LIVING EPISTLES
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Understanding the New Covenant ©
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Sheila R Vitale,
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Christian Spiritual Philosophy
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Sheila R. Vitale,
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~ Christian Spiritual Philosophy ~
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Definitions
THERE IS NO MALE OR FEMALE IN CHRIST JESUS (Gal. 3:28). Accordingly, all textual references to MALE and FEMALE point to spiritual principles, and the words MAN and MEN, as well as the pronouns, HE, HIS and HIM, include, WOMAN, WOMEN, SHE and HER.
CHRIST JESUS is the only spiritual male. Accordingly, all powers and principalities other than Christ Jesus are identified as female IN RELATION TO HIM.
The powers and principalities which have incarnated this fallen world (2 Cor. 4:4) are male IN RELATION TO FALLEN MANKIND, and female IN RELATION TO CHRIST JESUS.
John 7:17-18
17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. (KJV)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Mortal Humanity is Adam’s Descendant
Coats Of Skins are Animal Bodies
Distinguishing between the Old and New Covenants
Principles of the New Covenant
The Physical Body Is Preserved
The Holy Spirit Vs The Spirit of Christ
Which Spirit raised Christ from the dead, And
Jesus Could Have Lived Forever
Church Doctrine Has Not Produced Immortality
Everlasting Life Is In The New Covenant
NOT WITHOUT BLOOD
Understanding The New Covenant
Gen 3:6, And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. KJV
One single act of spiritual adultery resulted in the death of Adam, the banishment of Cain, and the sale of Adam’s descendants to Satan (Rom 7:14), until such time as Jehovah redeems us (buys us back).
Jehovah turned the woman over to the Serpent (Gen 3:16) to experience the consequences of her behavior, but Jehovah also required the blood (death) of Cain, the child born of the adultery, to prevent the Serpent’s nature from blossoming within mankind:
2 Sam 12:13-14
13, And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14, Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. KJV
Satan, the enforcer of Jehovah’s Sowing & Reaping Judgment, was dispatched to kill Cain (Gen 4:14), the Woman’s First Born, immediately after her adultery, but Jehovah preserved Cain’s life (Gen 4:15; 21:16-17) until it was time to redeem the descendants of the First Adam (1 cor 15:45), who, today, are Satan’s prisoners (2 Pet 2:4).
Mortal Humanity is Adam’s Descendant
Mortal humanity is the descendant of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Jehovah’s third attempt to restore the Woman to righteousness, but Shem, Ham and Japheth’s righteous nature turned into Cain, their evil side (1 Jn 3:12).
Coats Of Skins
are Animal Bodies
Thereafter, in the days of Pe-leg, the fifth generation after the flood, Jehovah’s spiritual Woman was imprisoned within many animal bodies (), and Cain, the First Born, evil fruit of the Woman’s adultery, became the Carnal Mind of Adam’s descendants who are now Satan prisoners (Ps 146:7).
Jehovah spared the lives of the Woman and Cain, the spiritual child born from the Woman’s adultery with the Serpent, and the two are now appearing together as the many members of mortal humanity and their Carnal Mind.
Israel was subjected to the Law of Ordinances (), which required animal sacrifices, because Christ, that righteous, substitute mind was not yet available to put Cain underfoot. Israel sacrificed animals instead of their own bestial, Carnal Mind, because they would have died if they sacrificed their Carnal Mind before a righteous, substitute mind was in place to keep them alive.
The Church is not required to sacrifice animals because Christ, their glorious Mind sacrifices their animal Mind every tine they agree with the Mind of God.
Today, many Jews still cling to the Law as their hope that they will be found righteous by God, and many Christians also hope to be found righteous by God because the spiritual Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is painted on the doorposts of their heart.
The Jew believes that they will return to Adam’s first estate, and higher, by performing good works, and the Christian believes that he will be raptured away from all the problems of this present world to live in a mansion that is located in a place called Heaven.
The reality, however, is that both Jew and Christian have been granted the forgiveness of sins, but neither have attained the promise of Everlasting Life, which is immortality, in the flesh, without torment.
