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The Light of the
Kingdom
of Heaven
God’s great
lights which rule over the
day and night (light and
darkness)
in the natural
realm, gives us insight
into the Spirit world
for wisdom
and understanding.
1 Corinthians 15:46 AMP
But it is not the spiritual
life which came first,
but the
physical and then the
spiritual.
First the
natural and then the
spiritual:
God is Spirit.
God’s Divine, Spiritual,
Unbegotten and Begotten Light
rules over
the Spiritual and Physical
worlds of Light and
Darkness.
In the scriptures, the Lord
God of Heaven and Earth
clarifies His mysteries
in the
Stature of the Lord Jesus
Christ because
all of God’s Word
is a
revelation of His Son, the
Savior of the World.
Ephesian 4:13 (AMP)
13 until
we all reach oneness in the
faith and in the knowledge
of the Son of God,
[growing
spiritually] to become a
mature believer, reaching to
the measure
of the
fullness of Christ
[manifesting His spiritual
completeness and exercising
our
spiritual gifts in unity].
[Note:
Both the Old Testament and the
New Testament reveal the
designed
destiny for mankind. The
Tabernacle of Moses and the
Advent of Jesus Christ
displays the
pattern of the Cross as
God's plan for man.]
Exodus
25:9 (AMP)
9
You shall construct it in
accordance with everything
that I am going to show
you,
as the pattern of the
tabernacle and the pattern
of all its furniture.
Luke 9:23
(AMP)
And
He was saying to them
all, “If
anyone wishes to
follow Me [as
My disciple],
he
must deny himself
[set aside selfish
interests], and take
up his cross daily
[expressing a
willingness to endure
whatever may come] and follow
Me [believing
in
Me,conforming to My
example in living and,
if need be, suffering or
perhaps
dying
because of faith in Me].
Searching God’s Word under the
guidance and anointing of Holy
Ghost causes growth
in the
Wisdom, Understanding and
Knowledge of God’s great
Principles and Mysteries
of both
Light and Darkness. In our
searching, we find God’s
Divine Purpose and Will.
Romans 12:2 (AMP)
2 And do
not be conformed to this
world [any longer with its
superficial values
and
customs], but be
[a]transformed and
progressively changed [as
you mature
spiritually] by the renewing
of your mind [focusing on
godly values and ethical
attitudes], so that you may
prove [for yourselves] what
the will of God is, that
which
is good
and acceptable and perfect
[in His plan and purpose for
you].
There is a darkness which is
separated from, yet, covers
God's Light
and it
accomplishes the will and
ways of God for which He
purposes it.
The plague of
darkness was God's most all
embracing witness of all the
witnesses
given to
Pharaoh and the
Egyptians.
The
darkness effected each person,
in every way... spirit, soul
and body.
[Note: Darkness is referenced
159 times in the Bible.]
Exodus 10:21-23 (AMP)
Darkness over the Land
21 Then
the Lord said to Moses,
“Stretch out your hand
toward the sky, so that
darkness
may come
over the land of Egypt, a
darkness which [is so awful
that it] may be felt.”
22 So
Moses stretched out his hand
toward the sky, and for
three days a thick darkness
was all
over the land of Egypt [no
sun, no moon, no stars]. 23
The Egyptians could not
see one
another, nor did anyone
leave his place for three
days, but all the Israelites
had
[supernatural] light in
their dwellings.
Isaiah
45:6-7 (AMP)
6 That
people may know from the
rising to the setting of the
sun [the world over]
That there
is no one except Me. I am the
Lord, and there is no other,
7 The One
forming light and creating
darkness, Causing peace and
creating disaster;
I am the
Lord who does all these
things.
[Note:
Isaiah does not express
that the darkness is of
satanic manifestation.]
James 1:17
(AMP)
God
is a Good God and there
is no darkness found in
Him.
The
Earth's Physical Calamity
proceeds from the laws of God
out of His design
of the
heavens and the earth in the
creation.
See also:
Deuteronomy
28:15-45; 2 Peter
2:1-15 https://www.biblegateway.com
All
universal Laws were created by
God.
Earthquakes, fire, wind, rain,
flood are
regulated by the dynamics of
universal
physical
laws of observable order.
