The Incorruptible
Seed
Chapter Two
We have been taught so many things that we have
accepted as truth, that has hindered the awareness of our true nature and
identity. I want to say again that every seed must produce after its own kind. The
seed when it produces, and what it produces, is not anything different than
what it is. In other words, again using the illustration of a melon, the melon
seed you could say is a three part being. It starts out as a seed, it has the
meat of the melon, and it has the rind, but it's still one. The seed is the
melon, the meat is the melon and the rind is the melon. The seed of God in us
does not reproduce anything but an incorruptible being. It does not produce a
fallen soul and a corrupted body. We have believed and been taught for years
that we are corruptible. This is why the Apostle Paul told us "This
corruptible must put on incorruption. We do that through revelation and
changing the perception of ourselves from a corruptible being to an incorruptible
being.
The mentality of being a corruptible being is
"the seed of the serpent", because the serpent sowed that thought or
that seed in God's field that caused us to believe we are something other than
what God made us to be. The darkened, alienated, carnal mind is "the
tare". And God said, "Let them grow together until the harvest, and
the tare will be pulled and burned." Well guess what, it is harvest time.
And the tare, our human consciousness is (if it is not now, it shortly shall be)
in the fire that will consume everything in our consciousness that is not
according to God. The seed of our true nature will not be consumed because that
seed is an incorruptible, indestructible seed.
I want to look at Colossians chapter one again. We
read in verse twenty-one,
"And you that were sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now has He reconciled."
I don't think that we can emphasize the point enough,
actually in reality; you have never been alienated from God. You were taught
you were, so you believed you were, which gave you a wrong perception of
yourself so that became your experience. You see, again, that is the seed of
the serpent, the consciousness that makes you feel that you are separated and
alienated from God, but that is only in your mind. That is the veil that was
cast over all nations to keep them from the reality of Christ in them. Paul
said in Col. 1:20.
"You
were sometimes alienated in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He
reconciled in the body of His flesh, through death, to present you holy,
unblameable and unreprovable in His sight."
Calvary says that you are not a sinner separated from
God. Calvary says that there is no such thing any longer as anyone who is
separated and alienated from God. Calvary says that there is only one man in
the universe. There's only one life in the universe, and that is God's life.
There is no other life! You perceive another life, but there is no other life.
Paul says in Col. 1:26-27,
"Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:"
I do believe that when Paul wrote this that he had the
reality of what he spoke. But just like Eve in the garden, who was a type of
the church, was deceived, so the church of Christ was deceived again after the
Apostles left the scene. In fact even before the Apostles left, you can see
that Paul said all in Asia had turned away from him. And so as Eve was deceived
in the beginning, the church, the New Testament church was once again deceived
by the serpent, with the same lie. As a result, they became darkened in their
understanding. And that's why Paul told the Ephesians in chapter four, verse
17,
"This I say therefore, that you
walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, having their
understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God which is in
them."
Here again we can see it was only in the mind. If we
walk in the natural mind thinking that we are separate from God and less than a
son of God, then we do not understand the magnitude of Calvary's victory. We
then are alienated in our mind from the life and nature of God in that is in
us. This is why Paul said in Phil. 2:5,
"Let
this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus."
Paul also said in 1 Cor. 2:16,
"For who
hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind
of Christ."
"You have the mind of Christ." Then how do
we let that mind be in us? It is through practice. It is learning how to
discern that which is of God, from that which is from the natural mind. And I
believe this is the only warfare, really, in this day and age that we need to
be concerned about. And that is the warfare Paul talks about this when he said
in 2 Cor. 10:4,
"(For the weapons of our
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;"
They are not according to human reasonings. But,
"the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of
strongholds", and those strongholds are not devils in the airwaves. You
see, many of us fought devils in the airwaves for years, but he said,
"Casting down the strongholds, casting down reasonings, imaginations, and
every high thing that exalts its self against the knowledge of the Word of
God." So how you begin to walk in this mind of Christ is to begin to cast
down every thought that would try to enter your mind that speaks contrary to
the truth and the word of the living God. You see Calvary says, "There is
no such thing any longer as a carnal human being." Calvary says, "There
is no longer any such thing as a carnal mind." Yet because of our
perception, we see carnality, sin and death and all of these things. We see
them around us. Well, that's the lie.
