Understanding Creation is like a puzzle that you are putting together.
A puzzle that presents challenges, and in time, at the discretion of the assembler, the solution of the puzzle or full picture of the puzzle will not only been seen, but in its entirety, be understood, now seeing the “big picture”.
This puzzle being from the mind of God, His Creation, was meticulously fashioned; each piece revealing each soul. Each piece being of its own design, within, belonging, and being an intricate part of the whole ‘puzzle’.
The border being the edge of the world, is understandably easy to see for it is within the confines of a generality, an understanding, that seems to come from within.
When you are able to find your piece to the puzzle, and place it in its rightful position, you have understood your place, and importance, within that puzzle. There are no missing pieces, although there are thoughts that some pieces could be missing.
There are attempts to put a piece of the puzzle in the wrong place. Its not until other pieces are in place, that will help to see the importance to the pieces around it. It then, that there is satisfaction seeing the piece in its rightful position.
Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Mat 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Also see Mat. (12:26, 28) (Mark 9:43) (Mat. 10:7) which refer to the “kingdom” within you.
The “Spirit of God-Holy Ghost” is within you. NOTE: Destroy in the Greek; G5351 to ruin, shrivel, spoil, or wither by moral influences.
We are in Christ; Christ is in us; we are the temple of Christ and God.
1Co 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. (Also see; 1Co. 6:19-20)
2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Also See; (2Co. 6:16-17) (Eph. 2:21-22) (1Co.3:9)
1Co 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Eph 2:21-22 In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Also see; 1 Co 3:9)
Col 1:27 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:
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1Co 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Rom 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
1Co 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
2Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
1Co 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building
Where is the separation unless you create it? Separation is caused by the balance of your freedom between love and sinful natures. The flesh by way of the mind and not the true created spirit-soul self.
Prov 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Fear in the Hebrew is meaning to have moral reverence, (honor, respect). Fools in the Hebrew meaning perverse, or easily irritated or annoyed.
Prov 2:6-10 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Eph 1:17-19 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Col 2:2-3 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Spiritual Understanding
Col 1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
1Co 15:44-46 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 3:1-3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Carnal from the Greek;
G4559 σαρκικός From G4561; pertaining to flesh, that is, (by extension) bodily, temporal, or (by implication) animal, unregenerate: – carnal, fleshly.
John 17:14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
Psalms 119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. (See Also; Mat 15:14, 23:24-36)
“They” are you. To understand and live from the spirit is to overcome the world and not of the world.
You are your own teacher with only guidance from others in accordance to your “given word”, guided by the heart. One size does not fit all.
Gen 3:22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
Who is us?
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
You knew “about” evil, but had yet to experience it, until now.
John 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
(See Also; John 15:12, 1Peter 2:17, 1John 3:14-17)
Without the love for one another there is no oneness, but only separation.
Oneness
Eph 4:4-6 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Acts 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
(See also; John 17:11, 17:21-23, Rom 12:4-5, 12:10, 12:16, 13:8, 15:5-6, Php 1:27, 2:1-2, 1Peter 3:8)
All things in common being the Word. Life itself in its completeness from love. How else can God be through all and in you all?
Col 3:15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
1Co 10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
Rom 14:7-13 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.
(See Also; Rom 14:19, 15:2, 15:5-7, 15:14, 16:16)
1Co 12:12-27 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
(See also: Col 3:15, Eph 5:30)
Likeminded
Php 2:2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Rom 15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
1Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
Created souls-spirits were created in perfection with the Word instilled within. That is the common link, a correlation, a oneness, and likeminded that is “normal” in the spiritual world. The flesh world because of the appearance of separation, the soul believes it lives for and from itself.
Not One Lost, All Have Salvation
Mat 10:29-31 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Mat 18:12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
What do these two verses mean to you if you believe that you have no salvation or have the chance of death?
1Co 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Celestial meaning above the earth, and terrestrial below the sky, earth. Oneness is celestial, where terrestrial being another can be a oneness from the celestial aspect, or terrestrial having the option of that oneness that can feel like it is living from oneself. The Flesh creates a false sense of separation.
Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
From the flesh perspective, oneness can only be when there is no judgement.
Mat 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
(See Also; Mat 19:11, John 17:23, Rom 12:2, 1Co 2:6, 13:10, 2Co 12:9, Eph 4:13, Php 3:12, 3:15, Col 1:28, 4:12, Heb 2:10, 5:9, 7:19, 9:9, 9:11, 10:1, 11:40, 12:23, James 1:4, 1:17, 1:25, 2:22, 3:2, 1John 4:17-18)
Perfect from the original Greek text;
“Perfect” in the Greek; #5046 is teleios, from:5056; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with NT:3588) completeness:
There are slight variances in additional scriptures but have the same understanding in the above definition of being complete. It does NOT mean to be flawless, ideal, excellent, superb, great, terrific etc.
