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In This World - Not of This World
By Ron McGatlin
Sons of God in this world cannot arise except they be lifted up.
Today the power of God is lifting up maturing sons into the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. His resurrected life of love, peace, power, and wisdom is now fully available to manifest in and through us IF WE BELIEVE.
Arising as God’s humble heroes is His workmanship in us. It is activated and released in us when we believe. Believing is faith, and faith comes by hearing.
Father God is speaking today. Can you hear Him? He is calling for sons and daughters of God to arise, stand up, and present the spiritual supernatural reality of Christ Jesus to His people in this world. All things are possible for those who hear and believe.
The fields of the world filled with many sons of God in the image and likeness of Christ Jesus is the ripe fruit of harvest time. The harvest is of the ripe fruit. Selah.
The Process
The process begins with the seed of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, and ends with many sons of God along with holy angels ruling and reigning with Christ on earth.
Resurrection life is always preceded by death. The seed must fall into the ground and die before resurrection life can occur. The DNA of the seed is multiplied in the fruit from the Seed that was planted into this world. The holy DNA of God in Christ Jesus is multiplied into the many sons of God.
Christ Jesus was not and is not of this world, though He was and is in this world. Christ Jesus is seated at the right hand of the throne of God in heaven, and at the same time He abides in His people by the Holy Ghost as Head of His body on earth.
Today Christ is abiding in His sons who have borne their crosses of the loss of their old lives and are risen up to live and walk in the Spirit carrying the life of Christ to this world. The Son and the sons of God are in this world but are not of this world. In John 18:36 Jesus said it clearly, “My kingdom is not of this world.” He did not say it is not in this world.
The old DNA must be replaced with the new.
Born into this world to imperfect parents carrying the DNA of the first Adam caused us to be OF THIS WORLD and IN THIS WORLD.
Receiving the redemption in Christ Jesus and giving our lives to Him connected us into the DNA of the last Adam, Christ Jesus. Our spirits were born again and the life of Christ began to be formed in us from the seed of Christ bearing his DNA that was implanted in our hearts by the Holy Spirit when we first believed.
Progressively as the seed of Christ grows in us we are less and less of this world and more and more of another existence. In this process we begin to be lifted out of this world and rise into the spiritual reality of heaven. The things of this world seem to fall away, and the reality of heaven grows more and more to be who we are and where we walk. It becomes reality in us to live by the Spirit and walk in the Spirit in this world but not of this world. Thus the kingdom of heaven has come to earth in the sons of God, the bride of Christ, the New Jerusalem people.
The Difficulty of Leaving
In this current season we, as maturing sons, are being lifted out of this world. The experience of being lifted away from the things of this world may feel like being in a wilderness. The life of this world fading from us can cause a sense of being somewhat of a failure in this life. The things that once worked for us in our old lives no longer work and are no longer satisfying.
For many of us the first serious difficulty we encounter as we are being lifted out of this world is a desire to look back and think of the past. We may cling to our previous successes and the times when we really felt alive. Previous relationships with friends and family, exciting business experiences, church related experiences, not to mention the cash flow and the many perks of these things can cause us to look back with longing.
The fame and fortune of the past simply seems to take wings and seemingly overnight it is gone. And it all began when we had that glorious heavenly experience with God and promised Him our whole life.
Looking back takes our eyes off our Lord and where he is taking us and causes our progress to freeze. We become like a lifeless statue stuck somewhere in between where we were and where we are going. Our lifting process stops and waits for us to turn our hearts and lives back to the Lord, that He may continually lift us to a much higher and much more rewarding life in Him.
We are shown to be unfit for the kingdom when we put our hands to the plow and continue looking back (Luke 9:57-62). There are usually some things from our past that we are trying to bring with us into our new heavenly life in Christ. Perhaps it is relationships or habits or religious beliefs and practices or something else that we may have caused ourselves to believe was right for us to hold on to. The thing may have been permissible or even good where we once lived.
Being lifted to a new higher life will cause many things to seemingly self-dissolve. Relationships will often end themselves without a clear reason. The things of our past life will demand that we stay who we were and where we were. However, if we yield to any of these things, we stop our upward journey and become even more miserable than before.
Everyone’s experience may differ but some of these things are common to many if not all of us.
Some may have such a miserable life in the world that they are more than ready to give up their old worldly life. However, they may need a lot of healing and deliverance from their past life. They may deal with serious fears and doubts caused by the disappointments and wounds of the past. However, it may still be easier for them to choose to enter the kingdom than a person with riches.
Jesus spoke of how hard it was for a rich man to enter the kingdom life. He said that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle. The eye of the needle was a very small opening in the wall, and the only way a camel could possibly get through it was to get on his knees and be stripped of all that he was carrying. Selah.
Whatever our past or our need, Christ Jesus is more than enough to lift us up on the other side of the wall as mature sons full of His life and glory.
Moving from the natural life into a supernatural spiritual life is probably one of the most exciting life experience human beings can have on earth. While at the same time living with the knowledge of the supernatural spiritual realm yet remaining tied to the things of this natural life can be a frustrating life that lacks the glory and fulfillment of truly becoming one with Christ in the Holy Spirit.
Most of us are probably yet hungering and thirsting for a greater level of the supernatural life of Christ in us. The good news is that the time has come in this year of 5775 on the Jewish calendar to be lifted to walk in the glory of the heavenly realm of God with us. This year began on September 25 in 2014.
Harvest of Ripe Fruit
There are special ripening seasons for the fruit of God that are set by God. Seasons in which the fruit that has been growing and maturing for a long time is ready for harvest. In this harvest season opportunity is opened for us to move into new realms of supernatural spiritual life in Christ by the Holy Spirit.
During harvest season the fruit is sometimes abruptly separated from the place where it had grown. People may get a strong and possibly painful jolt as they are separated from the things of this world where they lived and grew up.
The entire world is sensing strong jolts as the good fruit is being separated from the bad fruit.
The fallen world is judged as the earth is being cleansed of the fruit and the trees that were planted by the seeds of the evil one. Seeing his end in sight, the spirit of antichrist is running wildly in the land to kill, steal, and destroy. Everyone that can be deceived will be deceived in this time.
What the enemy means for evil God will use for good as the earth is cleansed and the purified sons of light emerge to replant the earth with the glorious seeds of the kingdom of heaven on earth as it is in heaven.
Arise, shine, for your light has come.
Ron McGatlin
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