New Wine Skin

The dissatisfied conditions of earthen vessels can't define us, there's nothing in this new-wine skin of ours to ever associate our bodies with any dissatisfied or dissatisfying condition. By our life-source having been revealed as being the Father of Jesus Christ, we are proven as not being under ANY of humanities' innumerable conditions.

The one condition of our eternal existence is now determined by the One who Himself is the Author and Possessor of Eternal Existence. He is the One who has the authority to give His Eternal Existence to whomever He chooses. He chose us. That this giving was based entirely on His choice and not at all based on our own satisfaction of some condition He'd demanded of us. He fulfilled the condition He sole demanded of us, that we be in His image and likeness, ruling and subduing all things on the Earth. Sending Jesus to the Earth as the defining member of humanity proves His Will is actively sustaining us and reduces the Law to the place of an expired servant.

Instead of relying on the endurance of God's will for us, it became the custom of men to no longer regard God Himself as their Father. All the people on Earth began to live according Adam or Moses, either way, a life dependent upon their own time-tested and unanimously agreed upon "conditions" for life. They made laws based on the consequences of things they'd seen done. Whatever seemed responsible for wrong was to be avoided, and whatever seemed responsible for right was to be pursued and be satisfied in us in order for us to be counted worthy of life, health, wealth or a clear conscience in their eyes. The children of men were blind that as God's Offspring, We were already blessed with the satisfaction of every condition for Our own Glorification in God's eyes, simply by our being His!

He revealed His justification of our lives when He ushered mankind into His own Divine Immortality, giving us a share of His name. Like bread broken into pieces, He broke and multiplied Himself in me and as me in this world! Adopted by our Original Father, Our association with His life was made by possible by the satisfaction of His own requirement of us, His own image in us, and by Jesus Christ, He personally verified the godliness of the entire human race (and the goodness of His own character, which up until then had been exhibited darkly as the light of good in the midst of hearts enslaved by evil, and how he still overpowered the evil and caused His own will to come to pass, making good of what evil intended and proving the dominance of His intent, proving Goodness as God's character, His goodness on display in us as in a mirror through Christ Jesus, whose goodness defines all mankind and whose limitless eternal mercy towards us is entirely justified as a result of His own satisfaction of the law of what makes God "God" having been satisfied in the entire human race, on behalf of the entire human race, in Himself when He put to death the attraction of every inferior form we'd construed ourselves as being in the image and likeness of.)

Neither He nor we are any longer limited to giving expression to laws etched on stone, but are ourselves the incarnate complete Word of God concerning Himself. He sees us as Himself on display, easily seen and read, a form of God for all mankind to together see. God already satisfied every condition the world would ever demand of us, every expectation placed upon it by the expectation God had of it, an expectation we now know was satisfied. Just one of us being God Himself is enough to reveal all mankind God's, because He is our Father and as our Root-Word, He defines and sustains us. Our inclusion in Him is our deliverance from every personal condition.

By what's true of Him, making Him who He and He alone uniquely and that as we are satisfied by our Maker on our Behalf. His being our Father and Friend has made our satisfaction of His conditions for relationship with Him a gift acquired by inheritance, "genetically" passed on according our Genesis in Him.

We are sustained fearless and joyful, not by our own personal satisfaction of any conditions justifying our right to be this way. As a mirror image of God, we live only in response not to what a human father originated, but we are sustained in divine ecstasy solely by the revelation of Jesus, our Measure in God's Sight, having satisfied the condition of our being established as God's Sons. He is our Godliness, our blood, our unbreakable relation to God. His perfect resemblance of God as a man confirms our being in His exact form and likeness. and our having been redeemed in His beloved son, the One in whom He is eternally well-pleased. Formed by His hands of the clay of the Earth, we were given definition by the breath of His Living Spirit in accordance to the word He testified concerning us, that we'd be made, by Him, according to His own exact image, thereby giving us the title: Visible Image of the Invisible God.

Our physical bodies are the signet ring, title deed, and Icon conferring upon us the awareness of our having descended of the One who alone gives life to all things every where. Our bodies relate us to Him who inhabits Earthen vessels of otherwise lifeless clay to the satisfaction of His own good pleasure! We're in the One who molded every creature according to His own image for it, and who molded Himself in the image of His Son to give tangible expression to Himself alongside and together with His creations! He formed His body with the signature of His own form and likeness for the purpose of enduing Him with His every trait, every one of His own unique properties and characteristics, namely the subjection of all things in Heaven and on Earth to Him. -f

Counterfeits Not Accepted

Warning: Subversive to the Religious Mind. Reader discretion is advised.