God’s
Design and Purpose for each
Christian’s life is
spiritual growth
unto the
measure of the Stature of
the Fullness of
Christ.
Ephesians. 4:13 (AMP)
13
until we all reach oneness
in the faith and in the
knowledge of the Son of
God,
[growing spiritually] to
become a mature believer,
reaching to the measure
of the
fullness of Christ
[manifesting His spiritual
completeness and
exercising
our
spiritual gifts in unity].
His Headship and His
Body is His Light in the
earth..
The
Light of Jesus Christ comes
to fulfill all things by the
Holy Spirit.
He wants
to fulfill Greater Things in
us!
All forms
of Light have their origin
in the “Father of Lights.”
Spiritual Zion is the "Divine
City of Lights Community"...
The New
Jerusalem!
Revelation
21:23 Amplified
Version Holy Bible
And the
city has no need of the sun
nor of the moon to give
light to it,
for the
splendor and radiance
(glory) of God illuminate
it,
and the
Lamb is its lamp.
John, the Beloved, had a
3rd heaven
experience. In the
spirit he saw a vision
of the heavenly city in
which God would dwell....
The Church, The Bride of
Christ.
Revelation 21:2 (KJV)
And I John saw the holy
city, new Jerusalem, coming
down from God
out
of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her
husband.
*New
Jerusalem is a
spiritual city!
God is Spirit...
God's
Eternal City of
Lights! His Eternal
Community is a spiritual
community!
Heaven
has come to earth by the
abiding presence of the
Holy Spirit.
God
abides in the City of
Spiritually Born Again
Believers... the Church...
The
Bride of Christ.. Christ's
Body!
Hebrews 12:22-23 AMP
But rather, you have come
to Mount Zion, even to the
city of the living God,
the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to
countless multitudes of
angels in festal
gathering,
And to the church
(assembly) of the
Firstborn who are
registered [as
citizens]
in heaven, and to
the God Who is
Judge of all, and
to the spirits of
the righteous
(the redeemed in
heaven) who have
been made perfect,
*Forms of
Light
In
the “physical heavens”
realm, there are three
forms of Light:
•
The light of the sun…
•
The light of the moon…
•
The light of the stars
In
the “physical soul” realm,
there are four forms of
Light:
•
The light of reason
•
The light of conscience
•
The light of learning
•
The light of understanding
In
the “spiritual” realm of
Light, there are three
forms of Light:
•
The Light of
Revelation (Truth)
•
The Light of Faith
(Life)
•
The Light of Wisdom and
Knowledge (Spirit)
God,
El-o-Heem, is the plural
name of the infinite,
incomprehensible, and
Eternal
Being, the Creator of all
things:
God,
The Blessed Holy Trinity;
Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
El-o
Heem preserves , governs,
and guides everything by
Almighty Power
and Divine Wisdom.
[Note:
The God revealed in the
Hebrew bible is an
integration of several
different
cultural traditions in the
ancient Middle East. As
the tribes of Israel
established
themselves as a distinct
culture among the peoples
of Canaan, differing
images
of God
were eventually integrated
into the oral and written
traditions that shaped
the Old
Testament.
The
Hebrew texts often refer
to God by the Canaanite
term Elohim (el-o-HEEM).
It is
based on the ancient
Semitic root ‘el’ (ale)
meaning ‘strong one.’
This
word was often used as a
generic term for a god
since the rise of
civilization in
Mesopotamia. It was also
the proper name of the
Canaanite high god El, the
father
of
humanity and all
creatures. He was the
father of all the other
gods (elohim)
in the
Canaanite pantheon and was
the husband of Asherah,
the mother goddess.
In our
English Bibles, both El
and Elohim are translated
as ‘God.’ (It is
interesting
to note
that Jesus would have used
the related Aramaic term
alaha (ahl-ah-HAH)
to
speak of God. The Arabic
Allah derives from the
same Semitic root.)
As the
cultures mixed in the land
of Canaan, the Hebrew
people overlaid the Sinai
tradition of a tribal god
named Yahweh onto the
established tradition of
El, forming
a
creative combination of a
deity who was not only a
god of deliverance from
slavery
but was
also the creator of the
universe. As the stories
of the two cultures
merged,
the
different terms for God
became somewhat
interchangeable and are
found throughout
the
Hebrew Bible.