The truth is, my old identity, my old carnality,
everything that I believe that I was in the natural was crucified at Calvary.
You see, there is no such individual personality by the name of Gary Sigler.
Gary Sigler is a manifestation of God on the earth, not as an individual, but
as a cell in the Body of Christ. We are members one of another. You know, the
most fabulous thing I think is science and technology in these days. And one of
the things we've learned to think about is cloning. And if you know anything at
all about cloning, you know that you can take one cell, Just one cell from your
body, and that one cell through cloning, will reproduce you, just that one
cell. Think about that; one cell of your being through cloning will reproduce
another human!
Well, God has been in the cloning business for
centuries. You see; it's not that we're this big individual, "God on the
earth". No, no, no, but we are a cell. We are a member of His Body. And
corporately, we make up the whole. And that's why it is so important that we
connect a network amongst ourselves in fellowship, and in sharing and in
worship and in testimony. There is only one life that exists in this universe,
only one; there aren't two. If there is, then Calvary didn't work. And again, I
know how hard these things are to deal with, because you say, "But look at
the situation! Look at the carnality. Look at the sin. Look at all of
this." Yet the living abiding spoken Word of God says that, that old thing
was crucified at Calvary. The book of Revelation talks about the beast that was
wounded unto death, and yet he lives. He was resurrected. Well
"beast" in the scriptures refers to the human nature, to humanity,
the carnal human being. On the cross, that being was put to death. He was
wounded unto death. Yet he lives because of our perceptions. We keep the image
of ourselves alive through our thoughts, our speaking and our meditations. And
it is really not that difficult to totally have a mind-change. And that's what
the word, "repent" means, and that is "to change your
mind". Repent, change your mind, for the Kingdom of Heaven is come.
Isn't it strange that Jesus stood facing the Pharisees before He went into death, before He resurrected, and He looked at them and he told them, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." Because of the misconceptions, we have never really learned how to apply that which we know to be the truth, because we tend to believe that which we experience, according to the carnal mind. Jesus answered Nicodemus, saying, 'Verily I say unto you except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God." Peter said, "Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." 1 Peter 1:23
No man will see the Kingdom without this new birth.
Well what is this new birth? This new birth is your quickening, is the
regeneration, is that spark of life that you receive when you first experience
in reality, God in you.
After Calvary Paul said in 2 Cor. 5:16, "Henceforth,
we should know no man according to the flesh" We should know no man according to our human understanding and
comprehension. Even Jesus! "We once knew Jesus according to the
flesh", the human carnal understanding as the man of Galilee, but today we
should not know Him according to the flesh. Almost all of Christianity still
sees Jesus according to the flesh, and they still worship Him according to the
flesh. On Christmas they put Him in manger, and on Easter they put Him on a
cross and resurrect Him, and the next year they put Him back in a manger. We
worship Him according to the flesh rather than according to spirit, because
when you begin to see the Lord as He is today you will be like Him because to
see Him as He is, is to be like Him. He is the head, we are the body. The Body
of Christ is not less divine than the head. He came to give us the example, or
to show us the way that we could be as He is. In fact that's what the
scriptures say, "As He is, so are we in this world," 1John 4:17.