I think one clear sign of a man having entered Spiritual Maturity is that inferior expressions of God's image lose their appeal.

Take, for instance, the image of an emaciated (or overweight), hurt and confused run-away Prince sitting under the sanctuary of the Tree. He sits there, observing things, until suddenly stricken with pang after pang of covetous envy at how innocently and joyfully well-fed his neighbors were.
This free-joy of theirs demonstrated the presence of universal worth before God, which was surprising to the skinny-fat young prince, since they'd then appeared quite a bit better off than he did, and this though they'd been far less materially prosperous than his own personal "lineage" in the eyes of "the world" had afforded him the "privilege" of considering himself. Uh oh!

Seeing their greater enjoyment of all this freely-given universal joy, even in the absence of the trappings to which he'd formerly belonged, opened his magical forehead eye to speculate concerning the purpose of his witness. He reasoned about the enduring nature of things that are internal, as oppossed to the passing nature of external things. He witnessed fullness and joy in these people who had none of what he'd been given materially. They were more inwardly whole than he, though he was considered as having been as a prince. He was humbled by these paupers in the wilderness, existing just as they are, poor but happy!

This sense of some kind of "universal balance" in the justice he witnessed inspired him to coin phrases that'd later define a religion. He described the way of the universe's operator, according to the lense of his own personal witness, as a dance between joy and mourning (or life and death, pleasure or suffering, or whatever else fit his duality's double-mindedness.) This fortune cookie level concept of God's way was enough of an insight to blow his ignorantly rich spoiled-brat brain and spurred in him a renewed confidence in his own right to get up, dance, and enjoy a meal with the dancy poor-folk!

He'd endorse his own religion......but in moderation of course.. wouldn't wanna get all "imbalanced" compared to the dancy poor folk and end up feeling guilty and condemned, sitting uselessly under the zen tree again! .....Booo? Hooo? Duh! This same teaching has the same effect today no matter who teaches it. Zen, Ben, Uncle Glen... Like Chinese delivery, it tastes good and is somewhat filling, but no matter where you order it from, it leaves you emptier than it did before.

Let's just say, a real man's image of God isn't a prince sitting thoughtfully under a tree (sorry educational and religious systems). A REAL man's image of God is a KING not sitting under a tree but HANGING FROM ONE in demonstration of His love for His Father, His Country, His People, and His Bride!

So yeah. Buddah's skinny fat ass can go sit on a skittle; He can't compete with Jesus, no not even a little! -f #worldreligion101 #universaltitle #noholdsbarred

No Badong!

Humanity being forgiven of every action it's ever taken in ignorance of our true identity means the bad things we've seen and heard people do as human-beings no longer define us! We are defined the God-Kind; We're defined by His articulate and skillful engineering of our design and our redemption. God's own righteous response to every bad thing ever done in the whole of His creation that is today defines us; God's own crucifixion on behalf of the misdeeds of the entire human race is what today defines us!

Being forgiven of every ignorant action that's ever been taken in our bodies means that our bodies are now freed from the harvest of our wrong actions! We're finally freed from a negative expectation to reap the harvest of a deed sown by the flesh, because in Him, we are in the Spirit. We're completely freed by the continual harvest of His Righteous Action on our behalf! Today, we can all afford to stand before God in a sinless condition, as Holy Ones having never performed any action inconsistent with God's own image and likeness. How can this all be? How can He call us things our own actions don't give Him permission to call us? How can we underestimate such big news?

God, being holy, would never endorse wrong acts or perform in the likeness of sinful human behavior, however, having never performed the admittedly sinful action of eating the fallen fruit from the Garden of Eden, ever human being still suffered the same deadly consequence of the one who did. Frankly, what the one above you says about you goes. As long as you're under that one's house, you're under that one's rules whether we rebel against them or not, those rules measure and define us. Disobeying the rules defines us as disobedient and causes the measure of our righteousness to decrease, while obeying the rules defines us as obedient and increases the measure of our righteousness by our own actions.

Far superior to this, as Sons in this same house we'd once been as servants in, One righteous action that was performed on our behalf, without our permission, already redeemed our perfect identity before God for all eternity! Likewise, having obviously never performed the righteous action of dying on behalf of all mankind's sins, we're all equally freed from the fallen condition put into place before us of being defined by a life defined as one falling short of being the Son of God.

That we are the Sons of God is without question. He created and defined us in Him from the beginning and no wrong action or misdeed committed by man or angelic being could ever undue the truth of what He'd already determined and known from the beginning as truth! This means that if any human behavior now defines us, it's God own human behavior of redeeming us through Jesus Christ.

