Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Filthy Beach or Ocean Blue?

Without fellowship with the Father we flounder like a fish out of water. Prayer puts us in contact with God and gets us in our element. Outside of this we live like “mere unchanged men.” We flop around and try to look cool but it won’t last long. This life is like a vapor and then it’s eternity in the real realm of the spirit. Even if we could acquire everything and satiate all our natural desires our heart will still not be satisfied. God set eternity in our hearts created us to be filled with His everlasting love. Fabulous fame and fortune will fail but fellowship with the Father is forever – for those who are His.

The spirit realm is like an ocean and humanity like a bunch of sunburned fish on a filthy beach - gasping for love, flapping for attention, yearning and searching for meaning all with sand in the gills. When one receives Jesus they are born of the Spirit and have access back into the realm they came out of. Being washed and cleansed they begin to swim and explore the immensity of eternity. In the spirit they are free and find what and how they were made to be. Having entered into life they begin to enjoy and understand “forever.” The natural realm is about as stable the beach is going to be removed shortly but the spirit realm is like an ocean of eternity. Now there’s nothing more important to do than to preach this good news and try to help the fish on dirty beach understand before its too late.

So come on in the water’s fine! And if “you’re in” stay in you you’ll get all sunburned and dirty again.

John 3:3-8
3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

5 Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
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John 3:6-8
6 What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not [do not be surprised, astonished] at My telling you, You must all be born anew (from above).

8 The wind blows (breathes) where it wills; and though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
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John 1:12-13
12 But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name — [Isa 56:5.]

13 Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!]
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PIE90 Scripture:

Gal 5:16, 26
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
…25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
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