Well, do you think He's sick? Do you think He's any
type of failure? You see, there has been so much philosophy and human reasoning
brought in among us that we accept the lie because the truth seems so
impossible for us to grasp. We have been taught, some of us, that sickness is a
blessing from God to possibly teach you something. But I'll tell you what; the
seed is incorruptible. The fruit is incorruptible. The incorruptible seed
within me cannot produce a body that is corruptible. But again, because we are
a manifestation of God on the earth, and we are as He is, we will become that
which we perceive we are in our thinking. Do you believe that Jesus puts a
cancer or any other type of disease on you to teach you something. If you
really believe that, you wouldn't try to get rid of it. You know, it's like the
teaching of hell that so many of us used to believe in, this place called
"eternal torment". Yet we believed it intellectually, but we never
really believed it, because if we really did, and it really gripped us, you
couldn't rest knowing that perhaps some of your family died without Christ.
Except a man be born again! The moment that spark of
His life is ignited in you through regeneration however you receive that, some
come to an altar. Personally, I knelt down in my bathroom alone one day and
asked Jesus to become real to me. I ask Him if possible, to come into my life
and change me. It doesn't matter how you experience that. Some have experiences
out in the woods. Some have experienced it out of desperation. The most
important thing is that you have that experience of that quickening, that
regeneration by the Spirit and become a new creation man. All old things are
passed away. But see, we are so use to looking at our condition. We believe the
scriptures but our experience is more real to us than what God has said. So we
live in this darkened state; we're living that condition that Paul told us not
to "In the vanity of the mind". Again he said, "Don't be like
the other Gentiles, being alienated and separated in your mind with a darkened
understanding." In John chapter 1 and verse 12, "But as many as have
received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to that
believe on His Name which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God." Once the Spirit of God regenerates
your spirit, if you were not caught up into the religious teachings, you would
learn to follow the anointing within you. You would from that very moment in
your life learn to trust the anointing of the Spirit within you to teach you
all things; the Spirit would never deceive you.
If you were taught that, and you stayed away from
religious things, you would very quickly begin to manifest as a son or daughter
of God on this earth. It is our religious teachings that have kept us in
bondage to carnality. I don't know about you, but I was never told that Jesus
did not hold me accountable for my sins. In fact I was told the opposite. One
preacher told me, he said, "Gary, you don't work your way to the cross,
but you better work your way away from it. In other words, saved by grace, but
then I have to work and I have to be obedient and I have to do all of these
things or I may eventually be lost. But you see, if we were taught in the very
beginning the truth of this new creation-man that springs to life on the inside
of us, and we were taught only to do what we feel in our hearts to do as we
love and fellowship with the Lord we would not get caught up in all the
religious practices. However, we are taught Old Testament law instead of grace.
We are taught, "Well, yes Gary, you are born
again, but look at what you are doing. And don't you know that the scriptures
say that your heart is deceitfully wicked?" Well I understand that is what
the Old Testament says, but I realized one day that that was a lie for me,
because the New Covenant is, I will take your stony heart out of you and I will
give you a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you, and I will
cause you to walk in my statutes." Ez. 36:26-27. Where is man involved in
that statement of scripture? Where is our choice involved here?
We weren't taught that sin was fully dealt with at the
cross. We were not taught to not look at the sin, but look to the gospel. We
were not taught that God does not hold you accountable for sin. One of my
favorite scriptures is; "God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto
Himself, not holding them accountable for their sins." 2 Cor 5:19. Why? He
sees Christ in you, not Adam. Christ is that indestructible seed of God that
you are. I love the song that says, "I am no longer in Adam, and Adam is
no longer in me." I love that because it is the truth. As long as you
perceive yourself "as in Adam", and a sinner, one who is not pleasing
God, and you focus on your weaknesses and your failures, you will always be in
bondage to that image of yourself. Oh God, how we need our eyes opened to the
truth of our being. It would be good to pray the prayer in Ephesians,
"That the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened that we might
know the hope of our calling." How could we be failures? I tell you, all
of us that are weak and sickly among us are there because we have not rightly
discerned His body, because it's impossible for His body to be sick. It's
impossible for His body to be anything but perfect. It's impossible for that
incorruptible seed to reproduce anything that can even in the slightest,
remotest way able to be corrupted. We have been seduced just as Eve in the
garden, and we have believed a lie instead of the truth. Eph 5:8, "For ye
were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of
light:"
I really, really have to cover this with scripture
because I know so many are saying to their own hurt that what is being taught
here is New Age. I long for the day when we can speak the words of God and not
have to back it up with scripture. (Not that there is anything wrong with
that.) How do you think Paul convinced his followers? He didn't have the New
Testament to go to. And that's why they killed Jesus; He literally went against
their written word. In fact, He tried to correct some of their perceptions of
God when He said to them, "I know what is written in your very own scriptures.