What the Church calls the New Testament is an account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth, the first man to experience the complete fulfillment of Jehovah’s promise of righteous immortality, and the unfolding of the Scriptures which prophesy Jehovah’s Plan of Redemption, but were previously sealed up.
Jehovah forgave Israels’s sins and granted them a relationship with Himself through mediated on behalf of Israel, and, today, Christ Jesus mediates on behalf of the Church.
In the Book of Esther, we see that anyone coming into the king’s presence, including the queen, would die if the king did not hold out his scepter to them. Today, the whole world has been granted permission to draw close to the Father without dying.
Why would a relationship with God produce death in our lives? Because mankind is filled with sin, and when sin comes in contact with the holiness of God, sin, and the vessel that contains it, die.
God has given humanity a special dispensation. He has made a covenant with us, saying, if you obey me, if you love the Lord your God with all your heart, your mind and your soul, if you love your brother as yourself (), and cease from fornication and from blood (), Christ Jesus will cover your sins so that you can have a relationship with Me. You can walk with me, and talk with me, and I will provide you with the blessings of healing and deliverance in this world. But everlasting life is only found in the New Covenant.
Distinguishing between the Old and New Covenants
I was taught that the Church is under the New Covenant, but I have known for a long time that there must be something wrong with this teaching.
Why?
Because Christians continue to get sick and die, just like the rest of humanity, and the promise of everlasting life, the foundational principle of the New Covenant, is not manifesting in the Church,
Why?
Because she has not been taught the truth about how we lay hold of immortality (Matt 11:12), and the part of the individual believer in the process (Rom 6:3).
Why?
Carnal Mind of fallen humanity is unable to comprehend how Christians can die after entering into the New Covenant, by faith, so she Egyptian Mystery Religion that we go to a place called Heaven after our physical body dies.
Principles of the New Covenant
1. The Physical Body Is Preserved
The physical flesh of the men
who walk with Christ Jesus
in the New Covenant does not die. The Carnal Mind dies. The dead,
male seed of the First Adam is resurrected within the individual, and
matures into Christ Jesus, who preserves the physical body, and
imparts everlasting life to the personality, right here in this present
world.
This is the truth of the substitutionary work: of the glorified Jesus Christ: The resurrected life of Christ Jesus, internalized within a personality, overshadows and eventually nullifies the deadly influence of the Carnal Mind.
My Bible tells me that we learn to walk after the Spirit when we are judged in the flesh (), and that whoever walks after the Spirit, is a Son of God ().
Another way to put it, is that the Lord Jesus Christ is calling
us to be a spiritual people, to have the Spirit that raised Christ from
the dead dwell in us, prevail over our Carnal Mind and quicken our
mortal body/
, BEFORE our physical body is in the grave. The
immortality of the glorified Jesus Christ desires to swallow up the
mortality of our personality (soul) by imparting the Spirit that raised
Christ from the dead to the us ().
The Holy Spirit Vs The Spirit of Christ
Which Spirit raised Christ from the dead, And
How does He get inside of us?
The Holy Spirit
is the free gift that LEADS us to Christ, but
it is the Spirit of Christ that raises Christ from the dead./
The Spirit
of Christ operates in tandem with the Mind of Christ, which must be
formed in you (James 1:21). The Spirit of Christ and the Holy Spirit
are two different administrations of the Spirit of God.
Receiving the Holy Spirit results, hopefully, in Christ being formed within the personality (mortal soul). As Christ matures, the Spirit that dwells with Christ, preserves the personality (mortal soul), and ushers her into the age abiding, endless life of Christ Jesus, right here in this present world.
Jesus Could Have Lived Forever
No one had the strength to take the life of Jesus, the Christ, without His permission. Jesus could have lived in the flesh forever, but He chose to lay down His life of His own free will for our sake.
Paul did not say that it was time for him to die, but set forth this same truth in 2 Tim 4:6:
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. KJV
. . . thereby implying that he had ascended, as Jesus, the Christ, had, to a place where he could have lived forever!
Paul said he was born out of season, meaning that it was not yet time for Jesus’ spiritual offspring to live forever. Paul stayed around long enough to write a large part of the New Testament , and then gave up an existence which had the potential to continue forever. Christ was born again within Paul before the season that humanity would enter into immortality, so Paul was taken from this world.
