Coming Out of Darkness Part 12 by Gary Sigler

Coming Out of Darkness Part 12

by Gary Sigler on Friday, 01 April 2011 at 16:09

The Kingdom Within



The concept of God that we have been taught in the system of Christianity is, for the most part, a wrong concept. We have been taught that God is "way out there"somewhere

in another realm called heaven, and that if we accept Jesus and do the best we can, God will bless us and we will go to heaven when we die. We are not taught how to live by the Spirit of God that is within us.


The religious system has taught us always to seek God in an outward way for our needs. This has given us a false concept of God. This has caused us to seek everything of God as thoughit were outside of us. We think that by all kinds of religious activity, what we need will come into us and bless us, or heal us, or prosper us. In actuality, everything that God i

s is already within us, waiting for us to discover the truth that God in us is sufficient to meet every need. CHRIST IN YOU THE HOPE OF GLORY.


We have a "Santa Claus God". God does not withhold His blessings from anyone at any time.He makes His rain to fall on the just and the unjust. Whenever we ask God toheal us or prosper us, we have a wrong concept. What we are saying is,"God, You have all these good things and are withholding them from me." If you do not think God has all these things that He is not givingyou, why would you ask Him for them? If it were true that God was withholding something from you, you could not get Him to change His mind by begging, crying or pleading. We cannot bribe God by our Bible reading, praying, crying, fasting, our goodness -- or anything else that we might try. The only hope we have is in discovering the truth of what Jesus taught:

"The Kingdom of God is within you"
(Luke 17:21). Jesus said in John
7:38, "He that believes in me, out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water." In John 4:14, He said "He that drinks of the water that I give him, it shall be in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."



To have a proper concept of these things, we must realize who and where

Christ is. The word Christ means "God’s anointed". Jesus was called the Christ. As the Christ,He was the fullness of God. Colossians 2:9 says, in the Amplified version,

"For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form -- giving complete expression to the Divine nature." I don’t think any of us would have a problem believing that, but we have never been taught the next verse:

"And you are in Him, made full and have come

to fullness of life -- in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead: Father, Son
and Holy Spirit, and reach full spiritual stature." Ephesians 1:23
(Amplified) speaks of the Church,
"Which is His body, the fullness

of Him Who fills all in all -- for in that body lives the full measure of Him

who makes everything complete, and Who fills everything everywhere [with
Himself]."After meditating and praying over these verses for some time, we will begin to have some understanding of how to fellowship with God. We will have our concept changed about how we are to pray. When we go to God, we won’t ask for so many things.
We will begin to realize that Christ is the fullness of God, and Christ in all His fullness is now being poured out from within us. God is at all times pouring His Spirit out, filling everything everywhere with Himself. When we see someone in lack or in need, instead of asking and begging God to meet that need, we realize that in us dwells the fullness of God to meet that need. We turn to the Spirit of God within us and we realize that "I and my Father are one"

"He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit with the Lord"
(1 Cor. 6:17). So from(John 10:30), and

within me, from within my spirit, I release the ability of God to go forth and

do His will. My prayer then becomes not an asking of God, but a realizing of
His ability within me to meet the needs of others.



God’s desire is not that we ask Him to heal the sick and bless with finances or supply whatever the need, but that we yield our bodies to Him. He desires to fill us and flow through us to meet the needs of humanity. God's desire is to flow through a many-membered body with all of His

riches in glory. There is no greater joy in all the earth than being filled with God’s presence and then sensing that presence flow out of you and into someone else, meeting their need. Paul told

the Ephesians that the Church is His body, of His flesh and of His bones (Eph. 5:29-30). God fills us with Himself so that we become channels of blessing to the whole world. When you pray, seek after God and His wisdom. Seek Him for His light and glory to be revealed in you. Hunger and thirst after His presence, so that you may experience His resurrection power coming alive in you, enabling you to do the works of God.


What a joy it is when you begin to understand that everything of God that you have been seeking is on the inside of you, just waiting to be revealed. Then is fulfilled those words
of old,

"Arise and shine; for your light is come, and the glory of

the Lord has risen upon you" (Isaiah 60:1).

As I was sitting in the quiet one day, the Lord spoke this to me:

"I am not withholding

anything from anyone at any time. I am always pouring forth My Life, love,

healing and blessings. I am your life, your healing, blessing, or whatever you

need. When you are set free from something or healed, it is not because I have

suddenly changed toward you and decided to bless you. It is because you have

changed toward Me, or opened to Me and come into My light. It is that which has

allowed My Life to flow out from your innermost being to meet your need.