I know what is written, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to
you, you love your enemies." Basically, what He was telling them is,
"You have had a wrong concept woven in your scriptures. "That's not
my Father." Well we have the same situation today. We have to tell people,
"Listen, I know what is written in your Bible". But you see; that's
why it is so important for everyone to become acquainted with the Christ
within, because it's impossible for that anointing to lie to you.
Jesus said in John 14:26,
"But
the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance,
whatsoever I have said unto you".
Again in John 16:13,
"Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he
shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:
and he will shew you things to come."
Do you know why most Christians do not know all things
today? They run to men for their instruction instead of learning to follow the
Christ within. They run to the arm of flesh to get their answers. That's the
truth. There came a day in my life when I had to stop seeking the truth from a
man. And I had to spend a long time just seeking God for my answers. It took me
quite some time to where could trust my anointing. It took a long time where I
could be convinced that what I was hearing and what I was seeing was God,
because it went against everything that I ever believed and was taught. I knew
I was a failure. I knew that I was hung up in lust and all the sins of the
flesh, and I wanted God; but yet, when I began to hear God, I had to question
whether or not it was God because it went against everything that I was taught.
Paul said in Ephesians 5:10,
"That
in the dispensation of the fullness of time God might gather together in one,
all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even in
Him."
Well, are we still waiting for that? I'll tell you
what. It happened at Calvary. Another thing about not rightly discerning the
Body of Christ; I realized one day that it wasn't just the Christians, it
wasn't just the man who ran to an altar, or said "Jesus I receive you.
Because of Calvary it includes all. If you're walking in a human body, you are
a member of the Body of Christ only because of Calvary. Paul told the Ephesians
in chapter two,
"Wherefore remember, that you
being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that
which is called the circumcision " that at that time you were without Christ,
being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants
of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world."
In the Jewish mind, the Gentile was the unbeliever,
the unsaved, the dog, but now, in Christ Jesus, you who WERE sometimes far off,
are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, who hath made both
one," - Who is he talking about" the Jew and the Gentile, the saved
and the lost! I'll tell you folks, when you begin to rightly discern the Body
and not divide, but discern the Body of Christ, you will begin to treat all
humanity as they really are. And you will change them by your perception of
them. "He has broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having
abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in
ordinances; for to make in Himself of two, (the Jew, the Gentile, the saved the
lost), one new man so making peace. And that He might reconcile both unto God
in one body by the cross." That's why I can tell you in full assurance of
faith, you're not Adam, and Adam is not in you! By the cross, every negative
thing in the universe was brought to an end, and by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from among the dead, the new creation man was brought into being. There
is no more old creation. But it is still living in our perception because we
look, not with spiritual eyes, but with eyes of the flesh. Oh we love God. We
want God, but we know it's humanly impossible to be as He is. But, we are not
human beings we are spiritual beings. Yes, thank God, the veils are being
removed from our eyes to see that nothing can corrupt the seed of God within
us. Nothing! It is incorruptible and it is indestructible. Your body is the
temple of God
"The double minded man is unstable in all his
ways." James 4:8. What is a double-minded man? What
"double-minded" means is, "two souled". As long as in your
perception, you believe that you are a separate entity from God, and you have a
soul that has fallen and that soul is doing everything in its power to become
like God you are double minded. That is the man in Romans chapter 7 who has
this desire for God, yet he sees in his fleshy carnal members that sin
principle is still pulling him down into the law of sin and death. That's the
perception that has to change. There has never been sinner born since Calvary.
