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RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY

Our God, in Christ, released us from captivity,
From slavery to sin, He sets the captive free.
The Lord sheds His own light upon all human hearts;
For those who won’t respond, God’s radiance soon departs.

So many like to claim an inner righteousness,
But God has told us all, there’s nothing good in us.
The human flesh, that strong, deceptive, wicked force,
That whitewashed human heart still charts an evil course.

The human flesh is caught in slavery to sin.
It cannot free itself, nor break the trap it’s in.
But only through the Christ, there is no other way,
So only through the Christ, our night is turned to day.

The flesh is so corrupt, it cannot be reformed,
But yielding to Christ, a miracle performs.
Yet those who will not yield, with great hypocrisy,
Not knowing that they’re lost, remain in slavery.

All those who yield their wills and listen to God’s voice,
Are led of God in love in ever deepening choice.
Our God, in Christ, released us from captivity,
From slavery to sin, He sets the captive free.

And even if you slip and fall back into sin,
The Lord will lift you out and set you right again,
Providing you confess and trust Christ with your soul .
He’ll set you on the path and lead you toward the goal.

So never walk in fear and never you dismay.
The Lord is all your hope and power to obey.
There is no strength in flesh, but only He imparts,
The gift of righteousness, and changes human hearts.

As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ.

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The New Testament uses the metaphor of a mirror three times.

As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ. You see your brothers and sisters after the spirit and not after the flesh.
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As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ. You see your brothers and sisters after the spirit and not after the flesh. You need to discern the body of Christ. You need to recognize the ministries of your brothers and sisters. You’re standing in the presence of Christ when you’re in their presence.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

You HAVE a carnal nature. You ARE the ministry within, the Christ in you. That’s what Romans 7 states so clearly.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. ~ Romans 7:15-20

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The flesh will get religious.

The flesh will do anything to keep us from God’s ultimate blessing. Our fleshly nature doesn’t want us standing in God’s presence listening to His voice and yielding in obedience to His Spirit so God can say His words and do His acts through us. In God’s presence, the fleshly nature gradually fades away if we yield to God’s Spirit in willing obedience.

The flesh will get religious. The fleshly reasoning will put the Bible in God’s place so we worship and revere the Bible rather than knowing Christ. It will twist Scripture that says we should listen to God’s word (meaning God speaking to us) and interpret it to say “Read your Bible and try to understand the Bible on your own without the miraculous intervention of the Holy Spirit. It will take yesterday’s partial revelation, build a wall of protection around it, and fill in the blanks with many assumptions. It will direct us into a certain formula and convince us that the formula will bring us into the Kingdom. It will direct us to avoid all sorts of specific things, some of which are good to avoid. It will show us 6, or 8, or 10 laws to follow rather than walking in the Spirit. It will take a true prophecy and turn it into a law or principle. The thing it doesn’t want is our personal, moment-by-moment relationship with Christ. It doesn’t want God leading us. It doesn’t want us following God because that is a walk from glory to glory that destroys that rebellious fleshly nature and completes the work of forming Christ in us. It knows that self-righteousness is spiritually worthless, but the Holy Spirit will lead us into true righteousness and holiness.

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water. Jeremiah 2:13

REJOICE, REJOICE, REJOICE

The Lord is now building His Church.
Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice.
The man-child is coming to birth.
Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice.

Walk in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit now.
Walk in His glory; Walk in His glory; Walk in His glory now.
Walk in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit; Walk in the Spirit now.
Walk in His glory; Walk in His glory; Walk in His glory now.

His pattern is here for the Church.
Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice.
The man-child is coming to birth.
Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice.

Rejoice, Rejoice, Rejoice

God is forming you into the member of His body He created you to be.

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God is forming you into the member of His body He created you to be.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

God is forming you into the member of His body He created you to be. As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ. You see your brothers and sisters after the spirit and not after the flesh. You need to discern the body of Christ. You need to recognize the ministries of your brothers and sisters. You’re standing in the presence of Christ when you’re in their presence.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

You HAVE a carnal nature. You ARE the ministry within, the Christ in you. That’s what Romans 7 states so clearly.

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Why God’s Order? We can’t attain God’s high calling independently.

We can’t attain God’s high calling independently.

Why God’s order? We can’t attain God’s high calling independently.

