On Young'uns and Rocks

Peter-David Aston

I don't know lengths of time for others on here, but many of us chat away as equals. There are even a handful of young'uns...and I think to myself....I cannot begin to imagine what they have been through to get the understanding they have.
Your average thirdleveller at the moment is 50-80. I crashed into the basic revelations by 30, but I was sooooo disillusioned with the system at 12, I had that at least going for me. At 12, I had everything. Two teacher parents who gave us holidays all over the place as a family every two minutes (teacher holidays). We lived in a nice area in a nice house, and they brought me up to do very well at the highly academic Dr Challenors Grammar School. I'd just got 11 A's.
But my insides screamed....THIS IS NOT IT!! THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE.
Well 12 years Methodism clearly wasn't the answer, so I became an atheist. Ofcourse I had no idea at that point that Methodists were renegades. They had all rebelled against their founder John Wesley and nolonger believed in being regenerate. They sold their entire revelation foundation for a gospel of works and helping your fellow man. But Buddhists do that. And now, through Comic Relief so do atheists. Methodists deserve to be trodden underfoot as Jesus said. Lose your saltiness and become winter roadcover!!!
Back to young'uns...
I once met a thirdleveller fresh from the Gulags. He was only 22 or something and he warned us the KGB would probably get him and say he committed suicide. This happened in America. His name: Sergei Kourdakov.
MaryMagdalen seemed to become a thirdleveller in no time at all. She, unlike the socalled "apostle/father figures(1 John 2) actually listened to what Jesus said and turned up at the tomb on Easter Day!!!!
Third levellers KNOW THAT THEY KNOW THAT THEY KNOW that apart from God they are nothing. They know they were never self-powered....that this entire delusion was a spirit masquerading as them called "sin in the flesh".
Now try and listen to this...especially some of you really cynical Facebook types.
Try and get this.
Recognising "sin in the flesh" is not A PARTICULAR WRONGDOING.
Secondly it is not saying "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT". and flatout not taking responsibility.
It is saying something horrific.
It's saying that while I knew something to be evil...yes evil...when my best intention was to say no....somehow I still wholeheartedly did it anyway...WHY...because my self - powered delusion is now exposed, and I see that that whole condition doesn't exist...for it is really to be glovepuppet for "another hand or power" inside me, which clicks into place as soon as I make myself "god of my own destiny".
I cannot do that. Humans are not made to do that.
We either LIVE BY CHRIST...THE ONLY PURE SOURCE OF LIFE in the UNIVERSE....or we live by the power of a fallen angel, who himself is only living a twisted form of God's own life...since the devil also cannot live "of himself"...being a created being also.
The disciples were kind of firstlevellers to begin with. They were Jews. They understood faith towards God. That there was a God. In our western world, just coming to that conclusion takes a certain amount of time now.
But these 12 guys said Yes to having Jesus invade their lives 3 years continuously.
The equivalent in general living terms is decades and decades.

HERE'S THE NEXT BOMBSHELL.
Yesterday I put a basic principle of how things work up in the form of a spoof B movie where the credits are longer than the film. http://youtu.be/oJVhQu_clhY
Here's another "ALL of LIFE" principle in one sentence.

Matthew21:"Jesus said Jesus asked them, Have you never read in the Scriptures: The very Stone which the builders rejected and threw away has become the Cornerstone; this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes?

43 I tell you, for this reason the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce the fruits of it.

44 [u]And whoever falls on this Stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom It falls will be crushed to powder [and It will [v]winnow him, [w]scattering him like dust]."

I put in the whole context....and this was after the parable of the vineyard workers killing the son of the whole estate owner...
so I meant this sentence:
whoever falls on this Stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom It falls will be crushed to powder [and It will [v]winnow him, [w]scattering him like dust]."

This is about as hard a sentence as the John 6 one people all walked away over.

But it is actually our LIFE STORY.
We are encouraged to love God with all our hearts and love each other...and this, as well as being the petrol for the engine of our spiritual life...is also the ANAESTHETIC for some of the radical surgery that needs to go on in our life if
we are ever going to stand for more than a second in front of God and feel comfortable.

God hasn't made it easy for us. It has been made a lot harder by our own choosing. We chose Darkness and we continue to love Darkness rather than Light.
But here's the good news about REDEMPTION.
God replaces our inner centre WITH HIS PURE SELF. This is being BORN AGAIN.
Then, a bit like riding a new bike, we have to learn HOW THIS NEW INNER CENTRE WORKS.

It works by faith.
It works by believing everything God speaks.
But it is also INDESTRUCTIBLE containing the very LIFE OF GOD HIMSELF.
Here's the TRICK though. We have to learn to operate our WHOLE LIVES, IN FAITH, FROM OUR INNER CENTRE.