We only keep sin alive by our perceptions. We have to have a revelation from
God.
I'll never forget the day I awoke July 11th, 1982. I
woke up a new man after years of struggle. And I began to understand some of
these things. I John chapter 2 and verse 8, "A new commandment I write
unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past,
and the true light now shines. He that says he is in the light, and hateth his
brother, is in darkness even until now." I know the religious mind will
interpret this verse, "You don't treat another believer bad." Well,
I'll tell you what: God is the Father of all of us, and we are all connected in
spirit, to one another. The darkness is passed and the true light now shines.
You know Jesus told His disciples two thousand years ago, "You are the
light of the world." And some of them caught what He said. The scriptures
tell us God is light. So really He was telling His disciples, "You are God
in this earth." Yet where are the people today who can boldly declare,
"We are the light of this world." Well there are some. We are coming
into this revelation of being Christ on the earth. It is only through this
awareness that all of creation will be restored and brought back to God,
because as we continually have these veils removed from our eyes collectively,
it will change the whole world. I Corinthians 15:52, "In a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trump shall sound and the dead
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
Listen folks; the dead people are not those people out
there in the graves. Jesus clearly taught, and the scriptures plainly teach us
that dead people are those who do not know God in reality. But at the last
trump, and that last trump could come for you at any moment. Now we've always
looked at this as a collective experience, and it may be someday. But that last
trump for you is when you hear the Word of incorruptibility, and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible. "For this corruptible must put on
incorruption." Your unrenewed mind is a real barrier to understanding this
truth. This corruptible, this mind-set, this awareness of being separate and
alienated from God, this is what we consider as "mortality".
"But this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality." And we don't do that through the Adamic mind. We do that
by hearing the Word, the voice of the seventh angel. Revelation 10:7, it says,
"When the voice of the seventh angel is heard, all the mystery of God
shall be fulfilled." Well what is the mystery of God, but God manifesting
Himself in the flesh?
When you begin to hear that seventh angel sound, you
will begin to arise in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye and you will totally
be changed. And what changes is your perception. You were caught up with Him in
the air, in heavenly places where no longer will you rule from the earthly
plain. You will rule from the heavenly plain. You will begin to walk in the
experience of being seated in heavenly places, and operating from the realm of
the heavens rather than from the realm of the earth. You will no longer see
yourself as a mortal human being. You will see yourself as a spiritual being.
"So when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall
have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory." Death, is the concept that
you are something other than what God has made you to be, will be swallowed up
and be no more. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is in the
law." You want to get people into bondage? Start teaching them law. Start
teaching them how that if they are not obedient, they can't please God, and
watch the condemnation and the guilt and the shame come.
God is raising up a people on the earth today, after
the Melchisedec order. And we all know about Melchisedec, without beginning of
days, or end of life. You know that's who you are when you have a revelation of
the incorruptible seed that you are. That's why you can call no earthly man
your father. 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9 and 10, "He has saved us and called
us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own
purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
but is now made manifest by the appearing of our savior Jesus Christ, who has
abolished death, and has brought life and incorruptibility to light through the
gospel." But God spoke it to reveal to you the incorruptibility that you
are. When you realize you are a spiritual being you cannot be corrupted! But if
you believe you can, you'll experience it only until the light of God
penetrates the darkened mind and explodes throughout your being. Then you will
realize you are not a mortal human being.
