountable for sin. One of my favorite scriptures is; "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not holding them accountable for their sins." 2 Cor 5:19. Why? He sees Christ in you, not Adam. Christ is that indestructible seed of God that you are. I love the song that says, "I am no longer in Adam, and Adam is no longer in me." I love that because it is the truth. As long as you perceive yourself "as in Adam", and a sinner, one who is not pleasing God, and you focus on your weaknesses and your failures, you will always be in bondage to that image of yourself. Oh God, how we need our eyes opened to the truth of our being. It would be good to pray the prayer in Ephesians, "That the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened that we might know the hope of our calling." How could we be failures? I tell you, all of us that are weak and sickly among us are there because we have not rightly discerned His body, because it’s impossible for His body to be sick. It’s impossible for His body to be anything but perfect. It’s impossible for that incorruptible seed to reproduce anything that can even in the slightest, remotest way able to be corrupted. We have been seduced just as Eve in the garden, and we have believed a lie instead of the truth. Eph 5:8, "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:"
Following Christ Within
I really, really have to cover this with scripture because I know so many are saying to their own hurt that what is being taught here is New Age. I long for the day when we can speak the words of God and not have to back it up with scripture. (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) How do you think Paul convinced his followers? He didn’t have the New Testament to go to. And that’s why they killed Jesus; He literally went against their written word. In fact, He tried to correct some of their perceptions of God when He said to them, "I know what is written in your very own scriptures. I know what is written, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, you love your enemies." Basically, what He was telling them is, "You have had a wrong concept woven in your scriptures. "That’s not my Father." Well we have the same situation today. We have to tell people, "Listen, I know what is written in your Bible". But you see, that’s why it is so important for everyone to become acquainted with the Christ within, because it’s impossible for that anointing to lie to you.
John 14:26 "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you".
John 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."
Do you know why most Christians do not know all things today? They run to men for their instruction instead of learning to follow the Christ within. They run to the arm of flesh to get their answers. That’s the truth. There came a day in my life when I had to stop seeking the truth from a man. And I had to spend a long time just seeking God for my answers. It took me quite some time to where could trust my anointing. It took a long time where I could be convinced that what I was hearing and what I was seeing was God, because it went against everything that I ever believed and was taught. I knew I was a failure. I knew that I was hung up in lust and all the sins of the flesh, and I wanted God; but yet, when I began to hear God, I had to question whether or not it was God because it went against everything that I was taught.
Who is in the Body of Christ?
Ephesians 5:10, "That in the dispensation of the fullness of time He might gather together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in Him." Well, are we still waiting for that? I’ll tell you what. It happened at Calvary. Another thing about not rightly discerning the Body of Christ; I realized one day that it wasn’t just the Christians, it wasn’t just the man who ran to an altar, or said "Jesus I receive you. Because of Calvary it includes all. If you’re walking in a human body, you are a member of the Body of Christ only because of Calvary. Paul told the Ephesians in chapter two, "Wherefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision – that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." In the Jewish mind, the Gentile was the unbeliever, the unsaved, the dog, but now, in Christ Jesus, you who WERE sometimes far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, who hath made both one," - Who is he talking about" – the Jew and the Gentile, the saved and the lost! I’ll tell you folks, when you begin to rightly discern the Body and not divide, but discern the Body of Christ, you will begin to treat all humanity as they really are. And you will change them by your perception of them. "He has broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of two, (the Jew, the Gentile, the saved the lost), one new man so making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross." That’s why I can tell you in full assurance of faith, you’re not Adam, and Adam is not in you! By the cross, every negative thing in the universe was brought to an end, and by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from among the dead, the new creation man was brought into being. There is no more old creation. But it is still living in our perception because we look, not with spiritual eyes, but with eyes of the flesh. Oh we love God. We want God, but we know it’s humanly impossible to be as He is. But, we are not human beings we are spiritual beings. Yes, thank God, the veils are being removed from our eyes to see that nothing can corrupt the seed of God within us. Nothing! It is incorruptible and it is indestructible. Your body is the temple of God
"The double minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 4:8. What is a double-minded man? What "double-minded" means is, "two souled". As long as in your perception, you believe that you are a separate entity from God, and you have a soul that has fallen and that soul is doing everything in its power to become like God you are double minded. That is the man in Romans chapter 7 who has this desire for God, yet he sees in his fleshy carnal members that sin principle is still pulling him down into the law of sin and death. That’s the perception that has to change. There has never been sinner born since Calvary. We only keep sin alive by our perceptions. We have to have a revelation from God.