In
Hebrew, the name Yahweh is
spelled with consonants
alone (reading from right
to left)
as יהוה
(yod-hey-vav-hey). In
English, it is rendered
(from left to right) as
YHWH.
Because
the name has only
consonants in Hebrew and
no vowels, the exact
pronunciation
is
unsure. Today, it is
commonly pronounced as
Yahweh (YAH-way), although
in prior
centuries Jehovah was the
more common usage because
German scholars
transliterated
the
Hebrew as JHVH. (In
German, J sounds like Y
and V sounds like W.)
The
origin and meaning of the
name is disputed, but it
may be associated with the
Hebrew
verb
hayah, “to be.” Some
scholars believe it is a
shortened form of a word
that means
“he
causes to be” or “he
creates.”
https://followingjesus.org/how-yahweh-met-elohim-and-created-the-world/
*God is
infinite, immutable
Truth.
God is the center and
heart of all creation;
as such we are
to seek the Kingdom of
God
and
His Righteousness and all these
things shall be given
to us.
Light
brings prosperity
into our lives in
every facet of
life!
Image: Thru the Eyes of
Wisdom (Rev.
5:6)
Out of
His marvelous Light of
Truth comes Wisdom and
Knowledge and
Understanding!
Exodus 31:3 (AMP)
3
I have filled him with the
Spirit of God in wisdom
and skill, in
understanding
and intelligence, in
knowledge, and in all
kinds of craftsmanship,
Godly wisdom comes from the
Word and the Spirit.
God
gives wisdom to enable
mankind to judge what are
the best ends
and
the best means for attaining
them based upon His
Governmental Law
of Light.
Consider these scriptures as
God's wisdom being transferred
to us by the
Voice of the Holy Spirit...
God's Person in the earth
declaring the Prophetic Word!
*The
Prophetic Voice of the Holy
Spirit—
Awakening the
Church to Light, Life, and
Divine Purpose
Consider
these Scriptures as the wisdom
of God being transferred into
us
by the
Voice of the Holy Spirit—God’s
living Presence within the
earth, declaring
and
illuminating the Prophetic
Word!
These
passages reveal one glorious
movement of the Holy Spirit:
God calls us out
of
conformity, awakens us from
spiritual sleep, renews the
spirit of our minds, clothes
us
with the
nature of Christ, and joins us
together as His living and
functioning Body.
Romans 12:2
(AMP)
“Do not be
conformed to this world (this
age), [fashioned after and
adapted
to
its external, superficial
customs], but be transformed
(changed) by the [entire]
renewal of
your mind [by its new ideals
and its new attitude], so that
you may prove
[for
yourselves] what is the good
and acceptable and perfect
will of God, even the thing
which is
good and acceptable and
perfect [in His sight for
you].”
Ephesians
5:8–14 (AMP)
“For once
you were darkness, but now you
are Light in the Lord; walk as
children
of Light
[lead the lives of those
native-born to the Light]. For
the fruit (the effect,
the
product) of the Light or the
Spirit [consists] in every
form of kindly goodness,
uprightness
of heart, and trueness of
life. And try to learn [in
your experience]
what is
pleasing to the Lord [let your
lives be constant proofs of
what is most acceptable
to Him].
Take no part in and have no
fellowship with the fruitless
deeds and enterprises
of
darkness, but instead [let
your lives be so in contrast
as to] expose and reprove
and convict
them. For it is a shame even
to speak of or mention the
things that
[such
people] practice in secret.
But when anything is exposed
and reproved by the light,
it is made
visible and clear; and where
everything is visible and
clear there is light.
Therefore
He says, Awake, O sleeper, and
arise from the dead, and
Christ shall shine
(make day
dawn) upon you and give you
light.”
Ephesians
4:15–16 (AMP)
“Rather, let our
lives lovingly express truth
[in all things, speaking
truly, dealing truly,
living
truly]. Enfolded in love, let
us grow up in every way and in
all things into Him
Who is the
Head, [even] Christ (the
Messiah, the Anointed One).