Brethren, the season for men to begin the process that changes the bestial mind that we are born with into the spiritual Mind (the image of the Lord Jesus Christ), which enables us to live forever, has begun! Immortality, brethren, everlasting life, is the New Covenant:.
If your walk with Jesus Christ has not produced everlasting life, brethren, if you still get sick, and age -- if you're still dying, you have not entered into the New Covenant.
If what I'm saying is upsetting you, rebuke your distress, because you have nothing to worry about if I am telling you a lie! We are saved by a spiritual union with the Son of God, brethren. We are not saved by doctrine. Whoever is joined to the Spirit of the Son, receives everlasting life (1 Cor 6:17). Lies cannot destroy our relationship with Jesus Christ. On the other hand, if I am telling you the truth, Jesus said that the truth would set you free (Jn 8:32).
Church Doctrine Has Not Produced Immortality
There's something wrong with the teaching in the Church. brethren, because people are still dying! They are still getting sick, they are still experiencing defeat at the hand of Satan. Something is wrong with the doctrine! The Church is lacking the information that the people need to enter into life, and this is the information:
Everlasting Life Is In The New Covenant
We're told in Rom. 11, that Jehovah’s Covenant went to the Gentiles, because the Jews stumbled (). The truth of this statement is that the same Old Covenant which was given to the Jew first, went to the Greek also, but in a different form.
Why is that? Brethren, when I sit here and minister to you tonight, I am speaking one Word which, when it falls on this lady, affects her one way, and when it falls on that lady, affects her another way. The same Word of God helps both ladies, but the two of you are not the same. Wherefore, this same Word mixes with each individual mind and spirit, to produce a personalized spiritual experience for each lady.
The Old Covenant falls one way on the Jew, and a second way on the Greek (Gentile), but it's still the Old Covenant.
How do I know that the covenant in the Church today is the Old Covenant? Because everlasting life is nowhere to be seen.
The Old Covenant provides a way to escape the ultimate result of sin, which Jehovah’s righteous Sowing and Reaping Judgment, which is unto destruction and death. the ultimate consequence of sin, in the form that it is administered to the Jew. Our relationship with God through Jesus Christ offers forgiveness of sins by faith. This means that we continue to sin because of our sin nature, but the administration of the consequences for sins is transferred from Satan to Christ Jesus. Satan is the mediator of the sowing and reaping judgment, which is unto destruction, but Christ Jesus’ White Throne Judgment is corrective, and works for our good.
Forgiveness of sins by faith delivers us from Satan’s destruction in this present world, but is inferior to the New Covenant, which produces everlasting life
The Lord Jesus Christ is declaring to all of His people today, Jews and Gentiles alike, that it is time to enter into the New Covenant, but entrance into the heavenly sanctuary requires a blood sacrifice.
Brethren, the blood that grants us entrance into the heavenly tabernacle is the glorified, spiritual blood of the Lord Jesus Christ but, despite everything that you've been taught, the blood that is shed is the blood of our own carnal mind, the very evidence of our sin nature.
We have an inheritance in heavenly places and that inheritance is in Christ Jesus, but we cannot enter in and appropriate that inheritance until we die to our carnal mind. You have been taught incorrectly, brethren.
The death of the Lord Jesus Christ made everlasting life available to us, but for us to appropriate that life, for it to start manifesting itself to us, for it to become real to us, this new life which is in Christ Jesus must replace, must swallow up, our sin nature. Our carnal mind must die.
Our own carnal mind is the fulfillment of the bulls and goats which were sacrificed under the Old Covenant. Our carnal mind is the beast of Revelation which must be offered up so that the promises which are in Christ Jesus may be implemented in our life.
Yes, Jesus entered in by His sinless resurrected, spiritual blood, which is now poured out upon us as the Holy Spirit, our potential to have Christ Jesus= sinless mind reproduced in us. But when Christ Jesus= sinless mind is imparted to us, we then have two minds, the bestial mind that we are born with, and Christ Jesus= glorious mind.