It's that righteous human behavior of Jesus giving His life to redeem our Sonship in God that now defines us. The innocence of the One endorsing our innocence before God forever defines us now, and it is not an innocence of our own production. Because of the gift of innocence, it doesn't leave us with anything to boast in or exalt our own selves by. In fact, anything that doesn't come from a place of innocence distances mankind from the knowledge of the radiance of His glory, and the behaviors consistent with being guilty or having a guilty-conscience have today become ugly to us and grieve us.

You see, all the ways of guilt have lost their appeal to us, and whatever image of ourselves that the guilty actions of the flesh defined was indeed "bad" and "wrong" compared to the truth that God unveiled His righteousness in us and associating us with the Highest in Himself, He broke our association with everything "less-than." Unless it's perfectly good, it's lost it's appeal. -f #nobadong

His Innocence Becomes Her

Their proving her violation of their Law did not justify any judgments against her, because it was their "Law" itself that had an offense committed against it. Their law had been offended, not necessarily they themselves.

Had they agreed with the Law, consented to it, willingly submitted their hearts and minds to it and knew themselves only in accordance with it's words, seeing these words as though they were alive and living, obliging to them as to a loving parent, helplessly consumed and hopelessly dependent on the heart and soul of it's voice... Thanking the source and author of these words for it's impact on their lives, as thanking the Spirit for life itself...

Had they seen obedience to the words of their Law as their sole-source-- as the initiator, maintainer, and the defender of their social and economic abundance and provision, if they'd credited their faithful allegiance to their Law as being the stable source of every needful provision in their lives, seeing the hope contained in the substance of the Law's words as protection and security in life, as an enduring shelter in the midst of every storm. I promise you this, had they attributed every good thing in their lives and every shred of their confidence in their nation, themselves, and put their confidence in the future fulfillment of every good hopes into the complete satisfaction and perfect fulfillment of THIS Law... THIS Law of which I speak would be, to them, as a rich agricultural field containing an even richer hidden treasure under it's surface compared to which the riches of field literally pale in comparison.

What I'm saying is that had they literally been the incarnation of their Law-- if they were sustained and nourished by it as one is by their daily bread, and were joyfully intoxicated by it as one would be by a cool smoke coupled with fine wine. If they saw their Law as being the express image of Perfection itself, and defined perfection as the "perfect" fulfillment of THAT Law-- If it's satisfaction is all that mattered to them. If like a clingy child to it's beloved parent, it mattered more to them than ANYTHING else. If they were so shamelessly obsessed with it that even the law-abiding, law-executing, sinless angels of Heaven appear relatively resistant, unsure and even borderline non-compliant in comparison to the extreme degree of unprecedented devotion to this law on display in them.

Unless everything I described above about those whose devotion to the Law are undivided, a statement from a man who claims, "You violated my law!" wouldn't necessarily equate to "You've violated ME!" Unless the person accusing were himself personally offended by the violation of that Law, as if he himself WERE that law, He'd have no authority to execute on the law's behalf. Unless he were himself a faithful servant of the law, how could he dare to pretend to be an administrator of the law's demand for justice?

How could someone who himself exists in violation of the Law by standing against the very ones the Law exists to SERVE, even hope to pass himself off as a Servant of the Law or as an Administrant of it's Justice? Even the Law itself exists only in service to the PURPOSE of the Law. How then could someone who ignores the Law's purpose ever be mistaken as a legitimate legal authority? You could buy a cop outfit from a costume shop or a party-city, but if you try executing the legal authority represented by your outfit without having been officially recognized by that authority to legally execute on it's behalf, if you literally go to arrest someone without having been given explicit authority to do so, it doesn't matter if you're literally wearing your twin-brother's cop uniform, the "arrest" is only as strong as the authority that's doing the arresting. You may fool the eyes of men, but as the Seven Sons of the Jewish High Priest would testify, that doesn't really amount to much.

This topic is still as relevant on Earth as it's always been in Heaven. How could an entity that literally stands to benefit from violations of the Law, ever hope to pass itself off as a legitimate servant of the Law's purpose? At what point does the organization whose modus operandi is the absolution of some threat themselves become threatened by the hope of the fulfillment of it's own purpose? At what point do they knowingly rebel against their own cause and perpetuate and manage something it'd been officially established in order to destroy! At what point does a Father actively work against his daughter leaving the nest?