I’ll never forget the day I awoke July 11th, 1982. I woke up a new man after years of struggle. And I began to understand some of these things. I John chapter 2 and verse 8, "A new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines. He that says he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now." I know the religious mind will interpret this verse, "You don’t treat another believer bad." Well, I’ll tell you what: God is the Father of all of us, and we are all connected in spirit, to one another. The darkness is passed and the true light now shines. You know Jesus told His disciples two thousand years ago, "You are the light of the world." And some of them caught what He said. The scriptures tell us God is light. So really He was telling His disciples, "You are God in this earth." Yet where are the people today who can boldly declare, "We are the light of this world." Well there are some. We are coming into this revelation of being Christ on the earth. It is only through this awareness that all of creation will be restored and brought back to God, because as we continually have these veils removed from our eyes collectively, it will change the whole world. I Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." Listen folks; the dead people are not those people out there in the graves. Jesus clearly taught, and the scriptures plainly teach us that dead people are those who do not know God in reality. But at the last trump, and that last trump could come for you at any moment. Now we’ve always looked at this as a collective experience, and it may be someday. But that last trump for you is when you hear the Word of incorruptibility, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible. "For this corruptible must put on incorruption." Your unrenewed mind is a real barrier to understanding this truth. This corruptible, this mind-set, this awareness of being separate and alienated from God, this is what we consider as "mortality". "But this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." And we don’t do that through the Adamic mind. We do that by hearing the Word, the voice of the seventh angel. Revelation 10:7, it says, "When the voice of the seventh angel is heard, all the mystery of God shall be fulfilled." Well what is the mystery of God, but God manifesting Himself in the flesh? When you begin to hear that seventh angel sound, you will begin to arise in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye and you will totally be changed. And what changes is your perception. You were caught up with Him in the air, in heavenly places where no longer will you rule from the earthly plain. You will rule from the heavenly plain. You will begin to walk in the experience of being seated in heavenly places, and operating from the realm of the heavens rather than from the realm of the earth. You will no longer see yourself as a mortal human being. You will see yourself as a spiritual being. "So when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, ‘Death is swallowed up in victory." Death, is the concept that you are something other than what God has made you to be, will be swallowed up and be no more. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is in the law." You want to get people into bondage? Start teaching them law. Start teaching them how that if they are not obedient, they can’t please God, and watch the condemnation and the guilt and the shame come.
God is raising up a people on the earth today, after the Melchisedec order. And we all know about Melchisedec, without beginning of days, or end of life. You know that’s who you are when you have a revelation of the incorruptible seed that you are. That’s why you can call no earthly man your father. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9 and 10, "He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death, and has brought life and incorruptibility to light through the gospel." But God spoke it to reveal to you the incorruptibility that you are. When you realize you are a spiritual being you cannot be corrupted! But if you believe you can, you’ll experience it only until the light of God penetrates the darkened mind and explodes throughout your being. Then you will realize you are not a mortal human being. Well, we need to look at Psalm 82. "But God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless: do just to the afflicted and needy, deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most high. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." Why will you die like men? Because you do not know who you are. The word gods here is the word "Elohim". And when it says that God, Elohim, stands in the congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods, the same word is "Elohim". So Elohim stands in the congregation of the mighty and He judges among the Elohims. How long will it be before we deliver the poor and the needy, those who walk in darkness? Well we can’t do it as long as we are walking in that darkness with them. The same word "Elohim" is used in Genesis chapter 1 when it says, "Let us make man in our image." We have been in so much darkness. Take it not lightly to be in tune with God. That is your heritage. "I have said, you are gods; - - but you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." - Because you believe you will, because you’re walking in darkness. We’ve had the scriptures for two thousand years, and rather than learn how to follow that anointing that is within us, we’ve run to the arm of flesh for our instruction, and They have only kept us in darkness and bondage to keep us under their control. Thank God that is coming to an end!
John chapter 10 and verse 33, "The Jews answered Jesus saying, for a good work we don’t stone you, but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, makes yourself God. Jesus answered them saying, is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? If He called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of Him, whom the Father hath sent into the world, thou blasphemest; because I said I am the Son of God?" I think the scriptures are so clear that they can just grab a hold of what -?- and stop this mind that is always speaking contrary to what we know the truth is. Ephesians 5 says in verse 30, "For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." We are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. Well is that true? If it is true; how can this body be sick? How can this body be diseased? I’m talking to myself here as well as anybody else. But you see, it is time that we awake out of sleep. "Arise and shine, for your light is come. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." And I’ll tell you, nations shall come to the rising of God within you, within His people in these days. No longer do we have to go out and get them, Bob. They come to you. When you have the living, abiding Word of God that will change people’s lives, they will run to you, when you won’t gather them unto yourself. You’ll simply teach them that which they have within them. I think a Christian maybe needs to go to a class of few weeks to get a clear understanding of that incorruptible seed, a clear understanding that they have an anointing, they don’t need another man, ever again, to teach them, just a few weeks, and leave them alone; and them we come together and fellowship. We really don’t need a man to stand up here and teach us, because we have the teacher inside of us. We have the anointing within us; and when we come together; there will be such a flow of His life. Any who come in among us would be healed. Any who come in among us walking in the darkened understanding of their mind would receive the light of God. Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Don’t you know that? Well I have known that for years. But today I’m beginning to really understand, learning how to cast down every thing that would point the finger and say, "Look at you! How dare you say that your body couldn’t be sick! Look at you!" I can laugh. I’m just reminded of Abraham. Whenever the accusations would come into my mind, I’d simply remember Abraham who considered not his own body as -?- and dead. Ah, but he considered Him faithful who had promised. You see; if we look in this direction for results, I don’t believe it will ever happen. We don’t look to the flesh. We can’t grasp this with our human understanding. But we are members of Christ. That means if you touch someone, Christ is touching them. Ephesians 1 says in verse 22, "He has put all things under His feet, (meaning Jesus) and has appointed Him the universal and supreme head of the church. (A headship exercised throughout the world church)" (This is the Amplified version. So let’s start over. This is Amplified.) "And has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him the universal and supreme head of the church (a headship exercised throughout the church) which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all (for in that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who fill every thing everywhere with Himself." That’s the truth! Yet we’ve believed a lie, just as easily the lie of the serpent. And do you not know that Jesus had to go through the same lie. I think religion has even painted an unclear picture of Jesus. We have the crazy notion that He was so perfect that it was impossible for Him to sin. I don’t think so. Otherwise He could not have been tempted in all points. Someone said, "Well if you are who you claim you are, let’s see you walk through that wall and let’s see you raise the dead." What did Jesus say to that? "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to be made bread." If He did it, it would only prove that He missed the mark. (Pam guessed here.) He was tempted in all points. And the only reason that He did not fail - if He had a clear, precise understanding that He was the Son of God. And when you and I have a clear, precise understanding that we are what the Word says we are, then not only will we be as He is, we will act out of an experiential walk of being Christ on the earth. In this body lives the full measure of Him who makes everything complete. This is the Word of God. – "And who fills everything, everywhere with Himself." Some things, no, all things! Why do you think Paul – boy he must have been a lonely man in his day, to have this revelation. And he could stand before a congregation of people and say, "Don’t you know folks, you are complete in Him? You don’t need anything else. You don’t need to change anything about yourself. You are complete! In Him, you are complete! You just need to repent, to change your mind about who you think that you are, because who you think you are doesn’t exist in reality." You know; the Christian Science people have been -?- for years because they say things like, "Well, there’s no sin. There is no sickness. There is no disease." But folks, I tell you what: until you believe that, until you have an understanding of that; that’s what Calvary was all about! My "old man", that old concept of being a human being, alienated, being separated, being a sinner, living a life of sin, that whole mess went to the cross. God became a man. And He took that man, representing all of the misconceptions; He took that man into death. And that’s why He came. Oh yes! "If I be lifted up – If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." Now another thing about Jesus, He used the word "me" in places that – but we’ve never took any credit from His human existence. (Pam got mixed up on wording and some of the words used) In other words He said, "I in my own self - I can’t do anything." Now stop and think about this. Here was a man who was the perfect man, -?- without sin, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin. This man said, "I can’t do anything of myself." What makes you think you can? You see, religion will teach us to try. Like the Word would say, they would teach you to go out and heal the sick and raise the dead, and you do it by just praying for everybody. And occasionally you might hit it. God, right today, fills everything, everywhere with Himself. Oh if you could see that! At Calvary - you can never hear this enough until you can see it plainly, and boldly declare it. SIN IS NO MORE! God does not hold man accountable for his sin, because he realizes he is living in a mistaken identity that is not even real. His concept of himself, her perception of himself is what he receives from Adam. And once you have awakened, once you are regenerated, that old is no more. He never was, but you come to realize it through regeneration. In Colossians 3 and verse 10, "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge", - Boy that’s a good one, "renewed in knowledge". You know Jesus said, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Yet it goes on to say the reason they were destroyed for lack of knowledge is because they rejected knowledge. You can hear the living Word of God spoken from the mouth of His servants today and reject that Word, and be destroyed for lack of knowledge, not because you haven’t heard it, but because you’ve rejected it. We need to be renewed in the knowledge, after the image of Him that created Him. Oh boy that’s good! We have, "put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created Him:" This is the knowledge that we must put on. This is the incorruptibility that we must put on. This is the immortality that we must put on. The renewed knowledge has been created in the image of God, and we have never lost that standing with God, except we have become alienated and separated in our minds. And that’s why Paul said, "You must be renewed in the spirit of your mind, because until you mind is renewed, you will always think you are something other than what God is. And when your mind begins to be renewed, it is so easy for you then to believe what God has spoken to you. When the anointing within you begins to operate, and you begin to hear and follow that which is in your heart, you will be free from all control. You know, the people who are really free today, are those who have weathered the church, because to them, freedom is rebellion. Yet a free man, a spiritual free man, is one who is in bondage to no man, will be controlled by no man, will not go to the arm of flesh for his answers; but he knows that the anointing abides within him, and will teach him all things, and will bring to remembrance all things. We don’t have a clue what we’ve forgotten – Elohim in the very beginning, and put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him. We are neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, or -?- bound nor free, but Christ – listen to this: Christ is all and in all, not Christ will someday be all and in all, but right today we have put on that new man that is created in the image of Him who realizes that there is neither Jew nor Greek nor sinner nor saved nor lost nor male nor female nor bond nor free, but is all and in all. And we have the privilege of going to people and speaking life to them instead of death, freedom instead of bondage, hope instead of despair, because we see Christ in all men. Our perceptions are changing. And no longer do we see male nor female, bond nor free, sinners and saints; we see Christ is all and in all. Amen.