The animal sacrifices of the Levitical law do not typify Jesus= physical crucifixion, but the sacrifice of our own bestial nature. The fulfillment of the Lev-iti-cal type of the blood of bulls and goats, the blood which must be shed, is not the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the blood of our own bestial carnal mind, which pollutes us continually.
Now, if you think I don't know what I'm talking about, I ask you this:
If, in fact, the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled the Old Testament type of the blood of bulls and goats, why was the Lord Jesus Christ crucified and not boiled and roasted?
The true sacrifice, brethren, which is being boiled by Christ Jesus, is the subconscious part of our carnal mind, and the sacrifice that is being roasted in the Lake of Fire, is the unconscious part of our very own carnal mind.
We have an inconsistency here. The method of Jesus= death does not line up with the way the bulls and goats were killed by the Levitical priests.
The man, Jesus, who was Christ, was physically crucified so that He could ascend into a glorified, spir-it-ual form which could be grafted to fallen men. But Jesus was physically crucified only after Christ rose from the dead in the man, Jesus, and crucified the carnal mind that the man, Jesus, inherited from his mortal mother.
I challenge all of you Pharisees who are still reading this book to explain why the Lord Jesus Christ was not boiled and roasted, if He is the fulfillment of the Levitical animal sacrifices. Oh, my goodness, I hear them screaming in the heavenlies. Well, stop screaming my beloved brother and answer the question. I await your answer.
The crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, translated His sinless life into a form which can be reproduced in humanity. The glorified Jesus Christ, our High Priest, raises Christ Jesus, in the individual personality from the dead. Then Christ Jesus, the Lake of Fire, spiritually boils and roasts our carnal mind, and, as our carnal mind is consumed, the personality [soul] is preserved,. and enters into the life of the ages -- which is the New Covenant.
Jesus said to the Pharisees, I'll tell you the truth and the truth will set you free, and the Pharisees said, what truth could you possibly have to tell us, we are the seed of Abraham.
This is the truth I have to tell you, all you Pharisees. You are not saved. You are still under the Old Covenant. You're carnal, fallen men, you're dead men's bones, dead in your sins. You're as filthy as you were when you first started out. Your right-eousness is as filthy rags. You need to recognize and confess the hidden sins of your heart, and repent, so that the Spirit of Christ can crucify (join with) your human spirit -- so that the blood of Christ Jesus= everlasting sacrifice can be applied your personality, which is the doorposts of your carnal mind, pour the blood of your carnal mind upon your spiritual ground, and translate you, the personality [soul], into everlasting life.
You can scream and yell and deny it all that you like, but the hour is at hand for the New Covenant to be implemented, and the Father will take whomsoever He desires to take, with your consent, or without your consent. Jesus!
Yea, saith the Lord, it is the hour for righteousness to appear in the earth. I shall stand once again, saith the Lord, in the fullness of my life, and I shall be exalted, and I shall be glorified in my people, and they shall judge the earth, saith the Lord.
They shall ascend unto Mt. Zion, and from there shall go forth the law, and from Jerusalem the Word, saith your God. And I shall be exalted, and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess and shall show my greatness, saith the Lord, and I shall bring into submission the most wicked of men saith God, even the workers of witchcraft. I warn you, saith the Lord, against Pharisaical attitudes. Any one of my sons who criticizes me is in danger of losing their salvation. Put your eyes upon yourself and do not blaspheme against who you will see coming into the Kingdom in these next days, saith the Lord, for you will be surprised at who I will bring in from the highways and the byways.
Exalt not yourself saith the Lord, knowing that you are not saved and that you are in as great a danger as anyone else of being separated from me.
Humble yourself and confess your sins and forgive one another, saith the Lord, and reconcile; be merciful to one another and fight the good fight of faith, for I will permit great hostility to come against you in these last days, saith the Lord, for this is the way that you will ascend. As you overcome, you shall ascend, and the stronger you get, the stronger the resistance I shall send against you.
War shall rage everywhere saith the Lord. There shall be wars and rumors of wars, and you shall war in your sleep and there shall be bloodshed and grief on every side saith the Lord, but my Son and the great dragon and his angels shall fight, saith the Lord, and Michael shall fight, and my sons, and they shall prevail over the dragon, saith the Lord, and I shall stand upon the earth, and my mercy shall be manifested to humanity.