IT is ONE THING to HAVE an inner centre....1John 2 the Child stage
It is another to become FIXED in our whole identity of our new INNER CENTRE, that is the "young man stage".
But to WALK FROM, AND OPERATE CONTINUALLY FROM our inner centre, including many "tricks of the new trade"....as ADOPTED SONS...where the word adopted is the Jewish meaning for
TRAINED SONS NOW ELIGIBLE for their Father's business concerns.....

Hah....that's something else.

But that which seems so dastardly and awful and hideous when you first hear Matthew 21:44 above doesn't explain things like...only the independent self delusion doesn't survive!!!!!
It is a circumcision.
A circumcision of our heart.
We STILL get to keep the rest of our heart.
This is all going on in our spirits.
Other people may or may not pick up our new behaviours.
Jesus brothers never noticed Him for example...so I don't want to raise your hopes too much!!!
BUT in the Spirit it is absolutely real.

And our redemption story WILL look like the stories in the Bible.
Before we ourselves are circumcised we love to look on St Peter, or Moses hitting the Rock twice...or other disciples of Jesus and think..."Wallies". Or perhaps there are other Christians we know. "I will never be like that".

God doesn't get a kick out of us looking as stupid as possible. Most things He speaks to our hearts and hopefully we listen.
BUT THE REDEMPTION STORY in our lives WILL BE WRITTEN THOROUGHLY.
Only Satan and our flesh have a problem with that.
The Father views it matter of factly. He KNOWS us since before Creation began.
IT is us that think we need figleaves, just in case He sees.
He is about removing our figleaves...NOT to laugh at us...but to cover us WITH REAL REDEMPTION. To build into us HIS VERY SON. To DO WITH little old us what angels have NO IDEA OF.

In STAMPING US with HIS GLORY He didn't want what happened to the Fallen angels...their rising up in Pride and the foolish delusion of their own independence...

SO THIS TIME...He has decided to create a people out of clay, a people of lowly estate, to UTTERLY STAMP THROUGH in our weakness, WITH HIS INTERNAL CHARACTER....which will TAKE HIS GLORY that He wants to crown us with.

HE iS AIMING for people LIKE HIM, who feel happy to be around HIM...for eternity.
Some of the elders in the book of Revelation haven't actually done much yet. They are just so over the moon at being in the constant Presence of the Lord...and FEELING OK THERE. They haven't done anything for thousands of years now, except say "Holy Holy Holy"...and then like some HUGE spiritual/holy orgasm or something it completely wipes them out and they fall to the floor again. I think their eventual aim is to actually do something else in heaven...just that every time they see CHRIST popping out afresh in a human, they fall on the floor again.

REDEMPTION does involve things like looking stupid.
Making big Peter sized mistakes.
AND everyone knowing about it.
AND psalm 66.12 "people riding over our heads"
AND Song of Songs 5 Watchman stripping us naked in the streets....

BUT ALSO it involves taking very ordinary people and packing them out with God explosive to detonate nations for the glory of God....
It involves learning the Jesus and Paul trick of the trade of looking hopelessly defeated while all the time the unlimited POWER of the LIVING GOD is streaming out of you to create huge new portions of the KINGDOM.
IT involves you learning about how the Hebrews 13.13 walk works....GOING OUTSIDE....like Arthur Blessitt did...almost as a scout for 38 years trudging out the new territory of the CROSS....

NAMELY THE WHOLE EARTH!!!!!

