10. The Ministry of the Spirit

If you will now bow your knee (figuratively, even better literally!) to God the Father, because of what Jesus had done for you on the Cross, your heart has been peirced (convicted) and submitted to the God of all love, glory, rightousness. Your heart has an invisible change but it will become obvious, in time, to all because your thinking, speech & actions will all change. ..but most significantly speech, because again actions can so easily be imitated, but speech is far more revealing of what's going in inside your heart.

This change is blatantly obvious in the sprit realm. You have crossed an invisible line and everything will look different. Jesus said the kingdom of God is not here or there it happens inside you. You don't move anywhere to get it, it happens any time anywhere. Everything that held you captive, now has NO power to hold you. You realise that to achieve good you need to turn from evil, now you have the power to do it, and more importantly, have the WILL / drive / passion to do it. Will it be easy? Will you find it hard to extricate yourself? It depends on how deep you are in, how well you see the answer, if someone in your world sees the struggles you now face and understands because they too have been where you are now.

The legal change you now face is like, in human terms, you standing at the border of two countries that work in opposite ways. If you failed one foot on one side you face a totally different legal system, court, judge, sentencing arrangment than when you are one foot on the other side of the border. Its that dramatic. So in the spirit realm there is no such thing as 'spiritual growth'. You are either in one kingdom, or the other. You are either a child of God or the devil, there is no inbetween, I don't know, I hope so, I think I am. Its like marriage, the transaction is simple and binding, you either are, or you are not. There is no confusion, ambiguity or doubt. If there is any doubt go back to square one, admit your sin, your independence and begin with God on the one certainty, that the son of God died for you and cares for you, look again into his law, see his mighty power, majesty, and right to rule over you, agree with him, in tears if need be to say you missed the point, thank you for making me your child.

When you go over the spiritual divide, you will feel alone, scared even, but you will start to find other souls who have turned their backs on this lying, hating world, and will encourage your heart to persevere, bind your hurts, apply words of healing. No matter how lonely you feel, know God has many people with you, or at least ministering angels who will provide your needs.

The ministry of the spirit is so unlike the ministry of the law that drives you to your knees before Christ. The law itself could never bring the change that the spirit does to open your eyes to the Glory that is in God. The teaching of christ that superceeds all law / rules/ 'morality'(whatever that is) is LOVE, this is a command above all other commands, the expression is there is no law against LOVE, ie nothing is more important or can negate it (it took the devil 700 years to come up with sharia, where he says hatred and humilation, even death is the direct path to heaven, bypass judgement day where evil will be purged....all a contradiction) For out of LOVE comes all righteousness flows from this command. The command comes in 4 parts: 1. love God 2. love your neighbour; 3. love your enemy (the first two by moses, the 3rd in the proverbs) and 4. love one another like Jesus loves us.

Love is all encompassing, those who love WILL NOT lie, steal, cheat, covet, dishonour anyone, worship God alone and a million things the law could not entice people 'wholeheartedly' to say and do...infact this is why christs indwelling spirit supercedes the law or any rules, when you 'love' you fulfull the requirement of the 'law'. You do not follow any rules for right or wrong food, special feast days, rule on honesty, marriage or anything except love, respect, honour. You will not lust because love says others are as important as me, lust is self seeking only, love seeks the good of others above self, humiliation is an abomination for it says I'm more than you...the opposite of love. I will marry one woman because I want to honour her just as Christ honoured me.