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Christ Not Enough?

1Cor.3:21 Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
3:22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,
3:23 and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Let us read carefully what the Holy Spirit in the apostle Paul tells the Christian's of the first century; what they had gained in Christ? But let us also contemplate seriously why he stated what he did, in telling them not to boast in men in verse 21, above?

Then let us ask ourselves an important question, being brutally honest with ourselves and not looking at others, but ourselves, do we believe as a Christian that Paul, Apollos, Cephas, the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all things our ours?

Matt.5:37 But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No.' Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

That is some break down by the apostle Paul, is it not? Do we believe Paul's words, or do we think that such verses apply only to those Paul was speaking back then, some two thousand years ago? Is the Christ not enough for us? So we are seeking looking and waiting God's kingdom in our bibles, the one found on paper?

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Colossians 3:9 Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings.

Now we know that many take Paul's statement as mundane thoughts quoted above its not what most Christian's are thinking about in today's world. They are thinking Christian knowledge is highly evolved from such archaic foolishness that was Paul speaking at time, but nevertheless, we can't say that only some of the bible is inspired, while other parts are not.

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

Did you note why some would not find that Christ enough? that is, he would not be exciting enough, he has become dull and insipid to the Son's of the Kingdom even at Paul's time?

Romans 13:14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

Paul makes a stunning point at (verse 21 above)! Hope we didn't miss it? He stated all things are ours because the brothers/sisters then and now were looking to men teaching them over the Christ teaching them (directly by Holy Spirit)! The shadow (flesh) had become the reality; the shadow were being worshiped over the reality. Yes, the shadows were being taught as the light to the world, but such shadow teaching were nothing more then the same old darkness that had existed before Christ came to earth.

John 12:46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

Satan was wining against these brothers and sister once more in the flesh, which flesh is his world, by rejecting the truth in Christ, Spirit truth that is unseen by the fleshly mind ( flesh the world).
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The teaching of flesh were being put in Christ those having the Spirit unwittingly these brothers were worshiping the creation of God, instead to the creator; those anointed brothers were exchanging the truth for the lie!

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Waiting in the Flesh

Do you believe all things are yours in Christ? Stop! Seriously consider that question? Please don't skim over it! How would we know if we skim right over that question? Well, have you ever in your entire life as a Christian's ask yourselves that question? Probably not! But that is true of ninety nine percent of all Christians on earth they don't ask because they don't believe it matters, it not even a thought in their mind, which is, in and of itself, nothing more then an admission they are thinking in the a fleshly mind alienated from the Spirit of God; listening to teachings of men from a religion, or some book, over being taught by the truth in Christ by Spirit.

Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Did you know the flesh is shadows? The flesh is the darkness the very darkness Christ removed! Thus, any teaching bring us into the flesh is darkness, it means we are going out of Christ into shadows of unreality? Yes, into unreality of still waiting for Christ Kingdom to come, which is but darkness; exchanging the Christ for a lie; are we waiting for Christ Kingdom, as death awaits a resurrection!

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Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

Are we waiting for Christ Kingdom to be restored? Please consider this question in light of Paul's words to those anointed brothers some two thousand's years ago?

Hebrews 12:28 Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can't be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Does Christ Kingdom need restoration by our religion, our teachings, our world, or even by God Himself? Has Christ kingdom been shaken into disarray and confusion like our world?

1 Thessalonians 2:12 to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

Do we understand how the entire works of God becomes disjointed in such teachings? When we look to men to teaches us what the Holy Spirit is teaching? If we are honest the questions above is where most Christian's are at waiting, planning, begging, preaching, teaching the kingdom of God hasn't happen, they haven't received what Paul said was obvious at his time to his brothers two thousand's years ago! Paul would not have said it unless it was truth, or it would have been a meaningless statement if they hadn't received the kingdom when Paul states all things were theirs, it would make no sense, now would it,? Because the Holy Spirit unlike the flesh does not lie!

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

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1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

If we believe such and teach such we are unwittingly, under the shadows of the old covenant that Israel was waiting for the reality of Christ. So many of us think so strongly in thoughts of our fleshly mind that we search everywhere for bits and piece of the light. In prophecy, in ancient scrolls, in old books, in things being unearth, but none of that is what any of the apostles of Christ taught or did or were even concern with, do we understand why?

2 Corinthians 4:6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness,"{Genesis 1:3} who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness.

2 Timothy 1:10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Was Something Lacking?

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Let make this simple, waiting is not reality, reading something about God, or Christ is not having them inside of us teaching us, comforting us, correcting us, loving us, and feeding us.

The apex of our faith is to live in Christ it is not still learning things written on paper about him, in finding the next juicy tidbit of light about him. You see, waiting to find something that in us is a lack of faith, and appreciation for what we received. Our society is disjointed because of lack of association with each other by cell phones social media, TV, and a host of other things. How can children wives and husbands show respect and appreciation for each other when they would rather speak to each other by a devise while their in the same room, that is, a disconnect from reality.

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

It would be hard for us to understand that person coming home to their family from work each day goes to their neighbor home and the neighbor reads to them personal stories about their family tp the person that has produced his own children! But they never arrives at home, they never see or believe in the reality of their family, not even opening the door to their home. They refuse to go inside and received the reality because they believe the stories are better than the love of their family!

