By Dora Van Assen (with a few of my comments added)
“With him is strength and wisdom, the deceived and the deceiver are his” Job 12: 16
We feel sometimes that we think are not deceived in anything, but down the road a ways we may see that from where we now are walking we were still not enlightened with full insight before. So, at a certain level we were still deceived or not in-"formed" – the Christ was not fully formed in us concerning certain things yet.
The scriptures teach us that it is through one man that sin entered the world. It does not say that it is through the devil that sin entered the world but through one man. Sin being a lack or inability to hit the mark, or bullseye. We fell short of the glory. We were too short. We were not tall enough. We came up short, meaning we were immature in stature. And it was Adam or adamkind that was the instrument used for lowering all men into death. If something is low, it is the opposite of high, isn’t it.
“Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus death passed through into all mankind, on which all sinned." Rom. 5:12
[this is the Concordant Literal, which I feel gives a clearer understanding of why mankind sins....because of of the death principle that he inherits not because of the sin principle that we have been taught that we all inherited] In other words, man sins now because there is a death, or a dearth of Life in his undeveloped consciousness.
If death is the result of being immature, immature compared to what? - Of being in the full stature of Christ. And if to be carnally minded is death, then the scripture might be reworded to say the following without corrupting its meaning:
“Therefore, even as through one man immaturity entered into the world, and through immaturity, the carnal mind, and thus carnal mindedness passed through into all mankind, on which all fell short of the glory."
That is why David said, “Behold, I was brought forth in [a state] of iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me.” Was David slandering his mother? Absolutely not. He was saying that in that conception there was already a lack, there was not eternal life but there was death already there. Adam sinned and brought death and now because of this lowering, we have sinned because we had death in us. “death spread to all men, because all were immature in Christ”.
Everything produces after its own kind. And Adam did not bring forth children until after his consciousness was lowered by partaking of the offerings of his misguided soul (wife). So, he could only pass on death for it was now in his seed.
Because nobody is tall enough, we need the Christ, the mediator to lift us up and grow us up, into that height so that we can be equal, face to face with God and have communion with Him. It is only in the Christ are we tall enough.
Even when Jesus came down here, he was made lower than the angels for the suffering of death. [to be carnally minded is death, so Jesus' first experience with death was his entrance into human form and the experience of knowing what humanity experiences with a mind that has been lowered into death - and he carried his obedience of being sent of the Father into this death realm all the way to deaths culmination, the cross!] Praise God for his unsearchable ways!! He used death to destroy death!!!
If he had stayed in that higher angelic order he could not have died. He had to come and put on humanity so that he could die, or bring an end to the First Adam, standing as the Last Adam who birthed into reality the New Creation Man. And after his resurrection and ascension he passed on the seed of this New Life Species into his bride the church on the Day of Pentecost for eonian Life was now his to give.
Jesus also walked in human limitations while here because he fully entered the human experience. That’s hard for many to believe, but for me that makes him even greater and more precious because he had to overcome too. The scriptures tell us that “God anointed Jesus who went about doing good”. He was powerless without the anointing. “I can of mine ownself do nothing.” He was anointed with the spirit without measure but our Holy Spirit baptism is called the down payment of that full measure anointing. And Paul prayed that we too would go on to be filled with all the fullness of God with Christ fully formed in us.
As the present day Body of Christ we are the only flesh and bones he has on the earth or this realm. When Christ was walking this earth, he was not walking in glorified flesh. If you look up the word flesh, “the word was made flesh” in the Strongs concordance that word flesh is the same number all the way down. It is the word “sarx”. When it talks about Jesus flesh or our flesh it is all the same word.
“Who in the days of his flesh, he cried with strong cryings and tears that God would deliver him”, deliver him out of the flesh. That God would deliver him out of death.
“And he was heard because he feared.” Heb. 5: 7
Where it says “flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God”, it is the same word that says, “who in the days of his flesh”. Jesus could not enter the kingdom of God without making a change! He went through a metamorphosis and went down into death or the cocoon and while he was in the tomb/cocoon he went from a worm to when he broke out he was a butterfly. He made his change! Just like we are making our change. We are being changed from a caterpillar into a butterfly.
All a worm can do is have communion with another worm and it has to crawl on the earth or, at best, a stalk of a plant but when it spins a cocoon and finally breaks out it can fly. The worm now made into a butterfly can crawl on a leaf in the earth or it can fly in the heavens and commune with other butterflies in the heavens.
If Jesus did not do it, then we are not going to do it. We are not going to do anything that Jesus, our prototype did not do. He was the Firstborn from among the dead, and that word 'firstborn' in the Greek is 'prototokos'...from which we get our word 'prototype'. He is our forerunner and we are meant to follow in his well marked path.
First he was Jesus Christ – Worm –
But now
He is Christ Jesus. - Butterfly
So the deceived and the deceiver are both his. Or the immature and the mature are both his and he knows how to take care of his own.