We can’t attain God’s high calling independently. We need Christ the body. We need to recognize Christ as He is unveiled in His body. Brother H. Holt wrote, “In the body of Christ, there is no such ministry as an independent one” and “The sons of God have learned the secret of obeying.” Being led implies obedience. It implies submission to God’s delegated authority through His body. The flesh hates submission and obedience. However, the rebellious fleshly nature must decrease as Christ is fully formed within. That’s what spiritual maturity is, but spiritual maturity is much more than what God builds in us individually. The Holy Spirit is fitting us into our unique, God-ordained places in this body. God will sort out who goes where, and no human effort can change God’s plan. At the final coming of the Lord in His body, we will all come in the unity of the faith and knowledge of the Son of God to One Perfect Man. We will come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. (Ep. 4:12-13) The Holy Spirit will have transfigured us into the image and likeness of Christ. And we will walk in total submission to Christ the Head and in God’s perfect Scriptural order. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

REJOICE IN THE KING

Rejoice in the King Whose powerful arm,
Can keep you safe from any harm.
Who leads to total victory,
O’er every foe and enemy.
Satan is no match for Him,
Not sickness, weakness, death, or sin.
For Christ will have the victory,
O’er every enemy.

Rejoice in the King

You are a living stone in God’s temple.

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You are a living stone in God’s temple.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

You are a living stone in God’s temple. God is forming you into the member of His body He created you to be. As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ. You see your brothers and sisters after the spirit and not after the flesh. You need to discern the body of Christ. You need to recognize the ministries of your brothers and sisters. You’re standing in the presence of Christ when you’re in their presence.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

You HAVE a carnal nature. You ARE the ministry within, the Christ in you. That’s what Romans 7 states so clearly.

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WHY GOD’S ORDER?

If we were merely individuals waiting to die so we could go to heaven, God’s pattern for Christ the body would consist of unimportant details. However, God is building a holy temple that must be constructed according to His Scriptural pattern. This pattern is Christ. The temple has a foundation of apostles and prophets who work according to the pattern of Scripture with Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone. Even if we build on the foundation, we build as the Holy Spirit leads since our work will be tested by fire. (1 Co. 3:13) The reason God tests everything by fire is that this body is the living Christ manifested on earth.

Real Hope

Real hope is not an “I hope so” hope.
Real hope flows from God’s Spirit.
Real hope is the vision of what God is going to do.
Real hope knows the plans God has for us.
Plans of good and not of evil.

Your ministry is Christ in you. Your ministry has nothing to do with your flesh.

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You have and are a ministry in this body of Christ. Your ministry is Christ in you. Your ministry has nothing to do with your flesh.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

You have and are a ministry in this body of Christ. Your ministry is Christ in you. Your ministry has nothing to do with your flesh. You are a living stone in God’s temple. God is forming you into the member of His body He created you to be. As you look into God’s spiritual mirror of hope, you see who you are in Christ and how you fit into the body of Christ. You see your brothers and sisters after the spirit and not after the flesh. You need to discern the body of Christ. You need to recognize the ministries of your brothers and sisters. You’re standing in the presence of Christ when you’re in their presence.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

You HAVE a carnal nature. You ARE the ministry within, the Christ in you. That’s what Romans 7 states so clearly.

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NOT AFTER THE FLESH

When we are offended or angry, we need to ask the Father to speak His vision into our hearts. Then we will see the callings of those around us and the order and pattern of Christ the body into which God has placed us. We will see Christ in our brothers and sisters. And we will realize that our brothers and sisters ARE the Christ within them even though our brothers and sisters still HAVE fleshly natures. Henceforth, we don’t know anyone after the flesh. (2 Co. 5:16) As we look into the mirror of God’s perfect law of liberty, we discern Christ the body. (Ja. 1:23) We focus intently on the vision God is showing us and realize that what we say or do to a brother or sister we say or do to Christ.

Rationalism and revelation will never see eye to eye.

Rationalism and revelation will never see eye to eye.
Revelation trusts in God,
Rationalism trusts lies.

Rationalism thinks the human mind is all the source.
That human minds can dream up truth.
That they are the ultimate force.

Revelation believes God’s Word, unchallenged to this hour.
That God can yet reveal His truth.
That He is the ultimate power.

And rationalized theology and science can be shown
The source of every kind of pain,
And trouble the earth has known.

But God has never authored strife, disorder, curse or plague.
He is the source of all that’s good.
His Light is never vague.

What God has made declares His power so anyone can see.
But as for those who make up facts?
They’re blind as blind can be.

If you doubt God and what God says, you see the flesh in yourself. And you see the flesh in other members of the body of Christ.

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If you doubt God and what God says, you see the flesh in yourself. And you see the flesh in other members of the body of Christ. Maybe you see yourself and the people you like as good, but you see the fleshly nature in the people you don’t like. As you look at the flesh, you become fleshly. You become what you stare at.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

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DISCERNMENT

Every member of this body has authority in Christ. When God sets someone into authority, that person isn’t perfect and will make mistakes. (Ja. 3:2) If God shows us that something is in disorder, He doesn’t reveal this to us to create division between us and other members. He reveals it so we can discern Christ the body from religious disorders. (1 Co. 1:29) He reveals it to deliver Christ’s body from anything that works against what God is doing. Rather than focusing on the fleshly nature that is fading into non-existence, the Spirit urges us to focus on the ministry (Christ) in each member.