1 John 4:16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

1 John 4:17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

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Do we see how unnatural and disjointed that such think is, how it would put us willingly into darkness?

Galatians 3:2 I just want to learn this from you. Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

Galatians 3:3 Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now completed in the flesh?

Do we know the kingdom has been received two thousand's years ago, an unshakable kingdom, why is it unshakable? Can we honestly answer that question? Do we need go to the physical Jerusalem on earth to finally get the truth of God, so we can see the temple to complete our putting faith in Christ that he actually exist in us as the temple of God?

That is a complete disconnect from the truth, if indeed we have the truth indwelling us?

2 Corinthians 11:4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different "good news", which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.

Power of Corruption

The unshakable kingdom is meaningless if we are in our flesh, and teaching and being taught from the flesh, but why? Because the flesh and all its ways are shakable given to constant change, and constant unreality so the flesh cannot receive the unshakable kingdom of Christ.

1Cor.15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.
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The unshakable kingdom of God, and Christ is life, the indestructible, incorruptible living life of Christ that makes all things for those in his life, theirs, now! It is present, just as our own life is present, not dead, our life is not about people reading our obituary and past stories about us in front of us while we are alive. That is not a better reality! It is not a living life, not unless we wish to worship an idol, a dead idol at that?

Isaiah 8:19 When they tell you, "Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:" shouldn't a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but of the living. You are therefore badly mistaken."

Life and death is a twinkling of eye apart, a hair breathe from each other, but if we live in teaching of the dead on paper as our reality its becomes a gulf so wide as darkness is to the light something we cannot cross over within our own power found in the written word. Christianity as a whole are waiting on paper for all things Christ, he Christ has become a dead idol, and that is why religion builds places of site worship, they command powerful by teacher, in position, having high ranking authority in official position created by other men.

That is why the flesh lust for written knowledge to feed and cherish them in moment of low spirits. That is the food for the fleshly mind, the same food all the world uses to encourage and build up their business, governments, institutions, foundation, corporations. All such are what? Shakable! If its shakable it is flesh, and if its flesh it not reality, but darkness.
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Ephesians 5:11 Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

The disjointed thoughts of going some where, but to the our own family, to have others read and comfort us with words about our family, instead of going into our own at home is fleshly reasoning that can't find the door of our own home. It like a crazy person grouping in darkness of reading studying about the door instead of just walking through it out of fleshly pried of their own uncompromising thoughts which is on paper stating our own family does exist accept on paper, and by being taught by our neighbor!

John 10:9 I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Lastly, we have proven the power of fleshly thinking is so powerful and corrupting that it removes the kingdom of God children in it earthly representative into a massive lump of yeast loaf that was forbidden in the realm of pure worship at God's physical temple.

Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

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1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Polluting and corrupting them by sins teaching from the fleshly mind, which is human reasoning introduced by wicked spirit forces into the minds of Christian's that should have the incorruptible mind of Christ (unleavened bread), but should instead be taught by the pure unadulterated truth from Holy Spirit, they have scummed to weeds and brier patches of unfruitful human reasoning and worship.

Matt.7:16 By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?

Jer.17:5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Diluting themselves so much they are drunk, and blinded to this subject as if, Christ incorruptible life ruling in them is not worthy enough to even consider? So it has proved true, they consider the very treasure of God to be foolishness a wast of time.

1Cor.2:13 Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.
2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Death has been conquered two thousand years, Christ Kingdom rules proven by his kingdom representatives having the life of living Christ in them. -
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Which is nothing but a fantasy of a corrupted mind that would teach the kingdom must be restored. That we must seek it, look for it in prophecies found in the prophets completed by Christ own blood.

Christ has sent us the truth, in the Spirit the teachers of God's own children; have we missed that train, by reading about its coming? Christ is our food the living Word of God, do we first, and everytime run to the written word to feed, instead of running to the life of Christ to feed us and free us from shadows of untruths found in the darkness of the flesh?

John 5:26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5:39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

John 5:40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

John 6:33 For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."

John 6:35 Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

Can one imagine when death comes our running to the written word for our resurrection? Having a minster read verses over our dead corpus, as if those written word by some human teaching God's word is going to raise us from the dead!

Do we even understand what it means that our flesh is dead in Christ and we have been raised into Christ as our life? Do we understand nothing of our flesh is of value to God, or in pleasing him? Why touch a dead body? -
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It is when we are dead in our flesh we can finally, and wholly, please God. Do we understand God stop dealing with our flesh two thousand years ago in Christ?

Rom.8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;
8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.
8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Do we understand what it means to let the dead bury the dead? Do we understand why nothing of this world is in Christ? Do we understand why it is said by the Word of God (Christ Jesus the word) that we are no part of this world that those words are not just words on paper that we are trying to live by? That we have been purchased in Christ delivered out of this world into the wonderful life of Christ the light by the power of the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 4:20 For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

Titus. 3:1 Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
3:2 to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men. 3:3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 3:5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
3:6 whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior; 3:7 that, being justified by his grace, we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might.

Completed: February 19, 2018

by: Daniel a Slave of Christ Jesus

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