For because of Him
the whole
body (the church, in all its
various parts), closely joined
and firmly knit together
by the
joints and ligaments with
which it is supplied, when
each part [with power adapted
to its
need] is working properly [in
all its functions], grows to
full maturity, building itself
up in
love.”
Ephesians
4:17–21 (AMP)
“So this I
say and solemnly testify in
[the name of] the Lord [as in
His presence],
that you
must no longer live as the
heathen (the Gentiles) do in
their perverseness
[in the
folly, vanity, and emptiness
of their souls and the
futility] of their minds.
Their moral
understanding is darkened and
their reasoning is beclouded.
[They are]
alienated (estranged,
self-banished) from the life
of God [with no share in it;
this is] because
of the ignorance (the want of
knowledge and perception, the
willful
blindness)
that is deep-seated in them,
due to their hardness of heart
[to the
insensitiveness of their moral
nature]. In their spiritual
apathy they have become
callous and
past feeling and reckless and
have abandoned themselves [a
prey]
to
unbridled sensuality, eager
and greedy to indulge in every
form of impurity
[that their
depraved desires may suggest
and demand]. But you did not
so learn Christ!
Assuming
that you have really heard Him
and been taught by Him, as
[all] Truth
is in Jesus
[embodied and personified in
Him].”
Ephesians
4:22–24 (AMP)
“Strip
yourselves of your former
nature [put off and discard
your old unrenewed self]
which
characterized your previous
manner of life and becomes
corrupt through lusts
and desires
that spring from delusion; and
be constantly renewed in the
spirit of your
mind
[having a fresh mental and
spiritual attitude], and put
on the new nature
(the
regenerate self) created in
God’s image, [Godlike] in true
righteousness and holiness.”
Transformation begins within!
The world endeavors to shape
life from the outside
through its
customs, pressures, fears, and
shifting values. God works
from the inside
through His
indwelling Spirit. He does not
merely give us better
information; He renews
our
understanding until we begin
to recognize His will,
perceive His purpose,
and respond
to life with the mind and
character of Christ.
This inward
renewal produces an outward
radiance. We were once
darkness,
but now we
are Light in the Lord! We have
not merely been brought near
to the Light—
we have
become children native-born to
the Light. Christ, the
Daystar, has arisen
within our
hearts. His Light produces
goodness, righteousness,
sincerity, spiritual
discernment, and
lives that visibly demonstrate
what is pleasing to the Lord.
The
command, “Awake, O sleeper,”
is therefore more than a call
to become conscious
of
surrounding darkness. It is
the Voice of the Holy Spirit
summoning the Church
to arise
into her God-given identity.
Christ shines upon us so that
He may also shine
through us.
His Light exposes darkness,
but it does more than
expose—it reveals
the pathway
into truth, restoration,
freedom, and life.
This
transformation is never
intended to remain an
isolated, private experience.
The renewed
believer is joined to a
renewed people. Christ is the
Head, and every
believer is
a divinely supplied member of
His Body. Each person has been
given grace,
ability,
responsibility, and a place of
service. As every part
responds to Christ
and
functions properly, the whole
Body grows toward spiritual
maturity and builds
itself up
in love.
God wants
us to work properly in all the
functions of the Gospel.
This work
is not produced merely by
human organization; it
proceeds from living
union with
Christ. We speak the truth in
love, deal truthfully, live
truthfully, and grow
together
into the spiritual stature of
the One who is our Head. Love
becomes
the
atmosphere in which truth is
expressed, gifts are
exercised, relationships
are
strengthened, and Kingdom
purpose is fulfilled.
The same Light
that renews the individual
also sends the Church into her
field
of
responsibility. When we
observe the spiritual pattern
of Jesus sending His
forerunners,
we
understand that every believer
has a place in the advancing
work of His Kingdom.
We bear
responsibility for the local
work, the regional work, the
national work, and the
international
work of the Church. These are
not separate ambitions; they
are widening
circles of
one divine mission!
The local
work gives the believer a
place to serve faithfully.
The
regional work joins
congregations and ministries
in shared purpose.
The
national work carries the
testimony of Christ into the
life and conscience of a
people.