Everything that you need is in My Spirit dwelling within you. You need not

reach out to Me in an outward way, but turn within and contact My Spirit within

you; then I will flow from your innermost being to meet your need. He that

believes in Me, out of his innermost being will flow living water that will

bring healing and deliverance wherever it flows. There is nothing in this

universe that can hinder you except your belief in another power to do so. I am

God, and besides Me there is no God who can hinder you, no other power able to

stop you. I am constantly filling everything everywhere with Myself. Open to the

flowing of My Spirit within you, and I will flow into your mind and r

enew it

into My mind. I will flow into your will and subdue it, and make it altogether

pliable to do My will. I will flow into your emotion, so that My Love will flow

out of you. Stop having faith in the power of evil to hinder you. I do not

withhold from one and give to another. I am always so available, so rich, and

so free -- just like the air that you breathe. Come to Me and I will rest you.
I live and move and have My being within you."




Many people are hungry today to see God. The Word teaches us that we are the visible expression of the invisible God. You or I may be the only expression of God that people see. We

need to seek God until we can say with the Apostle Paul,

"I live; yet not I, but Christ lives within me, and the life I now live in the flesh I
live by the faith of the Son of God" (Gal. 2:20). God is a Spirit,

and by consecrating our bodies to Him, He is localized within us and can flow
to the world.

Many today seek to see Jesus in His physical form. However, if you were to see Jesus without coming to realize that you too are to be a son of God, then seeing Him might not help you all that much in a practical way. Romans 8:29 says that

Jesus was the firstborn among many brethren.
Knowledge vs. ExperienceLet’s look again at Ephesians 4:17-18.


"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,

that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their

mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God

through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their
heart."This is where most of the Church has been for two thousand years. A great mistake we have made is in being satisfied with good teaching alone. We think that because we know something of God intellectually, we have it. I know that God is in me; I know that Jesus lives in me; I know that I am the visible expression of the invisible God. Because we know these things, most of the time we settle for that knowledge without having the experience of it being made real in our lives. We must begin to enter into the experience of being the visible expression of the invisible God. We fail to seek for these things because of wrong concepts. I was taught as a young Christian that I should not seek for experience, that I should just accept everything without accompanying feeling. Now, I realize that natural feelings can get us into trouble, but to not feel and experience spiritual things means that you do not have real faith.
Faith will produce feelings. If we know something only intellectually, without th

e experience, it does not do us much good. The Word of God tells us of many wonderful things that belong to the one who has received God. If we never experience them, then what good are they? Paul says that

we are seated with Christ in heavenly places
(Eph. 2:6). We should hunger after God until we walk in the reality of this, and not think that we have it just because we know it.

Our knowledge of the Word must become experiential. There is nothing wrong w

ith knowledge. To know that Jesus lives in us is wonderful. To know that we are filled with His Spirit is also wonderful. The problem comes when we settle for only the knowledge, instead of seeking God for the reality. The Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, "Knowledge puffs up, but Love builds up"
(1 Cor. 8:1). Knowledge in itself can be very satisfying. Many Christians today Picture by Carlos Iggy Shelton on his Online discernmentalist mafia spoof site are very satisfied with their knowledge of God. Some have great knowledge of the Word, and have become teachers without the experience. William Law said many years ago, in his book
"The Power of the Spirit", that we are foolish to think that we can

go to Bible School and learn how to put off Adam and put on Christ. You cannot

know in reality what you have not experienced. Many today have been raised in

Church and know all about Jesus being the Savior of the world, but they have
never experienced His life-giving power to change their lives.

I said for years that "Jesus lives in me", yet I had very little experience of that knowledge. I was taught in Pentecost that because I spoke in tongues, I was filled with the Holy Spirit. I used to ask God, "If I am filled with the Holy Spirit, why am I so ungodly and doing so many things that are contrary to a Holy Spirit?" The Christian religious system is so full of confusion.

That is why Revelation calls her "Mystery, Babylon the great, the mother of harlots" (Rev. 17:5). Babylon means confusion. There is

no hope

for that religious system. The only thing we can do is scrap it. That is why Revelation says, "Come out of her, my people"
(Revelation 18:4). It cannot be fixed.



Paul says we are "alienated from the life of God through ignorance" (Eph. 4:18). Ignorance does not mean stupidity. Ignorance simply means that you do not know. I was a Christian many years in ignorance. I did not know that I could experience the quickening, life-giving Spirit of God in me to bring me into the reality of what I knew. You can have a lot of Bible knowledge and still be ignorant. We have also been taught a great deal of ignorance in Christianity. We are taught defeat and failure. We are taught how powerful the devil is and how he can defeat us. We are not taught that it is possible in this life to walk as Jesus walked. The Word clearly reveals that not only is it possible, but God expects us to mix faith with His Word and make it real in our lives.

