Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: March 29, 2015 08:36PM
Thank you lily rose. I had no idea there was that much information about angels. The religious education we received from the CLW must have been somewhat limited. I believe I’m religiously ignorant in many, many areas.
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lily rose wrote in part: “But even in the red words of Jesus, he wants submission to him and you know how we hate that word. So good luck with that.”
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Instead of “no choice, do or die dictates and commands,” I can go on the journey to the mystical by analyzing, respecting and experimenting in accordance with the advice given to us by the great spiritual teachers. Jesus points out in larry bobo’s recommended “Message Bible” the following:
John 3:1-2 [There was a man of the Pharisee sect, Nicodemus, a prominent leader among the Jews. Late one night he visited Jesus and said, “Rabbi, we all know you’re a teacher straight from God. No one could do all the God-pointing, God-revealing acts you do if God weren’t in on it.”
3 Jesus said, “You’re absolutely right. Take it from me: Unless a person is born from above, it’s not possible to see what I’m pointing to—to God’s kingdom.”
4 “How can anyone,” said Nicodemus, “be born who has already been born and grown up? You can’t re-enter your mother’s womb and be born again. What are you saying with this ‘born-from-above’ talk?”
5-6 Jesus said, “You’re not listening. Let me say it again. Unless a person submits to this original creation—the ‘wind-hovering-over-the-water’ creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life—it’s not possible to enter God’s kingdom. When you look at a baby, it’s just that: a body you can look at and touch. But the person who takes shape within is formed by something you can’t see and touch—the Spirit—and becomes a living spirit.
7-8 “So don’t be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be ‘born from above’—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.”]
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Whoa. That is well put. Kinda (sorta) opens up a broader/better perspective. One that I actually like. Not very ‘churchy’ either. I suspect one day in the future there could be an integration of the spiritual and the scientific especially in the area of quantum/particle physics.
Absorbing the eternal, creative, unbounded, wind/Spirit of God erupting from the transcendent as Jesus recommends is pretty easy to do. It’s wildly independent and life-giving.
The earthly controlling ministries have a battle on their hands because it’s difficult to create a “herd of clones” if each individual possesses an independent “free spirit” supported by the incomprehensible, free-wheeling Spirit of God.
I hope I don’t get “rebuked” by the moderator for posting so much scripture. The battle is against the errant scriptural brainwashing imposed upon us by years of programming.