“With him is strength and wisdom, the deceived and the deceiver are his” Job 12: 16
We feel sometimes that we think are not deceived in anything, but down the road a ways we may see that from where we now are walking we were still not enlightened with full insight before. So, at a certain level we were still deceived or not in-"formed" – the Christ was not fully formed in us concerning certain things yet.
The scriptures teach us that it is through one man that sin entered the world. It does not say that it is through the devil that sin entered the world but through one man. Sin being a lack or inability to hit the mark, or bullseye. We fell short of the glory. We were too short. We were not tall enough. We came up short, meaning we were immature in stature. And it was Adam or adamkind that was the instrument used for lowering all men into death. If something is low, it is the opposite of high, isn’t it.
“Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and through sin death, and thus death passed through into all mankind, on which all sinned." Rom. 5:12
[this is the Concordant Literal, which I feel gives a clearer understanding of why mankind sins....because of of the death principle that he inherits not because of the sin principle that we have been taught that we all inherited] In other words, man sins now because there is a death, or a dearth of Life in his undeveloped consciousness.
If death is the result of being immature, immature compared to what? - Of being in the full stature of Christ. And if to be carnally minded is death, then the scripture might be reworded to say the following without corrupting its meaning:
“Therefore, even as through one man immaturity entered into the world, and through immaturity, the carnal mind, and thus carnal mindedness passed through into all mankind, on which all fell short of the glory."
That is why David said, “Behold, I was brought forth in [a state] of iniquity; my mother was sinful who conceived me.” Was David slandering his mother? Absolutely not. He was saying that in that conception there was already a lack, there was not eternal life but there was death already there. Adam sinned and brought death and now because of this lowering, we have sinned because we had death in us. “death spread to all men, because all were immature in Christ”.
Everything produces after its own kind. And Adam did not bring forth children until after his consciousness was lowered by partaking of the offerings of his misguided soul (wife). So, he could only pass on death for it was now in his seed.
Because nobody is tall enough, we need the Christ, the mediator to lift us up and grow us up, into that height so that we can be equal, face to face with God and have communion with Him. It is only in the Christ are we tall enough.
Even when Jesus came down here, he was made lower than the angels for the suffering of death. [to be carnally minded is death, so Jesus' first experience with death was his entrance into human form and the experience of knowing what humanity experiences with a mind that has been lowered into death - and he carried his obedience of being sent of the Father into this death realm all the way to deaths culmination, the cross!] Praise God for his unsearchable ways!! He used death to destroy death!!!
If he had stayed in that higher angelic order he could not have died. He had to come and put on humanity so that he could die, or bring an end to the First Adam, standing as the Last Adam who birthed into reality the New Creation Man. And after his resurrection and ascension he passed on the seed of this New Life Species into his bride the church on the Day of Pentecost for eonian Life was now his to give.
Jesus also walked in human limitations while here because he fully entered the human experience. That’s hard for many to believe, but for me that makes him even greater and more precious because he had to overcome too. The scriptures tell us that “God anointed Jesus who went about doing good”. He was powerless without the anointing. “I can of mine ownself do nothing.” He was anointed with the spirit without measure but our Holy Spirit baptism is called the down payment of that full measure anointing. And Paul prayed that we too would go on to be filled with all the fullness of God with Christ fully formed in us.
As the present day Body of Christ we are the only flesh and bones he has on the earth or this realm. When Christ was walking this earth, he was not walking in glorified flesh. If you look up the word flesh, “the word was made flesh” in the Strongs concordance that word flesh is the same number all the way down. It is the word “sarx”. When it talks about Jesus flesh or our flesh it is all the same word.
“Who in the days of his flesh, he cried with strong cryings and tears that God would deliver him”, deliver him out of the flesh. That God would deliver him out of death.
“And he was heard because he feared.” Heb. 5: 7
Where it says “flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of God”, it is the same word that says, “who in the days of his flesh”. Jesus could not enter the kingdom of God without making a change! He went through a metamorphosis and went down into death or the cocoon and while he was in the tomb/cocoon he went from a worm to when he broke out he was a butterfly. He made his change! Just like we are making our change. We are being changed from a caterpillar into a butterfly.
All a worm can do is have communion with another worm and it has to crawl on the earth or, at best, a stalk of a plant but when it spins a cocoon and finally breaks out it can fly. The worm now made into a butterfly can crawl on a leaf in the earth or it can fly in the heavens and commune with other butterflies in the heavens.
If Jesus did not do it, then we are not going to do it. We are not going to do anything that Jesus, our prototype did not do. He was the Firstborn from among the dead, and that word 'firstborn' in the Greek is 'prototokos'...from which we get our word 'prototype'. He is our forerunner and we are meant to follow in his well marked path.
First he was Jesus Christ – Worm –
But now
He is Christ Jesus. - Butterfly
So the deceived and the deceiver are both his. Or the immature and the mature are both his and he knows how to take care of his own.
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