The Word says, "He that abides in Him ought to walk even as He walked" (1 John 2:6). If we are not walking as Jesus walked, then we need to seek Him until His Spirit arises in us.

These verses are talking to "Being alienated

from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the

blindness of their heart" Eph 4:18 us, the present day people of God! We have had our understanding darkened to the abundant life that God has made available to us through Jesus.

Jesus did not go to the cross only so you could die and go to heaven. He died that you "might have life and that more abundantly" (John 10:10). The Life of God lies dormant within us. When that Life begins to function, we begin to change. We don’t try to change; it is a natural process of His Life coming alive within us. The Apostle Paul said that we

should be constantly transformed from one degree of glory to another (2
Cor. 3:18). To be continued

Coming Out of Darkness Part Two - Gary Sigler

by Gary Sigler on Tuesday, 22 March 2011 at 16:22

We have a concept of God in Christianity which I call a "Santa Claus God." We have a Santa Claus God, because we feel that if we pray enough, if we fast enough, if we please God enough, He is going to answer our prayers. But if we don’t read our Bible, if we are not good, if we don’t do what He says, He is not going to answer our prayers. So therefore, everything we get from God depends upon our conduct, not upon God’s grace, not upon Hisworking in our life. We need to think about these things! We do NOT have a Santa Claus God. I know a person who used to say, "I prayed for my son for twenty years, and God finally saved him." What that person was really saying was that God made him pray and pray and fast, and He made him wait twenty years, and then He saved their son.

Think about your own experience with God. How many times have you said (and I know this is a Bible principle, and I am not against it, but it is a concept we have to fight), "Maybe if we fast over this thing long enough; maybe if we get together and we pray long enough . . ." We feel that we have to do something that will influence God to make Him work on our behalf, or on the behalf of someone we love or are praying for. . Santa Claus God. Listen. God has a will, and that will of God is for every human being on the earth. He has a will, and a plan, and a design and a purpose for everyone. What can you do to change that? If God says, "I have chosen you to present you to my Father holy, unblameable and irreprovable in His sight," I cannot nullify that will of God. He is God! He is going to perfect in me what He wants to do.

Walking In All the Counsel of God

Now, we do have choices to make, and those choices we make affect our lives and may prolong God’s working in us, but our will will not stop God from working in us His good pleasure and His good will for our life. If you could see that, you would not have to struggle anymore. If you clean up your life, and you quit going to movies, and you quit doing all kinds of things because you think you shouldn’t, you are just being religious. If you enjoy going to movies, you need to

go to movies until God, by His Spirit rising up and quickening you, pulls your desires in another direction. That i s salvation. I have experienced salvation. Not the poor, low Gospel that I received in religion, but I have been saved! To be saved means that God quickens you by His energizing Spirit and causes you to walk in another direction. Now you may not choose to do that, and you may fight and struggle against that, but eventually God will get His way with you. Why? Because that is His will.

Calvary has a much deeper meaning when you begin to understand the heart of God and the awesome events that took place there. Every one of us would say, "God died for me." Yes He did; we all know that. But we think that to preserve that which He did, we must be pretty "good." We have to do certain things. We have to live a certain way, or it will nullify what He did for us at Calvary. That is the concept, and you may not even have that consciously in your mind, but it is hidden in your consciousness that you have to do certain things and live a certain way to please God, so that the effects of Calvary will be yours. And those very concepts keep the reality that was given to you at Calvary from manifesting in your life. You may not even be conscious of this, but it is deeply embedded in your consciousness. We have inherited in this country two thousand years of religious teaching and tradition absolutely contrary to the Word of God, yet when somebody begins to speak truth, what they speak seemingly is contrary to what you have been taught. It is not contrary to the Word; it is contrary to what you believe is the Word.

An All-Powerful God

God is all-powerful. You show me a church or a group of people anywhere in the world who believes that God is all-powerful, and I’ll show you a glorious, magnificent presence of God in a group of people. But show me a people who believe in two powers, and I’ll show you a weak, defeated, struggling and striving group of people. God is not all-powerful in our Christian tradition and in our thinking. Our father according to the flesh, the devil, seems to get more credit than our Father God. We have devils that are much more powerful than God’s leadership on the earth today because of wrong concepts, and because of wrong thinking and speaking.