If there's someone who is out there profiting as a result of what is stripped from those who've been rightly counted guilty as a result of every time they violate and transgress the Law's commands; If there are people out there who await occasions to bring violations of the Law and accusations concerning the short-comings of others to the attention of the Head Minstrant of Justice, and if the one who Judges is perpetually approached as-if nothing would please him more than to be informed of any infractions of his laws so that He could punish and reprimand the violates, and if they continually mistake him as one who would for some reason enjoy being reminded of the penalties any infractions of His law enable him to execute. If they mistake him as itchy to press the red button and rain down hell-fire and if they count punishment against humans as the objective of the penalties described by the law as being attributed to humans behaving out of accords with it, I'll tell you something that'll just have to make due... Every punishment ever attributed to any action in violation of any one of God's righteous ways or holy laws was completely absorbed by the One man Jesus Christ on behalf of all mankind in His name.

If there are people who out there who still revel in keeping track of violations Love's Law and are calling exclusively for a response of condemnation, denying our capacity to forgive and absolve, insisting only on condemnation yet rejecting the sufficiency of the condemnation already absorbed on behalf of every violator by the gracious sacrifice of Jesus as God's lamb, and if people are still out there promoting the knowledge of good and evil as the only appropriate response, that's like a dude trying to hide his Adam's apple, or like a snake trying hide it's lisp. I'm not buyin it guys... a SEVERE suspension of disbelief would be required, the children of the day and the children of the night are plain as day to distinguish between, thas all I'm sayin.

There've been instances when having personally taken no offense at some action, comment, or gesture some body among us was offended at, and because of the relative importance we placed upon this one's satisfaction and continued esteem, we've likewise taken positions against others. We didn't take these positions in response to our offenses or compelled by own personal initiative, but only in response to the initiative of the one above us whose esteem and satisfaction we hope to remain recipients of.

If our innocence is dependent upon our blameless standing according to the law of the owner and master of the house we live in, then we are not counted sons or heirs of the master whose house we live in. The only acceptable explanation of this, seeing as though we are indeed sons and heirs of God, would of course be that for as long as the heir is still a child or a minor, he differs nothing from a slave. So to everyone sick and tired of living like a slave in a house you're actually the owner of, God's public announcement of our mature sonship is a MAJOR deal.

Jesus' Resurrection was YOUR Bar Mitzvah

On discovering that we are co-owners of the universe, we're no longer subject to rules, laws, and limitations of created beings. Our Creator's reveal of Himself as our Father gave us a position now revealed as having been established above the reach of the created order. Yeah-Boyeee!

What distracts us from this? People out there complaining about their so-called offenses. Remember, there was not one among them who had been personally "offended" by anybody's offenses of the "Law" of Love and had they been, they would have responded to an occasion to blame as if it were an occasion to forgive, and would endorse your enjoyment of the same righteous and blameless innocence as those who've never committed any such offense against them. But seeing as how they're calling for punishment, judgement, and your service of what you're obliged to perform on their behalf, they prove the offense they voiced was only of the Law itself. One who would accept you performing for them out fear and obligation is of an inferior standard than the one who would rather only accept that which comes from you freely, without guilt, without manipulation or demands, coercion, or pressure

If the offense taken against you was in response to an offense of the Law, then from the Giver of the Law do you require forgiveness. Who else would have innocence before the Law, and if they don't have innocence before the Law they're condemning you for violating, does their condemnation matter? And if they say they forgive you, but do not have innocence before the Law, by what power are they able to extend to you the experience of innocence before the law? They can give you innocence before THEM, but before the law? That's out of their authority and the shit they flung on you out of their capacity to atone for or remove on your behalf. Someone owing you something loses relevance when they having nothing to give. You might not think God owes you forgiveness, but that loses relevance when you realizes that no one else has any legitimate legal-forgiveness for you to give!

Who would be offended at someone for offending someone ELSE? Would a man be offended at a comedian for offending his wife or girlfriend? How deep would that offense really be? In a practical sense, the Law is a some-ONE and not a some-THING.

The some-ONE (Jesus Christ) was crucified for our freedom from some-THING (The Law of God)

We're forgiven of everything that could ever possible offend Jesus.

As for the things that may possibly offend your wife or girlfriend? Well.. Brother I'll pray for you. :-p -f

The Meta View

Being conscious of what makes something dis-satisfactory won't detract from your desire to engage it. Restrictions, limitations, criticisms, snide remarks and negative advertising are all worthless; their words may make people feel one way or another about what they do, but they're totally powerless to change what's being done. Only our understanding guides us, we aren't led by bit and bridle but from within by a conversation steered by our knowledge of the truth.

