When was your spirit born again? Did you than have a period of total dependence on your spiritual mother (the Church, Christians including those who birthed you)? (Gal 4:26 But the Jerusalem (the Church) that is above is free, and she is our mother.) What basic skills did you or should you have spent your first years as a Christian learning?
Have you learned to feed you spirit with God’s word daily, by yourself?
Did you learn how to speak God’s word from your spirit and not from your head?
Did you learn how to walk in your spirit, continuously led by God’s own Spirit?
Did you learn how to eliminate spiritual waste, your sins, without others’ help?
Did you learn to wash with living water and be clothed with God’s righteousness?
Have you learned how to exercise your spirit daily, in conversation with God?
Did you learn to always obey the Father (and mother) of your new born spirit?
Did you learn how to reproduce spiritual children by winning souls to Christ?
Do we learn these basic skills of Christianity on our own or did someone else with great patience have to teach us? But pride refuses to be taught; only childlike humility learns. Do you humbly see yourself as a little spiritual child, are you growing up spiritually? Or do you see yourself first as an adult and unknowingly therefore you remain a spiritual baby? Is it due to pride, that won’t put its will under God’s will, that you live mostly in the natural and not the spiritual realm? Are you living just like an unconverted person?
1 Cor 3:3 (These words are written to Christian adults) For you are still only baby Christians, controlled by your own desires, not God's. When you are jealous of one another and divide up into quarreling groups, doesn't that prove you are still babies, wanting your own way? In fact, you are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord at all. TLB
If you have difficulty seeing your need to become as a little child it is likely because you put your confidence in your own natural intelligence. But God hides His truths from our natural intelligence revealing them only to the spirits of those who are as little children.
Luke 10:21 (Jesus) ...I praise you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the intellectuals and worldly wise and for revealing them to those who are as trusting as little children... TLB
If these scriptures describe you, would you consider softening your heart and humbling yourself by choosing to put your will under God’s will? Won’t you become the little child who you were once born again to be, and enter the kingdom of heaven? Where is the kingdom of heaven? It’s the realm of God’s Spirit and it is only found within your spirit:
Mark 10:15 (Jesus) Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.
Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is...in the Holy Spirit.
Luke 17:21 (Jesus)...The kingdom of God is within you (if you have the Holy Spirit)
We can only enter the kingdom of God, that is, to live “in Christ”, if we as little children are submitted to God’s Spirit within our spirits. Isn’t it foolish of us to defiantly live in the natural realm, by sense and reason, and expect to inherit a spiritual kingdom? We were re-born in our spirits; now we must learn to live in our spirits, in order to inherit eternity.
Matt 11:28,29 (Jesus) "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened (living by adult human effort), and I will give you rest (a trusting little child in the arms of their Father). Take My yoke (My Holy Spirit) upon you, and learn of Me (line upon line, verse upon verse); for I am meek (I will give you My nature which is tender, teachable, childlike,) and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls.” NIV/KJV
Amen!, “Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God.” 1 Jn 3:1
Have you learned to feed you spirit with God’s word daily, by yourself?
Did you learn how to speak God’s word from your spirit and not from your head?
Did you learn how to walk in your spirit, continuously led by God’s own Spirit?
Did you learn how to eliminate spiritual waste, your sins, without others’ help?
Did you learn to wash with living water and be clothed with God’s righteousness?
Have you learned how to exercise your spirit daily, in conversation with God?
Did you learn to always obey the Father (and mother) of your new born spirit?
Did you learn how to reproduce spiritual children by winning souls to Christ?
Do we learn these basic skills of Christianity on our own or did someone else with great patience have to teach us? But pride refuses to be taught; only childlike humility learns. Do you humbly see yourself as a little spiritual child, are you growing up spiritually? Or do you see yourself first as an adult and unknowingly therefore you remain a spiritual baby? Is it due to pride, that won’t put its will under God’s will, that you live mostly in the natural and not the spiritual realm? Are you living just like an unconverted person?
1 Cor 3:3 (These words are written to Christian adults) For you are still only baby Christians, controlled by your own desires, not God's. When you are jealous of one another and divide up into quarreling groups, doesn't that prove you are still babies, wanting your own way? In fact, you are acting like people who don't belong to the Lord at all. TLB
If you have difficulty seeing your need to become as a little child it is likely because you put your confidence in your own natural intelligence. But God hides His truths from our natural intelligence revealing them only to the spirits of those who are as little children.
Luke 10:21 (Jesus) ...I praise you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the intellectuals and worldly wise and for revealing them to those who are as trusting as little children... TLB
If these scriptures describe you, would you consider softening your heart and humbling yourself by choosing to put your will under God’s will? Won’t you become the little child who you were once born again to be, and enter the kingdom of heaven? Where is the kingdom of heaven? It’s the realm of God’s Spirit and it is only found within your spirit:
Mark 10:15 (Jesus) Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it.
Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is...in the Holy Spirit.
Luke 17:21 (Jesus)...The kingdom of God is within you (if you have the Holy Spirit)
We can only enter the kingdom of God, that is, to live “in Christ”, if we as little children are submitted to God’s Spirit within our spirits. Isn’t it foolish of us to defiantly live in the natural realm, by sense and reason, and expect to inherit a spiritual kingdom? We were re-born in our spirits; now we must learn to live in our spirits, in order to inherit eternity.
Matt 11:28,29 (Jesus) "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened (living by adult human effort), and I will give you rest (a trusting little child in the arms of their Father). Take My yoke (My Holy Spirit) upon you, and learn of Me (line upon line, verse upon verse); for I am meek (I will give you My nature which is tender, teachable, childlike,) and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls.” NIV/KJV
Amen!, “Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God.” 1 Jn 3:1