“Perfection” is a labor of growth in mental and moral character leading to a completeness or is being complete. An eternal work in life. A part of life itself. A growth in the understanding and application of love.
Psalms 19:7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The purpose of the flesh in this life is having the unique opportunity to experience the opposite of your true spiritual self. A Challenge to live and overcome the flesh aspects of fear, emotions, ego, judgement, and negativity. All with the appearance of separation from the oneness with God and creation. Your true spiritual self has none of these flesh-world traits.
You have the “appearance” of being disconnected from God. You “feel” that aloneness and your ego kicks in replacing that trust and faith you have from your spiritual self and oneness with God and creation. Judgement is nothing more than the flesh experiencing confusion from the lack of understanding from that flesh perspective. When you think from your eternal soul-self, the excitement is in wanting to experience and have the challenge to overcome fear, emotion, ego, judgement, negativity, and the separation that you have knowledge of, but had not experienced? The uniqueness and makeup of the perfected “man”, Gods grand design in great detail, so that an eternal soul may live life after life with new experiences? Think about it…..
In “time”, and I quote, “that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day”, by way of awareness through the flesh, from your true spiritual self, the challenge to overcome this flesh world is life!
(Job 4:6) Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
Confidence in the Hebrew;
H3690 כִּסְלָה Feminine of H3689; in a good sense, trust; in a bad one, silliness: – confidence, folly.
(Psalms 65:5) By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
(Pro 14:26) In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Confidence in the Hebrew;
H4009 מִבְטָח From H982; properly a refuge, that is, (objectively) security, or (subjectively) assurance: – confidence, hope, sure, trust.
(Psalms 118:8) It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
(Pro 25:19) Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Confidence in the Hebrew;
H4480 מִנֵּי מִנִּי מִן For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses: – above, after, among, at, because of, by (reason of. H4482 מֵן From an unused rot meaning to apportion; a part.
(Pro 3:26) For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
Confidence in the Hebrew;
H3689 כֶּסֶל From H3688; properly fatness, that is, by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera; also (figuratively) silliness or (in a good sense) trust.
Note; “foot” in 3:26 is meaning steps, to “walk along”.
(Isa 30:15) For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Confidence in the Hebrew;
H985 בִּטְחָה Feminine of H984; trust: – confidence.
New Testament
(Acts 28:31) Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Confidence in the Greek;
G3954 παῤῥησία From G3956 and a derivative of G4483; all out spokenness, that is, frankness, bluntness, publicity; by implication assurance.
(Gal 5:10) I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
(2Th 3:4) And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
(Heb 3:6) But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
(1John 3:21) Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
Confidence in the Greek;
G3982 πείθω A primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty).
(Eph 3:11-12) According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Confidence in the Greek;
G4006 πεποίθησις From the perfect of the alternate of G3958; reliance. G3958 πάσχω, πάθω, πένθω Apparently a primary verb (the third form used only in certain tenses for it); to experience a sensation or impression.
(2Th 3:4) And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
Confidence in the Greek;
G5287 ὑπόστασις From a compound of G5259 and G2476; a setting under (support), that is, (figuratively) concretely essence, or abstractly assurance (objectively or subjectively).
Because we have the appearance of being separated from creation living an awareness from this flesh perspective, thinking is within a box. Humankind has everything in the box including God.
The flesh sees a starting point, and an ending point.
Understanding eternal where there is no beginning and no end, the thinking must come from out of the box. From the eternal perspective, the inner self, the spirit that was created from the One God, the I AM, there is no box.
Since God is alive and eternal, everything is alive and eternal. Not one earth, but millions, not just one universe, but millions. Not just one life, but millions. How can you put a number on anything when it is eternal?
Examples;
Gen 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Heb 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
Jer 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
(See Also; Gen 15:5, 22:17, 26:4, 32:12, Jdg 7:12, Hos 1:10, Rom 9:27)
Because God is everything, His spirit, His holy spirit-His consciousness, lives through all of creation because all is One.
Every thought from His creation on an individual basis has infinite possibilities to become a reality or a manifestation through senses from a flesh, spiritual, a combination thereof, or any other possible infinite ways for an existence. That is free will and life from His Creation.
before the Lord; (Lev 23:40, Deu 12:12, 12:18, 14:26, 16:11)
your God for seven days. (Lev 23:40)
in all that ye put your hands unto. (Deu 12:7)
in every good thing. (Deu 26:11)
in thy salvation. (1Sa 2:1, Psa 9:14, 13:5, 20:5, 21:1)
that seek the LORD. (1Ch 16:10)
in goodness. (2Ch 6:41)
with great joy. (Neh 12:43)
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling. (Psa 2:11) NOTE: Fear in this context has the meaning of moral reverence.