Well, we need to look at Psalm 82. "But God
stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. How long
will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor
and fatherless: do just to the afflicted and needy, deliver the poor and needy:
rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they
understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are out
of course. I have said, you are gods; and all of you are children of the most
high. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." Why
will you die like men? Because you do not know who you are. The word gods here
is the word "Elohim". And when it says that God, Elohim, stands in
the congregation of the mighty and judges among the gods, the same word is
"Elohim". So Elohim stands in the congregation of the mighty and He
judges among the Elohims. How long will it be before we deliver the poor and
the needy, those who walk in darkness? Well we can't do it as long as we are
walking in that darkness with them. The same word "Elohim" is used in
Genesis chapter 1 when it says, "Let us make man in our image." We
have been in so much darkness. Take it not lightly to be in tune with God. That
is your heritage. "I have said, you are gods; - - but you shall die like
men, and fall like one of the princes." - Because you believe you will,
because you're walking in darkness. We've had the scriptures for two thousand
years, and rather than learn how to follow that anointing that is within us,
we've run to the arm of flesh for our instruction, and They have only kept us
in darkness and bondage to keep us under their control. Thank God that is
coming to an end!
John chapter 10 and verse 33, "The Jews answered
Jesus saying, for a good work we don't stone you, but for blasphemy; and
because that you, being a man, makes yourself God. Jesus answered them saying,
is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods? If He called them gods,
unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of
Him, whom the Father hath sent into the world, thou blasphemest; because I said
I am the Son of God?" I think the scriptures are so clear that they can
just grab a hold of mind that is always speaking contrary to what we know the
truth is. Ephesians 5 says in verse 30, "For we are members of His body,
of His flesh, and of His bones." We are members of His body, of His flesh
and of His bones. Well is that true? If it is true; how can this body be sick?
How can this body be diseased? I'm talking to myself here as well as anybody
else. But you see, it is time that we awake out of sleep. "Arise and
shine, for your light is come. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon
thee." And I'll tell you, nations shall come to the rising of God within
you, within His people in these days. No longer do we have to go out and get
them.They come to you. When you have the living, abiding Word of God that will
change people's lives, they will run to you, when you won't gather them unto
yourself. You'll simply teach them that which they have within them.
I think a Christian maybe needs to go to a class of
few weeks to get a clear understanding of that incorruptible seed, a clear
understanding that they have an anointing, they don't need another man, ever
again, to teach them, just a few weeks, and leave them alone; and them we come
together and fellowship. We really don't need a man to stand up here and teach
us, because we have the teacher inside of us. We have the anointing within us;
and when we come together; there will be such a flow of His life. Any who come
in among us would be healed. Any who come in among us walking in the darkened
understanding of their mind would receive the light of God. Know ye not that
your bodies are the members of Christ? Don't you know that? Well I have known
that for years. But today I'm beginning to really understand, learning how to
cast down every thing that would point the finger and say, "Look at you!
How dare you say that your body couldn't be sick! Look at you!" I can
laugh. I'm just reminded of Abraham. Whenever the accusations would come into
my mind, I'd simply remember Abraham who considered not his own body as dead. Ah, but he considered Him faithful who had promised. You
see; if we look in this direction for results, I don't believe it will ever
happen. We don't look to the flesh. We can't grasp this with our human
understanding. But we are members of Christ. That means if you touch someone,
Christ is touching him or her. Ephesians 1 says in verse 22, "He has put
all things under His feet, (meaning Jesus) and has appointed Him the universal
and supreme head of the church. (A headship exercised throughout the world
church)" (This is the Amplified version. So let's start over. This is amplified.)
"And has put all things under His feet, and has appointed Him the
universal and supreme head of the church (a headship exercised throughout the
church) which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills all in all (for in
that body lives the full measure of Him Who makes everything complete, and Who
fill every thing everywhere with Himself."
That's the truth! Yet we've believed a lie, just as
easily the lie of the serpent. And do you not know that Jesus had to go through
the same lie. I think religion has even painted an unclear picture of Jesus. We
have the crazy notion that He was so perfect that it was impossible for Him to
sin. I don't think so. Otherwise He could not have been tempted in all points.
Someone said, "Well if you are who you claim you are, let's see you walk
through that wall and let's see you raise the dead." What did Jesus say to
that? "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to be made
bread." If He did it, it would only prove that He missed the mark.