Whatever is in your heart and you believe, you will speak from your mouth; and the words that you speak from your mouth which come from your heart create for you that which you speak. You are a product of what you have been receiving, thinking, believing and speaking all of your life. So if you are defeated, if you can’t find victory, if you have no joy in your life, it is because you have been taught wrong, which has made you believe wrong, made you receive wrong, and made you speak wrong to create for you that which you are today. That is the truth. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

"All powerful."

I hate to use the words "if God," but for illustration, if God is all powerful, and we believe that, how could the devil do what he has done to this country and to God’s people? How could he take the Church into darkness for two thousand years? He could do it because of their not heeding Paul’s admonition at the very beginning: "Don’t be like the other gentiles, walking in the vanity of their mind." That is a realm of consciousness. The vanity of the soulish mind—that is where we are. We have had teachings in the past about body, soul and spirit, and coming out of the flesh, coming out

of Egypt, coming out of the world, coming through the wilderness and into the Promised Land. The Promised Land is a level of consciousness. Some Christians hate the word "consciousness," because it is taught in almost all the religions of the world, but it is not taught in Christianity. I wonder why. If you never become conscious of God’s quickening power energizing your life, you will always be soul-conscious and body-conscious, but never spirit-conscious.

Turning from Darkness to Light

God has so much for the Church. In Acts 26:18, Jesus told the Apostle Paul (this was right at his conversion) that He was sending him "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are

sanctified by faith that is in me."

How we need people today who can turn people from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto the power of God. But that cannot happen with the concepts of God that we have today. We cannot believe the goodness of God; we cannot believe the miracle of the cross. We haven’t been taught. 2 Corinthians 4:4-7 says, "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, .. ." (Now listen, when we read something like this, right away we say, "That doesn’t apply to me; I am a believer. Believe me, these words are spoken to us!) "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,

that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."

"God Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness." I believe that is happening today. There is so much darkness within us. When I began to see some of these things, I could not believe the darkness and the blindness of my own eyes as a believer for over twenty years, teaching the Word of God for several years. The blindness that was on my eyes! And again I have to make this clear, it is grace that is bringing the revealing. I have not always been "a good Christian"; I don’t deserve to have the revelation of God that has been given to me. I didn’t do anything to deserve it. But God has a perfect plan, intent and purpose for my life and for your life, and He will bring you

into that plan and purpose.

The End of Grace?

One of the big questions that comes up is, "Look at all the people who have died; what happens if I die?" We have a concept in our minds, taught to us by our forefathers, that when you die that is the end of grace for you. No more grace. Death is the end of grace. As long as you have breath in your lungs, as long as you have the ability to cry out and receive God, you have grace; but when you die,look out! Grace is gone. You have had your opportunity in this

life, and there is no more grace. I have to tell you that is absolutely not true! The only reason that we die physically

before God has fulfilled His plan and purpose in our life is because of the darkness and the blindness that are put over our eyes, and because of the wrong choices that we make while we are here. But that does not stop God’s plan. It

doesn’t stop God. God is God! You are God’s idea. God brought you into existence in physical form. You are His idea, but like the Prodigal, many of us have gotten lost and are in great darkness, and have been caught up in the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life. God is still God! And God has a love that we have never understood. He will perfect His will in you. Jesus is "The author and the finisher of our faith" (Romans 8:7-8). Can you believe "It is God that works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure?"

When you came to this earth, you had no remembrance of where you came from. "As in Adam all die," Paul says. We accepted the lie that we were sinners and so that has been our experience. We are most of the time living by the knowledge of both good and evil. Some of us are very good, some of us are not so good, some of us are evil. But it is the same nature inherited from Adam through believing the lie.

God loves His creation. That is why the Word says that the Lamb of God was slain from before the foundation of the world! God knew everything, or He wouldn’t be all knowing, all powerful, and omnipresent. Jesus was chosen before the foundation of the world to be the Lamb that would restore the creation back to the Father. So I come into this life, I am born, and I am in darkness. And I am born with this nature that is anti-Christ; I am born with this nature that matures in some of us to be full of lust, full of envy, full of greed, and I might live seventy years in this darkness and blindness. We may live seventy years totally alienated and separated in our mind from God, living a life of sin, and Then we die and religion tells us that because we lived seventy years in a life of sin and unbelief and greed, we are going to burn eternally in hell in endless torment. This concept is totally wrong!Now this might seemingly appear

to be anti-Word, but oh, if you only knew the deep Love and the heart of your Father God. As we go on in these writings you will understand that we have been terribly deceived by religious tradition.

To be continued