Life in The Melchizedek Order VI - more from Nicholas and Pam

Prayer Letter – June 2009.
“But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
Descending through the clouds a sombre view appeared before us of tundra beneath and a lagoon ahead. The two-engine aircraft banked to the left and there in the distance was the small Eskimo settlement of Wales. Nestled between steep hills to the east and a beach on the west, this small community of one hundred and fifty-three people is isolated. Landing safely on an airstrip close to the sea, we, along with three others disembarked from the six-seat passenger aircraft. Wales is next to the Bering straits and is the furthest settlement west on the Alaskan mainland. It is only about twenty-five miles from Russia and the International Dateline and the weather there is notoriously unpredictable. There had been no flights on the previous day and our plane had already been delayed in the morning by two and a half hours, as the weather was down. But it cleared, and there we were finally at our destination and asking about the flight out. There certainly was reason behind this as we had recently spoken to someone who had been stuck in Wales for three weeks! This was a prayer trip and so having only about two hours we quickly walked off. The settlement of wooden shack-like houses was stark in comparison to a large and well equipped school that seemed surreal in its setting. About one hundred miles to the south-east of Wales is a town called Nome of about four thousand people. The proprietor of the bed and breakfast where we were staying for two nights had asked us if we would take a box for the acting Lutheran pastor called, Gilbert. This we did and someone at the landing strip took the box to him. So entering the school we met Judy an American teacher and asked about Gilbert. It turned out that she was a Christian and we were able to pray for her. Judy then took us on her four-wheeled motorbike (All Terrain Vehicle) to Gilbert’s very small house.
Gilbert is an Eskimo and appears to be a strong Christian and we also had the privilege to pray for him as well. He said that a group of Christians were coming from South Africa in July to travel from Wales to Jerusalem. Judy then took us back to the school where we could wait for the aircraft. We were told that the plane had arrived and someone came and picked us up with their ATV. Holding on tightly we drove speedily along the beach and then onto a long gravel road to the waiting plane. We arrived back in Nome which has the feel of a frontier town and is the hub for the surrounding villages. The next day we were at Nome airport waiting to fly back to our starting point of Anchorage. An Eskimo woman thought that she had seen Nicholas several years before. Later on when we were on the plane this same woman was sitting ahead of us and turned around and said the same things again to Nicholas. Interestingly Nicholas had bought a book in Nome that he was reading called, “Jesus and the Eskimo.” This woman recognised photographs of different people in the book and said that her father had been the pastor of the church in Wales at one time. She had a problem with her back and we were able to pray for her. The world seems to get smaller when God makes the appointments!
When we went to Israel this year the Lord reminded Nicholas of two things that He had shown a number of years before. We always pray about what the Lord wants us to do and how He wants us to do things and so this is what we did regarding future trips to arctic Finland and Alaska. Pam is very good about researching the logistics of travelling but we found that it was very difficult to make contacts with people in Alaska. Also Mount Redoubt, a volcano to the east of Anchorage had erupted earlier in the year, and had become quieter. But the potential to disrupt fights through another eruption was high. This all became frustrating and in the end we just had to put the whole trip to one side. On Friday 22nd May Pam was doing her Russian language on the computer and she heard a voice within saying, go and look up flights in Alaska. Pam went to Google and put in, “How to fly to the Bering Straits in Alaska?” Up came an instant web-site. This was the Holy Spirit speaking in such a clear way and from that point Pam found all of the flights that were needed. On the Tuesday prior to our leaving Latvia, on Sunday 21st June, Nicholas had a problem with a tooth and on the Wednesday and the following two days was at the dentist. We are thankful that this did not occur in Alaska! Whilst on our journey we had to change planes in America at Minniapolis. We boarded the plane for Alaska and the pilot said that there had been an earthquake eighty miles to the north of Anchorage, but that everything was all right! Then we had to change planes as one of the two air-conditioning units which also help pressurise the cabin had failed and they could not risk using this aircraft in case the other unit failed. The reason being that we were to fly over mountain ranges of over 10,000 feet and this was above the safe level at which breathing without air pressure becomes dangerous. We certainly have interesting travel! The time difference from Latvia to Alaska is eleven hours and our bodies have coped remarkably well. It has been one of the longest prayer trips in distance that we have undertaken and has certainly stretched us.
We seem to pass through nations as we pass through rooms of a house. We forgot to mention in our last prayer letter that we were in England between the 16th and 22nd April and had a very busy and successful time. Between the 3rd and 16th of May we were on a prayer trip into arctic Finland via Norway. Before we left Latvia the weather forecast for northern Finland was getting progressively worse, but it did not materialise and all the roads were clear of snow. We then spent some time with our friends in the area of Norway that we used to live in the past. The trip was successful and we drove over 1,100 miles. The next day after our return Pam completed her first half-marathon race in Riga, which she was very pleased with.
On May 22-23 we were invited to the Holy Spirit weekend of the Alpha course that our Latvian friends have run. Nicholas spoke on the Friday evening and a friend of ours spoke on the Saturday. We saw God touch people significantly over the weekend. Two people gave their lives to Jesus, one of them being a husband of one of the attendees. It was amazing as he had never been before and left a new creation. On Saturday 6th June we went to a Messianic fellowship and Nicholas spoke briefly. It is interesting how the Lord is opening up the Jewish world to us. On Tuesday 16th June Nicholas spoke at the last Alpha course dinner and this was a special time especially praying with people afterwards.

This last six months in Latvia has been very different to any of the other times that we have been there in the past. We feel that we have had a greater depth of relationship with our new Latvian friends and have seen them grow in Jesus at a fast rate. Their perseverance and faith and their unconscious love for each other and those around them is something we have never seen and has been an example and an encouragement to us both. So all of the teaching that we have done has been for them to rely not on us but on the God to whom we all belong. We think that we will return to Latvia at some time in the future, but as yet we do not know when. We go to England on Tuesday 7th July and as yet we do not know where the Lord will lead us next. We would certainly value your prayers for our next steps.
We thank you so much for being behind us in prayer and appreciate this greatly.
May God bless and open up new doors of opportunity for you.
Nicholas and Pam