(Pam guessed here.) He was tempted in all points. And the only reason that He
did not fail - if He had a clear, precise understanding that He was the Son of
God. And when you and I have a clear, precise understanding that we are what
the Word says we are, then not only will we be as He is, we will act out
of an experiential walk of being Christ on the earth. In this body lives the
full measure of Him who makes everything complete. This is the
Word of God. " "And who fills everything, everywhere with
Himself." Some things, no, all things! Paul had this revelation and he could
stand before a congregation of people and say, "Don't you know folks, you
are complete in Him? You don't need anything else. You don't need to change
anything about yourself. You are complete! In Him, you are complete! You just
need to repent, to change your mind about who you think that you are, because
who you think you are doesn't exist in reality."
You know; the Christian Science people have been
correct for years because they say
things like, "Well, there's no sin. There is no sickness. There is no disease."
But folks, I tell you what: until you believe that, until you have an
understanding that's what Calvary was all about! My "old man", that
old concept of being a human being, alienated, being separated, being a sinner,
living a life of sin, that whole mess went to the cross. God became a man. And
He took that man, representing all of the misconceptions; He took that man into
death. And that's why He came. Oh yes! "If I be lifted up " If I be lifted
up I will draw all men unto me."He
said, "I in my own self - I can't do anything." Now stop and think
about this. Here was a man who was the perfect man, without sin, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin. This
man said, "I can't do anything of myself." What makes you think you
can? You see, religion will teach us to try. Like the Word would say, they
would teach you to go out and heal the sick and raise the dead, and you do it
by just praying for everybody. And occasionally you might hit it.
God today fills everything, everywhere with
Himself. SIN IS NO MORE! God does not
hold man accountable for his sin, because he realizes he is living in a
mistaken identity that is not even real. His concept of himself, is what he
receives from Adam. And once you have awakened, once you are regenerated, that
old is no more. He never was, but you come to realize it through regeneration.
In Colossians 3 and verse 10, "And have put on the new man, which is
renewed in knowledge", - Boy that's a good one, "renewed in
knowledge". You know Jesus said, "My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge." Yet it goes on to say the reason they were destroyed for lack
of knowledge is because they rejected knowledge. You can hear the living Word
of God spoken from the mouth of His servants today and reject that Word, and be
destroyed for lack of knowledge, not because you haven't heard it, but because
you've rejected it. We need to be renewed in the knowledge, after the image of
Him that created Him. We have,
"put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him
that created Him:" This is the knowledge that we must put on. This is the
incorruptibility that we must put on. This is the immortality that we must put
on. The renewed knowledge has been created in the image of God, and we have
never lost that standing with God, except we have become alienated and
separated in our minds. And that's why Paul said, "You must be renewed in
the spirit of your mind, because until you mind is renewed, you will always
think you are something other than what God is. And when your mind begins to be
renewed, it is so easy for you then to believe what God has spoken to you.
When the anointing within you begins to operate, and
you begin to hear and follow that which is in your heart, you will be free
from all control. You know, the people who are really free today, are those
who have weathered the religious church, because to religion freedom is
rebellion. Yet a free man, a spiritual free man, is one who is in bondage to no
man, will be controlled by no man, will not go to the arm of flesh for his
answers; but he knows that the anointing abides within him, and will teach him all
things, and will bring to remembrance all things. We don't have a clue what
we've forgotten " Elohim in the very beginning, and put on the new man, which
is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him who created him. We are neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, or bond nor free, but Christ "
listen to this: Christ is all and in all, not Christ will someday be all
and in all, but right today we have put on that new man that is created in the
image of Him who realizes that there is neither Jew nor Greek nor sinner nor
saved nor lost nor male nor female nor bond nor free, but is all and in
all. And we have the privilege of going to people and speaking life to them
instead of death, freedom instead of bondage, hope instead of despair, because
we see Christ in all men. Our perceptions are changing. And no longer do we see
male nor female, bond nor free, sinners and saints; we see Christ is all
and in all. Amen.
Gary Sigler