The
international work reveals
that the Gospel recognizes no
human boundary, because
Jesus Christ is
Lord over every tribe,
language, people, and nation.
What
delight there is in this
revelation!
We are not
struggling to create light
from within ourselves.
Christ is
already shining!
We are not
attempting to manufacture a
new identity.
The new
nature has already been
created in the image of God!
We are not
disconnected individuals
searching for significance.
We are
living members of the Body of
Christ, joined together
and supplied by Him!
*The
Voice of the Holy Spirit is
therefore calling:
Awake from
spiritual sleep.
Arise from
the limitations of the former
life.
Receive
continual renewal in the
spirit of your mind.
Walk as a
child native-born to the
Light.
Lovingly
express the Truth embodied in
Jesus.
Take your
place within the functioning
Body of Christ.
Carry His
Light from the local field
into the nations.
*Native-Born to the Light
Ephesians
4:23–24 (AMP)
“And be
continually renewed in the
spirit of your mind [having a
fresh, untarnished
mental and
spiritual attitude], and put
on the new self [the
regenerated and renewed
nature],
created in God’s image,
[godlike] in the righteousness
and holiness of the truth
[living in
a way that expresses to God
your gratitude for your
salvation].”
To receive
continual renewal in the
spirit of the mind is to allow
the living Presence
of Christ
to transform the inward
atmosphere from which our
thoughts, attitudes,
words, and
decisions arise. This renewal
is not a single emotional
experience,
nor is it
merely the accumulation of
biblical information. It is
the ongoing work
of Holy
Spirit, cleansing the mind of
former patterns and bringing
the believer’s
understanding
into harmony with the mind of
Christ.
The renewed mind
no longer receives its
identity from yesterday’s
failures,
earthly
limitations, wounded memories,
or the confusion of the world.
It receives
its understanding from the
indwelling Christ. The Holy
Spirit continually
lifts the
believer’s thoughts out of
darkness, fear, condemnation,
and spiritual dullness
and brings
them into the clarity of
divine truth. Renewal
therefore becomes the daily
unveiling
of the new creation already
established within us through
our Union with Christ.
Romans 12:2
(AMP)
“And do not
be conformed to this world
[any longer with its
superficial values
and
customs], but be transformed
and progressively changed [as
you mature spiritually]
by the
renewing of your mind
[focusing on godly values and
ethical attitudes],
so that you
may prove [for yourselves]
what the will of God is, that
which is good
and
acceptable and perfect [in His
plan and purpose for you].”
The renewed mind
learns to see from the
position of redemption rather
than from
the
perspective of defeat. It
perceives circumstances
through the faithfulness of
God,
interprets
adversity through the victory
of Christ, and responds to
people through
the love of
the Father. As the mind is
continually renewed, the
believer becomes
increasingly conscious of who
Christ is, what He has
accomplished, and who
we have
become in Him.
This is not
the renovation of the old
nature; it is the expression
of the new nature.
God is not
merely improving the person we
were—He is revealing the
person created
in Christ
Jesus. Continual renewal
removes everything that
obscures that reality,
allowing
the character, wisdom, peace,
and righteousness of Christ to
become visible
through our
lives.
Ephesians
5:8–10 (AMP)
“For once
you were darkness, but now you
are Light in the Lord; walk as
children
of Light
[live as those who are
native-born to the Light] (for
the fruit [the effect,
the result]
of the Light consists in all
goodness and righteousness and
truth), trying
to learn
[by experience] what is
pleasing to the Lord [and
letting your lifestyles
be examples
of what is most acceptable to
Him—your behavior expressing
gratitude
to God for
your salvation].”
To be
native-born to the Light means
that Light is now the
believer’s spiritual homeland.
We were not
merely invited to visit the
Light occasionally; through
the new birth,
we were
born into it. Light is the
realm of our new citizenship,
the environment of our
spiritual
life, and the nature of the
Christ who dwells within us.
A person
who is native-born to a
country naturally learns its
language, customs, values,
and manner
of life. In the same way,
those born of God are learning
the language of faith,
the customs
of love, the values of the
Kingdom, and the ways of
righteousness.
