URGENCY OF PREPARATION – Ron McGatlin
God is changing the world by changing the people of the world. He is not punishing the people or the world. He is not willing that any should perish. His will is that all should come to Him through Christ and live a good life of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 3:9, Romans 14:17)
God is, now, in this season, changing His people to a much greater life in this world. He is changing the world to a much better place. This is not coming someday off in the distance. This week or the next few months, major events are happening to begin significant changes in this world.
Many times, changing from a flawed or infected situation to an unflawed or pure situation can cause a painful short season of major difficulty.
I recently had skin cancers spread over most of the bald part of my head. The doctor prescribed applying a certain chemo crème all over my bald head and a couple of small spots on my face twice a day for 30 days. The treatment has caused my head to be much worse, with bloody patches of skin flacking off, pain and itching, and much trouble keeping bedding, towels, and such clean. Now it is in the process of healing up, and I am looking forward to a fresh new bald head soon.
Our nation and probably all the world are infected with a serious, ungodly disease of evil darkness that, like cancer, must be removed. The blood of multitudes of martyrs and the prayers of untold numbers of serious believers cry out to God for the world to be changed.
The time has come for the cleansing of the evil sickness of the world to be dissolved and the world restored to the design of God and the godly desire of His people. The evil darkness in the Western world has reached unimaginable levels of ungodly degradation. The infection has spread throughout most of the culture.
Removing the evil cancer of darkness infecting our world will surely be a painful experience, and there will be collateral damage.
As it is with cancer, every evil cell must be eliminated, making room for the pure and holy fresh cells to grow to refill with light and love the space once filled with darkness. That which was lost by collateral damage will be quickly replaced.
PREPARED SONS OF GOD
God is bringing forth many sons of God filled with Spirit Christ Jesus to bring forth the power of light and love of God to destroy darkness with light, to overcome evil with good. Thereby, the kingdom of God is established, and the loving rule of God is spread through mankind on Earth as it is in heaven. (Hebrews 2:10).
“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Romans 8:19-21.
This is not a work of natural man. It is the work of God in Christ Jesus in mankind. All the love, power, wisdom, and resources of Father God in heaven are available now to completely redeem and restore Planet Earth and all that is on it, in it, or around it to the perfect order and plan of God.
I do not know the word for this, but it is beyond supernatural. Yet it is occurring in natural beings in a natural world as a witness of the glory of God to all creation. And think about this, you and I get to be a part of it!
BEYOND UNDERSTANDING
It is foolishness to try to wrap our minds around God and all that He is doing in us and this world. The natural man wants to design his own ways to accomplish what he sees as the world’s needs through his natural strength and ability. Carnal Christians want to do the works of God using their natural minds and abilities.
“For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.” Romans 11:25.
Spirit God leads spiritual believers from within as they commune in love with God. God reveals what to do and what we need to know about it at the time.
Jesus referred to these several times as those with ears to hear. Spiritual people read and receive much more than those with only natural eyes and ears. With spiritual ears, we can hear what God is really saying in the written Word of God. The natural mind cannot receive the deeper reality of what God is saying in the Bible.
The hidden secrets or mysteries that a natural fallen mind cannot understand are the keys to the release and continuation of the powerful supernatural works of God. (Colossians 1:26-27) (1 Corinthians 2:13-15).
“And He said to them, ‘To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables.’” Mark 4:11.
Supernatural spiritual mysteries of God are only revealed through the Holy Spirit of God within mankind. (1 Corinthians 2:9-11).
Being filled with the Holy Spirit means that our spirit and mind are subjected to the Holy Spirit. Our mind is no longer ruling over our spirit and the Spirit of God in our hearts. Instead, we are so filled with Holy Spirit that our lives are ruled only by Spirit God.
All born-again believers have the Holy Spirit within them. However, as long as the mind is dominant in ruling their life, they are not yet FILLED with the Spirit of God. A biblical term for Spirit filling is being baptized in the Holy Spirit. As in water baptism, the whole body is saturated with water; in Spirit baptism, our entire being, heart, and soul, including our mind and spirit, is saturated by the Holy Spirit.
Spirit God in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit is Christ in us bringing forth His kingdom of heaven to earth. Christ Jesus is alive, and He is in the world today in His many-membered body. “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.” 1 Corinthians 12:12.
“You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Walking in the Spirit means being filled with the Spirit in our daily lives. This is not just a one-time experience but a daily experience of life. The overwhelming evidence and provision of walking in the fulness of the Holy Spirit is a continual saturation of LOVE that brings peace and wisdom into daily life. Abundant, supernatural, eternal life now in this life and forever.
Ron McGatlin
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