We enter in because of Jesus’ resurrected life, which is Christ Jesus grafted to our human spirit. The Everlasting Tabernacle is accessible to us only when Christ Jesus is in the midst of us -- whether we shed the blood of our carnal mind or not. Why? Because Christ Jesus IS the Everlasting Tabernacle. You won't see the Kingdom of Heaven if the Kingdom of God is not born again within you, because your spirit, which is your true consciousness, can't get into the Everlasting Tabernacle, or even see it, if He’s not inside of you!
Christ Jesus, your inheritance and the Everlasting Tabernacle which can now be formed within you because of Jesus, the Christ’s sacrifice, is the only one who is strong enough to liberate you, the personality, from your own carnal mind, by shedding her blood.
So, Jesus’ sacrifice is the everlasting tabernacle within you, but to enter into that tabernacle, or to marry that tabernacle, the blood of your own, dead carnal mind [sin nature] must be shed. To be unhindered by sin, we must die to our sin nature [flesh], and live out of the Mind of Christ which is formed within us.
Our fallen, spiritual blood [the unclean spirit of our carnal mind] must be shed, so that we can live out of our new spiritual bloodline, which is Christ Jesus.
So we see that the mystery of the Gospel of Blood, speaks about two, different kinds of blood, one holy and one unholy, the first purifying and the second polluting.
Heb. 9:13. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Heb. 9:14. How much more shall the blood of [the] Christ [according to the Greek this is referring to the Lord Jesus Christ], who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
How much more shall the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ who, through the everlasting Spirit, offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Now listen to what this is saying. How much more shall the blood of Jesus who was Christ . . . .
Brethren, the red, human blood that the Son of Man shed, which was poured onto the ground at Calvary, is not doing anything for you. The Scripture is talking about the spiritual blood of the glorified Son of God. The man, Jesus’, fallen blood, which He inherited from His mother, is not getting you into the Kingdom. The resurrected, spiritual blood of Jesus’ Father is getting you into the Kingdom, and, today, that resurrected blood, is in the form of the Holy Spirit.
Now follow me with this. How much more shall the blood of the resurrected Christ who, through the everlasting Spirit (that's the Spirit of Christ), offered himself without spot to God.
What this means, is that the spiritual blood of the resurrected Christ Mind in the man Jesus, purified the man, Jesus, from sin. Listen, let me show it to you again.
The blood of Jesus, the Christ, who through the everlasting Spirit, not through the Holy Spirit, brethren, but through the Spirit of Christ -- if that Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in you, it will quicken, or make alive, your mortal body, that is, your personality [soul].
Why isn’t your mortal body, or personality [soul], quickened now, like the man, Jesus’ was? Because, the Scripture is not talking about the Holy Spirit! It's talking about the Spirit of Christ, which is the Everlasting (eternal) Spirit.
So, we see that the blood of Christ [within the man, Jesus] who, through the Everlasting (eternal) Spirit [of the Father], offered himself. . . .
Who is himself brethren? The resurrected Christ in the man, Jesus, offered up His own humanity as a sacrifice, and Christ Jesus in you, is offering up your sin nature [carnal mind]. Can you hear it? Listen, let's do it again.
How much more shall the blood of Christ -- the resurrected spiritual life of Christ -- the blood of Christ through the Everlasting Spirit, offer himself -- or offer His humanity -- without spot.
The resurrected Christ who was in the man, Jesus, purified the man, Jesus, His humanity, from sin, and it was the purified man, Jesus, the humanity that Christ Jesus was living in, that the resurrected Christ offered unto God.
So, we see that Christ Jesus within us is exposing our sin nature, and purifying us from the deadly effects of that sin nature.
Now listen, brethren, you can't be purified from the effects of your sin nature unless your sin nature is exposed. We've discussed this here, over and over again, how the true forgiveness of sins is the ripping out of our potential for sin. If the forgiveness of sins is merely the forgiveness of an act or a thought, the confession of the Roman Catholic Church would be sufficient.