We are
being taught by the Holy
Spirit to live naturally in
the spiritual environment
into which
grace has brought us.
Colossians
1:13 (AMP)
“For He has
rescued us and has drawn us to
Himself from the dominion of
darkness,
and has
transferred us to the kingdom
of His beloved Son.”
The
believer does not stand
between two kingdoms,
uncertain of where he belongs.
God has
already delivered us from the
authority of darkness and
transferred us
into the
Kingdom of His beloved Son.
Darkness may attempt to
influence our thinking,
but it no
longer possesses the
covenantal right to define us.
We belong
to the Kingdom of Light!
Jesus
Christ is not merely the One
who points toward the Light—He
is the Light.
Therefore,
to walk in the Light is to
walk in conscious fellowship
and living union
with Him.
His truth illuminates our
understanding. His life
supplies our strength.
His Spirit
directs our steps. His love
becomes the atmosphere in
which we relate
to others.
John 8:12
(AMP)
“Once more
Jesus addressed the crowd. He
said, ‘I am the Light of the
world.
He who
follows Me will not walk in
the darkness, but will have
the Light of life.’”
The Light
of Christ is the Light of
Life. It does more than expose
what is wrong;
it imparts
the life by which
righteousness can be lived.
Divine Light reveals, heals,
restores,
directs, and transforms. It
brings hidden things into
truth—not to destroy
the
believer with condemnation,
but to liberate the believer
through grace.
Walking as
a child native-born to the
Light means living openly
before God,
without
disguise, pretense, or fear.
It means allowing His truth to
penetrate
every
inward chamber and His love to
govern every outward
expression.
Where the
Light reigns, deception loses
its hiding place, bitterness
loses
its
justification, and fear loses
its authority.
The fruit
of this Light is goodness,
righteousness, and truth.
Goodness reveals
the
generous heart of God.
Righteousness expresses His
divine order.
Truth
manifests the reality of
Christ without hypocrisy or
distortion.
These
qualities are not religious
decorations placed upon the
believer from the outside;
they are
the inward fruit of the Light
growing and becoming visible.
2
Corinthians 4:6 (AMP)
“For God,
who said, ‘Let light shine out
of darkness,’ is the One who
has shone
in our
hearts to give us the Light of
the knowledge of the glory and
majesty of God
[clearly
revealed] in the face of
Christ.”
The same
God who commanded light to
shine at creation has spoken
His Light
into our
hearts! We are therefore
children of a new creation.
The Light within us
is not
borrowed from the world,
produced by human
intelligence, or extinguished
by adverse
circumstances. It proceeds
from the glory of God revealed
in Jesus Christ.
Receive,
therefore, continual renewal
in the spirit of your mind.
Let the Holy Spirit
refresh
your vision, cleanse your
thoughts, and restore your
consciousness of Christ’s
indwelling
Presence. Refuse to interpret
your life through the shadows
of what you once
were. You have
been born from above,
transferred into the Kingdom
of the Son,
and made a
dwelling place for the Light
of God.
Walk as one
who belongs in the Light—as
one born of the Light, taught
by the Light,
sustained by the
Light, and sent forth to
reveal the Light. Let the
Light of Truth
govern your
mind, the Light of Life
animate your being, and the
Light of Holy Spirit
shine
through your daily conduct.
You are not
struggling to find your way
into the Light. In Christ, you
have been brought
into it.
The Light is now your
homeland, your inheritance,
and your abiding spiritual
atmosphere.
Therefore, arise each day with
a renewed mind and walk
confidently
as a
beloved child—native-born to
the Light!
This is the
joyful progression of Kingdom
life: renewed minds,
transformed lives,
awakened
hearts, functioning members, a
maturing Church, and the Light
of Jesus Christ
advancing
through His people!
The Daystar
has risen within our hearts,
and a new day has dawned—
not merely
around us, but within us!!
Acts 1:8 (AMP)
8 But you shall
receive power
(ability,
efficiency, and
might) when the
Holy Spirit
has come upon
you, and you
shall be My
witnesses in
Jerusalem and
all Judea
and Samaria and
to the ends (the
very bounds) of
the earth.
Greater
Works shall You do... as
you do it!
May God
Mightily Bless and Keep You!
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