PUT YOUR COMPASSION HERE IN MY HEART

Put Your compassion, Lord, here in my heart.
Let every grief touch my soul.
When others suffer, Lord, Let me be moved
Lord let it start, here in my heart.
Let true compassion fill my soul.

Put Your Compassion Here In My Heart

As you look into this mirror at the glory of the body of Christ as it ought to be, you’re transfigured into the image and likeness of the living Christ.

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Pastors and teachers, take a look at the new class about how to talk about Jesus without getting into arguments. We’ve been taught ways that don’t work. Because of the frustration of doing what doesn’t work, many Christians have just stopped trying to bring others to Christ. This is different. No lie can stand up to the Light. Active listening can draw your friend’s ideas into the daylight. Bad ideas self-destruct in the daylight.
https://realreality.org/downloads/question-based-conversational-soul-winning/

As you look into this mirror at the glory of the body of Christ as it ought to be, you’re transfigured into the image and likeness of the living Christ.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

As you look into this mirror at the glory of the body of Christ as it ought to be, you’re transfigured into the image and likeness of the living Christ.

So from now on we regard no one according to the flesh. ~ 2 Corinthians 5:16

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The flesh will do anything religious to avoid standing in God’s presence

The flesh will do anything religious to avoid standing in God's presence

The flesh will do anything religious to avoid standing in God’s presence

The flesh will do anything religious to avoid standing in God’s presence, listening to His voice, and yielding in obedience to His Spirit so He can say His words and do His acts through us. It will put the Bible in God’s place and make us think we can understand it on our own. It will direct us into a certain formula. It will tell us to avoid all sorts of things, some of which are good to avoid. It will show us 6 good points to follow rather than walking in the Spirit. It will take a true prophecy and turn it into a law or principle. Be aware that the thing it doesn’t want is your personal, moment-by-moment relationship with Christ. It doesn’t want God leading and you following because that is a walk from glory to glory that destroys that rebellious fleshly nature and completes the work of forming Christ in you.

Pure Thought Is Based On Logic, So The Story Goes

Pure thought is based on logic, so the story goes.
We swallow this line easily, as everybody knows.
But reasoning and logic, fall short to tell what’s true.
And scholars argue constantly all mired in a goo
Of logical assumptions–they all sit in their stew,
As they have done for ages. This is nothing new.

Their books and papers, proven false by that which they can see,
But, proud and haughty, they deny that it can ever be.
Scientist or theologian–they are all the same.
“Facts” based on assumptions, all stirring in their brains.
A brain so proud, it says to God, “Who are You to tell.”
And gives us quite a clue to just how Satan fell.

The more they learn, the more they know, the more confused they are,
For when they learn what isn’t true, they’re stuck in pitch-black tar.
They look into the Bible, but they don’t see the Word.
A veil is there before their eyes. They see what they had heard.
Is God able to reveal? Can His Spirit show–
If we’re willing now to yield–things that we must know?

As God reveals, won’t He know to show us all the same?
Won’t He show us in the way the Bible does proclaim?
For God does send, the Bible says, and tells us how He sends.
He chooses whom He will to send, and He determines when.
If there is great discord and all this argument,
It simply means that someone runs whom God has never sent.

This isn’t a poem to deny logic or rational thought. It mentions “logical assumptions.” There are no truly logical assumptions. Assumptions always consist of made-up stuff. Calling made-up stuff real is the basis of all irrational thinking. It’s the root cause of every lie. Sound logic must have true premises. In other words, sound logic requires truth. Not only does it require truth but it must add nothing to that truth and diminish no part of that truth. Sound logic can’t have a single ounce of made-up stuff.

Since humans don’t have a way to reason to truth, where can we get truth? We have to go to Someone Who knows all things, can’t lie, loves us, and will lead us if we will follow. This is the Person Who IS the Truth and in Whom all knowledge and wisdom is hidden. Jesus is real and knowable. All Who sincerely and persistently seek Him will find Him and get to know Him in a continual walk of unfolding revelation of truth. He leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him. This isn’t a one-and-done walk. It’s a walk from glory to glory, tearing down one inner stronghold after the other.

When you see the body of Christ, you see it as the fulfilled body. You see every member as the Christ within Who cannot sin.

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When you see the body of Christ, you see it as the fulfilled body. You see every member as the Christ within Who cannot sin.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

When you see the body of Christ, you see it as the fulfilled body. You see every member as the Christ within Who cannot sin. As you look into this mirror at the glory of the body of Christ as it ought to be, you’re transfigured into the image and likeness of the living Christ.

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