The Scripture clearly states that we have a sin nature, and that we are spiritually dead because of that sin nature. So, if we are dead because of our potential to sin, which potential is resident in our sin nature, then the true forgiveness of sins must be the wiping out, the obliteration, of our sin nature, which is our carnal mind.
So, we see that the indwelling Spirit of Christ purified the man, Jesus, from sin, and He became Jesus, the Christ (Rom. 1:4).
The man, Jesus, lived out of the resurrected Christ within him, and overcame the potential to sin which was in the carnal mind that He inherited from His mother. Then, Jesus, the Christ, rose from the dead and chose to sacrifice His life as an immortal, spiritual man, so that He could be translated into an even higher, spiritual form which could be grafted to the masses of fallen humanity.
Christ Jesus is the Saviour of humanity, but the immortal life which is in His spiritual blood must be grafted to your human spirit for the power of His sacrifice to save you!
The Church has the same opportunity to be purified from sin today, through the exposure and ripping out of our sin nature. He who hath the hope, brethren, that the dead Christ will be resurrected in him, purifieth himself (1 Jn. 3:3).
The Judgment Seat of Christ, which exposes the sin nature of our personality [soul] and brings us into submission to the Spirit of Holiness, is the only path to true purification. When the spirit of our carnal mind is renewed through union with the Spirit of Christ, Christ Jesus within us will force our sin nature under His feet, and offer our personality [soul,] without spot, to the Everlasting Spirit -- if you can hear it.
Verse 14, Chapter 9, of the Book of Hebrews says,
How much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? KJV
-- how much more will that blood which now is in the form of the Spirit of Christ for us, purge our conscience from dead works?
Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of the Christ, who through the everlasting Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? KJV
The question is, if the blood of bulls and goats can sanctify and purify your flesh, how much more will the blood of Christ Jesus sanctify and purify your conscience? The Greek word translated conscience means mind. We're talking about the purifying of the mind.
The Old Covenant purifies your flesh and empowers you to cease from behavioral and verbal sin.
The New Covenant delivers us from a dead, corrupt mind, which the Scripture identifies as our potential for sin, and translates our spirit into an incorruptible mind, which is incapable of sin.
So we're told in the Book of Hebrews that it's the resurrected spiritual blood of Jesus, the Christ, that has the power to purge us from our potential for sin. The question is, how does the resurrected, spiritual blood of the man, Jesus, who was Christ, do this?
The resurrected, spiritual blood of the Lord Jesus Christ is given to us initially as the Holy Spirit, but it is the Spirit of Christ who grafts Himself to our human spirit, and resurrects Christ, His very own sinless mind, within us. We, the personality [soul], then join with Christ Jesus and begin to purify ourselves by exposing, paralyzing, and eventually destroying our own sin nature, which is our potential for sin.
Can you hear it? Let me say it again. The way the glorified life of the Lord Jesus Christ purges our conscience, or our mind, from sin, is by grafting Himself to our human spirit and forming Christ Jesus within us, the one who judges our sin-filled personality [soul], and saves us from our own carnal mind, which is our potential to sin.
In the hour that Christ Jesus brings our personality [soul] into complete submission to the Spirit of Holiness which is in Christ Jesus (who began to be formed in us when the Spirit of Christ was grafted to our human spirit), He separates our personality [soul] from our sin nature, and offers up our personality [soul] to the Father, without spot.
How will Christ Jesus purify our personality [soul] to the point that she will be without sin? There's only one way brethren, by burning our old man in the Lake of Fire [Christ Jesus], where our personality [soul] is divided from our carnal mind, which is ripped to pieces, as the elements of our sin nature melt and come crashing down s as and , (Dan. 3:25, 2 Peter 3:10,12). Then we, the personality [soul], marry and become one with Christ Jesus, the burning bush which is not consumed. Jesus!
Heb. 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of everlasting inheritance.
That by means of death . . . . There are three Greek words translated death, brethren. This Greek word is thanatos, which means either violent death, or the death which results from the separation of the personality [soul] from the carnal mind.
