{"id":18,"date":"2017-10-06T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonlightministry.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T15:57:24","slug":"tabernacles-god-alive-in-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonlightministry.com\/blog\/tabernacles-god-alive-in-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabernacles – God Alive in You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In His great plan, God has prepared a path of maturation<\/b> for your soul, which he calls a Path of Perfection<\/b>. By this process of maturation change occurs. It’s a step-by-step renewing of your mind. This is done by impartation of Truth given by design of the Father. As you begin to receive the input of your spirit, he brings words of truth to your mind. God communicates to you through your christ spirit and the more skillful you are at recognizing his input, the more you begin to change – to think like Christ thinks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.<\/i> Rom 8:29,30<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWhom\u201d and \u201cthem\u201d refer to those chosen by The Father before creation, chosen in Himself to become Sons of God, to whom He birthed a christ spirit like His son Jesus; a son-ship spirit that cries, \u201cAbba, Father\u201d and desires to hear and obey His desires.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”<\/i> Galatians 4:4-6<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.<\/i> Romans 8:9<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

After salvation, God no longer counts you as belonging to the genealogy of the first Adam in the garden. Now you are part of the 2nd Adam, Jesus Christ. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus Christ was made the firstborn of the Father for the purpose of many others to follow His footsteps. Before Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, all men were the same. They were soul men living in physical bodies with a carnal sinful nature.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When you become born again, you become a \u201cNew Creature,\u201d one that never existed in the Earth before Jesus reconciled us to the Father. As a \u201cNew Creature\u201d, you are a spirit that lives with a soul in a physical body. No longer is the “you” that you know a soul man, but now the “you” that you know is a spirit man.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Your soul still has all the old memories and thought patterns that you had before you were born again, but your anointed spirit is perfect. He has never been subject to sin and never can sin because he is a spirit from The Father. He has the mind of Christ and is always subject to The Father\u2019s will. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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But the natural man (those who haven’t received Jesus Christ as Lord) does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned<\/b><\/i>. 1Corinthians 2:14<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are still living in a physical body
\nand thinking with our natural mind. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even after the salvation experience, your soul which was born of flesh has a hard time understanding the things of the spirit because he thinks with a earthly mindset, but your spirit is mature, able to discern Truth from lies. He knows the things of God and begins teaching your soul to be submissive to the desires of the Father and to walk upright and to seek to understand this \u201cMore\u201d that is being continually presented as <\/u><\/b>Present Day Truth<\/u>.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When your Christ spirit speaks to you, he sounds like you. In fact, he is the new spirit you. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Born Again \u2013 A New Beginning<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

(There’s more change to come!)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Being Born Again is not our final stage of development.<\/b> It is actually the beginning. It’s a transitioning FROM what we were<\/u> TO what we are becoming.<\/u> We are in transition to the day when we will receive that promised \u201cspiritual body,\u201d that one like Christ’s. The plan of God was for Adam and his children to change into the Father’s Children of Tomorrow, chosen to be like Christ!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This spiritual evolution is one of God\u2019s great promises to us.<\/b> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Right now, the only one who is living like this is Jesus Christ which is why the scripture calls him \u201cThe Firstborn of the Father.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.<\/b><\/i> <\/i>Romans 8:29<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If the Father has called you to experience salvation where you have been begotten of the Father, then you have a destiny. You have been predestinated to change into the image that The Father has designed you to be, one like Christ. Can you see the awesome Love of the Father? He chose you to be adopted into His family before the world was made. That’s His Structured Plan of Design that causes the angels to wonder.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Not understanding this, many believe that there is nothing after Salvation and Pentecost. It is just a waiting time until \u201cThe Rapture\u201d occurs and they are changed into the image of Christ, but according to Scripture, we are to change from glory to glory, from level to level, until we reflect Him. It is an ongoing process, not just a hoped for experience. <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Jewish Tradition, given to Moses by God, contained three national feast days that were physically observed. The imagery presented through those physical feast days, illuminates spiritual concepts. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n