Virus Definition Source

(for context see previous post)

The flesh/law arrangement worked well until sin compromised its integrity. But the label and identity still remains. Our minds still think the Law of God originally written into our flesh is a reliable source of information about what is right. But what changed in the Garden of Eden was a substitution of Good vs. Evil instead of the correct view of Life vs. Death. It looked like a valid change because on the surface it looks almost identical. But the Good vs. Evil paradigm masks the real result of that thinking – they both end up in death. And when we use the Good/Evil virus definitions they do not catch all the hidden lies slipped through the flesh under pretense of valid LAW. That is why the LAW of God written in our flesh originally intended as a valid guidance system is no longer reliable. God had to add other resources that it is imperative for us to use if we are to have righteous output from our lives.

We need God's written Word as an objective source of virus definitions and we need our sync cable connected through our spirit to God's Spirit to correctly understand and appropriately apply the Word to the rest of the data and programs in our soul. If we plug our sync cable into the LAW socket in our flesh, Satan will feed us false sync signals that will distort the Word and misapply it while appearing to be completely reliable and true. This is left-brain religion and is very dominant in legalism.

(Romans 8:4) When we walk according to the spirit – our sync cable connected to the spirit/Spirit – we will observe that our output will satisfy the strict demands of the LAW/guidance system that we can still see written in our flesh. But it has to be observed, not attempted. Romans 8 is all about cause and effect. Where we plug in will determine whether we use the Good/Evil paradigm or the Life/Death paradigm. It will also decide the quality and reliability of the power we run on.

Our Spiritual Computer

Computers are created in our image so they reflect how we function and think as humans. Our soul is our CPU where everything is collected, checked for validity, processed and then sent out for expression physically and through our spirit transmitter which creates an atmosphere like a magnetic field around us. Our will chooses where to plug in our power/sync cable set, either into the flesh or the spirit. It also chooses where to plug in the spiritual data receiver equipment.

We have an anti-virus program that is designed to analyze and compare the incoming five-senses data with the Spirit-cable linked to the Bible using the sync cable as a live source of virus definitions. The information emerging from the anti-virus program is then released to the CPU and motherboard for processing. The mind (left brain), emotions (right brain), heart and will feed the outputs for display and transmission to be broadcast to others. We express not only “five senses” output for those around us but transmit invisible spirit waves that are transparently accurate.

If the sync cable is plugged into the spirit and the spirit has received the retrofit heavenly synchronization power pack (new birth) paid for at Calvary, then the virus program will have a safe and reliable source of virus definitions to check all data and programs received both from the Bible and all other sources including all sensory data from the flesh. It will filter out misleading data and .exe files fed through our flesh designed to deceive our minds or hijack our hearts from the Law of Sin source hiding within our flesh.

God's law was originally written into our flesh as an accurate guidance system data resource library. Satan proposed that beings could use this resource as a power supply as well which resulted in self-dependence and separation from God. Satan promised to supply our power himself. What actually happened is that when we disconnected from the live power supply of God we began draining our backup batteries and the batteries of all others we depend on, including Satan. Eventually this source of power will run out of power and everyone depending on this system will be unfitted to live plugged in to the live power supply that will be much stronger than what anyone experiences now. And that, my friends, will then be the actual experience and torture of hell.

Laws Inside Us

I have been pondering the three laws in Romans 7 and 8 – SPIRIT/MIND/SIN AND DEATH. I have been wondering how we were originally designed before the fall compared to now.

Was God's law originally the law of the mind? Maybe the fall into sin stripped the heart out of it and just left the letter of the law, the outline, an empty shell that we felt compelled to obey so we could feel satisfied and whole again.

Or maybe God's law used to be what is now called the law of the flesh. However that part was commandeered by Satan and still purports to work for our best interest while always sabotaging us.

The soul is the vehicle for processing and expression but has no internal power to do so. It is dependent on an outside source of power to fuel it. There are two available sources of power, the flesh and the spirit. Was this arrangement in place before the fall?

Before sin the “flesh” was nourished by the fruits in the Garden of Eden as well as the Tree of Life. Did the Tree of Life synchronize the spirit and the flesh? With God's Spirit?

I believe THE LAW (Rom 8:3,4a) was originally encoded into what is now called our flesh. It originally gave the soul perfect guidance as to how to be satisfied and at peace. It was God's perfect will encoded into our guidance system. But did it originally have power to supply to the mind and soul or was it just designed to be a perfect guidance system? Was the spirit always intended to be the sole source of power? Was the deception in Eden a lie that we could use the encoded, internal guidance system as an alternate source of power thereby bypassing the function of the spirit part of us?

Satan proposed to supply power in reverse to how we were designed. THE LAW, the desire to be satisfied, to thrive, to grow was misidentified as our source of energy instead of our library.

Now what is called the flesh is attempting to be a power supply, with Satan's power hidden underneath it, to fuel our soul. This, on the surface, appears to be self-dependent power but actually is depending on Satan for power. This is the deceptive way he gets us to worship him, for worship is simply an admiration and appreciation for “whatever turns our crank”.