It's hidden, brethren, so you have to pray about it, but the death that brings you into the New Covenant is the separation of your personality [soul] from your carnal mind.
I declare to you with all the humility that I can muster, as I sit here half slain in the Spirit, that our carnal mind and our personality [soul] must separate and, more specifically, our personality [soul] must separate from the spirit of our carnal mind (Heb. 4:12).
Can you hear what I'm saying? Let me read it to you again.
Heb. 9:15, and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were made . . . .
While you were under the Old Covenant, you were still in sin. Do you hear this? That those who were sitting while they were under the Old Covenant might receive the promise of an everlasting inheritance, by death.
The only way those of us who are under the Old Covenant, but still dying, will be experientially forgiven -- the only way that we will enter into the New Covenant which is everlasting life, is by death, and the Greek word death here, means the separation of our carnal mind from our fallen personality [soul].
So you see, we're not entering in by Jesus’ death on the cross. How can I say that? Jesus’ death on the cross made Christ Jesus, the everlasting tabernacle, available to mortal humanity. But, to enter into the Everlasting Tabernacle – for our personality to join with the eternal life which is in Christ Jesus, we must shed the blood of our carnal mind.
You see, when a man who is possessed of the Spirit of Christ dies, the Spirit of Christ within him rises and returns to the Father, and the personality [soul] that is joined to the Spirit of Christ rises with him, but the personality [soul] that is joined to the carnal mind, remains in the earth and dies (Eccl. 3:21).
So the personality of the man, Jesus, which was purified before He died, when he separated from the carnal mind that Jesus inherited from his mother, defied the spiritual gravity which sought to hold Jesus’ personality [soul] in the grave (Eph. 4:8).
So, we read here, that we enter into the New Covenant only by death, thanatos, the death of our carnal mind. We enter into the New Covenant by our death, brethren. NOW, NOT OUR PHYSICAL DEATH. OUR CARNAL MIND MUST DIE for us to enter into the New Covenant.
The Lord has ordained that our carnal mind will die through the exposure of our sin nature, and that our personality [soul] shall be saved when she is fully and permanently joined to Christ Jesus. We have to do it His way!
1. What happens to our physical body if we walk under the New Covenant with Christ?
(A) The resurrection of Christ Jesus gives us everlasting life right here in the flesh, and our bodies are preserved.
2. What does the resurrection of Christ mean?
(A) It means the resurrection of the Christ mind in the individual.
Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead in a greater form (He shed His human body and became a glorified spiritual man). The resurrected Christ in the individual increases into the greater, or more mature, form of Christ Jesus, who then joins with the glorified Jesus Christ, who can never die again (Rom. 6:9, 1 Cor 15:26).
3. Why is judgment in the flesh?
(A) So that we can learn to walk after the Spirit (1 Pet. 4;6).
4. When will our mortal body (personality [soul]) be quickened (made alive)?
(A) When Christ is raised from the dead in us (1 Cor. 15:4) (See, The Christ, Message # 186 - Part 8, Tape 2).
5. Does the quickening (coming to life) of our mortal body (personality [soul]) happen before or after our physical body is put in the grave?
(A) Before. Our mortality (carnal mind) will be swallowed up into immortality (Christ Jesus) (2 Cor. 5:4).
6. Which Spirit raised Christ from the dead?
(A) The Spirit of Christ
7. Whose function is it to lead us to Christ?
(A) The Holy Spirit.
8. Name one purpose for receiving the Spirit of Christ.
(A) So that He will graft to our human spirit and form Christ in us (James 1:21).
9. What is the ultimate result of Christ maturing in us (1 Cor. 13:11; Eph. 4:13)?
(A) Our personalities [souls] will be preserved, and we will live forever.
10. Did Paul say it was time to die?
(A) No, he said it was time to be offered up (2 Tim. 4:6).
11. What was Paul's job?
(A) To bring forth the Doctrine of Christ.
12. How do we know that we haven't entered into the New Covenant?
(A) We still get sick, age and die.
13. Are we saved by doctrine?
(A) No. We are saved by union with the glorified Son of God and Christ Jesus, within us, which is the whole New Man (1 Cor. 6:17).