That something is beneath you does nothing to break the attraction of it's appeal unless you are firstly known as from above. Hating or tagging negative labels won't detract from their appeal until knowing our own selves apart from them. Have we ever seen ourselves apart from those false and temporal labels? Do we recognize where we end and those labels begin?

Jesus sees you freed by God from every distorted, inferior word, label, or expression in life because only Life's creator defines Him, and His name is in you without flaw.

You can only see what it is you see in Him, because you inwardly know He sees the same in you. His reflection upon the still waters of our hearts is what defines us. His form is the shape of our hearts like a key, unlocking His latent image in us from within, He declares the universal end of latency.

Being kept aware of the disadvantages of things below is useless when below is where we still consider ourselves to be, but being kept in the awareness of the greater satisfaction offered by something else, something from above, something fit from God's meta-view of You, delicacies of the preferred variety, breaks the hold of the old!

The new lover of spontaneity in us overpowered the old slave of the rule of human routine. Normality and being common is an insult to God in us; we are decidedly peculiar and unique, according to the pattern of our Maker's design! #metaview

Buff Jesus

"For physical training is of some value, but godliness (spiritual training) is of value in everything and in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and for the life to come." -1 Timothy 4:8

What good are muscles when the storms and floods of life sweep by? When smiles turn to glares and our senses no longer confirm cause for hope in being loved-- What hope is there in the external world when our inner-mind's occupied with distracting conditions of the life the world associates with the human flesh.

What good is the world's intimacy when the pain of separation of our Perfect Father distances you from the completeness of your inner person? 

Cross-fit won't overpower the circumstances that leave our souls robbed of any viable evidence of being loved any longer. When memorized sayings, quotations, and love-songs of the world are all totally useless when the promise of our inclusion in the good of life is in question-- When we're in the depths of the darkest nights, treading in old, slippery places where our feet can find no ground up which to stand, He causes us remain standing. Even when senses haven't confirmed it and in places where not even a single rock of the old foundation of our lives remains, when hope seems lost-- God is on our Side.

What we know of Him and the strength His conviction in our place is the spiritual treasure that makes our heart so valuable that we protect it above everything else. The Word that we've come to know and discover ourselves as the eternal recipients and heirs of, is the rock-solid truth of Life that He unveiled in Himself, filling our hearts in a way that totally saves us. On the rock of His teaching, we're standing firm even when the shifting of the tides leave me no way to regain our stance and recoil back up above the surface of the cold and love-less waters that swallowed me whole and hid from me the Divine Radiance of my own face... the strength of Him in me yet remained, and He saved me.

This strength was not there by accident but by design. What saved me was not the glory I'd built in my own name, but my deliverance from the old name and everything in it by His Grace's association of Himself with me and the NEW name that His association confers upon me, a name enduring even in the presence of contradictions and the most trying times. Indeed, it's God's faith we all depend on above any other, a fact most evident when even without any sense of a reason to rest in our ourselves, the seed of the hope of God in us remains and His resurrection already neutralized and overthrew every definition that death ever had in us.

His own personal name forever references His containment of all we are and all we have.

In His name, the seed of God's faith in us remains alive and strong. His name continues to completely define us. His name has always been all about fully containing all that we are and all we have, and establishing our security in heaven. God announced that in Jesus He has already saved and completely backed us up in Himself in Heaven, forever.

So as the image of Christ is Himself fully-formed in my mind's eye and my soul is awakened to the completeness of His likeness in me, I'm grateful for the security of His power over us. -f

Written in the Stars

The very Logic upon which humanity and all creation is based, built, and established, is now incarnate and alive again after death. He died for sin He did not commit. In that, He proclaims our total redemption from the sin we DID commit. In the same breath, He unveils His own official announcement of our Divine Sonship, and He did so from Eternity, even from before space and time began!

As first alluded to in the message written in... the stars by the very Hand of God Himself, who alone flung space into it's exact place and time, persuading us even more convincingly of the truth by words He Himself articulated, a message mirrored again in the whole of human history itself, recording it in a message further elucidated and confirmed by scriptures written in blood by saints, scriptures that put us in context and announced God's destiny for us as having already been fully accomplished for us by His Son Jesus, in whom He Himself lived and died on behalf of all mankind, thereby defining us in Himself.

Because of the destiny He already accomplished on behalf of every man, we've all been freed to enter His own personal rest! His Innocent Life is now in us, defining us, keeping us alive as He is on Earth, exactly as He is in Heaven.

Just like in the beginning, we are, as His word made flesh, together face to face with God. Immersed in a reality created and sustained by His own living purpose, we're together living only by the power of what's been accomplished by Him on our behalf.