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To understand the written word of God, the Bible, you must understand that the words that proceed out of the mouth of God are spiritual words because God is Spirit. If we are to understand God we must be able to understand spiritual words. Paul said in 1 Cor. 2:12, “We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Ghost teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 16For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” Any child of God that relies on their own ability to understand the word of God and denies the Holy Spirit is the only one that can reveal the true meaning of the Word limits their understanding of what is being said. It is impossible for them to fully understand what is being said. The Lord wants us to depend upon Him for all our needs. In Jeremiah 10:22 it says, “I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.” Paul said in Rom. 10:3, “For they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, and have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.” There are Three Dimensions of understanding to what God speaks. The Tabernacle that Moses built foreshadows this. The Outer court foreshadows the Feast of Passover. This is where we come to the alter and confess our sins and have the blood of Jesus cleanse us of all unrighteousness. This Dimension is where most Christians want to live their lives and be comfortable just hoping that they have been saved from going to hell and hoping that they can live their lives good enough to have God allow them to go to heaven. In this Dimension self-righteousness is rampant and they put themselves again under bondage to the laws of do’s and don’ts. It is here that they spin the word of God to meet their carnal minds understanding of His Word. Jesus told another parable on sowing in Mark 4:20 where He said, “Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop, some thirty, some sixty or even a hundred times what was sown.” In the First Dimension we progress in our learning the things of God from not knowing any thing to a thirty percent level of understanding. The First Dimension understanding of Matt. 13:37-43 has been very well described by John in the above posting. This is the carnal mind understanding of this parable. The Inner Court or Holy Place represents the Second Dimension in the Tabernacle. It represents the Feast of Pentecost. Pentecost means fifty. It is at this level that you are halfway to where the Lord is leading you into maturity. This is where most Pentecostals and Charismatic’s hang out. They have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and learn how to minister to others and have the Holy Spirit to guide them into all truth. They can progress in their learning from the thirty percent level to the sixty percent level but can go no further unless they press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of for them. Again, many Christians want to settle down here and stay. There is a lot of mixture in this Dimension. It is here that everything is Man and God. Duality!! The Second Dimension understanding of Matt. 13:37-43 is as Jesus said to them, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. 38The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, 39and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
40“As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. 41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.” Men have tried to twist this scripture to say that at the end of time the Lord will send forth His angles and they would take the righteous out of this world in the rapture and then the angles would destroy those who are left behind. Even in this second Dimension understanding of this scripture it says that the Lord will send forth His angels and they would weed out of His Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. The righteous are going nowhere but they will stand out and their light will shine. There is a Third Dimension that is foreshadowed in the Tabernacle. This Dimension is the Most Holy Place and represents the Feast of Tabernacles. In this Dimension there is nothing that is not God. There is no mixture. There is no man and God. It is all God because we will have progressed to oneness with Him. The Third Dimension understanding of Matt. 13:37-43 is as follows. Jesus said in Luke 17:21, “Neither shall they say, Lo Here! Or, Lo there! For, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you!” Since the Kingdom of God is within us then the parable of the farmer sowing seed in his field must be talking about a field that is within us. That field is our mind. The Holy Spirit inspired men to write the Bible and as we study the Bible the seed of God is being planted in our hearts. The problem is that our carnal mind is the breeding place for the doctrines of devils and of men and there arises from these seeds of devils and men produce tares, which cause us to be confused. At the end of the age in which we are now living, God is sending forth His angles, which in the original Greek means messengers, or ministers) and they are speaking an anointed word which gathers these tares out of His Kingdom which is in us and burns them out of our minds so that we can turn to the Lord and our light be seen through out the world. Love you Betty ___________________________________________________________ “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
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Last Edited on 25-Jan-2008 5:37 AM
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