14. What is the Old Covenant?
(A) The forgiveness of sins by faith, which permits us to enter into a relationship with the Father through a mediator. But we remain mortal.
15. What is the New Covenant?
(A) Sinlessness, which results in everlasting life (Micah 7:19; Heb. 7:16).
16. What are the two phases of the Old Covenant?
(A) The first phase is to the Jew, the second phase is to the Gentiles (Rom. 1:16; 2:10).
17. How did the Gentiles enter into God's covenant?
(A) The Gospel went to the Gentiles when the Jews stumbled (Rom. 11:15).
18. What does it take to enter into the sanctuary which is in the heavenlies?
(A) Blood.
19. Whose blood do we enter in by?
(A) The spiritual blood of the Lord Jesus Christ makes the heavenly sanctuary available to us (Heb. 13:12), but we enter in by the shed blood of our carnal mind (Col. 1:20; Heb. 12:4).
20. What is our inheritance, and how can we enter in and appropriate it?
(A) Christ Jesus is our inheritance. We enter into the heavenly sanctuary, which He is, and begin to appropriate His spiritual life as our carnal mind dies.
22. What do the animal sacrifices under the Levitical law of the Old Testament typify?
(A) The bulls and goats that were sacrificed typify the human beast (Rev. 13:12), the carnal mind. It's our own carnal mind that must be sacrificed.
23. Didn't Jesus enter in by his blood?
(A) Christ Jesus within the man, Jesus of Nazareth, is the heavenly sanctuary. The personality of the man, Jesus, entered into that heavenly sanctuary within Himself by subjugating the carnal mind that He inherited from His mother (Col. 1:20), and separating his human personality from it.t
24. Do the animal sacrifices of the Levitical law typify the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus Christ?
(A) No. They typify the sacrifice of the human beast, the carnal mind (Rev. 13:12).
The sacrifice that Jesus made for humanity is that He gave up the resurrected life by which He could have lived in the earth forever, as an individual, immortal man. But Jesus chose to be raised to , an even higher form, glorification, by which His life is now being shared with all of humanity.
25. What do the methods of animal sacrifices of the Levitical law typify?
(A) The methods of the Levitical sacrifices (boiling and roasting) typify the Lake of Fire, which is Christ Jesus in the individual.
The unconscious part of mortal man’s carnal mind is typified by the sea, and the subconscious part of mortal man’s carnal mind is the beast.
The sea will evaporate when the Lake of Fire brings her waters to a boil, and the beast will be roasted in the Lake of Fire and eaten by the glorified Jesus Christ, the High Priest.
26. What form did the Lord Jesus Christ take after His resurrection?
(A) Jesus was converted into a glorified spiritual man, a form whereby his sinless life can be reproduced in us. The glorified Jesus became the spiritual seed (Jn. 12:24) which raises Christ from the dead in the individual. He is the one who is saving fallen humanity from hell and death by giving us the seed of His life.
27. What happens when the Lord Jesus Christ's sinless life is reproduced in us?
(A) The sinless life of Christ
Jesus sacrifices our carnal mind and presents us to the Father without spot.
28. The sacrifices of the Levitical law were consumed by the high priest. What does this typify?
(A) Christ Jesus' consumption of the carnal mind (Rev. 3:16) typifies the reunion of the divided creation into one creation under the authority of Christ Jesus.
29. When shall we be raised from the dead?
(A) We shall be raised from the dead and enter into the life of the ages, which is the New Covenant, when our personality [soul] is completely joined to Christ Jesus, who is joined to the glorified Jesus Christ, our high priest (1 Cor. 6:17).
Satan is the collective unconscious mind of mortal man, Leviathan is the collective subconscious mind of mortal man, the fiery serpent is the individual subconscious mind, and Cain [the flesh] is the individual conscious mind. Our whole fallen mind, together with our personality, make up one whole Old Man who is called the Devil. The Devil is the Old Man that is passing away.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the New Man’s collective unconscious mind, Christ Jesus is the New Man’s collective subconscious mind, Christ is the individual subconscious mind, and Abel is the individual conscious mind. Our whole new mind, together with our personality, is the whole New Man who is being born in us.