I will be glad (Psa 9:2, 32:11, 40:16, Isa 66:10)
in thy mercy: (Psa 31:7)
Because thou hast been my help, (Psa 63:7)
righteous be glad: let them rejoice; (68:3)
Let all those that seek thee (Psa 70:4)
Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? (Psa 85:6)
In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: (Psa 89:16)
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. (Psa 90:14)
Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; (Psa 97:12)
them that seek the LORD. (Psa 105:3)
in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. (Psa 106:5)
the righteous shall see and rejoice: (Psa 107:42)
God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, (Psa 108:7)
I rejoice at thy word, (Psa 119:162)
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; (Pro 29:2)
in his own works; (Ecc 3:22)
in his labour; (Ecc 5:19)
in the LORD, (Isa 61:10, Hab 3:18)
over them to do them good, (Jer 32:41)
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: (Joel 2:21) (NOTE: Fear in this verse meaning to not be frightened.)
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: (Joel 2:23)
be glad and rejoice with all the heart, (Zep 3:14)
over thee with joy; (Zep 3:17)
greatly,…..he is just and having salvation; (Zec 9:9)
and be glad; (Zec 10:7)
New Testament
and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: (Mat 5:12, Luke 6:23)
joy and gladness at his birth (Luke 1:14)
because your names are written in heaven. (Luke 10:20)
and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works they have seen; (Luke 19:37)
that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. (John 4:36)
but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. (John 16:20)
and your heart shall rejoice, (John 16:22)
Therefore did my heart rejoice, (Acts 2:26)
in the hope of glory of God. (Rom 5:2)
with them that do rejoice, (Rom 12:15)
Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. (Php 1:18)
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, (Php 2:16)
I joy, and rejoice with you all. (Php 2:17)
For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. (Php 2:18)
rejoice in the Lord. (Php 3:1)
Rejoice in the Lord always: again I say, Rejoice. (Php 4:4)
Rejoice evermore. (1Th 5:16)
ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. (1Peter 4:13)
Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: (Rev 19:7)
(See Also; Deu 16:14, 26:11, 27:7, 30:9, 32:43)
Rejoice in the Old Testament and New Testament has various definitions in the Hebrew and the Greek.
Old Testament;
H8055 שָׂמַח A primitive root; probably to brighten up, that is, (figuratively) be (causatively make) blithe or gleesome.
H5970 עָלַץ A primitive root; to jump for joy, that is, exult: – be joyful, rejoice, triumph.
H1523 גִּיל A primitive root; properly to spin around (under the influence of any violent emotion), that is, usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear.
H7442 רָנַן A primitive root; properly to creak (or emit a stridulous sound), that is, to shout (usually for joy): – aloud for joy, cry out, be joyful, (greatly, make to) rejoice, (cause to) shout (for joy), (cause to) sing (aloud, for joy, out), triumph.
H7797 שׂוּשׂ A primitive root; to be bright, that is, cheerful: – be glad, X greatly, joy, make mirth, rejoice.
Various definitions from the Greek;
G2532 καί Apparently a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so, then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words.
Copulative meaning joining, uniting, linking, connecting. Cumulative force meaning increasing or increased in quantity, degree, or force by successive addition.
The verses with this definition are in reference to cometh home, heaven, your reward in heaven, etc. (denoting the ONENESS of creation in the spiritual world and heavens.)
G4796 συγχαίρω From G4862 and G5463; to sympathize in gladness, congratulate: – rejoice in (with). G4862 denotes union; with or together. G5463 meaning to be full of cheer.
G2165 εὐφραίνω From G2095 and G5424; to put (middle voice or passive voice be) in a good frame of mind, that is, rejoice: – fare, make glad, be (make) merry, rejoice.
G5463 χαίρω A primary verb; to be full of “cheer”, that is, calmly happy or well off; impersonal especially as a salutation (on meeting or parting), be well: – farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hail, joy (-fully), rejoice.
G2744 καυχάομαι From some (obsolete) base akin to that of αὐχέωaucheō (to boast) and G2172; to vaunt (in a good or a bad sense): – (make) boast, glory, joy, rejoice.
G21 ἀγαλλιάω From ἄγανagan (much) and G242; properly to jump for joy, that is, exult: – be (exceeding) glad, with exceeding joy, rejoice (greatly).
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