(7:11,12) Sin – dependence on a false source of power – took up residence inside the LAW part of our mind that held our encoded guidance system. The LAW did not disappear from our minds. It still has its original function to guide us to peace and perfection, but it is now untrustworthy as a source of power. And the solutions produced by the LAW, or passed to our mind through the storefront of the LAW, are always misleading, though the code of the LAW is still technically correct.

(8:5,6) “Setting our minds” is a phrase that means looking to a source of power. The LAW encoded into us was never intended to be a source of power, the Spirit was to be our power source. When we look to the flesh and LAW for power to fulfill the LAW we try to operate the system backwards and have hostility toward God as well as how we were designed to function (8:7)

Our spirit is the real power cord that is properly configured to be plugged into the heavenly socket which is the Holy Spirit. His Spirit connects with our spirit to supply power and synchronize us with God's heart, will, emotions and mind.

(8:3) The LAW was weak through the flesh – the guidance system had good ideas for the end results of being God-like, but since the fall it has either lost its power to perform or it is attempting to be the power it was never intended to be.

Jesus condemned SIN in the flesh, not the flesh itself. Whatever He did He empowered some arrangement whereby the desires/demands of the LAW could now be realized in us, be fulfilled in us. It does not say that we would be empowered to obey of ourselves or that the LAW would have power to obey in us. Our soul – emotions, mind, will – is not the power center; it is the processing center. The LAW written in the flesh and now deceived and usurped by sin, is also not to be a power source.

The very idea of deriving power to obey the LAW from either of these two sources is the root deception foisted on us by sin via way of the addendums now added to the LAW written in our flesh.

Rivers and Maturity

The river in Eden flowed out into four main rivers that flowed out to the whole earth into smaller and smaller streams until the whole earth was fed with life. (Gen. 2:10-14) Jesus spoke of a spring of living water being unleashed inside us. The Tree of Life was at the head of this river.

This is the model of maturity levels. God uses maturity levels in people as His distribution system for life-giving nourishment of His body, quite like our blood distribution system in our own bodies. The volume of life-water flowing through us to others is directly related to our level of maturity. The life springs from our hearts and the capacity of our hearts to impart life is our maturity and joy capacity.

Life pours from God through four main outlets – four faces – then through elders, then parents, down through adults and into children and infants.

Gatesitter Scene 1

I've been fascinated by the story of Peter, John and the lame man at the gate found in Acts 3. the man had been carried along all his life. He was lame from his mother's womb. He had received lameness from his parents; it wasn't his fault. But it was the only identity he was aware of and he had become just as lame socially, emotionally and spiritually as he was physically. He had sat all his life while wishing he could be free. He had become depressed and disconnected from those around him to avoid increasing his emotional pain. He felt deep shame and lived it out by begging, groveling for mercy from others who often ignored and gave him more shame.

He avoided eye contact with everyone because he felt worthless and helpless. Nearly everyone continually sent him identity messages that were deeply ingrained in his psyche – that he was just a pitiful beggar who sat all the time sponging his living off of others. No one was glad to be with him. No one wanted to touch or hold him close. No one cared about his heart and his feelings. This was who he was. This was all he knew.

And although in his fantasies he wished he could be free, everything believed by people around him said that change was impossible. His problems were too big to surmount. The best he should expect is to entice sympathetic friends to help him cope with his disability and just accept life as it had been dealt him. He was resigned to his fate. He would just spend his time outside the gate of God's house taking advantage of the heavier traffic at this location to beg.

His heart and soul longed to see inside the temple and be able to worship and praise God freely in His house like others. He wistfully desired to throw himself with complete abandon into worship and adoration of a merciful and loving Father. But was there even such a God like that? The God he had been taught about all his life was not very merciful and compassionate. This God of the Pharisees blessed the “good religious” people and cursed sinners and their children with sickness, physical defects and poverty. The God of the Jews according to the religious teachers was arbitrary and insisted on strict obedience to thousands of detailed regulations to earn His favor.

This man was shut out from God by stern rules enforced by stern people. And now he had nearly given up all hope. God must view him as too unworthy to heal. After all, for 3 ½ years Jesus had healed people all around the area and stories abounded of other lame men set free and made whole. But he had never been selected. He had always been passed by or was in the wrong place and missed every opportunity to see Jesus himself.

And now Jesus had been crucified and was no longer around. The future looked darker than ever. He was now resigned to just existing and accepting his lot in life. This must be his destiny. This must be God's will.

Sometimes as he sat outside the temple or was being carried by his few friends he would watch little children playing, running and laughing in the streets and alleys. This always created a deep aching in his heart. He felt a little envious of the freedom that little children seemed to enjoy in their spirit as well as their bodies. They seemed so uninhibited when adults were not frowning over them, and could express their joy not only with shouts and laughter but were not ashamed to celebrate just being alive with spontaneous dancing, leaping and running with glee. How he longed not only to be able to physically be free but to emotionally celebrate life like an excited innocent little child bursting with life and happiness and joy.

(click here for scene 2)